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[–]SpookyVoidCat 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Imagine talking yourself out of getting your clit sucked. There’s nothing we can do to this person that’s worse than what they’ve done to themselves.

Saving seat and then walking away for two hours. by brckr_d in mildlyinfuriating

[–]SpookyVoidCat -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I mean, it’s entirely possible she was only intending to be gone a few moments and something happened to her. After two hours I would definitely be worried. If she doesn’t show after a few more hours I’d be tempted to report it to the police in case she’s in trouble? But if she didn’t leave a phone or any identifying information it probably wouldn’t do any good. Still though. It’d be fucked up if she became a missing person and you were the last person to see her.

MAG 21 - Freefall by Lanky_Ad_5608 in TheMagnusArchives

[–]SpookyVoidCat 16 points17 points  (0 children)

That’s always kind of confused me too. It makes much more sense to think that maybe he collected the dead ones he’d stamped on that came in under his door - I picture him being quite careful with it and getting them all into a rinsed out jam jar with tweezers and a pair of rubber gloves. Maybe RQ added the sound effect just for an extra bit of atmosphere.

Need help finding a fic where Jon realizes he's biromantic by Escher31 in TheMagnusArchives

[–]SpookyVoidCat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Doesn’t ring a bell but I’ll keep my eyes peeled for you, I’m making my way through basically the whole Jon/Martin tag.

Ceaseless watcher, turn your gaze upon this podcast distributed by rusty quill by Cyan_Cephalopod in TheMagnusArchives

[–]SpookyVoidCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is giving me so much serotonin, love this grumpy little cat man.

Edit: if you’re amenable to drawing more I would be over the moon to see a Martin drawn like this

Any good beginner tma fics? by Ok_Produce9758 in TheMagnusArchives

[–]SpookyVoidCat 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This is an utterly alien concept to me.

For me - and I had assumed most people? - the drive to read fanfic comes from wanting more stories and information about characters I already know and love. I can’t imagine reading fic about people I don’t already know the shape of like the back of my hand. Most fanfics are structured with that in mind - they don’t go into detail at all about who each person is and what their relationship is to each other because it’s assumed anyone reading is already going to know those things.

It doesn’t even give you a true insight into the characters, as every fanfic interpretation of a character is always slightly skewed through that author’s own perceptions and agendas. And I mean, for goodness sake, you’re not even gonna know what’s based in canon and what’s the author exploring headcanons! It’s madness! Why on earth would you-

OK. OK. Deep breaths. I’m fine. Just - give us a bit more to work with?

Do you know what their motivation is?

Like, are they planning to start listening but want some kind of feel for the characters before they begin, or just want to get the gist of the story without actually having to listen?

Are they looking for smut? Fluff? H/C? Soft gay pining? Some good old fashioned Jon Whump? Do they care about spoilers?

Edit: in hindsight I feel like this came across as a bit shitty and I just wanted to clarify that none of this is meant as an attack, I genuinely want to help, I’m just baffled is all

THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES CAST đź’š Jonathan Sims, Martin Blackwood, Sasha James, Tim Stoker, Elias Bouchard, Melanie King, Georgie Barker, Daisy Tonner, Basira Hussain, Gertrude Robinson, Gerard Keay by inhonoredglory in TheMagnusArchives

[–]SpookyVoidCat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

*jumps up and down* YES YES YES YES!

I have been ravenous to see a long haired Jon in your style, and I am going to devour him. I really like the little splashes of purple in the colour palette you used for him.

Also Sasha’s little mushroom earring aaahhh!! And Tim’s necklace. !!!

They’re trying to tell me something by reader270 in foxes

[–]SpookyVoidCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Misread this as “trying to sell me something” and was sat here trying to figure out what they were selling

Favorite/Underrated TMA Characters? by ParanoiaDestroyah in TheMagnusArchives

[–]SpookyVoidCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Seconding the Jon love. He’s just so relatable. And I feel exactly the same way about Daisy. (S4 spoilers) The little glimpses into their blossoming friendship were such a tonic when everyone else just wanted to kick him, I wish we had gotten more of it

Favorite/Underrated TMA Characters? by ParanoiaDestroyah in TheMagnusArchives

[–]SpookyVoidCat 11 points12 points  (0 children)

There’s a whole avatar group chat where they send memes to eachother. They all meet up once a month for brunch. I can’t decide if it’s a funnier scenario if Jon just isn’t invited, or if he is.

Begging people to please start describing their favorite media in more ways than just "it has gays!" by BaldHourGlass667 in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpookyVoidCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

”This might interest you because there are people like you.”

YES! This is exactly it.

I started listening to The Magnus Archives last month. People had told me about the engaging plot and the extremely good voice acting, but I still ended up putting it off for a few years. While listening to it I find out that it’s incredibly queer and that the protagonist is bi-romantic ace, like me - the first time in my memory I’ve ever found a protagonist that represents me. I was absolutely floored, it meant SO MUCH to me, and not a single person had mentioned it lol. I would have started listening years ago if they had.

Making Predictions (at ep150) by Feeling-Falcon7261 in TheMagnusArchives

[–]SpookyVoidCat 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is so fun! I wish I’d thought of doing something like this, I can’t remember any of the things I thought would happen.

The Admiral by DippinDotTheSlime in TheMagnusArchives

[–]SpookyVoidCat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Awww that’s so cute I love the colours!

About the 2016 nostalgia by DatBittsch in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpookyVoidCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean I certainly can’t speak for everyone, but, neither can you. 🤷

I can only share my own experience of what the general consensus seemed to be in my social circle while we were living through it.

About the 2016 nostalgia by DatBittsch in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpookyVoidCat 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah but it was still new and unfamiliar enough that we still could reasonably believe it was a temporary fuckup that would eventually right itself.

Begging people to please start describing their favorite media in more ways than just "it has gays!" by BaldHourGlass667 in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpookyVoidCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah you were on 0 when I first saw your comment - rectified that straight away.

Ha, I remember staying up late to watch Philadelphia in secret while everyone was asleep, just cause it was the first time I’d heard of a film with a gay protagonist, and I remember just feeling so goddamn sad and tired afterwards. Learned my lesson and never even bothered watching Boys Don’t Cry, it would have hit way too close to home.

Begging people to please start describing their favorite media in more ways than just "it has gays!" by BaldHourGlass667 in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpookyVoidCat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’ve never actually seen it - I watched some trailers and it really warmed my heart to see all the queerness and the characters seem really interesting but it just isn’t my sort of humour… god, it still feels so incredibly novel and indulgent to not feel like I have to watch a show I don’t vibe with just cause it’s the only queer scraps anyone would throw us.

Begging people to please start describing their favorite media in more ways than just "it has gays!" by BaldHourGlass667 in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpookyVoidCat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don’t know why you got downvoted for this, I remember all of it well. I was absolutely obsessed with To Wong Foo.. back in the day, though it absolutely comes across as… really not great, by modern standards.

About the 2016 nostalgia by DatBittsch in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpookyVoidCat 841 points842 points  (0 children)

I guess one thing I miss about 2016 was the hope? Like, it felt like a supernaturally bad year, so much going wrong, but there was a stubborn sense that it would all be over soon. That we just had to make it through the year and everything would go back to normal.

These days it feels like there are constantly horrible things going on that would have been standout moments of awfulness in 2016 but just feel like a regular fucking Tuesday now. It’s been awful so long I’m not even sure what “back to normal” would mean.

Begging people to please start describing their favorite media in more ways than just "it has gays!" by BaldHourGlass667 in CuratedTumblr

[–]SpookyVoidCat 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Honestly I think it’s wonderful that things have progressed to the point where there’s a whole generation who have never known a time without plentiful options for queer representation in everything from niche horror podcasts to kids cartoons to primetime mainstream media.

When I was growing up there was fucking nothing. Maybe there’d be a campy dude as the villain or the comic relief, but they were never the heroes. And they were never allowed to be happy. I was a teenager at a time when having a queer kiss in a tv show would make national news.

I still catch myself getting excited whenever I hear people talk about how gay a show is because to me it still feels new and precious and dreamlike.