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clairebearsparkles · 2 years

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I felt like the fears in this style would be cute as hell, and I was right

#the magnus archives #the magnus archive fanart #the magnus institute #the magnus pod #tma #tma art #smirkes 14 #smirke's fourteen #robert smirke #tw trypophobia #trypophobia #tw arachnophobia #arachnophobia #little miss #little miss sunshine #roger hargreaves #clairebear art

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quasi-normalcy · 10 months

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Magnus Archives Fear Entities by Farside Cartoon (Alternate Version)

The Beholding

The Corruption

The Buried

The Dark

The Vast

The Spiral

The Lonely

The Stranger

The Web

The Desolation

The Hunt

The Slaughter

The Flesh

The End

The Extinction

#the far side #the magnus archives #tma #smirke's fourteen #the entities

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statementends · 8 months

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I hope in Magnus Protocol the new agency we're following has really unpoetic classifications for the Powers if they show up.

Eye thing

Darkness

Oh god why are there spiders!?

Ew.

Meat

Urge to kill

Everybody kills

Space is big huh.

Malicious confusion

Too hot to handle

Who the hell are you?

Claustrophobia monster

Sad fog

Climate change is a real thing guys

Literally dying

#tmagp #tma #smirke's fourteen #the magnus archives #the magnus protocol

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uptheantares · 9 months

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Banners for each of the 14 Entities in The Magnus Archives

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laughable-umbrella · 5 months

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👁️ MAJOR TMA SPOILERS UP TO S4 👁️

here’s this if you’re wondering exactly how jon got marked by each of the fears

#i’m technically reposting this cause i had some stuff mixed up the first time i posted this and i left out the slaughter #tma #the magnus archives #tma podcast #jon sims #tma shitpost #the archivist #tma memes #jonah magnus #martin blackwood #agnes montague #smirke's fourteen #the magnus pod

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congregation-of-the-spiral · 2 months

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reblog this w the entity/entities you most align yourself with & why

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myexhaustionissoftblue · 9 months

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I actually really want the Fear Categories™ to be different in the Magnus Protocol's world.

Like, yeah different names being the most popular would be cool and all but I mean like. Actually divided different. Not into Smirke's Fourteen. Like people have divided the Fears into a main six or there's like 37.

Or, even better, how many Fears there are isn't universally agreed on.

Some people say there's ten, and they serve the manipulating, knowledgeable one. Some people say there's 50, and they serve the one that drowns, which is different from the choking or buried alive or large ocean ones. Some believe each Power is a spectrum, so the Vast and Buried are one thing, the Dark and the Eye are one, etc. Some people try to force them into preconceived categories, like the Buried is Earth, Air is that part of the Vast, Water is another part of the Vast, Fire is the Desolation, and then try to shove the rest into those divisions too.

Because Smirke's Fourteen is supposed to be kinda arbitrary right? People kinda just adopted it and it became widespread. It doesn't have to be like that. You could have avatars that can create shadows and suffocate you. Avatars that are Hunt, Slaughter, Flesh and Desolation combined. The ability to burn you, and to choke you, but only with smoke. Someone who's specifically serving the fear of electricity. A cult that just has One True God, whose power is creating fear in many forms, serving the Entities as a singular being, the whole colour wheel. The possibilities and combinations are endless!

#the magnus protocol #tmagp #the entities #tmagp theory #the magnus archives #tma #robert smirke #smirke's fourteen

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its-your-mind · 4 months

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*deep breath in*

the fears 👏 have always 👏 been (in one way or another) 👏 parallel 👏 to 👏 desire 👏

let me explain.

so many of the statements given by actual avatars center around some sort of need that was met by their entity. Lots of them even had a positive relationship with the fear that drove them.

Jane Prentiss is an excellent example - the Corruption has always been about a form of toxic and possessive love, but she personally has a deep desire to be “fully consumed by what loves her,” and finds a perverse joy and relief at allowing herself to be a home

Jude Perry is another - she fucking loved watching people’s lives be utterly destroyed. The Desolation only offered her a power of destruction on a grander scale, and then gave her a more intense rush of joy as she did its work. When she tells Jon that he needs to feed the Eye before it feeds on him, it’s almost as an afterthought; she was happily feeding the Desolation long before it burned her into a new existence.

Simon Fairchild. Every time that old loose bag of bones wanders into the picture, he is having a fucking EXCELLENT time playing with the Vast. He loves showing people their own insignificance, and he loves luring them into situations where he can throw them into the void as he smiles and waves.

Peter Lukas (hell, the whole Lukas family (except Evan. RIP Evan.)) hated. people. all he wanted was for them all to go away, to leave him alone. The Lonely only fulfilled that desire.

Daisy, Trevor, and Julia, all devoted to hunting those things they deemed monstrous.

Melanie, holding tight to that bullet in her leg because on some level, she wanted it. It felt good, it felt right, it felt like it fit right alongside the anger and spite that drove her to success.

Annabelle Cane first encountered the Web when she was a child, running away from home in order to tug on her parents’ heartstrings in just the right way to have them wrapped around her little finger. Later on she volunteered to be the subject of an ESP study. Hell, she’s the one who dangled the “Is it really You that wants this?” question over Jon’s head in S4.

And that brings us to Jon, beloved Jarchivist, the Voice that Opened the Door. Ever since he was a child targeted by the Web, he was looking for answers. He joined the Magnus Institute’s Research Department looking for them, he stalked his coworkers in search for them, he broke into Gertrude’s flat and laptop out of desperation for them. And when he realized that all he had to do was Ask to get truthful answers to his questions? It was only natural for him to jump at that opportunity.

Elias told S3 Jon that he did want this, that he chose it, that at every crossroads he kept pushing onwards, and the inner turmoil that caused was one of the focal points for Jon’s character through the rest of the podcast.

There’s a certain line of thinking in many circles about the power of the Devil: he’s not able to create anything new. All he’s able to do is twist and warp that which was already present, making it something ugly and profane while still maintaining the facade of something desirable.

Jon didn’t choose the Eye. But he did wander into its realm of power, exhibiting exactly the qualities it was most capable of hijacking and warping to its own ends. Jon didn’t choose the Apocalypse. But Jonah picked at him little by little, pointing him towards each Fear individually. Jon didn’t want to release the Fears. But the Web tugged on his strings just so and laid a pretty trail for him to follow until he reached its desired conclusion.

Jon didn’t choose ultimate power, or omniscience, or even his own role as Head Archivist. But he said “yes” to the right (wrong?) orders and kept on pushing for the right (wrong?) answers. He wanted to succeed at the work he had been assigned. He wanted to protect his friends. He wanted to rescue them when they were lost. He wanted to prevent the apocalypse, to save the world. He wanted to know why he was still alive, when so many had died right in front of him.

The Great Wheel of Evil Color that is the Entities might not fit as neatly into categories in this universe - maybe there was no Robert Smirke trying to impose strict categories on emotional experiences, or maybe the ways they manifest in the world has turned on its head (goodness knows many of them have been showcased and blended in some very fun and new and horrifying ways so far) - but their fundamental foundations seem to be the same. Hell, in episode one we learned that there had been enough individual incidents to create a distinction between “dolls, watching” and “dolls, human skin.”

Smirke’s Fourteen isn’t going to be relevant as common parlance, RQ said that already, but I don’t think that means the Fears themselves (and their Dream Logic-based rules) are different - I think it means that the levels of understanding, language used, and personal connections among people “in the know” are going to be entirely unfamiliar

#tma #tmagp #the magnus protocol #tmagp meta #tmagp analysis #the entities #robert smirke #smirke's fourteen #mind write a meta post that doesn’t turn into a fucking essay challenge #I literally thought about citing my episode sources here but decided that would get too FUCKING long.#anyway I’m pulling mostly from Gerry’s statement (111) and #and the Big Elias Group Confrontation (92)#and Annabelle’s statement (147)#and then finale - 196 / 197 / 200 #there are other little lines that I grabbed - tbh feel free to ask about anything I’ve said bc I feel like I’m ready to defend a thesis #I’ve been thinking about this on and off for a few weeks since the desire thing started going around #I have an obsession with Themes as they relate to Worldbuilding and now I have subjected you all to it as well #I am serious tho if anyone wants me to pull the specific parts I’m talking about (whether cuz you have Questions or you wanna ref them too)#lmk #my hyperfocus on silly media brain might as well come in useful somehow #aight peace ✌️

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itsnobodysproblem · 3 months

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Playlists for the 14 fears

Roughly in order of length (things might change):

If you kin the End

If you kin the Lonely

If you kin the Vast

If you kin the Stranger

If you kin the Desolation

If you kin the Spiral

If you kin the Web

If you kin the Hunt

If you kin the Dark

If you kin the Eye

If you kin the Buried

If you kin the Corruption

If you kin the Slaughter

If you kin the Flesh

Feel free to comment suggestions!!

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gothighunicorntolerance · 2 years

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Enough of “what fear avatar would you be.” Tell me which fear would feed from you. Which fear’s domain would you be trapped in. Which of the 15 would put a silly straw in you and drink your fear.

#The Magnus archives #lonely or corruption for me honestly :/#smirke's fourteen #TMA

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lizweirdo · 2 months

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i know jurgen leitner’s european ass was definitely not culturally aware enough for this but the manga section of his library would have gone so insanely hard. goodnight punpun. blame! berserk. goodbye eri. the summer hikaru died. every single junji ito work….

#dare i say many shounen are Slaughter and many bl are Lonely……#anything is a leitner if you can overanalyze subtext!#tma podcast #tma posting #the magnus pod #the magnus archives #magnus archives #the fears #smirke's fourteen #jurgen leitner #leitner books

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fear-aesthetic-tourney · 8 months

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Brackets.

Round one matches:

1a: flesh Vs vast. 1b: hunt Vs spiral. 1c: eye Vs lonely. 1d: desolation Vs corruption. 1e: dark Vs web. 1f: slaughter Vs end. 1g: stranger Vs buried Vs extinction.

There will be four rounds, and 22 polls labelled 1a-1g, 2a-2d, semi finals a and b, finals. There will then be a post announcing the winner.

Polls will be posted on Thursday's at 10am BST, and last a week. There will be one poll a week, with a week gap between rounds, when the winners of last round will be announced.

The tournament will begin once I have a big enough following for this to actually matter.

Before and during the tournament, you may submit propaganda for your fave fear, images are allowed but will not be included in polls, merely as separate propaganda posts. (Also, please add alt text yourself, as I'm kinda bad at writing image descriptions. If you don't, I will just try my best)

Appropriate content warnings will be provided (eg: trypophobia)

Also please spread this around! Get this to as many fans as possible.

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milkinthemicrowave · 5 months

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Theory: The Magnus Archives entitites are homophobic. /nsrs

One of my favorite things about the Magnus Archives is the LGBTQ+ representation. However, what’s VERY funny to me is that since this is a HORROR series, the fact that more gay people are being targeted by eldritch horrors than the national average… makes it look like the dread powers are just, SUPER homophobic. It’s completely unintentional and extremely funny to me. “Statement of Herman Gorgoli, regarding his period trapped alone in a suburban area of Cheadle, and how he almost died while on the way to give his ex-husband Alberto’s moose heirloom back-”

“... that’s like the 5th gay person this week that almost died in an eldritch encounter. I’m… noticing a pattern. Will bring this up to Martin. Anyway, audio recorded by Jonathan Sims-” Herman and Alberto from Episode 150: Cul-De-Sac are one-off characters who, in any other media, would ABSOLUTELY be a wife and husband by default. But in the Magnus Archives, the fact that they are both men isn’t isn’t screamed about like “LOOK!! DIVERSITY!!!” …It’s completely normalized. As it really should be. In the Magnus Archives, a character doesn’t NEED a reason to be queer, just the same as they don’t need a reason to be straight.

But… if we assume that the percentage of LGBTQ+ people mirrors that of our world, the amount of queer relationships in these statements does not match the population average at ALL.

...And this series is about eldritch dread powers almost killing people.

So… why are so many of the victims LGBTQ+? The dread powers are homophobic. In this 500 page essay, I will. DISCLAIMER: this is a VERY non-serious theory. I know that Jonathan Sims made it this way just because he could, and it’s EXTREMELY refreshing. I love the series how it is, and would never want to change it. This is just a very funny thought that popped in my head one day. Thank you for reading my ramblings. Also, this theory goes RIGHT out the window if we assume that there's a higher percentage of queer relationships in the world of the Magnus Archives, so. That could also be true.

#the magnus archives #tma #magpod #jonathan sims #smirke's fourteen #crack theory #lgbtq

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statementends · 5 months

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Beholding 👁️ started the poll and Lonely 🌫️ did not participate. Extinction ☢️ was too late for sign up.

#didnt have room for them #tma #the Magnus Archives #smirke's fourteen #poll #for fun #lonely and beholding would be popular anyway #i hope this breaks containment because it would be funny

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wormconsumer · 4 months

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Based off a post I saw with the idea that Robert Smirke had fourteen friends, each falling too/representing a different entity, with Smirke himself being the Extinction.

To get the obvious ones out of the way: Jonah Magnus as the Eye, Mordechai Lukas as the Lonely, Maxwell Rayner as the Dark, and George Gilbert Scott as the Buried; these ones are all canon. Not directly canon but a pretty reasonable assumption is Simon Fairchild as the Vast; we know Simon had Maxwell Rayner help him with his Awful Deep ritual in 1853, which was only a few years before Smirke died, and Smirke hung out with Rayner a ton, so it makes sense for Simon to be part of the group (though by a different name; he only started going by “Simon Fairchild” in the 1930s). Another fairly reasonable assumption, in my opinion, is John Franklin for the Hunt. Franklin is canonically a Hunt avatar in The Magnus Archives, his real-life timeline overlaps with Smirke and the rest, and Rayner was canonically interested in his expedition, which was probably because he wanted to use Franklin’s knowledge of arctic exploration for his ritual, but could also imply they knew each other, and therefore, Smirke’s gang.

For the Corruption, my first thought was John Amherst, but he only became an avatar during the Second Boer War, which was about half a century after Smirke’s time. Instead, John Snow is a better fit. He was an English physician who lived during the same time as Smirke, and he had something going on; his descendant Neil Thompson has a syringe that belonged to Snow that had Corruption properties, so Snow fits. For the Slaughter, we could go with Charles Fleming. We know he was in China from at least the beginning of the First Opium War in 1839, and Smirke and Jonah and the rest were up and active on their supernatural studies since at least the 1810s, so it’s theoretical Fleming could have hung out with them, even though he didn’t become touched by the Slaughter until he went to China. Maybe he came back later, though he was in China at least until 1862. Alternatively, William Hall, the actual captain of the Nemesis, could be an option, his lifetime overlaps pretty well with Smirke’s, though there is no evidence he interacted with the Slaughter besides his interactions with Fleming and the Nemesis. Still, he was probably a bit more high-society that Fleming, so I kind of prefer him. Finally, for the more reasonable ones, we have Joey Grimaldi for the Stranger. Grimaldi’s timeline overlaps with Smirke’s, and we know he was affected by the Stranger even before he was turned into Nikola Orsinov. The reason I’m choosing Grimaldi instead of Gregor Orsinov or Nikolai Denikin is that we know for sure he was in England while Smirke was, unlike the other two.

Now for the more out-there guesses. For the Flesh, there are a few options. One is Eustace Wick, the Lutheran priest-turned-cannibal, who did live at the same time as Smirke, but he became an avatar in 1832, died in 1845, and has no evidence that he’d even been to England, considering he’s American. The other options would be Benjamin Carlisle, Benjamin’s unnamed wife, or possibly some other relative or descendant of theirs. I find this one the more likely choice, because Jonathan Sims specifically wonders how Benjamin Carlisle’s wife was able to give her statement to the Magnus Institute, considering she starved to death in a cave on the Oregon Trail in 1845, as well as the fact that an apparent descendant of her, Toby Carlisle, is living in England by the 21st Century and has enough of a connection with the Flesh to be pretty severely affected by the failure of the Last Feast ritual. The unnamed Mrs. Carlisle being the Flesh representative does mean she presumably gave in and cannibalized her husband, and the timeline only gives her about a decade to have hung out with the rest before Smirke’s death, but I think that fits, considering what Smirke said about just coming up with theories about the Flesh in his statement.

The Spiral has similarly not a lot to go on. I would just say the Distortion, seeing as it’s an immortal manifestation of the Spiral itself. We know that Ivo Lenshik’s father was tormented by the Distortion in a human form, and apparently Lenshik’s great-uncle did too, implying that the Distortion did assume a humanoid form sometimes, before it was forced to by the failure of the Great Twisting ritual. Plus, Jonah Magnus clearly knows who the Distortion is, which yes, he could have learned at literally any point from the past two hundred years, but seeing as we’ve got nothing else, I’ll choose to believe. For the Web, the only older avatars of the Web we’re aware of would be the historical owners of the house at Hill Top Road. We don’t know who owned it during Smirke’s time; the closest we have are the unnamed blackmailer who died during the English Civil War in the mid-1600s, and Walter Fielding, who died in 1923. Walter’s son and grandson both owned the house for about thirty years before dying, so with the same amount of time applied, Walter couldn’t be our Web avatar. Honestly, the answer might just have to be “whichever Web avatar was owning the house at Hill Top Road during the first half of the 19th Century.”

For the Desolation, we have even less. Diego Molina founded the Cult of the Lightless Flame at some point prior to World War II, but we have no idea when, and it couldn’t have been that long, considering what Eugene Vanderstock says about the immortality of Desolation avatars having some kind of limit. The same is true of the End. The only known End avatar who was alive during Smirke’s time was Nathaniel Thorp, who was a Death at the time, and didn’t become human again until 1970. It’s unlikely that Deaths got breaks to socialize.

So, in summary, we know for sure about:

* Jonah Magnus — The Eye

* Mordechai Lukas — The Lonely

* Maxwell Rayner — The Dark

* George Gilbert Scott — The Buried

We can make some reasonable assumptions about:

* Simon Fairchild — The Vast

* John Franklin — The Hunt

We can make educated guesses about:

* John Snow — The Corruption

* William Hall — The Slaughter

* Joey Grimaldi — The Stranger

We can make complete guesses about:

* Mrs. Carlisle — The Flesh

* The Distortion — The Spiral

* Owner of the house at Hill Top Road — The Web

And we have nothing for:

* The Desolation

* The End

If anyone has ideas or things I missed, let me know.

#tma #tmagp #the magnus archives #magpod #robert smirke #smirke's fourteen #jonah magnus #simon fairchild #maxwell rayner

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cult-of-the-eye · 2 months

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Do you think the avatars know what they're doing? Are they driven by an almost animal need to hunt? Would you blame a wolf for killing a sheep? No, but maybe you'd put a leash on it and call it a dog.

#tma #the magnus archives #the entities #smirkes 14 #smirke's fourteen #the mag pod

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