Dying your hair in a hotel room while abroad because everyone can see your roots 👀

GERRY. GERRY ARE YOU /J OR /SRS?!?!?!?!

chapter 26 of A Fresh Pair of Eyes is up!

gerry doodle

Next tma victim of adventuretimeification: Gerry

tma doodles - mainly doorkeay

wavy hair gerry is very important to me

guess who got a new pen?!?!

Feeding the Gerry brainrot

Ink5oul and the snorde (snake horde) sketches

I think the snake tattoo should get to be alive. as a treat.

(also a little cane gerry bc he never leaves my brain)

I’d usually post these on my sketches blog (@variablelobster-sketches) but I love how they turned oursisbehjagssjhshwjsnebs

(Speed paint ↓)

do u ever think abt how gerry died probably not having been hugged for the majority of his life…….

Gerard Keay from The Magnus Archives!!

I'm at half of S2 and I'm addicted to this silly little podcast fr

Magnus archives cast part one: guys*. Zoom in for details ✨✨

This took forever I started it like a week ago. And my art style has changed significantly through doing this idk what happened. I like it though.

I’m not sure about the Micheal design, might change it later. It’s so important to me but so hard to draw. Now I will start the girls* one… ough. I wanna do Helen and Annabelle for sure.

*Micheal and Helen’s genders are both Spiral Who Is A Man/Woman For The Laughs. In my heart.

Also none of them get shoes because I hate drawing them so. Vague blob feet.

it's so funny to me how every Gerry/Gertrude fanart makes him look like some 18 years old twink. that guy was born in the 80s and worked with her when he was 30+. his badly dyed hairline was probably already receding and the holes in his crusty band shirts are older than every depiction of him

these two idiots realizing they have the same weed dealer

Almost 100 episodes later and my Gerry gets the glow up of his life

God I love art, only a couple months apart but the improvement is huge, I can only wait to see how much my art changes in the next couple of months <3

TMA SPOILERS

TMAGP SPOILERS UP TO ep8

Okay i was trying to sleep but

DOES GERRY STILL HAVE THE BRAIN TUMOR???? IS HE STILL GOING TO DIE??? I AM SO CONCERNED ABOUT MY FAVORITE GOTH

How does fate work in the multiverse???

Is it like spiderman and thats like his canon event??

Or was it totally treatable and only ignored because of his complete dedication to the magnus institute / mary / Gertrude???

Hes going to be fine right??

Right????

Magnus Archives Relisten 10, MAG 10

Do we think Jonny Sims has read Twilight?

Spoilers ahead

Facts: Statement of Trevor Herbert regarding his life as a self-proclaimed vampire hunter. Statement given July 10, 2010.

Statement Notes: I just love that Trevor's episode is right after Julia's. It really lets you see the wheels turning in Jonny's head as he planned out the series.

On my first listen, this was one of the statements I truly did not believe was true. The combination of Trevor's traumatic childhood, cancer, and admission that he killed a "non-vampire" made the whole thing seem like a complex fantasy. But on the second listen, I realized that is exactly how the horrors work. They specifically target vulnerable people so that their experiences will be dismissed or explained away by more "rational" people. You don't believe Trevor because you aren't supposed to.

Jon says he can't find the "vampire teeth" in the Archives or in the "Secure Containment Room" (Btw both "Archives" and "Secure Containment Room" are proper nouns in the transcript). Is this an early name for Artifact Storage or a subsection of it? It would make sense for the Institute to have a separate facility for the dangerous artifacts, but this raises questions regarding how "secure" this facility is. Assuming this is where the real artifacts like Leitners and the table are held, Jon can access it fairly easily at the end of season 2, but he's relatively high-ranking at the institute. Would Elias ever allow an outsider into the facility like he allows them into the library? Or would that violate his desire to hoard knowledge?

Character Notes: This statement is a "photocopy of a photocopy," which speaks to Gertrude's organization. Something had to have happened to the original, whether she destroyed it or Elias took it, but she had a backup. Knowing that Trevor Herbert is still active in monster hunting, she made another copy to preserve the information. Presumably, she was hoping Sasha would find it and be able to access Herbert when she became the Archivist, but instead it was found and dismissed by Jon.

This episode also establishes that Martin was there when the statement was taken. Many fans assume Martin was hired to work in the archives, but this statement was given SIX YEARS before Gertrude's death, meaning that he would have had to work in research or another facility before the archives. Also, he's worked at the institute for at least 8 years by the time he reveals he lied on his resume, meaning he was TWENTY-TWO when this statement was given and was told that Trevor Herbert died.

The rumor of Herbert's death raises other questions. Why would that story spread? It seems to be another part of Elias' long game. If Martin--who he specifically selected to eventually be on the archival staff--believed Herbert was dead and told Jon so, then Jon would not seek him out and put himself in danger too early. Additionally, he would not be able to find the skin book and speak with Gerry before the time was right. Elias needed everything to run on his schedule.

Entity Alignment: With Trevor, there is a definite Hunt alignment. His whole life is driven by the desire to seek out and kill vampires. It's become the core tenant of his identity and drives him to forsake all personal relationships and attachments, centering his life around the fear of vampires and the need to kill them. The need to eliminate his own fear is what leads to him becoming an avatar of fear itself.

But I struggle to find a clear connection to what fear the vampires are connected to. They could be Hunt avatars or aligned creatures themselves. They have a desire to find and destroy living things, mindlessly hunting. It would also make sense for a Hunt creature to draw in Herbert and turn him into a Hunt avatar, turning him into what he fears most. This tactic is seen throughout the series with multiple fears, but I am specifically reminded of the Hunt in MAG 112 as the book club turns against itself.

There is an element of the Flesh within the vampires, however. They turn humans into food, removing their identities and degrading them into their physical existence. A large portion of the Flesh is dedicated to removing any idea of a consciousness or soul and reminding us that we are meat, which the vampires seem to do effectively.

I also noticed connections to the Stranger in the vampires. While their ultimate actions don't match with the Stranger's modus operandi, their mannerisms are similar. The primary similarity is the fact that vampires don't speak, as if they "don't have a voicebox," yet they still manage to be understood. The Stranger draws people in with its apparently human attributes, and only when it's too late do victims realize something is off. So long as the vampires are understandable, victims don't realize the not talking is odd until it's too late. Furthermore, the first vampire Herbert meets offers him rotten fruit, and many Stranger-aligned creatures and avatars give strange gits as an attempt to form a human connection while still unsettling people (tooth apple, metal heart, etc.). The fruit made Trevor uncomfortable and afraid, but he didn't leave the old woman because he reasoned she was trying to be kind in a twisted way.

But I also wonder if the vampires are aligned at all. Trevor describes them as being driven only by the vague desire to feed. While this could signal a Hunt or Flesh alignment, they don't have a connection to the rituals of these entities nor their other avatars. In Mag 111, Gerry explains "What's out there doesn't care about blood," before correcting "Yeah, obviously except for the vampires." Again, the need to consume blood could align the vampires with the Hunt or Flesh, but they don't seem to be driven by the desire to cause fear. If the vampires are fueled by an actual, physical need to consume blood for survival, could they accurately be associated with a fear-driven entity? Or are they just another monstrous thing that exists in this universe?