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cult-of-the-eye · 2 months

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Why You Should Date Each of the Entities:

The Dark:

You can't see the things that are so plainly wrong in the dark, everything is softer, more blurred at the edges. your secrets will always be safe.

The Corruption:

You will never be alone again, loved unconditionally, blindly, wildly by something that lives within you. Something that has marked you. Something that will never leave.

The Lonely:

Isn't it so peaceful? So calm? Being given your own space, living, loving in silence together. How can you be hurt if there's no one to hurt you?

The Eye:

What would you give to fully be Seen? To be understood? In your deliriously human entirety. A complex puzzle of experience and nature, dissected and pieced back together.

The Vast:

You want to be drawn in, magnetised by something larger than life, bigger than you could ever imagine. You want it to overwhelm you, the indifference in which it reacts to your all-encompassing desire. The best part of love is the falling.

The Flesh:

Meat is meat is meat. Why romanticise what is so plainly human? You are a person, made of flesh and bones, you would like to be with another person, made of flesh and bones. Simple as.

The Web:

Love me, love me not. You pull off each of the spider's legs to understand your romantic fate. It's infinitely complex, ineffable to you and your human machinations. You just want to follow the red string, hopefully finding someone on the other end.

The Slaughter:

It's me and you. You and me. Why should anyone else get in the way? I'll dig through your ribcage and curl up aside your beating heart, holding it as it ceases to beat.

The Spiral:

You don't want to understand. You just want to your hand to be taken, pulled along to dizzying adventures. Chug the slushee and relish the feeling of the brain freeze.

The End:

Everything ends. At least this way, you have more control. The relief that washes over you is no longer tinged with guilt.

The Buried:

You're surrounded on all sides by your lover, encompassed and safe. The pressure condenses your fizzing veins into hard candy and for the first time, you feel solid.

The Desolation:

Burn it down and only we are left. We are the most important people to each other and it shall stay that way, until the both of us perish. It will end as it started, with a rush of flame.

The Hunt:

You're constantly chasing the pounding, breathless feeling in your chest, craving the twist of the neck to check if I'm still watching, still five paces behind. It's presence is comforting, mingled with torturous.

The Stranger:

Fuck man I don't know how to make this one sound romantic.

#tma #the magnus archives #smirkes 14 #smirkes fourteen #tma headcanons #the stranger #the hunt #the desolation #the eye #the lonely #the slaughter #the web #the buried #the end #the spiral #the vast #the flesh #the corruption #the dark

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clairebearsparkles · 2 years

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I felt like the fears in this style would be cute as hell, and I was right

#the magnus archives #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus institute #the magnus pod #tma #tma art #smirkes 14 #smirke's fourteen #robert smirke #tw trypophobia #trypophobia #tw arachnophobia #arachnophobia #little miss #little miss sunshine #roger hargreaves #clairebear art

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quasi-normalcy · 9 months

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Magnus Archives Fear Entities by Farside Cartoon (Alternate Version)

The Beholding

The Corruption

The Buried

The Dark

The Vast

The Spiral

The Lonely

The Stranger

The Web

The Desolation

The Hunt

The Slaughter

The Flesh

The End

The Extinction

#the far side #the magnus archives #tma #smirke's fourteen #the entities

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statementends · 7 months

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I hope in Magnus Protocol the new agency we're following has really unpoetic classifications for the Powers if they show up.

Eye thing

Darkness

Oh god why are there spiders!?

Ew.

Meat

Urge to kill

Everybody kills

Space is big huh.

Malicious confusion

Too hot to handle

Who the hell are you?

Claustrophobia monster

Sad fog

Climate change is a real thing guys

Literally dying

#tmagp #tma #smirke's fourteen #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol

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uptheantares · 8 months

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Banners for each of the 14 Entities in The Magnus Archives

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laughable-umbrella · 4 months

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👁️ MAJOR TMA SPOILERS UP TO S4 👁️

here’s this if you’re wondering exactly how jon got marked by each of the fears

#i’m technically reposting this cause i had some stuff mixed up the first time i posted this and i left out the slaughter #tma #the magnus archives #tma podcast #jon sims #tma shitpost #the archivist #tma memes #jonah magnus #martin blackwood #agnes montague #smirke's fourteen #the magnus pod

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congregation-of-the-spiral · 27 days

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reblog this w the entity/entities you most align yourself with & why

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myexhaustionissoftblue · 7 months

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I actually really want the Fear Categories™ to be different in the Magnus Protocol's world.

Like, yeah different names being the most popular would be cool and all but I mean like. Actually divided different. Not into Smirke's Fourteen. Like people have divided the Fears into a main six or there's like 37.

Or, even better, how many Fears there are isn't universally agreed on.

Some people say there's ten, and they serve the manipulating, knowledgeable one. Some people say there's 50, and they serve the one that drowns, which is different from the choking or buried alive or large ocean ones. Some believe each Power is a spectrum, so the Vast and Buried are one thing, the Dark and the Eye are one, etc. Some people try to force them into preconceived categories, like the Buried is Earth, Air is that part of the Vast, Water is another part of the Vast, Fire is the Desolation, and then try to shove the rest into those divisions too.

Because Smirke's Fourteen is supposed to be kinda arbitrary right? People kinda just adopted it and it became widespread. It doesn't have to be like that. You could have avatars that can create shadows and suffocate you. Avatars that are Hunt, Slaughter, Flesh and Desolation combined. The ability to burn you, and to choke you, but only with smoke. Someone who's specifically serving the fear of electricity. A cult that just has One True God, whose power is creating fear in many forms, serving the Entities as a singular being, the whole colour wheel. The possibilities and combinations are endless!

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #the entities #tmagp theory #the magnus archives #tma #robert smirke #smirke's fourteen

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its-your-mind · 3 months

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*deep breath in*

the fears 👏 have always 👏 been (in one way or another) 👏 parallel 👏 to 👏 desire 👏

let me explain.

so many of the statements given by actual avatars center around some sort of need that was met by their entity. Lots of them even had a positive relationship with the fear that drove them.

Jane Prentiss is an excellent example - the Corruption has always been about a form of toxic and possessive love, but she personally has a deep desire to be “fully consumed by what loves her,” and finds a perverse joy and relief at allowing herself to be a home

Jude Perry is another - she fucking loved watching people’s lives be utterly destroyed. The Desolation only offered her a power of destruction on a grander scale, and then gave her a more intense rush of joy as she did its work. When she tells Jon that he needs to feed the Eye before it feeds on him, it’s almost as an afterthought; she was happily feeding the Desolation long before it burned her into a new existence.

Simon Fairchild. Every time that old loose bag of bones wanders into the picture, he is having a fucking EXCELLENT time playing with the Vast. He loves showing people their own insignificance, and he loves luring them into situations where he can throw them into the void as he smiles and waves.

Peter Lukas (hell, the whole Lukas family (except Evan. RIP Evan.)) hated. people. all he wanted was for them all to go away, to leave him alone. The Lonely only fulfilled that desire.

Daisy, Trevor, and Julia, all devoted to hunting those things they deemed monstrous.

Melanie, holding tight to that bullet in her leg because on some level, she wanted it. It felt good, it felt right, it felt like it fit right alongside the anger and spite that drove her to success.

Annabelle Cane first encountered the Web when she was a child, running away from home in order to tug on her parents’ heartstrings in just the right way to have them wrapped around her little finger. Later on she volunteered to be the subject of an ESP study. Hell, she’s the one who dangled the “Is it really You that wants this?” question over Jon’s head in S4.

And that brings us to Jon, beloved Jarchivist, the Voice that Opened the Door. Ever since he was a child targeted by the Web, he was looking for answers. He joined the Magnus Institute’s Research Department looking for them, he stalked his coworkers in search for them, he broke into Gertrude’s flat and laptop out of desperation for them. And when he realized that all he had to do was Ask to get truthful answers to his questions? It was only natural for him to jump at that opportunity.

Elias told S3 Jon that he did want this, that he chose it, that at every crossroads he kept pushing onwards, and the inner turmoil that caused was one of the focal points for Jon’s character through the rest of the podcast.

There’s a certain line of thinking in many circles about the power of the Devil: he’s not able to create anything new. All he’s able to do is twist and warp that which was already present, making it something ugly and profane while still maintaining the facade of something desirable.

Jon didn’t choose the Eye. But he did wander into its realm of power, exhibiting exactly the qualities it was most capable of hijacking and warping to its own ends. Jon didn’t choose the Apocalypse. But Jonah picked at him little by little, pointing him towards each Fear individually. Jon didn’t want to release the Fears. But the Web tugged on his strings just so and laid a pretty trail for him to follow until he reached its desired conclusion.

Jon didn’t choose ultimate power, or omniscience, or even his own role as Head Archivist. But he said “yes” to the right (wrong?) orders and kept on pushing for the right (wrong?) answers. He wanted to succeed at the work he had been assigned. He wanted to protect his friends. He wanted to rescue them when they were lost. He wanted to prevent the apocalypse, to save the world. He wanted to know why he was still alive, when so many had died right in front of him.

The Great Wheel of Evil Color that is the Entities might not fit as neatly into categories in this universe - maybe there was no Robert Smirke trying to impose strict categories on emotional experiences, or maybe the ways they manifest in the world has turned on its head (goodness knows many of them have been showcased and blended in some very fun and new and horrifying ways so far) - but their fundamental foundations seem to be the same. Hell, in episode one we learned that there had been enough individual incidents to create a distinction between “dolls, watching” and “dolls, human skin.”

Smirke’s Fourteen isn’t going to be relevant as common parlance, RQ said that already, but I don’t think that means the Fears themselves (and their Dream Logic-based rules) are different - I think it means that the levels of understanding, language used, and personal connections among people “in the know” are going to be entirely unfamiliar

#tma #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp meta #tmagp analysis #the entities #robert smirke #smirke's fourteen #mind write a meta post that doesn’t turn into a fucking essay challenge #I literally thought about citing my episode sources here but decided that would get too FUCKING long.#anyway I’m pulling mostly from Gerry’s statement (111) and #and the Big Elias Group Confrontation (92)#and Annabelle’s statement (147)#and then finale - 196 / 197 / 200 #there are other little lines that I grabbed - tbh feel free to ask about anything I’ve said bc I feel like I’m ready to defend a thesis #I’ve been thinking about this on and off for a few weeks since the desire thing started going around #I have an obsession with Themes as they relate to Worldbuilding and now I have subjected you all to it as well #I am serious tho if anyone wants me to pull the specific parts I’m talking about (whether cuz you have Questions or you wanna ref them too)#lmk #my hyperfocus on silly media brain might as well come in useful somehow #aight peace ✌️

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itsnobodysproblem · 2 months

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Playlists for the 14 fears

Roughly in order of length (things might change):

If you kin the End

If you kin the Lonely

If you kin the Vast

If you kin the Stranger

If you kin the Desolation

If you kin the Spiral

If you kin the Web

If you kin the Hunt

If you kin the Dark

If you kin the Eye

If you kin the Buried

If you kin the Corruption

If you kin the Slaughter

If you kin the Flesh

Feel free to comment suggestions!!

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gothighunicorntolerance · 2 years

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Enough of “what fear avatar would you be.” Tell me which fear would feed from you. Which fear’s domain would you be trapped in. Which of the 15 would put a silly straw in you and drink your fear.

#The Magnus archives #lonely or corruption for me honestly :/#smirke's fourteen #TMA

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grifters-rockininthe-bone · 9 days

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Smirke's Fourteen l. I made 4 of these, my BF (edit: he's @dongofhealing) the other 10. They look way better irl but I felt like you guys could appreciate it anyway.

Edit: I'm so pissed you can't see the lightning in the vast one so here's a close up.

#the magnus archives #tma #tma podcast #the magnus archives podcast #tmagp #it looks so cool dude #fourteen fears #robert smirke #handmade

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murderandcoffee · 6 months

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lizweirdo · 22 days

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i know jurgen leitner’s european ass was definitely not culturally aware enough for this but the manga section of his library would have gone so insanely hard. goodnight punpun. blame! berserk. goodbye eri. the summer hikaru died. every single junji ito work….

#dare i say many shounen are Slaughter and many bl are Lonely……#anything is a leitner if you can overanalyze subtext!#tma podcast #tma posting #the magnus pod #the magnus archives #magnus archives #the fears #smirke's fourteen #jurgen leitner #leitner books

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statementends · 3 months

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Beholding 👁️ started the poll and Lonely 🌫️ did not participate. Extinction ☢️ was too late for sign up.

#didnt have room for them #tma #the Magnus Archives #smirke's fourteen #poll #for fun #lonely and beholding would be popular anyway #i hope this breaks containment because it would be funny

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fear-aesthetic-tourney · 7 months

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Brackets.

Round one matches:

1a: flesh Vs vast. 1b: hunt Vs spiral. 1c: eye Vs lonely. 1d: desolation Vs corruption. 1e: dark Vs web. 1f: slaughter Vs end. 1g: stranger Vs buried Vs extinction.

There will be four rounds, and 22 polls labelled 1a-1g, 2a-2d, semi finals a and b, finals. There will then be a post announcing the winner.

Polls will be posted on Thursday's at 10am BST, and last a week. There will be one poll a week, with a week gap between rounds, when the winners of last round will be announced.

The tournament will begin once I have a big enough following for this to actually matter.

Before and during the tournament, you may submit propaganda for your fave fear, images are allowed but will not be included in polls, merely as separate propaganda posts. (Also, please add alt text yourself, as I'm kinda bad at writing image descriptions. If you don't, I will just try my best)

Appropriate content warnings will be provided (eg: trypophobia)

Also please spread this around! Get this to as many fans as possible.

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