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pangur-and-grim:

pangur-and-grim:

with the Sir Cameron book, I was scared that people might find the dynamic between the knight and the mad sorcerer too uncomfortable (because when they start fucking, the knight is essentially still a hostage). BUT WHAT I DIDN’T SEE COMING was people feeling sorry for the mad sorcerer! I just read a review from the most beautiful soul on the planet, who was anxious about whether the mad sorcerer felt coerced. which is lovely, but also really funny because in the first sex scene Cameron is chained to the wall and gagged, so it’s literally this:

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actually yeah that’s true.

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beheldandcompelled:

I’ll Spin For You

@jonahbus-week Day 6!

Dancing

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rhywhitefang:

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Jonahbus Week Day 6 - Music/Dancing

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archiverot:

One of my favorite things about Elias is how comfortable he is being underestimated. I think a lot of people tend to write him as prideful and intolerant of disrespect, but he’s really not?

His employees call him by his first name. The very first time we hear his voice it’s Jon talking back and being snippy with him, and Elias barely admonishes him for his mistake in the first place. It was under Elias’s supervision that Gertrude “let” the Archives fall apart, and Jon + his assistants are obviously aware of that.

He stole the body and identity of a weed-smoking failson that was too young for the position he was in and only joined the Institute a few years prior. The Institute itself is kind of a laughingstock, openly mocked by academics and dismissed as “crackpots” that will accept literally anything.

Elias comes off as borderline incompetent until episode 80. He dismisses Jon’s concerns about Prentiss, “admits” that he ran away like a coward and abandoned Sasha during the attack, and then apologizes because he couldn’t figure out how to work the fire suppression system fast enough.

Even in Season 3 he still comes off like a dolt sometimes. He conveniently can’t find Jon after he’s been kidnapped, and then this whole conversation happens:

Screenshot of the TMA transcripts. ELIAS I do regret… Gertrude’s notes on the Unknowing are… lacking. I only shared the statements for a reason. ARCHIVIST S– You didn’t even know why you were sending them to me, did you? Just, what, a box of random files she labelled? You were hoping I could figure out the reason Gertrude chose them! ELIAS There is a possibility some of them were misfiled. [DEEP BREATH]ALT

And a bit later:

Screenshot of the TMA transcripts. ARCHIVIST And you can’t just… See where she put it. ELIAS She was… She got very good at hiding things from me. ARCHIVIST How embarrassing for you. Is there anyone else who might know what it is, or, or where? Aside from Leitner, or Gerard?ALT

And in season four, with Basira!! He apologizes to her after she physically assaults him, and then stutters about a “miscalculation” when Basira demands to know why he sent them to the North Pole.

Screenshot of the TMA transcripts. ELIAS [gasping] No, no, no – it’s fine… I’m sorry? BASIRA Oh, yeah? For which part? ELIAS …all of it? BASIRA You sent us to the North fucking Pole for no goddamn reason! ELIAS A, um, miscalculation –ALT

And then Peter sums it up nicely in 159, after revealing that Elias has “lost” most of his wagers against him:

Screenshot of the TMA transcripts. You know, this is one of the first bets I ever made with him I’ve actually lost. But I guess that’s how hustlers work, isn’t it? They lose and lose until you’re willing to put it all on the line, and then – the trap shuts.ALT

All of this!! Probably for 200+ years! He’s most comfortable being overlooked and underestimated, he doesn’t care about being disrespected or looked down on so long as he wins in the end. And he did.

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archiverot:

One of my favorite things about Elias is how comfortable he is being underestimated. I think a lot of people tend to write him as prideful and intolerant of disrespect, but he’s really not?

His employees call him by his first name. The very first time we hear his voice it’s Jon talking back and being snippy with him, and Elias barely admonishes him for his mistake in the first place. It was under Elias’s supervision that Gertrude “let” the Archives fall apart, and Jon + his assistants are obviously aware of that.

He stole the body and identity of a weed-smoking failson that was too young for the position he was in and only joined the Institute a few years prior. The Institute itself is kind of a laughingstock, openly mocked by academics and dismissed as “crackpots” that will accept literally anything.

Elias comes off as borderline incompetent until episode 80. He dismisses Jon’s concerns about Prentiss, “admits” that he ran away like a coward and abandoned Sasha during the attack, and then apologizes because he couldn’t figure out how to work the fire suppression system fast enough.

Even in Season 3 he still comes off like a dolt sometimes. He conveniently can’t find Jon after he’s been kidnapped, and then this whole conversation happens:

Screenshot of the TMA transcripts. ELIAS I do regret… Gertrude’s notes on the Unknowing are… lacking. I only shared the statements for a reason. ARCHIVIST S– You didn’t even know why you were sending them to me, did you? Just, what, a box of random files she labelled? You were hoping I could figure out the reason Gertrude chose them! ELIAS There is a possibility some of them were misfiled. [DEEP BREATH]ALT

And a bit later:

Screenshot of the TMA transcripts. ARCHIVIST And you can’t just… See where she put it. ELIAS She was… She got very good at hiding things from me. ARCHIVIST How embarrassing for you. Is there anyone else who might know what it is, or, or where? Aside from Leitner, or Gerard?ALT

And in season four, with Basira!! He apologizes to her after she physically assaults him, and then stutters about a “miscalculation” when Basira demands to know why he sent them to the North Pole.

Screenshot of the TMA transcripts. ELIAS [gasping] No, no, no – it’s fine… I’m sorry? BASIRA Oh, yeah? For which part? ELIAS …all of it? BASIRA You sent us to the North fucking Pole for no goddamn reason! ELIAS A, um, miscalculation –ALT

And then Peter sums it up nicely in 159, after revealing that Elias has “lost” most of his wagers against him:

Screenshot of the TMA transcripts. You know, this is one of the first bets I ever made with him I’ve actually lost. But I guess that’s how hustlers work, isn’t it? They lose and lose until you’re willing to put it all on the line, and then – the trap shuts.ALT

All of this!! Probably for 200+ years! He’s most comfortable being overlooked and underestimated, he doesn’t care about being disrespected or looked down on so long as he wins in the end. And he did.

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So you can see me now, my dear Jonah.



For @jonahbus-week prompts 2+3 since I was late: New Powers + Modern Era! evil edition.

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the-awful-dread-that-leaves:

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So you can see me now, my dear Jonah.



For @jonahbus-week prompts 2+3 since I was late: New Powers + Modern Era! evil edition.

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  • Question:

    With Jonathing, where is his tongue? Also, when he is opening his mouth, can you see the eyeballs within? Or does it all work on dream magic tma style?

    Love your design btw! Might draw him someday!

    - hotmuffincrumbs
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    iron-wyrm:

    Thanks a bunch!

    For the tongue question - I kinda figured it winds up on the backside of the bottommost “petal”, usually.

    For the eyeballs question, I guess I had figured the surplus eyes would be more on the dream magic level - not really visible unless they’re being used to full effect - but that is a good idea. Just hit the Jonathan Fanshawe statement again when listening with a friend, and that meshes well with that too…

    Maybe he starts getting small eyes showing up on the inside of his mouth when he’s stressed or hungry, like horrible little cold sores?

    A picture of Jon at the sink, looking worriedly at himself in the medicine cabinet mirror. He's pulling down his lower lip to reveal a small set of eyes that have shown up between his lips and his gums that are looking right back at him.ALT
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iron-wyrm:

A sketch of the penultimate scene in mag200 as the panopticon collapses and burns. Jon is kneeling down to clutch Martin's face in his hands, pulling his face close. The branching glowing "tether" between his eyes and the panopticon roof is being encroached by black tape spools. Martin's expression is a pained grimace, as he clutches the back of Jon's shirt in one hand and the knife in the other. Martin is crying, it's not clear if Jon's face is streaming with tears or blood.ALT

I also never actually posted this episode 200 sketch? I’ll probably revisit this again but for now it’s presentable as is

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iron-wyrm:

A sketch of Jon (post-panopticonning) where the skin on his face is beginning to split from the middle down to his upper jaw, accommodating more eyes and more attachment points for the glowy tethers between his body and the panopticon pupil above. He's wearing an oversized sweatshirt that I've drawn him in in some of the other mag 200 pictures I've done, and it's splattered with blood on the right side. There's the following notes: "While originally anchored to the tower via his eyes, the longer he's there the more his face...erodes" and, pointing at the blood stains, "godhood doesn't come with laundry service, unfortunately. To the right there's another sketch diagramming how the panopticon moves relative to the domain space it observes - the panopticon is now two spires that point to each other, with the flat plane of the domains sliding freely between the points. There's the following notes: "Base of panopticon was shattered, and now it moves freely - or rather, the domain space can be moved under it (like a microscope slide". and, pointing at the tip of the uppermost spire, "Jon is the "lens" of it, here-ish"ALT

Some concept scribbles for a “Jon gets what he wants but has to live with it” alternate ending.

Basically, Jon gets more of a lead time to settle in to panopticon-hood before everyone else manages to blow it up, and when they do he’s able to realize that gravity is only in play as much as he says it is and can to adapt the structure to avoid having it collapse. With it unmoored from its foundations it’s also now able to move.

So, yay, the ominous looming tower thing at the center of the universe has now been upgraded to a sort of castlevania dracula castle situation, and Jon can freely bother people as he chooses.