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Cecil Palmer could do TMA but Jon Sims could not do WTNV. Cecil has no fucking curiosity, as the Archivist he would read all the statements and go “golly, these sure are fun :)” then find out about the Fears and kill Elias in three days. Jon in Night Vale would be fired and eaten day 1

i am not usually one to repost my tweets and i dont know if tumblr is into chappell roan but i thought this needed sharing (ALSO since i originally drafted this post i went to sleep and woke up with this tweet having over 1000 likes)

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tma is a show which spends the first 100 episodes going "look at these monsters. aren't they fucked up. yeah and they're all so happy being monsters who hurt people monstrously" and then the protagonist who you've spent hours listening to at this point becomes one of those fucked up monsters, forcing you to either dismiss him as evil or you have to fully change how you view all the previous monsters. and then they spend the next 100 episodes dealing with that

I miss tma season one when Jon puts his whole archivussy into a statement and then ends it by saying "yeah lmao this probably didn't happen. I asked Martin to look into it and he found nothing because he sucks and I hate him. Tim got me more information, probably because he's such a fucking slut. Sasha was also very useful. I love Sasha because she's so dependable and trustworthy. Nothing bad will ever happen to Sasha to make her less dependable or trustworthy."

(inspired very much by this lovely post)

my dead goth son and his friendly neighborhood personified concept of insanity

After slowly chipping away at this for a while, I'm finally done drawing the cast of The Magnus Archives!

One of my favorite things with TMA fanart is when people draw Elias with eye paraphernalia or motifs because it makes pre entity discovery tma so much funnier

hello jon

:)

characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

Jon “let’s gouge our eyes out and make out” Sims

And

Martin “let’s go full kill bill” Blackwood

Where you go, I go.

Guys this might be the biggest comeback ever /j BUT it has been more than a year now since I finished TMA and I had to redraw this piece from last year!!!

Jonny writing the stage direction "fond" and "extremely fond", pushed up his sleeves and was like "Alright Alex let's make the Archivist sound as soppily in love as possible"

I CANT BTESHRE

last part

s5 jonmartin

s4 peter lukas

maxwell rayner

the distortion

pretty much most avatars

jonah after getting arrested

original elias bouchard

martin blackwood

helen cheering melanie on

next part

jon doesn't need hallucinations to see spiders everywhere

As promised, incredibly stupid s4-5 drawings

I sincerely believe Jon started having a crush on Martin in season 2 actually. It's been my own personal experience with asexuality that I sometimes have a difficult time distinguishing being nervous because I have a crush on someone and nervous because their vibes give me the ick. I'm sure my being autistic/somewhat alyxthemic has much to do with this difficulty. Given that Jon is canonically asexual, and is easily and frequently headcanoned as autistic, I would not be surprised if the autistic asexual paranoid tripple whammy would cause Jon to interpret his nervousness around Martin as being a suspicious type when really it's of a crush type. I can picture him realizing soon after he finds out that Martin was just lying about his credentials. Like "I was relieved when learned that Martin was only lying about his resume. I thought this would settle the tension between us, but I still get nervous whenever I'm around him, or thinking about him. Fidgetting, stuttering, increased heart rate, blushing and oh no."

oh my god wait did i ever post this 😭

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Jon and Martin both really just said the only reason I still hold onto my humanity is because you make me want to be a better person and we all just let them huh

Like with Jon that arc is pretty obvious, but Martin went through the same thing didn’t he? The lonely tempted him to isolate himself from others and his own emotions, but the biggest thing that stopped him was that he wouldn’t have been able to love Jon.

I adore the trope of “you’ve become monstrous so I’ll join you because I love you” but god this twist of “we’re both becoming monstrous but we’ll help each other hold onto humanity” is equally if not more heart wrenching.

the thing is that martin thinks it took "two years of crisis and trauma" just to make him and jon compatible and the reason jon doesn't know how to rebut that wildly incorrect fact is because he's barely aware that he had a stick so far up his ass in season one that it grew roots in his brain before he stubbornly and meticulously and with gritted teeth plucked them all out. jon could've plucked those roots out before all the trauma and crises if he simply chose to. and he would. in so many universes. because martin (and friendship and love and connection) is worth it. mic drop

I have been sketching. So much tma. Here's some expansions on my Jon and Martin designs I've been doing.

Another note I forgor to mention is I love how after hearing Simon go "it's enough to make your hair turn white" about Martin's office in s4 many of us collectively agreed his hair turned white because of his association with the Lonely. The shared consciousness is real and we use it to play hot potato with the communal brain cell dedicated to the sillies.

Closeup of apocalypse boyfriends (also to the person who said they love my s5 Jon's fancy white girl updo: I think about that every day)