THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES
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- Опубліковано 19 кві 2020
- MAG127 - Case #8312111 - Jonathan Fanshawe
Statement regarding the months leading to the death and autopsy of Albrecht von Closen.
The Magnus Archives finds the letter of a doctor, and former friend of the Institute’s founder, sent out to tend to an ill book collector and assist in the restoration of a library.
Content Notes: Body horror, mortality, mental illness, tombs, prison
Starring: The Archivist - Jonathan Sims; Elias Bouchard - Ben Meredith; Basira Hussain - Frank Voss
Writer: Jonathan Sims
Director: Alexander J Newall
Editors: Alexander J Newall, Elizabeth Moffatt, Brock Winstead
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I honestly love the evolution of the door gag
Seasons 1&2: nobody knocks on Jon's door and interrupts him all the time
Season 3: Jon doesn't even have a door
Season 4: Jon Knows when they're going to knock and let's them in before they can interrupt him
since "a guest for mr spider" ive seen the fact that no one knocks in his door as favor that he asked the rest
Knock. Knock.
Who is is, Mr. Archivist?
Man got kidnapped too often he lost door privileges
The Eliasification of Jonathan Sims
@@ollieri oh that's a hella cool theory and actually makes a ton of sense!
I feel like at this point Basira has earned the title of "Detective" the same way batman has. I mean, she did deduce her way out of the fucking Unknowing
The unknowing: we make things impossible to understand, recognise or reason
Basira: well two out of three ain't bad
Basira René Descartes’d her way out of the Unknowing
Not out so mach as keeping her sanity intact and surviving
I wonder if he uses "Detective" as a sort of (potentially mocking) honorific for officers under the Hunt, the same way they refer to Jon as "Archivist"
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Jonah really does just save all of his breakup letters for the archive, doesn't he?
What else would you expect from someone serving the Beholder?
Pretty much.
@@lord_azazel001 you think the eye was like " your wreck of a love life is supernatural, put it in the archives"
@@phosismyb1tch717Probably lol
I'm blaming Lukas for Martin's mom's death, and no one can convince me otherwise.
he is eliminating all _distractions,_ after all.
Peter rlly said “I’m gonna pull an Elias real quick” and just went “whoopsie Martin looks like your mom died and you have nobody left in your life but me, you will not teach me Microsoft programs that gives you too much interaction with others. Bye.”
is NO ONE gonna comment on Jon sitting on the floor for 4 HOURS?? trying to if the statements ~called~ to him??
That is dedication to your job
The eye is a picky eater
Dude was trancing
And then the statement of statements calling out called out.
Yeah, that image is simultaneously really hilarious and sort of concerning. Just… Jon sitting cross-legged on the ground with his eyes closed TrYiNg tO hEaR tHe sTaTeMeNtS… 😭💀
I'm VERY disturbed by the autopsy.
"Sometimes I'm eating", thank you Elias, that made it better. And tbh, if I had magical viewing powers and was in jail I'd use them too. How am I supposed to not get bored otherwise?
mans got his own tv set in his head
I think Jack London wrote a book called the Star Rover which was based on a man locked in a prison cell who saw the universe.
come on guys, it's not jon's fault that he survived a near death experience and got some funky powers :( be nice to him!
i get theyre afraid of the unknown and only bad things are associated w the entities and their powers but have some goddamn sympathy wont u for the position hes been put into.
@@SS-kv3iw also like, Jesus, maybe if you treat him kindly he would be less likely to fall into the darkness of being an avatar. My first thought would be trying to help him hold onto his humanity and instead everyone's going after him and making it remarkable that he's still so good
Im worried he made his choice and that's how he woke up.
EXACTLY!!
@@Vi_Vi_1yeah,imagine if he does lose all of his humanity. How is he gonna treat them then?
me, hearing Basira conspiring with Elias:
*please say sike.*
Conspiring is a bit of a strong word in this situation. I think Basira knows she is way out of her depth and there are things that are far worse than Elias, so she is willing to listen to his offer to see if the information is useful. Elias knows to much to not be useful, but she also knows that he is actively trying to manipulate her and not to trust him. She is doing the same with John. While she wants to believe John is still the same person, it is too dangerous to trust him. She is probably trying to think of a way to kill him, but won't until he gives her a reason to.
"Unless you expect Jon to record them into submission..."
-laughs in ceaseless watcher-
My fav headcannon for Jon's Knowing™️ power is that he sometimes Knows random things completely unrelated to the thing he's trying to Know. Like he's trying to Know about Elias's Evil Plan™️ but accidentally learns about some guy from Wisconsin
One of my favorites is like that but it’s just like the eye REALLY likes particular things, like insects
“This particular butterfly is of the genus Papilionidae and include over 550 species. Though the majority are tropical, members of the family inhabit every continent except Antarctica. The family includes the largest butterflies in the world, the birdwing butterflies of the genus Ornithoptera. As of 2005, 552 extant species have been identified which are distributed across the tropical and temperate regio-“
(Etc etc)
For hours on end there could just be seemingly endless insect facts.
@@ThatOneArchivist Will Shetterly's Cats Have No Lord had a woman become one with her universe (it was a small universe) and one of the few things that stuck was a home recipe for furniture polish.
Hes the fun fact emporium
'E'll-eye-us" . .my favourite pun based character.
also sounds like alias, but that could be coincidence...
My fav pun is the fact that Jon’s last name is SIMS, like the game where you simulate life and watch
@@jend3598 Except that is the guys real name.
Charlie M. Hmm... Yes... coincidence... 👀
@@jend3598 that’s just the writer’s name lmfao
lmao "sometimes I'm eating" I don't know why that's so funny to me
Elias just wants to enjoy his food sometimes. Villains need snacks.
the funnier part is that it's not "sometimes I'm sleeping"
Same
@@simavolodina Eh, most people sleep with their eyes closed. That's just inefficient.
This explains how he 'feeds' the Beholding.
I find it so sad that before the coma Jon decided to trust the others, but now no one seems to trust him
same, it's an interesting turn around from season 2 but aaaahhhhhh. Also sad that martin is the only one that would probably still trust him completely but lucas is keeping him away from the others
thats literally exactly what i was thinking
Okay, Jonathan writing that analogy about how his powers work being like an ocean behind a door IS AMAZING 🤯
"What bullshit?"
"The part where you pretend you don't spend your whole time watching us."
"..sometimes I'm eating."
oh Elias no
Probably my favourite bit about this statement is the fact that after ALL that, Jonah had the nerve to suggest ‘Hey, wanna come work for me?’
Elias is the best character of the show. Everyone lives in the right now and he’s out there playing 5D chest. And for all the monsters that exist he’s absolutely reasonable in what he asks and does.
nah, he's playing 4D chess and Annabelle Cane is dancing around him in 5D chess
It's like a cascade of marionettes, where Elias is puppeteering Jon, Annabelle is puppeteering Elias and the Web is puppeteering Annabelle.
@@pepi7404
A Pinocchio cascade 😂
i havent listened to the entire podcast yet but so far it seems elias wasnt as evil as we give him credit for. so far, he only tried to help "save the world" ...and there were references to him trying to do the beholdings ritual but i dont know what that would do
OOP...
"Just another scar for the collection"
Oh Jon my poor boy... That bit of foreshadowing is just...
It hurts.
Right?! Just... oof! 😩
bro, foreshadowing...? what else can happen to him.... oh no...
WHATS GONNA HAPPEN????
edit: the magnus archives sure is a podcast huh?
Watch MAG160 to find out.
@@arifhossain9751 im on my way..! ep 149 right now...
Oh Martin ... and the door :( I feel so bad for Jon. He is really trying
weird off shoot is that Lukas is protecting Martin from Jon's power?
"Our intimacy and friendship" ok then Dr Fanshawe
It was a bad breakup 😔
*audible facepalm*
Gay gay gay, gay on the low
The breakup was tough but for the best it seems
hmm... this is definitely fruity
well, it's... in a bittersweet way, relieving to hear Jon call Jonah evil, outright. not try to defend him at all. that said, this whole episode was some really ominous shit, tbh
22:51 “...sometimes I’m eating.” Elias doing what he does best, being a spying sneaky dumpster fire lol
aw hell yes garbage husband Bouchard is BACK
we wanted elias to go away but then lukas was an instant "FUCK GO BACK" moment... elias you're a bastard but id rather have you around
@@f_mva2 for the price of 1. KEEP BOTH THE FUCKERS FOR DRAMA!
In Soviet Russia you don’t read books, books read *you*
Wasn't this set in Germany?
Bit Jon reading the German sentence sounded a bit like Russian to me (a German)
@@lilaboxx samesame, I kinda cringed (?) at the way Jon pronounced "leg sie zurück" :')
@@meiko4732he's trying his best 😭
My poor monolingual Ceaseless Watcher. He never has the chance to learn - he just has auto-translate in his head
Rip jon mangled *leg sie alle zurück* so badly i didn't even recognize it as german until i heard it being translated
Oh it was GERMAN. I thought it was some sort of an ancient chant in an obscure language, good job jon lmao
Same dude
I didn't realize it until I read your comment xD
@@ksimvanderhlaar Who knew you could so easily not recognize your mother tongue, right?
Ohhhhh I didn't get that at all
Basira: *continued to side with Daisy even after finding out she was a murderous dirty cop*
Basira: *arranges to meet with Elias in secret*
Basira: "Just don’t expect much on trust these days"
Jon: "Yes, I suppose that’s fair"
No it the fuck is not
I love that Jon admitted has the worst superpowers out of all the avatars. Trying to imagine Jon recording others to death. Although this was an eye statement and someone died so maybe he could be capable of something?
***laughs in relistener trauma*** ***cries in relistener trauma*** I'm sure you've finished it now, hope you enjoyed...
God, Elias, could you give off more Hannibal Lecter vibes if you tried?
AND I WAS WONDERING WHY HIS BEHAVIOR SEEMED SO SIMILAR-
I don't know why but the man that waved a rope blind folded gave me chills for a full minute
They have a real way with words in this podcast, I keep getting surprised
Jon: So we remove the bullet. Yay Melanie's coherent!
Basira: Eh. I'd rather her be insane and enslaved to the slaughter, but sure, YOU are the one I don't trust.
Having a mildly uncommon name but hearing it applied to another person is the most disconcerting thing I swear to god
My name is Amalia, so I'm REALLY not used to sharing it with other people, and I remember that when I was in 7th grade, a sixth grader came to our school, who's name was also Amalia. Literally EVERY time someone said her name in the hallway or the library, I would look up and say "what?" It sucked.
Where I'm from, my name is rare too.
"Arif" is the Arabic verb for "Knowing"... Ominous, innit?
@@ASeed17 hah, my name is Amalia too, and yes, i'm not used to share it with someone else, despite the fact that in my life, for some reason, were much more people with that name than should be)
Tell me about it. My name's Daisy!
@@dizzy388 ~ avatar of the hunt ~
I live for Basira's quiet 'hmm'
I'm not sure if it's a brilliant or terrible idea to listen to the Magnus Archives when it's storming
Why not both
Hey at least you don't have a singing coffin while it rains
@@lark7655 maybe you don't
Brilliant
So I listen to it while I do homework at like 1-5 am when it’s dark out and I don’t bide well with horror things so it’s terribly ironic
Peter Lucas stop gatekeeping Martin??? Sharing is caring???
Who else is worried the 'delicate place' Jon's in is whether or not he opens the 'door'?
I dont think his being will 'drown' when he opens it. I think the fragments of his humanity will
The "Sometimes I'm eating..." and reluctant and grumpy "Fine. Yes." sounded so childlike, I was crying 😂.
He could've said "But Basiraaa, why can't I be cryptic and dramatic?!" and it would've conveyed the exact same message to me.
On another note, throughout the end of the statement, I just kept repeating "oh my, oh my, oh my, damn, Jonah"
Really though, what the f*ck were you doing, Jonah?!
But I loved the fact that the whole statement was just basically a "f*ck off" note.
peter isolating martin after he lost his mom in addition to everything else is horrible. someone go save him ahhh
Writer John: I regret naming the archivist after me, it’s confusing
Also writer John: **gives another character his first name**
Currently I've got 12 Johns not including our darling Archivist
magnus was doing what elias talked about, wasn't he? setting horrid events in motion so he can watch. not cool not cool
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Also that tree reminds me of the one on hilltop road, the one that bled and was tied to the desolation and also was symbolically tied to the evils of knowledge (the apple)
oh yeah, same!
Idk about that whole “my priorities haven’t changed” thing bc Martin seems pretty different to me
jonah magnus been breaking hearts left and right
Elias is BACK and Still Slimy In Jail!
I have the honor to be your obedient servant....
A.HAM
A. BURR!
"...record them into submission" xD
My favourite character so far this season is the Tape Recorder. The thing just popping up like "Haiiii Martin :)" or "What's Elias up to :o" is kinda cute.
HAH the first word that replayed in my head as Jon starts narrating the statement was 'Intimacy' 🤭😏
“Sometimes I’m eating”
I'm really glad we get an update on Albrecht von Closen, and seeing how Jonah is getting more twisted in his pursuit of knowledge! All those eyes...yikes. We don't get many statements regarding The Beholding, so it's cool to have Jon read the fear and chaos his patron, and now he, bring to the world.
The pursuit of knowledge seems to lead to very Lovecraftian ends, doesn't it? I'd argue that the fear and chaos weren't brought but already there, hiding. But looking too much makes you one of them. I think this is the first statement that mentions that Jonah Magnus was directly connected to the panopticon prison. It is..disconcerting.
Jonah really be out here saving all of his breakup letters for the Archive homie I-
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Why the ever loving FUCK is Elias back?????? Ew
He might not be great but he is at least better than Peter
10:26 The stories describe some of the Fears.
"A seamstress who laced her body with fine, black thread. And when she pulled it all out, her skin dropped away like a loose shift." (The Stranger)
"A man so scared to die, he spent a year weaving a rope blindfolded... so that he wouldn't know the length, and couldn't foresee when it would tighten around his neck when he threw himself into the void." (The End)
"A fire that burned so hot and fierce, that to even know about it is enough to burn a man's tongue from his head." (The Desolation, aka the Lightless Flame)
Love that the title of this episode is a pun
Finally another episode!! I can’t believe I finally caught up with the UA-cam episodes. I marathoned this whole thing in like a week it’s that good!
Me too. It's not like I have anything better to do
"what happens if you open the door?"
"I drown."
Oh man I was away from my phone and putting a cup down and audibly said "OOF"
This one is an Eye statement, but I got a theory on another fear. Have any of you noticed that the Darkness prefers to feed on people of faith, be it in fears or otherwise? Like that one priest who went to hilltop road and was also connected to Montauk, and well... The montauks themselves, who I'm sure were of a cult who worshiped the Hunt. The Darkness is not unlike the "evil" mentioned in most religions of the world, especially Christianity. Why do you think of the premiere Darkness cult calls itself "The Peoples Church of the Divine Host"?
Hmm I had thought it was a web statement actually but I guess the eye makes more sense. "Clustering together" had me think what he discovered were spiders but they're probably eyes.
@@ineedmoresalmon2475
well, Eye is my best guess since the autopsy revealed a bunch of eyes looking back at the statement provider, but if you've been around here long enough you'll know how connected the Fears are. Web and Eye are in an alliance with 2 other fears. you can guess which one's... they're all things introverts are immune to.
Definitely an Eye statement. Not really any mention of webs or loneliness but plenty about books, and the first part of Albrecht's story back in s1 there's a lot of Eye iconography.
The priest who went to hilltop road was possessed by the Spiral. He was hallucinating; seeing and hearing things that weren't actually there. or did you mean Maxwell Rayner, the head of the People's Church of the Divine host? I don't recall him ever going to Hilltop Road.
I don't think the Montauks were originally connected to the hunt as Julia's mother had a necklace/pendant of a closed eye (symbol of People's Church of the Divine host) and Julia was afraid of the dark. Pretty sure her father was forced to kill/sacrifice people to the darkness to protect her, and in the process drew the attention of the Hunt.
I don't think the Darkness feeds on people of faith so much as that's just how Maxwell Rayner operates. For example when Julia Montauk and Trevor the Tramp met the Darkness was operating as a small business, and that guy who hid under his blanket to escape the darkness wasn't religious as far as i can recall.
The Montauks were in a Darkness cult. I can't recall if it was specifically the People's Church though, it's been a while since i listened to season 1.
@@mimkyodar
The Montauk side story is very hard to follow (its almost as if it's *shrouded in darkness* ). We are sure they are Darkness followers, and when the Darkness betrayed them, Robert betrayed it back in order to save his daughter. He starts exhibiting Hunt-like behaviour (namely, killing other fear cultists) and i guess this little bit of a favour is repayed by Julia being taken under the Hunt's figuritive wing by having Trevor pick her up and train her?
“Episode 127 remains to be seen” well fuck i hope they find it soon /j
..And when the remains were seen, they looked BACK
The old man had the power of oversharing and forcing others to listen.
Reverse eye. New entity: The Mouth ~ Blabbering ~ Ceaseless Talker
Fears assosciated: not knowing how to leave an awkward situation, not knowing how to draw boundaries, feeling forced to listen to someone oversharing
Yes, Basira, absolutely take Elias's word at face value over Jon's (?!?!?!?!?!??!)
YESSSS!!! My favorite garbage man is back. Fuck yeah
I was expecting the text of the books to be on his body...then the word 'pupils' happened and now I'm just confused.
They really didn't convey enough horror. Jon and Gertrude were freaked at the idea of an Archivist becoming a humanoid eyeball. The autopsy says this guy had working, seeing eyeballs growing all over his insides.
So when Albrecht had the books rebound, Jonathan had them swapped out for blanks and Albrecht never noticed because he doesn't open them.
Yup, pretty much.
So Jonah indirectly killed the Archivist..?
@@Badficwriter
Pretty sure.
It would have been on purpose too.
poor Martin, I love him sm :(
This show causes a really, really weird kind of fear
Man, I miss Tim and his lil jokes
stop that
me too
Martin :(
Basira: Can we cut the bullshit?
Elias: What “bullshit” might that be?
Basira: The part where you pretend you don’t spend your whole time watching us.
Elias: Sometimes I'm eating.
sdkljfskdjf this was really funny to me XDD
So it's *Jon* who listens to the tapes?
Pretty sure it's the Eye, aka the Beholding, aka the viewer
i think its the eye, and the people that have the powers of the eye just kinda. can do it too.
they mentioned on earlier seasons that he listens to every tape but like, regular, normal human putting on a tape and listening to the statement. don't know if that remains true now that he's not one
Jon gets the tapes somehow but I'm pretty sure the recorders are somehow from the web
We're listening to the tapes, duh.
It's weird but I got like 10 commercials during this one show and that has never happened before. Spooky
the door metaphor is honestly one of my favourite things in this whole series
"Yeah, police? I have a stalker"
"OH MY- Have you seen them?"
"Yes. He is in your prison cell"
".... What?"
Ouch, Jon accidentally using his powers on Basically for a statememt of sorts without either noticing hurts
Why is nobody talking about the fact Jon was apparently named after this guy?!
In this case namesake just refers to coincidence
I think that "Detective" sounds like the name of a Mantle
The title for this one is the punch line to one of my favorite (terrible) jokes so naturally I've been wheezing with laughter since the autopsy description popped up. Thank you for my favorite joke in the entire series! 😂
Alright I'm 30 secondes in but I find it both funny and NOT funny that at least for the first sentences of the statement, John is talking like Elias to me. (Rythmic, voice a little more medium in tone, intonations...) Don't know if it's real, I mean it's surely only the reading, but. Well. There you go.
oh that's what it is. yeah, he's certainly been speaking differently, I just hadn't spotted what it was
I've heard that Ben Meredith, Elias' voice actor, sort of derived his character's voice from S1 Jon's, and they seemed quite similar to me too, at times it was hard to tell them apart. Not anymore but they are definitely similar.
Hmm... interesting detail! I hadn’t noticed that before! 😃
"Sometimes I'm eating." 😂😂😂
I had five commercials on this episode wth
...sometimes I’m eating
Elias Bitchard is back :DD
A body full of eyes hmmm...reminds me of that season 1 episode with the house on first floor full of meat
Oh, so they lightner books are the original archive? like way back they made horrid cursed books instead of recordings?
i feel like they're way older than the archives? the statements don't seem nearly as cursed as the books
No, the books are actual aspects of the fears. The statements are ... i guess its like food for the eye?
Elias is really just chilling in jail, isn't he?
Also, Basira is the best detective, I love her.
-illness
-fire
-watching
-books
My ass was just sat here trying guess which fucking entity this is
8:09 at first i thought he is chanting some cthulhu spell XD
but no i forgot that americans/British people do not know ü ^^
I have the honour to be your obedient servanttt - A.Burr- wait wrong fandom
He says it is like there's a door in his mind and that there's an ocean behind it....
I've been reading and listening to info about Control and what it is based on.
Jon has a link to The Oldest House which is leaking bits from the Astral Plane. Or at least that's what I'm deciding.
SOILER UNDER CUT
people are stilll talking about Elias and Jonah as seperate people and I just-
1:58 oh god he wanted him to work in the Milbank prison
Ok, is NOBODY going to talk about that dude being full of eyes?
ikr like that's CREEPY
Poor Martin :(
your obedient servant, j. fan
ELIAS IS BACK!!! Oh i've missed the slinky bastard.
For a temple of knowledge, it's surprising how ignorant everyone are when compared to the servants of the other monsters. Martin doesn't even know Lukas is an avatar, does he? Also, Jon is the boss. He should lead his assistants, not leave them to their own devices and ignorance. How isn't Jon trying to get Elias out of jail when the Lonely has taken over the institute?
Ppl who give dislikes to TMA episodes deserve to be Buried
I don't know what happened but the previous 126 episodes were fine but on this one UA-cam decided to pop an ad every 3 minutes. It's not your guys fault but it's infuriating.
So now i have to still deal with Elias AND Peter
How did me and Jon feel the exact same about Jonah Magnus at first; do I kin that hard?
"the part where you pretend like you don't spend your whole time watching us"
"Sometimes I'm eating!😤"
So... were the Black Forest Books just an old Archive, or a collection of Leitners before they were called "Leitners?"
good questions, good questions, fellow current-listener! Maybe they're Leitners but Jonah learning about them inspired him to find more accounts of people suffering at the hands of such powers and that's why he started the Institute? Because the Archives aren't really interested in anything that doesn't link to (usually) the other entities...
@@-S.L. oh buddy... this was my second time through. Brace yourself for what's left. Gets crazy.
@@pyrosianheir AHHH okay I'm a little scared, god I can't believe there's only the rest of S4 and then S5 before the end.
A tree can be dead. Plants are technically living 👀👀👀