I Like This Interpretation! I'm Thinking The Magnus Institute Is Not The Problem. The Problem Is What

My TMAGP designs atm (bonus Basira and Elias)

I've got like a billion Alice's rn so I'm still settling on her shapes, but I'm a firm believer in Dirty blonde outgrown mullet, angular features and heavy prescription glasses.

Thanks to my magpod groupchat for putting up with my endless spam of sketches at all hours of the day

The Fourth Crusade, 2002 (Michael Whelan)

the best scifi rom com

The transcript makes it seem a lot less like [ERROR] was hiding and lot more like it GOT OUT

so that's something to chew on for four weeks

its them, the .JMJ Error

I like to imagine TMAGP'S Gerry is just as goth, but covered in paint (and hair dye)

CLOWN FIGHT

CLOWN FIGHT

CLOWN FIGHT

-The Duel After the Masquerade-

probs bc he represents the writers

when you realize CHUCK got a better ending then ANY of your lead characters

The fact that TMAGP begins with boot up noises -- and it's implied that Teddy turned off his computer but it turned itself back on -- establishes that we're listening from the same vantage point as whatever's in that machine. Or the system at large.

So the pub conversation is what confuses me. Is whatever's in the OIAR system on Alice's phone? She would DEFINITELY ignore regulations around not connecting personal devices to the network/etc. But is it following her intentionally, or did it just get on there? You hear camera noises while Sam talks to Colin, so it feels intentional. Malicious or beneficent, though...

The transcripts also say that Norris's and Chester's readings occurs in "CYBERSPACE," which is cool to me because TMA didn't get super deep into fears of technology (certainly cameras, keyboard eating, and uncanny automata could all be lumped in, but tech itself wasn't the "fear" - it was the eye, the spiral, and the stranger). So far technology, the complexity of it, the things lurking in spaghetti code, are front and center.

All of the stories so far have also touched on body modification, even transhumanism (esp. 3), and I can't resist thinking I KNOW where this is going. Gimme that sweet sweet .jmj 🙈

I also wonder if the mere act of categorizing these cases is constructing the new fears.

Is it just me, or would Needle dude and Micheal distortion get along well in a sibling relationship?

he’s the clown boss, one absurd abomination to rule them all

the trump presidency started (the murder clowns of ‘16) and ended (Dean Winchester getting murdered by vampire juggalos) with clowns