Oh... Hello.
OK. So we’ve all seen the nonsense that’s happening on Twitter. How Rusty Quill are dropping these crumbs and we are all losing our minds. There are some smart, rational, composed folk amongst us that can decode these clues, that are able to put the pieces together and read the signs gifted to us from these laughing gods. But I am not of this breed. I’m foaming at the mouth and twitching slightly, trying to keep the screaming at a level that you could be forgiven to mistake it for a tea kettle.
Now, I have been an avid fan of TMA since 2020. Yes, yes, I was brought on late. A dear friend of mine had been recommending it and then possibly regretted her choices and association with me as the new hyper fixation grabbed me by the throat and she endured months of my stream of consciousness ramblings in her DMs. But I burned through them. In a manner and at a rate I have since been told was rather alarming. It was 2020, I was going through it. We all were. No doubt that will be discussed.
But the point is, I wanted to do a relisten because there were periods where I was getting through upwards of 5 episodes a day, and I know that may not sound like much but I was still working full time and I just kept going. So, I’ve missed things, it’s blurred a little. I was planning on maybe starting in the new year, maybe on Halloween, i.e. anniversary of the Eyepocalpse. But then this all started and now violins of the main theme are singing in my blood and ALL THE THOUGHTS are resurfacing and, c’mon, @dodgylogic has a busy life to lead and doesn’t have the time to answer all my screaming voice messages, although does have the time to laugh at them apparently. And I hope you will too. Laugh, heckle, scream at me in the tags, I want this to be a discussion along the lines of a poorly disciplined A Level English Lit class.
So, I’m going to do a relisten. An episode a day or so. 2 years on. Much in my life has changed since the first listen but, oh so. very. many. things. haven’t...
I think this podcast was recommended to me at a time when I was white knuckling through life. I think it was while season 4 was still coming out, late season 4. I was hemmed in by 2 pandemics, isolated and burning out at a terrifying rate. This podcast helped me reconnect with a dear friend and it was so much easier to scream about what I was hearing than scream about what I was living. I remember being in certain places when I first heard some lines, I remember exactly what I was ‘thousand-yard-staring’ at in some cases.
I’m white knuckling again, but this time, I know where the good handholds are.
So with that, buckle in kids.
This is The Magnus Institute’s Accident Report Book and I’m the Designated First Aider.
Supplemental: So in going over some old messages, turns out it’s 2 years to the day that I started listening to The Magnus Archives, 13th October 2020... I feel seen and I don’t like it!
