he prays to nothing, no one, nobody no more

i like jonelias. this is my jonelias blog. 's pretty much it. follows back from @identityarchitect. avatar by @candlecoo-sideb-art

[unending-vigil]

updated look to your laurels. chapter 7, yay.

the fic is . going on indefinite hiatus. i just don't care to work on it anymore. and i know my horrifically irregular uploads means that's not much of a change, but. y'know. it felt worth saying, at least?

personally, at least, i prefer getting some closure to just leaving things hanging.

[jonahfagnus]

do you get hate for being a jonelias blog? im still in the closet.... jus Pondering

nope! i am pretty much inactive forever (no longer into tma) but ive never received hate on this blog. i would assume its related to fandom tagging, as i dont tend to tag my posts with tma related tags, just the jonelias tag

[archiverot]

One of my favorite things about Elias is how comfortable he is being underestimated. I think a lot of people tend to write him as prideful and intolerant of disrespect, but he's really not?

His employees call him by his first name. The very first time we hear his voice it's Jon talking back and being snippy with him, and Elias barely admonishes him for his mistake in the first place. It was under Elias's supervision that Gertrude "let" the Archives fall apart, and Jon + his assistants are obviously aware of that.

He stole the body and identity of a weed-smoking failson that was too young for the position he was in and only joined the Institute a few years prior. The Institute itself is kind of a laughingstock, openly mocked by academics and dismissed as "crackpots" that will accept literally anything.

Elias comes off as borderline incompetent until episode 80. He dismisses Jon's concerns about Prentiss, "admits" that he ran away like a coward and abandoned Sasha during the attack, and then apologizes because he couldn't figure out how to work the fire suppression system fast enough.

Even in Season 3 he still comes off like a dolt sometimes. He conveniently can't find Jon after he's been kidnapped, and then this whole conversation happens:

And a bit later:

And in season four, with Basira!! He apologizes to her after she physically assaults him, and then stutters about a "miscalculation" when Basira demands to know why he sent them to the North Pole.

And then Peter sums it up nicely in 159, after revealing that Elias has "lost" most of his wagers against him:

All of this!! Probably for 200+ years! He's most comfortable being overlooked and underestimated, he doesn't care about being disrespected or looked down on so long as he wins in the end. And he did.

[taxinealkaloids]

still have so much affection for jonah as a character

[sporeganism]

anatomy 👁️

[nebulations]

[ID copied from alt: The Magnus Archives fan art, an anatomical illustration of an eye. Inside it, the optic nerve transitions into a bright green spiderweb. Jonathan Sims, labelled "archivist", is caught in the web. End ID]

[theatredelabsurde]

it’s kinda crazy how like. 90% of the people who interact with jonah as a character completely skip over the sentence I first attempted prevention but the cause seemed hopeless. paying heed to his own words (which are to be held true or the statement wouldn’t have been caught on tape) he did not decide to seek power when he first discovered them (he felt curiosity and fear); nor he did so when his companions became entangled with one of the Entities; NOR when the Rituals became an active threat. he was curious, he studied them, he attempted prevention. discussing privilege around jonah is like kicking a dead horse and I shall never go there but it’s insane to me how his first instinct (or choice, either way) was not to exploit the powers to his gain and to bring the Change into the world itself but to stop it from happening and only inverted his route upon discovering that his crusade was meaningless, that there was no hope for any concrete damage control. this is why I will always, always object to any conception of jonah magnus that doesn’t start with him as a good person. sorry.

[theatredelabsurde]

(somuchbetterthanthat’s tags)

[casscaval]

Jonahbas as Mary Magdalene in meditation by Jusepe de Ribera -inspired by themes of mortality and contemplation

[bochedogmeat]

My take on s5 jon (ft. Tape hair)

[lunehowls]

i love when he mutters to himself

[corpse-toy]

plausible deniability remains highly erotic

[corpse-toy]

let's convince ourselves that this is okay. let's rely on technicalities to exonerate ourselves. let's avoid looking what we're doing in the eye. let's live under its shadow, both aware of what this is but unwilling to say it out loud, since that will shatter the careful illusion we've built

[lunehowls]

jon is not a human

[cherryspliced]

Those Beholding lads sure do BE HOLDING EACHOTHER 👀

(get it?? Get it??)

(... I was gonna write something sappy or edgy under this and instead my Gremlin brain went for a joke... soooo)

[sneckoil]

lovers eyes

[vhbutter]

Jonah Magnus brainrot got so bad I turned him into a keychain 💔

Really hoping they look okay

[unending-vigil]

laurels chapter 6! it exists, with the help of my new little buddy (picture will be attached in reblog)

hi to the people on my taglist. as ever please do tell me if you want to be on/off it. regardless of if we're mutuals or anything! @thswrtchdthng, @beheldandcompelled, @jonahfagnus, @girlboy-frankensteins-monster, @klm-zoflorr

[unending-vigil]

behold! my little buddy! his name is Rosé <3

[fox-wulf]

elias bouchard

[magnuspanoptes]

forgot to say this in that post but very funny how people think elias will just turn into a cartoon fail villain if someone other than jon was archivist and would have all his plans foiled within five minutes. i know people do it because they hate him and can't engage with his character sincerely for like, five seconds, but be serious. he's an extremely competent villain and if your fave is not named season five jon or gertrude (and even she got shot), they would not. in fact. survive him :)