#the magnus archives spoilers
Theory: The Anglerfish works by distortion rules. Clearly, Georgie was a victim of the Anglerfish in college and the one we know is all a big facade.
after a long wait, i’m finally allowed to post the merch poster i designed for the @tmatarot zine!
This has been sitting in my files for literally over a year now and i had a super fun time working on it and the rest of the project in general. i also drew some cards because i finished this super early on, so i’ll be posting those separately here
[image description] A digital illustration in the style of vintage circus poster that is advertising the Unknowing. It depicts Nikola Orsinov - who is a mannequins with various shades of skin stapled onto them, and is wearing a red top hat and blazer which are also made of skin - as well as black shorts, a bright pink bow tie and fish net tights. They’re stepping towards the viewer and bowing slightly with a wide grin, while holding a whip made of skin behind their back. The background has 2 rows of mannequins and an organ - as well as a large pair of black arms with a glowing yellow outline that are handing on either side of Nikola. There is a red and yellow border around them with yellow diamonds running up both sides and a set of large golden signs at the top which say “THE CIRCUS OF THE OTHER PRESENTS: THE UNKNOWING.” At the bottom border there is golden text that says. “-7.8.2017-” “GREAT YARMOUTH.” In the bottom left and right corners there are circular windows with a side profile of Breekon and Hope along with half of a coffin each. [End ID]
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–SPOILERS EP 159–
I know tons of people have already drawn bits of this episode but I had the urge to draw Jon in the Lonely.
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–SPOILERS S3 MAGNUS ARCHIVES –
Working on finishing up some thumbnails I did weeks ago as I binged season 3.
Stranger fun times!!
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—SPOILERS EP 154–
“Just don’t wait too long…if you haven’t already…”
SPOILERS FOR THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES SEASON3!!
I love one real-estate-agent-turned-elrditch horror Helen Richardson.
‘come on, let’s go home.’
what if we hugged in the Lonely to keep ourselves from fading out of existence
spotted
“He’s…all eyes.”
“He has achieved what no one–mortal, monster, or anything in between–has ever been able to. He climbed out of The Buried.”
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Caught up with The Magnus Archives today, just in time to finish some fanart for it! WHAT a good podcast!! This is coming from someone who typically just can’t do horror–it’s absolutely phenomenal.
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I’ve been thinking about the Stranger, so this post contains Magnus Archives Spoilers.
I think part of the essence of the fear it embodies is… the idea that your life can be taken by someone else and then worn, that someone else could be you. That what you are could be separated from your own existence and then worn like a mask.
Many parts of the Stranger we’ve seen are predatory. They steal things using deception, trickery and ambush.
The Anglerfish takes people entirely; what remains afterward? It either takes their names and faces and gives them to something else, or robs people of what they are so much that those names and faces don’t belong to them anymore really.
Many agents and aspects of the stranger engage in literal face stealing- Nikola and her host of mannequin and doll people like Sarah Baldwin.
Breekon and Hope are less direct, but they also have themes of theft and depriving people of things, but their fear is the more abstract dread of the unknown destination. They still, however, take people’s lives and belongs quite readily, like the man they took their current delivery business from.
And, of course, Not-Them is all about completed devouring someone’s life and identity; using it for just a while to cause fear and dread.
The episode on zombies, which I initially took to be about the Lonely, I feel on reflection is part of the stranger- the uncanniness of the people, the creeping dread, the underlying fear of having what makes you youstolen.
This isn’t the entirety of the Stranger, of course, there’s the fear of… ambiguity? The inability to know? The uncanniness of something nearly, but not quite, right?
But I feel like this is an important theme.
the magnus archives sure were a podcast, huh?
[ID: the image is a digital illustration of Jon and Martin from The Magnus Archives kissing as the panopticon burns. Jon has medium dark skin, long greying hair, various scars, and a short beard, and his hands are covered in blood. he is wearing an overlarge green button up, light green shirt, rectangular glasses, and dark pants. his eyes are closed gently and he is crying. one hand is gently on Martin’s cheek, and the other in a fist on his shoulder, arm around the back of his neck. Martin has light brown skin, curly silver hair, large round glasses, and stubble. he is wearing a cream sweater a jacket tied around his waist, and dark pants. his eyes are closed, he is crying, and he looks mournful. one hand is supporting his lower back, and the other is holding a knife in his chest. they are surrounded by stylized smoke and an orange flame-like glow. above them is a glowing shut eye. the image looks glitched/corrupted. end id]
