#mag 59

[redlobter]

Episode fifty nine, Recluse. Our favorite little messiah.

[worm-infestation]

THEYRE AVOIDING YOU BECAUSE YOURE STALKING THEM???

[anchoredregalecus]

My Agnes drawing throughout the years

I was doing a redesign of her outfit last year (the one on the right is the og )

Quick doodle of child agnes from mag 59

I did an entire comic for this mag episode back in 2021 as a school project, this image is just the least ugly one lol

[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!

[chester-i-hardly-know-her]

i feel like in the "web episodes jon probably had a bad time reading" realm there's a couple of obvious ones that are already discussed but i want to talk about recluse also. firstly, he already says this afterwards

like. that's a pretty big level of avoidance. like this is textual i'm not just noticing the statement similarities he is canonically shaken by it.

and then you look at the statement itself? and it's about a self proclaimed bad kid who did not have parents in the picture talking about an incident there is no official record of, where he is puppeted into opening a door to a room full of spiders that have already taken other people he knows, and he is only saved by being painfully freed from this compulsion at the very last second?

like. yeah good luck not thinking about spiders more than professionally required after that one. as the episode says, "I try to think that I’ve left my past behind, but that sort of denial doesn’t help me sleep."

[tma-wwk]

TMA What We Know -[59]- Recluse

pre-statement:

[none]

--STATEMENT--

-this guy lived at Raymond Fielding's halfway house

-Raymond's too chill and that stresses him out

-describing his life on Hill Top Road: "sometimes felt like I’d do things without actually deciding to do them. Like it was just muscle memory moving me, or a string gently guiding me."

-Raymond makes the regularly go to church and eat their meals together. the table they eat on has spooky patterns. possibly spiderweb design.

-small square box in the middle,,, it's the Graham Table!!

-description of the children leaving and never returning after they turn 18 sounds very The Promised Neverland-ish. where are these mysterious men taking them.

-AGNES MY BELOVED

-Raymond is scared of Agnes

-he turns 18 and the men come to take him away. Agnes kisses him on the cheek (without burning his whole face off? Very Impressive!!)

-he's suddenly compelled to go back to the house. it's very spooky.

-lots of cobwebs in the basement

-all the kids who supposedly went out into the world post-turning 18 are here in the basement encased in spiderwebs. their bodies are being used as eggsacks

-Raymond Fielding might be a giant spider

-our guy's gonna eat the spider apple from the box in the center of the table

-seems like Agnes protected him when she kissed him. the awesome power of the Fire Kiss

-he had spooky dreams until the fire burned down the house. but now that they're rebuilding the house he's having spooky dreams again.

post-statement:

-Martin can and will argue with Jon about spiders

-Jon's out here trusting Martin's judgement (<-incredible feat of character development)

SUPPLEMENTAL: -everyone's avoiding Jon now

[elias-rights]

The Fears are at their scariest when they mess with autonomy and identity, which is why MAG 59 (years of being coerced into doing something as innocuous as brushing your teeth daily, turning you into someone you don't recognise) is one of the best Web episodes hands down. Same for the Flesh statements that focus in the de-individualization of the slaughterhouse assembly line, Stranger statements that focus on identity, and the psych ward Spiral episode.

[sammybii]

Jon. Your coworkers are avoiding you because you’re stalking them…my boy….