OHHH SOFT STATIC AND WHIRRING OF RUNNING TAPE HOW I MISSED YOU
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OHHH SOFT STATIC AND WHIRRING OF RUNNING TAPE HOW I MISSED YOU
i think we all know whose name was in that envelope
i love how the entire magpod fandom reacted to the tape recorders in today’s magp like someone tearily welcoming their spouse back from war
Recap Notes: MAGP 11 "Marked"
Spoiler Warning: this is a purely selfish exercise in remembering what the hell happened last season (from someone caught up thru MAGP32, 3/6/2025 & all of The Magnus Archives). No promises I'll keep up with it.
Summary: The secret to perfect skin isn't CeraVe, it's a hundred odd years in a grave by the seaside.
Casement: CAT23RC5246-06012020-11032024
Marked. Jonny Sims (derogatory). Okay, there's a slight tone of admiration in there, but that word after TMA? I can hear how pleased you are with yourself and I can glare at you while I respect the craft. So. marked (TMA) /märkt/ 1. a physical or metaphysical scarring via interaction with a fear entity marked (MAGP 11) /märkt/ 1. Celia via the means she made it to this reality, calling her back 2. Sam. Doomed by Alice's (again) oddly prescient joking: ALICE …I do get it. Facing your past is tough. Finding out there isn’t any past left to actually face… that’s even tougher.
SAM Yeah.
ALICE But at the end of the day, when all’s said and done, you just have to choose… (Celia has no past to go back to. Celia is left with an impossible choice, and when push comes to shove... well, Sam loses. And the stakes are worse than pain au chocolate instead of cinnamon swirl)
3. Alice, targeted by [ERROR], already feeling watched 4. The tattooed skin. Obvious addition is obvious, but it still gets a mention. 5. Enjoying fame or notoriety. Perhaps to an obsessive extent where you start digging up graves for inspo, Ink5oul. 6. The doomed Gordon J. RIP if you were lucky enough to end up dead. 7. Gordie's inbox, as something or someone marks it undeliverable as soon as he sends his last missive about the call of the sea. 8. Mr. Bonzo's victim via envelope. What can't be marked? Cases as connected. Not allowed. No-can do. That'd actually be helpful, and we can't have that in the civil service. Gertrude, you would have loved it. And of course I'm hearing echoes, once more, of Needles' "Oh the land is definitely marked now, same as me." When I have more time to sleep on 32 I'm going to have to try and fit that into this looming worldview, because as we're learning: the land can be marked (and transformed) too. Did I miss anything?
Quick concept drawing I made of Mr.Bonzo if he was more clown like and not so based on *checks handwriting on hand* England's biggest TV nightmare Mr.Blobby
I love traumatizing pathetic little rich girls with sweaty, violent clowns.
The way Nigel talks about the Bonzo memes from the interview makes me suspect the Bonzo merch is bought overwhlemingly by "edgy" internet wierdos, that Bonzo has grown to have similar connotations to Pepe. The personal hell that Nigel is stuck in is that he's forced to be complicit with the crimes of a ridiculous and grotesque monster, so thematically it's fitting that he's mundane revenue is tied to a ridiculous and grotesque subculture.
Also much how Bonzo took ownership of Nigel's life, I think that a fair number of those pitiable terminally online memers are also in some way his.
Happy Magnus Thursday, how we doing folks