i feel like people forget that tim stoker is just. a huge fuckin nerd. like yeah he's Assigned Canonically Hot by Basira, kayaking king etc. but he references iocaine powder from the princess bride! he has a specialist interest in architecture and regularly infodumps about robert smirke to jon! he casually namedrops stanislavski while bantering with sasha! he's got a first class degree from trinity college! he's forever borrowing books from the library! he's able to regularly phish utility companies for confidential information! he figures out where the unknowing will happen based solely off his own research even though the rest of the archival team have been trying for months! anyway live laugh love timothy stoker you wouldve been a great archivist if you weren't so silly at heart.
mabel helping martin out with his workplace romance
win for traumatised individuals! local eldritch horror is here to rip it all out free of charge
"It doesn’t want to harm me."
"And me?"
"I won’t let it."
oogh. augh
MAG 159-160 Scottish Safehouse, one of a few peaceful mornings.
I really wanted to add to Martins design some visible mark form The Lonely. Some kind of scar, like Jon is marked (many times (he's like a used chew toy, look at him). So with the loneliness, in my mind, a cold feeling, to the point of numbness (the COLD fog, the COLD uncaring ocean, etc.) I thought frostbite. Not the black sort, but a blue-ish scars on his hands. Forever deprived of sensation. I guess his hair was all white, but it receded a bit, after leaving The Lonely.
the magnus archives is a workplace comedy
Key difference between archives and protocol
deeply unserious five-second doodle inspired by this post by @amiableamos
The universal experience of-
"oh god damn it. It was actually a tragedy horror podcast"
Every single person had that moment of looking at the description, then the cover art, and then the 10 episodes left and feeling a sense of absolute dread.
Also, Jon never had plot armor, he had plot knives that just kept stabbing him over and over until the world ended.
I finished it
Thoughts in the tags
do you want to know what she sees when she looks at you?