Episode 134, Time of Revelation. The Terrible Change. The World Without Us. The Extinction.
seen from Romania
seen from Canada
seen from China
seen from United States
seen from United States

seen from United States
seen from Russia
seen from Canada

seen from Malaysia
seen from Mexico
seen from Türkiye
seen from United States

seen from Belgium

seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from United States

seen from Germany

seen from Türkiye
seen from Türkiye
seen from Singapore
Episode 134, Time of Revelation. The Terrible Change. The World Without Us. The Extinction.
there were so many fears at play for martin during the late 130+ eps of tma that him piling the tapes on the coffin while jon was looking for daisy could feasibly raise the question of whether he was compelled by (a) elias (b) the eye or (c) homosexuality
Anchorless and unmoored set amiss 🌁 📼 ⚓️
haha…a LITERAL anchor made out of ribs and bones...which is secured to the REAL anchor...a.k.a. martin KISSABLE blackwood……who watches over THE watcher…..while he can’t SEE it
just finished mag 134! the new emergence, what i've been calling "Dekker's 15th," has been explained and has a name now! And fuck it is not a name I am pleased to hear. The Extinction. It's is bad for two main reasons. First, The Extinction's avatars and adherents will actively try to create an apocalypse. Second, I'm fairly certain that the success of any ritual would strengthen it, if not bring it along. Because what all the rituals bring about is "the end of the world," so to speak. A great and terrible change. And that's what the Extinction is the fear of. And I don't have high hopes that any ritual would be reversible, but of them all, the Extinction's seems to be the worst.
TMA What We Know -[134]- Time Of Revelation
pre-statement:
[none]
--STATEMENT--
-letter from Dekker to Gertrude Robinson!!! -I think this guy figured out the entire apocalypse. the grand change/ the door is the door/ etc etc. guy really knows everything there is to know about it
-after reading the apocalypse journal, this woman ends up in the corpse world. where everyone's dead.
-canonical confirmation that the concept of 'marking' is an 'unfinished meal' and the entities tend to come back later to eat them
post-statement:
-the web and the end never had rituals-- the web likes the world as it is, the end doesn't need one because everyone dies eventually
-Peter wants Martin to help him stop the extinction from emerging
-apparently Peter and Martin have this agreement where Peter's supposed to protect the archival staff
-Peter joins in on calling Jon stupid. everyone's calling Jon stupid these days.
-Martin put the piles of tape recorders onto the coffin to help Jon find his way out.
^he may or may not have been compelled to
hey guys so anybody remember that line from mag 134? "the door is the door"? and how that episode was all about the extinction?
and how the watcher's crown is completed by the archivist saying "i open the door"? and how the magnus protocol is about "emerging fears"? fears like, dare i say, the extinction?
now. would i be correct in assuming that the door was the door
and the door was opened
and that's how the extinction fully came into being?
Uuuuugh, that slip when Martin was recording and he was about to say "Archival Assistant" and he switched to "Assistant to Peter Lukas." Hurts as much as Jon's change from "Head Archivist" to just "The Archivist."
I don't want to imagine what a "family thing" involving the Lukas's entails. Lukas calling Jon "a grubby Jesus" was hilarious though. Did this spur the fandom on to draw Jon like that? I've seen a lot of jokes about fan art depicting Jon looking like Jesus.
As much as I've bitched about Lukas and want to kick him in the shins, he does have a good voice. He seems to joke more readily than Elias did, so there's a lot more deadpan humor and it almost sounds light. But most of the time, it's just this even, quiet tone that doesn't show a whole lot of emotion. Makes me wonder what he would sound like if he snapped.
So Martin was responsible for the tapes, but he doesn't know why he put them there. I've seen people debating about whether the rib, the tapes, or Martin was really the anchor that helped Jon get out, and while I'm leaning towards the tapes, I think any of three could be plausible answers. Did Elias somehow put the idea into Martin's head? Or maybe it was the Eye itself, seeing that Jon was in trouble, and was like "Martin, Jon is an idiot. Put these tapes on the coffin before he kills himself."
Lukas says he's not going to stop Martin from talking to Jon, but I doubt that means he's going to try. He's already avoided him and everyone else for a long time, he's probably thinking it's too late to go back now.
A 15th entity/fear is interesting to think about. The lore for all this stuff is so fascinating, like how different fears have popped up through the ages, which ones intersect with each other more frequently than others, or even how some of them have never attempted to end the world before.
One thing where I'm not sure if I missed something is in mag 134 when Peter Lucas says that only the Web and the End haven't tried a big ritual yet.
I thought it was mentioned somewhere else that only the Eye hasn't tried? And that was why everyone was now going after them.
So either I misunderstood, the characters are misinformed, or Peter Lucas lied.