My grandfather taught me that if you're going to harvest an eldritch god, you respect it by using every part. The wings go on the smoker, the brisket goes low and slow, and the bacon is worth losing your sanity over.
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looks like the tag says @otropayaso245
I think this is fairly self-explanatory - people! if you put massive spoilers in the title of your post, even if you spoiler tag the post:
👏 we 👏 can 👏 still 👏 see 👏 that 👏
Please! it’s not even on youtube yet. not everyone can go see it in theatres. i get that we’re all eager to talk about the episode, but please don’t spoil it for other people.
April 2025: Egg cracked
8th of February 2026: started estrogen
March-May: noticing the early stages of feminisation, and am very happy about it. Actively looking forward to more effects to come in the future.
24th May: multiple friends all agree I’ve got the beginnings of breasts growing.
26th May, morning: process what my friends said, freak out, become depressed and dissociate until the next day.
27th May: feeling back to normal again, what the fuck was that?!
I’m now questioning whether I’m really transfem in the first place, because what kind of trans woman would react like that to having boobs?
I remember before starting estrogen I was unsure how I felt about having boobs.
I thought about SERMs briefly but decided against them.
In light of all this, should I pause hrt while I try to reevaluate how I feel?
obviously if this is gonna spoil anything from further episodes, i don’t wanna know. that being said…
i don’t know if im going crazy but why is it that every episode of the magnus protocol so far has felt at least partially like a Stranger encounter? Am i overthinking things?
maybe its just the writers wanting to make something that feels distinct enough from TMA so everything feels similar but different and uncanny by comparison.
maybe it’s that there are more people writing individual episodes now; i’ve heard more people listed in the credits.
maybe, and i like this idea because it’s an in-universe explanation: the universe we’re in is obviously meant to be (I think?) the new universe that the Fears hopped into at the end of MAG200. the universe itself may be similar in a lot of ways, but in their metaphysically distinct environment the Fears themselves have become warped and reshaped from what we originally knew them as, so manifest accordingly. and i am assuming here that the 15 fears themselves haven’t fundamentally changed much.
or perhaps, for some reason, being in a universe that itself is uncannily different from the one in which the Fears originated, the Stranger simply holds significantly more power than in the TMA universe, and is able to weave itself into manifestations from the other powers more easily.
the thing in the graveyard that wasn’t her husband, the woman changing and altering her body like a painting, the literal unnamed mysterious figure with the bag of definitely-cursed-artefacts, the mysterious watcher present in the memory from the movie blogger’s life, the demeanour of the apparently unassuming needle-person, the charity shop volunteers that remind me very much of the anatomy class students (and their weird ‘donations’), the creepy character creator cannibal diners in the liminal space, the guy who wanted to adopt the mysterious stranger aesthetic after coming into possession of the dice (which were one of items seen inside the bag of nameless-guy-handing-out-clearly-cursed-artefacts, don’t think i didn’t notice that).
even the text to speech software; i don’t know if it’s just stolen John’s and Martin’s (and i wanna say Lietner? that makes absolutely no sense though) voices or if it’s actually got them trapped in the software somewhere.
these are all the things in only the statements of the first 9 episodes that i think are overly Stranger-coded. what gives??