It’s Arthur’s Birthday, What Could Go Wrong?

It’s Arthur’s birthday, what could go wrong?

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A drawing of Arthur and John, with a birthday cake on a table in front of them. Arthur is leaning away from the table, startled, with his arm raised to shield his face. He has short auburn hair, yellowish eyes, and a small moustache. He wears a white shirt, brown suspenders and medium brown pants. There is a scar on the corner of his right eye, and his left hand’s pinkie is partially missing, leaving a dark, stick-like protrusion in its place.

John is behind him, and also leaning back, shocked. He is shrouded in a yellow cloak, with yellow eyes and grey sheep horns protruding from his hood.

In front of them, a cake sits of a plate, with a column of fire shooting from the three birthday cake candles. The cake is pale pink.

Intro Post!

Hi, I'm Arthur Lester's Music Stand, jumping from the Kayne Train onto the tracks at dangerously high speeds!

This is my side blog, focused mostly on the audio drama, Malevolent, but may feature some other fandoms, too. Again, mostly audio dramas, such as The Magnus Archives/Protocol, Wolf 359, Sherlock & Co., The Silt Verses, and hopefully more soon!

For some further context, I am making this blog hot and fresh off the heels of Malevolent episode 52, "The Wager", a.k.a. the "grand finale" of season 5! I have found audio drama fandom blogs to be some of my favorite to interact with, and finally felt inspired to stop being a lurker and become an active member of the community. (For the record, no shade to fandoms of movies, tv shows, or books, but I think the inherently limiting and unique nature of audio dramas pushes for more creativity and need for audience engagement than the others. Just my two cents on the topic!).

Why am I Arthur Lester's music stand? Well, you may already be familiar with "limb posters" if you're in the fandom, which are folks who take on the names of our dear protagonist's, Arthur Lester, body parts, sometimes for roleplay purposes, mostly just to be silly. Spoilers for episode 52, but that spawned a new genre of Malevolent blogs, which are themed after different instruments the multiverse of Lesters might play in Kayne's orchestra.

I thought, wouldn't this be funny? I don't make art or fanfiction (yet), I'm not huge into making my own original posts, and I don't usually have much to add to anyone else's (though, I am trying to be more sociable!). However, I am great at reblogging! What a more fitting theme, to be someone who showcases some of the best work this fandom has to offer, as the very man's music stand?

So long story short, that's my deal, and that's what I'm doing here.

I believe I have asks open, so feel free to drop me a message, if you please! I have no real goal, other than to have fun with one of my favorite stories and fandoms ever, so if you'd like to further that goal in any way, I'm open for business! I'm also not opposed to attempting roleplay, either taking up certain characters or somehow being the music stand, although I'm not entirely sure how that would work lol.

Thanks for reading, have fun!

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childish-arson

4 weeks ago

It’s really quite simple, Artie.

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childish-arson

2 weeks ago

my s2 rowan theory

okay i had an epiphany the other night about this. i've been analyzing venetian blind man (and the songs blue has on his offical rowan playlist, but that analysis isn't complete yet) recently, and there's one lyric i could never figure out.

"Lord knows I've said awful things 'round this house They echo through the frame and six feet down"

now this!! this is interesting!! let's take a look see at the "six feet down" part. who do we know that has died? no not that one. rowan's former co-counselor. and to further seal this?

"...last year, in a different weather-related incident, a counselor from Cabin Magpie Moth was tragically… destroyed." -FILE 3. The Squall of Prophecy.

and who predicts those weather incidents? rowan. and how does he communicate his predictions? by saying them to others. and by god i'm sure those predictions count as "awful things". and i may be looking too far into this, but the venetian blind man lyrics say "i've SAID awful things." past tense. it isn't him currently saying these things that have a fatal effect, but rather he's said them and the fatality has already happened.

another tidbit that could be unrelated is this line

"Well, campers returning from last summer will remember what happened last time we ignored one of Rowan's forecasts." -FILE 2. The End of the Squall.

could rowan have predicted something so awful that it killed his own co-counselor?