*tinfoil hat on* I think tmagp being more standalone is the real red herring and some fell for it hook line and sinker, denying obvious clues and ties to tma (Gwendolyn BOUCHARD, fucking hilltop road again, jonmartin???); I know this is the 15 different Michaels podcast side/sequel, but c'mon
I think it's more like it will work perfectly fine as a stand alone work, but some people heard "it's fine to start with protocol if you haven't listened to archives" and "coming from archives might give you certain preconceptions that mess you up with protocol theorizing" and took that to mean the two podcasts will be as unconnected as possible with only stylistic and aesthetic overlap, no plot or lore, but like. just because it will still work for new listeners doesn't mean older content won't be relevant? we've got a whole set of fresh characters, if new audience members need to learn about something that happened in archives then they will do it via the characters learning about it. you don't accidentally name a character "bouchard" for a second time, cmon guys.
TMA AU in which Jonathan Sims got himself a car after the promotion. He's not exactly a car person, but that's what people do, he's pretty sure of it. And he can do so much with that car. He can bitch about the parking in central London, he can use it to spy on his assistants, he can name the car, live in it for a while, have it stolen, have it confiscated, have it vandalized by every avatar in Britain. When Jon is on a run, he throws away his license plates and can't find them after his charges are cleared. He loses his driving license too, but that's alright, he can just consult with the Beholding to avoid police. At this point everyone tells Jon to leave the cursed pile of metal somewhere in the woods already, but he can't just abandon his beloved automobile! What do you think he named it? I think Barnabas. I also think the car became sentient and drove away after the apocalypse, as per the laws of the genre. Jon met Basira in one of the domains, asked if she's seen his car and got smacked immediately.
The propaganda machine is working fine
The Magnus Archives is just Jujutsu Kaisen for an adult audience in podcast form
when i was... a young shrimp.. my shrather (shrimp father)... took me into the city... to see a marching clam.....
Tumblr holidays not being used for the rest of the world is weird. What do you mean I have to go to school/work? Don't you people know Julius Caesar was stabbed multiple times?
the real horror of malevolent is the canon existence of a French Timeline