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jurgen leitner has been dead for seven slutty years

When I realized what the little title picture with the cassette tape actually meant all along 😃

Georgie and Jon’s dynamic is so important bc even though they weren’t compatible romantically they were still platonic besties and supportive of each other’s relationships and Jon went to her when he had nowhere else to go in this essay I will

also the fact that Jonny Sims got his irl wife to voice his character’s ex-girlfriend will never not be funny

Every fandom has a comfort emo and an iconic old hag that is universally despised

Some more humble s2-s3 memes bc I work hard to make this hellsite a home

Let’s be honest it was only a matter of time before I made a brutal pipe murder meme, and I think about Mag 86 every damn night 😃

and I miss Tim every damn day

My personal favorite is “supplemental: I’ve broken into Gertrude’s flat”

Oh also Martin finding the pictures Jon took of Tim’s house 😭

Unhinged Jon will forever be the funniest Jon, man was really out roaming the tunnels and stalking his coworkers like there was no tomorrow

Hi!! I hope it's okay if I add on to this! Your analysis around doors and choice in tma is so well written!

Your words also remind me of how doors in the magnus archives are somewhat representative as a death of self. Michael offering Jon an escape from the Stranger through death through his door. Michael transforming into Helen through his own door rejecting him. Elias opening the door to the archives to murder Jurgen leitner- effectively transforming the whole way we understand his character in the podcast. The same thing happens when he murders Gertrude, and our understanding of his identity changes once again.

Also, Jon visualizing his connection to the Eye through the medium of a door is especially interesting given the context of his trauma with Mr Spider's door. His fear of unbecoming -of the rest of his humanity drowning- under the weight of the Archivist behind his own door is really compelling under this lense! It gives this line so much more weight than it already has.

Thank you once again for your analysis. I shall be rotating it like a rat spinning to the hit song "free bird" in my head for the foreseeable future.

mag 81 - "a guest for mr spider" // mag 92 - "nothing beside remains"

a guest for mr spider is a top tier statement to me for a lot of reasons but the way it explains why jon is like That. his desire for answers is not a funny little protagonist quirk that dooms him or whatever, it exists because when he was eight he saw someone disappear behind a door, he was offered a mystery and then he spent the rest of his life chasing after answers, opening doors (elias is playing his victim blaming card over there because he's manipulated jon by denying him necessary information that Would've discouraged him from making a lot of those choices, like accepting the job! but he's also not lying). and doors in the podcast are a recurring symbol of separation of the mundane from the supernatural (it's also in the way every ritual speaks of metaphorically "opening a door"), jon's first fear mark involves him being traumatised (at a formative age. he was eight! something about the way that book was designed to attract a child is kind of vile to me, but why would the entities discriminate based on age?)—and traumatised in such a manner that it also cultivates in him a lifelong desire to seek out the supernatural. because he needs to know, something incomprehensible happened to him and he needs to understand. this doesn't mean he brought that all on himself, it's just another thing the podcast has to say about trauma and how it leaves its mark upon you (and in jon's case, tangibly. you are living a chronicle of terror)

mag 101 - "another twist" // mag 160 - "the eye opens"

The tma fandom lieddd everyone talks about the “good cows” scene but it was two lines and i barely noticed it the first time! Everyone talks about the Safehouse and it was one episode (technically more if you count apocalypse!safehouse but i don’t)! Everyone talks about the “Somewhere Else” line but that’s just two words, it’s not verbally capitalized like i thought it would be! And jmart is never a cute and fluffy ship like everyone acts like it is, it’s 70% issues and 30% “we’re dating because it’s the apocalypse and we’re pretty sure we’re gonna die”! I’m not talking about tim kayaking here, that’s just denial + a pretty good way for me to somehow have no idea what was gonna happen to tim till it happened. Anyways