Probably Nothing

THROUGH me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here

[multifandomfanboy]

Magnus Protocol Filing System

All of you really liked my numerically-sorted list of Magnus Archives statements by their case numbers, so I’ve decided to do something similar for the Magnus Protocol, but this time sorting it by 4 6 different categories. 

As I am writing this only the first 2 episodes have come out, I will try and keep it updated the best I can (don’t be surprised if I stop updating it and suddenly start updating again months later, I’m just like that). 

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Category (CAT)

Meaning currently unknown

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CAT1 - MAGP1, MAGP6, MAGP10, MAGP12, MAGP14, MAGP15, MAGP16, MAGP18, MAGP20, MAGP24, MAGP26, MAGP35, MAGP41, MAGP43, MAGP46, MAGP47

CAT123 - MAGP31

CAT13 - MAGP19, MAGP22, MAGP23, MAGP38

CAT2 - MAGP3, MAGP5, MAGP7, MAGP8, MAGP17, MAGP21, MAGP25, MAGP28, MAGP29, MAGP30, MAGP32, MAGP33, MAGP49

CAT23 - MAGP1, MAGP11

CAT3 - MAGP2, MAGP4, MAGP9, MAGP13, MAGP27, MAGP36, MAGP40, MAGP44

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Rank 

Meaning currently unknown

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RS - MAGP30

RAB - MAGP1, MAGP20

RABC - MAGP38

RAC - MAGP44

RB - MAGP5, MAGP6, MAGP9, MAGP10, MAGP12, MAGP13, MAGP14, MAGP15, MAGP16, MAGP18, MAGP25, MAGP27, MAGP28, MAGP29, MAGP31, MAG33, MAG35, MAGP36, MAGP41, MAGP43

RBC - MAGP1, MAGP2, MAGP8, MAGP19, MAGP21, MAGP22, MAGP23, MAGP24, MAGP26, MAGP46, MAGP49

RC - MAGP7, MAGP11, MAGP17, MAGP32, MAGP47

RCA - MAGP40

C - MAGP3, MAGP4

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DPHW

Death/Pain/Helplessness/Wrongness

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1137 - MAGP19

1147 - MAGP17

1375 - MAGP24

1475 - MAGP32

1565 - MAGP16

1567 - MAGP2

2153 - MAGP36, MAGP38

2155 - MAGP1

2167 - MAGP40

2175 - MAGP44

2275 - MAGP10

2365 - MAGP33

2374 - MAGP18

2377 - MAGP5

2474 - MAGP25

2534 - MAGP20

2578 - MAGP28

3338 - MAGP7

3354 - MAGP9

3366 - MAGP8, MAGP30

3455 - MAGP49

3536 - MAGP23

4153 - MAGP43

4254 - MAGP21, MAGP29

4426 - MAGP14

4463 - MAGP26

4488 - MAGP22

4622 - MAGP13

4728 - MAGP12

4778 - MAGP35

4824 - MAGP6

4873 - MAGP47

5246 - MAGP11

5257 - MAGP1, MAGP46

5535 - MAGP27, MAGP41

5555 - MAGP31

6451 - MAGP15

7494 - MAGP4

8175 - MAGP3

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Primary Classification

The horror itself

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Agglomeration (miscellany) - MAGP7

Architecture (hubris) - MAGP49

Architecture (landmark) - MAGP21

Architecture (liminal) - MAGP8

Baby (demonic) - MAGP24

Building (angry) - MAGP32

Carousel (toy) - MAGP38

Collection (blood) - MAGP4

Dice (bone) - MAGP9

Distortion (cyclic) - MAGP47

Disappearance (undetermined) - MAGP5

Doppelgänger (interdimensional) - MAGP17

Drowning (subterranean) - MAGP29

Entrapment (virtual) - MAGP36

Exhaustion (athletic) - MAGP26

Experiment (brain) - MAGP22

Food (gorging) - MAGP25

Gambling (application) - MAGP13

Hunt (aristocratic) - MAGP15

Idolatry (music) - MAGP43

Infection (full body) - MAGP3

Injury (needles) - MAGP6

Integration (organic) - MAGP31

Kidnapping (carriage) - MAGP27

Mascot (incarceration) - MAGP35

Mascot (kids) - MAGP10, MAGP12

Memory (derelict) - MAGP18

Prescience (computing) - MAGP44

Puppet (reanimation) - MAGP40

Reanimation (partial) -  MAGP1

Reanimation (variable) - MAGP46

Tattoo (corpse) - MAGP11

Tattoo (influencer) - MAGP16

Transformation (canine) - MAGP19

Transformation (dysmorphic) - MAGP23

Transformation (eyes) - MAGP1

Transformation (full) - MAGP2

Transformation (pier) - MAGP33

Transformation (snake) - MAGP14

Transformation (tattoo) - MAGP20

Transmutation (human) - MAGP28, MAGP30

Transmutation (organs) - MAGP41

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Secondary Classification

The events surrounding the horror

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arboreal - MAGP3

cardiac - MAGP16

ceremony (academic) - MAGP28

compulsion - MAGP11, MAGP15, MAGP18

compulsion (disgust) - MAGP25

compulsion (drowning) - MAGP43

compulsion (tape) - MAGP26

computer (hardware) - MAGP31

congregation - MAGP7

consumption - MAGP27

corruption (entropy) - MAGP21

delusion (exhaustion) - MAGP24

disappearance (parent) - MAGP38

doppelgänger (infection) - MAGP23

dysmorphic - MAGP2

equilibrium - MAGP44

experimentation (metal) - MAGP41

fate - MAGP9

fear (children) - MAGP40

fear (void) - MAGP33

frenzy - MAGP12

growth (crystalline) - MAGP19

horde - MAGP14

hunger - MAGP8

imprisonment (existential) - MAGP22

intimidation - MAGP6

invitation - MAGP5

isolation (experimentation) - MAGP36

isolation (urban) - MAGP30

key (metaphor) - MAGP29

murder - MAGP10, MAGP17

musical - MAGP4

N/A - MAGP32

plumbing (historical) - MAGP49

purpose - MAGP46

regret - MAGP1

retaliation - MAGP35

retribution - MAGP47

self-destruction - MAGP13

social media (Influencer) - MAGP20

trespass - MAGP1

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Data Type (Apparently no longer being used)

Gone again?

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999 Call - MAGP6

Chat Log - MAGP1

Coursework - MAGP8

Email - MAGP1, MAGP7

Email Exchange - MAGP11

Insurance Claim - MAGP12

Internet Blog - MAGP5

Journal Entry - MAGP3

Letter - MAGP4, MAGP27

Magnus Statement - MAGP9

TV Interview - MAGP10

Video Call - MAGP2

Voicemail - MAGP13

[multifandomfanboy]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Five Nights at Freddy's Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Gregory (Five Nights at Freddy's), Fetch (Five Nights at Freddy's) Additional Tags: Metafiction, Internet Archeology, Animatronic Repairs (Five Nights at Freddy's), Computer Programming, Gregory is Good with Technology (Five Nights at Freddy's) Summary:

This is an archive of the transcript from a deleted video uploaded to the YouTube channel "GGY1984". The channel contained a series of vlogs documenting the repair of several animatronics from the Freddy Fazbear's Pizza franchise.

[multifandomfanboy]

My first Homestuck fanfiction managed to reach 413 hits on 4/13. Huh.

[multifandomfanboy]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Homestuck Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Sollux Captor & Karkat Vantas, Kanaya Maryam & Karkat Vantas Characters: Karkat Vantas, Sollux Captor, Kanaya Maryam, John Egbert, Dave Strider, Jade Harley, Rose Lalonde Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Space, Alternate Universe - Science Fiction, Alternate Universe - Aliens, The kids are different alien species, the trolls are still trolls, Space Pirates, that prefer the term Space Adventurers, One Shot Summary:

In which Karkat Vantas' time on Alternia ends when he's abruptly thrust onto a crew of intergalactic space pirates adventurers.

[multifandomfanboy]

The InDev Digital Circus

A small team of six people at a rundown games studio are working on something big. The Amazing Digital Circus, the world's first full-immersion VR game, run by an AI who's a little too lifelike. What could possibly go wrong!

Pomni (Pam):

Programmer

Thought that in this day and age, a degree in computer programming would give her a constant source of work. She was wrong 

Concerned about how human-like the NPCs they're creating are. Once got emotionally attached to one

Hyperfixates about computer programming sometimes

Ragatha (Agatha):

Programmer

That girl half the office is lowkey crushing on

Has anger management issues she tries to keep controlled in the workplace. She's seeing a specialist about it 

Micromanages everything

Jax (Jack):

Programmer

Pessimistic about their chances of actually finishing the game before C&A’s inevitable bankruptcy 

Is lucky the company doesn’t have a HR department anymore

Favourite hobby is trying to glitch the game as much as possible under the excuse of "bug-testing"

Zooble (Zoe):

Graphic Designer

Genderfluid as fuck

Wears a ton of piercings and bright clothes 

The one who designed the avatars of all the other staff members. They’re based on how she sees them

Used to have a cigarette addiction. Now takes nicotine patches

Gangle (Gale):

Script Writer

Bipolar

As the writer for the game, she interacts with Caine the most out of all the staff. Their personalities don’t really mesh that well

Has de facto creative control whenever the crew are designing a new level. This power usually goes to her head

Kinger (Mr. Kingston): 

Studio Director

Seemingly neurotic and highly paranoid

Never really interacts with his employees unless it’s to pay them. Stays holed up in his office all day, and probably sleeps there too

Nobody knows how he managed to nab the proprietary, state-of-the-art toolkits used for making the AI and the fulldive VR system

Caine:

A near-sophont AI tasked with adjusting the game experience to ensure player satisfaction

Struggles with listening to other people's opinions 

Nobody knows who programmed Caine (except for maybe Kinger). He seems to be made with the same toolkit used for the other NPCs, but is even more human-like

Bubble is an NPC designed to keep Caine on task. Jax programmed her, and it shows

There is no other ringmaster, so don’t bother looking. It’s not like you could do anything about him anyway. 

Please feel free to send in asks about this au

[multifandomfanboy]

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

Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Paranatural (Webcomic), Dandadan (Anime) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Johnny Jhonny/Maxwell Puckett, Johnny Jhonny & Maxwell Puckett Characters: Maxwell Puckett, Johnny Jhonny, June Puckett | Agent Summers, Stephen Henchman, Forge (Paranatural), Serpoians (Dandadan) - Character Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Dandadan Fusion, Aliens, and spirits too but that’s expected, One Shot Summary:

Maxwell Puckett was raised on his mother's stories about spirits and the supernatural. He ends up getting abducted by aliens

Johnny Jhonny long ago gave into his friend's insistence that aliens are real. He ends up getting possessed

[multifandomfanboy]

[multifandomfanboy]

Chapters: 8/8 Fandom: Paranatural (Webcomic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edward Burger & Isabel Guerra Characters: Edward Burger, Isabel Guerra, Edward Burger's Parent(s), Davy Jones (Paranatural), Cody Jones (Paranatural), Maxwell Puckett, Zoey Puckett Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Robots & Androids, Alternate Universe - Cyberpunk, Gun Violence, probably out of character, no beta we die like men, Angst with a Happy Ending, Blood and Gore, But only in Chapter 7 - Skip if you want to Summary:

Ed is entitled to a fortune when he turns 18, and thankfully he has an android bodyguard to keep him alive 'til then. He just wishes she’d care about her own safety sometimes.

[lydiogames]

[fiollaigean]

"the magnus archives sounds cool! what are the content warnings?"

[fiollaigean]

kidnapping stalking insanity sleepwalking cannibalism and teeth, gaslighting gun violence pipe murder and silence and medical trauma and meat. bugs in your body and poisoned black coffee and self-mutilation and lies, police brutality breaks from reality suicide spiders and eyes. paaaaaranoia degloving the uncanny valley and running like prey to survive, agonies torture and drowning and falling and then being buried alive.

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

@felagund-fiollaigean your lyrics scanned too beautifully, i had to XD

Visit Original Link

[cthulhu-with-a-fez]

@felagund-fiollaigean UPDATE: I JUST NOTICED THERE'S A LONG VERSION

Visit Original Link

[fiollaigean]

Visit Original Link

@cthulhu-with-a-fez hope you don't mind I added you a backing track

[tenderwatches]

sometimes you need dialogue tags and don't want to use the same four

[multifandomfanboy]

Magnus Protocol Q&A - Summarised

The number of cameos from TMA characters was kept to a certain amount, though they were not sure what characters specifically they wanted to appear.

Jack is actually Celia's baby. Her claiming that she just slept around a lot and doesn’t know who the father is is apparently true. He’s distinctly non-supernatural to add dramatic tension.

The Fears have been pushed aside in favour of the new alchemy-based system of metaphysics, as the Fears have already been explained and there’s no mystery, but they don’t seem to have been completely discarded.

Only 5-10% of how the new system works is in the series so far, and Johnny thinks the full thing is probably overcomplicated - apparently, it involves "fifth-dimensional vectors". The two systems are able to function around one another.

Archives focuses on "supernatural history", while Protocol focuses on supernatural forms of other sciences.

Alexander J. Newall really REALLY hates Needles. Apparently, he was a placeholder idea and "he’s made of needles" was as much character as he initially had. Alex tried to veto Needles's existence, but he was needed to serve a specific "function" for the episode.

Needles is, however, Johnny Sims' favourite External. Mr. Bonzo is Alex's favourite.

Mr. Bonzo destroyed that car on purpose. He’s just a prick.

Protocol's writing structure is very different from Archives' because before it was just Johnny writing everything himself, but now it Johnny and Alex + guest writers on the same script.

Guest writers are usually given a selection of prompts to write for, but they can request their own prompts if they fit tonally. There’s an abridged version of the alchemy system for the guest writers to use.

There’s something in Season 2 that will link a few guest statements into their own small cohesive narrative. This stemmed purely from noticing consistent themes.

Because there’s less episodes, the plot has to happen quicker than in Archives and there’s less filler statements and direct sequels to statements.

Archives' ending was written intentionally so that they could do a sequel series if they wanted to, but they didn’t have that many ideas for it when Archives was still going. Almost none of the statement ideas pitched while they were developing Protocol actually made it into the series.

The art from the TTRPG isn’t intrinsically canon.

Things were a lot more corporate/capitalist in the planning phase before shifting towards civil services. Johnny lived with someone who worked in civil services for a few years, and similar themes are also in his book BLACKOUT.

The video game Control was a big inspiration.

Mr. Bonzo gets better benefits from his job than Alex does.

The Archivist is not Lucia Wright from MAG 130. Their actual identity is a spoiler, obviously.

Alice was written as trans because Johnny and Alex are friends with a lot of trans people. Having a trans character was actually one of the first things decided for the new series. Her being trans won’t be important to the plot.

Alex leans into the comedy-satire aspect when writing, which is why Protocol has more of it than Archives. It’s comedy was primarily inspired by sitcoms like Peep Show and The Thick Of It, as well as small sketch comedy troupes.

Colin is written like that because every person who works in IT is in some way scared of machines.

DPHW numbers do have meaning and are calculated from a real spreadsheet. Apparently how high the numbers are is biased (meaning most likely the theory that they’re related to how much fear is felt is probably true).

They claim that there is enough evidence for fans to figure out what the system means, and that they’ve seen interpretations that are close to the truth but not exactly. They note specifically that they’re how the OIAR classifies things, and not exactly how the world actually works.

The first few DPHW's done by Sam are confirmed as having been done wrong in-universe.

Johnny was the one that wanted to involve Issac Newton in the plot, and apparently things just didn’t work without involving him.

Making a podcast is very very hard.

[multifandomfanboy]

"I sit down at the breakfast table, I can talk while they’re not able"

[multifandomfanboy]

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

Chapters: 7/8 Fandom: Paranatural (Webcomic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edward Burger & Isabel Guerra Characters: Edward Burger, Isabel Guerra, Edward Burger's Parent(s), Davy Jones (Paranatural), Cody Jones (Paranatural), Maxwell Puckett, Zoey Puckett Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Robots & Androids, Alternate Universe - Cyberpunk, Gun Violence, probably out of character, no beta we die like men, Angst with a Happy Ending, Blood and Gore, But only in Chapter 7 - Skip if you want to Summary:

Ed is entitled to a fortune when he turns 18, and thankfully he has an android bodyguard to keep him alive 'til then. He just wishes she’d care about her own safety sometimes.

[multifandomfanboy]

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

Chapters: 6/8 Fandom: Paranatural (Webcomic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Edward Burger & Isabel Guerra Characters: Edward Burger, Isabel Guerra, Edward Burger's Parent(s), Davy Jones (Paranatural), Cody Jones (Paranatural), Maxwell Puckett, Zoey Puckett Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Robots & Androids, Alternate Universe - Cyberpunk, Gun Violence, probably out of character, no beta we die like men, Angst with a Happy Ending Summary:

Ed is entitled to a fortune when he turns 18, and thankfully he has an android bodyguard to keep him alive 'til then. He just wishes she’d care about her own safety sometimes.

[multifandomfanboy]

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

Chapters: 3/3 Fandom: Homestuck, 더 게이머 | The Gamer (Webcomic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John Egbert & Dave Strider Characters: John Egbert, Jade Harley, Dave Strider, Rose Lalonde, Dad Egbert, Underlings (Homestuck), Consorts (Homestuck), Karkat Vantas Additional Tags: The Gamer Ability (The Gamer Webcomic), Video Game Mechanics, Alternate Universe - Video Game World, Overpowered characters, Overpowered John Egbert, Broken abilities, Swearing, no beta we die like men Summary:

On his 13th birthday, John Egbert's life becomes one big video game. No, not in that way, in this completely different way.

(Aka me getting really into OP Gamer System fics, remembering all the weird video game physics stuff in Homestuck that has nothing to do with SBurb, and going like "hey, what if that wasn’t normal")

[multifandomfanboy]

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

Chapters: 2/3 Fandom: Homestuck, 더 게이머 | The Gamer (Webcomic) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: John Egbert & Dave Strider Characters: John Egbert, Jade Harley, Dave Strider, Rose Lalonde, Dad Egbert, Underlings (Homestuck), Consorts (Homestuck), Karkat Vantas Additional Tags: The Gamer Ability (The Gamer Webcomic), Video Game Mechanics, Alternate Universe - Video Game World, Overpowered characters, Overpowered John Egbert, Broken abilities, Swearing, no beta we die like men Summary:

On his 13th birthday, John Egbert's life becomes one big video game. No, not in that way, in this completely different way.

(Aka me getting really into OP Gamer System fics, remembering all the weird video game physics stuff in Homestuck that has nothing to do with SBurb, and going like "hey, what if that wasn’t normal")