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Real middle school breakup core

i cant believe jon and martin were only together for 10-12 business days

catch me saying [text obscured by blood] instead of [redacted] from now on

I BEG YOUR FINEST PARDON

Me, a chemistry major, hearing the name Robert Boyle:

“Who keeps stealing Georgie’s face?” WHAT THE HELL ABSOLUTELY NO ONE EVERYTHING IS 100% FINE 😃😃

Alice roasting Sam’s lack of rizz has me DEAD omfg

[tape recorder clicks]

rip Gary you would’ve love the D&D movie

I’m climbing the walls wtf was this episode

Jonny and Alex you can’t just make an episode about liminal spaces and expect me to not go batshit crazy on tumblr dot com

On today’s episode of I should be writing a lab report

Ah yes, the TmagP avatars:

guy who got peer pressured into eye removal by a building (i assume)

Incredibly talented artist… what will they do? Hurt people probably

Killed his wife, now he’s the garden

Violin player (evil)

73 million needles in a trench coat

This was my face whilst hearing all the references to tma

THIS SURE WAS AN EPISODE HUH

Me after hearing “do you know who Jon is”

HILLTOP CENTER?!?! brb processing this

babes wake up new limited edition Flesh violin just dropped

The Magnus Protocol 3 without context:

(those are jasmine flowers btw 😭)

“catch you next time, dearie”

Me when listening to tma: I don't get why people like Elias and other old dudes so much. Like they are cool but obviously they are assholes and hurt people. It's just a bad idea!

Me listening to the protocol, the second I learned that there is an old lady who looks like Roman statue with a gun:

eat the rich before they eat you

Gerry sounded so happy i didn’t recognize his voice at first 🥺 so of course I had to draw him

I haven’t seen anyone mention it yet, but did anyone else notice that when Sam asked about the Magnus Institute, Gertrude responds that she doesn’t “think Gerry can help you” and then there’s static???

Maybe I’m reading into it too much, but I don’t think she’s completely oblivious to what’s going on

ICON ICON ICON ICON ‼️

(Reference: in Christian Dior, Gisele Bündchen & Rhea Durham by Nick Knight)

HAPPY PROTOCOL THURSDAY EVERYONE

some quick needles doodles in preparation for tomorrow’s episode 💪

Needles design from the new episode :)

Inside of you are two wolves

something something tma starts with an anglerfish luring you in, something something tmp starts with a canary telling you to get out while you still can

THEY AREN'T THE FEARS ANYMORE!! THEY'RE DESIRES

(SPOILERS for TMA, and all of TMAGP episodes so far)

Okay, here me out

Tmagp1: Darla wants to hear Arthur's voice again. She even says: "I just couldn’t face the thought of the rest of my life never hearing him again, I had to try" and later on she even says: "But I had to know, so I went to the cemetery."

Tmagp1: RedCanary wants to know about the Magnus Institute. They want to know why it's listed under 'cleared' when there's no evidence of it. Hence why they go and explore it.

Tmagp2: Daria wants that absolute perfection. She wants to change who she is and get out of that dark place. When she talks about the thing that she felt was missing, she says, "... and that’s when I decide I need a tattoo. I had a couple already – just little things on my shin and my wrist – but I decided I needed something big. Something that really changed my look." She also mentions when talking about Ink5oul that "they just kept pressing me about my life, about why I wanted the ink" instead of asking what design she wanted. And when she got the tattoo she describes herself as now being, "Someone I wanted to know more about." Afterwards she even says how "For the first time ever [she] wanted to attempt a self-portrait. Something real and physical, [she] wanted to feel the brushes in my hands and the oil on [her] fingertips." I think a lot of her statement is about her desire and impulsive need for that perfection and that wholeness that she has been aspiring to for her whole life.

Tmagp3: Samuel wants to stay hidden. He wants and he "need[s] to get up, get out of here for treatment." He wants to get better and most of his delirious thoughts are the things that he wants, or feels like he needs. E.g. "I so much want to see it [the sun] again. This night seems endless. I want to be warm again. I am terribly afraid. Thank god for Maddie. I need to treat her better."; "I just need to rest."; "I need to be careful or we’ll drift apart." And then obviously as the narrative continues, Samuel wants to grow and 'put down roots'.

Tmagp4: The narrator wants to be revered and accepted into the Royal Court Orchestra of the Palatinate. He wants to show off and impress. The violin "was a creature with needs and purpose of its own. The needs were simple enough. Blood. Flesh." It has these needs and desires.

So far, I'm interpreting it to be that everything so far can be interpreted as a desire of sorts, varying in the strength and intensity of it. Obviously, fear is still a big part of it all, because if you want something so badly, aren't you afraid of it being stolen from you? Of it being out of your grasp? Of it being unachievable or impossible in some capacity? Of it being a lie?

Even Sam wants to find out more. He wants to know the why and the reason for things. Gwen wants Lena's job. Collin wants to fix all these bugs and keep Freddie running. Alice wants to just get on with it because she found out that wanting to know the 'why' of things is dangerous.

I think that somehow when the Web took all the Fears into a different universe, they morphed into something else. Or they changed to fit what was the most prevalent thing in that universe, because after all, everyone wants something, even if it's something small and inconsequential. Life and aspects of it has always been characterised by that desire for something. Like people wanting food, shelter, safety, love, warmth, happiness, etc. And I think since the Web was so intwined with Jon and Martin, it absorbed some of their emotions when it found its way into this new world, because after all Jon and Martin wanted to stop Jonah/Elias, to stop the apocalypse, to destroy the Panopticon, to be safe, and they wanted each other. I think the wanting and fear of things are really entwined in it all, though this could be absolute bullshit haha

Good luck on your road trip with the Archivist, Sam