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]
Jonathan Archivist hopes you had a wonderful International Ace Day ;w; <3
[ID: Art of Jon Sims, a thin brown man with long hair. He crosses his arms, holding a small ace flag, and says, “Happy international (ace flag) day.” The piece is grayscale with a staticky texture overlaid with purple accents and a purple background. End ID]
[ID: Uncoloured, lightly shaded lineart of characters Azu, Sasha Racket, and Grizzop drik acht Amsterdam from the AP Podcast Rusty Quill Gaming. They are drawn in dark brown and set against a beige background. Azu is a female, black ork, with one broken tusk, a cut in her eyebrow, and a shaved head. She is wearing heart-stylised armour, a belt around her waist, and a confident smile. Sasha Racket is sitting on her shoulders and Azu is holding onto her skinny thigh to keep her balanced. Sasha is a white, scrawny human woman. She is wearing jeans, a leather jacket, and a very wary expression. In each hand, she holds a knife, ready to attack. On top of Sasha is Grizzop, one foot lodged in Sasha’s armpit for stability. Grizzop is a grey-skinned, tiny goblin with a bald head and long, pointed ears. He is wearing a breastplate with Artemis’s sigil and leather arm bracers. He is pulling an arrow back on the string of his bow - which he is holding with the right hand - and has bright blue holy fire burning on the tip if the arrow. The Artist’s signature, reading Ängry Duck Time Machine”, is visible near Azu’s right shin. /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: Art of Jon Sims against blank white space. He is a thin brown man with long hair. Almost every inch of his body is covered in staring eyes; he has no facial features, only more eyes that all appear to be looking directly at the viewer. He is wearing shorts and an oversized T-shirt that says “cat-astrophe” with a silhouette of a cat beneath it. / End ID]
[image id: a digital bust painting of jonathan sims, the archivist, done in semi-realistic oil style. he is a brown-skinned man with wavy, shoulder-length graying hair and a smattering of circular scars visible on his cheekbones and neck. He is looking to the right with a keen gaze, and is backlit in a spooky but subtle green which is reflecting off his eyes. end id.]
[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 TMA playing card of spades with Jon Sims and Agnes Montague. The first version has Jon on top and the second Agnes. Jon is a brown man with long curly hair wearing a nazar necklace. He holds a bloody knife and cries inky tears with a somber expression, and he wears a black crown. Agnes is a white woman with thick red curls wearing a white veil with a yellow circle behind it. She holds a lit candle and looks forward with a sorrowful expression, crying tears like flame. End ID]
[ID: A digital drawing of Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan from the AP Podcast “Rusty Quill Gaming.” Hamid is a brownskinned, Egyptian halfling with pointy ears and wavy brown hair. He is wearing a purple, long-sleeved shirt, and a dangly earring with a heart-pendant and pink gems. Hamid is sitting up on a couch with a fluffy pillow and a blanket over his lap and reading a book titled “Replace Fancy”. Behind Hamid, the edge of a fireplace is visible and the light from it is reflecting off Hamid’s brassy scales. /end ID]
gosh i can not get the image of Hamid wearing the gorgeous suitthat@mori-stuff made for towga out of my mind, i had a need to draw it and gosh howdy i am so happy i did, i missed drawing Hamid so much
[ID: A digital drawing of Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan from the AP Podcast Rusty Quill Gaming. Hamid is a brown skinned, Egyptian halfling with amber coloured eyes, dark hair, and pointy ears. Bronze coloured speckles are visible on his skin, and he is wearing a dangling, heart-shaped earring. He is grinning and clicking the fingers of his right hand, causing dancing lights all around him. His left thumb is tucked casually into his jacket pocket. He is not wearing a three piece suit as designed and sown by mori-stuff for The Ones Who Got Away fan project: Red trousers and waistcoat with golden buttons over a white collared shirt, the suit jacket is a mossy green and there are flame-like embroideries on his cuffs, lapels and the bottom hem of the jacket. Hamid is set against a plain grey background with sparkling lights. /End ID]
I just. love them so much. their friendship. them.
[ID: A digital painting of characters from the AP Podcast Rusty Quill Gaming. The rough sketch is fully coloured and in portrait format. It features Azu, a female black orc, and Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan, a male brown-skinned halfling. Azu has a shaved head, multiple piercings in her ears and a broken tusk. She is wearing a bright pink crop-top with a heart on the front, and a pastel pink skirt with a heart-clasp at the side. She is grinning and holding Hamid upside down over her left shoulder. Hamid wearing a dark green waistcoat and matching trousers and a white button-up shirt. He is laughing with his eyes closed and his brown hair is flopping down as his legs dangle behind Azu’s head. The characters are set against a pale beige background and the artist’s signature reading “Ängry Duck Time Machine” is visible by Azu’s left elbow. /end ID]
i’ve been attempting to kick and claw my way out of a bad brain by drawing something big and detailed, and fingers crossed today feels a tiny bit better then yesterday
can you believe i drew all this because i wanted to see Azu swinging her axe
[ID: A digital painting of characters from the AP Podcast Rusty Quill Gaming. It is square in format and fully coloured. The first picture of the post is the full painting, the other four are close-ups of each character on their isolated layers so they can be viewed in full. The painting depicts the player characters of season 4. In order fo their individual pictures, these are: Cel Sidebottom, Zolf Smith, Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan, and Azu. Azu is front and center of the full picture. She is a black orc wearing pink plate armour over patterned yellow and pink robes. Her face is twisted with fury and she is baring her broken tusk in a snarl as she swings her pink, heart-stylised great axe which is dripping with blue blood. Hamid is to the left behind her. He is a brown-skinned halfling, wearing green trousers, high-heeled shoes and a purple cloak with gold embroidery. He has his back to the viewer, exposing a dragonish tail as he throws a fireball into the background. It mingles with the explosion caused by one of Cel’s potions. Cel is a white half-elf. In the painting they have taken on Beast Shape and have huge bat-like wings. Their membranes are almost translucent against the light of their and Hamid’s massive explosion. Cel is wearing goggles, a long, dark coat, and an ammo-belt of potion vials and is flying towards the right of the painting. Between Cel and Azu is Zolf Smith, a white male dwarf with two mechanical prosthetic legs who has short white hair and a braided beard. He is wearing a teal cloak and silver chainmail shirt, leaving his tattooed arms exposed. He is wielding his glaive which he has shoved through the back and chest of a skeleton-like foe who is wearing a tattered suit and is covered in glowing blue flowers. /end ID]
[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]
if jonny won’t write the flesh attack on the institute then i will
[ID: A long comic of The Magnus Archives, done in grayscale tones.
The first few panels show a shut office door, with only Basira’s head (covered with her hijab) visible in the corner. The door opens, and Martin enters. Basira emits two exclamation marks but stays silent as he turns to one side to place some files in a shelf, the glare of his glasses obscuring his eyes.
Finally, Basira says, “Long time no see.” Martin’s eyes appear as he startles violently and drops the files. Martin shouts, “Oh Jesus—Christ, do you get a kick out of this or something?!”
The camera pans to Basira, who is lounging back in a chair, holding a small book in her hands. She says, “What do you mean?” Martin answers from off screen, “Gh… never mind. What are you doing here, Basira?”
Basira looks up, closing her book with a snap. She says, “I thought you might show up here sooner or later. Figured I’d pass the time in a room I knew you frequent.”
Martin furrows his eyebrows, a small anger symbol appearing next to his head as he says, “Great. So, what now? What’s so important you’d spend all your free time waiting around for me?”
The camera zooms out to show the whole room. Martin is sweating slightly, having regained the files he dropped. Basira leans further back in the chair, raising her eyebrows. She pauses before asking, “How’s Peter Lukas?”
Martin narrows his eyes, a single sweat drop on his cheek as he says, “…He’s fine.” Basira tosses her hands up innocently and says, “Good, good.” Then there is a panel of her sitting up, staring into space, before the camera zooms back out to a view over Martin’s shoulder. Basira inquires with her arms crossed and eyebrows raised curiously, “Feeling… lonely at all?”
Martin reacts with sharp anger and snaps, “Oh for—is that what this is all about?! You think I’m one of his lackeys now?”
Basira looks down, her eyebrows drawing together. She says, “You are his assistant. I just need to know you aren’t…” A shot of her looking to the side, a drop of sweat falling from her cheek. “Compromised.”
The camera pans up to the ceiling. There’s an air vent through which some darker shades are showing, possibly larger slits, possibly something else. Off screen, Martin shouts, “Compromised?! Basira, we’re all compromised! We’re all trapped here!” Basira answers, “Fine. Then I need to know if I can trust you.”
Martin looks shocked for a second, maybe worried. Then he looks away and says, “I don’t know. Melanie sure doesn’t.”
Basira looks unimpressed, a small anger symbol next to her head as she says, “That’s not an answer.” Martin snaps, “I said I don’t know!!”
He spreads his arms and shouts, “Yes!!” Then deflates and scratches the back of his head, saying, “Err—maybe?” Finally, he raises his hands in a conciliatory posture as he says, “Look, I just need to stay close to Peter to figure out what he’s up to—”
The door clicks open. Basira and Martin both look startled, sweating slightly, as Melanie pokes her head in.
The camera pans to behind Melanie’s head as she looks at the two of them. Basira rises from her chair and says, “…Need something?” Martin just looks at Melanie with a worried expression and silence.
Two panels close in on Melanie’s face. It’s possible to see that her eyes, unlike Basira’s and Martin’s, contain a hint of red. Melanie says, “Heard yelling.” She turns her head slightly and scowls: “Thought there might be a fight.”
Martin turns to the side and says, sweating profusely now, “N-no, there isn’t.” A smaller panel of Basira adds with a small smile, “Not physically at least.”
The camera zooms back out to show Melanie turning to exit back into the corridor, wearing a bitter smile. She says, “Heh. Not for long if I stick around.”
Martin stares after her, saying, “Wh…” Then his eyes widen as he cries, “Melanie, wait!!” He exits after her into the corridor, the door swinging closed behind him as he says to her departing figure, “Just hold on…”
Melanie glances back at him, her eyes obscured by the hair that falls in front of her face. She growls, “Leave me alone, Martin…”
Martin says with a concerned expression, “I… I don’t want to fight, Melanie. Things are already hard enough, infighting isn’t going to help—”
There is a shot just of Melanie’s eyes, narrowed in anger, before she wheels and shouts in all caps, “Oh, piss off!” Then: “Since when do you—”
Martin says, “Huh…?” as he backs away from Melanie, who is approaching him step by step. Melanie continues, “—have the right to preach to me?”
The camera focuses on Melanie as she looks up at Martin, whacking her hand over her heart. She says, “You betrayed my trust! You don’t get to talk down to me like you’re the one who’s high and mighty!”
Martin says with a confused and worried expression, “What are you—”
Melanie snaps, “You promised me!” She flings a hand out, the background fading to show Jon lying comatose in a hospital bed while Melanie and Martin stand next to him. Melanie says with tears in her eyes, “After we saw what happened to—to Jon and Daisy and Tim you promised we could kill Elias!!”
The camera fades back in to show Martin staring ahead with a blankly horrified expression as Melanie continues, “Only for you to go behind my back and get him arrested like a coward!!”
Martin looks away from Melanie as he says desperately, “I—it was too risky! We still don’t know if killing Elias would have killed us too!”
Melanie takes another step towards Martin. She shouts, “I don’t care!! At least there was a chance!!” In the foreground, a piece of wood in the floor pries away, and a claw with four fingers reaches upward. Neither Martin nor Melanie notice.
Melanie looks down at her feet, shaking. She says, “But now we’re all trapped here—” Another step forward. “And it’s all—” She grabs Martin by the collar. “Your—” The camera zooms out to show her shouting into Martin’s face, “Fault!”
In the space between panels, someone shouts, “Guys!!” Martin and Melanie both glance away, eyes wide. Then they startle apart as two bangs resound in the space between them. Martin says, “Jesus—” and Melanie says, “Basira?! What the hell—”
The camera zooms out further to show Basira at the end of the hallway, surrounded by unidentifiable smears of flesh on the floor. She raises a gun in Martin and Melanie’s direction and shouts, “Hey!” Then the camera cuts to her expression, terrified and sweating, as she continues, “We have a bit of a problem!!”
Martin and Melanie both stare at her in incomprehension, even as in the background, something huge looms over them. Then they turn to look, and the camera zooms out with them.
Jared Hopworth, in all his five-armed jeans-clad glory, is at the end of the hallway, action lines radiating out of him. Two tiny bullet holes on one of his biceps are seeping blood, but they don’t appear to have affected him at all.
The camera turns back to Martin and Melanie. Melanie is smiling with an expression both terrified and delighted as she unfolds a small knife in her hand with a “shing!” Martin whispers, “oh shit.” End ID]
[ID: A digital drawing of characters Zolf Smith and Oscar Wilde from the AP Podcast Rusty Quill Gaming. The drawing is fully coloured and square in format. Both characters are shown roughly from the chest up. Oscar takes up the left half of the painting. He is a white human man with long white hair, wearing a paisley patterned cream coloured jacket. His eyes are closed and his head is lifted as he laughs happily, a flush on his cheeks and nose. Zolf, a white dwarf, is leaning against his chest, hiding his face in Oscar’s throat. He has short white hair and a full, white beard. Zolf is wearing a matching, though unpatterned cream jacket over a green shirt. Zolf’s eyes are closed and he too is laughing softly, blushing beneath his freckles. Both characters are wearing golden accessories: Zolf’s beard is gathered by a slim bold ring and he also wears an ring around the upper curve of his ear shell. Oscar is wearing multiple matching rings, gathering one thick strand of his hair at the side of his face. In the background, fairylights and the shadows of dancing people are visible. /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.]
[ID: A digital, fully-coloured drawing of characters Skraak and Hamid Saleh Haroun al-Tahan from the AP podcast Rusty Quill Gaming taking a nap together. They are set against a plain dove grey background. Hamid is a brown-skinned halfling with fluffy, dark brown hair, pointy ears, brassy scales on his face and hands, and a tan-coloured dragon-like tail. He is wearing a cream-coloured shirt with dark green sleeve garters and cuffs which have golden embroidery. He is also wearing a dark green cravat and trousers. Skraak is a lizard-like kobold with red and tan-coloured scales. They are wearing spiked leather armour and have their arms around Hamid’s waist, resting front-to-front on his chest. Skraak’s tail is wrapped around one of Hamid’s thighs. /end ID]
Ok so a friend send me this meme and i have definitly seen it circle around on tumblr in a similar manner as well so i decided to use the sweet, sweet free time I have to…. actually draw it.
[ID: A digital drawing of Zolf Smith and Cel Sidebottom from the AP Podcast Rusty Quill Gaming. The characters are fully coloured and set against a plain beige background. Cel is a tall, thin, white half-elf with blond hair that’s sticking up, kept in place by a set of goggles, and pointy ears - one of which is half blown-off. Cel is wearing a dark coat, grey shirt, and amo belt with potion vials. Cel, hands in their pockets, is looking sideways at Zolf who is a ruddy faced, white dwarf with short white hair and a braided beard. He is wearring a grey coat over his breastplate and holding his glaive which is longer than Cel is tall. Cel asks “Why does Wilde call you babygirl?” to which Zolf, with a blank face, replies “How about we stop talking for a little while.” The Artit’s signature, reading “Ängry Duck Time Machine” is visible between the two speech bubbles. /end ID]
OVER 7,000 FOLLOWERS?!?!!??!!! I cannot believe how lucky we am to have you guys all here. This is my largest following on ANY of my platforms. The least we could do is to start answering questions again.
