I have to say I've never shipped Agnes and Gertrude but "[Her eyes] reminded her of stargazing - the light that reached her was already dead" was some BANGER imagery
So many people, especially a lot of people who dont read fanfiction, are always going on about how fanfiction as a whole is bad or cringey. Its really nice to see them appreaciating the work some people do, especially cause TMA has some fantastic fanfiction.
Exactly, not one book has made me cry (or even come close), yet Comfortably Numb by Becky Gregory did. Sure, most of that thanks is due to the source material, but she was able to take that preconcieved emotions and turned it up to 8. It is not "cringey" and it sure isn't "Bad", it's a form of writing that deserves respect.
I like fanfiction a lot, and occasionally write it, though I don't read too much of it. It makes me sad to see people blanket hate a genre because it's not proffesional. Yes you get some bad writing on there, because the writers aren't proffesional, but you get some incredible writing too. And anyway it's not a problem to write terribly written things sometimes; that's how people get better
Not me crying over Comfortably Numb by Becky Gregory. I don't know if it would've had the same effect if I had read it myself rather than hearing them read it.
@@JustCallMeEmilysame here didn't think I would cry from this short fanfic. I think Martin in canon is more cynical went talking to him self. Becky's writing really committed to the feelings and Alex also really committed to reading it and that really hits. 😢
This is the first time im seeing their faces and quite frankly i’ll never get used to that unique feeling of seeing podcasters faces for the first time after you’ve heard them play a character for years.
Truly; it's not my first time seeing them but I still can't quite get Jonny's voice and face to make sense together in my brain. I adjusted well and quickly to all the other actors, but whenever I see Jonny speaking, it feels mildly like ventriloquism 😂
Ngl, after I saw them for the first time I had the urge to draw the characters I pictured because I was afraid I'd forget / I wouldn't picture them the same way anymore xD well I still picture them as before but now I've also got a drawing as a bonus haha
re: fix-it fic, in specifically tma stuff I see the term used a lot where they don't mean they "fixed" the plot or the writing but instead to mean "fix" the bad things that happen in the story, like an "everyone's fine" au that they wouldn't necessarily want to be canon
yeah. i think a key part of sad or tragic story is that there's a part of you that wishes it turned out better. And even if you don't want that kinder universe to be cannon, because you love the way the bad ending is written, you want the kinder universe to exist. Alongside the sad cannon. which is where fanfic comes in
Yeah, a lot of times what can make something so tragic is you can see the ways it might've not turned out as it did. Or it makes you wish you could make things better for the characters.
@@ariannay766this perfectly describes why i love writing/reading fix-its! i’ve never been able to explain it properly before, thank you for breaking it down for me
Note for later reads: Good Cows How to Care for your Human An extremely tired therapist And Janus Blinked There are ghost in this story For as long as he will let me Redefi
i love the concept but also seeing this title thought it’d be so funny if they just read the fic silently for a few hours on stream like i do before going to sleep
2:15:42 but wait that's basically how the archivist treats like every statement in s1. "this man was supposedly haunted by a cursed spider and then he was found dead covered in spider web? Boo hoo, ghost inflation situation"
It's so weird to see how many "Uuuuuuh"s Jon can fit in a sentence after hearing him being perfectly eloquent and precise with his words for 200+ episodes.
can't wait for the fandom animators to get around to turn this gold into jewelry. LOVE this, I kinda wish you had scowered ao3 to find the weirdest freakiest fanfic you could find. that would have been immensely funny. but this was amazing to listen too.
The GDPR fic is one of my favourites of all time, for good reason. I do love me a fanwork that is clearly written by an adult with a job who is very tired of that job.
1:37 - Alex completely freezing, followed by Jonny's "oh dear" 2:10 - They were sent these excerpts and didnt just go looking for them lol thank goodness 3:46 - The Entities as Pokemon :0 7:04 - "A particularly sexy sex one" 😂 12:33 - "And then Superman landed and everyone was like 'gee whiz, it's Superman!'" 16:21 - Jon fussing over the very good cow 🥺 16:36 - "Did you know that cows have friends?" 18:42 - "He must be a really lucky cow" 😭 19:40 - Jon wiping his hands on his _pants_ and not his _trousers_ 22:23 - Victorian prose 27:22 - Jonmartin as told by their cat, aww 30:15 - DONT FEED YOUR CATS CHEESE 32:36 - The letter from the retiring therapist lmfaooo 36:48 - "For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Massive baby." 39:09 - "I occasionally forget that humans exist and that they interact with each other" 40:34 - Alex reading as Elias 43:56 - Every Elias line has to be secretly shitty, followed by a "Hes such a f*cking prick!!" 46:46 - "Apparently i have ceased to exist" 49:14 - I can hear a cat in the background :0 51:40 - Alex reading as Jon lol 53:27 - Martin's increasingly worried texts and missed calls to Jon in America 😂 56:11 - The Archivist: My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard 1:06:18 - "Loved. Past tense." FRICKING OW 1:15:27 - Jonny reading as Georgie 1:24:10 - I cant for the life of me understand what Alex said here but the "sorry?" "Hm?" "What?" After that was funny to me lol 1:25:01 - Oh it was "Stella Firma Erotica" LMAO 1:28:28 - Tipsy Jon lol 1:32:22 - Alex being described as "a walrus that's eaten too many coat hangers, and won't stop fidgeting" 1:35:17 - Alex and Jonny do American accents 1:36:56 - Alex: I'm not good at this, sorry Jonny: I APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING (Side note Alex's southern accent is just reminding me of the previous stream where he did this for one of the characters LOL) 1:39:59 - "Who are you?" "A kayak" 1:42:14 - "They said you sound like youre full of coat hangers??" 1:43:31 - Alex offering to read as Elias again, but instead using _this_ voice 😂😂😂 --- Side note, i was listening to this in class and audibly snorted when this happened lmao [Bookmark 1:55:00]
I love how they were super calm and normal after reading the Agnes/Gertrude one, and meanwhile I gripping my chair and making such inhuman sounds that the police sent a patrol to hunt me down and now I'm running naked in the woods, persued because of the one thing that set my soul alight I just went to AO3 to fin the fic in question and I can tell I'm already falling into a dangerous rabbit hole I will never crawl out of
Timestamps of fics plus some extra bits I liked. Have also indicated if I could find the fic on ao3. Have fun! 15:40 Good Cows by Ria, Jonmartin fluff 21:35 On The Factual Particulars Of The Death Of Mrs Blackwood by saintbleeding, gen Victorian AU (ao3, WIP) 27:19 How to Care for your Humans: A Simple Guide, Jonamartin fluff + cat (ao3) 32:37 Letter of an extremely tired therapist by Sage, humour Gen 36:44 Jonny rewrites the shortest tragedy (massive baby) 38:41 Indulgences by RavenXavier, Jon/Elias (ao3) 44:03 Jonny: he's [Elias] such a fvcking prick! 44:57 Beholding the GDPR: How the Magnus Institute Updated Its Privacy Policy for the Twenty-First Century And Only Caused One Nervous Breakdown In The Process by shinyopals, Epistolary Gen (ao3) 56:00 Archivist voices/ theres an eye in the milkshake 57:08 Ho Ho Oh no (Merry Crisis) by SurrealSupernaturalist, Gen OC horror (ao3) 1:03:04 Comfortably Numb by The_Lonely_has_always_had_me/Becky, Jonmartin Angst (ao3) 1:08:59 Never love an anchor by Molly Scales/herewebloodygo, Gertrude/Agnes vibes (ao3) 1:15:00 I'd Make A deal With God by ElCompositor, role reversal AU (ao3) 1:22:50 'Loving Star Wars is hard because most of it is.... Not great' oof I felt that 1:25:00 Jonny ships all Tim's characters with him/each other 1:26:00 'Gungan cell leader Bofa Deeznuts' - no further context 1:27:45 The Dangers of Drink by Akaadj, Jonmartin fluff/humour (ao3) 1:33:50 Meanwhile, in what used to be Virginia by Genie B(?) American OC 1:43:02 And in the distance, thunder by WhyNotFly, Jon/Elias (ao3) 1:55:50 And Janus Blinked by EnbyNeti, Time Travel AU (ao3, WIP) 2:03:39 Post last by ShinyHappyGoth, Jonmartin (WIP) 2:09:18 the sex-nopticon cometh 2:10:51 'its about ghost inflation - don't Google that!' - Jonny 2:15:56 There are Ghosts in this Story by WhyNotFly, post-200 body horror (ao3) 2:21:20 for as long as he will let me by bluejayblueskies, Jonmartin fluff (ao3) 2:25:10 Redeath by Gallifrey63 crack!fic (ao3, WIP) 2:30:24 The memories we make by Kory/Nerysatis, TimSasha angst (ao3) 2:33:25 Requiem of the tower by Luna Gale, Post-200 apocalypse angst 2:38:27 Date Night by The Darkivist, Jonmartin fluff/soft horror? (ao3) Please feel free to correct any mistakes or just reply with your own favourite moments!
1:08:39 - Never love an anchor* 1:14:48 - Id Make a Deal with God 1:27:42 - The Dangers of Drink 1:33:55 - Meanwhile in what used to be Virginia 1:42:48 - And in the Distance, Thunder 1:51:50 - And Janus Blinked *side note: why does everyone use that song for shipping when the full song is about giving up a child? 10/10 fic tho
My favorite moments from the video: 15:39 The boys saying 'good cows' repeatably which made me laugh. 19:46 *No no no, he unbuckled.* 36:47 For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn. Massive Baby. 36:51 ALEX'S LAUGH OH MY GOD- 43:37 *I wasn't giving a thumbs up to you Alex.* 55:06 That was the moment Jonny knew that he fucked up. 56:12 My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard. 56:20 *Are you sure that's milkshake?* 1:06:23 *BOOM* UUUGH. YOU'RE FEELINGS. AEEEGH. 1:06:34 "How do those tears taste? Salty ı bet." 1:24:18 *I heard e r o t i c a* 1:26:06 This whole conversation is so fucking iconic man. 1:27:45 Fluff *slash human* 1:27:51 My boys having a stroke trying to say fluff, slash and humor. 1:36:55 With explicit apologies...- *I apologize for nothing.* 1:37:04 The accent just killed me- help- 1:40:00 "Who are you..." "A kayak." 1:42:20 *giggles* ı'm a healthy boy. 1:47:45 *mmmm. it's smoldering.* 1:59:48 Hi. I'm Jonny Sims. I'm here to tell you, don't build gods. 2:09:14 It's the principle of the *sexy panopticon.* ... *sexnopticon.* 2:10:52 "It's not about ghost number, it's about ghost inflation." 2:14:14 The situation about ghost inflation is that they're Jonny's new band. 2:23:26 I just love Alex's smile in this section. 2:25:58 Is it about like... doing load of crack. Like meth fiction or cocaine fiction- 2:26:10 *MARTIN. MARTIN WE NEED TO COOK MARTIN.* 2:26:33 I really loved you, you know... *BITCH.* 2:46:38 *ım jonny ı eat occasionally mumble mumble* 2:47:17 Help I'm in the void and ı CAN'T GET OUT-
Revisiting this for the 4th time Can we just take a minute to appreciate that Jon knows that some people find archivist×Elias uncomfy and tells people he'll let them know when its over so that they can mute it.
@m0ddotrar boss × employee. It's a half controversial half loved situation. That and it's pretty clear from the beginning that Elias doesn't really have Jon's best interest at heart. So for some it could border on feeling Stockholm-syndrom / just abusive. I personally don't mind it. But I can see why some do!
@@hezvandermeij oh that was super fast thank you lol Im not super involved about shipping culture but to me even if toxic it sounds like a fun idea to explore But im guessing by shipping you mean a romanticised relationship so yea understandable
@m0ddotrar oh absolutely same! And haha yea you asked about my special interest so I replied quick ahahah And lastly yes this is talking about romantic relations specifically Platonic I don't think ppl got a real issue with?
when he talked about adding massive baby to protocol, i had a weird moment of confusion AND THEN I CHECKED THE UPLOAD DATE ANF IT WAS 3 MONTHS AGO??? LITREALLY FUCKING *WHAT*!? three months ago was on s1, and i think i finshed mag 200 two days ago, and I Dunno Why. ut i was expecting this to be an older thing they did soon after the finale. Tbh, im just not used to creators of content i like still being super active and doing side projects of said content with so much enjoyment and dedication. like honestly when i first got into tma (3 months back) i knew it was a Finished series, so i just expected everything to be super dormant. like a really quiet fandom. ofc i am so so happy
"I'm Jonathan Sims and I'm here to tell you: don't build gods" is so fucking ironic considering this is EXACTLY what killed a character he plays in Slay The Princess
The way I had to switch tabs bc my brain glitches by being able to SEE Johnny and Alex while they're talking?? To be clear I know what they look like from pictures and have listened to all of the QA eps and such while they're out of character, just something about the combination is not something my brain can process??
My thing is I can watch them talk just fine, but when they start playing jon and martin i have to avert my gaze 😭 which is why i saw this comment in the first place lmaoo
1:17:35 I was definitely not expecting the next words to be "I know he's [Jon] a tasty looking snack, but he doesn't really do *carnal pleasures*..." dkhshfhdkhkdjfjkdkjd
im genuinely so blown away by their continual commitment to the fans. From day 1, this show was successful because of the connection between the fans and creators. Even though its been months since i thought about Magnus, i 1000% feel like part of the fandom when i watch stuff like this. Just wow! It feels like they’re being so indulgent in the best ways. What other fandom gets this from the creators!?
didn't expect the agnes/gertrude one but listening to it part of me wouldn't stop being like "yeah, this makes sense" we know that Agnes and Gertrude were connected, we know Gertrude had a penchant for using fire to solve problems, and we know that people tend to fall in love with Agnes. Sure, I don't think it should be canon, but this is not a "this should be canon" stream, this is a "this is good fanfic" stream.
I love hearing professional British voice actors doing American accents, makes me feel 10% less shitty about doing British accents while voicing npcs in dnd
55:00 I laughed so hard at Johnny's anecdote. 😂 In uni I lived in a flat in an area that was a bit iffy at night. On the way home I would phone my housemates before I went from a busy street to our quieter area. They would look out the window to watch for me and chat on the phone (good people). Everytime I left the apartment, I would hear, "Bye, stay safe", followed by a cheery "Don't get murdered!". 😂 Loved those guys ❤
It was a terrible idea to start listening to this at work because I now have to try so hard not to laugh in my cubicle. Every single time Alex ducks his head to laugh, I am trying everything I have to not laugh too. This is so, so hard But still lovely to see. Thank you to the RQ team for the lovely vid (stream? Live show? Whatever)
Seeing this and recognizing RavenXavier, "The Scottish Safehouse Anthology", and the GDPR thing is so great. "Redeath" and "And Janus Blinked" aren't my cup of tea, but that's just my personal taste and I'm glad to see them here.
As someone who is going through having someone very close to me needing to take some time away from everyone, the cow story hit home so hard it might've caused structural damage 😂😭 Thank you for sharing it
Revisiting to get back in the TMA mood. Anxiously awaiting Jan 18th, and the r.p.g. table top game drops. 30 seconds in I've laughed, I've cried, I've re-fallen in love with Alexander and his adorable face. Who am I kidding? The mood never left me for a moment.
The Web - Fairy/Bug The Corruption - Poison/Bug The Eye - Psychic The Lonely - Ghost/Ice The Dark - Dark The End - Normal/Ghost The Vast - Flying/Water The Buried - Ground/Water The Slaughter - Fighting The Desolation - Fire The Flesh - Normal The Hunt - Dragon The Spiral - Electric/Psychic The Stranger - Rock/Steel The Extinction - Steel/Electric spent way too long thinking about this and I still don't think any of them really fit Grass typing?! This is bullshit one of them needs to have grass I used all the other types where tf can I put grass in this
If I didn't think Buried should be ground dark, I would say make it ground grass for the aesthetic of being bound by swampy plant tendrils or stuck in a thick jungle
This was absolutely brilliant! There are so many talented writers in this fandom and listening to these two gentlemen banter is side splitting. This truly was a gift. Thank you.
Hearing the Virginian accents as a native Virginian was so funny (esp. since the region I’m from doesn’t have a southern accent). Johnny’s accent sounded more like a black southern one, though, which was pretty neat!
I love how over the course of the stream they get more and more unhinged. Love it! Great reading too, I love that I recognized some of the ones that you guys read. (That GDPR one is SO good, my god)
The reason that a hundred twenty billion ghosts doesn't hit for me goes back to the Ottery Saint Mary episode of Cabin Pressure. I don't think anyone *can* imagine that many ghosts- it ceases to mean anything. If you think you're imagining that many ghosts, you're wrong- your just imagining a lot of ghosts. The number can't mean anything.
[In reference to the Virginia fanfic] I'm from Virginia but I wouldn't be much help with demonstrating an accent. I was raised by German and British grandparents. My mom was born in North Carolina but spent several years in England. I've been told I sound more New England when not being asked if I was British or German. "Shrugs"
Oh dude, in case you haven't heard, they're making another in-universe 3 season show!! It's called the magnus protocol, this stream is bc the kickstarter for it raised so much money
I think I have never giggled so much in my life as in here, for such a "short" period of time. But I also squeaked like a soft little ball of cotton I am and this stream is now my comfort thingie- good job to the fic authors, well done!! ^^
Ah so thats what they look like. I was so confused at first because I thought they were each other and I had to look away to match the voices thinking how can I listen to 200 episodes and still not know who is who. And it makes more sense who is who rather than me originally thinking martin was on the left and Jon was on the right.
Alex is so patient with Jon's constant interjections, but let the man finish a sentence😢 Alex's chair swinging and grin while the "sexnopticon" fluff piece was read ❤️😁🤣
I have associated their voices so much with the fanon appearances of the characters its really weird seeing the actual voice actors behind it. The audio delay makes it even odder lol
“Southern accent Elias isn’t real he can’t hurt you”
Southern accent Elias:
1:43:28 terrifying
Elias already has a southern accent, no?
@@baintreachas he has a southern English one I think this comment was on about when Alex did a southern American one for him
I have to say I've never shipped Agnes and Gertrude but "[Her eyes] reminded her of stargazing - the light that reached her was already dead" was some BANGER imagery
There's a fist of the north star joke in there somewhere...
this is truly a win for autism
So true
youre spot on
absolutely
yes.
@@massive.nerd.potential hello fellow agender !!! hi !!! :D
"Who are these people? I don't know whats happening."
Johnny really just explained all of the tma lore in 2 sentences
TALLY HALL MENTION
@@brainrunbygoblin TALLY HALL
@@The_Mind_Electric_number_1_fan TALLY HALL
@@GliYch TALLY HALL
An Introduction to TMA: how to successfully write an office romance between you and your boss (it's fine cause we're really good actors)
With a *little* bit of eldritch horror involved
@@veronica_editig3698 just a tiny bit
11 minutes in, "horror is wet." and other sentences I didn't expect to hear.
That just came up right as I read this comment haha
I personally didn’t expect Massive Baby
So many people, especially a lot of people who dont read fanfiction, are always going on about how fanfiction as a whole is bad or cringey. Its really nice to see them appreaciating the work some people do, especially cause TMA has some fantastic fanfiction.
Exactly, not one book has made me cry (or even come close), yet Comfortably Numb by Becky Gregory did. Sure, most of that thanks is due to the source material, but she was able to take that preconcieved emotions and turned it up to 8.
It is not "cringey" and it sure isn't "Bad", it's a form of writing that deserves respect.
So true
I like fanfiction a lot, and occasionally write it, though I don't read too much of it. It makes me sad to see people blanket hate a genre because it's not proffesional. Yes you get some bad writing on there, because the writers aren't proffesional, but you get some incredible writing too. And anyway it's not a problem to write terribly written things sometimes; that's how people get better
Can you recommend some and where to find it?
magnus boys: we're gonna read fanfic hehe
magnus boys two hours later: DID YOU GUYS KNOW FANFIC IS GOOD????
My ass is over here crying from the good cows fic
HEARING FANFIC WITH THEIR VOICES MAKES THEM 10X BETTER
Not me crying over Comfortably Numb by Becky Gregory. I don't know if it would've had the same effect if I had read it myself rather than hearing them read it.
@@JustCallMeEmilysame here didn't think I would cry from this short fanfic. I think Martin in canon is more cynical went talking to him self. Becky's writing really committed to the feelings and Alex also really committed to reading it and that really hits. 😢
This is the first time im seeing their faces and quite frankly i’ll never get used to that unique feeling of seeing podcasters faces for the first time after you’ve heard them play a character for years.
Truly; it's not my first time seeing them but I still can't quite get Jonny's voice and face to make sense together in my brain. I adjusted well and quickly to all the other actors, but whenever I see Jonny speaking, it feels mildly like ventriloquism 😂
SAME I’m so confused. The first hour or so it seemed fake 😂
Ngl, after I saw them for the first time I had the urge to draw the characters I pictured because I was afraid I'd forget / I wouldn't picture them the same way anymore xD well I still picture them as before but now I've also got a drawing as a bonus haha
It's so weird when I have to reconcile the character / person I had envisioned with how they truly look.
Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions looked ***exactly*** how I imagined her
re: fix-it fic, in specifically tma stuff I see the term used a lot where they don't mean they "fixed" the plot or the writing but instead to mean "fix" the bad things that happen in the story, like an "everyone's fine" au that they wouldn't necessarily want to be canon
btw personally I'm all about really well-done tma/mechs cross overs, they bring me so much joy
yeah. i think a key part of sad or tragic story is that there's a part of you that wishes it turned out better. And even if you don't want that kinder universe to be cannon, because you love the way the bad ending is written, you want the kinder universe to exist. Alongside the sad cannon. which is where fanfic comes in
Yeah, a lot of times what can make something so tragic is you can see the ways it might've not turned out as it did. Or it makes you wish you could make things better for the characters.
@@ariannay766this perfectly describes why i love writing/reading fix-its! i’ve never been able to explain it properly before, thank you for breaking it down for me
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Note for later reads:
Good Cows
How to Care for your Human
An extremely tired therapist
And Janus Blinked
There are ghost in this story
For as long as he will let me
Redefi
I can’t find any of them help ;-;
@@sadface4083 well, if you're still looking, good cows is fabric rustles on ao3
And Janus Blinked is there. Im reading it. Search bar.@@sadface4083
Same. Are these contributions from writer specifically to them?
nooo don't say that, I was excited :c
i love the concept but also seeing this title thought it’d be so funny if they just read the fic silently for a few hours on stream like i do before going to sleep
That would be hilarious tbh
Cursed idea but you have my respect for your braveness
In such seriousness too
My favorite author is pro-fanfic… As a fanfic writer, that warms my heart so much! I really thought I couldn’t adore Johnny more. 🥰
which author?
@@ariannay766 Um… Johnny. Jonathan Sims. The writer of The Magnus Archives, Thirteen Storeys, and Family Business.
2:15:42 but wait that's basically how the archivist treats like every statement in s1. "this man was supposedly haunted by a cursed spider and then he was found dead covered in spider web? Boo hoo, ghost inflation situation"
It's so weird to see how many "Uuuuuuh"s Jon can fit in a sentence after hearing him being perfectly eloquent and precise with his words for 200+ episodes.
i agree 💀
i thought this would be painfully awkward but oh my god im LIVING
Same, I was getting ready to cringe, but it's not cringe its really good.
sameeeed
Who are these strange people and why are my favorite podcast characters' voices coming out of their mouths
This is actually terrifying😂. A new fuckin entity is forming just based on the fear of creators looking at fan content I made
OK they just clarified the writer had to send it that's less terrifying
I haven't even made TMA content I was just a f r a i d
that might just be the eye again
@@starlesscitiess yeah, pretty much.
wouldn't this count as The Eye? but also i feel fear for other peoples content being seen by the creators
Alex is surprisingly good at the Jonathan Sims voice acting
can't wait for the fandom animators to get around to turn this gold into jewelry. LOVE this, I kinda wish you had scowered ao3 to find the weirdest freakiest fanfic you could find. that would have been immensely funny. but this was amazing to listen too.
fandom animator here i’m ON IT the POTENTIAL HERE IS IMMENSE
@@sofalicious im waiting with baited breath >:)
@@sofalicious ooh will you put the link here when/if you do?
Me planning on drawing the cow story 👁️👄👁️
do you think massive baby is friends with monster pig
This comment deserves more likes
An immovable object meets an unstoppable force
Its canon i was the concrete
i was kinda falling asleep and then i got jumpscared by jonny yelling about not feeding your cats cheese
honestly better that than getting woken up by their southern accents
Same lol. I should be sleeping but this is hilarious.
good lord im gonna have to take breaks throughout this or my heart rates gonna get too high they havent even started yet and im going fucking feral
SAME I literally had to take twice as long to watch it as it's actually on for
Felt that, it just feels safe to be here :)
The GDPR fic is one of my favourites of all time, for good reason. I do love me a fanwork that is clearly written by an adult with a job who is very tired of that job.
29:42 something that rlly tickles me pink here: jonny reading a fluff fic from the perspective of a cat w SUCH seriousness
1:37 - Alex completely freezing, followed by Jonny's "oh dear"
2:10 - They were sent these excerpts and didnt just go looking for them lol thank goodness
3:46 - The Entities as Pokemon :0
7:04 - "A particularly sexy sex one" 😂
12:33 - "And then Superman landed and everyone was like 'gee whiz, it's Superman!'"
16:21 - Jon fussing over the very good cow 🥺
16:36 - "Did you know that cows have friends?"
18:42 - "He must be a really lucky cow" 😭
19:40 - Jon wiping his hands on his _pants_ and not his _trousers_
22:23 - Victorian prose
27:22 - Jonmartin as told by their cat, aww
30:15 - DONT FEED YOUR CATS CHEESE
32:36 - The letter from the retiring therapist lmfaooo
36:48 - "For sale: baby shoes, never worn. Massive baby."
39:09 - "I occasionally forget that humans exist and that they interact with each other"
40:34 - Alex reading as Elias
43:56 - Every Elias line has to be secretly shitty, followed by a "Hes such a f*cking prick!!"
46:46 - "Apparently i have ceased to exist"
49:14 - I can hear a cat in the background :0
51:40 - Alex reading as Jon lol
53:27 - Martin's increasingly worried texts and missed calls to Jon in America 😂
56:11 - The Archivist: My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard
1:06:18 - "Loved. Past tense." FRICKING OW
1:15:27 - Jonny reading as Georgie
1:24:10 - I cant for the life of me understand what Alex said here but the "sorry?" "Hm?" "What?" After that was funny to me lol
1:25:01 - Oh it was "Stella Firma Erotica" LMAO
1:28:28 - Tipsy Jon lol
1:32:22 - Alex being described as "a walrus that's eaten too many coat hangers, and won't stop fidgeting"
1:35:17 - Alex and Jonny do American accents
1:36:56 - Alex: I'm not good at this, sorry
Jonny: I APOLOGIZE FOR NOTHING
(Side note Alex's southern accent is just reminding me of the previous stream where he did this for one of the characters LOL)
1:39:59 - "Who are you?" "A kayak"
1:42:14 - "They said you sound like youre full of coat hangers??"
1:43:31 - Alex offering to read as Elias again, but instead using _this_ voice 😂😂😂
--- Side note, i was listening to this in class and audibly snorted when this happened lmao
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as an American I saw no issue with "Pants" being used instead of Trousers, then remembered Pants means Underwear across the pond
@@dull_demon4717THE POND 😂
@@sad_hedgehog yeah, it's a saying I've heard quite a lot. Plus way more fun to use then "across the ocean"
@@dull_demon4717 I'm also American and I thank you sincerely for adding this context lmaoo
I’m so glad I saw this comment cause I forgot about he massive baby thing for a second
The discussion about 20 billion ghosts sounded like a legit conversation Jon and Martin would have had at some point.
I love how they were super calm and normal after reading the Agnes/Gertrude one, and meanwhile I gripping my chair and making such inhuman sounds that the police sent a patrol to hunt me down and now I'm running naked in the woods, persued because of the one thing that set my soul alight
I just went to AO3 to fin the fic in question and I can tell I'm already falling into a dangerous rabbit hole I will never crawl out of
And just when I had begun to recover from my hyperfixation with this podcast 😂
Same, it's still very much in my mind everyday though ;-;
I dont think i will ever get over this podcast 💔
No real though
We have two highland cows near our house, they are called Hamish and Hector, and, can confirm, you CAN pet them! I also have selfies with them :)
Timestamps of fics plus some extra bits I liked. Have also indicated if I could find the fic on ao3. Have fun!
15:40 Good Cows by Ria, Jonmartin fluff
21:35 On The Factual Particulars Of The Death Of Mrs Blackwood by saintbleeding, gen Victorian AU (ao3, WIP)
27:19 How to Care for your Humans: A Simple Guide, Jonamartin fluff + cat (ao3)
32:37 Letter of an extremely tired therapist by Sage, humour Gen
36:44 Jonny rewrites the shortest tragedy (massive baby)
38:41 Indulgences by RavenXavier, Jon/Elias (ao3)
44:03 Jonny: he's [Elias] such a fvcking prick!
44:57 Beholding the GDPR: How the Magnus Institute Updated Its Privacy Policy for the Twenty-First Century And Only Caused One Nervous Breakdown In The Process by shinyopals, Epistolary Gen (ao3)
56:00 Archivist voices/ theres an eye in the milkshake
57:08 Ho Ho Oh no (Merry Crisis) by SurrealSupernaturalist, Gen OC horror (ao3)
1:03:04 Comfortably Numb by The_Lonely_has_always_had_me/Becky, Jonmartin Angst (ao3)
1:08:59 Never love an anchor by Molly Scales/herewebloodygo, Gertrude/Agnes vibes (ao3)
1:15:00 I'd Make A deal With God by ElCompositor, role reversal AU (ao3)
1:22:50 'Loving Star Wars is hard because most of it is.... Not great' oof I felt that
1:25:00 Jonny ships all Tim's characters with him/each other
1:26:00 'Gungan cell leader Bofa Deeznuts' - no further context
1:27:45 The Dangers of Drink by Akaadj, Jonmartin fluff/humour (ao3)
1:33:50 Meanwhile, in what used to be Virginia by Genie B(?) American OC
1:43:02 And in the distance, thunder by WhyNotFly, Jon/Elias (ao3)
1:55:50 And Janus Blinked by EnbyNeti, Time Travel AU (ao3, WIP)
2:03:39 Post last by ShinyHappyGoth, Jonmartin (WIP)
2:09:18 the sex-nopticon cometh
2:10:51 'its about ghost inflation - don't Google that!' - Jonny
2:15:56 There are Ghosts in this Story by WhyNotFly, post-200 body horror (ao3)
2:21:20 for as long as he will let me by bluejayblueskies, Jonmartin fluff (ao3)
2:25:10 Redeath by Gallifrey63 crack!fic (ao3, WIP)
2:30:24 The memories we make by Kory/Nerysatis, TimSasha angst (ao3)
2:33:25 Requiem of the tower by Luna Gale, Post-200 apocalypse angst
2:38:27 Date Night by The Darkivist, Jonmartin fluff/soft horror? (ao3)
Please feel free to correct any mistakes or just reply with your own favourite moments!
Thanks for the timestamps!!
Also good luck with your uni work!!
MASSIVE BABY MADE MY CHOKE CHOKE ON MY APPLE SLICE
1:08:39 - Never love an anchor*
1:14:48 - Id Make a Deal with God
1:27:42 - The Dangers of Drink
1:33:55 - Meanwhile in what used to be Virginia
1:42:48 - And in the Distance, Thunder
1:51:50 - And Janus Blinked
*side note: why does everyone use that song for shipping when the full song is about giving up a child? 10/10 fic tho
@@horizonpenblade1288 thank you!
Listening to them read fanfics I’ve already read- including the teacher Jon and haunted mugs one- is crazy
As soon as I look away from the screen I only hear Jon and Martin.
1:38:15 😭 absolutely dead at them attempting to say spai-dOR with a southern twang lmaooooo
I've heard it said like that, but everyone I know is along the lines of suppressing their accent to be better understood
I remember that Tom Holland said the hardest thing to say in his American accent that he had to do for Spiderman was the word "Spiderman"
My favorite moments from the video:
15:39 The boys saying 'good cows' repeatably which made me laugh.
19:46 *No no no, he unbuckled.*
36:47 For Sale, Baby Shoes, Never Worn. Massive Baby.
36:51 ALEX'S LAUGH OH MY GOD-
43:37 *I wasn't giving a thumbs up to you Alex.*
55:06 That was the moment Jonny knew that he fucked up.
56:12 My milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
56:20 *Are you sure that's milkshake?*
1:06:23 *BOOM* UUUGH. YOU'RE FEELINGS. AEEEGH.
1:06:34 "How do those tears taste? Salty ı bet."
1:24:18 *I heard e r o t i c a*
1:26:06 This whole conversation is so fucking iconic man.
1:27:45 Fluff *slash human*
1:27:51 My boys having a stroke trying to say fluff, slash and humor.
1:36:55 With explicit apologies...- *I apologize for nothing.*
1:37:04 The accent just killed me- help-
1:40:00 "Who are you..." "A kayak."
1:42:20 *giggles* ı'm a healthy boy.
1:47:45 *mmmm. it's smoldering.*
1:59:48 Hi. I'm Jonny Sims. I'm here to tell you, don't build gods.
2:09:14 It's the principle of the *sexy panopticon.* ... *sexnopticon.*
2:10:52 "It's not about ghost number, it's about ghost inflation."
2:14:14 The situation about ghost inflation is that they're Jonny's new band.
2:23:26 I just love Alex's smile in this section.
2:25:58 Is it about like... doing load of crack. Like meth fiction or cocaine fiction-
2:26:10 *MARTIN. MARTIN WE NEED TO COOK MARTIN.*
2:26:33 I really loved you, you know... *BITCH.*
2:46:38 *ım jonny ı eat occasionally mumble mumble*
2:47:17 Help I'm in the void and ı CAN'T GET OUT-
2:46:38 i’m jonny i eat occasionally mumble mumble
alex's southern accent is the best thing ive ever heard. my ears are moisturised from how smooth that sounded
not moisturized 😭
the therapist one had me howling
Revisiting this for the 4th time
Can we just take a minute to appreciate that Jon knows that some people find archivist×Elias uncomfy and tells people he'll let them know when its over so that they can mute it.
I mean i have a pretty good idea why but may i ask why some people find it uncomfortable?
@m0ddotrar boss × employee.
It's a half controversial half loved situation.
That and it's pretty clear from the beginning that Elias doesn't really have Jon's best interest at heart.
So for some it could border on feeling Stockholm-syndrom / just abusive.
I personally don't mind it.
But I can see why some do!
@@hezvandermeij oh that was super fast thank you lol
Im not super involved about shipping culture but to me even if toxic it sounds like a fun idea to explore
But im guessing by shipping you mean a romanticised relationship so yea understandable
I mean this is coming from someone who enjoys explorations of unhealthy relationships in stories romantic or not
@m0ddotrar oh absolutely same!
And haha yea you asked about my special interest so I replied quick ahahah
And lastly yes this is talking about romantic relations specifically
Platonic I don't think ppl got a real issue with?
Jonny cracking up at the reference to the kayak meme was so good lmao
i am so normal about tma **eye twitching**
same **infernal screeching**
*starts shaking*
**crawling on the ground** bit late but same
*collapses into worms* oh yeah dude same
*biting and clawing at the air* THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES
when he talked about adding massive baby to protocol, i had a weird moment of confusion AND THEN I CHECKED THE UPLOAD DATE ANF IT WAS 3 MONTHS AGO??? LITREALLY FUCKING *WHAT*!?
three months ago was on s1, and i think i finshed mag 200 two days ago, and I Dunno Why. ut i was expecting this to be an older thing they did soon after the finale. Tbh, im just not used to creators of content i like still being super active and doing side projects of said content with so much enjoyment and dedication. like honestly when i first got into tma (3 months back) i knew it was a Finished series, so i just expected everything to be super dormant. like a really quiet fandom.
ofc i am so so happy
It's so cool hearing jonny's civilian voice. Also loved your novel Thirteen Storeys.
Im so glad they did this because TMA genuinely has some of the best fanfic and fanfiction culture out of all the fandoms ive been in!
"I'm Jonathan Sims and I'm here to tell you: don't build gods" is so fucking ironic considering this is EXACTLY what killed a character he plays in Slay The Princess
The way I had to switch tabs bc my brain glitches by being able to SEE Johnny and Alex while they're talking??
To be clear I know what they look like from pictures and have listened to all of the QA eps and such while they're out of character, just something about the combination is not something my brain can process??
oh yeah same
when i hear their voices, i see their characters 😭
My thing is I can watch them talk just fine, but when they start playing jon and martin i have to avert my gaze 😭 which is why i saw this comment in the first place lmaoo
Very late to this but oh well, Jon I can hear when I avert but because Martin's pitched up in the actual podcast I can't unhear Alex ;w;
It's honestly so strange hearing Jon's voice... so ... not depressed? Wow
"Loved. Past tense." WTH OW 😭
that one made me cry so much 💀
1:17:35 I was definitely not expecting the next words to be "I know he's [Jon] a tasty looking snack, but he doesn't really do *carnal pleasures*..." dkhshfhdkhkdjfjkdkjd
im genuinely so blown away by their continual commitment to the fans. From day 1, this show was successful because of the connection between the fans and creators. Even though its been months since i thought about Magnus, i 1000% feel like part of the fandom when i watch stuff like this. Just wow! It feels like they’re being so indulgent in the best ways. What other fandom gets this from the creators!?
The Data Protection Officer fic is great! Had to pause and go read that
didn't expect the agnes/gertrude one but listening to it part of me wouldn't stop being like "yeah, this makes sense"
we know that Agnes and Gertrude were connected, we know Gertrude had a penchant for using fire to solve problems, and we know that people tend to fall in love with Agnes. Sure, I don't think it should be canon, but this is not a "this should be canon" stream, this is a "this is good fanfic" stream.
As an asexual I need a sexnopeticon shirt
I love hearing professional British voice actors doing American accents, makes me feel 10% less shitty about doing British accents while voicing npcs in dnd
Alex, I appreciate your Good Omens reference. Thank you.
Wouldn't have noticed it without being on the look out thanks to this comment, thanks :D
timestamp? the eye requests it 👁
@@takeoats I have no idea, but I'll rewatch the entire thing because I loved it anyway and I'll tell you
Everything for the eye, all hail the watcher
turns out it's at 2:21:15
@@linusparnassus 👁thank you so much very dedicated
55:00 I laughed so hard at Johnny's anecdote. 😂 In uni I lived in a flat in an area that was a bit iffy at night. On the way home I would phone my housemates before I went from a busy street to our quieter area. They would look out the window to watch for me and chat on the phone (good people). Everytime I left the apartment, I would hear, "Bye, stay safe", followed by a cheery "Don't get murdered!". 😂 Loved those guys ❤
It was a terrible idea to start listening to this at work because I now have to try so hard not to laugh in my cubicle. Every single time Alex ducks his head to laugh, I am trying everything I have to not laugh too. This is so, so hard
But still lovely to see. Thank you to the RQ team for the lovely vid (stream? Live show? Whatever)
im going through this right now LMAO i just got to Massive Baby and im reading comments to calm myself bc my office is open i cant even smile
As a Virginian I am *greatly* enjoying the........ """"Virginia""""" accents presented here. There Was An Attempt.
I am living for Alex's reaction to all
of these because he is such an expressive man
This was such a fantastic spread of fics. I think it really encapsulates the heart of the fandom. There are SO many phenomenal writers out there. ❤❤❤
I can't believe I missed it, but I am looking forward to watching it now
saame it was 3am in my time lol
My heart rate SKYROCKETED when I saw this notif before I saw that you were only reading submitted ones
14:50 reading starts (more or less)
this was such an experience, i’m so glad we reached stretch goals for shit like this lmfao
Really didn’t realise this stream would unleash so many FEELINGS for me, I feel like my soul has been gently hugged, and I cackled loudly throughout 💛
Seeing this and recognizing RavenXavier, "The Scottish Safehouse Anthology", and the GDPR thing is so great. "Redeath" and "And Janus Blinked" aren't my cup of tea, but that's just my personal taste and I'm glad to see them here.
omg i read the scottish safehouse anthology literally last week that's awesome actually that its here
As someone who is going through having someone very close to me needing to take some time away from everyone, the cow story hit home so hard it might've caused structural damage 😂😭 Thank you for sharing it
Revisiting to get back in the TMA mood. Anxiously awaiting Jan 18th, and the r.p.g. table top game drops.
30 seconds in I've laughed, I've cried, I've re-fallen in love with Alexander and his adorable face. Who am I kidding? The mood never left me for a moment.
Here after the realese of protocol
If Jack is not referred to at some point as "giant baby" I SWEAR-
The Web - Fairy/Bug
The Corruption - Poison/Bug
The Eye - Psychic
The Lonely - Ghost/Ice
The Dark - Dark
The End - Normal/Ghost
The Vast - Flying/Water
The Buried - Ground/Water
The Slaughter - Fighting
The Desolation - Fire
The Flesh - Normal
The Hunt - Dragon
The Spiral - Electric/Psychic
The Stranger - Rock/Steel
The Extinction - Steel/Electric
spent way too long thinking about this and I still don't think any of them really fit Grass typing?! This is bullshit one of them needs to have grass I used all the other types where tf can I put grass in this
Konkledur line is flesh
If I didn't think Buried should be ground dark, I would say make it ground grass for the aesthetic of being bound by swampy plant tendrils or stuck in a thick jungle
21:38
Johnny: Victorian au 😀
Alex: Victorian au 😃
Me: VICTORIAN AU?
This was absolutely brilliant! There are so many talented writers in this fandom and listening to these two gentlemen banter is side splitting.
This truly was a gift. Thank you.
I finally finished the series and I'm ECSTATIC to FINALLY be able to participate in the community and actually watch cool things like this video! :D
I keep coming back to this video and am just amazed about how they cold read all of these and they were performed so amazingly
Hearing the Virginian accents as a native Virginian was so funny (esp. since the region I’m from doesn’t have a southern accent). Johnny’s accent sounded more like a black southern one, though, which was pretty neat!
I love how over the course of the stream they get more and more unhinged. Love it! Great reading too, I love that I recognized some of the ones that you guys read. (That GDPR one is SO good, my god)
The reason that a hundred twenty billion ghosts doesn't hit for me goes back to the Ottery Saint Mary episode of Cabin Pressure. I don't think anyone *can* imagine that many ghosts- it ceases to mean anything. If you think you're imagining that many ghosts, you're wrong- your just imagining a lot of ghosts. The number can't mean anything.
1:38:47 Being from VA hearing them do this accent made me want to cry (from joy)
NICE LOL i just got to that part😭😭
oh this was hilarious omg i love how dedicated they were to the bit
WHY DID GOOD COWS ALMOST MAKE ME CRY??
I appreciate you only reading ones who were sent to you who had consent for it to be read
[In reference to the Virginia fanfic] I'm from Virginia but I wouldn't be much help with demonstrating an accent. I was raised by German and British grandparents. My mom was born in North Carolina but spent several years in England. I've been told I sound more New England when not being asked if I was British or German. "Shrugs"
My god Helen seeking out a therapist is the funniest shit I have ever heard. The gift basket no less is just, the peak addition to it at the end
no I can't hang out I'm watching johnny and alex read fanfiction. my autism assessment in in a few months, why do you ask?
Finished MA yesterday. Absolutely brilliant, am so happy to see content still being produced:D
Oh dude, in case you haven't heard, they're making another in-universe 3 season show!! It's called the magnus protocol, this stream is bc the kickstarter for it raised so much money
@@throughcolouredglasses9300 OMG tysm!!
@whynot :D ooooh glad you're as exited as me!!!
I think I have never giggled so much in my life as in here, for such a "short" period of time. But I also squeaked like a soft little ball of cotton I am and this stream is now my comfort thingie- good job to the fic authors, well done!! ^^
you gentlemen have very soothing voices, im actually being lulled to sleep :)
Ah so thats what they look like. I was so confused at first because I thought they were each other and I had to look away to match the voices thinking how can I listen to 200 episodes and still not know who is who. And it makes more sense who is who rather than me originally thinking martin was on the left and Jon was on the right.
**Frantically flips through the tags to make sure they didn't find mine*
Alex is so patient with Jon's constant interjections, but let the man finish a sentence😢
Alex's chair swinging and grin while the "sexnopticon" fluff piece was read ❤️😁🤣
Oh just the concept has me giggling
The fact that I have read almost every single one of these
After Massive Baby, all I want is an uninterrupted stream of Alex's laugh 😍
36:48 Massive baby hits different after TMP 24... and that wasn't even Jonny. That one was guest-written by Alex C Telander from the Ostium podcast.
according to recent legend, alex is still trapped in the void.
The Shiny Opals fics are hands down some of my all time favorites
Watching this while (hopefully) making magnus archives Fanworks
I have associated their voices so much with the fanon appearances of the characters its really weird seeing the actual voice actors behind it. The audio delay makes it even odder lol
My face hurts from smiling
Me: there are a lot of fics in the fandom, I probably won't recgonize any
Also me at 45:29: that's one of my favorite fics in the fandom :0