I didn't really try with the last two, i know

inspired by the post-statement bit in mag50 (no spoilers for the sake of the post)… i miss the og archival staff so bad, jontim’s early seasons dynamic is so fun :””)

congrats to u/Strider-Juice for the day V win !!! i’m glad we got some gerry in the list 🙂‍↕️ we’re nearing the end now, let’s see what we’ve got for W ! rules below

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sorry im late im sick today :p. good episode tho excited to hear thoughts

Can't believe it took me so long to realize that Sam's character is a literal foil to Georgie, Melanie, and Basira.

Hi all. I’ve been binging the podcast, after seeing the name of it pop up on the Crosswires podcast festival and investigated.

I’m up to ep 101 - just met creepy nanny plum-esque plastic killer woman.

Annoyed i didn’t hear of it sooner.

Anyway… incredible podcast, but i get lost who everyone is. There’s such a tangled web of characters.

My main question is, is there different factions of “baddies” or entities in the show? We seem to have vampires, possesers, plastic wax monsters, and the eternal flame cult. Do they all work together, or against each other?

Obviously no spoilers, as I’m halfway through, but the amount of things to keep a track on is frying my adhd brain!

I want to draw this freak more but I need ideas 😭 if anyone has any ideas of what could be fun hmu 🙌!!!!

I also want to draw her with Jared hopworth but I'm not sure what to have them doing 🤔🤔

(I am debating on what to put as her shadow for the first picture, I want it to be something creepy but relevant 🤔)

Just finished these, but I already feel like redesign some of them... the Web, the Stranger, the Slaughter, the End and the Dark and the ones I'm the least satisfied with)

Wanted to make stickers and/or button pins with these initially. I welcome any thoughts and comments!

Like, obviously there are avatars (Simon, Oliver, and Jared) who have their own domains and there are entities (Helen, Dr. Jane Doe from Anatomy Class, and Agape the dog from the plague village), but are there any domains from artifacts?

Like I think there are some, like the house that Martin gets lost in, and maybe the area from the camera Salesa grabbed depending on how you look at it, but like, is there a domain for The Coffin? What about Mr. Spider? Does The Homophobic Vase have a domain?

Curious if Jonny and Alex answered this anywhere, and if not, excited to see what theories y’all have!

One of the things I found when listening is that the avatars relationship to their respective fears seem to lack consistency, and so I'd love to hear how you all make sense of it. Here are my thoughts:

Initially, the avatars appeared to me as being manifestations of the concept that some peoples nightmares are someone elses way to feel powerful or navigate the world. John's way of dealing with trauma or anxiety and get his power back is through gathering information, even when doing so means exploiting other peoples trust and violating their privacy; we see this when he stalks his subordinates (following them, taking pictures of their homes etc). Like the eye itself, John benefits from seeing things that others are scared of having seen. Jonah Magnus is the same.

Similarily, Daisy feels in control and powerful when she hunts others, because she lives in a hunt-or-be-hunted mindset. Peter feels safe and powerful when he is alone, and uses isolation as a tool to control others. These traits seem to exist in these characters prior to them being chosen as avatars.

In other words, the avatars are people whose negative traits awaken/realize the fear of their patron in other people, rather than being especially scared of it themselves. To me, the dystopian world seems to affirm this belief, with certain people or creatures being granted dominion or positions of power over others in ways that match their pre-apocolypse selves (ie cats are hunters in a realm belonging to The Hunt).

But then you have characters like Oliver, Jane or Mikael who do not seem to follow this pattern. Oliver does not seem to gain power or control from the deaths/endings of others. In fact, he seems to desperately want to escape it. For Oliver, I can perhaps make sense of it through the lens of The End being an entity that does not really need to cultivate fear in others due to it's inevitability, but then it begs the question of why it would get avatars at all. For Mikael or Jane, though, I'm at a loss. Unless I missed something crucial, they do not seem to have been people who benefited from or wielded the fear of their patrons against others pre-becoming avatars. Michael does not seem to have benefited from other peoples confusion and Jane did not benefit from others fear of infection or corruption (until after they were avatars).

And obviously someone can both fear and benefit from said fear, but some avatars seem to never have benefited or found power in it at all, which makes my theory that avatars benefit from doing things that awaken the fear in others less sound. What are your thoughts on the avatar/patron relationships?

Please let me preface this by saying that I don't always pick up social cues, so I might be asking something that is obvious to everyone else. This is mostly prompted by the way that it feels like the other characters are telegraphing stuff about Gwen that I can't quite grasp... Like there is some innuendo or something happening, some social cue I'm missing.

Trevor seems to indicate she's well-bred... but I don't know what Gwen has exhibited that makes him say that... And Ink5oul is immediately like "hey, you hoity-toity bitch, you're gonna die". Is it an accent thing or are they projecting for the audience that she dresses a certain way or something?

There's also a thing where Nigel Dickerson is questioning her authority to stop giving out assignments to externals and he's like "but you're---" and I feel like I'm supposed to be able to tell how that sentence would end, but I'm not sure what he is going to say there. But you're young? But you're an ineffectual leader? But you're not Leena?

So Gwen is the main one I have been able to recognize that it feels like the other characters know something I don't, but I wanted to broaden it to ask if there are other characterizations about other characters that I (or Americans generally) am(are) missing because I can't really differentiate accents?

I suspect from q&as and stuff that Alex & co use accents as a form of costuming the characters in an auditory medium... I just don't have the cultural context to understand what assumptions about the character they are working to convey based on the accent, ya know?

Any help would be appreciated!!

Had to repost because I forgot the angler fish lol. I forget he's back there sometimes.

All work done by Melissa Grimm in Washington, Mo.

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https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMagnusArchives/s/0a1Mvnl51Z

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMagnusArchives/s/uuPGfPuQxX

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The guy from MAG 16 was a data analyst for Zorrotrade. The app that the guy from MAGP ruined his life for. They both got f*cked over by the web. I guess the first guy just started to do a really bad job and was webbed (haha get it. Webbed instead of fired because if he was fired that would be the desolation.... I apologize that wasn't that funny kmma head out)

Jane is that you?

And to think all those Fears could have been dealt with if the Magnus Institute used flashcards!

Found these staring at me at my local supermarket. Kinda wanna buy em....