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Hello everyone, sorry for disappearing from Tumblr for a month (it's happened before and it'll probably happen again) but I finally broke my two-year streak of Not Writing!!!

I wrote 9000 words of a Magnus-verse crossover between Archives and Protocol that I'm very proud of actually!!! (And posted it like, two minutes before episode 8 dropped, so it still counts lol)

Spoilers through MAG200 and TMAGP 7 !!

“We fell through a crack within the fabric of our universe, and landed here in yours—”

His companion groans. “Oh, don’t start with this again. It’s time travel—”

“—I’m sorry I’m ’pedantically splitting hairs about the very nature of our existence in this universe,’ Martin, but if I—”

Sam blinks, hard, as something trips that sense of deja vu again. The way he said that, even more stuffy and academic than before, sounds incredibly familiar in a way that’s almost within his grasp.

“Wait a second,” Alice says abruptly, her voice pitching up. The strangers pause their bickering, turning to frown at her as a huge grin spreads across her face. “Are you Chester?”

—

Martin cuts the tether; two strangers appear out of nowhere in the OIAR break room.

I'm proud of myself for writing it and y'all should be proud of me too!!!!!

(also, I am SO sorry to everyone who follows me for Gundam, I promise I'll get back to the Dylandys eventually, but Jon Sims is my entire life now)

Mr. Bonzo is a caterpillar to me, but okay :D

I laughed out loud

Robert Hooke: *sigh* Newton, don’t make me tap the sign.

Sir a second Bouchard has hit the office managerial position

So... Tmagp fandom...

Alright I'm gonna try my hand at explaining a couple tmagp theories I got hanging around in my head

First, the Archivist isn't Jon, at least not fully. I think in mag 200 when all the fears were implied to have moved on to another world/dimension/universe/whatever, and (seemingly) took Jon and Martin (and quite possibly Jonah Magnus) along with them, the Eye part of Jon split off from him, Steven Universe style if you will. I think the reason it's one of the least human externals we've seen so far is because it took Jon's human-ness with it (something something about Jon being inextricably linked to the Eye bc he kinda sorta helped it win the last time around).

Which brings me to my second theory..

I don't think the fears are the same at all in tmagp compared to tma. BUT I think the Eye might be the same, maybe even the only surviving from the fears' last iteration in tma (bc it won the last time around maybe the Archivist wasn't subject to the same change). I think when they shoved off to a different world, all the fears, except for the Archivist, changed in some way. I feel in tmagp they aren't operating on the same rules as they were in tma, one main factor has changed, they aren't feeding specifically on fear. I think they're feeding on desire and obsession. Many of the episodes we've seen in tmagp so far deal with a want of some kind that goes too far, a few cases that come to mind are Ink5oul (wanted fame), the painter lady that fucked herself up (wanted to be beautiful/perfect) and the scientist guy that made some dude's skull explode (desire for knowledge, maybe related to whatever the Eye is now). And I think it just makes sense for Johnny to flip the fear thing on its head for this series to change things up, if so, good on him and Alex bc that's a fucking genius way of exploring the same ideas but in a different vein. And if not, still good on him, Alex, the rusty quill team, and the guest writers because this series is awesome so far

Anyway those are my thoughts, I'd love to hear what others think! :)

edit: also sorry that some of this theory-dump is worded weirdly, I typed this up kinda late at night so my brain was not up to proper working capacity lol

I-

Every day I wake up and listen to another few episodes of protocol. And every day it somehow gets progressively more insane. It’s really quite impressive, all things considered

It really does, doesn't it. What a way to start your day. All power to you, I respect that.

[ERROR] kinda late but I'm still crazy over 'an archivist'!!

Some little gifs I made! (Won't display on tumblr for some reason lol)

. Tooth apple (magnus archives)

. Tapeworm (will wood)

. Archivist (magnus protocol)

erm... excuse me 👉👈. could i please have 🥺 a train ticket 👁👁👁👁👁👁

Starting a tmagp conspiracy board lol

Another lot of doodles :)

This week's doodles :D

what are we calling the tmagp "statements"?

A lil tmagp doodle. This is what I imagined when "crawling along the corridor, yanking out wires and muttering to himself" was said.

Who else is climbing the walls and so ready for The Magnus Protocol to come back next week!?