Well that went down like a lead balloon

boushards:

thinking about the fact that the listener is deliberately not allowed to know jonah magnus on a personal level.

there is no way to know where the mask of elias bouchard ends and jonah magnus begins. we are repeatedly denied any information about him that has not first been filtered through someone else’s experience. what we do get given does very little to actually enhance our comprehension of who he is outside of his goals and intentions, which i think is partly the point, thematically speaking. we are allowed to understand his motivations, but not to know him, at least not in the same way that we as listeners know many of the other characters.

we will never truly know him because the only two beings who have ever been granted the ability to do so are the eye and jon. and i just can’t stop thinking about it.

edwordsmyth:

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happidapp:

boag:

Scream this is iconic….

i really love how you can tell how much happier she is

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self-loving-vampire:

Evergreen post.

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janusfnc14:

byjove:

Cemeteries are not wastes of space. Historical cemeteries ESPECIALLY are not wastes of space. The fact developers are continuously foaming at the mouth to destroy them and put a strip mall up in their place should make you even more determined to help maintain them. In urban areas, they are a haven for wildlife. They are a green space. If you are too afraid of death to utilize them for that purpose, that is on you.

I was Horrified when I saw people demolishing part of Cairo’s cemetery

New highways carve into Cairo's City of the Dead cemetery as Egypt's government reshapes the city

Preservationists say highway construction by the Egyptian government threatens to destroy Cairo's City of the Dead, a vast historic cemetery

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too-many-eyes-and-teeth:

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:

ALT

And a bit later:

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.

ALT

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

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.

As much as I love to read a sinister Elias, I love everyone miss judging him more. It’s not often I get to read an “incompetent” Elias, but when I do, I know they get it

lakesbian:

lakesbian:

[standing up boldly] I don’t think pearl actually fumbled rose though

everyone makes the joke posts about how if they fumbled a bbw to a soundcloud rapper they would also start eating their own organs but i don’t think pearl actually fumbled rose under any definition. pearl inspired some of the most positive changes in rose’s life and rose spent thousands of years loving being with her while also fully convinced that she was undeserving of her. you have to place the whole thing with rose dating greg in context of the gem timescale. it’s canon text that rose was occasionally dating earth men during the course of their time on earth, not as some sort of monogamous break-up situation where she would leave pearl each time, but where her gem relationship with pearl was one long ongoing thing, and humans were the cute little aliens she sort of objectified and treated as a novelty to occasionally date before she got bored of them/they died/whatever. rose presumably did not in any meaningful way drop pearl for greg, she just deprioritized spending time with her–which pearl was fine with at first, because she was fine with being deprioritized for novelties that might only last a few years while she’ll last for thousands. pearl became upset and envious after she realized that rose actually cared about this one in a way more comparable to how she cares about pearl. but this didn’t happen because she fumbled rose by any reasonable stretch of the term. this happened because even after reinventing herself once thanks to pearl’s idea, rose still believed that she hadn’t really changed, and hated herself, and saw herself as unworthy and undeserving of the people around her, and was very suicidal. she was so enamored with greg and with humans because she saw them of being capable of changing & growing in a way that she believed she was fundamentally incapable of. and so she decided to kill herself through the route that involved what she perceived as reinvention into someone beautifully capable of that growth. pearl just simply could not have done anything about rose still privately having those hang-ups or about the fact that they’re both gems. I Do Not Believe It Was Pearl’s Fumble When Her Wife Killed Herself

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liberalsarecool:

liberalsarecool:

It’s 2026. Stop letting politicians of any party convince you that we cannot protect human rights. It’s a matter of leadership and courage. If they don’t have it, vote them out of office.

Let’s go!

Good news for NYC!

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theatredelabsurde:

i think the truest form for jonah pre-fears would be of someone who could be broadly classified as a good person, with a penchant for selfishness and an empathy nearing at absolute zero, obsessive about his interest and kind of a nerd. someone who definitely prizes having the upper hand in social circles and conversations as a safeguard measure, not necessarily for malicious reasons (although he does kinda enjoy that), but mostly because he’s secretive of himself and does not like being perceived outside of his control. at the same time, someone who thinks deeply about the world around him and what it means and who seeks answers both because of an innate inquisitiveness and because to know something is to understand its meaning and purpose, and to understand its purpose is to know how to insert oneself in it to the best degree

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theatredelabsurde:

theatredelabsurde:

it’s kinda crazy how like. 90% of the people who interact with jonah as a character completely skip over the sentence I first attempted prevention but the cause seemed hopeless. paying heed to his own words (which are to be held true or the statement wouldn’t have been caught on tape) he did not decide to seek power when he first discovered them (he felt curiosity and fear); nor he did so when his companions became entangled with one of the Entities; NOR when the Rituals became an active threat. he was curious, he studied them, he attempted prevention. discussing privilege around jonah is like kicking a dead horse and I shall never go there but it’s insane to me how his first instinct (or choice, either way) was not to exploit the powers to his gain and to bring the Change into the world itself but to stop it from happening and only inverted his route upon discovering that his crusade was meaningless, that there was no hope for any concrete damage control. this is why I will always, always object to any conception of jonah magnus that doesn’t start with him as a good person. sorry.

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