The Magnus Archives Liveblog (creative name i know)

I'm currently doing a liveblog of tma as a first time listener! I thought I would spare you the mess of my main blog if you want to only read the liveblog. I enabled asks and reactions, but if you spoil me i'll make everyone loses their reaction rights >:( More seriously though, PLEASE don't spoil me. (oh yeah and if you have an idea for an actual header and pfp, I'll gladly take suggestions)

[butterfrogmantis]

I wanted in

Brainy © The Smurfs

[bluebluebluewoods]

echo

[burninginthegymplplinko]

TMA 22 - Colony

doodle 22/200; days left 86/110

himb talking aboit spiders <3 :]

[purple-confusion]

Yall ive finished listening to The Magnus Archives

All two hundred episodes of them

Two whole earphones were broken in the process

[purple-confusion]

To put it simply, not well

[filthyprotozoan]

happy ace week here’s the king of them all

[voiceless-terror]

tma but jonathan sims is hugged at least one (1) time per episode

[patchhap]

Statement of y/n regarding being sold to the music group one direction, original statement given on wattpad, audio recording by Jonathan Sims, head archivist of the Magnus Institution, London. Statement begins: I woke up and pulled my messy brown hair into a loose bun-

[slowspinningredemption]

had a dream last night where I took a uquiz called "what do you serve?" and at first the questions were standard but as the quiz progressed they became more and more highly specific to me personally and the answers became more and more similar and I realised the quiz Knew me and was forcing me into being honest by giving me no other option so I tried to click out but it just went to the next question which was "are you the spider? or are you the web?" and it had an option for each but I didn't click either so it then turned to a text box and I typed "I think I'm the fly" and the quiz paused for a while and then took me to a results page that said "you serve truth" and the description just read "what you know will kill you but you will die laughing" so like. good morning everyone I guess :/

[heli-is-other-people-deactivate]

Statement of Tumblr user, regarding a strange quiz taken online. Statement recorded by Jonathan Sims, the Archivist

[disasterzoo-inactive]

surprised i haven’t seen one for tma yet. fine i’ll do it myself

[tsundernova]

I really wanted to draw him happy, that’s all :’) 

[tmaliveblogyup]

i know im doing this to be able to better enjoy the show because someone i follow is really into tma (one of the reasons i decided to start listening), but it strangely hurt. like i feel bad even though i shouldn't.

anyway, ill try to listen to some more episodes these vacations, but i have a LOT of work to do for college, so... yeah. cant promise.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

Right so this was the initial test of the leitner stamp, and considering this

does that mean I now own canonical leitners or would they be a pretender to the throne?

[sew-birb]

I feel like you need to hire some assistants to investigate…

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

Hmm not sure I’ll have the funds available to provide them the long, fulfilling careers that they’ll definitely live….

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

Remember that this podcast is under a 4.0 International non-commercial creative commons license which means we can make all the fanart we like but we’re not to sell merch, which means I won’t be selling these stamps but here’s the clean png if you wanted to make your own stamps

most stamp companies will have a suitable gothic text for the ex libris part

[tmaliveblogyup]

i know i only posted for one episode after a long absence, but I'm really tired so I'm gonna take a nap

like it looks like episode 100 has a lot of parts, so it's better I take a break before going at it

[tmaliveblogyup]

S3E19/E99 - Dust to Dust

Ashes ashes, dust to dust

The devil's after both of us~

Lay my curses and hope to rest

Make a mercy out of me~

(Sorry, I know it's a common saying, but I love this song, so everyt8me I see 'dust to dust' I can't help but sing it)

"Victim's name given as"... so they don't know for sure that's its name..?

anyway, Gertrude time!

dust storms sound terrifying wow

I don't think it was just your imagination, buddy

brr. I don't know why, but this description got me.

You are WAY TOO CALM saying this.

This is the kind of things that I love, though. It starts by saying Stefan died, and then the explanation is about the way he talked, and you immediately think "Wait that's not right". which lead you to realize yourself that it's wrong, which make it hit way more than saying "He's dead, but he talked anyway".

Name drop! I should make a list of these.

Also very nice of Stefan to promise them something that sounds like a special treatment, he must be grateful they were ready to help him (he kind of looks like the human puppy type who will like you as long as you're nice)

Michael. He sounds like a shy nerd who has a crush on Gertrude.

So, each entity concentrates its efforts on one point in the world, apparently.

1. What's up there, and what happened? And how does Gertrude know? ((ok coming back from the comments, it's apparently the astronaut story. Which doesn't change the question of how does Gertrude know????))

2. Consciences are overrated anyway

baby :(

I mean, yeah, the more we hear from Gertrude, the more of a mistery she seems to be

... the thing is that it's something I could see it do, so I'm not sure if it's just Jon being paranoid or not

Jon stops wanting to leave and stay alone, it's already too late for everyone anyway

Like, darling, listen to Georgie, she's right, you leaving can only make things worse

"Y’know, don’t be a ‘stranger’."

pffrt- not the time, georgie

well that can't be good

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Alright, so maybe not the best episode to do a post exam comeback, because there was a lot of plot

Jon is in trouble, but what's new, am i right?

I still don't know how to feel about gertrude (i mean, i like her, and i like listening to her episodes, but i don't know what to think of her exactly)

Georgie is amazing as always

Michael, before being the door man, was a shy nerd, and he reminds me way too much of Martin

I didn't get enough sleep so I'm too tired to try to figure out all the stuff we learned

honestly if any of you want to give me a quick catch up on the different entities and avatars we know of up to this point, I wouldn't be against it. Like, their names, because I can't really google them without getting spoilers

[tmaliveblogyup]

S3E18/E98 - Lights Out

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I might repeat myself, but I love Tim

Tim is really the most sensible one. He's the next to die, isn't he?

I'm lost between finding funny the fact that Martin is worried Jon would get jealous if someone else is reading the statements, and being scared that Jon would actually get jealous.

aaaand that would be a good reason for you to tell him you are reading the statements, show him that it gets you too, so this idiot can understand you are already too deep in it

EXACTLY!! Thank you Tim.

(also love the way he says it)

Oh my god martin noticing the tape started running and talking to it like an annoyed pet owner would to their pet.

the salt

pffrt-

so far the statement is really fun

Imagine you could have lived your whole life normally, but you're so petty you end up involved with one of the entities

:(

that checks up with the old stories to scare the kids into doing what you want

gee

brr

Im just blinking and rubbing my eyes now

"MELANIE

Are you afraid of getting fired?"

Having a cursed job has at least the upside you know you won't get fired, or if you fo it's actually a blessing.

"ELIAS

I assume this is your first time attempting to poison someone? Do you actually know how many painkillers it takes to kill someone, or were you just hoping I’d take enough to get sick, and you could finish the job… manually?"

Elias: "Oh, first time? That's cute. Here, let me teach you some things."

"ELIAS

Let’s have no more clumsy assassination attempts, alright?"

I like how he specifies "clumsy". Like, if it was well done, he wouldn't mind that much.

"MELANIE

…

Did…? Did you turn that on?

ELIAS

Hmm? Oh. You get used to it."

It's nice to know Elias has no control over the tapes at all

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So, uh... that was interesting.

Maxwell Rayner is linked to darkness things, so it's no surprise he was here

As you can guess, by the end of the ep, I hit the picture limits for a post so i had to copy paste x)

The story of the Sandnan is a real german story, which doesn't surprise me. Stories that scare your kids into behaving were quite the trend for a while, and some fairy tales are actually these kind of stories (little red hood for example, who get eaten but not saved)

(also guys, if you hadn't, you should really read the youtube comments on the episodes, they're funny)

[tmaliveblogyup]

i wanted to react to more episodes after the last one but instead I... well, let's just say that I love to write, and statements are surprisingly fun to imagine.

[tmaliveblogyup]

S3E17/E97 - We All Ignore the Pit

why. why does this sounds like a meme.

lowkey hoping that the title is misleading af and that this episode is one of the scariest

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is tommy... not fully human? not anymore?

in a town of wolves, a dog looks strange

i love how this entity way to deal with hiding the pit is to just. froze whoever hear of it. like it's a computer and you input a wrong command.

i could see something like tgat in ai dungeon ">ask about pit" "sorry, the ai doesn't understand. Try again or change the formulation." ">ask about pit" ""Well," say your roommate. "Old roads do have some holes"" ">"No, not holes, the pit"" "Sorry, the ai doesn't understand. Try again or change the formulation."

imagine you made this whole thing where people somehow ignore a pit, and everyone is falling for it, but then there's this asshole

sorry, eldricht thing thinks you taste disgusting :/

(what do you mean, maybe it mostly wanted his skin?)

you killed her by making her aware, congrats

"I don't know how you survived this, but good job I guess."

I love Jon overthinking everything because i feel that it was very much how the fandom was at this point

Also, nice to see the guy survived!

I don't trust lightbulbs popping off

oh yeah i was right not to trust

Hello Orsinov! I wonder which scars will jon get from meeting you?

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the episode was about the entity linked to digging and ground, that I don't think I have a name for yet? we'll see

we get a bit of orsinov, the avatar of the Stranger! (I think?) It killed its father, but made sure to not let anything go to waste, thanks for thinking about the planet! really thoughtful from someone made of plastic.

I'm guessing it wants the Skin for something more than aesthetic, right? like it must have some properties?

Apparently the bit with Nikola was used on tik tok, huh. I wonder how many new listeners came from it

I'm also surprised most of them ask if there is no visuals? like, they've never heard of podcast?? or even radio show??? did i just grow up weird??

anyway the tiktok bit is unrelated to the show, I'm just curious