I'm trying to make a playlist that reminds me/ppl of the Magnus archives and I was wondering if anyone knows any songs that reminds them of statements?
(I only recently started listening to it but I'm obsessed)
For a long time I've seen the TMA community talk about the FNAF games as being horror that aligns with The Stranger but the reasons why have always seem too literal to me. People say it's The Stranger because the podcast has mannequins and such show up and FNAF is about animatronics. But that's about it that I see for analysis. If people bring up other Fears in FNAF it's usually also literal, like Desolation because fire happens or Corruption because of things like Springtrap. But physical presence alone doesn't mean it's inherently one Entity because it's about how it's being used. We've seen the podcast have artificial beings before like in 108: Monologue and 149: Concrete Jungle but those were The Lonely and The Extinction respectively, so it's not like the presence of animatronic alone makes it inherently The Stranger.
Maybe FNAF really is Stranger-aligned but idk it just doesn't feel like that much of an actual analysis whenever I see people talk about it. What Fear is FNAF (or at least most of the games) truly working with and trying to impart into the audience? Are we afraid because the animatronics embed in us a sense of corrupted familiarity or from uncanny appearances? Or is it something else?
What do you all think? I don't actually know myself.
Watchers Crown by Cloudkissed is one of my all time favorite songs and I have been listening to it for years before I even knew about TMA but honestly it’s kinda obvious with lyrics such as >!“will you gouge out your eyes and run away with me?” !<and >!”If I open up the door everybody’s gonna drown“ !<and overall it is a really good song so I hope that this influences someone to listen to it :)
Apparently Xbox has decided I need to experience MAG 88 interactively.
DIG.
I'm writing a story where the antagonist is an eldritch horror inspired by the web, the whole thing about manipulating you and whatnot specifically. I'm not trying to hide the fact that it's inspired, but I don't want to straight up rip the name or like "mother of puppets" or "the great spider" or whatnot. Any ideas?
I'm recently re-listening to MAG136 and doing a translation, and some of Lagorio's film name caught my attention. I feel like there're some references to real films here, but can't be sure, and the only two I think are kinda likely to be actual references are:
If there are other references, I'd like to reflect them in the translation. If none of the above are references, I'd like to change the translation so as not to embarrass myself.
Below is a screenshot of the filmography part of Neil Lagorio's Fandom Wiki page.
She reasoned herself out of the Unknowing unaided by any powers?! (Unless she has a secret patron?)
Probably my favourite character so far. I already liked her in the Police Lights episode. This solidified it.
How she do that. World altering eldritch powers sundering reality and she got out from its heart. What a Queen.
That being said, I am confused how the Stranger's powers work, like it sounded more like the Spiral's domain.
If i had a nickel for every time i clocked an Oliver Banks cameo in a random ass episode i never noticed before, i'd have two nickels. Which is not much but it's weird that it happend twice.
That guy is in mag #32 as the new hire from the shop Jane used to work at, which literally reveals his name is Oliver two seasons before he says it himself. He is also the guy in mag #42 who stares at the statement giver and tells her to take care of her hearing before she meets Grifter's Bone.
Maybe those were obvious before but it took me multiple times listening to these episodes before i noticed him. I'll be on the look out for Oliver Motherfucking Banks like a Where's Waldo book from now on.
So I know that we can basically do whatever we want as long as it’s not for profit but recently I used a Magnus archives audio on my work account and I noticed it got a lot of traction. So I posted another one and yall made it to even better. Technically I work for a non-profit, and we don’t get paid through our social media. Is what I’m doing okay???
Overall I really like my art style rn and some of my drawings have not aged greatly going throughout the podcast (can you tell Martin is my favorite?)
So, I managed to make this. Is it perfect? Absolutely not! But it was fun doing it.
(I meant to make this whole thing a spoiler but now I can't see if it's worked? Sorry.)
So I have a couple of questions about how the contracts work for the Magnus institute.
First of all, do we think that the inability to quit is archive specific, or institute-wide? I've seen both interpretations but I'm just wondering if anyone knows any evidence either way.
I personally assumed only the archive was affected, simply because the archives seem to be where everything all goes to shit, and I also thought people would notice if it applied to the rest of the institute. Like there must be quite a large number of employees, and if NONE of them are ever allowed to quit? Everyone is stuck working there forever? I feel like it would do something quite odd to the atmosphere. All the archival staff seem to feel pretty okay about working for the institute until they move to the archives.
Second question: elias' eyes. Jonah Magnus used transplanting his eyes in order to body hop. God knows how he even manages this procedure (any ideas?). But does this mean that all his mortality is in his eyes? If "Elias"s eyes were destroyed, I assume he would die. Would it be different between the Elias body and the Jonah body? Would he die instantly because the Jonah body was only kept alive by the supernatural protection of the eye, given how old his body is? Turn into dust or something?
The way I see it, Elias!body would probably die instantly as presumably og Elias is dead and now nothing is tying him to Jonah Magnus' life force or whatever so he's just a corpse.
Then either Jonah Magnus' body itself instantly expires and decomposes or something since its protection is gone, OR it stays alive technically for a little bit but does quickly of natural causes because no one is supposed to be that old.
did his body actually keep aging like it was mortal that whole time?
I feel like some of the technicalities of his mortality are probably addressed in the last ever episode but despite my frequent relistening to the rest of the show, I've never been able to make myself relisten to that one lmao
I absolutely loved TMA, I was practically addicted to it when I first found it. After finishing it, I've not found much else I like that's on Youtube. Most suggestions are exclusively on Spotify, but I don't like Spotify. I want more podcasts that are similarly episodic and also have a long running story, but I'm willing to try different things. I mostly just need a new podcast to listen to.
So, does anyone have recommendations for horror podcasts on Youtube specifically?
Hey everyone!!! I know this might be kind of out of topic, knowing that this is a Protocol fanart and this is the archives subreddit, but once I saw a post where someone told their friend to draw Martin and John before looking at any fanart. And I tought that I might do the same with the Protocol cast.
Given that I just started the spiritual successor to the original series and I finished It, I wanted to do something similar, all of these are of my own mind, I just saw onenfanart once and honestly don't remember It, so consider this fanart blind as Melonie or Maxwell Reyner.
I originally only wanted to do Sam and Alice as the fanart that inspired me only depicted John and Martin, knowing that the protagonista always have those tumblr esque designs and no one can escape them, but I got carried away and did everyone and everything, including the talkers and Freddy for some reason, this is all my artstyle and I didin't attempt anything realistic, Sorry for that, (And also no legs) I hope you enjoy It!
(WARNING: AFTER THIS PARAGRAPH I'M GIVING MY HONEST AND CORNY OPINION AND GENERAL IMPRESSION ABOUT THE FIRST 6 EPISODES OF THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL) ignore if not interested
I understand why some people don't like the other series or got dissapointed, I understand they wanted a Magnus Archives 2 Electric Boogaloo, but appart from the blood violin episode (Wich is a banger for the first episode with Jonah's voice btw), but the most important part of the series is that the statements are much more diferent from eachother.
I love the concept of the diferent pieces of internet media being the statements, I think the spider website in web development was an early show of this. That a statement can be a blog post, an email, a video call, a document scan, etc is such a creative concept and I love It.
The callouts to the original series make It worth or annot direct sequel that was already alluded to un the last episodes, and making John's, Martin's and Jonah's voices into text to speech thingies is so creative and fun. I love how the cast remembers me of the og's.
Alice gives me a lot of Tim and Sasha Vives, she's such a silly goose (If she becomes and avatar It Will be one of the sprial or stranger I'm sure)
Sam gives me huge Martin vibes I love him, but his curiosity will probably into being paranoic and I'm sure he will have some eye shenanigans in the future.
Gwen is loveley, from a Stern look (Or whatever the Elias statement episode was call) I can clearly tell that she's daughter of the Bouchard family, she's such a sweethart inside her serious facade I can already tell, she has huge seasons 1 John vibes, I loved her little "You can at least pretend you weren't talking about me" I was already Shopping her with Sam or Alice before Celia appeares, but Gwen probably dies early like Tim to be honest.
I really liked how Celia got introduced, just a nice callbakc to the Melanie Georgie cult, given that that was not her real name or got gaslighted into beliving It wasn't by t'he sprial I expect her to be into some interdimensional shenanigans given that the fears probably came late into this universe from the Archives one.
I can already feel how she's going to smooch with Sam, I ship them for life, It she doesen't dies Sasha style of course. :(
Collin is just going goblin mode, I understand his frustration deeply, I love how all the It guys are Germán (That guy Klaus Who got snatched, and I drew him like american dad Klaus) Also what the hell is wrong with IT???
Teddy got saved, bro left before everyone died or became an avatar, ( They are still so innocent now) he will come back I'm sure.
Lena just gives me full on Elias vibes, but not too much, she's still puting up the normal person act or she still is, probably an eye or web avatar tbh, hope to ser morè of her and what she did with Klaus.
The statements are great so far, I really enjoyed voyeur, the Jane prentiss and Jared hophworth lovechild one and specially the violin and needles one si I drew them, I hope needles Guy becomes a recurrent character like Michael, he reminds me of Johny the homicidal maníac with all his sillynes and his bravado.
love It so far! I hope you liked my sketches and my full on tant if you even got this far, no spoilers please! and thanks for watching!
HII I LOVE TMA I LIVE BREATHE AND EAT AND SLEEP TMA I LOVE THEM SO MUCH- okay so I like Tma a lot i tried to get into Tmg (?) The Magnus archives protocol and lowkey the characters are boring it’s easy for me to forget them and lowkey I had to drop it because Everytime I heard Martin or Jon‘s voice from the computers I want to just sob my eyes out because WHAT DO YOU MEAN- anyways lowkey anyone please give me ANYTHING for me to keep going. Mr Bonzo is okay but he’s competing with LITERALLY MICHEAL SHELLY KNIFE HANDS MCGEE. and my weeks of listing to TMA. so I dont think they’re wining that much </3 maybe I should keep givin it a try but lowkey sam and Celia are not winning against Jon and Martin. everyone else is fun but I feel.. to grown to love Tm and Sasha more then everyone else but idk I’m only at like Ep 10
(PS DONT KILL ME!! THIS IS ONLY MY OPINION I DO NOT WANT TO SLANDER ANYONES FAVORITE CHARACTER PLEASE DONT BURN ME ON A STAKE I MIGHT CHANGE BECAUSE I FELT LIKE THEI WHEN LISTING TO TMA SO DONT BURN ME PLEASEEEE)
So you know how a lot of the Fears are said to merge and bleed into one another; have you guys thought about what the strongest combinations might be and what they would look like?
i think about her a lot
i don’t use Reddit a lot so sorry if the spoiler thing doesn’t cover the images!
