THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES  

Seriously! What the actual hell!

And nothing against the story writers. it makes sense it just breaks my heart

Exactly!! Melanie went to him for help and she accepted the job while Jon wasn’t even there….

Because jon is the archivist and while Elias dicked them around Jon is still "the boss" for the arche ppl and the avatar of the eye

Reminds me of, "Where were you!?" "I was *kidnapped* !" "Oh. Sorry."

(even when he _wasn't_, looking at you, melanie)

@@alicepersson9568 Ill never forgive Melanie for blaming Jon for her issues. Not only was he not there, Martin tried to majorly hint that she shouldnt take the job. Its not her fault either cause the institute basically trapped her in this web like the others but blaming Jon is not okay people. They only do it because hes easier to punch than Elias or the big fear gods😒

Mhmm indeed, sounds reasonable

I think it's just because he technically is their boss. Think about how many people blame their boss for company decisions. Is it right. Definitely not and I think her problems are her own doing but if you've noticed that's a theme with her. She has never taken responsibility and the one time she was forced to by Elias she snapped.

this

THE ABSOLUTE Z E S T

To be fair to the others, if you had been stuck in there for months, you too would want to use all of the available space

it's a mood and a half

That absolutely would be me lol

mood fr

​@@Charlie._.Niron22fr me too

I thought she said STAY dead and I was like well then

@@jacobelavalle7065 kdshdjshjjd

A 6 month coma in which he dreams about the statements he recorded with statement givers blaming him for what happened to them, and when he woke up everyone in the real world is also blaming him

Ngl didn’t even count tho if he took a nap everyone would die and the whole building would burn down and they’d blame him cause he self cared for 30 minutes

😂

nOO dont remind me ;-;

i mean,,, there's technically elias as well >_>

@@heehoo-yf5zc elias doesn't have rights

@@mozarteanchaos Well said

the POWER OF GAY COMPELLS YOU! THE *POWER OF GAY COMPELS YOU*

This man needs a break or a lifetime vacation with all the shit he has to go through

This one had me loling

Woah, I didn't really think about that before. The more I think about it, the more I'm amazed at the details that highlight what entities are possessing them. While Melanie, who's possessed by the slaughter, gets extremely aggressive and violent, Jon, who's possessed by the Eye, constantly seeks out as much information as he can to the point of pretty much stalking. Love the detail in this series.

melanie really said "it's my turn with the paranoia arc"

Melanie is also absolutely being courted by slaughter

👀 good catch!

TheNitpickChick Thanks! :D

im beginning to think she's marked like daisy was. maybe by the slaughter? it's unnerving either way

My money's on The Slaughter. I think it probably sunk its claws in after Elias told her how her dad died. Now it's focusing on anything Eye related, especially Jon.

@@rorygiambalvo2955 theories are it probably happened before that. In India or the train

evolution

yeah hes just embracing it now

Thank god I thoguht I was the only one

Yeah ik, I miss "Head Archivist of the Magnus Institute, London."

Yess! I get that people are upset at her character but damn, she deserves more recognition for her acting.

I know right? Like holy fuck

yeah and in the assistant's round table the VA for melanie, lydia, said that she had never voice acted before this role so that makes it so much more impressive

@@anyoom9031 Wow, really? Melanie's one of my faves and I always thought she had one of the best VAs on this podcast, I can't believe it's her first time doing this damn.

@@anyoom9031 Gosh that is impressive, I had no idea. She's so good in this role.

I think he said “sleeping people don’t need _pens_ “ but I love either version. 😄 And I’m pretty sure she was just bodily shoving Jon away from her. It also sounded like she threw a mug or something when she first saw him.

@@TheNitpickChick the shattering made me think she smashed a glass bottle to make a stabby weapon

@@fauxclaws honestly, that would be on brand lol 😅

garnet would ask someting like "is he woohooo?"

tumblr is a poison

Onomatopoeia master

@@ollieri (she wouldn't though as she litterally doesn't ask any question ever)

Ikr iqzfvqy8, also liked the person who just named themselves "I like big books" lmao

Well, to be fair, she hasn't dealt with him as much as the others. First, her interactions with him were suspecting him of killing Gertrude while he was clearly suffering paranoid delusions. Second, he was accused of killing an older gentleman and Sasha. Third, once Elias confessed and she was forced to join the Institute, Jon went on his journey to stop the Unknowing, which often took him far from the Institute. So, it makes sense she'd have a hard time sympathizing with Jon as a person as opposed to Melanie and Martin.

yeah. she tends to approve of any Fear effect that benefits her personally, and since Jon's doesn't, somehow he's the bad guy. Oh, but Daisy hunting and Melanie killing? Just fine!

​​@@trin-is-lateyou're right. She's happy to use others touched by the powers as long as it benefits her; allows her to feel in control. But when it's not to her direct benefit or it's inconvenient she's againt it. It's hypocrisy and Basira's biggest character flaw that she never really fully addresses. @mechengr1731 Jon _was_ paranoid, but he _wasn't_ delusional. He was _right_ ! One of his assistants _was_ plotting to kill him (NotSasha) and Gertrude _was_ killed by someone working for the institute.

From what I gather, the entities infest things but dont directly create. For example Humans seem to give "The Flesh" places to infest but it doesnt make it's own really. It's always humans (or animals) that create the space for fear

I get the feeling that Melanie had Slaughter tendencies since the start. Most of her interaction with the paranormal was Slaughter based. (Military hospital, senseless violence train cart, dead soldiers in India...)

I can feel this. Melanie I think was becoming drawn into slaughter since getting shot by the India war ghosts. Elias is a terrible person but becoming obsessed with killing him was really showing it.

That was my first instinct too. But I also see hints of the flame in her

im saying in this case the web made the website as Chelicerae is the name for spider fangs or what ever their called

Being spooky

Gettin lonely with da Lonely

Peter Lucas is grooming him for the Lonely just like Elias groomed Jon for the Eye😖

@@tomdaly7088 The new Joe Spooky- ohhhh sorry too soon?

At this point, I feel like it’s more centring around distrust, which can manifest as fear or anger. Jon just woke up from a six-month coma where he literally had no heartbeat, and was basically dead except for his brain activity. They now know for sure that he’s not human anymore. And they’ve all had bad experiences with non-human entities. So Basira is keeping calm but acting with caution, and Melanie is scared and angry and lashing out at everything at this point (both due to general trauma and also for reasons that will later be explained). Jon being an avatar of The Eye, the thing keeping her shackled to the Institute, makes him an especially easy target for that fear and aggression. Everyone is going through it, and they all need hugs and extensive therapy. 😢

It really doesn't though. They are using him as a scape goat even though none of this would be prevented if he simply wasn't.

@@darcieclements4880 exactly, its really not his fault at all. if it wasnt jon it would have been somebody else it doesnt matter who is in the roll of the archivist the fate will be the same every time

@@darcieclements4880 from what it seems like, they’ve been living in fear for 6 months, I don’t think any of them would be thinking rationally

bruh just napped 6 months and u want him to sleep more?

@@clvrblzzrd8333 Y E S but hopefully not a coma this time tho

@@clvrblzzrd8333 i mean, he had nightmares the whole time

He needs Martin too

Yeah tell me about it!

True! She was the only one of them who had a choice in the beginning. She just HAD to say yes to Elias, now she's making things difficult.

​@@bellatrixharrieblack yah that's kinda true but she was manipulated into joining by Elias and Beholding; I think it's not entirely her fault

been for me since the start

I don't remember exactly when, but in a previous episode she accused John of making her join the Institude even if he wasn't even there, so I guess she just likes to blame other people for her own actions (Sorry if I said something wrong, English is not my first language)

And I cannot lie

Alex enunciated that one so ~carefully~.

Martin does have the tendency to fall for and be too close to his non-human avatar bosses...

In a different show, Jon would call a meeting and play his tape where he talked about Mr. Spider. Then they'd know, he was chosen. Just like Agnes. Just like Oliver/Antonio. He never had a choice. His destiny was decided when he was 7 years old.

tbh I still like her because for some reason I can, more than with other characters for sure, see through her facade of abrasiveness and hatred into something below. Its obvious shes struggling MAJORLY with something and for some reason with her I find it a lot easier to forgive and empathize than I would with other chars. Her behavior is terrible tho and I hope she sorts her shit out soon.

I always found her obnoxious, but she was growing on me... until she started trying to murder Elias, which would have killed all her coworkers

She's just in her Season 2 Jon era

yeah i used to really love her character, although i don't think it's her fault, i think something's influencing her (i'm a first-time listener)

i only don't despise her because i fully believe she's for the slaughter

They’re not mad at Jon for being in a coma. They’re extremely distrustful of Jon for waking up from a six-month long coma where he wasn’t breathing, had no heartbeat, and was all but dead except for his active brain activity. They don’t know what he is yet, or if they can still trust him. Plus they’ve been through a lot of shit over those six months that have put them even more on edge than they were before. _We_ know Jon is still basically the same, except he probably can’t die anymore and is a bit more powerful, but they don’t. They need time. 😔

Jonathan Sims hates his namesake character and takes every chance to torture him

@@kellanlevi5663 The TommyInnit Effect (tm)

yeah everyone acts like he's off Scott free but he's suffering just as much as the rest of them. At least when Tim was angry it wasn't specifically at Jon.

I think that's rather the point of Melanie's character and I believe there is significant evidence now to show melanie as claimed by the slaughter.and the VA is so good it started good and now it's exemplary

All the members of Jared’s gym rolling up on the Archives like “What up?! I’m just a ball of arms! Here’s my friend who’s a big ol’ tongue with limbs and a tail! We’re here to fuck shit up!”

I'm just imagining a sea of raw steaks, rolling and flooding and crashing over each, rushing down the street to get to the Institute's doors.

Basira: Yeah we discussed eating the remanence, but I didn't know if it was Kosher, so Martin just put it in a tupperwere in the breakroom freezer. It's still there if you want to try it. Someone up in marketing said they ate some and that it's a bit gamey, but good with garlic butter... Jon: ???OKAY???

becoming an avatar of the slaughter?

The new status quo, i guess. The show basically got soft-rebooted. Well, not quite, but you know what o mean.

You're genius!

@@teleutenachtigaller2762 Little did I realize at the time I wrote this how big of a role she had to play later (that's as much as I can say without saying anything specific enough to qualify as a spoiler).

aye :(

Reminds me of the shapeshifting students

@@ThatOneArchivist oh yeah I love them. They were just trying to be good students lol

@@hamburgerdog25 oh we are supposed to have TWO lungs. Riiiggghht. Yep, yep, yep,,,, same energy as the tapes Oh I’m not supposed to be running? *gets turned off* (they don’t know i know this trick) *turns back on*

The Story Spinner

You can be marked by multiple fears but it's still very much experimental it seems, as no one was sure Martin could be, not even Elias or Peter. Also I dont think it makes us immune; in fact it might make us more susceptible to the fears, we aren't likely to be touched by The Slaughter but the Web, oh we are prime real estate.

I imagine it would be on a case by case basis? Like if you're marked by one, whether you get more or less afraid of it depends how you react to the event that marked you. Your natural tendencies towards that Fear, as in how much you're willing to get close to it without really feeling afraid, would affect it as well.

Remember how Gerry described them. Its like... colours. They do have these clear themes, but they blend and mix, and you can get ones that have several influences at once.

ARCHIVIST Usually. BASIRA Yeah. ARCHIVIST You were attacked. When? BASIRA About two months ago. It was, uh, it was the Flesh. ARCHIVIST Oh, god. BASIRA Yeah, it was bad. We took them all out. Melanie did most of them. She was… she got a knife from somewhere and - ARCHIVIST (overlapping) Basira I-I don’t know if that’s a good sign? BASIRA She saved my life, John. She saved all of us. I won’t forget that. ARCHIVIST (sighs) Fine. Fine. [PAUSE.] ARCHIVIST (CONT’D) Haven’t seen Martin about. BASIRA Yeah, he comes and goes. He’s busy. Well, he seems it. ARCHIVIST Working for Peter Lukas. BASIRA Don’t be too hard on him, John. Your, uh, situation. It hit him. Hard. ARCHIVIST (sighs) Yes. Well, I’m sure there are better ways to deal with it than getting - cozy with Elias’s successor. Who I’ve yet to meet, by the way. [BASIRA LAUGHS, MIRTHLESS.] BASIRA Yeah, join the club. ARCHIVIST Sorry, you haven’t? - BASIRA Nope. Never seen him. Far as I can tell, Martin’s the only one who has. ARCHIVIST R-right. A-and you’re sure he’s…real? BASIRA We get emails from him. Memos. [THE ARCHIVIST LAUGHS IN DISBELIEF.] BASIRA (CONT’D) He’s been restructuring. Separating out the departments a bit. Not a surprise, I guess, with his pedigree. ARCHIVIST But i-if you’ve never seen him, I mean… BASIRA (sighs) Rumor is a couple of researchers up on the third floor decided to ignore some of his new directives, and… whoosh. ARCHIVIST Sorry, what’s whoosh? BASIRA Whoosh. Gone. ARCHIVIST Oh. [HE LAUGHS, BUT IT, TOO, IS HUMORLESS.] ARCHIVIST (CONT’D) The more things change… So, we’re under siege, Melanie is aggressively unstable, Martin is working very closely with - The Lonely, who is predictably enough isolating him, and, oh, yes, uh, Tim and Daisy are still dead. (laughing) Which is at least easy to keep track of. BASIRA That isn’t funny, John. ARCHIVIST I know it’s not - (pause) Sorry. It’s just - it’s a lot. [HE SIGHS, QUIETLY.] ARCHIVIST (CONT’D) And we’ve got an audience. Perfect. I thought you said you decided to throw them all out. BASIRA Yep. And I did. And here’s another one. ARCHIVIST Maybe it’s hungry. BASIRA Seriously. ARCHIVIST I mean, I did have a statement I was planning to record. BASIRA Great. Perfect. You can get on with that, and I’ll just leave, then. ARCHIVIST Right. Ah, what do I do if Melanie comes back? BASIRA I don’t know. Play dead. [SHE OPENS THE DOOR AND STARTS TO LEAVE.] ARCHIVIST Right. [THE DOOR SHUTS BEHIND HER.] [SOME PAPERS SHUFFLE AS HE GETS THE STATEMENT READY.] ARCHIVIST (CONT’D) Statement of Angie Santos, regarding a website developed by one Gregory Cox. Original statement given 1st August, 2015. Audio recording by Jonathan Sims, The Archivist. Statement begins. ARCHIVIST (STATEMENT) Okay, for this to make any… real kind of sense, you sort of need to know Greg. Or, at least, understand how he works. Don’t… misunderstand me, please, I, I’m very fond of the man, but I have never in my life encountered anyone quite so… passive. So willing to go along with whatever situation he finds himself in. No matter how awkward or uncomfortable he might be, he just seems to… accept his position. Actually, now I think about it, it’s more that his being uncomfortable actually makes him more likely to… dig in, to double down on whatever’s happening, as if increasing his investment in a thing will somehow make it easier to endure. To give you an example, I first met him about seven years ago, when he was twenty-six. At that point he’d just got out of his first real relationship, and it was one that had lasted nearly a decade. To hear him talk about it, it sounded like he’d never actually been happy. I mean, it didn’t even sound like happiness was a consideration for him when thinking about it. For the last - four years of the relationship, she had just treated him worse and worse, taken more and more liberties, and he’d just tried to - shrug it off. He still does. He wasn’t even the one to end things. She’d found herself a rich older guy, fresh from a divorce, and just - disappeared. Something Greg once described as “fair enough, I suppose.” Oh, as another example, when I was first getting to know Greg, I went for a drink with him, that I mistakenly thought was romantic. I mean, he’s not a bad looking guy. But he’d intended the evening as purely platonic. Do you know how long we “dated,” before I realized what had happened and actually pressed him on the whole misunderstanding? Two months. Sometimes I think if I’d just been a little more oblivious, we’d be married by now. Anyway, all of this is to try and explain why, when it started to get really weird, Greg didn’t just quit the job. I mean, it’s a freelance web project, and from what he said it doesn’t even pay very well. He wouldn’t be breaking any contract, and (breath) the client hardly ever even gets in touch. There is no reason he couldn’t just walk away, but I honestly don’t think he ever will. And I really don’t know how it’s going to end for him. I knew it was going to be bad as soon as he started telling me about it; I mean, Greg doesn’t really talk about work unless something’s gone badly and he wants to not listen to me tell him to drop whatever project he’s locked himself into. And this job was red flags all the way down. (sigh) An email out of the blue from what looked like a personal address rather than a business one. Vague, occasionally contradictory descriptions of what they actually wanted the site to do; I mean - even the email was a bit strange, not the broken or algorithmic English I’d have expected; the short passage was - quite well-composed.

But for some reason, something in it caused the font to appear incredibly large, and Greg had had to scroll through almost word by word. None of it was exactly what you’d call a good sign, but… Greg being Greg, he was taking a train down to Guildford before you know it, to meet the client in person. Small coffeeshop just off the High Street. As he told it, she was young, rail-thin underneath an oversized brown hoodie, which she kept pulled up, trying to cover up a network of pale stitches that stretched over one side of her head. She didn’t - say much, other than to briefly outline the job. She wanted a forum made, though she couldn’t seem to explain exactly what audience or topic she wanted it to be targeted towards, or why she couldn’t use one of the countless online services that specifically made and admined forums. She just mumbled something about custom requirements and told Greg to drink his latte, which he did, so he tells me, though he can’t stand milk in his coffee. All through it she just kept staring at him, hands pressed into the pockets of her hoodie, occasionally pushing long, spindly fingers out against the fabric, smiling to herself. I haven’t given the name of this mystery client because, to be honest, Greg’s never told me. I’ve asked him, plenty of times, but whenever I do, he gives me this… surprised look, insists he’s told me before, and then immediately forgets and changes the subject. I know that’s not exactly helpful, but - honestly I’m a bit lost here myself. I mean - none of this feels normal, some of it doesn’t even feel natural. Greg’s an odd one, sure, but - until recently, he’s always been very sharp. This was all about six months ago. He’s been working on the website ever since. Set up took him all of two days, maybe more, since the client insisted on him coding from scratch. It was bare bones, since he’d been given no copy, or indication of how it was to be organized, except for the name of the site: Chelicerae, which he made sure stood prominently at the top in a tasteful Sans Serif. The client had requested only a single area where threads could be posted, labeled ‘come in.’ Of course, there was never anything in there. The site was called Chelicerae, but the URL, the web address, was nothing like the name. Just a long string of numbers and letters with no pattern or reason to them, almost impossible to memorize. Once the site was live, Greg would get an email every few weeks with a new domain name, another long string of gibberish, and he would have to change it all over. There were… other things, though, that the client would email through. Things that she insisted were included not on the website itself, but in the code. I-I’m not really a computer person, but according to Greg, they had nothing to do with any coding language he’d ever seen. Meaningless strings of words, or weird little fragments of poetry, or a name, different every time, repeated over and over again, hundreds of times. He tried to explain to her, more than once, that just pasting these things into the code wouldn’t - cause them to appear on the page, or have any effect at all. But she insisted, so he did it. And he’s been doing it ever since. He’s on some sort of retainer to administrate the site, and this amounts to changing the domain name every few weeks, checking the statistics that, yes, still no one has visited, and pasting whatever the latest nonsense the client wants in the code. I’d have said it was good money for doing basically nothing, except that for the last two months it’s all started to go… really, really weird. It started with an email he got from a hotmail address he didn’t recognize. The subject line was simply “Are you the Chelicerae?” At first, Greg thought his client must have passed his details on, but opening the message, there were just four more words: “Please make it stop.” [THE STATIC OF THE TAPE RECORDER IN THE BACKGROUND GETS LOUDER.] Now, Greg being Greg, he just - deleted the message and pretended it didn’t bother him. But after he told me about it, I pressed him further, and he admitted that it wasn’t the first unsettling email he’d gotten from strangers about the site. He wouldn’t tell me the others. He kept insisting that I drop it, that it was fine. That I shouldn’t worry. But of course I did worry. I knew that, secretly, he was as well. I started to do a bit of - searching online, just to see if there was anything we were missing. And there was. A lot, as it turns out. I-It didn’t take more than an hour or so to discover that Greg had apparently found himself the web administrator for an urban legend. The Chelicerae popped up on the occasional paranormal site or edgy message board, each time accompanied by a now-defunct link. According to those who followed such things, all you had to do was start a new thread as a Guest, something Greg had been instructed to make sure was possible, and the title of that thread should be the name of someone you want dead. As the stories went, you would receive a reply almost immediately, and it would simply ask you for a story. You would have to write out, and post, in full, a horrible event that had happened to you, or someone that you loved. All the instructions were very clear that the target would only die, if the account satisfied the “Story-spinner.” None of them made any mention of what would happen if it did not. Pretty standard fare spooky stuff; at least, I would have thought so, if it hadn’t been for the messages that Greg kept getting. Someone more technically adept than him had clearly found his email associated with the site, and had posted about it, so he had become the de facto mailbox for this… (sigh) forum. Greg swore blind the site had never received any visitors at all, never had a single thing posted in it. But still the emails came. [THE STATIC INCREASES INTENSITY AGAIN.] “Bring them back.” “What is happening?” “I’m sorry I lied.” It’s been getting to him; I know it has. He’s lost weight. He rarely goes out anymore, and, judging by the cobwebs, he definitely doesn’t clean his house like he used to. I’ve tried talking to him, but it’s like talking to a brick wall that refuses to admit it’s crumbling. That’s why it’s me here rather than him; I mean - I had to talk to someone. We were… walking home from The Cricketer’s, uhh, a pub just off Horsell Birch. We were heading back to his house, since I’d missed my last train, and when that happened I tended to sleep on his sofa. We were turning down into his road when there was a small voice from a doorway next to us, asking for help. Now, the last few years there had been a lot more homeless folk around Woking - I know, welcome to Tory Britain - but my point is, Greg usually made a point of giving whatever change he had left from the pub to… whoever we stumbled across on our way back. So when we heard this, he turned towards the voice and held out his hand towards the dark, crumpled shape, offering some change. (pause) What grabbed his wrist was not a hand. Not exactly, not - anymore. It was coarse and bony and covered in fine, sharp hairs. Greg screamed, falling backwards, pulling the figure under the street lamp where, for a second, I saw it more completely than he did. It was definitely human once. At least, based on how it was screaming. But it was thin, with bits of twisted and discolored, covered in small, scurrying shapes. Its face was the most human part of it remaining. Except for the two black and hollow spaces where its eyes once were. From which now poured an endless stream of scuttling legs and fangs. Its mouth was full of them too, but I could see, as it grasped desperately at Greg; it was trying to say: “I’m sorry. I’m sorry. Tell her I’m sorry,” but words were not what tumbled from those lips. We ran, of course; th-the thing was frantic but clumsy, and it wasn’t difficult to get away. I wanted to go to the police, to tell them everything, but Greg - refused, of course. He said there must have been some mistake, that it was just a-a tramp, with an unfortunate condition. That he wasn’t going to bother the police, just because we’d had a bit of a shock. I didn’t have the energy to argue with him. I still don’t, really. I don’t know what to think. Greg’s my best friend, but I might have to stop seeing him. He’s still working on that site, updating the domain name, still pasting gibberish into the code. I think he might be part of something really awful, and I don’t know how to make him see that. If I had… a little bit more courage, I might just hang around a few message boards I know, waiting for a link to the Chelicerae. Waiting to post a name that might end it. (pause) I’ve got a story for it, all right. But I won’t. I’m just - too much of a coward, I suppose. So I guess I’m telling it to you instead. For all the good that’ll do. ARCHIVIST Statement ends. (shaky sigh)

The Web does seem to have a preference for those who prefer not to assert themselves. The investigation is tricky - I don’t want to impose on Basira, and obviously Melanie and - (brief noise) - Martin aren’t available. But I did do some light searching myself on Gregory Cox. Vanished, unsurprisngly. Sometime in late July 2016, which I think is… (mirthless laugh) two years ago. That doesn’t seem right. It doesn’t feel like - There’s just this great… gap of time where I wasn’t. No notes or followup here that I can see, just… (sigh) It looks like this statement came in just after Gertrude disappeared. Another gap. And whoever took it didn’t do any follow-up, just… filed it away. I may be the first person to actually read it, so… (same mirthless cough of a laugh) Sorry, Angie. I suppose. (sigh) There’s a small supplemental document with it, though, that is a - bit alarming. I-It’s apparently a list of people whose names appeared in the various pieces of text Mr. Cox was pasting into the code. It’s unclear if they were meant to be users or victims, but I cannot help but note that there seem to be the names of several statement givers who found their way to the Institute, including noted arachnophobe Carlos Vittery. Perhaps a coincidence, just people shopping their traumatic incidents around, but…but I have to wonder… how much their actions were their own. I have no theories on this. No - no sudden insights. (sigh) I wish I could talk it through with Martin. Or Tim. Or Sasha. But we never really did that, did we? (sigh) Everything’s changed. (shaky, long breath) Two days out of a coma, and I’m already tired. [PAUSE.] ARCHIVIST (CONT’D) End recording. [TAPE CLICKS OFF.]

Thank you! Also the little descriptions are so funny (≧艸≦*)

Thank you!

boi 3 days of doing absolutely nothing but listening to these 😀✌️

Ceo of not taking human breaks between episodes and staring at the walls for hours while this plays in the backround

Well it been really fun so far 😁

@@nuggs5509 We're balls deep in season 5 over on spotify :P

ive binged all 123 episodes in 13 days :') i need to know what happens....

Tbh in this episode, the way her intonation was reminded me of a family member when anxiety got bad.

you can actually listen to all of them up until 162 on the rustyquill website! it's so great! there's also much more content there

Melanie did

fair, but the price was their friends, sooo...

ye same I was looking for a comment on this

aw i will definitely be thinking of it like this from now on, thank you

The thing is Jon is the only one here who's currently dealing with his trauma without taking it out on other people. He's consciously tried his damnest to grow out of his s2 habits, and he's done pretty damn well considering he's been traumatized over and over and over.

Agreed. The amount of hate for Melanie in particular is seriously frustrating. Remember what Elias did to her.

​@kyberserpent6397 This so much! I can completely understand why everyone is acting the way they are. They have valid reasons to be upset! But lashing out at people for no reason and taking out your anger on them is NOT gonna get me on your side! I've spent way too long being used as an emotional punching bag for other people lashing out at me in ways that were completely uncalled for, so when I hear stuff like this it kinda triggers me a little bit. Jon was extremely unlikable in the first couple of seasons but I've started gravitating towards him not just because of his character growth but because he's one of the few characters who's dealing with his trauma in a way that doesn't involve lashing out at the people around him!

@@birdbrainiac Melania is the only one who sought out supernatural evil. And she suffered a job she can't leave and her boss hurt her feelings once. That's it. Becerra was an asshole to start, being a lying cop, taking knowledge supposedly as "evidence" but knowing it would never be investigated and then never given back. The fact she decided to not let her partner murder an innocent is the BARE MINIMUM of humanity. She lost her partner and thats sad, but her partner was a monster and she knew it. She chose to be part of the team that went to fight supernatural evil, both in the cops and the Institute, despite being able to leave the cops anytime, and working for the Institute doesn't mean you have to go to the Unknowing. She's working for monsters and is finding freedom being an ass to the only monster who is blameless.

Thats what I thought happened until i went back and saw the pronouns being used lmao

@@the_next_da_vinci1056 "yeah im not like into dudes but is chill dont even worry about it its not a big deal" "NOT INTO DUDES??? WE BEEN DATING FOR TWO MONTHS"