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podcasts really do like their jobs-for-names. Butcher, Manager, Dollmaker, Rat Catcher, Boneturner, Doomscroller, Puppetmaster, Benefactor, Interviewer, Documentarian, Nameless Historian. fukin. Apache Tracker

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Does anyone else ship Alvina and Amelia from the Amelia project? They’re way too “we’re just gals being pals” they need to kiss.

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People clown on TMA for having a fucked up timeline, and while it is funny that Jonny Sims can’t manage a spreadsheet, at least you can find information about characters and things pretty easily, since all there really is to know is in the transcripts and you just have to remember in what episode you heard something. In Malevolent, you have to watch over 30 hours of roleplay gaming to partially understand backstory that was never explained on the main show. People are always referencing things that were said on a stream, or in a paywalled discord, or some other interview no one knows about. You go on the wiki for answers and you get like 50 more questions. Like

Antoine was romantically involved with Entie?

Falabella? That’s what Bella is short for?

This is fukin frying me. “What even is canon”- Harlan Guthrie

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Some reactions to death mask

• I feel like Logan calling Arthur mouthpiece is a covert way of calling him a cocksucker. He just feels homophobic.

• I just realized that Arthur is going through the same thing John went through in S4 with the zoning out and becoming unreliable. Kill me now

• I fuckin knew Sammie was going to have a tattoo (insert CoC game one flashbacks here)

•hhhrrrnnng Noel mention

• John’s a pulp fiction writer now? He has fans? He makes a goddam salary? John Doe bringing home the bacon for his malewife investigative partner.

big spoiler under the cut

• If the ghost is Noel I’m gonna- if it’s Kayne- if it’s Parker- fulkkkkkk

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TMA headcanon: One of Elias’s first acts as head of the institute was to make a Magnus Institute website. Only he didn’t hire real web designers to make it, he just gathered the nerdiest institute employees and made them figure it out. As soon as you open the website, it asks to access you camera, microphone, and search history. If you click ok, it takes you to a page covered in the most grotesque ads you’ve ever seen, between which there is nigh unreadable neon green text that welcomes you to TheMagnusInstitute.com. You can click to a page of links to published research, which hasn’t been updated since 2006, where all of the links give you either an error 503: forbidden knowledge or an error 502: bad gateway. All of the bad gateway links were uploaded by Michael.

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Threshold plot threads

Puckett’s second in command is the first lead I’d chase up if I was Arthur.

The symbols are the second biggest lead. Sam drew one on the barn floor, and had one tattooed on his chest, and there was a new one in the hand of Puckett’s ghost. John didn’t mention if any of them were the same.

We need to figure out who Puckett’s ghost was, and who the evil man Sam was trying to stop is. It seems as if there is some kind of mastermind behind these events. Finding out if any of the symbols line up would confirm this.

It’s interesting that there are two ghosts running around now. Are Parker and Puckett’s ghosts related? They don’t seem to be the same kind of creature, but there is a thread that connects them- guilt.

Let’s talk about Logan and Callihan. Callihan is being played to look as innocent as possible and Logan to look as implicated as possible. Naturally that makes me think that Logan is innocent and Callihan is crooked, but is there evidence? The only suspicious thing about Callihan is that cut on his hand that he was weird about, but that could be anything. What really confuses me is why Arthur is not taking the obvious hint that Logan was the man in the greenhouse that stole Puckett’s key. If Logan was a red herring, wouldn’t Arthur have presumed him guilty already? But anyways, we don’t even know who wants the key and for what purpose. We can’t make any connections if we don’t have anything to connect with. There’s just Edwin, and he didn’t confirm or deny that Logan was working for him.

And how wise is Edwin? Does he really think it was organized crime that did Puckett in? Or does he know about the supernatural side of things? I think Edwin is man who keeps his cards close to his chest and there are definitely things he hasn’t told Arthur. The fact that he is genuinely afraid, but seemingly not of the other two mob guys, says something.

We all collectively shit ourselves when Edwin mentioned Dunwich. He said one of the other crime bosses was involved over there? Let’s keep that in mind, but not draw any conclusions.

Jack Anthony is… interesting. What’s strange is that Arthur likes him. Edwin was right about Arthur’s black and white morals. He probably wasn’t a mob guy when Arthur first met him, but Arthur just went on whole rant about how everyone in the club is evil. The fact that he’s framed as a good guy, and Arthur believes it, doesn’t sit right.

I think the kid at the bar that John noticed is going to be explained in the next episode.

Feel free to add anything I missed. I want this to be a running document.

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"My daughter has a smile that could fix the world" "My daughter said that. Isn't she brilliant? Isn't she something?" "You're not alone, honey, daddy's here" like if you agree.

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Some things I noticed in saints

John is surprisingly cool about Arthur openly keeping secrets from him. Maybe he doesn't want to throw rocks from a glass house, considering all the things he did from Arthur.

Does Edwin really think that Eddie killed Parker?

Note how Arthur only got really ticked when Edwin threatened Molly and not Faroe. There may be some deep seated guilt there, but it's most likely that he got used to people threatening Faroe with Kayne but he thought going after Parkers innocent family was low even for the mob guy.

John mentioning Larson makes me wonder if any of these uber-wealthy mob guys knew him or the order.

Dunwich exists! basically yog confirmed

Arthur makes bad decisions every episode but going in the FUCKING CORPSE FRIDGE?

Hitting on Irish Jack was a good idea. The second-in-command he mentioned has actually already appeared, in Overture and the Puckett death scene. The direct line Arthur picked up in death mask calls him.