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Well this feels awfully familiar

oh no. oh the horrors. nooo

This intro bit was just so funny, I kept imagining jon reading it

Story time:

In middle school biology, we did an experiment. We were given yams, which we would sprout in cups of water. We then had to make hypotheses about how the yams would grow, based on descriptions of yam plants in our books, and make notes of our observations as they grew.

Here’s what was supposed to happen: we were supposed to see that the actual growth of the plant did not resemble our hypotheses. We were then supposed to figure out that these were, in fact, sweet potatoes.

What actually happened was that every single student in every single class lied in their notes so that their observations perfectly matched their hypotheses. See, everyone assumed the mismatch meant they had done something wrong in the process of growing the plant or that they had misunderstood the dichotomous key or the plant identification terminology. And, thanks to the wonders of a public school education, everyone assumed the wrong results would get us a failing grade. We were trying to pass. We didn’t want to get bitched out by the teacher. Curiosity, learning, science - that had nothing to do with why we were sitting in that classroom. So we all lied.

The teacher was furious. She tried to fail every student, but the administration stepped in and told her she wasn’t allowed to because a 100% fail rate is recognized as a failure of the teacher, not the class. It wasn’t even her fault, really, though her being a notorious hard-ass didn’t help. It was a failure of the entire educational system.

So whenever I see crap like Elizabeth Holmes’s blood test scam or pharmaceutical trials which are unable to be replicated or industry-funded research that reaches wildly unscientific conclusions, I just remember those fucking sweet potatoes. I remember that curiosity dies when people are just trying to give their superiors the “right” answers, so they can get the grade, get the job, get the paycheck. It’s not about truth when it’s about paying rent. There’s no scientific integrity if you can’t control for human desperation.

I think this is a really good take, and maybe the reason that gerry wasn't there for long is that gertrude was involved in the program and knew what they were doing and she kinda pulled gerry out of it before anything was done to him or something like that

I wanna get these TMAGP 8 thoughts written down before the public drops so here's your spoiler warning!

SPOILERS AHEAD

So this "Gifted Kids Program" that the Magnus Institute had is very intriguing. I'm going to throw a thought out there that's kind of a gut feeling, with only OTHER gut feelings to back it up

What if they were trying to make Avatars? I can't help but feel HEAVY Stranger vibes coming from Gerry Keay in this episode. Something was so off about him, and I don't think it's just because he was a much more normal person (apparently, at least) than in TMA. And Sam certainly has tendencies that lean towards The Eye.

I've been trying really REALLY hard not to drag The Fears into this, but this was my gut feeling and I wanted to share. Maybe the new entities (if there are some) parallel The Stranger and The Eye which is why I'm getting those vibes from Gerry and Sam, respectively.

TMAGP 8: A Summary

tmagp ep 8 spoilers out of context

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Yes, Martin, you are my reason. redraw of this from last year

Sleepy baby

so i’m crazy hyperfixed on the magnus archives and i made a google doc grouping together episodes in specific story lines!

it’s grouped by entities, avatars, story arcs, etc. enjoy the fruits of my brain rot!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/16E7eYGEQnvEmYADl9reE_Jz4CP64Eei66oRGGQSMjhc/edit

the weird thing about having a horror podcast as a piece of comfort media is being sad and going "you know what would make me feel better? listening to that traumatized British man read out people's deepest fears and horrible experiences! that will cheer me up!" and then it WORKS.

yeah no i’m completely normal about this ofc i am

Castiel has never done anything wrong! He’s just good at making situations!

Hehehe

[dean voice] cmere cas hold these-

ok so reunion when

Headcanon for MAG 117, right before Jon leaves to stop The Unknowing

the angel staying over at my house asked for a nightlight in their room and i told them buddy, don't you produce your own light? what're you gonna do with more? and they said they wanted to see why people like it so much. and also that the nightlight i own is blue and they're been trying to understand color. anyways i think they've stared at it for an hour now

My Magnus Protocol character designs!

Absolutely loving all the new characters in protocol and needed to throw my hat in the ring for fan character designs of all these lil goobers.

Gee I sure hope none of them die 💀😭

Please god don’t let anything happen to Alice

TMA fancast (Jonathan Sims)

Dev Patel:

Please, look me in the eyes and tell me this man is not our Archivist.