#mag 3

[redlobter]

Day three! I think I owe this episode my entire love of TMA, i remember listening to it and being so invested, and now here we are. Thanks Graham.

[rotflea]

[eyedoption]

I was just looking through the TMA wiki again and WHAT DO YOU MEAN DEATH NOTE IS CANON????

For those who don't know, death note is the ship name for Oliver Banks x Graham (the og one from mag 3) and I just- I thought that since the connections are so important you guys simply remembered that this guy had a thing with notebooks

I THOUGHT YOU WERE JUST REALLY DEDICATED TO GET A DEATH NOTE PUN

WDYM THEY ACTUALLY DATED

WHY AM I ONLY NOW FINDING OUT ABOUT THIS

[trans-girl-disaster]

the one time afaik the NotThem appears in its “true” form so that was fun to figure out, not sure how i feel about the web table but i can work on it in future sketches

MAG 003: Across the Street

Statement of Amy Patel, regarding the alleged disappearance of her acquaintance Graham Folger.

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[tma-wwk]

TMA What We Know -[3]- Across The Street

pre-statement:

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--STATEMENT--

-mysterious force pushes Amy into the road?? and that isn't even the point of the episode?? girl can we circle back to that??

-doesn't help that you've got a traumatic head injury right before you start seeing the spooky things. rip amy, first guy was drunk second guy was on drugs, I see why Jonathan doesn't believe any of you.

<-Amy sees the suspicious 'hooks' on the window right after her head injury

-graham has a very fascinating table. he had the table for many years, at least a decade.

-graham is making an active attempt to be watched, implying that he 1-knows that he's in danger, and 2-knows that the cause of this danger would be deterred by someone watching him

-graham's assessment seems to be correct, he isn't harmed while amy is actively watching him

-spooky creature here looks like a drainage pipe on a building. very long limbs. flexible enough to pull itself through an apartment window from the street below.

-notGraham wears graham's clothes. it doesn't come ready-made with its own clothes, or if it does, the clothes are the one aspect that perfectly resembles the original

-Amy's classmates 'don't remember [graham] at all'-- the phrasing makes it sound like they don't remember having a classmate named graham (as opposed to simply not remembering what he used to look like), so take that as you will. maybe notGraham is slowly weathering away the memories people had of graham, and people who weren't close with him now don't remember he existed in the first place. maybe decades down the line, his closest friends won't remember he existed.

or maybe amy doesn't know what she's talking about, or maybe her classmates don't like her and they're lying to her. plenty of options.

post statement:

-Tim got Amy's medical records (<- may or may not be 'using institute funds to woo filing clerks'), records claim she doesn't have that Sort of brain injury. <-doesn't seem very medically accurate but I'll let that slide <- girl you can hallucinate from just. sleep deprivation alone. you don't even need traumatic brain injury for that one.

-Amy refuses followup interview, Sasha told Amy the institute located Graham's journals*, Amy didn't care

*journals have 'keep watching' written in them ad nauseam. assuming this is a plea to Amy to keep watching him.

-Graham existed, photos of him show notGraham, polaroids show real Graham

[mechanical-v1scera]

the dots… i’m connecting them

[nanaarchy]

Hey chat !!!! I'm going insane.

Ever since my first listen to TMA, I've had a huge question that NEVER got answered.

Never. Not in the whole series, not Q&As or the wiki or anything. I thought I would never find answers. I thought it would be forgotten. I thought it was a small insignificant detail and I'd have to live with never knowing the truth about it.

Now with TMAGP 19, I might finally know the answer.

Maybe. Maybe maybe. But It Could Be. And now I'm losing my mind at the implications.

((For the record, I know that the stories and worldbuilding are inherently separate - hell, there are even timeline differences in the cases I'm using as evidence. But the overlap might be important, especially when it comes to the Web.))

Spoilers for both shows below!

Its branches were exquisite, and delicate, swaying slightly from small eddies in the liquid, and they shone with every spectra. I must confess that to look upon it, one was – (sigh) filled with profound wonder at its exquisite elegance. [...] Even I, steeped in worldly matters as I am, recognized The Lord’s words to Adam, and was much dismayed at the implication. Isaac then plucked the delicate fruit with ungloved hands and held it before me. [...] The creature was taking root. Strands of its mottled brown hair were extruding downwards between the floor, seeking the dark earth below. Then, too, its back began to sprout, radiant branches unfurling and thickening before me, reaching upwards towards the sunlight with a seemingly insatiable desire. [...] I tell you here, Robert, it saw me, and it knew me. (TMAGP 19 - HARD RESET)

It was an ornate wooden thing, with a snaking pattern of lines weaving their way around towards the centre. The pattern was hypnotic and shifted as I watched it, like an optical illusion. I found my eyes following the lines towards the middle of the table, where there was nothing but a small square hole. Graham noticed me staring, and told me that interesting antique furniture was one of his few true passions. Apparently he’d found the table in a second-hand shop during his student days and fallen in love with it. It had been in pretty bad shape but he’d spent a long time and a lot of money restoring it, though he’d never been able to figure out what was supposed to go in the centre. He assumed it was a separate piece and couldn’t track it down. (MAG 3 - ACROSS THE STREET)

Re: Magnus Institute Ruins. By RedCanary on Saturday April 23 2022 12:17pm. The photos from the spelunk seem properly gone, but I did find an old wooden thing with a bunch of similar symbols on. Some kinda empty box, not really sure what for, though. Gonna see if I can get the light right for a decent pic. Edit: No dice, I’m afraid. Must be something up with my phone camera. Really not helping the whole paranoia thing either. Anyone know anything about photographic distortion? Gonna see if I can borrow my dad’s SLR tomorrow. (TMAGP 1 - FIRST SHIFT)

Adelard Dekker stood in the corner. He was straight and motionless, his lips moving rapidly, though no sound came out of them. In the centre of the room, stood a table carved from dark wood and wrapped all over with a sprawling, intricate pattern. And in front of that table was the thing that had said it was my cousin. It was long and thin, the tops of it bent against the ceiling and its stick-like limbs flailed from too many joints and elbows. Wrapped around it were thick strands of what I think was spider’s web, stretching back into the table, which I now saw pulsed along its carved channels with a sickly light. The face at the top of that gangly frame was like nothing on earth. (MAG 78 - DISTANT COUSIN)

Now... Now I get it. I get it. I finally gave an answer. Or, at least, I think we'll get a concrete answer soon. But I think I get it.

I think I get where the web table comes from. I think I know what it's made of. why it glows. why it had a hole in the middle. I think I might know how the web gained control and sentience so much faster than the other fears. and, if it still manifests in the same way in the Protocol universe, how it also quickly became "the manager" of other fears, as theories suggest.

More importantly, I think I know what was up with the mysterious tree from so, so long ago.

Now I have an answer.

Why was there an apple buried in Hill Top Road?

I opened the box and sitting inside was a single green apple. It looked fresh, shiny, with a coat of condensation like it had just been picked on a cool spring morning. I picked it up. I wasn’t going to eat it, I’m not that stupid, but more than bleeding trees or phantom burning, this confused me. As I took it out of the box, though, it began to turn. The skin turned brown and bruised and started to shrivel in my hand. Then it split. And out came spiders. Dozens, hundreds of spiders erupting from this apple that was rotting right before my eyes. I shrieked and dropped it before any of them could touch my arm. The apple fell to the ground and burst in a cloud of dust. I backed away and waited until I was sure all the spiders had left before retrieving the box. I smashed it with a crowbar, and threw the remains into a skip. (MAG 8 - BURNED OUT)

And now I have an answer. Maybe.

[givemenoname]

listening to my first actual run-through of tma i am full of spoilers

i just finished MAG 12 i might make this a reblog chain on my side account just with my reactions and guesses for horror(s) are represented after each episode so here are my thoughts so far

MAG 1 - strong start, definitely tells me what kinda ride i’m in for. absolutely adore the little michael The Door foreshadowing at the end. i originally thought this was a stranger one, but it’s probably a spiral the more i think about it.

MAG 2 - the second i heard the word “money,” i immediately went “buried” and wouldn’t you know it, i was right.

MAG 3 - graham got stranger-ed guess he’s not!graham now. i get beholder/eye vibes from the story itself, though, like she had to know what was happening to him.

MAG 4 - VAST VAST VAST first indications of mike!! and gerry is there too, i guess, hi gerry.

MAG 5 - lots of things but honestly?? eye. the teeth freaked me out, though.

MAG 6 - no comment, just grossed out, corruption is terrifying to me.

MAG 7 - ok, this one seems like something i’d write. it’s so cool, i love it so much, the piper is such a vibe, it’s gonna be so hard to draw, definitely end or slaughter.

MAG 8 - classic desolation episode, more ghosts and fire please.

MAG 9 - original thought was slaughter, but now i’m thinking dark. love that robert’s just a dad trying to look out for this daughter, even though he’s a mass murderer, more of this dynamic in media.

MAG 10 - vampires read as hunt to me, loved the description of the tongue being more like a leeches than a humans, really sets the vibe.

MAG 11 - prophetic dreams are so fun, i don’t care how overused they are. originally thought eye or desolation, but it was revealed to me that this is an end episode. thanks google, i just wanted a reference for the veins, i didn’t need the fandom wiki for oliver banks.

MAG 12 - desolationnnnn liminal hospital setting is such a good place for a desolation episode, also gerry’s here i guess. hi gerry, thanks for letting me know that your eye tattoos are not just a collective fandom thing, you’re gonna make practicing anatomy a lot harder.