Stop Trying To Make The Magnus Archives Dark Academia Media, That Shit Is Chaotic Academia All The Way

Stop trying to make the magnus archives dark academia media, that shit is chaotic academia all the way through. The magnus archives is the embodiment of chaos academia these guys are not wearing sweater vests they're wearing obscure ghost podcast hoodies and weird socks and grandma cardigans.

Naw i hate this guy. (I would saw my legs off for him)

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Behold my TMA rot. Finally settled on how I like drawing Jon and Martin !!! Jon in a skirt has my heart I loveeee it when people draw him with one

Here’s some other doodles when I was trying to figure out how I wanna draw them uwu

the magnus protocol....if you can hear me...please let jonny and alex's roles be jon and martin but if their corruption arcs hadn't been stopped by the power of gay love. but theyre still in gay love. ok thank you amen bye

Random thought but I think Jon would have asthma. He probably brings an inhaler to work because of how dusty the archives are. The archival assistants occasionally hear a muffled sound of him using a nebulizer in his office.

“I hate all the women in this podcast! This shows that the podcast is progressive and says nothing in particular about me as a person”

Notice how I never said the podcast is progressive for having a diverse, well-rounded, and fleshed out cast, nor that I hated all the women in the podcast. I love all of the main cast of characters, that love is just expressed differently based on how their individual journeys go.

What I DID draw attention to was how good Rusty Quill was at writing complex women who had their own motivations and reasoning that the audience would not agree with or relate to. I, personally, don’t understand Daisy’s draw to cruelty and stepping on people deemed “below” her. But I CAN understand that she was actively trying to change her whole outlook on life, and that it took guts to do. I don’t understand Georgie’s loyalties and how they appear to shift with no reason. But I can understand that she has complex feelings towards her ex and wants to keep her life and new girlfriend safe. I don’t understand why Basira gets so caught up on Jon’s morals when hers took a backseat when it came to Daisy abusing people, nor do I understand why she was so quick to jump on Jon for any perceived fault or wrongdoing. But I do understand that her one last connection to her old life was her partner, and that Daisy meant so much to her. I understand that Basira was only alive this long because she was a cautious, rational person, and that she trusted her instincts to guide her, and she saved most of the casts’ lives at least once.

I didn’t even touch on Melanie’s character as I think she gets it pretty rough from most of the fanbase, even though she was being possessed by the slaughter, had her career crash down around her, was signed on as basically a prisoner, and was thrown into this crazy world of Fears and Avatars with zero warning. She then was told of a way out, and she was the only one to have the willpower and stomach to blind herself to be free.

Sasha is a much beloved character who has way too little “screen time” and I wish the narrative had been able to keep her around. She was very smart, capable, and she was a steady force driving the Archives to do their jobs.

Gertrude was the peak Mentor character trope, badass and self-sufficient to a fault. She was allowed to grow old and still be a wonderfully violent character. She wanted results, at any cost.

This is already too long, but if you think that being frustrated at characters’ choices or arguing their logic means that I hate them, then I don’t think this is going to change your mind. But it was nice to reflect on the main women of The Magnus Archives and how they interact with the main story.