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elias at the panopticon, what will he do

I Died For You [A Malevolent Animatic]

Voice acting and audio by @malevolentcast , who very generously sent me this audio file to use for this animatic. Thank you for creating such a beautiful show.

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I began this animatic early last year after finding the audio on TikTok. Once I heard it, I was immediately struck with the thought of how those first couple of weeks in the Dark World would be for John immediately after Season 2. It seemed perfectly fitting, how John might be tortured by his guilt and uncertainty if Arthur was even still alive, and that torment would only aid his regression to his more… Kingly qualities.

I began to draft the thumbnails of the animatic in my sketchbook before transferring it to my digital workspace, which was incredibly intimidating at the time. This was my first independent animatic. In last year’s InvictusCon, Harlan popped into my stream as I was explaining my animatic thought process to my viewers, shaking with both excitement and terror. I was stunned when he offered to voice it himself. The next day, he sent me the audio file. To this day, I am still stunned he spent so much time and effort to create something. It was the encouragement I needed to finish a longer-form animatic. It may be only a minute and some change, but this is a whole year of my life condensed - my obsession, my adoration, my passion for not only this podcast but for art in general, both visual and audio.

It’s by happy accident that I finished this right at the cusp of the Season 5 finale. It almost perfectly slots in. So… let’s all pretend that this animatic took me a month to do rather than the year I spent sweating on my couch and complaining about the number of times I forgot Arthur’s wooden finger.

Less awkward

Well... I usually don't really write fanfiction, but instead prefer to stick more directly to the text and focusing on my own visual interpretation for that (unless it is jokey jokes, then all bets are off). But I also am a sucker for casual romance side plots that while being not the main focus of the story still are there and important to the characters and their progression. Hence these kind of scenes don't need much prompting to form in my brain... It was important to me that their dialogue, as I imagined it in their voices, still sounded true to their characters and I tried out several things for the coloration of this to make it als light and fluffy as possible without becoming too kitschy? It is more or less the antithesis to the Lonely scene... also since weird kissing sounds are not a problem in this medium... yeah. Yeah.

"NO."

"I – uh… W-What? " ಠ ⬭ಠ

So, I rushed through The Magnus Archives in 2 weeks a month ago and now I made an animatic of the funny scene in MAG#181! There wasn´t one for it online and that made me so sad I went ahead and tried out a whole new form of art what-

So yeah this is my first (real and shared at least) animatic, hope it´s fine bc I had so much fun working on it yippiieeee :D

Here´s the video on YouTube too, feel free to check it out (:

something something incredibly soft tumblr post about sharing an orange something something post about the tenderness of being in the kitchen with a loved one

(song is lucky people by waterparks, still photos under the cut)

[video id: a video of jonathan sims and martin blackwood from the magnus archives. jon is a thin british indian man who has his long hair tied up in a slightly messy bun. he wears a green sweater with the sleeves rolled up and jeans. he stands in a kitchen bathed in a warm orange light. he’s shown slightly behind the kitchen island and reaches for an orange in a bowl on the island. jon disappears and the kitchen is left empty for a moment before being replaced by an image of jon talking to martin, a fat white man in a maroon t-shirt on the left side of the screen. jon holds the peeled orange and is grinning as if he had just told a joke, and martin, laughing, holds a singular orange slice as if they were sharing it. they too disappear and are replaced by a third image of jon alone. he is leaning against the kitchen counter with his hair down and a tape recorder in his hand. he speaks into the tape recorder, but his speech bubble is full of multicolored static and doodled eyes surround his head. end id]

Jonathan Sims - the human, not the Archivist - has a new book coming out on October 13.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B8YSSMVK/?pldnSite=1

This man single handedly wrote The Magnus Archives, the best damn horror anthology I’ve ever experienced. Far and away my favorite podcast. (Pity that episode 160 is only five minutes long 🙃)

BUY THIS BOOK.

The Mind Electric - TMA PMV

[ID: A four-page, mostly black and white comic featuring Jonathan Sims and Tim Stoker. Jon is a thin Arab man with curly black hair with lighter streaks and half-moon glasses on a beaded chain. Tim is a slim Latino man with a bright purple undercut, ear gauges, and a small goatee. The only colors in the comic are the instances of bright purple, and there is no dialogue.

The first page shows Tim dropping a purple pen on the ground. He's wearing a purple shirt and black slacks with black shoes. Jon, who has a small mustache and short straightened hair and is wearing a button-down shirt and sweater, sees the pen drop and picks it up, calling out to him. Tim turns to him and they exchange the pen, hands almost silhouetted against a light background. The lines on Jon's hand are gray while Tim's are purple. They smile at each other, Jon scratching his neck shyly, and shake hands, as though introducing themselves.

The second page is a montage. First there's a sticky note in a file saying "spooky!" with a little smiley face written in bright purple. Then there's Tim handing a file to Jon, who now has a full mustache and long hair pulled into a bun, while Tim rests his elbow on Jon's head, pointing at the file with his purple pen. Jon looks annoyed. Then there's the pen on the floor, surrounded by crushed worms, with one crawling over it. Then Jon's scarred and bandaged hand reaching out to the gift tag attached to a black walking cane, it reads "now we match" with a smiley drawn next to Tim's signature, written in purple. The cane has a purple ribbon tied around it. Then Tim, wearing a thick jacket and t-shirt, fidgeting with his purple pen by spinning it in a worm scar. Then a shot of Tim's desk, with a cup holding multiple pens, including the purple one, a stack of sticky notes with one purple section, and a ball of paper.

The third page shows a scarred Jon with a full beard and long hair tucked into his sweater and wearing sneakers and shorts walking through the archives, approaching a desk and running his finger through the dust on it. He looks solemnly at the pen cup and the purple pen in it, and reaches for it, his hand and the pen cup silhouetted against a light background. He pulls back, unsure, and it cuts between him and the pen cup as he tips his head back, shaking, and clasps his hands together.

The fourth page shows him breaking down into tears, covering his face with his hand and crumpling to the floor. Tim's desk is in a spotlight, with various items highlighted in purple and a purple gradient over the desk. Jon kneels next to it, shaking and crying, alone. end ID]

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I had all and then most of you, some and now none of you. Take me back to the night we met. I don't know what I'm supposed to do, haunted by the ghost of you. Take me back to the night we met.

.... so that wip from february huh ajhsdajkhdajhda

haven't done anything this... emotional in a long time so uh. hope ya like it 👉👈

(lyrics are ofc from "the night we met" by lord huron. click for better quality)

going places, doing things, pining on the passenger seat

malevolent part 42 spoilers

this is how i choose to cope