the magnus archives liveblog

welcome to my liveblog as a spoiler-free first time listener of the magnus archives. yes it does start on mag 32 i'll go back at some point maybe

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Mag. 61 #0160112

Hard Shoulder

— oo real voice nice nice

— damn this is tense, she has a point thougj

— :|

— DAISY !!

— i like her :]

— preston yoyo

— i doubt it'll be important but i'll take note of the old off-white citorën C15

— BREEKON AND HOPE EY YEY

— tom ?

— THE COFFIN FROM MAG 2

— a staircase ,, like michael ??

— DONT GO IN IT ????

— are you alright ? :) NO

— IM DONE >:(

— its raininggg !

right, well . ?

i'll update later with theories but the raining is definitely important , and i assume tom will be back at some point

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Mag. 60 #9721207

The Observer Effect

hi !! im back, i had a short break because of gcse exams but i'm back:

the eye watchy cult entity thing !

— creepy box oh no

— Agnus Cartwright

— a box with just paper and a mirror in it is weird to be fair

— NO NOPE

— dont pick up the mirror

— DONT LOOK IN THE MIRROR ?

— nope fuck no

— yo what

— damn jon, harsh

— oh well no one's going to take you seriously now .

— oh !! she was going to blow up the archive

— OH NO :(

— no they have a point jon is being terrifying from his coworkers point of view

— they haven't lost respect theyre worried :(

Oh Jon :( , i'm glad they confronted him. hopefully that'll help him calm down (?)

So then, the watching entity is back! i think so far the list of people with the watch-ee thing is: Gertrude, Jon, the one from Mag. 53

the main trend is that theyre all linked to the magnus institute in some way, whether it be that they're an archivist. or in Rosa Meyer and (i assume), her brother Christopher's cases studying (?) the institute.

i'll make a final note here of the mirror incase it comes up again.

Statement ends.

- neo.

hi ! bonus note: i'll sign of these as neo rather than xaphan now. im still the same person !!

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Hey thanks for this blog! My memory is complete shit so I have trouble keeping up with the threads from all the different episodes. Reading this blog really helps me understand what's going on.

thank you thank you thank you so much !! <3

i genuinely wasnt aware if people really read the notes i make , so this is so so nice to hear !!!

:DD

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Mag. 59 #0052911

Recluse

i definitely need to listen to the hill top road episodes again uh oh,

— they dont come back ?

— SWIRLING TABLE !! from mag 3 !

— BOX IN THE MIDDLE ?

— agnes the tree girl !

— uh oh this is worrying,,

— oh she kissed him thats alright i thought she was going to threaten him ..

— dont go bacK ??

— NO NOT A BASEMENT ?

— spiders !

— ew

— oh thats why they dont come back :|

— its going to be an apple

— APPLE !

— the fire eyy

— not a fucking clue whats happening

— .. jon of course they're avoiding you :(

you guessed it its timeline time :] !

1891 - Hill Top Road House purchased by Walter Fielding. - Mag 8

1923 - The house is inherited by Alfred Fielding, Walter's son. - Mag 8

1957 - The house is inherited by Raymond Fielding, Alfred's son. - Mag 8

1960s - Raymond Fielding sets up the house as a half-way house. It is supported by the local church. - Mag 8

Early - Mid 1960s - Several teenagers, Dick Barrowdale, Doris Hardy, Greg Montgomery, Ronald Sinclair and others, are residents at the house. They feel as if their actions are not their own - Mag 59

1960s - Agnes Montague is a resident of the house, she appears to be around 10/11 years old. Ronald Sinclair is kissed on the cheek by Agnes before leaving the house. Ronald is controlled to go back into the house and into the basement where he sees the bodies of the other residents containing spider eggs. He is forced to take a bite from an apple but feels a strong burning in his cheek (where Agnes kissed him) and escapes. - Mag 59

1960s - After Agnes becomes a resident of the house, other residents are seen less until only Agnes Montague and Raymond Fielding remain. - Mag 8

1967 - 1968 - Raymond Fielding disappeares. The police investigate and discover the house has been legally signed over to Agnes Montague. - Mag 8

1974 - A toddler in the Hill Top Road area goes missing, the local community assume Agnes is responsible as many pets went missing over the years prior. After the fire Raymond Fielding is found, missing only his right hand. - Mag 8

2004 - 2005 (?) - Construction of a new building begins on the Hill Top Road land. - Mag 59

2006 / 2009 - The events of Mag 8 occur (No liveblog notes currently). - Mag 8

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Okay, that was long but i think necessary, i might come back and add better notes for 2006-2009 at some point.

Jon :( His coworkers are starting to avoid him (rightly so) but i still feel bad.

also !! i definitely think the kiss on the cheek agnes gave ronald was to free him from raymond fielding and all the spider stuff.

+ the table from mag 03 !

Statement ends.

– xaphan.

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Mag. 58 #8450512

Trail Rations

notes are going to be a bit shitty because i'm walking but lets go

— unsigned oo

— the way his voice changes nonono

— gay ??

— this seems like a very bad idea

— i just realised the narrator is a woman i thought it was gay ajkaskls

— gaslight gatekeep girlboss

— LEAVELEAVELEAVE!

— oo i liked that metaphor

— cACKLED ????

— oh shit no he's going to eat them

— SHOOT HIM LADY

— dumb beautiful benjamin :(

— EW

— this poor lady.. thats traumatising

— Oh

— jon.. they're so worried about him

— tim is right though the stalking is very alarming. martin is so lovely :(

— UNLIKELY TO BE THE CULPRIT ????

— tim is rightfully pissed he's being stalked

i'll add to these final notes later because i'm in a french class right now but Jon's paranoia is definitely getting worse and his coworkers are starting to notice,

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 57 #0090404

Personal Space

pun he

— oh this episode's going to get to me i can tell

— god damn carter.

— every episode he sounds less like himself when he's reading i'm going to cry

— isolation experiments in space oh no, oh no

— i knew the window would be important

— OH NOT A HAND-

— THE FUCKING EARTH IS GONE ??????

— ALL THE PLANETS ARE GONE WHAT

— oh no oh no who cut the cameras off WHO

— (just in case it's important)

— oh this is terrifying this poor poor guy

— THREE AND SIX MONTHS

— oh this is horrifying, this poor guy

— is he stuck in time like the skydiving episode

— ... he starved himself ? holy shit

— he was just payed ? and thats the end ..?

— FAIRCHILDS

— do we know about Ny Alesund i've forgotten if it's been mentioned before

— hi not!sasha :]

— THE DISTORTION WHEN NOT!SASHA'S VOICE IS ON TAPE,, THE DETAIL ! THE DETAILS !!

— Oh! im glad jon is starting to notice sasha's weird behaviour thats good

— 'BoYfRiEnD' oh he looks like a stock photo ???

— not!sasha definitely seems to not like her voice being on tape..

jonathan said the station was launched by some company owned by the Fairchilds, and a private investment by Nathaniel Lukas who is based in Ny-Alesund.

the Fairchilds is obviously Simon Fairchild from mag 21 and 51. no one asked for it but here's a mini timeline of what the old dickhead Simon Fairchild has been up to and when:

Early 2000s - Did a skydiving jump with Robert Kelly in 'memory of his wife'. Before jumping he told Kelly "Enjoy sky blue" - Mag 21

2006 - Bribed a diving company to send divers down to the Maria Fairchild, before Antonia Hayley and her coworker Julio Hernandez went into the water he shouted something at them - Mag 51

2007 - Part of the Stratosphere Group that launched the space station 'Daedalus' into space - Mag 57

alright. next! 'Nathaniel Lukas' is most likely from the same Lukas family that appeared in mag 13 and mag 33. the Lukas' are the creepy family at the funeral in mag 13. Also, Peter Lukas is the captain of the ship in mag 33.

The Lukas family is a riot.

Finally, "Ny-Alesund" was what the gathering were chanting at the church in mag 25!

Thats it !!

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 56 #0100710-B

Children of the Night

part 2 ??

insects ???!

— unrelated but im certain the people liking these posts are people who've finished the show and are just laughing at how utterly stupid i'm being

— wait what ?

— i think i'd better listen to mag 10 again

— isnt he a serial killer or did i remember it wrong ?

— oh god this is traumatic i feel so bad for him

— JOHN'S VOICE.

— spiders ????

— oh, this poor man :(

— his voice.

— SIT ?????

— hold on,, yelling makes me anxious this is a bit too much for me. i had to pause to breath :(

— its the letter oh god

— oh martin,

— THE BIT AT THE END NEARLY MADE ME CRY, MARTIN :(

— hopefully this interaction will stop john thinking martin is a murderer...

I'll listen to mag 10 and 56 one after the other soon but that scene at the end with jonathan and martin almost made me cry i want to be angry at jon but i feel so bad for him and martin ? :( poor martin :(

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 55 #0160311

Pest Control

pest like an insect oh no..

yep. + its 1:20 so if this is nonsense thats why

— jane prentiss better be dead ..

— jon ? :(

— aw theyre real ashes !!

— i like jordan

— aarghsk ew ew

— A CAR HORN WENT OFF OUTSIDE MY HOUSE AND I ALMOST SCREAMED BECAUSE OF THE CREEPY MUSIC PLS

— tall man in a brown suit ?

— ew ew ew gross :(

— oh bye arthur i guess ?? did he burn himself to death ??

— thats .

— THATS REALLY SAD WTF :((

— jon :(

okayyy ..

im unsure whether the events of mag. 36 (taken ill) happened before or after Amhert's appearance in this episode so i cant be sure whether he is dead or not ,

but !! we know he was the director of ivy meadows care home in 2012 (the home where a resident died and was covered in a creamy yellow infection and flies covering the building)

i think it's safe to say the insect infected smelly burning people so far are:

Jane Prentiss [dead], Harriet Lee [dead], Timothy Hodge [dead] and Bertrand Miller [dead], John Amherst [possibly dead].

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 54 #013206

Still Life

— the natural history museum💏

— taxidermy .

— CRUSTY

— i like this guy he seems nice :)

— "all in all he was a real pleasure to discuss money laundering with"

— two cockney voices.

— he wont show his eyes, he's a taxidermy human isn't he ?

— I WAS RIGHT

— we can investigate but we cba lol

— he cares about them :(

— he broke in .

— OH NO

— ITS THAT FEELING OF BEING WATCHED THING,, GERTRUDE :((

i don't remember daniel ? hold on. oh shit it was episode 1 ok so its the same guy who gets mentioned at the end of the episode (along with Jessica McEwan, Sarah Baldwin, Daniel Rawlings, Ashley Dobson, Megan Shaw and John Fellowes).

so possibly these people were lured to the trophy room basement by whatever was down there and, ? taxidermied (?)

+ breekon & hope ! it doesnt say when the events in this statement took place so i'll assume its the same year the statement was given, 2014.

I'll add the to Breekon & Hope timeline i've got going:

1940s - Working with the Circus of the Other in Russia - Mag 24

1998 - Delivered the coffin to Joshua Gillespie's home in Bournemouth - Mag 2

2006 or 2009 - Delivered a pale yellow stole to the Ordatory in Oxford - Mag 20

2013 (est.) - Delivered several presumably large items to the Trophy Room taxidermists in Barnet - Mag 54

2016 - Delivered the spiderweb design Zippo Lighter and the Web Table to Jonathan Sims at The Magnus Institute - Mag 35

the post statement implies gertrude was aware of the entity watching her and was making an effort to rid herself of this 'feeling of being watched'.

ok ok im done.

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 53 #9970509

Crusader

gertrude ! gertrude ! gertrude !

— i like his old man voice

— this is hard to follow what

— oh no

— shit

— did this bitch just find the library of alexandria

— it was a body ! :D

— THE WATCH-Y ENTITY

— i see :/

— right ive not a clue what was going on in that episode i'll relisten to it later

— what ?

— wait jon stabbed himself ? also ily martin

— WHY DID YOU STAB YOURSELF JON

the comments say michael stabbed his hand and he's covering it up thank god.

ok so there's some kind of entity that watches archivists ? i found this episode vEry hard to follow but i'll try and put my thoughts into words:

so there's an 'entity' or cult or something like that, that is pretty much the manifestation of the fear of being watched / listened to ect. and this 'entity' seems to i guess lock itself onto archivists ?? based on my shitty notes i'd say it's appeared a lot. some examples being:

mag 12, first aid - the eye tattoos and security camera

mag 23, schwartzwald - the man with no eyes in the graveyard

i'd say really this 'entity' is in every episode as it seems to follow jon, but those episodes were particularly eye-ee

that's it but i'll also include this moment from mag 39 where jon tells martin he feels he's being watched:

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 52 #0040904

Exceptional Risk

serial killers ! woo

— he sounds aggressive >:(

— basira !!

— THE HOT ONE pls

— robert montauk i recognise the name ?

— "produce said boyfriend"

ok so robert montauk was the serial killer from mag 9. honestly i've not a clue what that means.

rayner ! he was in mag 9 and possibly mag 7. based on what we've heard about him in 1990 maxwell rayer worked with montauk. in mag 9 he calls montauk to, i assume, command him who to murder. if montauk is scared of rayner its safe to say something went wrong at some point, ( him getting arrested perhaps ).

im not sure what "You didn't think you could kill it for long, did you?" means. maybe related to this weird darkness

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 51 #0080701

High Pressure

— lost johns cave mixed with boatswain's call mixed with freefall vibes

— dont swim into the hole

— he swam in the hole.

— im glad he had a strange conversation with sasha i thought she wasn't going to do anything

right. simon fairchild was in mag 21, he turns to robert before he jumps and tells him to "enjoy the blue sky". in this episode simon fairchild yells something at antonia hayley before she jumps into the water. so in both his appearances so far he's yelled something at someone before they jump and do theyre favourite thing, (diving and skydiving) and are swallowed by the enviroment (sky and water).

i've not got any theories of what not!sasha could be doing at the wax museum other than studying humans perhaps ? to make sure she looks right. similar to the students in mag 34, anatomy class.

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 50 #8141206

Foundations

i'm 1/4 of the way finished thats insane.

— 'Dear Jonah' again..

— smirke again

— henry roberts ?

— worms

— it's the weird claustrophobic corridor entity thing again isnt it ?

— oo i've been too all those places thats fun

— i love tim sm pls

— TIM

its kinda strange hearing the names of real places you've been to and real people you've heard of.

unrelated but i really like the way the case's are filed. the last three digits of the year, month and day. its organised and makes my dumb brain happy

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 49 #0081103

The Butcher's Window

drugs ?

— im not a fan of hector

— gerard keay ?

— CANNIBAL BUTCHER

— not the soundproof walls oh no

— MEAT WALLS MEAT WALLS

— ?? what.

— ohh jared hopworth not gerard keay

— not!sasha being a little bitch

— tim is "involved" is he.. (w-?)

not much to say about that really. jon is insane and im starting to think maybe his paranoia isnt

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 48 #0100325

Lost in The Crowd

— marked ? is ethan one of these 'entities'

— jon you dumb fuck you trust sasha but not martin ?

— JON WHAT THE FUCK

elias: im worried about you jon :|

jon: he's trying to murder me.

— did i miss something i dont see how he could be gerard keay ?

ok i feel like the meme 'honey you've got a big storm coming' seems fitting right now why is jon so fixated on elias and martin and nOT SASHA HE'S LITERALLY BEEN WARNED ??

i liked this episode alot though if felt very uncomfortable.. i wonder if this fear of abandonment / not knowing will come back..

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 47 #0161002

The New Door

lots of warnings damn

— calm down luv

— wow mysterious tunnels that seem to wind on forever where do we know that from..

— MICHAEL.

— what the fuck

— ew im scared

— WORRYING AND SCARED

right. i've got a lot to say about this episode but at the same time ive not a clue what just happened

there's some kind of conflict, a war ? and michael is very much indifferent as it expressed in mag 26.

i also noticed not!sasha seemed far more believable and human like than she was in mag 40. which i assume she has learnt from listening the statements in which sasha's voice was recorded.

additionally, when this is said i assume Michael is referring to not!sasha. 'they' implies more than one person though so perhaps martin (and his mysterious letter).. ? i assume they is referring to more than one person though it could just as easily be referring to one individual controlling / inhabiting not!sasha or just michael being a little bitch and stressing out jon, im not sure..

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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Mag. 46 #9982112

Literary Heights

haha yall thought i was gone - no ! i just fixated on watching a tv show for three days im back ok so a jurgen leitner episode..

— michael crew i feel like we've heard of him but i don't remember any details, kaey maybe ?

— ITS THE GUY FROM MAG 4 THE ONE STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

— hold on hold on im gonna google what his name was pray i dont see spoilers for me :')

— ok so it is michael crew from mag. 4

— fRiEnDLyNeSs

— what

— spiders. spiders. first worms now spiders.

oooookay, leitner.. honestly kind of hard to follow his character but i'm reading my notes right now so i'll make a small guide for myself about leitner's books so far:

Ex Alitora - Mag 4, Mag 46

Known Owners: Jurgen Leitner, Kristen Bowman [dead] , Herbert Knox, Michael Crew [possibly dead], Oxfam Charity Shop, Dominic Swain, Gerard Keay [latest known owner, destroyed - 2012]

The Boneturner's Tale - Mag 17

Known Owners: Jurgen Leitner, Michael Crew, Sebastian Adekoya / Chiswick Library, Jared Hopworth [latest known owner - 1996]

"The Key of Solomon" - Mag 4

Known Owners: Jurgen Leitner, MacGregor Mathers, "grbookworm1818" [latest known owner, ebay]

Right okay now i've got all that in one place to refer back to next time Jurgen Bitchner inevitably comes back,

Statement ends.

- xaphan.

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shit! i forgot to mention it sounds like not!sasha might start being a more important character based on the supplemental