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guys I made a really stupid meme
Everyone remember episode 54 where Jon just??? Breaks into???? Gertrude’s flat???? And doesn’t get caught! Waits till he hears the damn sirens before he bails and still! No one noticed him! Where did ol’ Jon learn to do this? Sure, he says getting through the window was difficult but he still broke in through a window. And. Did. Not. Get. Caught. I’m picturing him hauling ass as fast as he can, blind luck getting him away without anyone seeing him, the Eye laughing its eldritch ass off watching him. Elias, high, munching on popcorn and nearly dying choking on the popcorn when Jon tries to hop a fence.
Also picturing little Jon who accidentally got locked out of his grandmother’s. Or maybe it was on purpose. He wouldn’t blame her. And this little Jon learning to climb the wall, pop open the window, and shimmy inside. He can’t hold a pipe for long as an adult but muscle memory carries him through that damn window. Sometimes he wouldn’t even try knocking and he’d climb through the window to find his grandmother home. He’d never ask but he’d wonder if she’d hope he’d just go away if he couldn’t get in.
Ight so remember when I made a post saying Jon’s grandmother might have tried to lock him out? Yeah I still think she probably did but after re-listening to A Guest for Mr. Spider, I have fleshed the idea out more. And it made me sad!
Jon said, “By the time I was eight, the police had had to return me from my explorations at least three times, and my grandmother swore that if it happened again she would begin locking me inside the house. And I fully believed her.”
Well, for one, it doesn’t sound like she went looking for him. Or called the cops herself. I believe they found little Jon, so curious, with more questions than he had room in his body, trespassing where he shouldn’t, searching for answers. Grandmother Sims probably didn’t notice whenever Jon disappeared, most of the time. So yes, sometimes he was locked out by accident. She wouldn’t have checked his room, when he was quiet he wasn’t making trouble so why would she risk breaking that silence by peeking in on him? The first time she had to let him in from locking him out, she was furious. Threatened to lock him in his room. The next time, she did lock him in his room. For a whole day, which drove him almost insane.
So he learned to come in through the window, at first, to make sure he didn’t get caught. After the first time the cops brought him home though, he decided to stop doing that. Jon became quite vigilant about keeping his grandmother informed when he went out. Sometimes he still snuck out, because she’d say no and that wasn’t the answer he wanted, but for the most part he knew she knew when he was out.
Which made finding the door locked a surprise. He knocked but his grandmother didn’t come. He climbed in the window. Grandma Sims was there but he didn’t say a word, chalking it up to her forgetting he’d left and not wanting to risk getting in trouble. Jon just made sure to tell her multiple times the next time he went out.
But it happened again. And again. Twice more after he was brought home by the police again. It didn’t stop until the third time he was brought home. This time, a “neighbor” (they lived on the other side of town) had called the cops because he’d wandered into her yard. Jon’s grandmother threatened to lock him inside. Jon stopped being brought home by the cops. He didn’t entirely stop exploring but he learned not to get caught. And the door was never locked again.
Jon doesn’t think about his grandmother often. He tries not to, not that he’d admit to that. But whenever he does, a part of him wonders. Just as little Jon, a child less than eight, had wondered. Did she lock him out on purpose? And when the door stopped getting locked, by accident or by design, was it because she finally accepted she had to raise him? Was he such a burden that she hoped he would just go away if he couldn’t get in?
But Jon doesn’t think about his grandmother often. So he doesn’t think about that. Or what could have happened to him if he hadn’t learned to climb through the windows, and remembered to keep his bedroom window unlocked.
"It... itches."
A Jane Prentiss drawing from when I listened to the s1 finale. I almost gave myself trypophobia.
TMA early s1, where the scariest thing is still your asshole boss :(
just finished watching teh Magnus archives season one and idunno abt you guys but i think this jane prentiss is a lovely wormen. shes just a girl being a gal. squirming along as we all should
Assistants!
Thinking about the fact that S1 tma takes place in 2016, Tim and Sasha playing Fireboy and Watergirl together on cool math games, sometimes Martin will watch them and occasionally switches in as Watergirl when Tim gets tired of dying all the time. This continues untilJon comes in and Tim starts trying to convince him to try Roblox. Jon inevitably gets tired of Tim asking, and proceeds to get forced into making an account. He struggles making an avatar (haha) severely before joining in on Epic Mini-games and Tim makes jokes about Jon being terrible at the game, Sasha joins in on the joking and Martin makes light comments about things Jon could potentially do to improve.
The result is Jon staying up until very unreasonable hours of the night to learn all of the mini-games to beat Tims ass the next time they all play.
Silly fun-times if you will.
It's all over for him if he trips
im making silly doodles again. nature is healing/j
Tim taking advantage of Jon sleeping on his desk at the archives(giving him a silly hairstyle and drawing on his face,maybe googly eyes on his glasses 👀)
bonus:
i drew his actual eyes last so for most of the drawing process he looked like this
Getting into any media after being something like a next-door neighbor to its fandom for a year is great because I get joys like seeing tma s1 ep26 titled "A Distortion" and immediately going "Michael???" out loud.
Have been passively witnessing the tma fandom for about a year now and fell in love with the name "Gerard" so let me tell you how I physically recoiled when I heard his name mentioned in tma for the first time and found it pronounced as "Jarrett"
S1-S2 cast minus the Elias because all my homies hate Elias
They were friends (to the tune of 'they were roommates')
Some Icons pre-cropped for your leisure
The Magnus Archives S1 book progress! From typesetting to printing & folding, it's now prepared to be bound. I also made a mock-up of what I plan for the cover to look like!
The book consists of all the statements of Season 1 and the entire script of episode 39 and 40.
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."