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Favourite TMA Episode 181-190
MAG 181: Ignorance
MAG 182: Wellbeing
MAG 183: Monument
MAG 184: Like Ants
MAG 185: Locked In
MAG 186: Quiet
MAG 187: Checking Out
MAG 188: Centre of Attention
MAG 189: Peers
MAG 190: Scavengers
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MAG 184 - Like Ants
doodle 184/200; days left - 17/110 1/128
sorry this one's so rushed but i had to improvise. i wanted to take a pic of Jordan in an anthill but for some reason all our ants died??? :(( idk there were just dead bodies on top and it seemed kinda insensitive to take a pic with them. i dont know what happened though :(( ( !!! what if it was the leitner i showed them (・_・;) )
speaking of insect though, today i found a wasp inside so i took her out, but on my way back i found a stag beetle on the pavement and while i was trying to pick him up the wasp found me again and stung me >:(( this is what i get for helping.
Not a very profound thing to point out and probably something that’s been said before, but Karolina Górka from Underground though always tracking dirt, does not seem like an avatar. She is definitely marked by Choke after her experience on the Underground, but she lacks the obsession that all other avatars possess. I think of her similar in a sense to Leto from Like Ants, though he was actively trying it seems to become an avatar. They are both marked but not quite “enough” to be an evangelist for their related fears. Karolina in fact seems to hold no fear related to the Buried whatsoever, and I struggle to think of her being that great of a victim for that entity or any entity. I could very easily see her becoming an agent of the end if she ever encountered the means to. And to reference Like Ants again, had John and Martin found her somewhere deep underground in season 5 I’m sure the eye would make her an avatar of dirt and crushing screaming metal.
It strikes me as interesting that the buried seems to have the most amount of recorded escapes. While it is true that everyone in the magnus archives survives long enough to give a statement, many of these people subsequently die from the very things they were giving a statement about, rarely through other means. If they do survive they are haunted by these events and similar fears for the rest of their lives. But Karolina Górka and Joshua Gillespie both had close encounters with the Buried and were able to get themselves through it. I find it hard to believe Joshua would have lingering fears about something he “forgot was even there” except when it rained. And Karolina still takes the underground.
Not predators, but not good prey either. Leto doesn’t quite fit this as his own love and respect for ants made him especially good for a unique brand of torture, but Joshua and Karolina are both in this unique limbo state. And after encountering the same entity no less.
MAG 184: The Ant Bully
I hope this joke hasn’t already been done, I had a fun time thinking of it and drawing it (though it may seem extremely stupid to everyone else)
Ceaseless watcher himboify this man
I’ve been waiting since yesterday to post this y’all
There's a clear character arc Martin goes through from episode 183 where he discovers he's an avatar with a domain to episode 186 when he actually reaches and passes through his domain, continuing afterwards on to London. This journey is meant to show and get Martin to realize he is not just an innocent bystander passing by the tortured and the torturers untouched. He has to choose a side and choose it consciously, admitting his strengths and weaknesses to himself in order to complete his journey.
In 184 he encounters a man who was made into an avatar and learns that people can end up becoming part of the 'bad' side because of circumstance and not because they are actually inherently bad or choose to be connected to the Fears. Alot of the time avatars are just people the Fears choose for one reason or another. Mistakes, manipulation, penchant for a certain feeling, a chance meeting, unforeseen circumstances. These are all ways a person can inadvertently cause others pain and even though there is a clear dichotomy between watchers and watched, there isn't one between good and bad. He also learns there is a choice and if he has Jon, he can choose to 'switch sides', a power most others in this world don't have.
In 185 he has an opportunity to utilize these lessons and admit he does have some power of choice over the fate of others given his position, that he's 'one of us' as jon puts it. He sees Not So Good people can also suffer and needs to make a choice whether to let them continue suffering or make them the torturers instead. He makes a choice based on his personal judgement and admits to having a very specific moral compass which does lean towards punishing the bad rather than allowing them reprieve and the tools to hurt others. But it's no longer passive. He has the power thus actively leaves another person to suffer. And comes to term with that choice.
Martin could enter his domain only after he admits to being one of the watchers and choosing to refuse the inspector's request. In his domain he talks about how he won't be able to continue living like that and that the fact that now he knows he's actively feeding off of other people's pain he can't go on if they don't find an all encompassing solution to the apocalypse.
He could have potentially changed all of the people in his domain into watchers but, as he learned, the balance would find a way to make them suffer anyway, like Jordan still does, and putting someone in that position is an enormous responsibility.
Having learned that his actions and choices have those kinds of consequences was imperative before continuing on to London to find Jonah in the tower and learning Jon can replace him and change the balance of things around. His lessons in these few episodes of good and bad, of responsibility and power, of the balance of the apocalypse and the pain it inflicts, influenced his actions and choices greatly going forward. He realizes that kind of power should never belong to one man and refuses to allow Jon to become that man and shoulder that kind of responsibility over humanity. He knows what it does to a person because he experienced it himself, even if it was on a smaller scale. And he doesn't want Jon to have to handle that kind of burden anymore than he already does.
Tl;dr: Dream logic and the journey will be the journey blah blah blah
