#mag 37

[redlobter]

Episode thirty seven, Burnt offering. Big kudos to this guy for sacrificing himself for his kid, that was cool of him

[vampantheon]

Gertrude Robinson commission for @thatf-ckinnerd through @magnusforgaza !!

[malcolmpace06]

Which tma episode would make the best NSDA dramatic interpretation script?

MAG029 Cheating Death

MAG032 Hive

MAG034 Anatomy Class

MAG037 Burnt Offering

MAG074 Fatigue

MAG085 Upon the Stair

MAG170 Recollection

MAG172 Strung Out

MAG177 Wonderland

MAG183 Monument

other/comment

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Voting ended onMar 26

[arctasy]

thinking about this exchange in mag 37 makes jon’s admiration of gerry extra funny to me. he’s happy to keep dangerous things around even when horror studier in chief (elias) tells him it’s a bad idea because research!! except when the weird goth guy in the statements burns evil books because fuck jurgen leitner

[potemkinjuice]

i know he’s talking about pine martens but “an adorable wee bear that needs to be protected” is a CRAZY read on martin martin by jason north

[worm-infestation]

jon i fully support your reluctance to destroy knowledge but i fear that table should be an exception

[tma-wwk]

TMA What We Know -[37]- Burnt Offering

pre-statement:

-Rosie signed the delivery form for the table.

^Rosie's office is in the vicinity of artifact storage

-both Elias and Martin want Jon to destroy the table <-TERRIBLE advice guys what are you doing. Elias why are you giving this man ideas. he has enough awful ideas on his own.

-Martin sounds so sick and tired of Jon's nonsense

-but! he also tells Jon to get some sleep. so clearly Jon's visibly and obviously pushing his own limitations. cmon Jon I know you've given your bed away but surely there are other places to sleep. or you and Martin can take turns using it

--STATEMENT--

-given how Jon's only recording this because he had the tape running already after talking to Martin, this might be the first written statement that's going straight on the tape recorder with no attempt to record it digitally first

-first line of the statement is "I just need to know if you can save my son." guy I'll stop you there, that'll be a definitive No. the institute's not saving anyone ever.

-guy has asked the institute repeatedly to save his son and they keep telling him that all there is to do is give a statement. like they're being pretty straightforward that they don't save people.

-drinking alleviates fear, so ig alcoholics are at least slightly immune to the entities?

-in case you were wondering what pine martens look like. this guy wasn't exaggerating. they're adorable and I love them.

-finds a weird clearing where trees are planted in a circle. large stone in the middle. as soon as he enters it he feels like he's burning. his water starts boiling too. Very Hot Clearing.

-burn marks on the ground. dead animals, very burnt.

-Iron nails in the trees, string tied to them holding milk bottles filled with random things + photographs of some old lady (<-99% sure that's Gertrude). plus that woman's hair in the bottles. burnt.

-guy takes one of the jars off the nail and (accidentally) breaks it. guy steals the photo and runs away

-photo's included with the statement

-everything this character loves has burnt away. his car. house. wife. his son is still alive but Not For Long

post-statement:

-the son is alive and well :D living with a foster family

-Tim couldn't find the clearing. Sasha found records of the listed accidents that happened to the statement giver post-bottle breaking

-statement giver set himself on fire and died in an attempt to save his son. attempt clearly worked, good job!!

-photo the statement giver gave them is of Gertrude Robinson

-Jon is "very tired".

[generalb]

Case #75559132

Statement of General B, Head Tumblrina of the generalb account, regarding the numerous connections they can remember at this given moment regarding the Cult of the Lightless Flame, John Amherst,the Church of the Divine Host, and the Bug Hosts. Statement given direct, 31st March, 2026.

Statement begins.

Hmm. I went back and I reread the transcript for MAG 35 for the purpose of catching up on John Amherst, and apparently the man of the duo at the end could be Trevor Herbert? Originally I thought the fire part meant it had connections to the Cult of the Lightless Flame, but I guess I’m wrong in that part.hmm. Thought. I’m going to go reread the transcript for MAG 59.

Hmm. A connection, but again it’s not the one I was expecting. An orphan girl by the name of Agnes, whose kiss saves the subject by giving the sensation of a hot branding iron? That could very well be the same Agnes. I wouldn’t expect a show like this to make the mistake of using an important name for an unrelated character. I was initially trying to figure out who the girl wit the scar on her face might be. Could be that there is nothing. Given that MAG 59 happened on Hilltop road tho….im gonna reread MAG 8

Wow

Hmm. Hmmmmmmmmmmm.

I also reread MAG 19. There’s a lot here. I imagine to the mega fans I must have sounded so foolish not recognizing that the halfway home Ronald Sinclair was in in MAG 59, was the very house mentioned and visited to in MAG 8 and 19. It’s all been the same fucking house. And I’ve somehow missed it as well.

Let’s recap then. As of right now, there have been three supernatural forces that existedbi the house on Hilltop Road, one of them majorly unimportant.

One: the Spiders. There is some supernatural forces related to spiders, I’m certain of it. It had Raymond Fielding in its grasp, and used him to hunt and kill others for nourishment.

Two: the Lightless Flame. I haven’t done a full dive into that yet but clearly it was brought by Agnes, who then used it to purge the spiders and somehow claim Raymond away and into its own.

Three: the Demon. Obviously something claimed Father Burroughs and fought the Lightless Flame to hold onto him. However, there is no greater connection to Hilltop road other than that I believe. Nothing in the second half suggests anything anyways.

So what does this all mean?

Back in MAG 59, we hear that Agnes felt a pain from presumably when Ivo Lensik pulled out the tree. The box underneath the tree held an apple that turned into spiders that got away. At the same time, Burroughs was getting. Pressured by the Lightless flame. But when the tree was fully uprooted, the supernatural fight suddenly stopped.

My best guess? Somehow the spiders weren’t defeated but merely contained by Agnes and the Lightless Flame. So whatever ritual the cult did that killed Agnes was likely in response to that freeing of the Spiders. Given how the man Diego Malina was holding a container full of spiders, they somehow had a way to take care of it.

Arthur Nolan. He was the landlord from MAG 55. That connects the Cult to Prentiss, and therefore a Host. Not a demon host, a bug host.

Also the house of the Ants was listed to none other than John Amherst! I cant help but think of how every time Amherst is mentioned… it’s with flies……Amherst is a Host. It must be.

The final piece of the puzzle, Diego Malina. I thought he might have been from MAG 37 “Burnt Off”, but there isn’t much connection between that and the Lightless Flame other than similar effects of intense scorching heat without any fire.

So what is Diego Malina from? There’s no other statements with his name written in the summaries. I’m not going to google him, nor am I going to re read every single transcript. Actually I’m going to reread MAG 5 but only because of a hunch that something might come up.

Okay nothing came up but it was creepy. I can’t wait for when I give new reviews for the first 30 statements. I’m close to MAG 100 after all.

But still, no clue on where Diego is. Nor do I know who the short Asian woman is. NOR do I know who the scar face kid that’s hanging out with Trevor Herbert is. I know so much and so little!!! Is the Lightless Flame good or bad! Did they have anything to do with Gertrudes’ death or the strange circle in BAG 37! Wait. Gertrude died the same time as a moment in a statement. Gimme a sec.

Nope. Reread MAG 25, then MAG 9 but only ended up down a different rabbit hole. I wonder if there isn’t a connection Sim could fimd between the Church of the Divine Host and the West Hackney Church because they were enemies. That’s my theory at least; it sounded like the shadow monsters of MAG 63 were what broke down the door in MAG 9. But I could be wrong.

That’s enough theories for tonight. All I’ve done is connect some loose ends into a slightly longer and bigger loose end. A drifting piece of string if you will. A space noodle.

Statement ends.

Supplemental:

I’ve been redesigning some of my OCs because I felt they needed a refresh and here’s my current progress on the last original member, Kelsey the Edgelord! I’m still figuring out how to do his spiky hair as I’ve made a vow to stop making straight hair, thereby forcing me to get better at it. I can definitely see though that I need to add some kind of slant to the third undone one though, to match with the others. But you all get a sneak peak before it’s done!