close-up portraits, download link and more info under the cut!!
hiiii!!! I finally finished the first batch of magnus archives sims!! I wanted to share them with all of you!!
I tired to keep them as CC-free as possible, so the file size won't be that huge!! They all have only 1 outfit that I fully customised (other outfits are random/styled looks). I'm currently working on other characters (very excited to make Nikola!!) Thank you all for reading and supporting my art and my silly little creations!!
DOWNLOAD
(google drive)
And also I'd like to thank @cielle-b for sharing Gerry's tattoos there!! They are amazing!! And very detailed!! (they are not in the file, but I used them for a screenshot)
It’s finished! Nikola Orsinov kidnapping Jon sent me spiraling so I had to paint it. The horrors he endures😵💫🥺 poor Jon. I don’t think the creators meant to have the wax figures melting but that’s how it is in my head
(SPOILERS for TMA, and all of TMAGP episodes so far)
Okay, here me out
Tmagp1: Darla wants to hear Arthur's voice again. She even says: "I just couldn’t face the thought of the rest of my life never hearing him again, I had to try" and later on she even says: "But I had to know, so I went to the cemetery."
Tmagp1: RedCanary wants to know about the Magnus Institute. They want to know why it's listed under 'cleared' when there's no evidence of it. Hence why they go and explore it.
Tmagp2: Daria wants that absolute perfection. She wants to change who she is and get out of that dark place. When she talks about the thing that she felt was missing, she says, "... and that’s when I decide I need a tattoo. I had a couple already – just little things on my shin and my wrist – but I decided I needed something big. Something that really changed my look." She also mentions when talking about Ink5oul that "they just kept pressing me about my life, about why I wanted the ink" instead of asking what design she wanted. And when she got the tattoo she describes herself as now being, "Someone I wanted to know more about." Afterwards she even says how "For the first time ever [she] wanted to attempt a self-portrait. Something real and physical, [she] wanted to feel the brushes in my hands and the oil on [her] fingertips." I think a lot of her statement is about her desire and impulsive need for that perfection and that wholeness that she has been aspiring to for her whole life.
Tmagp3: Samuel wants to stay hidden. He wants and he "need[s] to get up, get out of here for treatment." He wants to get better and most of his delirious thoughts are the things that he wants, or feels like he needs. E.g. "I so much want to see it [the sun] again. This night seems endless. I want to be warm again. I am terribly afraid. Thank god for Maddie. I need to treat her better."; "I just need to rest."; "I need to be careful or we’ll drift apart." And then obviously as the narrative continues, Samuel wants to grow and 'put down roots'.
Tmagp4: The narrator wants to be revered and accepted into the Royal Court Orchestra of the Palatinate. He wants to show off and impress. The violin "was a creature with needs and purpose of its own. The needs were simple enough. Blood. Flesh." It has these needs and desires.
So far, I'm interpreting it to be that everything so far can be interpreted as a desire of sorts, varying in the strength and intensity of it. Obviously, fear is still a big part of it all, because if you want something so badly, aren't you afraid of it being stolen from you? Of it being out of your grasp? Of it being unachievable or impossible in some capacity? Of it being a lie?
Even Sam wants to find out more. He wants to know the why and the reason for things. Gwen wants Lena's job. Collin wants to fix all these bugs and keep Freddie running. Alice wants to just get on with it because she found out that wanting to know the 'why' of things is dangerous.
I think that somehow when the Web took all the Fears into a different universe, they morphed into something else. Or they changed to fit what was the most prevalent thing in that universe, because after all, everyone wants something, even if it's something small and inconsequential. Life and aspects of it has always been characterised by that desire for something. Like people wanting food, shelter, safety, love, warmth, happiness, etc. And I think since the Web was so intwined with Jon and Martin, it absorbed some of their emotions when it found its way into this new world, because after all Jon and Martin wanted to stop Jonah/Elias, to stop the apocalypse, to destroy the Panopticon, to be safe, and they wanted each other. I think the wanting and fear of things are really entwined in it all, though this could be absolute bullshit haha
Having the Sims as my special interest (therefore having it linking itself to everything in my brain or life) it CLICKED with me within the episode 2, that this would be a great idea and entity base for TMAGP.
(kind of ironic to be invested in all of the Sims content, this was one of the reasons I got into TMA in the first place, the last name of the EyeGuy)
Fears and Wants always go hand in hand. And somehow they're basically the two sides of the same coin. We are scared, because we want something, and vice versa. Our biggest fear turns into our greatest longing.
The fear of Flesh and body horror links so deeply with the Desire to be perfect and aesthetically pleasing for the social norms or your own norms
The fear of being small, irrelevant and lost aka the Vast, always goes with wanting to become someone huge (I mean, in the sense of being important and influential as a person) and very well known
the list could go on forever
Oh god how much I wish they'd actually do that!! Not Fears, but deepest Desires
does anyone else do this?... every time a good/fun idea comes into my head I get almost stunlocked in the pose of Archivist, looking at it broadcasting itself into my brain in silence and shock from how COOL THE IDEA IS
like this
I can't leave this state I have to wait until it goes away (recently I was watching the coolest animatic I could ever imagine and I did not want it to leave...)
genuinely one of the worst things that’s happened to television in the last few years (exacerbated by streaming services) is death of Filler. going from 20 episodes to 8 because “we didn’t really need that episode where the main characters went to the beach right? it had no long lasting effect” but we DID!!! we needed to see how they act without the Big Bad Plot and to establish the dynamics between the characters and lay in the sun with (do they forget sunscreen? how do they react to a thieving seagull? do they get buried in the sand?). the plot isn’t everything. the action doesn’t hit as hard without the quiet moments. give us character development and our little scenes back
Here's a gerry keay sketch. gonna be busy the whole month- won't be able to draw much. enjoy your casual, trad goth, and corpse paint gerry keay in the meantime ^^
close-up portraits, download link and more info under the cut!!
hiiii!!! I finally finished the first batch of magnus archives sims!! I wanted to share them with all of you!!
I tried to keep them as CC-free as possible, so the file size won't be that huge!! They all have only 1 outfit that I fully customised (some of them have 2, like Jon or Michael, and other outfits are random/styled looks).
I'm currently working on other characters (very excited to make Nikola!!) Thank you all for reading and supporting my art and my silly little creations!! Tag me if you use them somewhere, I'd like to see what will they do!
DOWNLOAD
(google drive)
And also I'd like to thank @cielle-b for sharing Gerry's tattoos there!! They are amazing!! And very detailed!! (they are not in the file, but I used them for a screenshot)
The Distortion is mocking you, he finds you so silly
Image description under cut
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A traditional illustration of Michael Distortion. He is craning his neck downwards, looking down towards his left. His hands are clasped together and pressed against his left cheek, and his long, bony fingers extend above his head. He has an amused expression on his face, and the corners of his mouth extends well into his cheeks. His eyes have spirals around his pupils. His hair is parted on the right side of his head, and is curly, with a few ringlets. He wears a buttoned shirt with square patterns, and pants. The background is the only colourful part of the illustration. It is composed of lines of different directions and different colours; yellow, orange, pink, green and purple fineliner pen.
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