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Adding the Evil Dice to the Homophobic Vase and Hungry Violin play date.

TMAGP 8: A Summary

I'm gonna be playing along with this. Some are gut feelings, some are well reasoned predictions, a few are completely wild guesses. I don't think any have come up yet (if you discount the Latin in the OIAR's logo, but that hasn't come up in-narrative), so the series gets a bit of a head start.

Feel free to edit your own in - I'm curious what other people's pet expectations are. I used Baskerville Old Face because I don't have whichever fancy Baskerville font the transcripts actually use.

there are two genders: dolls comma watching and dolls comma human skin

I wonder if Gwen’s gonna brutal pipe murder Lena to get that job

Did y’all know I love TMA too?? I’ve had the Magnus Protocol brainworms since listening to it earlier so here’s my (very subject to change) designs for Alice and Sam until the fandom agrees on something 🫡

Bonus ‘Chester’ and ‘Norris’ doodle in the corner 👁️

lowk thought this was gwen x alice

from jan

Alice Dyer sketch I don’t think I’ll ever finish

gwendolyn bouchard please answer my calls i have the album of a lifetime for you

he’s becoming a goddamn mystery :(

Plot twist Jonny's sticking with the whole evil boss thing, and Lena actually got her eyes scooped out and replaced by this universes version of Jonah: Joannah Magnus

First episodes impression

Alice is kinda hot

Also Martin would be so pissed knowing that his name is Norris

The tmagp spoilers this week are even more indecipherable than usual.

*sips tea* perfect

A lot of people draw needles as a goofy spikeball, but we know they look roughly like a normal person until you get too close. So I propose this: yknow how sometimes when you get a splinter there’s a sharp bit poking out that you can’t really see but you can feel if you touch the splinter? He’s covered in tiny invisible razor-thin spines that at a distance might appear in weird lighting conditions as a funky halo. Only after you get within arms reach do you see the spikes. And of course, by then they’re embedded in your skin, and we all know how painful and hard to remove splinters are

The funniest way to remember it’s thursday is to open tumblr and get out of context spoilers for the new episode. Especially since tumblr has a tendency to make comments that, having listened to the episode, are funny as fuck, and not having listened are average tumblr chaos with a tmagp flavouring

Happy International Asexuality Day!

The tma fandom seems to have unlocked our psychic capabilities. Let me explain.

If you’re on the tma tag, or just have a lot of tma art on your dash, you see art of characters you have only heard the voices of. And you go “Oh, that’s Jon!” “Oh, that’s Melanie!” “Oh, that’s Tim!” And only a handful of these characters have distinctly described traits (like Gerry’s eye tattoos), and fewer still have recurring appearances, or that we hear the voices of. And yet we all agree, roughly, on what they look like. Even if someone has a different design, instead of going “who the hell is that”, you go “well, that’s not what I think Georgie looks like, but I know it’s Georgie without having to check the tags”.

This gets even more interesting when you look at Sasha. Because she gets *replaced*. And so many drawings of not!Sasha label her as Sasha for the bit/for spookiness, but we all somehow *know* when we’re looking at not!Sasha, even when the drawing has no other spookiness.

Ive seen this extend too far sometimes, with a lot of Malevolent art being inadvertently assigned to tma characters, but rarely have I looked at a piece of tma art and gone “who the hell is that??”

Some of this comes down to a collective agreement on designs that happened before I got to the fandom - by the time I got here, pretty much everyone’s designs were largely nailed down. Even so, art where the designs deviate from The Socially Agreed Design are still readily recognizable as the characters. I’m getting to see this with Alice, too - I can look at almost any Alice drawing and go “yep, that’s Alice” and she’s only existed in our collective consciousness for like three months and her design isn’t solidified yet.

i love seeing tmagp posts that are like:

tmagp episode x spoilers below, read at your own risk.

WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT TH

Okay entirely ignoring the fact none of us know what the fuck is actually going on in tmp 8, can we take a moment to just feel happy for Gerry. He was so happy, 'deeply, plainly happy' according to the script.

Gerry who in his last moments turned his back on his mother. Gerry who couldn't kill Jurgen Leitner. Gerry who was betrayed by everyone he ever knew in life. Gerry who never knew how much his father loved him. Gerry who always wanted friends. Gerry who was ready to go.

Whether tmp Gerry is the same Gerry from tma, him being happy in any capacity brings me a world of peace.

I love the tma fandom turnaround on The Horrors. For about three weeks, everyone was like omg happy gerry! Look at him! Probably some repressed trauma but he seems to have gotten out! And then people got suspicious and now everyones like “he seems… too happy. Who’s controlling him” and honestly it’s kind of funny to watch

reblog if you think Alice Dyer is so sexy and deserves a 20 for all her troubles

One of the others walks in and sees him explaining the problem to the duck and thinks he’s properly lost it (well, more than they already did) because they aren’t programmers

debugging

A MESSAGE FOR JONNY SIMS AND ALEXANDER J NEWALL:

you wanna give jon and martin a happy ending sooo badly. you want to make jon and martin so safe and alive and outside a computer even

"Jon and Martin are in the computers" I hear you, I hear you. So then walk with me. A lot of people quote Jon's "I will not become another damn mystery." when they discuss why him being trapped in the computer is tragic. But I think you are all missing the even more devastating quote and the episode it comes from.

“Supplemental. It looks like my posting on a few of the more tech-savvy boards appealing for statements has worked. While the incident itself seems ultimately inconsequential, I was able to convince Tessa to have a look at Gertrude’s laptop, claiming to have locked myself out,”

From MAG 65. And what is MAG 65? Tessa Winters' statement about Sergey Ushanka. The man who tried to upload his consciousness to a computer and got trapped in it.

"While the incident itself seems ultimately inconsequential" Jon, you truly cannot stop being a self-fulfilling prophecy, can you?

On the one hand when first listening to that bit i shouted SAM YOU IDIOT STOP FILLING OUT HORROR PAPERWORK

On the other i sometimes actively seek out weird surveys for the hell of it so i feel like if i came across a form that weird i would probably fill it out too

sam just saying fuck it and filling out any and all weird paperwork sent his way is such a specific kind of chaotic, i’m obsessed with this guy

I literally fell to my knees laughing at this and i dont know why

I actually like how after every episode of tmagp some tma-listeners analyse statements like sommelier when he talks about some rich wine like hmmm this one is clearly the lonely with a slight hint of the stranger and maybe notes of the spiral and I think I can sense some desolation in here

Soooo. I started tmagp. Mind you, I’m not caught up yet, I only listened to the first two. But GODDAMN I will not be normal about this ever. Consider this your warning that tmagp spoilers may be a thing in the future