Rise of the guardians style au where the sides are human aspects in general n not just bound to one person is this anything

Culture is so obsessed with the idea of lone geniuses that it doesn't really appreciate that most of the progress of science (and likely every other discipline) occurs collaboratively, in babysteps, and usually through a lot very tedious, utterly unsexy, work.

This is what’s so faulty with our short sighted coverage of scientific discoveries. You hear politicians question why we spend money on science studying insect wings and then decades later that research gets used by NASA for the most efficient way to fold/unfold solar panels on spacecraft. All of science is connected and useful because it enhances our understanding of the universe

No no no, see, a puppet obtains power at the expense of agency, a doll obtains meaning at the expense of agency, and a plushie obtains unconditional love at the expense of agency. The thing currently mauling you was already powerful and self-actualized when I brought it under my sway, so when you beg me to 'call off my puppet' you should really be saying plushie instead. Try again, m'kay?

my mom, discussing furries with me: but I don’t get all the cats and dogs, why wouldn’t you want to be a sexy animal? like a kangaroo

me: mama what the hell does that mean

my mom: so muscular

roman sanders talks so much and the only way to get him to shut that mouth is a kiss me thinks, he is Thomas's passion and romance afterall

You wanna kiss me so bad it makes you look stupid - Roman Sanders

I feel like making tma rarepair shipnames that no one asked for. So.

Jon x Georgie -> Watch The Ghost

Gertrude x Leitner -> Eyebrary

Elias x Martin -> Poet Watch

Tim x Martin -> Clownely

Thats all at the moment. Gimme some of yours or some other obscure ships to name. I find it really fun

Omg these are so good!

Some fun ones I've seen/collected

Parasight - Jane Prentiss x Elias

Graveyard Watch - Oliver x Jon

Watch Party - Tim x Jon

Keyeaking - Tim x Jon

Doorkeay - Gerry x Michael

Terminal Velocity (so obsessed with this one you don't even know. Like ik it's one of the commonly known ones but damn) - Oliver x Mike

Smokeyes - desolation x eye (usually Agnus x Gertrude)

Bombdrop - Desolation x Vast

Death drop - End x Vast (e.g. Oliver x Mike)

Larger than life - End x Vast (Oliver x Mike)

Cuppa - Martin x Mike

Eyedrop - Eye x Vast (e.g. Jon x Mike)

Withering heights - End x Vast/Oliver x Mike (just sm for this combo)

Anger management - Melanie x Elias

Hot Topic - Tim x Gerry

True Crime Podcast - Daisy x Georgie

Burying the Hatchet - Daisy x Tim

Pyromaniacs - Martin x Gerry

Eye Spy - Jon x Basira

Bite the Bullet - Daisy x Basira

Eulogies - Oliver x Martin

Pushing up daisy's - Jon x Daisy

Ciggerate Daydream - Jon x Oliver

Smoke and Mirrors - Martin x Michael (Or just Desolation x Spiral)

Shapes and colours - Michael x Helen

Kaleidoscope/Kaleyedoscope - Jon x Michael

Slam poetry - Daisy x Martin

DarkSkies - Simon x Maxwell

Arkillvist - Jon x Hunt/Daisy

Darkivist - Jon x Dark

SpEyeral - Jon x Michael (Eye x Spiral)

SpEyeder - Jon x Annabelle (Eye x Web)

Archivast - Jon x Mike

Longing gaze - Eye x Lonely (alternative for Jmart)

Moth to Flame - Corruption x Desolation (e.g. Agnes/Jude x Jane)

Also some Jmart alternatives:

EyesTea

Watched Kettle

TeaHolding

Good Cows

Gerrymichael where Michael is taller than Gerard by a few inches. Their height difference is hardly noticeable and often covered by Gerard wearing platform boots that either evens out their height or makes him just a bit taller than Michael.

Doorkeay where Michael is taller than Gerard by a good foot and Gerard's platform boots have gotten comically large. (Yet, they still don't change the height difference of Michael being taller.)

Micheal’s height changes based on how tall Gerry’s boots are so he’s always exactly a foot taller

i can’t stop thinking about how jon and martin’s ship name couldve been jortin sackwood

Almost forgot to post these here,, umm this is so self indulgent but I super super love the idea of Jon and Martin being parents,, it brings me so much joy I hav read like every jonmartin kidfic to exist some of them multiples times like what if they built a family together 😫😫😫😫💕💕💕💕🏳️‍⚧️✊

Compilation of the first part of TMA episode Posters.

What is your fave episode out of this lot?

Thinkin about… S4 AU where Tim survived (and also lowkey becoming a desolation avatar u know how it is)

Agnes's fire doesn't always burn.

In "Recluse" she kisses a boy on his cheek to free him from The Web. It doesn't burn at first, then at just the right moment it scalds his face so bad that the fears powers over him break just enough to let him flee from Hilltop Road. In "Burning Desire" Jack tells us that he took Agnes's order many times without incident. The first time he noticed something off was when a man approached her and she made him leave with sweat dripping down his forehead. After that Jack mentions he saw scorch marks on her chair for the first time.

So Agnes's fire is more like a candle than a wildfire. It's always lit but she seems to have some form of control over it. If she didn't she would have burned the boy on Hilltop Road as bad as she did Jack and made him overheat while he took her coffee order.

But doesn't that observation make the end of "Burning Desires" a bit more interesting? Agnes burns Jack so bad he's hospitalized. Yet, it does seem like her powers are uncontrolled.

I think the darkest interpretation is that Agnes might have burned Jack on purpose. Either so that he always carried a reminder of her with him, or as a sacrifice to The Desolation since in the end she did feel a duty towards it, and burning Jack could represent the idea of her ever having a normal life falling into pieces.

But I think the interpretation I believe much more than that is that Agnes's desire for Jack (And an unburdened life) was so strong that she couldn't control herself. The fire that she usually could keep tempered burned out of control in her grief for herself and what she was loosing, until she was the victim of the desolation she was supposed to cause the world.

Went to Doctor David to get my antidepressants refilled and he told me to kill myself

One of my favorite things about The Magnus Archives is how we're initially introduced to two characters: One who is an Archivist who is very scholarly, curious, and observant. And the other is a kind man who likes to make tea and is said by multiple people to have no survival instincts.

Then as the series goes on the kind man with "no survival instincts" is slowly reveled to be someone who is quite cunning and manipulative when he needs to be. He's consistently shown to be one of the smartest characters in the series, and he pulls off some pretty impressive feats like playing Peter like a fiddle for the majority of season 4 and having enough foresight to put an end to the apocalypse in season 5.

Then there's the Archivist. While he is very book smart, most of his street smart plans rely on ✨vibes✨ and the phrase "Gee. I sure hope this works!" He got lost in the tunnels where his boss was murdered. He has been kidnapped an unreasonable amount of times. He read a statement about a binding ritual trapping a creature to a table and decided to hit said table with an axe.

Martin and Jon are such good subversions of their character archetypes and it's so fun to think about. Martin, who tends to be portrayed as the worst assistant in season 1, ends up making logical choices even when they contradict with what his heart/gut instinct wants. Meanwhile, Jon, who is first portrayed as this guy who is "logical to the point of skepticism," ends up spending most of the series making choices with his heart and/or gut instinct. He's not great at using his head when push comes to shove, but he's usually trying to make the choice that feels right in the moment.

Jon and Martin's growth throughout the series takes them in opposite directions that break their archetypes, and that makes the series so much more enjoyable to me. It wouldn't be the same if Martin hadn't burned the statements in front of Elias or if Jon hadn't broken into Gertrude's flat, and I do love how the "logical Archivist" is genuinely one of the most unhinged characters in the series by like... season 2.

Does anyone else remember the Jon cake war?

tmagp 49 spoilers

so i finally caught up to tmagp and MY GOD do i have thoughts. those will take some time tho so for now i offer you, elias. i liked him already in tma but tmagp 49 was just perfect.

"call me dionysus cuz i run a roman bathhouse!" yes king, please never change lul

something I like about the Magnus Archives fandom, is how everybody rushed to call Gerard by his preferred nickname, “Gerry.”

Collectively, you all respected a fictional character’s last dying wishes, all while indirectly considering yourselves his friend.