@chucktaylorupsetā asked:Ā you know we gotta ask you about the Magnus Archives for the fandom meme thing
Martin: So, you want my statement, right?
Tim, 5 min later: I guess you want my stupid statement.
Daisy: No. Why are you all so obsessed-
Elias, 5 min after that, knowing full damn well the previous conversations: Youāll want my account, of course. My recitation of events. My testimony. My statement.
Daisy:Ā What is wrong with you people.
heartbreakingest moment:Ā Tim, halfway through yelling at Jon just because he needs to be angry at someone, breaking off with the realization thatĀ ā
heartwarmingest momentĀ Melanie trying to offer Martin comfort after he got himself emotionally wrecked to distract Elias was actually very sweet? But really itās Jon sounding like a normal cheerful person teasing Georgie about going on a Tinder date for an excuse to get Hungarian food with someone.
most badass moment:Ā the sheer amount of static in Jon pulling the answers from Manuela, which certainly corresponds directly to the amount of power he brought to bear to drag those secrets out of the Dark.
mostā¦okay, you know how I sometimes scream excitedly about things like narrative parallels or intricately constructed plot arcs? top moment for that:Ā yeah, obviously, I was spoiled for pretty much all the worldbuilding, but really it was immaculately slowly built across many seasons of statements, and I particularly appreciate how they still keep coming up with clever takes on the Entities, like the idea that no one else is real for Lonely or debt for the Buried
something I dislike about canon/change I would make:Ā this is petty, and heās great as a character and I appreciate the creepy sound effect of it, but it is SO hard to understand Jared Hopworthās voice. I want him to come back bc I like him but I cannot understand a goddamn thing that man(?) says.
1 unwritten fic idea I have for this fandom:Ā I have a WIP statement fic framed as the latest-recorded of several dozen tapes that a woman leaves on the front steps of the Institute, telling the story of how sheĀ found a tape recorder to which she has been compelled to tell absolutely all her life story, until she is hollowed out and sore-voiced and hasnāt slept in days because it still demands more - and she was going to come in and report this, but from across the street she happened to make eye contact with a man (Jon) whom she recognized, in an instant, as the being on the other side of the tapes. The one the recordings are for/who has been listening the whole time. So sheās left what she prays can be a final recording for him, as well as all the other tapes and the tape recorder itself.Ā
Whatās interesting about this fic is, when I started it like 2 months ago, the post-statement bit had Jon guiltily admitting that he knew what was on that tape before he played it, knew all the tapes, had known the second they made eye contact. He was pretty both that sheād be back tomorrow, because the tape recorder had been on her kitchen counter when she got home and she was telling it another childhood memory now, and that if he met her eyes again, he would tear her to pieces like he had Breakon, whether he wanted to or not. He...almost entirely didnāt want to.
But NOW, I think, Iād have to rewrite that ending. Jon might be (nearly) equally reluctant to accept this offering on a silver platter, but thereās no way Basira would let him listen to the tape alone, and then there would be snapping, chastising, defensiveness, sulking.Ā
...Iām not really sure Iām going to finish the fic. The previous ending concluded with a desperately but slightly hopeful,Ā āMaybe I can just offer her a job.ā I donāt think the new ending would be as happy. (I donāt think Jon would try as hard not to consume her.)