Every character in TMA is a tragedy in their own way but I think Gertrude's tragedy is often overlooked. She effectively spent her entire life stopping rituals. She never let anyone get close to her. I don't think she ever even trusted anyone. Every relationship she had was carefully monitored to make sure she didn't reveal too much to the wrong person, because in her position, any mistake could lead to a sudden, unpleasant death, or worse, the end of the world. And as she went on as the archivist, she watched so many of her assistants die that she seemed to be numb to it, though I don't think she truly was. When she had to sacrifice Michael, and then lost Sarah and had to kill Emma not long after, she never took another official assistant after that. She'd never admit it, but the effect that had on her seems pretty clear. The way she's described by the catalogue when Gerry dies, "there was almost sadness in her eyes," just speaks to me of someone so tired of losing people that the pain becomes distant. It has to, otherwise it all comes crashing in at once, every single loss compounding on all that came before it, and there's no time for grief when you're the archivist. And in the end she died alone, and as far as we're aware, no one cared until the mystery of her death became pertinent to stopping the next ritual. Her fate wasn't that different from Gerry or Michael: a dead voice left behind to guide the new archivist on his path.

Waiting patiently for Michael to show up so they can be canon

closing down

Finally... drew the Gerry that lives in my head...

Really love how in the first bit of TMA, Gerry just keeps showing up in statements being a lil cryptid. I love that guy

truck stop tiger

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Relationships: Gerard Keay/Michael | The Distortion Characters: Gerard Keay, Michael | The Distortion (The Magnus Archives) Additional Tags: Haircuts, Happy Little Accidents, Cancer implications, Surgery mentions, Hair mourning Summary:

A happy little accident with Michael leads to Gerry finally deciding to prepare his new look before surgery. He finds comfort in getting his partner to help.

Gerry art!!

I, don’t know if I’m proud of this but I spent too much time on it so it gets to be posted! Uh- I don’t talk about him much (don’t talk about TMA too much on here anyway) but Gerry is one of my favorites!! Even if he’s like super dead. Anyways- I got really particular about the ‘he has eye tattoos on all of his joints’ and that includes the stuff like your jaw joint, or the three(?) joints in your like collarbone area (how you like can fold in on yourself I think-?) so he got his silly little eyes.

That’s it- might edit this if I chose to go back and make the background darker because the pale yellow is messing with me for some reason-

his fucking cookies burned!!!!!!

Forgot to post this here lol (made from this base)

POV: you are a spooky single

Which dynamic do you prefer? My favorite is both of them 🥺

Me when I remember that Gerry (after being put in the book) had writing all over him like Mary had

Hehe hot goth

sorry but imagine being leitner and some goth beats you HALF TO DEATH and stops when you are justifiably terrified because he thinks you're too pathetic.

hello everyone I can’t Stop thinking about Gerard Keay . Nothing in particular just that he’s really pretty and i wish he were real so i could smother him to death .