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pillowspace · 2 months
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"" As an idiot teenager, I hunted Leitner’s books with the best of them, even found a few. I’d bring them home, and watch her eyes light up. But it was always the books that she was happy to see. "" - MAG 111: Family Business
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a-mag-meme-a-day · 1 year
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meme for @a-mag-a-day Day 36
MAG 35 - Old Passages
tbh i forgot we heard them this early
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MAG 35 - Old Passages
doodle 35/200; days left 65/110
heem :]
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artfulacrostic · 2 years
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teen goth gerry my beloved in his mastodon band tshirt with his portable CD player, wandering his dumb ass into fear tunnels under London just to dig out a Leitner bc he craves approval from his horrible mom. i love him your honor pls hear my petition for him to not have a tragic life and death anymore 🥺🥺
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glowofpurple · 1 year
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Why don't we talk about MAG 35 more? Which book did Gerard get in the meat hallway? Was it the Boon Turner's Tale? Why was he carrying bird bones? How did the 13 doors hold a fear each, how are they there? Why was this building not brought up again? What killed that guy? How was Smirke doing that? If Smirke was so good at dealing with all the fears, we he an archivist? Is so, how did he not start the end?
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Mag 35
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Blorbo's back!!! Time to be unhinged again!!!!
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Big Sebastian Skinner energy coming from Alf right now. Is this just what all plumbers are like in TMA?
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Teen Gerry Teen Gerry Teen Gerry 😍🥰😍🥰😍🥰🥰😍😍😘
Ahh, the era when his most notable feature was his terribly maintained hair and not his dozens of unsettling eye tattoos or horrific burn scars. At least he did a decent job on the dye this time. And Gerry my beloved, I get the temptation to avoid washing your hair to keep the dye from fading for as long as possible, but it's probably worth it to just invest in some better quality shampoo.
I'm pretty sure the band shirt he's wearing is supposed to be Mastodon, but Megalodon and Megadeath and also good guesses. Everyone who thinks it's the Mechanisms is a genius with a galaxy brain.
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My man be hiding in the shadows for indeterminate amounts of time, waiting for his opportunity to be cryptic.
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Hmmm... for some reason this description forgot to mention that he has the world's shittiest beard get away from me?
Extremely funny that Leitner is established to have an accent in canon and then later it gets retconned that he was just faking it (I guess because Mr Sims Sr couldn't do a decent Norwegian accent?) Also great that his office is completely empty because Leitner doesn't actually do anything other than be a waste of space.
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First canon appearance of the man himself and he immediately goes about establishing that he's a massive cunt. [Insert entire Leitner rant here.]
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Who are you calling a burnout? 😠
Big fan of the statement-giver trying to kick Gerry out (good luck) while being undermined by Rachel the Treasure Hunter over here like 'You tellin me there's good shit down in this basement?? Lead the way my dude.'
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'I was so mesmerised by the smell of paper that I let a random kid steal my tools and go to town on the wall. Oops.'
Fuck! Yes! King! Smash that wall!! You're so strong and pretty, you can do whatever you want. I don't even care about you endangering these people.
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His mom knows about mysterious basement renovations, obviously.
I love that he just sits and unhelpfully listens to music while the adults are talking. Classic teens, amiright??
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All of them are insane for deciding to explore the walled up tunnel that screams at you when you open it. (Except for you Gerry, you're a treasure and we're thrilled to have you here with us.) Another instance of people being doomed by their desire to know.
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I was listening to Mag 35, Old Passages, and it’s so funny listening back.
Like as far as the story goes it so obviously exists to show that there are 14 categories, 14 fears that we’re gonna be focusing on in podcast, and giving a few noticeable examples of what’s happening in the various tunnels is a great story move to show us what Fear Categories we have.
But in context of the narrative, what the fuck Mr Smirke?
I know, right, I know that this man was obsessed with balance of the supernatural but what the genuine fuck did this man have to do to attract and isolate each flavor of fear into each tunnel and KEEP THEM SEPARATE AND ISOLATED TO THAT TUNNEL? Like we know canonically that Smirke’s 14 is just a classification, it’s just one way to organize these broad categories of fear gods to better fit human understanding. So we’re to understand that this man somehow attracted each type of fear that he saw in the world into these concrete tubes and just had them chill there?
It brings to mind the idea of an oyster making a pearl around a grain of sand. Like Robert Smirke put some kind of bait into each tunnel for a fear to take over. Carefully going into each tunnel, sprinkling some dirt for the buried, a few insects for the corruption, an account of a fear for the eye, a little doll for the stranger, so the Fear would take notice and make its home there.
And the most interesting thing here is that Robert Smirke just. Had Spooky Club meetings in there. He somehow trapped embodiments of fourteen fear gods in fourteen tunnels and kept them there and he did this so that he could show it off to his bros? What the hell was the Carlton Club? Do I want to know what Robert and the spooky boys were doing in the fear tunnels every Saturday night?
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itchyeye · 1 year
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Confession: I hate the fandom characterizations of a lot of TMA characters so I rarely read fic I didn't find in a fav writer's bookmarks and I actively loathe the twitter/tumblr tags. I hate MCR gerry. I hate Mary Sue Martín. I hate arcade carpet Michael. I hate what people have done to my evil boring stapler of a man Elias.
agree agree agree agree agree agree
altho as a fellow 2000s goth i don't think it would be unrealistic for gerry to like mcr
the only thing we know about his canon music taste is that he liked mastadon as a kid
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so yes it's possible he was an anti-emo metalhead (idk how old you are, anon, did you live through this era? there was a great deal of strife in the black eyeliner community at the time) but one mastadon t-shirt doesn't really indicate that to me
so while i don't think he was scene/emo, it's also not like he was wearing a sisters of mercy shirt even though he is routinely described as "goth" by coworkers and bystanders
i personally prefer my gerry to like nu metal (what is now affectionately referred to as "mall goth") but this is because i like projecting
anyway this was not the main point of your ask i just like being a pedant about early aughts music subgenres and i love gerry keay
u are right on the money about everything else ESPECIALLY bowling alley carpet michael and onceler elias
kiss me
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a-mag-a-day · 1 year
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I could honestly listen to a whole prequel podcast about the adventures of teenage Gerry. An angry teenager trying to win an evil parent's love by helping them gain power, only to realize he's on the wrong side and go help the good guys instead? Now who does that remind me of...
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It's no wonder Gerry became one of my favorites.
There certainly are quite a few similarities xD
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themagnustournament · 11 months
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Redemption Round 2 - Match 43
It's Gerry cameo time! Lost in the Crowd earned 145 votes in Round Two, giving it a total of 329 votes so far! It's against Old Passages, which earned 114 votes in Round One!
MAG 048 - Lost in the Crowd | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Statement of Andrea Nunis, regarding a series of encounters in the streets of Genoa, Italy.
MAG 035 - Old Passages | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript
Statement of Harold Silvana, regarding discoveries made during the renovation of the Reform Club, Pall Mall.
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stormofstarlight · 7 months
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Me listening to MAG 35 Old Passages:
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[Image description: Two pictures of comedian Hannibal Buress with captions edited to read, "But I was so caught up in the euphoria of an emo teen being named Gerard that for a moment I lived in a world where Gerry Keay didn't exist." / End image description.]
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heartub · 8 months
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John disappeared??? as an invested listener I'm worried about him
as an avid hater, I am glad
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i've been relistening to magnus recently and no one talks about mag 35, the one where they clearly explain HOW ALL THE FEARS WORK
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zekeyboy · 2 years
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“The fact is that Rachel and me had been sat there chatting for maybe five minutes when we noticed we weren’t alone. In the doorway leading back to the stairwell stood a thin figure.”
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sweets-anoett · 2 years
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MAG 35: Old Passages
[Day 35/200]
In the doorway leading back to the stairwell stood a thin figure. He looked to be in his late teens, I’d guess. He was dressed all in black, with heavy looking boots and a T-shirt with the logo of some band emblazoned on it. His hair was long and greasy, almost down to his shoulders, and looked to be dyed almost the same black as his clothes.
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melodic-operator · 1 year
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mad respect to that guy in mag 35 “old passages” who speedran straight thru all 13 spooky fear tunnels without stopping. that is so funny. literally just fuck this
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