why is it always "you have an infestation" and "oh my god why are you covered in lesions" and never "how is the wasp's nest in your attic? is it nice? does it thrum with life and malice? does it sing that you are beautiful, that you are a home, that you can be fully consumed by what loves you?"

Pre and post worms Jane Prentiss. Someone requested bug au her so I had to whip up a normal version to pull from lol

A fun theory

In this brilliant post, op shows how Jane Prentiss encounters and mentions all 14 Fears, describing them as though she deeply understands them all from within her corrupted lens. Op calls it an early hint in the narrative to the Fears and their role in the world but I want to posit an in-world theory.

I think that part of the reason the Web sent a spider to cause Jon to break the wall and lead Jane to act earlier than she wanted was because Jane's rudimentary ritual to bring the Corruption to the world (through the circle of worms which Tim later found) would have actually worked in bringing all the Fears because Jane was already marked by all of them and was now in a place of power (the tunnels under the institute) and ready to incubate and create a corruption-based apocalypse.

This is something that the Web did not plan for and would not be able to control, because, as Jon said in episode 152, "what did Elias call it? – Filth. I don’t think it really plans much. It just starts to grow wherever it can get a foothold, and, if no one stamps it out in time… game over." The Web has no control over a thing that doesn't plan and had to "stamp it out" before it caused a "game over" by derailing all its schemes of a controlled eyepocalypse, ruled by its puppets (Jon and Jonah).

Passage from The Magnus Archives

trying to build my graphic design portfolio, here’s Jane Prentiss

No new tmagp episode today you know what that means

We found a wasps' nest in my grandma's attic 0.0

It doesn't thrum with life and malice tho so it's fine

"I itch all the time. Deep beneath my skin, where the bone sits, enshrined in flesh, I feel it. Something, not moving but that wants to move. Wants to be free. It itches, and I don’t think I want it. I don’t know what to do (...)

Because ‘itch’ is not the right word. There is no right word because for all your Institute and ignorance may laud the power of the word, it cannot even stretch to fully capture what I feel in my bones."

just read Prentiss' statement (MAG 32) out loud to myself for fun, and can now completely understand how Jon gets so wrapped up in them. it's like a weird meditative state and its mildly unnerving...

meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 33

MAG 32 - Hive

Something about Jane Prentiss and centipedes. That one line in mag 32 when she speaks about how she used to say she was a witch and hid who she really was. How her friends had called her toxic. How lonely she became. Centipedes are solitary creatures, defensive, poisonous. And they eat worms. Jane didn’t want to accept this lonely road she was heading towards she wanted love, a love like no one could ever understand. And while centipedes may eat wasps, they’ll always crumble against an entire hive.

Hey... hey what do you mean it Crouches... it's a wasp nest Jonny.... does.... does it have legs????

Is it... is it like this? ...Crouches???

feeling super normal emotions about how tma is just all about the intersection of fear and love, and what makes your wants and your self you. what if it's just trauma/mental illness/the thing in your head that is a part of you, but isn't you, not really.

what are you? what are your wants? what do you love? what do you fear? how much of this is influenced by trauma and mental illness and other factors? how much of yourself is yourself? is it still yourself if your self has been warped irreparably? do you want it if you only want it because of the trauma/mental illness/spooky entity? do you fear it if you only fear it because of the trauma/mental illness/spooky entity? do you love it if you only love it because of the trauma/mental illness/spooky entity?

how much of your mind is you? is it still you if it's changed? can you even define the difference?

i listened to mag 32 again.......

"The song is loud and beautiful-" okay but what are they singing? Whats the song? Cause let me tell you depending on the song im either burning that damn wasps nest with a flame thrower or im diving head first into it with a terrifying glee