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a-mag-meme-a-day · 2 years

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MAg 8 - Burned Out

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pinkelotjeart · 9 months

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#tma #the magnus archives #agnes montague #raymond fielding #mag 8 #the magnus archives 8 #magnuspod

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thatpodcastkid · 23 hours

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Magnus Archives Relisten 8, MAG 8 Burned Out

Mag 8 analysis! I have listened to this episode twice and am okay mentally.

Haha Burned Out. Get it like- Burned Out like- get it it's like- get it- because. Burned out

Facts: Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during construction at 105 Hilltop Road. Statement given March 13, 2007.

Statement Notes: HILLTOP ROAD MENTION HILLTOP ROAD MENTION

I am mentally okay.

If you're not thinking about the meta or the entities in this episode, this is a haunted house. Not a superstructure or cursed land or living space, but a house possessed by what once lived within it. Raymond Fielding lived in this house, and then he died in it, and he is going to make this everybody else's problem. He has unfinished business, he has a message he is trying to send. The issue is, it's another 102 episodes before you hear it.

Entity Alignment: This episode has some obvious Desolation and Web elements, but I have what might be a hot take:

This episode features every entity.

This episode introduces us to the Web's ritual.

Hilltop Road was both Agnes' and Annabelle's childhood home, so it is inherently associated with the Desolation and the Web. Lensik fears that he is developing schizophrenia like his father, who studied fractals and describes a man with "all the bones are in his hands." This man is likely Michael, and this associates the episode with the Spiral. The incessant pursuit of an explanation for the fractals which ultimately leads to his death incorporates the Hunt. The tree bleeds as Lensik becomes blinded by his need to destroy it, depicting the Flesh and Slaughter respectively. The apple he discovers is full of spiders, but also rots on contact, bringing in the Corruption. The box he finds the apple in is Buried beneath the tree. Lensik says he avoids working at night or by himself because that is when the visions would occur, incorporating the Dark and the Lonely. When he first meets Raymond Fielding, he says he was "keeping one eye on this stranger," bringing in fear of the unknown and the Stranger. The house is haunted by the dead Raymond Fielding, incorporating the End. Throughout the piece, he describes a feeling of unease that he is being watched. This brings in the Eye.

The inherent flaw in my theory is, of course, I can't find a solid element of the Vast in this episode. A part of me felt that the use of Father Edwin Burroughs might count as God, which could be a seismic eldritch horror, but that's kind of a stretch. Still, this statement takes place 13 years before Cane finishes her ritual, so who knows what could have been brought in during that time.

Character Notes: Another little part of me wants Annie to be Annabelle Cane in disguise. Annie is described as a very old woman, and there's no evidence that Annabelle Cane can shapeshift or use mirages or anything like that, so there's no reason for me to think so and this is probably just another "Jonny Sims knows four names and one is his own" moment. But still, wouldn't that just be wild?

I found Ivo to be a really compelling character. He had a positive demeanor, an interesting backstory, and a very strong approach to dealing with the supernatural. Overall a cool guy and awesome character I would have liked to hear more from.

An exploration of young Agnes would be incredible too. When she was at Hilltop Road, did she already know she was "the messiah?" This stint in the halfway house raises questions about her timeline and the progression of The Lightless Flame's plans. Additionally, the neighbors report that the children began going missing after Agnes was brought in. I (want to) assume Agnes isn't killing them, so is it Raymond? Are Lightless Flame members taking them? Where do they go?

Agnes' death is such a visceral image. It's a brief paragraph at the end of the statement. It's one of Jon's "And yet..." moments, intended to leave you with just a little bit of fear when you unplug the headphones. But that connection to the tree, to her childhood home. It's a simple section of text, but so vivid and full of imagery and meaning.

When the statement ended, the only thought going through my head was, "Mean Jon! Mean mean Jon!" He was foul with this one. First he goes on a tangent about schizophrenia and head trauma being second only to drug use as a means of seeing ghosts, then he immediately roasts Gertrude's filing system again.

He loves to go off about Martin and Tim being incompetent compared to Sasha, but who found a history of the house's ownership? Who interviewed Anna Kasuma? Who found Agnes' death report? Ya bois.

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samwise1548 · 2 years

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Day 8/200 Burned Out

((sorry for being late, was away yesterday))

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#tma daily doodles #mag 8 #burned out #a bit different from usual sorry #martin blackwood #the distortion #martin deserves to show off his muscles #tma #the magnus archives #doodles #my art

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a-mag-a-day · 2 years

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themagnustournament · 1 year

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Round One Part Two - Match 17

Today we have the first appearance of both the House on Hill Top Road and Agnes Montague up against the Sweariest Statement Giver Ever. #ReleaseTheSwearCut

MAG 008 - Burned Out | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during the construction of a house on Hill Top Road.

MAG 014 - Piecemeal | Spotify - Acast - YT | Wiki | Transcript

Statement of Lee Rentoul, on the murder of his associate Paul Noriega.

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hello there, idk if this is the right place but here goes most fanart of michael depicts it with having hands special because they just have really really long digits, or no knuckles in their hands at all (spiraling fingers). and then there is a certain genre of michael-fingers i absolutely adore, that being relatively normal digits, normal size, normal length. just like. a metric frick-ton of them. up to sixty per finger, (sometimes bending in both directions). i can't quite remember if there's a description of them in the podcast in that detail. opinions?

hmmm okay so the first time we hear a description of what is presumably the Distortion it's in Ivo Lensik's statement, when he recounts his father talking about a being with "all the bones...in his hands."

Sasha's description of her encounter with "Michael" lines up with/expands upon the description given in Lensik's statement - "It looked too tall, the limbs and body were very thin and almost wavy, like they didn’t have any structure or bones in them. I, I couldn’t make out a face, but it was the hands that were the most bizarre. They seemed to be stretched and inflated by the distorted light, until they were almost the size of the rest of the torso. The fingers were long and stiff, and seemed to end in sharp points."

Then there's Helen Richardson's description: "Its body was thin and limp, and when it moved, it shifted, like I was watching it through rippling water. Its hands were swollen, and bits of them jutted out at annoying angles. It was, it was moving towards me fast, and as I looked I saw that all the pictures on the wall now showed this thing – although each distorted it differently, like a selection of funhouse mirrors – but all of them, all of them showed the hands as bulbous and sharp."

So I think all of the interpretations you mentioned could be correct as far as the number and size of fingers goes. It doesn't strictly seem to matter how many fingers the Distortion has, or what size they are. What matters is the visual of something both swollen and sharp, like a broken limb with splinters of bone almost breaching the surface of the skin around the fracture.

#tma #the magnus archives #the distortion #michael the distortion #helen the distortion #sasha james #helen richardson #asks #mag 8 #mag 26 #mag 47 #tw body horror #mischievous-tree

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fruitisthenewvegitable · 5 months

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I made my friend @jane-crow guess what the Fear Entities from TMA were (xer currently on mag 16)

For reference, I wrote the list like:

#. What xe called it/what xe think the fear is (what the name is of the fear xe guessed if they got it right) (the number of the episode that they mentioned/referenced as an example)

Ghosts guesses: TMA entities edition

1. Alone (Lonely) (mag 13)

2. Dark (Dark)

3. Heights (Vast)

4. Needles (mag 12)

5. Dolls (Stranger)

6. Dead/dying (End)

7. Spiders (Web)

8. Germs/germaphobia (Corruption) (Mag 6)

9. Claustrobia (Buried) (Mag 15)

10. The unknown (Dark)

11. Fire (Desolation) (mag 8)

12. The Eye (Eye <- I told xem about this one) (mag 14)

#the magnus archives #tma #mag 12 #mag 6 #mag 8 #mag 15 #the lonely #the dark #the vast #the stranger #the end #the web #the corruption #the buried #the desolation #the eye #mag 13

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hawkmothdiemotte · 1 year

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I listende to more and I still like it it’s just a complete surprise if I’m scared out of my life or don’t care. Maybe it has to do with how well I understood the episode or something.. ehh

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honeydoe12 · 1 year

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Agnes is probs my favorite nonmain character, her entire story is really interesting.

#tma #the magnus archives #agnes montague #tma agnes #mag 8 #mag 59 #mag 67 #mag 139 #fire #fire messiah fire messiah #I understand Jack barnabas on a spiritual level #I too would give anything to kiss a strange woman #art #artwork #artist #my art #honeyart

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artfulacrostic · 2 years

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mag 8 burned out is literally insane. jonny sims slapped that episode on the roof and said "this bad boy can hold SO many plot points".

major points:

-Hilltop Road is connected most to the Web throughout the whole show. in this episode the apple in the box that Lensik finds rots in front of him and spiders pour out, and yet in this statement that's the main Web connection.

-conversely, it's Agnes Montague who grows up in the house and was supposed to be in it when it burnt down. obviously she wasn't, but she WAS connected even years later to the bleeding tree in the garden, which Lensik pulls down on the same day that she is found having hung herself. that gives Hilltop a BIG connection to the Desolation, without even getting into Raymond Fielding and his severed hand that was attached to Agnes and his ghost at the house with the scorched ground etc etc.

-Father Edwin shows up to try and perform blessings on the house. obviously we see him again later. he is connected most imo to the Flesh and the Spiral.

-Anna the nurse appears.

-AND. something that I completely glossed over the first time i listened bc the deluge of info was so overwhelming: Lensik's father was obviously being tormented by and was later killed by the Spiral; specifically the Distortion! the obsession with fractals, the descent into more and more severe schizophrenia, mention of a person with HANDS, and then finally the supposed self-unaliving where the mortician couldn't figure out what sliced his arms open. in hindsight? yeah. the Distortion.

fuck. i love this podcast so much but this episode is possibly one of the most dense in terms of the sheer amount of stuff happening and the amount of subtle connections being set up for later. INSANITY.

#r relistens to tma #tma liveblog #the magnus archives #tma #mag 8 #mag 8 burned out #hilltop road #the web #the spiral #the desolation #agnes montague #father edwin burroughs

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hal-o-ween · 9 months

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MAG 8: Burned Out

#my art #creativilee tma #mag 8 #undesrcibed

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somanyfuckedupiftruebooks · 2 years

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Mag 8

Alright let's go! I've always found the Hilltop Road statements difficult to figure out, but since this is my first relisten since finishing S5 I was hoping I'd be able to understand them a little better. Nope!

As far as I can tell from this statement, the general bad vibes of Hilltop Road just makes all the Entities manifest and blur together like crazy (with the Web pulling the strings, of course).

#a mag a day #reeah reacts to tma #mag 8

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thatpodcastkid · 23 hours

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Magnus Archives Relisten 8, MAG 8 Burned Out, Spoiler-Free Version

Mag 8 analysis! I have listened to this episode twice and am okay mentally.

Haha Burned Out. Get it like- Burned Out like- get it it's like- get it- because. Burned out

Facts: Statement of Ivo Lensik regarding his experiences during construction at 105 Hilltop Road. Statement given March 13, 2007.

Statement Notes: This is a classic haunted house. Not a superstructure or cursed land or living space, but a house possessed by what once lived within it. Raymond Fielding lived in this house, and then he died in it, and he is going to make this everybody else's problem. He has unfinished business, he has a message he is trying to send. But like any spirit, you won't understand until it's too late.

Character Notes: I found Ivo to be a really compelling character. He had a positive demeanor, an interesting backstory, and a very strong approach to dealing with the supernatural. Overall a cool guy and awesome character I would have liked to hear more from.

Agnes' death is such a visceral image. It's a brief paragraph at the end of the statement. It's one of Jon's "And yet..." moments, intended to leave you with just a little bit of fear when you unplug the headphones. But that connection to the tree, to her childhood home. It's a simple section of text, but so vivid and full of imagery and meaning. Especially because we had only been exposed to her as a young child, and she left us as an improbably young but grown woman who we will never fully know or understand.

When the statement ended, the only thought going through my head was, "Mean Jon! Mean mean Jon!" He was foul with this one. First he goes on a tangent about schizophrenia and head trauma being second only to drug use as a means of seeing ghosts, then he immediately roasts Gertrude's filing system again.

He loves to go off about Martin and Tim being incompetent compared to Sasha, but who found a history of the house's ownership? Who interviewed Anna Kasuma? Who found Agnes' death report? Ya bois.

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nonbinarylocalcryptid · 3 months

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MAG8 - Burned Out

I don't Know where to start with this one. Construction guy has beef with spooky tree. Statement of Jonny Sims, regarding worldbuilding within his horror podcast. Hm, both seem like good ways to aproach it.

It has a lot of stuff going on ngl

Quotesssssss:

"There was a knock at the door, and the feeling abruptly vanished. I was cold again, lying on the bare floor. I struggled to my feet as the knock came again. My hand shook as I opened it. By now I didn’t know what to expect. Would it be Raymond again? Agnes? Or some other thing to announce the end of my sanity.

What I did not expect was a Catholic priest." - Ivo Lensik, March a3th 2007

The statement it's creepy and mysterious and then, pum, Catholic priest. Why is it so funny?

"As I stood there in the cold, my eyes fell on the tree. That creepy, damn tree." - Ivo "I had beef with a tree" Lensik

"Ah, head trauma and latent schizophrenia – the ghost’s best friends. Aside from excessive indulgence in psychoactive drugs, it seems to me that there is simply no better way to make contact with the spirit world." - Jon Sims, April 8th 2016

Joooon, why are you so mean? xD

"There doesn’t seem to be any print evidence of what happened to the house; no news stories or similar regarding the fire. But one resident did provide a photograph of the house in flames." - Also Jon

this bit is so, so funny, like, that resident really said "yeah we didn't call the firefighters but hey, I took a photo :D"

Small review:

God bless worldbuilding

Spoiler Stuff, go to General Overview if you don't want to read it:

Well, Ivo Lensik's father wasn't schizophrenic, he just happen to know Michael a bit too well I guess

General overview:

Vibe: wut

Horror: spooky, but not too much, I may be wrong

Audio: nice

Humour: Jon being, someone throwing hands with a tree

Score: 10/10

#tma shitpost #tma #jon sims #jon sims being jon sims #mag 8 #tma review

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