archive 81 stuff

first pic is dan on top row melody and rat below

Today's LGBT+ Character is;

Melody and Alexa Pendras from the Archive 81 Podcast-Lesbians

Art by @artchixs

Requested by Anon

Status: Alive (and Married)

You know what I desire? A crossover between archive 81 the podcast and the shitty Netflix adaptation.

I wanna see Melody and Alexa pound Samuel into the dirt, the pathetic Samuel of the netflix show. A brilliant use of the fact that Netflix show Samuel is seen often by Netflix Melody. I wanna see Samuel try his fucking "come with me on a date to the opera" and mayhaps lean in for a kiss. Only for Melody to grab him by the nose and go "I'm married, bitch." Or mayhaps, "It is only that im unsure if you're evil in this reality that prevents from tearing you to shreds."

I wanna see Melodys first reaction to the sight of Samuel to be fight, and to see this capitalist cultist weenie to fold like a paper in the face of violence. Fecker definitely is too comfortable. I wanna see Melody getting jiggy and wild with her magic rituals in Christian demon cult building. I wanna see the demon cult residents in confusion.

I wanna see how Podcast Melody reacts to the vizer apartment residents. Mayhaps this when she realizes she's not quite in the past, that she's in a different universe entirely. Like how Jess is 15 and a girl. How there's a psychic a medium an artist and a musician. But no man who loses faces or that one guy who cannot be recorded. How watered down and uninteresting the occultism is. I wanna see her flip through books and panic at the lack of depth. Her main motivation in interviewing residents being that they are different somehow now and she needs to figure out what happened.

Honestly I think it would be soo cool if the framing of the Netflix show was the result of some entity or leviathan! Like this reality might be a pocket reality or a dimension under the control of a single entity. I'd love it if the weird Christian demon themes were the result of the storytelling of a storyteller. One who is pushing themes into the story to prove a point or to serve a purpose. A purpose that Melody by virtue of being not the watered down Heterosexual damsel in distress she was meant in this world to be, stands in the way of. I wanna see the story teller struggle to try to push Melody into the role Netflix wants her in.

Residents spouting exposition about her life, trying to reshape her image in the eyes of an audience she cannot see, as she at them in "That's not what happened, that's not me, what the fuck are you talking about" People she's spoken to maybe once suddenly privy to gossip about things she did years ago towns away.

People suddenly popping up near her where they have no business, or a strong reason to avoid being there. Like meeting a elderly resident in a wheelchair at the grocery story when she knew the elevator was out, and that Jess usually got their groceries for them. Only for them to start telling Melody that she has a dark presence hanging over her. (Something ungodly, something un christian)

People she doesn't know very well at all suddenly being very friendly after a few interactions. Old friends from primary school, or highschool, or "we were like sisters back in the day" spontaneously formed deep friendships that Melody does not reciprocate. Telling stories about Old Times™ and "all the boys Melody liked" . An ineffectual foil to a wild and weary normal person. I want an Author struggling to control a story with a rogue element.

In essence Netflix is a leviathan and homophobic. All of the writing and tropes are sprinkles on the horror sandwich.

Dina Shihabi as Melody Pendras ARCHIVE 81 | 1.01 “Mystery Signals”

I’m making a powerpoint on why Netflix’s Archive 81 adaption is awful

Does anyone have any good points that I could include?

a puppet with no strings (there are no strings on me)

(do not repost w/ out permission)

[image id: traditional pen and ink drawings of melody pendras, suit/caroline, rat, daniel powell, and clara/jennifer from various angles.  end id.]

Having seen kaelego and melody only on screens and in imagination makes them 2D right?

Episode 2 is making my eye twitch thEY MADE MELODY FALL IN LOVE WITH SAMUEL!?

god this is so dire who read one piece east blue saga and thought wow i wish coby was in all of these chapters youre deranged youre deranged just put tashigi and smoker in early if you really cant handle arcs that stand alone

tag dump / archive 81

who are your favorite voice actors in podcasts?

jonny sims as jon(athan sims) (the magnus archives), dina shihabi as melody pendras (archive 81), cecil baldwin as cecil palmer (wtnv), chioma nwalioba as annabelle cane (tma), lydia nicholas as melanie king (tma), luke booys as michael distortion/shelley (tma), muna hussen as riyo (i am in eskew), méabh de brún as carpenter (the silt verses), @/nanaluvren as VAL (tsv) (the official website hasn't been updated to include them on the cast list yet, but that's their tumblr)

MELODY: On February 2nd, 1994, I Melody Pendras, a temporary researcher for the Urban Preservation and Development Department of New York State, give verbal consent to be recorded. This is pursuant to-

Archive 81, Episode 01 - A Body In A New Place

30 Years since Melody took a terrible job.

Archive 81 tv show made Melody Pendras straight we cannot trust podcasts in the hands of mainstream media !!!!!!!

Dina Shihabi as Melody Pendras ARCHIVE 81 | 1.02 “Wellspring”