my The Magnus Archives sideblog !!

Ren - she/any - fanartist and writer :) main account: @renirae

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hi!! my name is Ren, I use she/any pronouns, and I'm a fanfic writer and fanartist!! I'm also aroace, and I only write and draw platonic stuff :)

TMA-related info:

my fave characters are Jon, Gerry, Tim, Sasha, and Michael!

I don't 'ship' characters per se but all of my favourite relationships in general are between those five characters above (I am in the small majority who don't really care for jmart lol)

in other words, most of my art/fics/posts will be about the above characters!!! :]

here's a link to the archive of all of my old TMA posts from my main blog before I made this side one!

my other blogs:

@renirae (my main blog!)

@renirae-reblogs (where my reblogs go!)

@reniraes-batfamily-things (my Batfamily sideblog!)

@reniraes-gsgw-things (my GSGW sideblog!)

where else you can find me:

ao3 (my main place!! I have a few TMA fics published and lots more to come!!!)

youtube (I've only posted one TMA MAP part so far but will hopefully be posting more animatics in the future :))

thanks for stopping by! and feel free to send me a message or ask at any time for any reason!! ^^

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and my first post on this sideblog is me FINALLY finishing a six month old lineup of my favourite TMA characters!!!

of course, my mental image of these characters is constantly shifting, so this isn't going to be as helpful to me as other lineups I've made (I say helpful to me because I hate colouring so I like to use these as colour references lol), but it was still really fun to work on haha <3 love these guys a lot

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HELPPPPP I FORGOT TO ADD THE LINEART FOR GERRY'S TATTOOS? AKA ONE OF HIS MOST IDENTIFYING FEATURES???? I can't decide whether I should laugh or cry fkhgskfdhgkdf 😭😭😭 to be fair this is all AU anyways so everyone hopefully assumed that him not having tattoos was another part of the AU dfkjgkshd

(this is literally the header picture for this account too, but I didn't notice until I was showing some friends the character I would literally be cosplaying at a convention (UofT Fandom Convention) tomorrow. because I was like "oh I need to put his eye tattoos on my hands let me show you a drawing I've done of them"... and then the drawing doesn't have them fdshskjd)

anyways. guess I have to edit those in now lmao. or honestly just redraw this even though I didn't post it that long ago, since I actually DREW it months ago and there are some other things I would change (like tying Jon's hair half up)

either way, tomorrow though, after I go to said event dressed in said Gerry cosplay :)) (I will probably also post pictures of that too! ^^ even if with my head cut off like last time haha)

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art for the second/final chapter of my GSGW/TMA crossover!! ^^

I'll put the summary here again because I think it's probably good practice to do this from now on tbh :)

While visiting the security team after work one day, an ominous yellow door appears at the end of one of the basement hallways. Unfortunately for Kim Soleum, Lee Seonghae and J3 decide that the three of them are going to be going through it.

as you can tell I didn't feel like doing a whole perspective background this time haha, six characters was enough. but drawing all of these guys was very fun ^^

also my art tablet stylus broke while drawing this so that was. not fun 😭😭 it's still kind of usable after I slapped a bunch of tape onto it though lol. and breaking after five and a half years of use isn't that bad tbh!

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Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London

(day 1)

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I experience the "grab that toothbrush dattebayo" phenomenon except only about the most stupid and inane things you can imagine that probably barely even count

like for example I always wear pretty much only black, and I feel weird and not like myself whenever I wear any other colour, like for example right now when I'm gardening and black clothing would make me overheat

but then I looked in the mirror at my bright red shirt and beige sunhat and was like "hey this is kind of like when Gerry Keay was on vacation and shed his black clothing for a hawaiian shirt"

and that abruptly made me feel more like myself lmao

like you see what I mean, that's such a inane thing for me to be feeling at 23 years old but it is at its core the same concept fdskhkfdhgks

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jongerry queerplatonic soulmates. you agree

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My TMA S1 lineup as promised. Wormed vers below the cut! (please click for better quality)

Unfortunately I’m not as happy with these as I would’ve liked, but it gets my designs across alright.😭

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little Gerry sketch who has been watching over the whiteboard stuck to the back of my bedroom door for the past few months :3

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Did anyone else lwk want Jon's plan in MAG 200 to succeed? Like, sure, everyone would die, but it would be a fire ending ok

[agnessdei]

I'M FOREVER MAD THAT HE DIDN'T DO IT

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HE WANTED TO TOO BUT OFC THEY HAD A HUNCH AND STOPPED HIM </33

LITERALLY, GO AGAINST THE WEB, GO AGAINST NATURE, SHOW THEM WHAT FEAR IS, MAKE THEM EAT THEMSELVES ALIVE, AND I KNOW THAT THE POINT IS THAT YOU CAN'T DEFEAT FEAR BUT STILL, IT COULD WORK, BECAUSE THE ONLY WORLD THAT'S UNAFRAID IS A DEAD ONE

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YEPPPP I have been saying this ever since I listened to the episode. he was RIGHT and I wish he had been allowed to go through with it!!!!

HOWEVER. as a fun fact, there is actually a spectrogram hidden in the final episode... of a Web. source here

and it starts at the exact moment that Jon agrees to let Martin stab him

SO, at least assuming this easter egg is supposed to be canon, him giving in and agreeing to go through with their plan was apparently just yet another Web manipulation! (somehow)

(still 100% agree that I think it would have been better for the plot if he had been allowed to go through with his own plan though lol)

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you know, although I have said before that it's weird how attached I am to Gerry considering he's only present for a single conversation, it's not actually weird at all now that I think about it

yeah, he was only present for literally one episode, but DURING that episode he was actively talking back and forth for like a good half an hour straight

meanwhile someone like Sasha (another character I am perhaps unduly obsessed with) DOES have a speaking role in way more episodes, but honestly cumulatively I think she probably actually got a LOT less airtime than Gerry did!

(actually my “weirdest” character obsession is probably Agnes considering SHE didn't even get her own statement OR a speaking role. AND (iirc) we only know FOUR things she's ever said (“one black coffee with room for milk” “that must be nice” “goodbye“ ”thank you”) lol. but idc I love her so much too <3)

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OMG ONE OF MY CLASSMATES HAS LISTENED TO THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES???!

I'm doing a final project for one of my university classes on TMA (and how its themes intersect with the vampire book we had to read for this class, since they both have parts I can parallel to addiction) (I was SO excited because I've honestly been HOPING I would be able to turn some assignment into being about TMA dskjfgkhfdg)

and we had to share little elevator pitches about these assignments with our classmates and then we have to respond to each others' pitches

and this classmate's response-

I did not mention the Web or anything related to Jon's abilities. so unless they did a bunch of googling just to write a mandatory response for a discussion post, they know TMA lore. omg.

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to commemorate finally finishing A Stitch In Time (the longest fic I have ever written by FAR at ~115,000 words), I decided to (re!)draw a faux book cover for it!!

fanfic covers are always a concept I've found super fun, but the only time I've done one in the past (when I tried making a cover for this very fic back in 2024, actually!) it didn't quite turn out how I was hoping. a year and a half later, though, I decided to try and take another stab at it, and I'm super super happy with the changes I made!!!

(also unrelated to the art but omg it's so crazy that this fic is actually done... I've been updating it for a year and a half now (even though yes I was on hiatus for a third of that haha), so it's going to be absolutely bizarre moving on to other big projects. I'll miss this version of these guys a lot, even though I'm going to come back to this series eventually!!)

<3333

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HAPPY 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE RELEASE OF THE FIRST EPISODE OF THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES!!!!

to celebrate I drew some cool avatars that I haven't drawn before :DDD

(Oliver Banks / Hezekiah Wakely / Annabelle Cane / Agnes Montague) Oliver's design inspired by @spiralstain's art here, and Hezekiah's was inspired by @nightcat-png's art here!

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and my first post on this sideblog is me FINALLY finishing a six month old lineup of my favourite TMA characters!!!

of course, my mental image of these characters is constantly shifting, so this isn't going to be as helpful to me as other lineups I've made (I say helpful to me because I hate colouring so I like to use these as colour references lol), but it was still really fun to work on haha <3 love these guys a lot