SAM: Uhhh, Alice? // ALICE: Yeah? // SAM: I think the text to speech AIs are in love with each other. // ALICE: Heh. Chester and Norris started flirting mid-paragraph again? // SAM: A-again? // ALICE: Ya, they do that when they get side-tracked by outside data. It's just a bug, wait it out. // SAM: Wha??

Could you imagine

"mr. bonzo is one of our externals" I'm sorry, is that bitch getting PAID?

archivist be upon ye

Alice. Alice please. I can't.

He’s just like me for real

i saw the early access listeners freaking out on tuesday and i was like “people please it can't possibly be worse than episode 7???”

...i will never doubt you guys again

Protocol is actually just us Magnus Archives fans rapidly descending into s2-Jon-levels of paranoia. Granted, just like s2 Jon, we have reason to be paranoid, but it's still hilarious to see us all collectively scaling the walls of our enclosure while frothing at the mouth over our theories.

Jonny and Alex are playing us like a cheap harmonica and I'm so here for it

my girl celia really said have you ever heard of this one show it’s called the magnus archives and it’s a podcast distributed by rusty quill and licensed under a creative commo-

actually, it would be really funny if gerry shows up in a statement in tmagp considering the arg confirms that he & sam were in the same unethical magnus experiment. like he just just up in the middle of a talker & goes "gerard keay??? the gerard keay from traumatic childhood??? my fucking trauma buddy gerry???"

i'm allowing myself exactly one (1) moment of pure delusion:

jon martin jonah. thanks for your time.

I think people going about Jon being in the therapist office are forgetting the very important part that they were in a place for court-ordered therapy. We don't have the insane take of a version of Jonathan Sims that seeks help we have a version of Jonathan Sims that somehow commited a crime and was forced by law to finally go to therapy.

plunged into the deep end

I know the episode just dropped for most people but I can guarantee not enough people are talking about the fact that ALICE DID NOT DENY IT

Teddy said “you know it’s cool if you’re still in love with him” and she doesn’t deny it. Sarcastic Alice who jokes about everything, jokes about Sam being pathetic, and says she runs on spite and coffee and chaos generally makes jokes about not having feelings, DOES NOT DENY it

Thinking about how in the first episode Alice says “it isn’t too awkward working with an ex?” but in episode 6 Sam says “it’s the same place you hid things when we were students”, not “when we were dating”. Thinking about how Alice said “don’t you want Celia to go with you” and Sam said “we’re not there yet” and Alice said “are we?” and Sam says “We used to be.”

God what happened to them?

Whenever I see people speculating that Protocol's powers are based on love or desire, my brain goes back to MAG 111:

And I can't help but wonder if the seed of Protocol was the writers saying "but what if Gerry was wrong?"

Alice: oh hey u guys are back early

Colin: computer’s haunted

Alice: what?

Colin: *loading a pistol and heading back to the computer room* computer’s haunted