#tma 60

[theladart]

👁️Observer Effect👁️

I had to draw the scene from The Magnus Archives Episode 60 Observer Effect

I spent 11 hours on this according to Procreate

[solely-ashes]

It now reflected the window behind me, and I could see a face staring in. It was dark outside, and it was almost entirely in shadow, so I couldn’t tell you much about the features, but he was huge, seeming to take up most of the window behind me. The only thing about it that I could see with any real clarity were the eyes – bright, shining, bulging eyes, with pupils so dark it made me feel sick, drinking everything in, watching with a greedy intensity. I could feel its gaze burning into the back of my neck, feel its unblinking eyes.

This is literally what the statement giver in MAG 60 was describing:

@a-mag-a-day

[kat-and-their-cats]

Favourite TMA Episode 51-60

MAG 51: High Pressure

MAG 52: Exceptional Risk

MAG 53: Crusader

MAG 54: Still Life

MAG 55: Pest Control

MAG 56: Children of the Night

MAG 57: Personal Space

MAG 58: Trail Rations

MAG 59: Recluse

MAG 60: Observer Effect

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Voting ended onApr 14, 2024

Favourite Episode Masterlist

[cyclopsboxhead]

Mike Crew, determined to not be another victim became exactly that. He searched for power in many corners of the universe through several sources but was ultimately powerless. It’s not an uncommon theme in the Magnus Archives, but it is a shame we never got to see this character again. At least I think so, cause I never really knew why “The Coming Storm” or Mike in general felt like afterthoughts in my head for the longest time? I’d latched onto characters that appeared far less. On relisten I realized it was probably because he dies in the same episode he’s truly introduced. 

Mike would’ve been an interesting candidate for Jon’s position, as his search for power is very similar to Jon’s own search for knowledge in Season 3 (definitely an intentional parallel). I wonder if Mike had managed to stay alive until Season 4 could he have successfully pulled off a master ritual? It did seem like he was content to stop once he found the Vast though, he doesn’t talk much about the other powers he never found, at least not directly. There are plenty of moments in his story that could lean into other entities if his own fear pulled them that way. The DARK upside down forest, him being HUNTED by the Lichtenberg figure all his life, even the lightning scar he’s most recognized for could’ve easily been a desolation mark if it was the burning and the fire that really got to him, or the loss of his parents in that house because the Desolation is not just fire!! It is losing, the destruction of things you love. Which in its own funny way can tie into the Lonely etc.

The more you think about it the more the lines between these entities are very blurred and which one takes center stage for any given event is entirely subjective to the audience. Sure, monsters and servants can have some sway, but you don’t really see anyone trying to “get” someone that isn’t already skewed toward that entity in the first place, whether through their own personal fear (like Paul MacKenzie from A Sturdy Lock, or Benjamin Hadid from Tucked In), or just the nature of their life putting them adjacent to it (like Karolina Gorka from Underground, Jordan Kennedy from Pest Control, or Rosa Meyer from Observer Effect). The second one is always more of a challenge so the end result may vary.

[burninginthegymplplinko]

MAG 60 - Observer Effect

doodle 60/200; days left 36/110

wwweeeuughhhhhh no. nononono haha horrible episode thankyew i'm gonna try to forget it as soon as i can : )

adding this bc idk. just so it wont get lost ig? rn i like the eyestrain version better but i might look at it in a few weeks and go "wth that's too much contrast why did i do that" blame my tone curve addiction <3

[amygdalae]

"It now reflected the window behind me, and I could see a face staring in. It was dark outside, and it was almost entirely in shadow, so I couldn’t tell you much about the features, but he was huge, seeming to take up most of the window behind me. The only thing about it that I could see with any real clarity were the eyes - bright, shining, bulging eyes, with pupils so dark it made me feel sick, drinking everything in, watching with a greedy intensity. I could feel its gaze burning into the back of my neck, feel its unblinking eyes."

[rosentryst]

BY GOD THIS IS SO SCARY

[rebeccasteventaylor]

TMA 60 - Observer Effect is brilliant - Jon reading a statement from someone feeling like they’re being watched all the time and it’s really intense - her justified paranoia matching his justified paranoia, and that she knows somehow that is the Magnus Institute that’s watching her.

And the supplemental is the Intervention! Elias and Tim and Martin and Sasha intervening with Jon, and Elias handing over the CCTV, which is a brilliant reflection of the statement of being watched.