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I'm Eefa and I talk to strangers. She/her. Irish.
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crplpunkklavier

i love and respect that post or tweet or whatever it was about how every mountain goats song is like whirring of the ac in a warehouse while john goes "the dog was. brown" but i do think it applies more to older songs. nowadays any mountain goats song is like [sexy saxophone riff] john darnielle sounding really excited: I HAVE A FIVE STEP PLAN FOR MAULING YOU TO DEATH [bass lick] WHEN THE COPS COME TO MY DOOR I'LL KILL THEM TOO [more saxophone]

#tma
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hatersmad

jonathan sims was really the character of all time. he was kidnapped three times. his only friend was his ex-girlfriend. he pretended to be a skeptic while also working as a ghost secretary. he said “good lord” unironically. he was a stalker. he called a merry-go-round “thrilling.” he hung out and listened to soap operas with a woman who kidnapped him and tried to slit his throat. he said mercy-killing another guy that kidnapped him was “like doing a favor for an old friend.” he could almost definitely suck his own dick. he was forcibly moisturized by a clown for a month. he lied about being ten years older than he was for no discernible reason. he wasn’t even mad about the third kidnapping. he thought his coworker was a ghost. he died once. he tried to cut off his own finger. he was even bi

#tma#and at the end of the day#he prevented brexit
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fiuworks

do you think when Jon showers (rare occurance) he finds it impossible because the soap gets in his eyes and also his eyes and also his eyes and also his eyes and don’t forget his eyes and oh his eyes as well and his eyes and

#Laughter rule#Tma
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drumlincountry

Magnus archives mundane AU where Jon still gets marked by all 14 fears but its like. Burnt his hand trying to use a glue gun. Cat scratch. Etc.

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drumlincountry
  • chicken pox scar
  • Spider bite
  • Got fucked up in a fight with a stranger one time
  • salmonella as meat trauma
  • Stalked and mauled by a stray cat
  • glue gun hand burn
  • no friends (more of an emotional scar).
  • got tinnitus in a moshpit
  • Michael stabs him in this universe also
  • addicted to monitoring his employees' browsing history
  • fell out a window
  • fell in a hole
  • fell in….the dark.

  • and then he fucking dies I guess
#Me Fein#Tma
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inosukearchives

martin: would you still love me if i was a worm?

jon: of course i’d still love you if you were a worm martin. don’t be ridiculous i’d love you no matter what.

martin: .. would you still love me if i was a spider?

jon: ….

martin: jon?

jon: …

martin: JON?!?

#Prev tags yeah ♥♥♥#We've had this conversation many times I think#Jamie would still love me if I was a big spider OR several large spiders#But we'd have to be long distance#If jamie was a big spider I think that would be pretty cool#If they were several spiders i'd be stressed about accidentally hurting them :(#Delicate creatures. Small.#Tma
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fakecrfan
Anonymous asked:

Anything interesting to say about annabelle cane?

fakecrfan answered:

Annabelle Cane has, by default, ended up as one of the most complex, layered, and interesting characters in the narrative--and I am pretty sure it was done completely by accident by the writer.

Now, why do I say this? Because, TMA is a story that from the very start invests in the theme of, well, the passage and preservation of information. Then, it makes Annabelle specifically the single character who has taken charge of how every single piece of information we get in the podcast is edited and framed.

And specifically, it is Annabelle, the individual, who edits and frames the show. Not the Web working through her. Why do I know this? Because when she is referring to herself as merely a part of the Web in the statement she writes in MAG 196, she uses "we"--

An opening into, we believe, other worlds than this tired old thing.
It was not wide enough to allow true passage, not yet, save for the odd accident. But it was wide enough for what we now intended…

--But when she talks about the decision to use tape recorders as opposed to a TV show, she uses "I."

MAG 197

MARTIN
Oh. Wonderful. I can’t wait to attend the Annabelle Cane Show.
ANNABELLE
Huh! You know, I did consider it once.
MARTIN
Excuse me?
ANNABELLE
A TV show.

So Annabelle is--herself, as an individual--responsible for the medium through which we hear the story, and thus implicitly responsible for choosing what information gets kept and what information gets thrown out. This means that, although Annabelle only directly appears in a few episodes, we can read her schemes, aesthetic, and preferences into every single episode and every single cut.

For example--Melanie talks about multiple people telling her to "be fair to Jon." Logically speaking, she probably isn't lying or projecting. Martin, Daisy, Basira, and Georgie would likely have taken this stance against her at different points. Georgie canonically spoke up in Jon's favor to Melanie offscreen in the beginning, Basira was supportive to Jon's in s3, Daisy was supportive to Jon in s4, and Martin is Martin.

But we don't hear anyone say this to Melanie. Which means that Annabelle deliberately left out every single conversation where this happened.

Why? There are a lot of different possible answers--maybe because Jon listens to all the tapes, and Annabelle wanted to give him a certain perspective on his companions. Maybe because she's simply decided those conversations are unnecessary. But whatever the answer it is, it is about Annabelle and her specific choices/values/preferences.

That choice may very well be about manipulating the narrative Jon gets, how he sees the world around him--but if you look closely,not every choice is about that.

Another example: the s3 and s4 finales are clearly edited and spliced together from multiple tapes. Annabelle could have just recorded from multiple sets of tapes and then had them play one after another. But instead, scenes from entirely different locations are spliced together back to back. I can't think of a practical reason to do this, but I can think of artistic reasons. Annabelle doesn't just edit based on necessity and manipulation, it seems. She takes the material and cuts and puts parts of it together purely for the aesthetic value of it.

Annabelle is thus implicitly in every single episode of the show. Her taste and her choices are the very lens through which all of the information in the show is presented to us. Everything from three of Jon's stalking victims not being caught on tape before Jess Tyrell, to the tape recorders turning on and then off specifically to catch Jon saying fuck--it's her. It's all her.

And you know, there is a kind of poignancy to that. Annabelle, as I noticed in a previous post of mine, is utterly self effacing in her goals. She doesn't care if she lives or dies by Jon's hand. Only the continued survival of the Web matters. So Annabelle is a charming, funny, intensely creative, and highly theatrical woman whose individuality is deliberately disregarded. She interacts with almost no one over the course of a story that she's directing, seems to have no desires that are about herself, and no one ever expresses curiosity about her as an individual. But we see her individuality in her work. Her retro aesthetic, her sense of humor, her keen eye for manipulation and shaping a narrative.

I keep having an image of her sitting alone at Hill Top Road, splicing together tape after tape, cutting and listening and then cutting again. Indulging herself by leaving in those little moments of humor or drama or switching things on just to hear Jon swearing. Because she doesn't get to express her individuality any other way.

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theboombutton

She also makes sure her own introductory episode is number 69.

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fakecrfan

FUCK. SHE SURE DID.

#Sinking my hands in this post. Tugging it apart a little. Feeeling how the threads tangle#Mmm yes. Good.#Tma#Storytelling
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wildgeese98

I could probably write a long essay about Lost Johns' Cave, and maybe I will someday. That episode fucks so hard. As a claustrophobe who is both fascinated and horrified by caving I am its #1 target demographic. The way the cave is described is so beautiful. They way squeezing through those tiny tunnels is described makes me nauseous. It's also a fascinating episode because Laura Poham is probably the least reliable narrator in any statement. Pretty much everything she says either isn't true or is twisted somehow. It's still not fully clear to me if she's deliberately lying or if she genuinely beleives her version of what happened. I lean towards the latter because you shouldn't really be able to lie in a statement. Although I don't know if that's ever explicitly stated. Maybe it is possible, especially in written statements where the statement giver is under the influence of the Eye but not being directly compelled. Oliver does also lie about his name in Dreamer. I'm gonna be on the lookout for more instances of statement givers lying as I do my slow re-listen.

#I was idly toying with the idea that she could be from a different dimension but it doesn't really hold up#Not having the paperwork filed. The apostrophe in Lost Johns' Cave being in the wrong place in the title#Johns' means Two johns = two sisters go in#John's means one john = one sister comes out#But idk. Its not in oxford.#What an episode#Tma
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milkteamoon

t4t jmart is an especially funny flavor to me because I think if Martin discovered his boss was trans he would think it was really cool that he has something in common on a deeply personal level with the guy he wants to be respected by and if Jon found out his coworker was trans he would think that this is just another attempt of Martin trying to Show Him Up, personally

#tma#Queer tag#God.
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