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I didn't listen to TMA until it was over, and I did have the late-term (?) FOMO of just wishing I could have experienced and gone through it when everyone else was on the edge of their seats, but I am so happy to be able to do that with Protocol! TMA holds such a dear place in my heart, and while I do have melancholy over Protocol not being TMA (I don't expect it to, I just love TMA) I feel so included this time around!!

I have made multiple Magnus inspired playlists on spotify, and all of them have songs from “Inside” by Bo Burnham, more specifically, “Look Who’s Inside Again” and “Shit”.

Have you watched this special from him on Netflix? If not, I’d definitely recommend!

hello jon

These are Jon's introductions of himself. He had already had people simply calling him "The Archivist" way back in season one, but he never introduced himself that way. He declared his title of Archivist as what he saw it to be-- a job title and nothing more.

And then we reached season three and there was a gap where we had "Jonathan Sims, former Archivist" and the words were still spoken as one would a job title but with a certain sense of grief that was incongruous with the professional veneer.

And finally, the reveal of what the Archives were and what being The Archivist truly meant happened, and Jon stopped pretending-- even to himself-- that it was just a job. No, he was Jonathan Sims-- The Archivist-- and it was spoken with the gravitas and responsibility of a king's title. It was now part of who he was.

And then, season five, and it's no longer "Jonathan Sims--". It is merely "The Archivist". Because Jon believes his humanity to have died along with the world he was tricked into dooming. His person-hood is secondary-- and can perhaps be considered more of a job title now in a similar way to how Jon referred to being The Archivist in season one. In season five, Jon believes his entire being to have been consumed by the Watcher. The Archives and his job as the Archivist can no longer be seen as a job, or even as a part of who he is, because it is ALL he is. There is no part remaining of Jonathan Sims, because he is The Archivist first and foremost. He doesn't believe his own humanity great enough to be mentioned.

Woke: Jon has brown eyes