#mag 137

[redlobter]

Mag 137, Nemesis. I didn't particularly care for this episode, but oh well. they can't all be wins

[thelastbraincell]

Peter Lukas calling Jon Grubby Jesus and Daisy pet murderer >>> any other nickname ever

[cedar-is-a-nerd]

MAG 137

Gertrude :D

Ghonst

YWS, REBEL AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT, REBEL REBEL REBEL

Oh noooo:(

Oh familial bonds

Just wait until you learn where a hamburger comes from bro

Fair enough my guy

"Hey I don't really like killi-" "MURDER MURDER MURDER" That's the vibe I'm getting

Oh yeah Japan treated prisoners of war like absolute shit like Jesus Christ it was BAAAAD

Can't remember if it was WW1 or WW2 that the really bad stuff happened with them

Friend :)

Poor guy :(

Oh hey the Piper

Hello the Piper, are you here to ominously predict people's deaths again?

"🥁you🎺are🪘going🪊to🎷die🪈"

Rip my dudes

Boat

Holy shit that sounds like a badass ship

I wanna go to the iron sailing ship

Nemesis

Uniforms

Zombies?

Dancing :D

My god they've gone beserk

Oh damn

Don't go to the fucking ship

Sailing :)

Oh no didn't Gertrude mention how it sank

Damn rip time to sail

Asan, assigned sailor at Nemesis

You chose this deal with it

THE PIPER?

Ocean piper

Dance of evil

Jesus Christ

Sometimes you just gotta beat a corpse

There's a reason the colosseum was so popular

Okay I guess fighting keeps it afloat?

Heart too peaceful, swag too calm, music can never get him

"Hey this guy is insane let's let him sit this war out"

OOOH the slaughter

Nice

Oh god no like so many human experiments in Japan absolutely horrendous

GERRY MY BOY

"Eugh, I... Don't HATE him" okay everyone in this fucking archive is autistic

HELL YEAH STEAL TAPES, REBEL REBEL REBEL

Oh no Gerry's father D:

Watcher :)

Rip goth boy, you would have loved Chappel Roan

Take a nap sir

EGRH THESE NEURODIVERGENT FREAKS MAKE ME SICK

[bardic-irritation]

on MAG 137 and uh, hey Gertrude, what the fuck?!?

The detonation would need to happen from within the Unknowing, while it was going on. Gerard may have a connection to the Eye, but I'm not convinced it will be enough. And I will admit I've grown... fond of the boy.

that'ssofuckedthat'ssofuckedthat'ssofucked-

I wonder, if I told him about Eric, whether he'd follow in his father's footsteps. Still, it's not like it kept Eric safe in the end.

oh my god and on top of that she actively kept secrets from him about his father?!? and this is all just a sidenote to her!! isn't Gerry supposed to be the person she actually cared about the most? is Gertrude even capable of love at this point? did his cancer really sneak up on them or did she know and just ignore him getting sicker and sicker?

[a-mag-a-day]

what i find so fascinating about the war / slaughter statements is that ghosts are more common there than with other entities (or at least more memorable to me?)

there's something uniquely horrifying about all these man-made horrors in compariosn to, for example, the uncaring vastness of space. Sure that's objectively also terrifying but at the end of the day it feels more distant but war and violence? whats such an omnipresent thing through human history and most of it completely unnecessary...

Obviously it would manifest in parts as ghosts of the terrible things of the part, all bleeding together with no concern for which uniform you wore... Don't even get me started on the amount of conflicts still being fought about today that were started generations ago.

Think I might go lie down for a while. Get a cup of tea. Daisy’s got me listening to The Archers. I hate it. But it feels nice to hate something that can’t hurt me. I don’t know. That’s it, I, I guess.

oh jon...

I love that there are always clear symbols for each fear based on Jonny's experience with it

Slaughter is especially fascinating with the ghosts and the music

[interpolationz]

winter break has given me too much free time

also my sleep schedule is fucked and i just listened to 7 hours of the magnus archives

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 137 - Nemesis

doodle 137/20; days left - 9/110 9/128

a nemesis? more like my nemesis. i got stuck on this ep and in the end i just doodled whatever and it's pretty meh but i don't even care anymore adfzj xD

[lycanlovingvampyre]

MAG 137 Relisten

Activity on my first listen: putting up a new fence.

"I never wanted to join up, never cared about fighting for my country. I mean, what, like my country ever fought for me? No." Fucking yes! This speaks so much to me. And I'm living in a country with socialism. But when you need the social services department the people there are doing everything in their power to keep you from getting help.

"I wasn’t scared of dying, not really." Not really-counter of S4: 5!

"No, death ain’t scary. But killing, that’s scary." While I agree with these both statements (death in like being dead myself, not so much about people dear to me being dead), I do very much find the process of dying scary. The concept of being dead just makes me feel woozy.

"The things people will do to their fellow man, just because someone with a shinier badge tells them to." This is extremely scary...

"He never lost his smile, though. Not until he heard that music." Cue the ambiance music!

"The whole time, I expected the music to reach me – to take me, to seize my heart with murderous purpose. But it never did. Even as the last of the other prisoners began to hack wildly at each other, and the waters started to flow over the sides and around my ankles, I never felt it." Because the statement giver never wanted to kill anyone, neither human nor animal. So it didn’t work on them, there never was an alignment.

GERTRUDE: "I wonder what stopped it. A Japanese radar filled with spiderwebs, a US destroyer finding itself suddenly alone in the open ocean? Heh. We’ll probably never know." This was in October 2014. Only a few months later she would test her theory about no ritual of a single entity being able to succeed.

GERTRUDE: "Well, you still have Dekker’s back-up plan, of course, but it’s very risky. To be sure, I think the detonation would need to happen from within the Unknowing, while it was going on. Gerard may have a connection to the Eye, but I’m not convinced it would be enough. And I will admit I’ve grown… fond of the boy." Growing soft there in her old days. Still, and it's not even a big surprise, but wanting to sacrifice Gerry in the Unknowing would have just been the icing on the cake of all her casualties. (This is also why I think Gertrude knew about Gerry’s tumor. The knowledge would support her intention to sacrifice Gerry, as he’s already dying.)

GERTRUDE: "I wonder if I told him about Eric, whether he’d follow in his father’s footsteps… Still, it’s not like it kept Eric safe in the end." And this as well! Keeping this information from him.

I think it's interesting that one of the themes of this season were rituals. We heard about the Sunken Sky (very briefly), The Last Feast, The Everchase and now the Risen War. Elias is working on making the Archives crew believe the Extinguished Sun is also still around. And we'll still get to a few more!

JON: "Everyone else is running towards something or running away, and I… I don’t know what I’m doing." Story of my life xDD

JON: "Daisy’s got me listening to The Archers. I hate it." Lol, I love those two idiots!

This is one of the two episodes in this season without any dialogue. The second one being MAG 139.

@a-mag-a-day