kept forgetting to post this but here is the piece i did for the @tapesdidntcatchzine! it’s a little thing about touch. what the tapes didn’t catch is a tma zine about unrecorded lighthearted things that supposedly werent mentioned in the podcast :) you can download it for free here
[image description: a five paneled comic done in warm colors of sasha, tim, martin, and jon from the magnus archives. the first panel is a closeup from sasha’s back of her and tim hugging. the second panel is of martin looking up at tim as he is explaining something, his hand on his shoulder. the third panel is of sasha, asleep, resting her head on jon’s shoulder in front of some shelves. the fourth is of martin brushing his fingers against jon’s as he hands him a mug of tea with bookshelves behind them, and the fifth and final panel is of the whole archives crew all together, linking arms as they walk down a street.
sasha is a thin, dark-skinned black woman with long braids tied into a ponytail. tim is a chubby, brown-skinned filipino man with short, spiky dark hair. martin is a fat, light-skinned mixed white and filipino man with short dark hair, and jon is a thin, brown-skinned pakistani man with short dark hair streaked with gray. end id]
ID: a digital drawing colored in muted tones of Azu and Hamid from the rusty quill gaming podcast, drawn from the shoulders up. Azu is a tall, muscular black orc with closely cropped hair. she has a bright pink heart stud earring and is wearing pink. Hamid is a short stout brown halfling wearing purple. He has a bright purple stud earring and gold rings on his fingers. They’re kissing, eyes closed, with Azu supporting hamid with a hand behind his shoulder, and Hamid cupping azu’s cheek. They’re both blushing slightly. End ID
alright hazu nation here it is…my contribution
special thanks to @eliasdouchard for the emotional support and helpful suggestions
[ID: A drawing of Jon and Martin from The Magnus Archives. Martin is a tall fat white man with short grey hair. Jon is a short thin British-Indian man with short grey hair. Both are aged, and wearing sweaters. Martin stands with one arm around Jon, pressing a kiss to his forehead. Jon is leaning against Martin, slightly on tiptoe to receive the forehead kiss. A fluffy white cat is sat by Martin’s foot, and a bigger orange tabby cat is winding around Jon’s legs. /end ID]
Jonmartin Week 2022!! Day 7: Forehead Kisses/Growing Old Together
I definitely didn’t almost forget to post this
Like the cats from day 3, these are Cream Puff and Nugget :)
[ID: A digital illustration of Martin Blackwood from The Magnus Archives. Martin is a fat white trans man with short curly light brown hair wearing a grey chest binder and round glasses. He is stood in the archives, holding a mug of tea with a cartoon cat on it in one hand and a corkscrew in the other. Martin sighs, looking tired. End description.]
[ID: A digital drawing of Sasha Rackett from Rusty Quill Gaming shown from the waist up, holding an armful of small smiling plushies that look like the other main characters of the show. Sasha is a white human woman with short dark hair and a burn scar on her neck and face. She is wearing a studded gray jacket, a light gray shirt, and dark gloves. In her upper arm she holds plushies of Grizzop, Azu, and Zolf. The Grizzop plush is falling out of her arms and is attached to the Azu plush as if they were holding hands. The Zolf plush holds a toy trident and looks grumpy. In her lower arm she holds plushies of Hamid, Bertie, Brutor, and Wilde. The Hamid plush faces Sasha as if giving her a hug. The Bertie plush is wearing a papoose, carrying the Brutor plush on its chest. The Wilde plush holds a little quill and is winking. Sasha looks down at the plushes in surprise with a slight blush. The background is a purple gradient with several light purple patterns scattered around. End ID]
[ID: Cartoonish art style. David-7 interpreted as a human clone with short medium brown hair with vague curls on top, light brown skin, light blue eyes, and a slender frame. He wears a two-tone gray jumpsuit with blue accents on the collar and wrists, a blue 7 on the left chest, Stellar Firma logos on the shoulders, and a zipper down the torso. They have a genuine smile on their face as he holds up a small plate with a gray slurry cupcake in his left hand and a steaming mug in the right. They also wear a dark blue apron where on the center of the chest is an image of a blue hermit crab with the text “David’s Place” in near-white blue. End ID.]
Trexbath makes me go insane, they DEFINITELY had something going on in grade school
[ID: A young Bathin and Trexel hugging each other at the side, their hands almost touching. They are smiling and leaning their faces into each other. Bathin is half fish, half human, with fish ears, fish tail, and fish coloration with a white underside. He is wearing a varsity jacket and a galactonium symbol necklace. Trexel is fully human with snaggletooth, scraggly facial hair and hair pulled back in a half-ponytail. He is wearing a jean skirt, polo shirt, and a jacket tied around his neck. End ID]
[ID: A digital drawing of Hamid Saleh Haroun Al-Tahan and Oscar Wilde from Rusty Quill Gaming. Hamid is flying and taking a bag from Oscar, who is carrying five of them; He looks delighted at the help. The background is a solid gray blue.
Hamid is a Egyptian Halfling with short curly brown hair and brassy scales, he is wearing a green suit with a puffy beige shirt and brown high heels with gold accents. His wings are the same color as his scales. Wilde is a tall white man with white hair, cut in a bob, and blue eyes. He is wearing silver globe earrings that match his nails. He is wearing a blue rolled up long sleeve button up with a cravat and dark pants. He is carrying brown heavy backs in both of his arms. /End ID]
the stellar firma MAP server is doing an art exchange, here’s my piece for @joeytwoeyes! had a lot of fun drawing your versions of them!
[ID copied from alt: digital art of david-7 and trexel geistman from stellar firma. david is wearing a fluffy pink bathrobe and reclining in an armchair in a retrofuturistic clone suite, with smooth flowing edges and pastel colors and a jacuzzi in the back. they are holding a drawing of bathin in one hand and a wine glass with sparkling blue slurry in the other. an opened bottle of sparkling slurry and a bubble pipe sit on a table next to him. david is looking up to the doorway in surprise, where trexel is being blocked from walking in via electric zaps from the doorframe. i.m.o.g.e.n., represented as a pixellated face made up of eye and lips emoji on a screen, is looking on with a smile. End ID]
[ID: A simple scale with two ends, titled “‘horror protagonists named jonathan’ scale”. One end reads “hates hungarian food” and the other reads “would run a hungarian food blog if given the chance”. End ID]
[ID: Two digital illustrations of London in RQG. The first image features London at the beginning of the podcast, it looks intact and mundane. The sky is a dull blue and overcast and the city below looks dreary, with the distant buildings shaded blue in the low light. The closer buildings are mostly red brick of varying shades, and the lightning rail viaduct cuts through the squat buildings. The second image is almost exactly the same as the first was described, except the sky is lit up with the vivid orange of a low sun, smoke curls its way off Big Ben, and the cityscape below is a monochromatic, eerie blue. /end ID]
[ID: various digital drawings, divided into 4 small panels and one bigger background panel of jon and annabelle from tma as children.
The first panel shows the two of them in a library, sitting at a desk with a book, one page of which reads bird in capital letters, spread out between them. Annabelle has her arms crossed and is slumped forward a little bit, while jon is resting his head on his left hand. They both look at the book in questioningly. In the second panel, the two of them are sitting on a bench, annabelle on the left and jon on the right, with jon holding a book in his lap. They are talking, assumingly about the book. The third panel shows them inside, jon playing the piano and annabelle dancing ballet to it. There is a grey cat tree visible behind them. The 4th panel shows the two of them in annabelles room, with annabelle sitting on the bed, clapping, and swinging her legs happily while jon is twirling around in a bee skirt.
The background is purple, spiderwebs connecting the panels, with a drawing of annabelle in the top right corner and jon in the bottom left corner. Annabelle is half hidden behind a wall, looking at something up ahead in terror. The shadow of a spinning wheel lays over her face. Jon, looking equally as terrified, is staring up at something, the shadow of 4 spider legs visible on his face.
Jon is a bit chubby persian child with short wavy dark hair and glasses that sit a bit crookedly on his face. In order of panels, he is wearing a dark green jumper over a collared shirt, a pink jumper, a black jumper with grey trousers and a cream coloured one for both the 4th and the background panel. Annabelle is a bit chubby black girl with curly dark brown hair. In order of panels, she is wearing a light green jumper, a red one with dark trousers, a light pink dress, and a dark red dress over a puffy white shirt, as well as a simple red jumper for the background panel. End ID]
And my second piece for the @podcastbigbang BB! This time i was able to draw for the very lovely @pocketsizedquasar and their amazing amazing fic “The Spider & The Eye“!! Please go check it out, it’s so good and nghhhh i am. very much a shrimp over it jakffask
my piece for this year’s @podcastbigbang! this piece is for The Spider and the Eye, a TMA rewrite fic by the wonderful @pocketsizedquasar where Annabelle and Jon are childhood friends. it’s a wonderful concept and an even better read, I highly recommend checking it out!
[ ID: A vertical purple-toned digital art piece. The scene is set inside Hill Top Road, viewed from a perspective section cut that views both a bedroom along the bottom and the attic along the top. In the bedroom, we see a full-body view of Jon, who is a posed as if he’s ready to flee, floating green eyes forming a semi-halo behind his head. He stares with a mixture of fear and horror at a tape recorder on the dresser beside a small pile of papers. Speech bubbles filled with the first several lines from MAG 001 emit from the tape.
Above, in an attic filled with boxes, Annabelle sits, curled up, against one of said boxes, sadly staring at discarded half-written statements and crumpled-up pieces of paper on the floor in front of her. In the back of the attic is a small window, from which a thin white crack branches out and curls its way down the entirety of the piece: a hint to the Gap in Reality. Multiple cobwebs litter the destitute rooms, hinting further at the Web’s presence in the abandoned house.
Character designs: Jon is a thin Persian man with dark brown skin and long, dark hair streaked with gray. He wears glasses and a green vest paired with an off-white button-up rolled up to his elbows. He has an ace ring on his right hand. Annabelle is a chubby Black woman with deeper brown skin and an asymmetrical haircut: white hair covers the right side of her head, and her left side is buzzed but covered with a spiderweb. She’s wearing a purple sweater vest and a white button-up rolled up to the elbows. End ID. ]
Annabelle Cane has a choice to make. (Annabelle Cane is not sure what choice is anymore). She sits and thinks and sighs and drums her fingers against her thigh, wisps of web trailing from her hands. Jonathan Sims’ face lights up her laptop screen, washed out and desaturated against the garish pale green of the Institute’s (horribly outdated) website, and even as Annabelle tells herself Jonathan is a very common name, Sims perhaps not so much but still not entirely outside the realm of possibility, and really, can she reallyrecognize him after so long apart, and this could be any Jonathan Sims marked by the Web and tugged towards the Institute — she does not need to look too closely to know it is herJon.Her Jon, all borrowed skirts and traded books, laughter and sheet music and sea-sprayed nostalgia and skittering, scuttling, scurrying spider’s legs. It wasn’t supposed to be him. (But then, wasn’t it always?) — A Jon & Annabelle childhood friends AU. On memory, fear, and choice.
here is my fic for @podcastbigbang !! a jon & annabelle childhood friends au. bc i’m forever on my “annabelle cane deserved SO MUCH better” agenda
(ID: a digitally drawn banner advertising the fic “The Spider & the Eye,” featuring Jon and Annabelle from the Magnus Archives as children. On the top left of the image: Annabelle is a young chubby Black girl with dark brown skin and dark box-braided hair pulled up into space buns. She is wearing a light lilac dress and bracelets. Behind and above her is a large spider sitting on a web, and she stares up at it with a terrified expression. On the bottom right of the image: Jon, a thin Persian child with medium brown skin, short curly dark hair, and glasses falling off his face. He is wearing an oversized red sweater and jeans and reading a book with an empty expression. Spiderwebs tug on the book and on his hands.
In the middle of the banner is a spiderweb with a glowing green eye in the middle, and handwritten cursive text on top of it: “The Spider & the Eye.” The dot on the “i” in “spider” is made to look like a spider on the web, and the second “e” in “Eye” has a pupil like an eye. The background of the image is a deep purple, with faint webs overlaying the whole thing. End ID.)
A day without lesbians is like a day without sunshine, or Imogen’s integrated lighting system
[ID: An abstract lineless drawing of the main stellar firma cast, in a palette of yellow, orange, pink and dark purple. Imogen is on a large rectangular screen above the others with a large sun and stars behind her, clasping her hands happily. David, Trexel and Hartro are all sleeping relaxed below her, stars and hearts dotted between them. End ID]
(ID: a digital drawing featuring several scenes of jon and martin from the magnus archives, all surrounded by swirling grey-blue fog. the drawing is in a mixture of black and white & color, with streaks of color breaking through the monochrome.
in the center, jon is cupping martin’s face in his hands, smiling up at him while martin looks down at them with love and worry. the other scenes include: a gray paper coffee cup, martin’s grayscale hand holding a bright red teacup, jon wearing martin’s yellow sweater, and highland cows in a grassy green field.
jon is a thin persian person with medium brown skin and long curly graying dark hair. they have a beard and scars dotting their skin. martin is a tall fat black and filipino man with dark freckled skin and short curly reddish brown hair. he has vitiligo dotting his face and hands and his hair is tipped with white.)
and another piece for this year’s @podcastbigbang! this one is for Life in Technicolor by the lovely @spacestationdaedalus where Martin loses his color vision after escaping the Lonely. it’s adorable and such a wonderful exploration of their characters, please check it out!
[ ID: A horizontal digital art piece set inside the safehouse. It is a strongly angled perspective view of various scenes of Jon and Martin in the house, gradually getting closer from left to right. The colors start out grayscale and muted on the left, and slowly gain more vibrancy as they move to the right.
On the left, the two stand hesitantly in the doorway, Jon holding the door open and peeking inside with eyes floating around his head. The Lonely billows in behind Martin, and they both carry canvas bags. They are both dressed in ore layers, presumably just having escaped from London.
A bit further into the house, Martin stands at the stove in a small kitchen, something cooking away in the frying pan. He looks back at Jon, who is seated at a dining table, and brandishes a spatula proudly. Jon smiles up at him, cradling a steaming cup of tea in his hands. With light filtering in through a window, the scene appears very cozy and intimate, especially since they’re both still dressed in their pajamas.
On the right, situated very close to the camera, we see a view from behind of Jon sitting on the couch, tilting his head up to face Martin, who stands in front of the couch from our vantage point. With his eyes closed and his face split in a grin, he looks absolutely smitten as Jon gently touches his chin, watching him with a fond eye. The two are dressed cozily in sweaters. Warm strands of color stream around them.
Character designs: Jon is a thin British-Pakistani man with dark brown skin and long, dark hair streaked with gray. He wears glasses and occasionally ties his hair back. His eyes are a warm brown, made visible by the up-close shot of him on the right. Martin is a fat White man with light skin and short, fluffy ginger hair streaked with white from the Lonely. He has dark brown eyes, and he, too, wears glasses, with freckles dotting his skin. He stands taller than Jon. End ID. ]
[ID: Two digital drawings of Jon Sims with cats on an off-white background. He is a thin Arab man with brown skin and black and gray hair pulled into a bun with a mustache to match and stubble. He has black stud earrings, black painted nails, and half-moon glasses on a green beaded chain, and is wearing a black button-down, a green sweater, and a light brown suit with darker elbow patches and brown shoes.
The first drawing shows his upper body as he’s holding a tiny white and brown kitten, smiling down at it as it meows with its paw against his chest. The kitten has eyebrow spots that make it look angry.
The second drawing shows Jon sitting cross-legged and covered in cats. The brown and white kitten, labelled “Duke Archibald von Mallow” is laying on his shoulder while he rubs his face against Jon’s as he pets him. There’s a gray kitten labelled “Turing” sitting loafed on Jon’s phone, which is resting on his knee, a grown white cat with brown eyebrow spots and brown eyes labelled “Ms. Marsha Mallow” who Jon is also petting, and a brown kitten tucked under her labelled “Lil baby Fudge”. The kittens all look content while Ms. Mallow is looking at Duke Archibald with slight worry. Jon looks irritated at someone off-screen and says “What do you mean I can’t keep all of them?” end ID]
(ID: several traditional pencil sketches of jon and martin from the magnus archives. jon is a thin persian person with curly dark hair in varying lengths. martin is a fat black and filipino, non-op trans man with freckled skin and short curly hair. the first sketch shows them sitting in bed together. jon is hunched over and frowning, while martin leans over their back and presses a kiss to the many scars there. jon has short hair in this sketch.
2nd image: martin lying on top of jon’s chest, jon’s arms around him. jon wears an ace and wedding ring on their right hand and their hair is long and flowing.
3rd: jon and martin kissing, martin’s hand resting on jon’s chest. jon’s hair is medium length and pulled into a ponytail.
4th: martin in a bra and underwear, wearing an ace ring and nail polish. he is looking off to the left. numerous scars and stretch marks can be seen on his body.)
(Cred. to @dudeiwannasleep for the concept of Beholding Blood bc. oh god.)
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[ID copied from alt text: animated gif of jon sims. his eyes glow green and as he blinks, drops of blood fall from his eyes. a tape swirls around him covering his mouth. a spiderweb is drawn in the background. End ID]
[image description: a drawing done in warm tones of martin hugging jon in a comic-esque style. martin’s head is ducked behind jon’s and jon’s face is pressed into martin’s shoulder. martin is a fat, tan-skinned mixed white and filipino man with short dark hair, and jon is a thin, brown-skinned pakistani person with long wavy dark hair streaked with grey. end id]
a digital artwork of Konner, a Magnus Archives oc. She is a skinny Eurasian woman with long dark hair covering one eye. Her visible eye has a pink pupil. She lounges backwards with her knees up and arms crossed, with slight perspective positioning her legs closer to the viewer. Her expression is dark and pensive. She wears a bra and jeans with black, white and grey spiral patterns on them, as well as knee high black boots with pink laces and soles. Her linear is mostly a bright pink.
The background is a coloured square featuring two spiral staircases coloured in a light pink, and holographic-like spirals that extent into multiple colours but remain dominated by pink.
realizing that when i picture hunt daisy in my head i’m picturing the fucking. nina dog chimera from fullmetal alchemist.
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[ID copied from alt text: a screenshot of the nina chimera from fullmetal alchemist, with a screenshot from the magnus archives episode 179 “accomplice,” pasted on top in a speech bubble, reading: “daisy: basira… c-come. come on…” End ID]
I still need to practice my dragon wings so badly anyway it took me SO FUCKING LONG to try this thanks to my bad art vibes atm but not a day passes where I don’t think about Alex describing Apophis as shaped like an Iguana.
[ID: A digital, fully coloured drawing of Apophis from the podcast Rusty Quill Gaming.
Apophis is a large, brass coloured dragon with orange eyes. He is shaped like an Iguana with a longer neck and two wings.
He is facing towards the left. Before him stands a small stick-figure style drawn Wilde. Small text next to him says “Wilde for Scale” and points towards him.
Both are set against a plain grey background with the bottom half being a darker grey.
The artists signature “ÄngryDuckTimeMachine” is set in white above them. /End ID]
[ID the image is a digital illustration of Jon and Martin from The Magnus Archives. Jon has brown skin and long grey hair, half tied back. he has half moon glasses and a short beard. he is wearing a muted brown jacket, and a long blue skirt. Martin has light brown skin, short curly greying beard, round glasses and stubble. he is wearing a jean jacket, grey shirt, and dark muted green pants. Jon is looking at the viewer, body turned to martin where he is sitting on a bench, one hand half shielding his face as if telling a secret, the other is reaching for martin’s arm. he is smiling and talking. Martin is also looking at the viewer, eyebrows raised. one hand covering his mouth, and the other is behind Jon. Sitting next to them are plastic bags. End ID]
[Comic ID: A 4 page comic about Gerry from the Magnus Archives. Page 1: Gerry (a thin white goth person with eye tattoos on each joint) sits in front of a poetrait they are painting. His younger self (a pale child with choppy orange hair) stands at his side and says “Why are you doing that with the colours?” Gerry’s hand traces over the painting as they explain “It’s a part of light falloff. Where light fades, its colour changes before it disappears.” They smile softly down at Young Gerry. Young Gerry glares back and demands “Why are you being nice to me? Mum says not to trust nice people.” Gerry looks surprised by this before hesitantly saying “Nice can be good sometimes.” Young Gerry frowns in silence before pointing at the painting and asking, “Are they nice to you?” Gerry chuckles saying, “Yeah. In his way.”
Page 2: Gerry’s hand dips a paint brush into a mug. Underneath the mug is an envelope that has the NHS logo on it. Under the table, the shadows on the floor are pointed. Young Gerry says with some hesitation, “All the shadows… they look sharp.” Gerry paints on, not looking at his younger self. A brush with orange paint dips into water. Gerry says, “brightness fades fast”. Gerry continues painting as Young Gerry points at the colors. Young Gerry says, “Then it needs more lights” Gerry counters with, “It’ll still fade.” Young Gerry says, “What if there’s more places for light to sneak in?” The shadows are stark and long points across the floor. Gerry continues looking at the painting and says, “Better to use just one source so darkness comes fast and goes just as quickly. Cleaner that way.”
Page 3: A soft close up on the painting in which two hands rest together. Young Gerry says with some trepidation, “You said they’re nice, right? Wouldn’t they want it soft?” Gerry’s hand lies empty on the table. The NHS envelope reads “Private and Confidential: Important healthcare information enclosed”. Red paint has splattered on the envelope. Gerry hesitates, “I don’t know.” Young Gerry’s hand, now slightly translucent holds his. Young Gerry says without hesitation, “Well, I do.” Their other hand, also increasingly translucent, reaches to cup the other side of Gerry’s hand. Young Gerry continues confidently, “Let it be soft.” Gerry looks down and asks, “How are you so sure?” The ghost of Young Gerry (who has almost disappeared) looks distraught and says “Mum would want it sharp.” The shadows are pointed and gnashing behind them. Gerry’s eyes are wide as he softly says, “Fuck.”
Page 4: A full view of the painting Gerry has been working on. In it, Jon lays on Gerry’s lap and looks up at them with soft affection. Jon is a South Asian man with medium brown skin, thick black and grey hair, a short beard, scars on his face, and bright eyes. The light falls softly across him and Gerry, who is in profile. Out of frame, Gerry says, “Jon… do you have a second to talk? I… I’m not doing well.” There are no sharp shadows. End ID]
It’s HERE. My piece for the @seasons-in-the-archives spring event! Mum said it was my turn to project onto a TMA character
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