Straight Up I'd Kill And Die For Archivist Alice

I remember ASMR before in video ads, You Sick Fucks

Can people really quit the OIAR? Or do they "not last long" as in they die? Lena brutal pipe murder?

Maybe we hear him in the puters.

SEND THIS TO YOUR FRIENDS TO TOTALLY USHANKA THEM!!!!

His teeth are not soft 😀

the fact that both of these designs are official is horrifying

places where the audio distorts

image ids under the cut

tmagp 4:

tmagp 5:

tmagp 7:

tmagp 8:

the audio distorts when people lie.

I imagine this knowledge will come in handy later.

[id: ALICE: This is not something you go poking around in. Not if you want to keep your job… or your neck. SAM: (a little amused) Okay, okay! I get it. Consider me scared straight. "Consider me scared straight" is highlighted. end id]

[id: LENA: Now, while I understand your concerns, you need to understand that Colin has held the IT Manager position for some time without incident, and although he is somewhat… frustrated with his current assignment, he can request help from the central IT team at any time. I am certain that should he find his responsibilities unmanageable, he will request assistance. Or resign, of course. Either way, the problem will resolve itself. "Or resign, of course" is highlighted. end id]

[id: CELIA: Is there any way to look up specific files? ALICE: Like what? CELIA: Oh, I don’t know. Every case about… being buried alive, or meat, or… whatever. ALICE: Well, there’s a search bar, but it doesn’t actually do anything. You’d have to dig through them all manually. (suspicious) – Why do you ask? CELIA: Just figuring it all out. Ah well, I guess I’ll need to find Bigfoot on my own time. "Just figuring it all out" is highlighted. end id]

[id: GERTRUDE: I see. Well, I’m sorry, but I don’t think Gerry can help you – GERRY: (casually) Yeah, I barely remember any of it. "I don’t think Gerry can help you" is highlighted. end id]

[id: GERRY: Oh yeah, but I was pretty young. I remember filling in a bunch of forms and questionnaires, then some old men asking me questions about what books I liked to read, who did I look up to, that kind of thing. And then I left. SAM: (disappointed) That’s all? GERRY: Yeah, afraid so. Other than just sitting around with a bunch of other kids in a room that smelled like old books. "Yeah, afraid so" is highlighted. end id]

[id: CELIA: I’m trying to look into… Weird physics stuff: time travel, other dimensions, teleportation, all that good stuff. Freddy doesn’t really do searches, so you could keep an eye out and let me know if any come up in your cases? SAM: Uh, sounds a bit sci-fi compared to our usuals. What’s this for? (amused breath) You’re not doing research for that podcast you were on, are you? CELIA: (surprised) You know about that? SAM: I might have given you a quick Google. CELIA: Then… yeah. I’m doing a favor for Georgie. "yeah. I’m doing a favor for Georgie" is highlighted. end id]

I would not put this past Johnny Sims

(but I do wonder if undead Mr. Winstead will turn out to be more important than he seems so far. The red canary definitely gets more attention in all the theories I see.)

All this about red canary being a warning vs anglerfish drawing you in (which I do find to be a very fun idea) but what about HARRIET WINSTEAD'S HUSBAND?

Something thought dead and gone for good but desperately brought back by someone who couldn't bear to leave it be and it comes back wrong. It's messed up and horrible and worse than they could've ever imagined. It's not what it was at all.

It's The Magnus Archives. It was gone for good but it came back in The Magnus Protocol and it's so messed up and bent out of shape. Jonny and Alex and all the fans still here just couldn't leave it be.

Harriet saw something strange in the figure and almost ran, but the sound of her husband's familiar voice convinced her it was safe. So many people were worried and skeptical about there being a tma sequel but hey! It's Martin!! We all know Martin!!

But is it Martin? Is it the same tma we all know?? No, it's only some of him, some of it. And it laughs at us for ever thinking it was the same thing we'd grown to love.

She girlbossed too close to the sun

TMAGP 4 SPOILERS BELOW CUT

Sacrificing yourself, or part of yourself, has been a constant focus so far (nothing's wasted in the garden). A lot of people have commented on the "be careful what you wish for" narratives, and I'm on that page, but I think there's been self-harm in each story (implied in 1, regarding the eyes). People's passions consume them, and they're "giving in."

TMAGP 4 feels like the first story where someone channels that supernatural harm outwards as well (in 3, the murder precedes the supernatural encounter). In TMA the statements were often innocent people encountering terrible things, but the POVs are more complex this time around.

Considering the ambiguity of the system's morality, I feel like the macro POV (the devices we're listening from) will be equally ambiguous. I wonder if we'll get into the horrors' sentience (or lack of it) and how this weird abstract organism would, itself, would choose a moral path.

I'VE BEEN CONVERTED

“the IT guy is pretty uhmmm…. yeah pretty… pretty scary” - samama khalid probably (to alice)