#tma 129

[poemsforthetmarchives]

For 129: 'Rain At Night', by Helen Hoyt

Are you awake? Do you hear the rain? How rushingly it strikes upon the ground, And on the roof, and the wet window-pane! Sometimes I think it is a comfortable sound, Making us feel how safe and snug we are: Closing us off in this dark, away from the dark outside. The rest of the world seems dim tonight, mysterious and far. Oh, there is no world left! Only darkness, darkness stretching wide And full of the blind rain's immeasurable fall!

How nothing must we seem unto this ancient thing! How nothing unto the earth—and we so small! Oh, wake, wake!—do you not feel my hands cling? One day it will be raining as it rains tonight ; the same wind blow— Raining and blowing on this house wherein we lie: but you and I— We shall not hear, we shall not ever know. O love, I had forgot that we must die.

[lune-acracy]

I think I have some strange sixth sense or something-

Everytime I go to sleep to the Magnus Archives I always seem to wake up whenever Martin and Jon are talking

(I already listened to 127 & 128) Like I went to sleep on episode 127 then I just woke up to episode 129 when Jon and Martin are "talking"

Martin is trying so hard to get out of the conversation and Jon's like "Well shit I don't have really anyone else to talk to and now I want to talk to the one person I probably should have talked to from the beginning"

PAINNNNNNN

Also Melanie :]

God she is such a queen, stabbing Jon in the shoulder like that DAMN BITCH SLAY

I would do the same thing (I am deathly afraid of scalpels so...)

[rebeccasteventaylor]

Mag129 Submerged and oh Jon has tracked down Martin!

And he’s worried and apologetic and sincere and kind and understanding and I never could have imagined first season Jon talking to Martin like this.

He even says he misses him! And Martin implies Jon has tried to track him down several times.

‘What happened, Martin?’ (Said with infinite sadness’

‘You died’

‘I came back’

‘Yeah. And I’m not going to let it happen again’

Oh the angst! Oh the ship! Oh the way these two change and grow and swap places and I love it.

Anyway - another one where it doesn’t seem fair. They didn’t do anything! And considering how much Hackney has flooded lately this is a bit close to reality.

Jon acknowledging the statements they get are mostly survivors and then he has to battle to not hear the statements of the non survivors

[nikkodikko]

[Image ID: a The Magnus Archives comic in scales of greens, illustrating a moment from episode 129

The first three panels are close-ups of Jon.

Panel 1. Jon has a hand behind his head and is looking up, he has an expression of annoyance and embarassment on his face. He says "God knows what. and i can't talk to Melanie.

I suppose" and stops talking abruptly.

Panel 2. Jon lets his hand fall down his neck and looks to the side in embarassement, he makes an unintelligible sound.

Panel 3. Jon lets his arm fall down and looks Martin in the eyes, he has a sad and earnest look on his face. he says "I miss you"

The central panel is a medium shot of Martin and Jon.

Panel 4. Martin and Jon are facing each other, Martin is holding some files and has a look of disbelief on his face. he lets out a small laugh and says "Really?" Jon looks up at him with a sad expression and blushed cheeks.

The next two panels, in the corners of the page, are close-ups of Jon on the right and Martin on the left.

Panel 5. Jon looks up at martin with a look of surrender and yearning and a deeper blush. He says "yeah"

Panel 6. Martin looks down at Jon with a surprised face. realising he was actually being honest. He thinks "oh." /.End]

still trying to figure out my designs for these two but after listening to MAG 129 the worms in my brain took over

i'm vv new to tma but i sense an hyperfixation coming

[red-archivist]

I suppose, if this one managed to free himself from the Buried, I-I-I – to find a way out of whatever part of Choke embraces drowning-

[STATIC RISING]

I need an anchor. I – I could go in myself – I could find her, and – then I just need to get out.

god, he sounds happy to actually know something helpful

I need something out here. Something I can know the way back to. I – I don’t know what. But… huh, it’s a start. 

as soon as the thought comes to him he doesn’t even consider not doing it- nevermind the danger, nevermind what anyone else thinks, nevermind weighing the pros and cons, he has the idea now and he won’t let it go- if he Knows how to do it, why shouldn’t he?

[red-archivist]

I don’t like this. I don’t like not being sure what’s going to be in my mind. What thoughts are mine and what are from… elsewhere.

yeah this is genuinely upsetting

jon is having enough of a crisis about not being human, about nobody trusting him, and now he cant even trust his own thoughts

[red-archivist]

But I don’t want it. I don’t want to know. I don’t want to see. No more than I wanted to see how Gertrude stopped the Buried, and their ritual, but that came to me as well. They called it “the Sunken Sky,” and she calculated, correctly, that casting a Void-touched body down the pit at the right time would be enough to disrupt it. Something she found, in Jan Kilbride.

gertrude has two go-to ritual ending options: blow it up, or throw a guy at it (and occasionally talk to the tabloids)

But Gertrude also realized that the body need not be alive. Or in one piece. She thought it was a mercy. It wasn’t.

:<<

so jan was just- butchered and thrown into the buried, his body dead but his void-touched mind still conscious and now forever trapped in the eternity of the Choke?

[red-archivist]

I wonder how many don’t make it out. How many of those shapes in the water were once just like Mr. Shakya. Hm. Or perhaps I shouldn’t wonder. Even as I say it, I can feel the knowledge pushing at my mind, eager to find a way in.

jon nails a sign to the door in his brain: no solicitating! no exceptions!!