#mag138

[sixeritwouldeatyoualive]

elias you are SO funny

me acting like i haven't seen so many spoilers already: i don't like where this is going

[ceaseless-bitcher]

Hamilton-style musical of rendition of Robert Smirke’s crew and the fallout between himself, Jonah Magnus, and the rest of them.

Ambitious Scottish upstart Jonah Magnus, plunging into the scene of higher society and academia

Interpersonal drama in the esoteric research and philosophy sphere

A power ballad aria from Smirke as he describes his grand, utopian plans for balance

Jonah seeing the wonders of this new world and getting increasingly involved in it, probably getting in some heated theoretical debates with Rayner et al. about it because, being Beholding- and Dark-aligned, their fundamental views would be diametrically opposed

A slowly-shifting musical motif for Jonah as his intentions develop over the course of the play

Barnabas pleading with Jonah through his letter; they’re in separate parts of the stage with different lightings and they can’t see each other. Jonah is reading, rather than listening to, his words

SPOTLIGHTS REMINISCENT OF EYES

Harrowing solo as Jonah sinks deeper into fearing the possibility of rituals

More below the cut because I’m going nuts about this.

I would feel like there’s too much ground to cover (c. 1809 [estimated year Jonah gets introduced to the Fears if he established the Institute in 1818 and talked Smirke into working on Millbank 1815-1821] all the way to 1867 [year of Smirke’s death and the final decommissioning of Millbank: the year in which I place Jonah’s first attempt at the Watcher’s Crown]) if it weren’t for the several decades covered in Hamilton. It provides a pretty good guide for such a varied timeline.

More insane scenes:

Contrast of Albrecht Von Closen’s 1816 letter informing Jonah of his findings at his nephew’s estate vs Dr. Johnathan Fanshawe’s 1831 letter revealing how Jonah knowingly caused Von Closen’s death by stealing his books and got him filled with eyes

Smirke watching the group he formed fall to the Fears in turn, clinging to his alliance with Jonah and therefore being blind to his own turn towards Beholding

Jonah’s financial wheedling with Mordechai Lukas and other donors for his fledgling Institute

Jonah being so gleeful about his brand new Magnus Institute in Edinburgh, after several years of compiling statements informally

HE GETS TO DELIGHT IN ALL THE SCHEDULING AND LOGISTICS!!!

Just. all the letters we have record of. I haven’t even gotten to Dr. Algernon Moss or the conflict between George Gilbert Scott and Sampson Kempthorne

PETTY architecture drama

[fractal-voidling]

MAG138 - #8671302 │ The Architecture of Fear

complicated my ass, you wanna fxck the apocalypse, don't you?

oh look, it's Creepy Architecture Guy!

Dread Powers also sound pretty metal

jfc, bro just died of a brain hemorrhage in the middle of writing a letter

IT'S NOT FINE, GO TO JOHN!

[filthyprotozoan]

MAG138: The Architecture of Fear

watercolor & ink // kofi

[im-the-knight-of-stardust]

It's times like these when I don't know if I love to hate or hate to love Elias. That man is infuriating but he also is somehow really funny.

[michaelshelleyenthusiast]

Martin, at the end of mag 138: good luck Jon, I- stay safe

THIS BOY WAS ABOUT TO SAY I LOVE YOU YOU CANT PROVE ME WRONG

[theunsubtleknife]

Well, looks like I'm packing up the red string corkboard and clown shoes

[dykehozier]

no one can convince me he wasnt about to say something among the lines of “I wish I could talk to jon about this”