Canon fact: underneath Jonâs anger, he is scared
I think a good idea of a tag game is to contribute one (1) to three (3) other ways Jon could express his fear.
Iâll start
Knitting jumpers with The Horrorsâąïž patterned on them
Bribing and/or blackmailing chemists to create an âanti-wormâ vaccine while telling the chemists absolutely nothing about why this vaccine is needed and what theyâre up against
Reading poetry that Martin writes (then annotating it with THE most sarcastic comments in the world + also occasionally accidentally gooey and heartwarming notes)
@ the entire TMA community on Tumblr because I actually havenât really spoken to anyone yet (Iâm a hermit okay)
Going thrift shopping to find fancy vintage hats and those long sharp hat pins that regency ladies used to defend themselves and then wearing them everywhere
Drawing bad stick figure images of the Fears and crumpling them up
a tma specific tag game?!! tagged by @martinkartin200 and @eldest-daughter-syndrome
Bad Jon coping mechanisms let's go:
watching amateur animated/paper stop motion films with outlandish cartoon violence because it allows him to laugh at shit that can't possibly be real
when he's really, truly numb from so much fear and anxiety--indulging in the bleakest tragedies to make him feel something. music, movies, spoken word poetry. or he might find a children's book and inconsolably cry for the kid who lost his toy in chapter 1.
sleeping with a tape recorder with a tape of his voice, so they can't take his identity away from him.
OOH!! this is neat! also jon sleeping with a tape with his own voice running is GENIUS agghh
rereading his favorite mystery novels so he can find safety in knowing whats going to happen and feel like hes in control of something. Especially books from his childhood (i think heâd be a Nancy Drew kid). Also!!! spoiling himself before he watches movies/reads books, plot twists remind him too much of his own life unfortunately :-(
go to a lot of animal shelters/cat cafes, or even just feed birds at parks so he can feel somewhat loved and have a positive interaction with another living thing (animals would be scared of him and avoid him post-unknowing, poor guy)
in s4, write a lot of apology letters to everyone he feels guilty towards, but never actually giving it to them (including tim and sasha, but i think heâd visit them and read the letters out loud instead)
@ whoever wants to do this, tagging people scares me and i am so very afraid
Sometimes family is an inflatable tube avatar of the spiral capable of murder, a chaotic, deeply depressed scraggly cat who is an avatar of the desolation, and their equally chaotic researcher friend that will call blowing up other fears rituals as "a trip out"
right so this won't be worded perfectly, im half asleep and quite honestly in a shoddy mood for a lot of reasons but: here's your reminder that saying or implying anything sexual, jokingly or not, about my art or ideas or whatever the fresh fuck will 100% get you blocked. yeah sure im a repulsed ace and whatever, which i think is good enough reason, but really it's that it's because most of my art is very much themed around nonsexual depictions of bodies and that is The Point. sure, i draw and discuss a lot of anatomical stuff because biology is my special interest and i have things i find fun to draw etc etc but underneath it all is the fact that due to a combination of rough childhood experiences and the general trauma of growing up an afab person with medical issues i draw to escape the constant view of the physical form as something to give sexual gratification or owe you reproduction or whatever. can an organism exist without you needing to jack off to it. can you see something without needing to start getting it on in the tags. i don't care if you're horny. that's not something to involve me in as an unconsenting stranger. i dont make art for sexual reasons, i dont view my body or the body at all to be a sexual object (which is why i depict it) and certainly i don't need you to try and shoehorn me back into that bullshit
most of you are wonderful and kind and so thankfully normal, but it really only takes one or two comments to piss me the fuck off. i let people see my art because i (perhaps stupidly) trust them to understand it's not their space, but i can just as easily snap the figurative sketchbook closed or, more appealingly, skin the next person to get freaky in my tags alive
I just think Jonathan Sims being autistic is not really a headcanon anymore but like a genuine and reasonable interpretation of the source media. Thatâs a guy who canonically got invited to a birthday outing and spent the whole time infodumping about emulsifiers. Iâm pretty sure that wouldâve been specially noted on my diagnostic report if it came up during my autism assessment.
Hello!!! Iâm a recent follower of your work so Iâm not sure if youâve been asked this before but is there any reasons to the animals you chose for your TMA designs or is it sort of just kinda like âI like drawing this animal so Iâm just going to draw them like that ^_^â or âthey just give off that vibe :P!!â :33?
omg thank you so much for the ask!! i havent gotten this question before this is awesome. Sorry im like. a week late lol. (spoilers and a LOT of text under cut)
short answer: some do, some dont, it depends on the character!
Tim and Sasha dont have real reasons to be a cat and an otter, tim is just SUCHH a cat to me idk (you could also argue its because âcuriosity killed the catâ and timâs desire to know more about the circus kinda. got him. and ruined his life. Yk but that could apply to all archival assistants lol) And someone suggested to make sasha an otter and i thought it was cute. Not!Sasha would be a weasel btw.
The rest do have more reason to them. Martins a dog because hes very loyal to people he loves even if they dont deserve it. to me hes like a neglected touch starved dog that sticks around its owner because what else does he have. Also, ofc because of the dog he let into the archives, i mean come on!
Jon HAD to be a hare. Look at them!!! theyre so haunted. And the have big eyes. It is so important to me that he is a prey animal. I feel like it fits him being just a guy with bad luck that led to him encountering the fears and how underestimated he is by other avatars. It also makes him more unsettling when he becomes an avatar imo!! I havent drawn this yet, but for post s4 he looks less bunny like and more freakishly hare-like?? to show how he came back wrong. in s1 he could be more mistaken for a bunny, sort of representing the normal guy-> Archivist thing. I also just imagine him kicking his foot against the floor repeatedly when hes irritated and it makes me smile. bunnyy
Peter Lukas is also a dog. He is an old dog who has learned/was trained to not wag his tail or display affection. I feel like this makes the unnaturalness of the lonely more obvious with him, since dogs are supposed to be social and all that. Its also ofc a parallel to Martin, they are both lonely people! they both grew up neglected, you could say theyre two sides of the same coin. Everything else about their designs (besides the white in Martinâs fur during s4 which i need to drawâŠ) differs, because Martin chooses love (Jon) over the lonely while Peter is dedicated to forsaken.
Elias is some sort of fox im really not sure. Hes sly, cunning and i hate. him. My first thought was to make him an owl but i didnt reallt want to Uh. I didnt draw this when i drew him before but!!!!! He has owl eyes because jonah magnus is an owl!! Ill draw all of thisonce my ibis paint x loads its being real laggy. I think fox! elias with owl eyes is a really neat idea ok yeah. sometimes he tries to turn his head around or do owl things out of habit then laughs it off. his design is also meant to somewhat parallel jonâs (in silhouette and colours, with the longer ears mainly) reverse of how peter parallels martin, theyre different species but share their thirst for knowledge and understand eachother more than anyone else.
i havent made designs of these guys yet, but: Daisy would be a german shepherd, basira a barn owl, gertrude a greater sooty owl, melanie a pine marten and georgie a cat.
Gertrude and Basira are owls for pretty much the same reason, they are very beholding-coded animals AND fierce. for Basira specifically its because of her connecrion to the hunt and eye, i think its the perfect animal. Gertrude is such an owl. Georgieâs a cat because of the admiral and also her personality and very reasonable behavior. she also just sounds..? like a cat to me? i cant explain it.
Melanie just gives pine martin vibes i dont. know. GHEYRE SO CUTEE. Daisy had to be a police dog. ill probably have more to say on their designs when i actually draw thwm. Im getting tired of writing this, sorry for the long answer but i hope it works!! also nice pfp i love bunch of friends! thank you so much for the ask!
the other day i though. you know what. i think the first thing that unemployed elias consumes upon waking up from his surgery induced stress faint is probably some shit lemonade. and then i made an utterly pointless comic about it ?
this is part 1 [part 2]
Happy TMAnniversary haha
the song is A Complete List of Fears Ages 5-28 (Aprox) by The Yellow Dress
I really love this podcast so so much. I just finished it like a month ago and it still lives in my brain so i just had to do a little tribute
stupendously coherent and high effort polished rendition of my awesome incredibly serious idea for an au subplot where jonah's eyeballs get scooped out and put in a jar in the breakroom fridge and elias himself handles the trauma of being like 45 suddenly and having everyone hate you and probably back pain too im not sure i haven't reached that age yet
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