Saige

they them / ride or die Person of Interest fan / posts about POI + The Magnus Archives + Arc of a Scythe + Hunger Games + Agathario and other WLW ships / Daughter of Cain

[lemonpepperworld]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Magnus Archives (Podcast) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings Characters: Original Statement Giver(s) (The Magnus Archives) Additional Tags: Statement Fic (The Magnus Archives), The Flesh Fear Entity (The Magnus Archives), The Flesh Fear Domain (The Magnus Archives), The Slaughter Fear Entity (The Magnus Archives), The Slaughter Fear Domain (The Magnus Archives), The Corruption Fear Entity (The Magnus Archives), Eyepocalypse, how is there no tag for eyepocalypse??, sort of a flesh slaughter corruption mashup fic taking place after the change, preemptive slaughter, animal culling, Disease, Humans as Livestock Summary:

Preemptive slaughter - an emergency disease control strategy involving the mass killing of livestock not yet showing signs of disease but with close proximity to infected livestock to stop the spread of disease.

John Doe is trapped in a field. Something is coming. Those around him are dropping like flies. Something is coming for him, to stop the spread of disease.

[runasulienadanika]

Gerry and Gertrude

[edettethegreat]

Jon's progression of Marks is so deeply devastating, because the further along he goes, the more Marks he gets from trying to save people.

His first 4 Marks (Web, Eye, Corruption, and Spiral) were things that were done to him. He didn't seek them out. Mr Spider was in the pile of books his grandma gave him. he had no way of knowing The Magnus Institute was haunted. Jane Prentiss hunted him down, and so did Michael.

the next 2 were brought about by his own curiosity. he knew the risks of accosting Jude and Mike, but he went willingly. his desire to seek out knowledge got him Marked by the Desolation and the Vast.

Elias sent Daisy to Hunt Jon, so that would make it the 5th Mark that Jon had no agency in, and the 7th Mark total.

then comes the Unknowing. in an attempt to save the world, Jon's willing to give his life to destroy the ritual. Marks 8 and 9 (Stranger and End) are purely altruistic on his part.

and from there on out, he continues to only get Marked via Protecting People.

Slaughter's from saving Melanie. Flesh and Buried are from saving Daisy. Dark is from trying to stop yet another ritual, something that he still believes could potentially end the world. Lonely is from saving Martin.

[this brings the final count to an exactly even split; 7 from external forces, 7 from Jon's attempts at protecting people]

as Jon becomes less and less human, he tries to save more and more people. and he's willing to give his life to do so!! he's willing to die!

and he succeeds. he successfully managed to save all his friends. it only cost him the world.

[shelookedlikestarlight]

currently re-reading and re-watching thg

hot take: i think the tragedy of coriolanus snow isn’t that he never loved lucy gray. i think it’s that he did.

hear me out now, saying “he never cared about lucy gray” is easier to paint him as the heartless villain that he appears to be later on down the line when he was the capitol leader.

what I feel happened was that he did love lucy gray at the start, it is clear as day that he loved her; and he so proved it with many of his actions in both the book and film. he did love her, but then his love became confused with possession and control. lucy gray and coriolanus snow are completely different people— that’s why it didn’t, and wouldn’t work.

snow favoured control and power over love and freedom which is basically everything lucy gray is as a person. she’s unpredictable, desperate for freedom, independent.

snow loved her so much that his love turned into obsession, which grew into an immense fear that lucy, with her desire for freedom, would try and escape him. leave him behind— which she eventually did, which, in my opinion, is why he shot at her.

I personally really like the scene where they’re in the woods and he shoots at her without even knowing for sure if she is trying to escape. she was out of his sight for no more than a second before he opted for his gun. that shows exactly the moment his love had turned into thirst for control over her. he no longer loved her healthily but hungrily. he believed she was his— because he was entitled to her now due to his feelings.

and maybe that’s the irony.

because I believe snow fell in love with lucy gray because of her qualities, and then over time he started resenting her for it.

maybe he was jealous?

somewhere along the way, which I believe is when he shot at her, snow stopped seeing lucy as a person he loved and instead as a person he’s entitled to.

snow is my favourite character of thg series, because of how remotely complex of a character he is. I know he is a bad person, who did bad things, and wanted to continue doing bad things without consequence.

but I don’t believe he was always bad, and that’s what’s most heartbreaking about it.

could lucy gray have changed his outcome if he had chosen her over power?

which is why his character is so much more tragic.

anyways, am I alone in this?

[fruitzzone]

elias bouchard is changing the logo of the institute on their website to rainbow colours as we speak

[inkedobsidian]

I started watching Person of Interest fully expecting big action man in a suit saving people, I was not expecting the most delectable crazy bitch x crazy bitch lesbian ships I've even seen

[malleefies]

Honestly the most terrifying scene in Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes #tome that no one seems to talk about is Arachne's funeral. Not just the fact that it was turned into an opportunity for propaganda, but the procession that follows. The fact they have Brandy's mangled body hanging from a crane, the rest of the twenty three tributes being paraded around in their own filth with shackles so short that they have to kneel down in hot metal in the middle of the day while everyone watches, the fact it's so utterly humiliating and twisted that it makes even Coriolanus and the Cranes' stomachs turn. And the fact that the funeral procession was very likely what eventually inspired maybe Snow, maybe Gaul, maybe someone else to suggest the tribute parade for the Opening Ceremonies years later.

[boredmuch]

I haven’t edited for so long that I low-key forgot how to. So for now this is all you get.

I can’t remember what chapter it is, but when Agatha wakes reader up on the bathroom floor because they had that WILD NIGHT.

@lunargrrrl creator of fic

Fic name: lights, camera magic on ao3

[hachinana87]

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[edettethegreat]

Gertrude killed off her assistants to stop rituals that wouldn't have worked to begin with. Jon saved his assistants in a world that was going to be doomed anyway. both of their efforts were well-meaning but ultimately futile. rip to everyone who died via Archivist, you could have lived and the world would have continued turning

[ghostlyazaleas]

Hit me with a bat

[agatha-art]

Art by Hiroshoard - Sometimes, boys are delivered via lesbian beam of light.

[materassassino]

Tbh TOG fandom never did enough with the Nile-Nicky parallels of being brainwashed and going to kill people (specifically Muslims) in a foreign land under the false pretense of liberation and protecting a certain way of life.

There isn't much difference there at all, actually. Nile was an invader just the same as Nicky, doesn't matter if her daddy did it too. She was a tool of US imperialism like Nicky was a tool for Catholic greed and zealotry.

[rotund-squirrelmeister]

i love forbidden queer relationships in media where the forbidden aspect has nothing to do with them being queer and everything to do with their murderous tendancies

[tireur-de-carte]

Would AI be the Stranger or the Spiral?

I think generative AI, and the pictures mix might be the Stranger, but AI psychosis, and faux friends like ChatGPT or Character AI tend to lean more towards the Spiral

[neptunnnnnne]

simple, ordinary bad luck is the best horror in the Magnus Archives. Jon got trapped in his job, horrificly marked by all entities then was forced to start the apocalypse and afterwards blamed and hated for the whole thing. Why? His grandmother gave him the wrong book when he was 8.

[neptunnnnnne]

its always a choice is the thing. its just that the choice is die or become a monster. but these choices never show themselves as they are sadly.

[lemonpepperworld]

Okay that’s fair, and you’re right that it’s addressed with Jon’s convo with Annabelle about choice and free will and all (and his comments about daisy and Bastia abstaining from the hunt but not knowing if he could do the same) (forgot about all that for a sec my bad)

[uhnonymoos]

you should care more about transfems that are not from the first world

you should care more about transfems that are antagonized by the first world

yes chinese transfems too

yes russian transfems too

yes iranian transfems too

yes transfems from latam too

yes whatever "one of the evil ones from an evil country" transfem you have in your head - her too

you should care so much more about transfems that don't speak english as a first language

you should show so much more sympathy to transfems speaking english worse than you would like her to, who cannot phrase herself in english well

you should care so much about a transfem choosing to go to an english dominated transmisogynistic website and talk about her experience and what she thinks and what she has to say, especially if it's in english for YOU to digest it

you ALL should care SO MUCH MORE than you currently do

and listen SO MUCH MORE CAREFULLY than you do right now