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Ash | adult | they/them | poet | I do art?? and write?? Sometimes?? I am Trying; generally podcast & horror-related sideblog of @artherra Header and icon by me

[sisyphean-everchase]

Okay y’all!! Finally finished my own Sasha-centric take on a Daemon AU featuring a whole lot of other headcanons as well, enjoy!

Spoilers up to 160, CWs in the beginning notes

Wordcount: 18334

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

[sisyphean-everchase]

Hi, would I be able to pay you to use your Chrysalis moth work for a tattoo (the TMA fanart) or tattoo insp? If not that's absolutely okay it's just so cool

OH hi!! absolutely!! i would be honored incredibly cvgdhsgcd you can find me on ko-fi.com/artherra, feel free to pay whatever you think it's worth! tysm <3

[prizecards]

[fangirlinginleatherboots]

horror is such an important genre yet its constantly tarnished by fake intellectuals mimicking themes rather than diving into the actual nature that defines horror and its subversions and reflections of society and reality

[xavieralopez]

Feathers

[flagellant]

girls will say I know a spot I know every spot in this godforsaken valley there my limbs have entwined with the snaggletooth maple branches we have reached up into the sky together and the sun did not listen to me either girls will say I know a spot and they will take you to where the fields used to be but they don't grow anymore not since the ichor wells ran dry this town is not dead it is thirsty it is a thin and ragged dog with mange look grab a fistful of dirt and feel its dessication ooze out of your palm girls will say I know a spot where the church used to be and the pastor sang sermons night and day and night and day and he would collapse in his fervor unconscious yet his mouth formed words to sing even asleep they were not a sound a man could make none of them were but they were words we knew that a girl says I know a spot and she will show you the scars on her body where the butcher carved living scrimshaw into her where the priest told him a door could be opened a girl says she knows a spot where the other girls were buried a girl says I'm not like other girls I know a spot and she will take your hand with her hand and you will feel the pressure of her bones too clearly like they are wrapped in a layer of loose gauze not flesh and skin and she will smile at you and say I know a spot and she will smile at you and she will have too many teeth and she will smile at you and you do not see the horizon for how wide and gaping her grin is a girl will say I know a spot and you will know she is the spot the ichorous soil the fallow ground she is the reason we use the term fertile to refer to something that has the capacity to grow other things within it you look up at the valley mountains of what once we're elbows and knees you hear the keening wailing birthing winds and you do not go down into the bottom of the valley you do not gaze past where the first ymirs bones were carved but it does exist it does exist at the end of the map it does not need you to see it it does not need you to go to it it exists and will come find you in the end

[infinityuserboxes]

[4444555666777888999]

Ur damn right

[morikorii]

I drew a Martin so beautiful I started crying 

[schizocunt-deactivated20200818]

I’m an addict. As an addict, my heart goes out to Jonny Sims for having to publicly state that he is an addict because he was dog piled after MAG172. No one should ever have to put themselves on display like that, and addiction is traumatizing. It’s been a very long time since I’ve seen my fears surrounding addiction depicted in such a raw way, and the way that non-addicts jumped to the offense is fucking disgusting and it’s behavior like that that makes me stay quiet about my experiences

However, that cannot give Jonny a pass for all the problematic shit that he DOES write. There is racism in the show. There is transphobia in the show. He rarely assigns characters canon races, and almost every canon poc is a villain. The Haan family in its entirety is racist. Nikola’s storyline is transphobic (especially considering that Joseph Grimaldi was a real person — hello??). Speaking of real people, he frequently uses them as characters. John Amherst was real life colonizer, and he should not be getting fanart. Wilfred Owen is a very very FAMOUS anti-war poet. He was killed young in a war that he was drafted into against his will. Jonny made him an avatar of The fucking SLAUGHTER, which is incredibly disrespectful to his memory. Jonny had his main character be buddy buddy with a cop who admitted to reveling in police brutality.

Seeing him be attacked by fans was saddening, yes. But it was also frustrating, bc fans chose the WRONG time to be critical. There ARE things abt Jonny’s writing that need to be called out. An episode about addiction that SEVERAL addicts said depicted their struggles to a T was not one of them.

There is a difference between cornering someone and making them expose their trauma, and holding someone accountable. You should not be afraid to demand accountability

[schizocunt-deactivated20200818]

This is okay to reblog.

[whitepassingpariston-deactivate]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Amherst

reblogging bc i cannot tag you he literally was a real person. he was a real british navel officer and the brother of who u are thinking of. john amherst fought to colonize india in the first carnatic war. 

however you bring up an interesting and much more sinister point. the name amherst cannot be a coincidence and u are correct in saying jeffery may have been the writers primary inspiration as he is more famous. but why is he famous? jeffery amherst was known for wanting to commit literal biological warfare against indigenous ppl in america by spreading smallpox to them. he wanted to exterminate native by any means possible, as in he tried to commit genocide. if this is who jonny is basing his character, who i remind you is themed around sickness and disease, off of i am honestly at a loss for words. this is so fucking disgusting and i rly hope it is a weird coincidence 

[dathen]

I know a lot of the “Jonah picked Jon because he’s dumb and Sasha is too competent” posts are probably jokes, but since it’s been a long time since 160 I wanna just remind that his sole goal was to turn the next Archivist into a trauma punch card and Jon already had a head start.

[iamnmbr3]

@dathen​

[dathen]

Given how much times I’ve seen “Jon was picked because he’s stupid and Sasha’s too competent” in actual fics and meta since this….including time travel fics where he just flat out tells her “you’re better than me and that’s why I got the job”……  Sounds like a good time for another friendly reminder 

[statementends]

I’d also like to point out that Sasha being Gertrude’s pick for Archivist isn’t actually great evidence of Sasha’s effectiveness as Archivist.

Gertrude’s methodology meant she thought Sasha would be able to sacrifice people for the greater good.

And she was wrong.

Sasha wants to learn things from Michael because she wants to protect her co-workers. She saves Tim without thinking what will happen if she steps out there.

Gertrude would have watched.

Gertrude was completely wrong about Sasha.

[myhistoryread]

nothing cracks me up more than the credits calling jon “the archivist” so jonny doesn’t have to say “jonathan sims as jonathan sims”

[orions-shiny-belt]

In episode 160 of the podcast “The Magnus Archives”, the protagonist Jonathan Sims receives a statement. Now, this is not unusual, as most of the series revolves around Jonathan reading a statement. However, this time, it is a deception sent to him by his old boss, Elias Bouchard, to start the end of the world. You see Will, Jonathan is unable to stop reading a statement once he starts and Elias takes advantage of this weakness, laying his plans out clearly and then forcing Jonathan to speak the words which usher in the apocalypse. Tell me, Will, are you Jonathan, helpless against the forces pushing you around in this world, unwillingly bringing about your own destruction? Are you hello Jon. Apologies for the deception, but I wanted to make sure you started reading, so I thought it best not to announce mys

[draftingtides]

think abt jonsasha qpr

oh my goodness i am thinking about it!!! hold on i have headcanons

they met through tim a little bit before jon started working at the institute

jon was a lil prickly at first (like he always is with strangers) but then he saw her aro pin and was like “oh solidarity”

jon and sasha ARE alloace and alloaro solidarity and you cannot convince me otherwise

when she and jon went to pride together it was the first time jon had gone since uni

they kind of got distant after jon took the promotion

they got closer again once the whole michael thing happened (jon is protective dammit)

sasha did NOT get killed by the not them and she and jon got together during season 2/early season 3

[punkfistfights]

i know sasha is dead but consider this: i love her and don’t think she should be

[milfkarlmarx-deactivated2021081]

describe your faveorite mechanisms song badly

[libennly]

Recently , I have decided that I am funny

[cctinsleybaxter]

One thing i haven’t seen anyone talk about with tma is that two of the slaughter episodes set in China use the trope of the East Asian ‘horde’ to evoke fear. The image of a faceless mass of vengeful soldiers is something that dates back to the Russo-Japanese war, and because of WWII it’s still part of the media zeitgeist in England and America. I don’t think this was done in bad faith and was more an unthinking misstep, but it’s so deeply uncomfortable it’s part of the reason I’ve hated every slaughter-centric episode.