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Oh what I’d do for a Magnus Archives animatic or cosplay to the brutal pipe murder song of the Messiah.

….Its called ‘Thou Shalt Break Them with a Rod of Iron’ and it happens right before the Hallelujah chorus and it’s PERFECT plus just great BPM (of both types)

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Nothing helps me get through my writing more than being in a train and listening to a cosy good omens podfic with cute bookshop fluff and trying my best to emulate Aziraphale’s energy. Or, on particularly devious days, an astronomy professor Crowly AU.

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Yall you know the Magnus Archives/ Protocol/ RQ Network brain rot is BAD when you’re casually watching a short about Glee (like the tv show) and all the sudden it goes ‘the character played by Alex Newell’ and your first though is ‘OMG MARTIN WAS ON GLEE’??? And legitimately I had to google to remind myself ‘oh right, the amazingly talented singer/songwriter who, at this point, Ive watched in several shows, not the amazingly talented podcast producer whose stories consume my soul and mind’

…..I kinda want a archives x glee crossover now though I mean Martin trying to make his own poetry into original songs always but keeps getting rejected by the glee club because of their strict adherence to not-original songs bands up with the school’s midnight radio host Jon in a plan to watch the Glee club from the sidelines and play meticulously plan pranks to brew as much petty drama as possible (I mean how else could so much chaos reign?) and have Jon help produce Martin’s songs despite constantly harping about his sappy lyrics (he does it even though he’s a steampunk rock cabaret guy himself [wink wink mechanisms fandom, this is a 3 way crossover]). But, unbeknownst to them, the science teacher Elias (a biologist and anatomy teacher by profession head of the radio club due to his passion in waves of all types, radio, light, etc) is trying to take down the other annoying teachers at the school behind the scenes in order to usurp the principal, and carefully guides Martin and Jon (and the rest of the radio club)’s hands into causing extreme drama and chaos.

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Being a choir human and a huge overall music nerd sometimes leads to moments where you realize things like, I speak 1 language however I sing/listen to songs regularly in 20. And that’s just kinda beautiful you know?? I can go to at least 19 different countries and I wouldn’t be able to say even a hello but I could sing a song. Then stand there like an idiot while everyone around me probably pins me as an annoying singing human in 19 languages. Stupidity transcends language, and I thrive to make a fool of myself in all of them. Life is great.

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The Implications of MAG 6 on Ace Jon

Okay random thought but I just realized that I never thought of the implications of the worm sex statement (yall know the one, MAG 6?). And Im not just talking about the ‘Im so sorry this ace human had to read icky things out loud’ part of it. I mean, as far as Jon knows the last worm-related person that wasn't Annabelle who was infected suddenly got an onset of carnal desires upon being infested with worms in order to help them reproduce, leading to their final death, and that seems terrifying? I mean the thought of those thoughts being forced upon you? I mean terrifying to everyone but especially Jon as a potentially sex-repulsed ace human. I can only imagine when he got proof the worms were real that’s the first statement he remembered, Im not sure how much time passed between MAG 6 and MAG 22 but it’s couldn’t have been too long. I can see Jon checking in with Martin every couple of days to make sure nothing happened to him but being extremely touch avoidant because what if Martin got affected? He’s sleeping at the institute where usually only Jon is late at night, if he was affected in that way wouldn’t Jon be a likely target? But also he’s a fellow human traumatized by the fears and he wants to help? And he keeps like this until he eventually realizes that nothing's happened and Martin's safe and okay and he can be around him. And, more pertinently, realizes that these particular worms apparently don’t come with that side effect. And Im not saying he still wasn’t terrified at the invasion and the fear of worms killing them, obviously he was. But the fear that they would not only kill him but turn his corpse into a walking vessel whose only purpose is reproducing when he may or may not have brain activity and being forced to do things especially given his ace identity? Even more terrifying. I don’t often see many people mentioning MAG 6, its a disgusting statement on many levels, but Id argue that especially with the implications on the universe, its one of the most terrifying ones out there. Because, unfortunately, at a base level its an experience that so many of us do have to fear on a regular basis, just taken to an extreme degree. And I cant imagine how much it must have affected Jon.

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I FOUND A SONG FOR THE NEW VAST RITUAL!! Okay context: Im a filk lover and have been looking for some good space shanties when stumbled upon ‘Star Filled Sea’ and when I heard the chorus I remembered after Simon’s failed vast ritual he was considering making a space ritual and this just….here’s the chorus, just keep reading and hear me out:

We′re outward bound to a new frontier

Leaving Earth and our lives so dear

Fill the void with humanity

Got a one-way ticket to the star-filled sea!

Seems innocent enough right? Well now imagine, a band of space pirates lead by Simon. A whole fleet of spacecraft with sacrifices trapped in a ‘brig’ of sort, with so many windows all the captives can see is a (disguised) ceiling and other human seemingly floating in space. This sensation continues as they slowly starve and their bones loose density, until slowly, one by one, the space pirate crew jettison each capsule while singing this song, letting some of the sacrifice go far enough they can see nothing except the emptiness of space, before opening the capsule and letting the pressure change do them in. The ones who dont get jettisoned are sent to Mars where they are forced to build a huge observatory habitat for Simon and the crew. But every day, 5 sacrifices are chosen to have to walk in one direction with only a spacesuit, where eventually they loose oxygen and die amongst the never ending plains of Mars til nothing is left but the observatory and the never ending landscape and sky. Perfect vast ritual right??? So with who knows what fears bouncing around, make sure to be wary of space pirates (and listen to filk music its amazing here’s a link to the song: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rJzZEDwY3DU)

Also do we think the same fears will be in magnus protocol??? Like obviously we’re all starting to try and catagorize by the fears we know but what if they dont exist the same way here or are slightly different? I think same fears may be too easy, especially with the odd eye, web, etc thing going on rn. Thoughts?

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If I had a nickel for every time my favorite song from a piece of media was a song named 'Hellfire' I'd have two nickels, which isn't much but it's weird it happened twice.

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Okay so I cosplayed Johnny D’Ville for Halloween (as one does when they just want to be a feral space pirate and can’t pull off the absolute god tier hair of Gunpowder Tim) and none of my friends are Mechanisms fans and the #1 question I got was why the face lightning and I realized……I don’t know? I just said that I believed it was a side effect of the Mechanizing process Dr Camilla put them through as Tim also has some and a each Mechanism’s appearance did slightly change but…most of their appearances changed surrounding their Mechanism?

Like…..

Johnny (heart): Exposed mechanical heart in some costumes

Tim (eyes): Mechanical looking lines from his eyes, occasionally glasses on

Ashes (lungs): Nothing visible usually (occasionally eye lines as well but as those aren’t as constant I’m not considering them)

Brian (everything except heart): Full plating etc, occasionally visible heart

Ivy (brain): not seen but position reflects it?

Raphaella (wings): …self explanatory

Marius (arm): visible arm

Soooooo is Johnny canonically just putting on eye makeup every day because he’s angsty like that and thinks it will better terrify his victims? Or, if its a permanent part of him, why? Why is he the only one? Did I miss a show that explained this or something?

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I really need a TMA/ Mechs fanfic where not only are Johnathan Sims and Jonny D’Ville the same person and Martin is hopelessly pining after both without realizing it, but Martin also writes Mechs fanfic. Specifically crack fics (we respect our ace fam in this household). That Jonny and the band read RELIGIOUSLY. With at least one anonymous/ unknowing interaction both ways (like a concert where Martin doesn’t realize or a livestream Q&A sesh thing where Martin goes on chat to ask questions and they reveal they read the fanfic etc). I can’t find anything like it but I just KNOW with Martin’s poetry he’d be all in the fanfic scene and I WANT IT.

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The duality of vibes that spooky month brings:

With theatre friends: They were roommates?

Oh my god they were ❤️✨ROOMMATES✨❤️

Theatre pals making pies: They were roommates?

Oh my god they 🔪🩸WERE🩸🔪 roommates

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Ive fallen into the sea shanty -> celtic music -> folk punk -> [insert eastern europe country] folk pop pipeline and Im LOVING the resonance please drop any recs!

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Something tells me from the first episodes that the Penumbra season 5 Juno Steele story is going to echo season 1 just with SO MUCH MORE PAIN as we have seen those lovely humans together and HAPPY having it all and hearing them regress to season 1’s chasing after Peter is so brilliantly written and PAIN. A salute to my fellow listeners in hopes the pair don’t die painfully together. Or worse, our beloved Rita. (loving the wholesome, supportive friend vibes so far)

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I love being a sea shanty human because I’ll be having a bad day or just feel useless but then I can stand up, stare at a mirror and go “If you fought like a man, you wouldn’t be about to die like a dog” in a terrible Scottish accent and my day will be completely restored.

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Yo okay but lets think about this, since rn (spoilers ahead) WTNV is in a meta arc with Joseph Fink (the lovely writer of wtnv) physically IN Nightvale in the story and some level of communication with the modern, current outside world happening….does Cecil canonically know he is tumblr sexyman??? Will there be a canon mention of it in an episode because we KNOW with Cecil’s level of pride he’ll be peacocking and also potentially insisting we acknowledge his amazing husband instead??? The POSSIBILITIES! I assume this would happen in March but still…keep an ear out my friends and ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY GLOWCLOUD!!