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ok well I asked Aliza Schultz and she sent me back a beautiful poetic email that also didn’t answer my question correctly, but at least I got something out of it
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Leo Quinn works for Better Place, the world leader in ghost removal, but they’re having some doubts about the ethics of their work. They’re building a device that should let them capture the voices of ghosts, to prove once and for all that Better Place needs to start treating spirits with the humanity they deserve – and to unravel some mysteries in the process.
Prior to the revelation around the aliens receiving his logs, Eiffel's logical expectation is that the only people who'll listen to his logs are people at Goddard Command. And yet the way he speaks in those logs is often not really addressed at Goddard staff. For example, in Ep8 The Empty Man Cometh, he says:
Oh, hell, speaking of logs... I guess you caught all of that, so you might be able to pick up the effect your twisted experiment had on us. Hint: IT WAS AWFUL.
Sorry if things got a bit crazy for a while there, dear listeners, but... well, you see the kind of things we have to deal with.
The first part of that quote is obviously directed at Goddard staff, at the people who create many of the situations Eiffel and the rest of the Hephaestus crew have to deal with (such as the empty man panic). But the second part - the part addressed to Eiffel's "dear listeners" - feels like a switch, like it's directed at a sympathetic audience who are witnessing Eiffel's plight without having any role in it. In other words, it feels like it's directed at us. Before the aliens come into the picture, we are the "dear listeners".
There's no logical reason for Eiffel to make this kind of switch between the listener he blames (i.e. Goddard Command) and his more sympathetic "dear listener". He's mentally constructing a listener to his logs who is on his side, when he has no in-universe reason to believe that there is one. It's an interesting kind of coping mechanism - potentially linked to the unconscious, perhaps misdirected, desire for connection that led him to transmit his logs into deep space.
There are other signs that the "dear listener" Eiffel directs his logs towards has very little to do with Goddard, such as the way he explains things that Goddard staff would obviously know (which is obviously useful from a storytelling perspective, but also feels in-character and in line with his other behaviour), as well as telling the listener things that could land him in trouble with Goddard.
Eiffel is the kind of genre-savvy character who is regularly on the brink of fully breaking the fourth wall. He doesn't know he's in an audio drama, but he's so prone to narrating his life that he might as well know. He's always constructing the narrative of his life in his head, so perhaps he finds that it helps to imagine someone on Earth who is listening sympathetically to the story he's telling himself. In his world, at the beginning of the show, he doesn't have that listener, or doesn't believe he has. But his words reach across from the universe of his story into ours. And his voice finds the kind of dear listener he was imagining without hoping for - someone who has no role in anything that happens on the Hephaestus but who is willing to listen to his story. In pressing play on your podcast app, you become the listener he was longing for.
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[ID: A three panel comic featuring Jon and Martin from TMA wading through a swamp. A gnarled hand and distorted face float in the swamp. In the first panel, Martin looks at a bloody oar in the water and says "hey, there's a bloody oar in the water!". In the second panel, Martin holds the oar, and Jon has turned to face him. Jon looks tense and says "That's foreboding..." The edges of this panel are shaded darker to indicate Jon Beholding. In the third panel, Martin has his arms crossed angrily. He says "I know what they're for!" The darkness from the previous panel is gone, and Jon looks surprised and confused. End ID]
I've seen this tweet by Browtweaten on Twitter and it always makes me think of. Them
I think one of the fundamental horror elements of jon and martin's relationship (that is super underutilized in fanworks imo) is that when they say "where you go, I go," they really mean it. by the time they're striding across that hellscape, and tbh even earlier than that, there is no duplicity or slight or monstrous act either of them could do that the other wouldn't forgive so they could stay together. personal insults, lashing out, working with the enemy, attacking strangers, direct violence, deliberately endangering each other, murder, encouraging murder, total and complete betrayals of trust, they've done it all and reconciled afterwards. sometimes they talk it out and resolve it in a reasonable way, and sometimes they're just like "hmm. fucked up!" or ("hmm. kinda cute when he does it <3") and never mention it again.
it's not just about letting anything slide with each other, either, it's bigger than that. martin will make the decision on a personal level that he could never live with surviving off of innocent people's suffering, but if doing that on a cosmic scale is the way to keep jon with him then he will sacrifice all his principles and do it. jon is hell bent on quarantining the fears by literally murdering the planet as quickly and efficiently as possible, but the second this means martin potentially dying in front of him he changes his mind. when jon says that their love for each other is "the real core of it," he's not just declaring affection after a fight, he is stating the cause for the incomprehensible tragedy that they're about to enact. it's less "the love was there, it didn't change anything" and more "the love was there, it doomed us all." it isn't even a question, they will wrap their soulmate-red binding string around the necks of everyone in the entire cosmos before they sever it.
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i find it so interesting that gerry is always depicted as goth when textually he’s a metalhead? death metal is blaring from his room in the first episode he’s introduced, he’s wearing a Mastodon tshirt in the fear corridors episode… the only time he’s called goth is by jurgen leitner and he doesn’t strike me as someone who’s well-versed in identifying alternative subcultures by fashion
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He walks around his cold Latvian apartment shirtless to show off his chest scars even though the only other person to see them is his younger self
He confidently gave his younger self a pep talk about how to shoot correctly, and then missed the bottles he was shooting at
He is often described as a sheep dog or a guard dog, ready to lay his life down for his loved ones at the drop of a hat
His cowboyness convinced the mad British scientist who was torturing him to rebel against his shitty job and become a cowboy himself
He flirted with a cute boy by lifting up his shirt in public and showing him the stomach wound that almost killed him
He cried when his younger self moved out of the apartment because he was going to miss him
Almost drowned but was more upset over losing his cowboy hat
Offered himself up as a hostage and then had to be hog tied and carried out of his prison by his new boyfriend
Mod Note: This is specifically about Michael Walters, who beat out Mike Walters in the preliminaries.
Antigone Funn (Wooden Overcoats):
Amazing character arc/growth; shadows follow her around; afraid of the sun; methanol is her drink of choice; is often told “I thought you were dead” despite a complete lack of evidence other than her deathly paleness; the morgue is her personal sanctuary; absolutely hilarious character; demanded to be co-owner of Funn Funerals with her brother rather than allowing him to continue running the business alone;(spoiler) decided NOT to get with her frenemy who she had been doing a will-they-won’t-they thing with the entire series!; writes smut in her free time
Art of Michael Walters courtesy of @dracolichen.
Additional propaganda below the cut:
Michael Walters (WOE.BEGONE):
He's a cowboy he's a bear and he's in his 40s what else can I say
Emotionally stunted cowboy. Kills other versions of himself with no problem. You wouldn't think he's hot from that description but he is, trust me. He has perfect eyebrows
He‘s a rugged old cowboy, who would kill and sacrifice himself to save the people he cares about.
#This is a no brainer guys cmon #AND BY A NO BRAINER I MEAN VOTE FOR THE GRIZZLED OLD COWBOY
#michael is sexier period.
#MICHAEL WALTERS
#VOTE MICHAEL
#michael i miss you every day
Michael my love
Antigone Funn (Wooden Overcoats):
#antigone!!!!!!!!! #i just need one chance with her #she's perfect
#antigone!!!!!
*Cracks knuckles* Team Antigone is back and ready to do some damage. #antigone sweep year 2
#YEAR TWOOO
#Antigone sweep #!!!!
#thrilled to participate as always
This is propaganda for all the female characters. Voters please remember how pretty all women are and factor that into every single vote you make. Thank you.
Hey, was The Magnus Archives named in reference to Magnus Hirschfeld and the Institute of Sexual Science in Berlin? I feel like you've addressed this before but I can't find it.
The Magnus Archives is named for my favourite M.R. James ghost story "Count Magnus". Not every historical person named Magnus is a podcast reference :p
To be fair, while I was vaguely aware of the Berlin institute I actually didn't know much about Magnus Hirschfeld himself until during TMA's run, when the excellent podcast "Bad Gays" started running. Hirschfeld isn't one of the titular bad gays, but as a lot of the early seasons are covering late 19th and early 20th century figures he comes up a lot.
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