Here's how Gerry Delano can still win

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[lukewarmtomatosoup]

clutching my chest and falling to the ground oughhhhh…… auuughhh.. woaaaaugh

this is a redraw of this post i made back in 2023! primrose and feather by alphonse mucha but i made it my blorbos <3

[nyuisnt]

I wonder if Gerry would like the Admiral

Or maybe he'd just get mad bc the cat just sheds all over his angsty goth clothes and he can never get rid of it

Fear Domain Holder The Admiral

[squelchyrubbershoe]

Victims of Other Entities: And so I watched the creature that used to be my wife sprint towards me on all fours with its neck bent at a full 180 degree angle. I only got away because it tripped and fell into the lit fireplace and turned to ash immediately. I don’t sleep anymore and I honestly wish God just would kill me already.

Victims of The Buried: God I ffucnking LOVE Dirt. OOh Boy that Shit is GOOD. No Thing on this God Forsaken planet brings me more EUPHORIA than Digging a B I G Hole. I crawl on all fours and c l a w at the e a r th as I pine for its tender Embrace. It torments my VERY SOUL that I cannot simply i n h a l e it Straight Into My Bloodstream. I’ve decided that eating fistfuls of potting soil is the next best thing.

[annabelle--cane]

they just don't make characters like jon archivist sims. he spends an entire season having a forty episode long delusional breakdown and that's only maybe the third or fourth worst period of time in his life. he gets intervened on twice. he gets kidnapped thrice. during one of those kidnappings he spends a month tied to a chair getting forcibly moisturized by a plastic ringmistress mannequin and no one notices. he fully dies for six months but gets up again when a friendly grim reaper gives his unbreathing body a pep talk. he spends several episodes at the start of the final season so depressed that it's unclear if he even moves for multiple days in a row. the basis for his magic powers is that he is so traumatized that he begins to need continuous further trauma in order to live, which gives him the ability to explode people with his mind. he spends about fifty seconds at the top of an episode self-harming directly into a tape recorder, which is not even the most fucked up thing to happen to him that episode. he finally cried on audio for the first time in the penultimate ep and the only reaction I saw for several days after was wildly enthusiastic cheering. he's missing two ribs and he's at least 80% scar tissue by volume and the only canon information we have about his appearance is that he looks terrible at all times.

[guessinggames-deactivated-2026-0]

Sorry to bring this out of the tags, but it’s mentioned in episode 81: a guest for Mr. Spider

So on top of allthat OP mentioned, we can add the fact that this 30something year old already looks like an old man (:

[squaloropera]

The concept of Gerry having a famously bad dye job is so fucking funny to me. Like, I dye my hair black pretty regularly (meaning whenever my roots grow out) and it’s literally not that hard. You just mix the dye, slap it on, and wait until you remember it’s there and wash it off. The only time it doesn’t stay and looks shitty is if you don’t leave it long enough or mix it wrong. Meaning either he gets impatient and washes it off too soon, or he’s never read an instruction in his life and faces the consequences. I love him.

[lightless-flame-official]

i think the main difference between martin blackwood and gerry keay as people is that martin gets "i just need to listen to some lofi with soft ambient rain sounds and read a book for a bit and then i'll be fine" overstimulated and gerry gets "if i cannot blast twist by korn at eardrum-popping volume out of my good headphones and stare at a wall for 20 minutes i am going to bite the next person who speaks to me" overstimulated

[regainingparadise]

I've been thinking a lot about these parts of MAG154: Bloody Mary (Eric's Statement) and MAG111: Family Business (Gerry's Statement).

Image Text: "She wasn't a caring mother or a skilled teacher. My struggling at her lessons infuriated her."

Image Text: I hunted Leitner's Zbooks with the best of them, even found a few. I'd bring them home and watch her eye's light up. But it was always the books that she was happy to see.

Image Text: Eric: "S'pose that makes sense. And Gerry? Have you seen my son?" GERTRUDE: "No; I've never met him, I'm afraid. Mary talks of him a lot. Well, she seems very Proud."

In Gerry's statement, Mary never acknowledges him, never appreciates him, never praises him. Even when he was doing what she wanted, there was nothing for him.

But Gertrude has seen a completely different side of how Mary views her son. She hears Mary talk about Gerry, talk about him a lot. Mary is proud of her son.

But he never hears that.

And this isn't saying that, I dunno, secretly Mary did love Gerry and just needed some parenting classes or some shit.

This doesn't have a point or grand conclusion. Maybe it's better that Mary didn't show him what little positive feelings she had for him; maybe if she had, he would have become more like her, been more willing to follow in her foosteps. Maybe it's just another small part of the tragedy of his life that he didn't even hear the utilitarian pride that Mary expressed to others. I dunno. It's just very sad.

[nightmaskart]

Gerry Keay

[anattmar]

Gertrude Robinson

[ryutarotakedown]

do you ever get incandescently furious about how utterly unquotable some of the most hard-hitting lines from the magnus archives are. how the fuck do i explain to someone without context why i—open—the door is legitimately horrifying. how am i supposed to explain why “i see you, jon. …i see you” can elicit tears without sounding batshit. how do i convey the unspeakable emotion in “helen… was that a lie?” without first giving 186 episodes of backstory

[ryutarotakedown]

absolute bangers people are mentioning in the notes:

can i have a cigarette?

the blanket never did anything

she took him from me. made us a me. and she doesn’t get to die for that

there is a wasp’s nest in my attic

i got eaten by worms because of you!

look at the sky, martin. look at the sky.

i don’t want to just survive!

i am not a brave man, but i am, in certain circumstances, a very stubborn one.

i really loved you, you know?

ceaseless watcher,

the audience is only safe when the story isn’t about them

hello, jon.

absolute bangers people are not mentioning in the notes:

perhaps i have never even seen a beach

[lightless-flame-official]

"That's not funny!" "I know."

[wolfythewitch]

Hmm thinking about a martin redesign

[annabelle--cane]

please god take all of alice dyer's pain and give it to needles who would probably enjoy it

[strangefa11]

I FORGOT TO REUPLOAD THIS STUPID JOKE

I laughed WAY too hard while making this btw

[sarcasticscribbles]

I always wanted my friends to call me Gerry

[localechoes]

flame incarnate

[sarcasticscribbles]

Teenagers scare the living shit out of me

[annabelle--cane]

no matter what color the emotion is I do think gwen is at the very least a bit obsessed with alice. checking to see if she's there the moment she clocks into work. always keeping part of her attention on her when they're at their desks. getting up after eight hours of nightmares and thinking "god I can't let alice see me this disheveled." grabbing her first chance at real power and imagining what alice's face will look like when she finds out. is this obsession healthy for either of them? no. should gwen be given any level of power over alice? absolutely not. but it is there nonetheless. she knows exactly what color lipstick alice wears because alice left her handbag partially open on the floor by her chair one time while she went to make coffee and gwen took meticulous note of every object she could see without opening the bag any further.