THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 พ.ค. 2020
- MAG134 - Case #0060122 - Adelard Dekker
Statement taken from a letter to Gertrude Robinson.
The Magnus Archives reads of a theory posited around the discovery of a discredited essayist’s final experiences and a French academic’s researches into his recently discovered journal.
Content Notes: Environmental disaster, spatial disorientation, emotional manipulation, death and dying
Starring: Martin Blackwood - Alexander J Newall; Peter Lukas - Alasdair Stuart
Writer: Jonathan Sims
Director: Alexander J Newall
Producer: Story Sylwester
Editors: Alexander J Newall, Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead
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"This little soap opera you call an Archive"
I would murder Peter Lucas on sight but he isn't wrong on this one.
the image of martin stacking piles of tape recorders on top of the coffin in the desperate hope to bring jon back is one of the saddest things in this fucking podcast
I can almost feel him going "C'MON JON I *JUST* TOLD YOU I CANNOT LOSE YOU AGAIN WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS"
That hurt me to hear that part lol
@@hollynotholy he almost definitely said this the second he realised what had happened
You can say that again ;-;
martin is the reason jon got out not because of the tape recorders or the rib and you can't change my mind
"I have a family thing to get to." I'm losing it over the thought of The Lonely family potluck lol
They all get together and glare at each other silently judging each other. Families have a way to ostracise you, you know...
They all sit like 20 feet apart from eachother and just stare off into space.
they serve the most blandest southern food (that’s such a oxymoron)
I imagine it's the essence of feeling more lonely around people who are distant than you feel when you are physically alone.
"He manages to pull himself out of the coffin like a grubby Jesus, and he even brings a penitent thief along, in the form of your pet murderer."
Peter Lukas is an extremely underrated comedian with all of these lines lmao
It gets even funnier if you read it in John Mulany’s voice
Even more funny when you realize that the real Jesus in Christian religion actually did resurrect after 3 days dead in his tomb/grave.
@@reachingzenith7772I JUST DID OH MY GOD
@@syrusangi8743yea that's the reference :D
The "Martin Blackwood, Archi-- Assistant to Peter Lukas, Head of the Magnus Institute" WHY DID THIS HURT ME!?
SAAAAAME OH MY GOOODDDD ToT ToT ToT ToT
It hurt me too ;-;
Because it definitely hurt him.
⟟ SCREAMED INTERNATIONALLY!
Peter Lukas calling the Buried "Too Close I Cannot Breathe" gives me life.
I notice he doesn't really use Smirke's names. He also called The Lonely "Forsaken"
It sounds like a shitpost. Like "no thoughts, head empty."
Adelard calls The End “Terminus” at one point. Pretty much all of them have other names that are overly poetic.
I kinda love how some of the fears have names that are full sentences. “It is not what it is,” “it knows you” “I do not know you” and “too close I cannot breathe” make the entities sound so unknowable and esoteric
@@jacobjohnston3983 I mean they are supposed to be thought of as eldritch concepts beyond comprehension so makes sense
"Elias was perhaps unsurprisingly, unwilling to help."
Petty man in jail just chillin.
Perfectly sums up Elias
They're just on a break
Elias in his entirety
Sounds like Elias
So what I'm getting here is that a bunch of different Avatars are playing tug-o-war with Martin to get him on their side.
At least they appreciate him
Tbh I'd also like to try and get him on my side if I was an avatar, he's great and lovable, I love him
Can you blame them though?
(Spoilers? maybe? idk)
there’s the lonely cheating, the web gave up, and well the eye is falling behind
martin was piling tape recorders there for him... i'm gonna go cry
AND IT WORKED TOO!!! I assume THAT was the anchor! And not the bones!!!
@@CKMNSR thats what I though to! I assumed it was basira at first but martin does still care! now we just need to kill peter, he's funny but he's hurting my fave character
I know everyone hates Peter Lukas, but c'mon the man said "grubby jesus" that's amazing he's great 😭
I heard it as 'grumpy Jesus' and I don't know which I like better.
Why does everybody hate my boy?! I know he's an inhuman manipulative bastard who's trying to brainwash Martin on a regular basis, but c'mon. Listen to him. He's so cute.
His relationship with language is surprisingly endearing
I dont hate Peter tho qwq💞
PETER LOVE
It was Martin who placed all those tapes???
Excuse me while I die of how much I love this man.
That mental image makes me want to cry, poor Martin
There’s something that just hits different about listening to the “new power of extinction” during a global pandemic...
Oh they grow up so fast on a century or less old and already taking a crack at a ritual
It's certainly trying to emerge in the States
This comment aged well...
You know something. I thought that the new fear would be something like "The hate" I mean I think it would make sense. Fear of being hated or despised. Like your very existence is a stain on the earth that needs to be purged and wiped out. And that everyone thinks that you are less then dirt.
I think that would make sense to be a fear.
I think this comment will only continue to get truer.
I thought I was going insane!! Every time I heard that weird crackling noise that comes when Peter Lukas appears and he wasn't there but now we know he can turn *invisible*! The sneaky bastard really took over for Elias. Watching everyone...
wait, when have you heard it?
Its not so much that he can turn invisible, its more that he can ... not be there.
I kept wondering "why the fuck is jon using his powers in reading a paper statement?" but omg that explains so fucking much
"he's not a moron"
"if you say so"
This isnt even shade, it's just an observation
Consider Martin from MAG 22 avenged!
“You can vouch for the soundness of my mind, can’t you?”
“…That is beside the point.”
Martin is sacrificing himself for everyone, specially for jon to be okay, why is this is so sad
It's what they both do
Its sad because its often an unappreciated trait in people.
so basically, if im understanding this right; jon only got out of there because of martin?? B)
Honestly, yeah.
Martin is an angel
Exactly right. The way Martin's been talking, it seems like he's doing his best to watch out for everyone and work with Peter as much as possible, and it seems like Peter Lukas isn't bothering anyone else which is good.
And they were each other's anchors~~
@lila mansilla Maybe the anchors were the friends we made along the way.
@@germanerd6148 wait that's a quote from somewhere, isn't it?
I would like a summary of the whole show as told by Peter Lukas
Spoilers
14 doomsday gods spend 50 centuries playing apocalyptic king of the hill with eachother, until they learn the power of friendship and work together to claim the top of the mountain. Than the quiet one jumps off while tied to the other 13.
@@nateds7326 bro great summary, BUT spiler warning please, not that there wasnt a hint of all fears coming together in this ep but plssss i now know the ending, i think at least
YES!!! I don't like that man but YES 😂
@@dipsterboyYOU spoiled it for me with that comment 😭
what fear is "shitty corporate pressure" peter needs to be an avatar of that fear
Now i know this is a joke but im pretty sure it would actually be burried lol
@@NullIsntSane yeah, it was a joke i know lol
@@NullIsntSane HAHA SO TECHNICALLY HE IS
The Hunt? Turning people against each other for their own survival.
I kinda feel like The Lonely works pretty well. That feeling of being surrounded by people who don’t act like people or treat you like a person.
With spiders getting their own fear I'm surprised that the 15th fear weren't dentists
Well, The Web isn't exactly spiders exclusively, and while spiders and their webs are potent symbols of The Web, it is the domain mostly of plans, traps, spiders, webs, etc. Essentially, The Web is the domain of anything that can be thematically, idealistically, or phobically related to spiders and such. So you're half right :)
@@benjaminjenkins2384 yes, and, going off this, i think dentists would be more the domain of the flesh. i mean, they willingly work with t e e th all day every day, and just about everyone is afraid of them (myself included)
@@cricket8042 As a dentistry student, never have I been more called out by something that I totally agree with. Some of the pain we cause is unavoidable though, we really don't mean any harm :(
@@cricket8042 i for one like going to the dentist, but that mostly because i like spooking them with how wide i can open my mouth. like i can fit an entire apple in my mouth
@@benjaminjenkins2384 its the SCP foundation
Peter is a jerk but lord his vibes are impeccable
Avatar the last eyebender
That’s both horrifying and hilarious, thank you and well done
This brought up some images I was not ready for
Goddammit hahaha
I was not expecting this comment but it is peak humor 😂
"But I want to end the world! Not something else!"
-Peter Lukas (Forsaken) 2020
This is one of the few episodes that actually gave me full body goosebumps at several points in the story...
"There is nothing done in the history of humanity that deserves the things that come after us." HOLY SHIIIT
the description he uses of Jon “ grubby Jesus” I love yhat
jon looks like a historically accurate jesus confirmed
Biblically accurate Jon 😂
"Press a button and end all that has known" is a very good parallel to Tim and the bomb
Hmmmm I don't like Martin being groomed
Peter Lukas' comment about himself as "a little bit of a gambler, the higher the stakes the better" is a line that feels, in retrospect, like a little bit of neat foreshadowing that I didn't notice before
He's the guy that handed Salesa a twenty pound note in "Held in Customs"
Wait that makes sense now. Since Jon isnt really human anymore, his body is really something hes familiar with anymore. That's why his rib anchor didnt work. His role as the official "Archivist" title, is tied to the tape recorders (judging by them randomly popping up, it seems mr giant eye has taken a liking to them. Or maybe it always had), so that's why they were a better anchor than his own rib. It makes sense!
The final pam is an avatar of the extinction
bahahahahaha i hate that
i love it
YESYESYESYESYES
i wish i could go back to a time when i hadnt read that
Technicallyatart why
okay peter sounds like a calm teacher who's about to snap
Martin putting the tape recorders on the coffin in hopes of getting Jon back broke my heart. :( I want Jon and Martin to be happy together.
being French and listening to Martin speak little bits of French in a terrible accent but it's cute how does he do it 😭💙
"This little soap opera you call an archive"
Actually, we call it a podcast, but yeah, go off.
It's weird and interesting that Jon seems to be the only Avatar that doesn't passively draw audio errors from the Tapes. They only go static-y when he does something that directly triggers his powers - healing, compelling, etc.... Is that because the tapes are an extension of him/the eye? i mean, it'd make sense, but it's still interesting.
Mike Crew and Elias were the same. I think most avatars just don't exude power all the time, and we've mostly met extreme avatars.
Ah, I've missed Martin... And I miss Tim.... And Sasha.... And Georgie, though at least she isn't dead.
Did Hillier write a new Leitner? Like, the first one for the new Entity?
"I'm not going to pressure you into doing anything you don't want to"
-- Peter Lukas, 2020
It isn't FAIR I THOUGHT BASIRA WAS PUTTING THOSE TAPE RECORDERS THERE IT WAS MARTIN?????? IT WAS MARTIN??????????????? I'M GONNA START CRYING HE WANTED JON BACK HE WANTED HIM SAFE THIS PODCAST. THIS GOD DAMNED PODCAST
"the seventh day adventist church" having the church i grew up in as a kid get mentioned in a tma episode made me almost choke on my choclate chips ghDGSDH
I REALLY like Peter Lukas, like, as a bad guy I mean. I don’t know if I’ve just yet to reach the part that makes everyone hate him or if I’ve got an unpopular opinion or is they mean what I mean and are just phrasing it odd.
Ikr?! Same here. I know he's manipulating Martin, but then again, Martin has his own agenda here, so who's to talk.
He's got ulterior motives just like Elias, but isn't as patronizing about it. He feels more like an everyman because he's not all-knowing.
no, no very valid. You can like his punchable face, smug hateable self. That's good writing, loving a character that so hateable as well.
“A villain you love to hate”
Totally. I enjoy his villainy similarly to how I enjoyed Elias'. They're not GOOD and I'm not ROOTING FOR THEM but my god the vibes are immaculate and they're both so funny in their own ways
Hey thanks for giving me something to do during this quarantine I watched the whole ass series
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I like the idea of The Extinction incorporating aspects of the other Entities, as it would essentially erase at least most of them if it succeeded. And other Fear Entities may eventually take their places before The Extinction started over again.
Every time Martin says "Peter" in this episode I hear "Pizza". The first time I got so darn confused. That's never happened before, and I'm not even hungry. What's up with that?
hahah:DD
Funny how the rib thing didnt even work
Funny bone man scammed depressed library clown, more at eight
@@FreshSqueezedSlugs little did you know I am an artiste and am going to draw that now
@@MyceliumNebula nice.
@@MyceliumNebula and I'm very curious what that looks like lol
hey martin it's me back again to check in on that friendship request i sent you 50-60 episodes ago. the cup of tea i made for you is cold now but i can make another fresh one for you!
Yes, one of my new favourite episodes. I really love the idea of the Extinction and so I really enjoy the theories about it.
martin has all the right intentions but i don't think he's going about it the way he should...
Agreed! The same can be said for Jon
"like a grubby jesus" is possibly one of my favourite peter quotes
"the door, is the door" oooo.
Funny how this is a statement being read by Martin.
Daisy being described as “your pet _murderer”_ is so funny to me
I’m sorry but Peter calling the Buried “Too Close I Cannot Breathe” like that name isn’t ridiculous to the point of being almost existentially absurd was so fucking funny to me.
So nobody is gonna talk about the possible FIFTEENTH FEAR ENTITY? No? Just Martin jokes? Alright.
Martin putting the tape recorders next to the coffin is maybe the saddest/funniest thing In this whole podcast
"There were hundreds of them. Stood in place where they had died. Some fallen, some kneeling. They were stiff. Mummified by some process Bernadette could not begin to guess at, but that rendered their flesh like tightly-packed ash."
Ah shit, The Calamity got them.
"An unfinished meal"... uh
Literally wanted to burst out laughing in the middle of class when listening to Peter call Jon “Grubby Jesus” and Daisy a “Murder pet” and just absolutely being the most horrible great dad vibe guy.
hi alex
^ me, through clenched teeth, in fearful anticipation of what this episode has in store
I always say that in the beginning when he says hi to us xd
Yeah my mum says hi to him too.
ok low key peter lukas is sassy and that's funny i could feel the Eye roll when he said "if you say so" and then proceeded to call john a "grubby jesus" i can't
total tangent - 14 episodes in, and I'd be lying if I said my mind didn't auto complete Alex's "I'd like to take a moment," with "JUST SIT RIGHT THERE, I'll tell you how I became the prince of a town called Bel-air."
"grubby jesus" - yeah, Jon's the Eye's Special Little Boy
(mild spoiler under cut)
it fits so well with Martin "the Antichrist's +1" Blackwood lmao
Ah so Peter Lukas can turn invisible
PETER LUCAS COMPARING JON TO A GRUBBY JESUS IS KILLING ME😂😂😂
I was spacing out while listening and started thinking of climate change,,,, very fitting if we are talking about the extinction I guess lmao
The extinctions ritual is brought by Old people on Facebook lol
"He's not a moron"
"If you say so"
Martin: He's not a moron.
Peter: if you say so...
Me: Man, Lukas, I hate you but even I have to admit you have a point....
Peter Lukas sounds very different this episode, like he's got a cold
He sounds exactly like Jon does when he hasn't been feeding the Beholding: just kind of tired and hoarse. He said he was late to "a family thing", and we know the Lucas family are the caretakers for the Lonely, so it sounds like he's just been around other people too long and needs to go enjoy some isolation for a bit to rejuvenate.
@@Loamsoft That's relatable af.
Loamsoft Walmart during quarantine
The difference between the End and the Extinction reminds me of something I heard a rabbi say once: a gentile knows *he* can die. The Jews know *they* can die.
Well. That's chilling.
i try not to bring spoilers into earlier episodes but i've been thinking about this a lot lately and i never see anyone talking about it.
spoilers for season 5
okay it's generally accepted that making jon think he could use his rib as an anchor was manipulation by the web to a) get him marked by the flesh and b) give him enough confidence to go into the coffin and get marked by the buried. i sometimes see people who assume the tape recorders are what got jon out of the buried, but i think by now most people agree that martin's presence while placing the recorders on the coffin is what got him out. we've seen before that human connection used as an emotional anchor has saved people for the entities, and by the end of season 4 we see that jon and martin's love for each other is one such anchor.
so why bother with the tape recorders in the first place, if martin spending some time near the coffin was enough to pull jon out? well, jonah's plan is to keep martin isolated long enough to use him as both bait to get jon into the lonely, and then let him be the key that gets jon back out and vise versa. so if the web wants to use martin as the key to get out of the buried now without throwing off the plan, it has to be sneaky. if martin knew that his and jon's feelings for each other were strong enough to pull jon out of the buried, i think martin would probably tell peter to go get stuffed after how long he's been strung along and go back to the archive with jon. both the eye and the web would have to make alternate arrangements for that lonely mark. so the web influences martin into taking the tapes, which appear to work, and martin goes back to peter, fed up with his continued vagueness and his broken promise to protect jon, and is finally brought in on the extinction research, further isolating him. jon continues his risky behaviour that leads him to check off more marks. things stay on track for the eye and the web so they can keep jon and martin apart until the power of love is more conducive to their plans.
in closing, jonmartin real, and also fuck the web, all my homies hate the web.
Marten helped him find his way out e coffin omg he’s such a good guy I love hom
So the flood statement was of actually extinction. Nice
OK, On a relisten, I'm on team Web!Martin.
Woo, go past me.
D-didnt Peter L I T E R A L L Y tell Martin NOT to talk to Jon thou??! Or did i miss understand something, but i definitely remember that
He did, but at the end of the episode he said he's not going to scold him for it, as Martin knows the stakes at this point and he's hoping he'll make the right decision on his own.
My heatred just keeps piling up, I swear.
This... new fear is something curious. So big that separate itself from it's main source and apparently is not just a human fear but from other animals too. Amazing
i know we all hate Peter (which is so valid) but like... damn that guy has a nice voice. he could read me the phone book cover to cover and i'd be into it.
The voice actor has a podcast where he reads short horror stories!
LITERALLUYGTYGT
I don't know why the fact that Martin corrected himself to Peter's Assistant hurts so much but it does
‘And yea all was laid waste and the corruption did inherit the earth. Through them a new creature came to replace that which was humankind.’
“What, cockroaches,” demanded the Extinction.
The Corruption just shrugged.
This statement wouldn't be at all unnerving and absolutely ridiculous even if it didn't feel so... realistic. I don't think humans are gonna wipe each other out in a generation, that's not feasible, but it's not completely impossible either... we might
I think it's interesting that SA/r*p* is not one of the fears. It makes me think that it is so frightening/uncomfortable to talk about irl that the writers didn't want to include it.
I know this was a bit ago, but Jonny said in a Q&A that there were certain topics (like SA) that he would not touch on because he felt like it crossed that line from fun horror story to something more upsetting. Although I do think this particular fear could fall under the wider categories. The Web was my first thought because SA typically involves manipulation, and that feeling that your own self agency has been taken from you
@@meganbarber1713I allso think it's a bit to specific to be a fear. All of the fears have alot of ways with which they can manifest but the fear of SA can only manifest as SA.
I love the idea of a 15th the extinction! I also like that the eye and the lonley are basically fighting over Martin
Martin saying schewped is great
Mostly unrelated to this episode but the desolation statement reminded me of a scp story where they switch reality’s to a flesh apocalypse which made me realise the Magnus archives is just the scp foundation but with bad funding and less science
You don't need funding or science when you have Gertrude.
If the Magnus Archives was real I know for sure the Extinction would just be emoting over the other Entities rn.
Gay Headcanon: Jon found his way out of the coffin bc of Martin's love for him, not bones or recorders.
ty for coming to my tedtalk and no i will not be taking critique at this time.
i know im 8 months late and JohnMartin probably died or is canon by now, but... He found his way out because of the tapes, which were placed by Martin. So technically it's true that he found his way out because of Martin's love for him:DDD I guess we can say Martin was his anchor
i know he's manipulating martin but he's just.. such a gentle voiced old man
There's a lot to unpack in this one and a lot of questions it raises for me about the world and the fears...
What makes avatars like the Lucas's want to bring their entity into the world? With the strangers or the corruption I can understand. It is a world more suited to them. But I have trouble seeing how a world of complete isolation is something any human would desire. I will say I knew from the beginning the end wouldn't bother with a ritual considering in theory everything just eventually ends anyway. The web kinda makes sense too since you won't have minds to manipulate if no one is normal anymore.
This fear hit so close to home. I started crying towards the end of the statement. More than any other fears combined I’m afraid of everything on our planet going extinct, and being replaced by something with no way of learning from our mistakes. Or even learning we were here at all
Martin is just so mad that Peter didn't stop John from going in the coffin!
I just want Martin to let it all out, man's probably been defusing the hell out of himself in order not to break or lose his sturdy façade for even a moment.
Honestly, all of them need such a break. I need all of them to healthily express their feelings once (I know I know, it's a horror podcast and yes I am a sucker for angst but that doesn't mean I can't root for them q8fh2osw7ge)
i'm listening to this for the first time and it's kinda funny that just the other day i had been thinking to myself about how there should be an entity for the fear of change. The Extinction is a bit different and covers a lot heavier stuff, but still
In Tarot the Death card means change. The end of what used to be. Its not considered bad. A sea change.
The Tower is one of the bad cards. It means *catastrophic change*. Not just an end, but a breaking of what is, a ruination of something.
Well chalk this up in the category of "shit that hits differently after 2020"
Good to know that Not!Sarah is a fan of the show and also a patreon supporter
It joined the Eye/Watcher after all
oh no the end of the world/humanity, one of my deepest fears. i thought i was safe . . ... .. ..... nice
As the fandom says, there's an episode for everyone. :P
This sweet innocent hero💕
So this is why Peter wants Martin...part of the lonely is travel and the eye is seeking so what they look for answers? Makes sense
Jon saved Melanie, he saved Daisy - why do I have the feeling he's going to have to save Martin and Basira as well?
not sure if someone already pointed this out but what if Jon's ribs isnt his anchor because he's literally a self sacrificing idiot so he cannot 'anchor' on himself (if that even makes sense)
After having gone through these episodes in one big go, I can hear all the joy gone from Martin's voice. These truly are top tier episodes
Grubby Jesus
I worship Elias, The-Pettiness-Baddie king 👑
🤴💅🧎♂️🧎♂️
'..hopefully OUR patron someday :)'
NO YOU FUCKING DON'T. DON'T YOU DARE.
jon and martin are perfect for each other, collecting marks like pokemon
GRUBBY JESUS
I nearly inhaled my peach soda down the wrong pipe