Didnt get a lot of episodes done today but here we go!
Possessive
- MARTIN!!!
- They called him her ‘rat butler’????
- Aww, the statement giver is being so brave for their friend
- For a second i thought Maggie had turned the kid into a can of beans lmao. Okay shes just not eating the food.
- Hold on
- Did. Did she turn Gordon into newspaper?? Or she recreated him out of trash?
- She paper mache’d him and he became… her? Hmmmm
- Okay. She died with newspaper pulp in her lungs and insect legs (‘growths’) moving around inside her body. So. Another bug person? And gordon took her body… maybe he mummified her like she was trying to do for him? Or just fed her to the bugs. Maybe thats why theres so much junk… attracts the bugs… hmmmm….
- MELANIE!!!! Shes BACK- what do you mean she got shot??
- Assuming he somehow killed someone with a tobacco pipe… i LOVE Melanie jdjdjd
- ‘Which [sasha]’ EXACTLYYYY
- Poor Melanie :( i hope she finds jon
- ELIAS WATCHED GHOST HUNT???
- Why is he trying to hire her. Is this like the archival version of the section 31 team?? She knows too much so they have to absorb her??
- Martin trying and failing to stop her and get her statement… poor guy he tried so hard :(
Upon the stair
- Jons back! I love Martin but I do miss him <3
- I dont think you can use paper quality to determine age, but thats just me
- Off topicish but my godparents like a lot of weird/macarbre poems like that and they have the first verse of that poem on one of their bathroom tiles lol.
- I dont have much to say about this story but its intriguing. Its a cycle in which an entity tries to lure people into i presume the corridors/Michael’s domain, and if they address the entity directly they die and swap places. No one can ‘escape’ because theyre already dead, and sometimes i guess they dont trade places because i think the dad also became an entity? Interesting?
- Lmao Jon getting annoyed by the mixed messages about whether to interact with the entities or not
- Oh okay so its the spiral which is separate from Michael/the corridors, i think i forgot about that from the Leitner episode
- Its about them being people… that makes sense given. Yknow. Jon. And also Michael-with-the-lightning-scar.
- My assumption is Elias is sending them. He doesnt seem to think poorly of Jon and seems to want him back so im guessing hes sending them so idk. The archive work doesnt fall apart.
- Georgie has a date!! Lmao at Jon offering to get out and teasing her.
- #justiceforGeorgie’shungarianfood
- Melanie mentionn!!! Hopefully that means jon will come up and Melanie will visit him
- Lol at Jon being suspicious about Melanies new jobs… he knows!!
Realised i have a bunch of older TMA reactions i havent been posting over the past ~6 months so!! Heres a post to catch up:
Fatigue
- oh, Lydia. I’ve been there in the sleep deprivation that makes you confused.
- Magic ceiling fan??? I WAS thinking it was weird to have a ceiling fan in the uk
- God i couldnt imagine having a ‘sleep is overrated’ bilboard outside my flat when I’m struggling with insomnia. I think I’d kill somebody.
- Shes a writer??? Is this me in a world where i actually succeed in stuff?
- Weird man? Tall? Sandy blond hair?? MICHAEL???
- ‘Names are overrated’? MICHAEL!
- Oh no. The vision things are a little too accurate.
- It IS Michael!
- “Man or at least male-presenting”- Jon said #transrights!
- The thing living down there ISNT human???
A long way down
- Another one with the sky thing?
- Lol, i did the same with trees as a kid
- … i also have the same thing with ladders. A little less severe, but they intensely stress me out. If they mention fears around multi-storey parking i’ll have to turn the episode off.
- Lightning scars? Michael Crewe, is that you??
- Grant may be a better sibling than me. I think i wouldve let my sister lie there while i continued walking around and trying doors, lol
- :( :(
- I dont like this one.
- BASIRA COMING THROUGH???
The smell of blood
- looooove the title right off the bat
- Melanies back!!!!
- The idea of the ghost hunting community being insulated from real ghosts is so fun
- Jon knowing what a meme is 😭
- Jonathan getting excited witg Melanie about the research is soooo <3 theyre secretely friends lol
- MORE LORE ABOUT SASHA BEING WEIRD!!!!
- Why Melanie is a great question actually
The kind mother
- GERTRUDE!!!
- Hmmmm. Interesting that tape recordings are once again something that cant be altered/manipulated by the Things.
- Direct reference to aomething called the stranger?? Did we know the stranger??
- I feel like probably its leaving a couple people deliberately
- Sad about her dad :(
- OH HE THINKS IT COULD BE SASHA. Oh and it actually could!!!!!! Oh!!!!!!!!
- I did make the links with the tapes being the ones that contained sasha back when i first watched the season one finale but its really interesting to get a potential WHY there. I thought it was because they wanted to mimic her, it makes sense if they just wanted to ensure noone could compare her voices (and also THIS IS WHY THERE SHOULDVE BEEN TWO RECORDINGS THE WHOLE TIME, *JONATHAN*!)
- Oh god noooo Jon. Jon please tell someone else. Please dont try and do this alone this will not end well
- Interesting to wonder if you actually can kill one of these things. I guess this ‘Stranger’ seems more human than most, similar to Michael, but we know Michael is also all those tunnels. None of the others (the sky, the ground) seem really killable
- Interesting episode. Glad we’re making progress on the Sasha thing. I wish I hadnt taken such a long break between episodes lol
Distant cousin
- Jon PLEASE speak up. Or speak closer to the tape recorder. We didnt what????
- Lol at the on theme conversation of people youve known in childhood not realising that version of you is dead
- Interesting that in both these cases the people #noticing are the ones with strained relationship to the Changed One. That might not be relevant though bc Melanie DID like Sasha.
- OOOOH didnt Gertrude say that polaroids remain mostly unchanged???
- Neck too long??? Michael??? Or… something similar?
- Why do i recognise the nameeee this is the problem with listening on a PLANE i only have some of my notes ;-;
- IS IT THE LOCKED CHEST???? The thing from one of the earlier ones? Not!Carl was the thing scratching at it???
- The table!!!
- Okay i dont think it IS michael but its something similar!!
- Ah our favourite delivery boys
- Yesss the table!!! Well done jon youre finally getting somewhere
- THE TAPES!!!
- Well. You *hear* her.
- Aw Martin trying to get him to a doctor <3 also Jon stop being a dumbass PLEASE
- Awww he apologised <3
- Tim rushing martin out dhdhhs. Hes 100% coming back tomorrow to figure out wtf Jon is up to
- Awwwww recording his last apology <3 jon stop being sweet and sad its making it hard to call you stupid 🥺
- An AXE?
- Rip the table. It was deserved, you will not be missed
- Okay the audio going between jon whispering and really loud slamming is. Difficult. To listen.
- oh nooooooo see this is why you need HELP jon
- Is this Michael? Offering help? I cannot recognise the voice lol. Im 90% sure it is…?
- Ohhh Sasha is CREEPY. Fun!
- Fortunately Tim was not fooled by Jon’s apologetic day off and will be back at any moment with Martin to save the day :)) (said while white-knuckling the table)
- Sorry there was a magnus archives boardgame??????? Not the point i know but. a board game??? And no one told me????????
- Ohhhh Martyn’s writing is actually really good!
- Awww they overwrote it :( BUT ALSO I WAS RIGHT!!!!
- It was not, in fact, blank.
- Martyn and Tim are such a funny duo i love them <3
- I fear that was, in fact, sasha
- “Im not coming down there with you” of course you are fwjshdhhd its Martyn.
- You are a bit of an idiot <3 but to be fair its a complicated situation Jon
- Pop Off Martyn
- Hiiiii Michael great to see you for sure
- Oops. Michaels in a murderous mood.
- Aww Martyn was willing to stand up for Jon anyway <3 and now THEYRE in the hell tunnels
- jon i am BEGGING you to SPEAK UP
- Sasha!!!
- Big eye reference 👀
- FASCINATED by the backstory here. Who sent it to the archive??? Who wanted it to steal information??
- Jon’s desperate sounds and apologies to Sasha :(((
- … what?? Who??? That wasnt elijah, is it the other one? Jonathan Magnus? Or maybe the guy who caught the Thing last time??? Terrible time for me to get served dinner.
The Librarian
- interesting title!!! Are we going to figure out whats going on with the eye???
- For someone who wants to talk quick this librarian is really yapping around his point
- :( sashas dead :(
- Norweigen… LEITNER????
- IT ISSSSS !!!!
- HES been living in the tunnels???? Is that why Gertrude was back there????
- He sounds so offended about the twelve page work being called a book
- His master?? Elias or whatever else is going on with the institute?
- Gerard mention!!! Lolol
- Well. It stands for *something*.
- The anatomy class people (things)???
- …is the assistant hes forgotten about Tom Hahn? Is that why he was being chased by the meat??
- Oh :( all of gertrudes assistants died… and now one of Jon’s has joined them…
- This is a very long conversation given the corcumstance
- :o. Entities…
- I was right about the books being the distilled version of the ‘entities’!!!
- Jon being good at explaining this stuff is fun
- You really have wasted a lot of time
- Ooooh hes deflecting
- ELIAS? Actually i think i did consider that, but because i thought he was a shifty thing. Interesting!!
- The eye!!! The beholding!!!
- Leitner i fear his breakdown started long before this
- Who… Gertrude??? Is he talking to Gertrude?
- Elias???
- Jesus christ is he getting beat to death????
- This is not going to help Jon’s mental health
- Loved getting a whole episode about the books but where are Martyn and Tim??
- OOP SPOKE TOO SOON
- W. What happened???
- Theyre out of the hell tunnels??
- THEY THINK HE KILLED LEITNER????
- Rip anyone who listened to this live and had to wait.
- Oooh not!sasha was CREDITED as not!sasha. Fun.
- Hey did Jonathans irl dad/brother play Leitner??
A guest for mr spider
- love the title. Cant wait to see how quickly i started hating it (conceptually)
- FORMER head archivist?
- OOP? HE HAD A BOOK??? No wonder he was so salty with Leitner last episode
- Jon has canonically greying hair??? Same bestie!!!!
- Damn. She resented him so much she tried to kill him via book :/ (/s)
- Dianna wynn jones mention!
- please this story about the books is SO cute i cant
- This is. An incredibly creepy story. Im amazed Jonathan was as chill as he was with the spiders season one, actually.
- Lmao realising you were actually just kind of an annoying child is such a mood
- Hes staying with his podcaster friend 😭😭
- So he knows Tim and Martyn think hes a murderer?? And yet hes not been arrested?
- Loved this episode. Very creepy. Love baby Jon <3
The eyewitnesses
- please let the title be referencing tim and martyn
- Realising that its inevitably going to be the eye, as in the entity, witnesses something. But i can wish
- MARTYNS STATEMENT !!!
- Daisy!!!
- Martyn discovering police corruption for rhe first time dhdhhs
- Aww Martyn getting excited by the idea that people think he close to Jon
- ‘Bring [Sasha] back safe’ oh :(
- Tim :(
- Elias???
- Interesting that hes protecting Jon… i assume that its bc its easier that finding someone else to be marked by the eye
- Okay i dont think i should be rooting for him but honestly.., hes going off with calling out the corrupt police
- Alice??
- Oh. My god?????
- The FIRST of who shes killed?
- Is Elias also marked by the eye? Is that how he knows all that???
- Tim :(
- Sentient recorder???
Drawing a blank
- Fjdjehe Jon getting offended by Georgie not thinking he can do drugs
- Sorry? Weird stalkers? Are we glossing over that?
- …manequins >:|
- Oh this is Horrifying
- PARTIALLY SKINNED?????
- Interesting, Jon is assuming the Delivery Boys are part of (or working with) the stranger. I was thinking of them more like leitner or the exorcist… aware of whats happening and involved but not working *for* the entities, rather for themselves and inevitably drawn in.
- He got sent the case… i assume by Elias since he knew where Jon was? Is it his way of coacing him back?
- I did not like this episode (/positive) but i’m excited that we might get closer to a resolution between jon and tim and martyn next episode!!! For now however i sleep.
Realised i have a bunch of older TMA reactions i havent been posting over the past ~6 months so!! Heres a post to catch up:
Fatigue
- oh, Lydia. I’ve been there in the sleep deprivation that makes you confused.
- Magic ceiling fan??? I WAS thinking it was weird to have a ceiling fan in the uk
- God i couldnt imagine having a ‘sleep is overrated’ bilboard outside my flat when I’m struggling with insomnia. I think I’d kill somebody.
- Shes a writer??? Is this me in a world where i actually succeed in stuff?
- Weird man? Tall? Sandy blond hair?? MICHAEL???
- ‘Names are overrated’? MICHAEL!
- Oh no. The vision things are a little too accurate.
- It IS Michael!
- “Man or at least male-presenting”- Jon said #transrights!
- The thing living down there ISNT human???
A long way down
- Another one with the sky thing?
- Lol, i did the same with trees as a kid
- … i also have the same thing with ladders. A little less severe, but they intensely stress me out. If they mention fears around multi-storey parking i’ll have to turn the episode off.
- Lightning scars? Michael Crewe, is that you??
- Grant may be a better sibling than me. I think i wouldve let my sister lie there while i continued walking around and trying doors, lol
- :( :(
- I dont like this one.
- BASIRA COMING THROUGH???
The smell of blood
- looooove the title right off the bat
- Melanies back!!!!
- The idea of the ghost hunting community being insulated from real ghosts is so fun
- Jon knowing what a meme is 😭
- Jonathan getting excited witg Melanie about the research is soooo <3 theyre secretely friends lol
- MORE LORE ABOUT SASHA BEING WEIRD!!!!
- Why Melanie is a great question actually
The kind mother
- GERTRUDE!!!
- Hmmmm. Interesting that tape recordings are once again something that cant be altered/manipulated by the Things.
- Direct reference to aomething called the stranger?? Did we know the stranger??
- I feel like probably its leaving a couple people deliberately
- Sad about her dad :(
- OH HE THINKS IT COULD BE SASHA. Oh and it actually could!!!!!! Oh!!!!!!!!
- I did make the links with the tapes being the ones that contained sasha back when i first watched the season one finale but its really interesting to get a potential WHY there. I thought it was because they wanted to mimic her, it makes sense if they just wanted to ensure noone could compare her voices (and also THIS IS WHY THERE SHOULDVE BEEN TWO RECORDINGS THE WHOLE TIME, *JONATHAN*!)
- Oh god noooo Jon. Jon please tell someone else. Please dont try and do this alone this will not end well
- Interesting to wonder if you actually can kill one of these things. I guess this ‘Stranger’ seems more human than most, similar to Michael, but we know Michael is also all those tunnels. None of the others (the sky, the ground) seem really killable
- Interesting episode. Glad we’re making progress on the Sasha thing. I wish I hadnt taken such a long break between episodes lol
Distant cousin
- Jon PLEASE speak up. Or speak closer to the tape recorder. We didnt what????
- Lol at the on theme conversation of people youve known in childhood not realising that version of you is dead
- Interesting that in both these cases the people #noticing are the ones with strained relationship to the Changed One. That might not be relevant though bc Melanie DID like Sasha.
- OOOOH didnt Gertrude say that polaroids remain mostly unchanged???
- Neck too long??? Michael??? Or… something similar?
- Why do i recognise the nameeee this is the problem with listening on a PLANE i only have some of my notes ;-;
- IS IT THE LOCKED CHEST???? The thing from one of the earlier ones? Not!Carl was the thing scratching at it???
- The table!!!
- Okay i dont think it IS michael but its something similar!!
- Ah our favourite delivery boys
- Yesss the table!!! Well done jon youre finally getting somewhere
- THE TAPES!!!
- Well. You *hear* her.
- Aw Martin trying to get him to a doctor <3 also Jon stop being a dumbass PLEASE
- Awww he apologised <3
- Tim rushing martin out dhdhhs. Hes 100% coming back tomorrow to figure out wtf Jon is up to
- Awwwww recording his last apology <3 jon stop being sweet and sad its making it hard to call you stupid 🥺
- An AXE?
- Rip the table. It was deserved, you will not be missed
- Okay the audio going between jon whispering and really loud slamming is. Difficult. To listen.
- oh nooooooo see this is why you need HELP jon
- Is this Michael? Offering help? I cannot recognise the voice lol. Im 90% sure it is…?
- Ohhh Sasha is CREEPY. Fun!
- Fortunately Tim was not fooled by Jon’s apologetic day off and will be back at any moment with Martin to save the day :)) (said while white-knuckling the table)
Havent updated in a WHILE but I had my second root canal appointment the other week and naturally spent it listening to TMA, and I finally got round to formatting my notes, so here they are! Theyre a bit short bc i was somewhat preoccupied and had to write parts from memory dhsgagag
Underground
- Stuck on the underground with a dead phone and no music… the real horror
- Deciding to just sit there and chill because she cant do anything anyway is a moooood lol
- Ohhh… the train is being smushed and ‘eaten’ by the earth…
- The poor driver :(
- Fascinated by the fact she got out. AND that she still takes the tube. I wonder if she was ‘released’ for some reason? Maybe because she wasnt scared of dying?
- Aw, Jon’s worried about Sasha bc she takes the tube to work <3
- Somethings living down in the tunnels?? My instinct is to say Sasha, but actually she’s been seen to leave so maybe not. Hmmm. I doubt Michael or any of the other things need to eat, though. Maybe its one of the workers- or Elias- something related to them not being able to leave. Or Jon’s fully losing it and leaving stuff behind and forgetting about it?
Takeaway
- They’re arresting Rayner????
- ‘Probably’ a cannibal. Okay.
- I actually agree with his point about cannibilism being wrong more because of the murder than the concept, lol. I wouldnt eat human meat because I’m a picky eater but i think conceptually its not. Idk. As immoral. Its just A Thing.
- Low-key racist sent me lmaoo
- Tom Hahn back again
- More meat, and the regeneration, are both fascinating, but I can’t quite figure out what it means. Maybe whatever thing wants the meat allows the regeneration in order to have a permanant meat source?
- It does seem to point to the thing following tom to the meat processing plant though
Police Lights
- Basira!!!
- Shadow people… like the way the creatures are sometimes shadows (like with Graham)? Is Rayner turning people in the cult INTO these creatures??? Or just somehow their thing with absorbing light gets so far that they end up becoming shadows??
- The kid :(
- The cathedral? 👀
- he was… blinding people???
- Interesting. I do NOT think its the last chapter on Rayner. I also dont think its the end of the tapes, though I’m not sure how John would get them now- but they feel too relevant to end.
- Jon thinking that someone tipped them off and it wasnt Rayner or any of the cops there… HMM. Maybe someone at the institute, but they dont seem overly friendly with cops.
- I figured i was supposed to recognise natalie ennis’ name so i did some digging and yes, she’s mentioned in the first episode that brings up the cult (mag025) as the roommate who gets sucked in. Interesting.
Got through a few episodes at work today and another tonight! I kind of desperately want to listen to another one but im SO tired so it’ll have to wait :(
The tale of a field hospital
- leaked statements? 👀
- Statement giver sees himself as Banksy I think, lol
- Jonathan is sure getting a lot of mileage out of the word ‘allegedly’ here lol
- “As he passed away for the second time, I implored him to stay that way. He said, ‘But doctor, I am such a restless man.’” <- that is an INCREDIBLE line
- Okay, so… Amhurst has to be Pestilance, right? In hand with War appearing in the other story about WW2 soldiers, and multiple iterations of death appearing in the story about games. Interesting, interesting.
- Poor guy just wanted to make cool art and deliver something interesting to the institute :( blood poisoning is an awful way to go.
- Sorry, John Amhurst?? (Frantically flipping through my notes) Who????? I need to make a full like board of everything and everyone I swear.
- Multiple iterations of pestilance… multiple iterations of death… interesting!!!
- Ooooh the echoing sound in the tunnels is fun
- Sasha??
- She looked too tall, huh? Would you say, almost, distorted? 👀
Thought for the day
- Martin?? FINALLY I’ve missed him :(
- Aw Martin’s sus about Tom. Smart!
- Ohh John sounds suddenly very sad about Martin being worried about him and agreeing with Tim :(
- Also i was thinking about Tim last night. I miss him. I didnt realise how much I enjoyed even the possibility of their fun friendship lol
- Uh oh. Failed science experiment linked to spiders???
- Why is it always spiders. Why am i listening to this in spider season. There are spiders in my bedroom :(
- The students are making a human… web…???
- This episode is DELIGHTFULLY creepy
- What do you mean Annabelle is still out there?????
- Tacking “…according to Martin” on the end of his explanation shshagga LET THE GUY LIIIIIIVE!!!
- “I cannot help but wonder how many cobwebs might be found in their own homes” is a fascinating comment from Jonathan. Especially given the season 1 episode where some guy died choking on ‘organic matter’ and covered in cobwebs and Jonathan was like ‘well, I’m sure that’s unrelated to him being stalked by a ghost spider. Anyway.’
- Jonathan being scared of going back to the tunnels :( Jonathan being sad that he cant ask his friends for help because hes still paranoid about them :(:( wahhhh
Book of the dead
- from the title alone: another Leitner book? Potentially one focused on death rather than pestilance like the last episode but that might be me being a bit too derivative
- Pop OFF statement giver lshsjhdgd
- “Asshole… not that I want to speak ill of the dead”
- If this is a Leitner book, bequeathing it to your ‘friend-who-you-secretely-(mutually)-hate’ is actually kind of iconic dhdhhs. Really getting the last laugh in here
- A list of deaths throughout history… maybe a list of people who took on deaths mantle?
- Oh, theyre like 5-10 years apart at most… hm… too quick for Death then
- Ah, the inevitablility of death.
- The deaths are getting closer to him :(
- Ope he directly mentioned that dhdhsh
- Interesting, not a Leitner. Adding evidence to the idea that Leitner is collecting them… maybe he was trying to keep them safe, maybe he was making an archive. I suspect he’s related to Mary Key, through more than her just liking his books/them exchanging books.
- Gertrude tore up the book of Soloman in the basement? … does the basement somehow negate the thing with supernatural books being indestructible? Or maybe just that room? Or Gertrude knew how to set up some kind of… neutralising field? Much to think about
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