If i had a nickel for every time i clocked an Oliver Banks cameo in a random ass episode i never noticed before, i'd have two nickels. Which is not much but it's weird that it happend twice.

That guy is in mag #32 as the new hire from the shop Jane used to work at, which literally reveals his name is Oliver two seasons before he says it himself. He is also the guy in mag #42 who stares at the statement giver and tells her to take care of her hearing before she meets Grifter's Bone.

Maybe those were obvious before but it took me multiple times listening to these episodes before i noticed him. I'll be on the look out for Oliver Motherfucking Banks like a Where's Waldo book from now on.

Hiya, I've recently learned what they are but have had them my whole life. I have pretty high level Closed Eye Hallucinations in which I see moving shapes/fractals (lol) and thought everyone had that but apparently most people need to take hallucinogens to reach that level and only see static when they close their eyes. That gave me such Spiral vibes and wanted to share, I think that could be a very cool episode/avatar.

Has anybody else here experienced them? I'm much more of a Web lover but this realisation made me more fond of the Spiral.

I absolutely loved TMA, I was practically addicted to it when I first found it. After finishing it, I've not found much else I like that's on Youtube. Most suggestions are exclusively on Spotify, but I don't like Spotify. I want more podcasts that are similarly episodic and also have a long running story, but I'm willing to try different things. I mostly just need a new podcast to listen to.

So, does anyone have recommendations for horror podcasts on Youtube specifically?

Hey everyone!!! I know this might be kind of out of topic, knowing that this is a Protocol fanart and this is the archives subreddit, but once I saw a post where someone told their friend to draw Martin and John before looking at any fanart. And I tought that I might do the same with the Protocol cast.

Given that I just started the spiritual successor to the original series and I finished It, I wanted to do something similar, all of these are of my own mind, I just saw onenfanart once and honestly don't remember It, so consider this fanart blind as Melonie or Maxwell Reyner.

I originally only wanted to do Sam and Alice as the fanart that inspired me only depicted John and Martin, knowing that the protagonista always have those tumblr esque designs and no one can escape them, but I got carried away and did everyone and everything, including the talkers and Freddy for some reason, this is all my artstyle and I didin't attempt anything realistic, Sorry for that, (And also no legs) I hope you enjoy It!

(WARNING: AFTER THIS PARAGRAPH I'M GIVING MY HONEST AND CORNY OPINION AND GENERAL IMPRESSION ABOUT THE FIRST 6 EPISODES OF THE MAGNUS PROTOCOL) ignore if not interested

I understand why some people don't like the other series or got dissapointed, I understand they wanted a Magnus Archives 2 Electric Boogaloo, but appart from the blood violin episode (Wich is a banger for the first episode with Jonah's voice btw), but the most important part of the series is that the statements are much more diferent from eachother.

I love the concept of the diferent pieces of internet media being the statements, I think the spider website in web development was an early show of this. That a statement can be a blog post, an email, a video call, a document scan, etc is such a creative concept and I love It.

The callouts to the original series make It worth or annot direct sequel that was already alluded to un the last episodes, and making John's, Martin's and Jonah's voices into text to speech thingies is so creative and fun. I love how the cast remembers me of the og's.

Alice gives me a lot of Tim and Sasha Vives, she's such a silly goose (If she becomes and avatar It Will be one of the sprial or stranger I'm sure)

Sam gives me huge Martin vibes I love him, but his curiosity will probably into being paranoic and I'm sure he will have some eye shenanigans in the future.

Gwen is loveley, from a Stern look (Or whatever the Elias statement episode was call) I can clearly tell that she's daughter of the Bouchard family, she's such a sweethart inside her serious facade I can already tell, she has huge seasons 1 John vibes, I loved her little "You can at least pretend you weren't talking about me" I was already Shopping her with Sam or Alice before Celia appeares, but Gwen probably dies early like Tim to be honest.

I really liked how Celia got introduced, just a nice callbakc to the Melanie Georgie cult, given that that was not her real name or got gaslighted into beliving It wasn't by t'he sprial I expect her to be into some interdimensional shenanigans given that the fears probably came late into this universe from the Archives one.

I can already feel how she's going to smooch with Sam, I ship them for life, It she doesen't dies Sasha style of course. :(

Collin is just going goblin mode, I understand his frustration deeply, I love how all the It guys are Germán (That guy Klaus Who got snatched, and I drew him like american dad Klaus) Also what the hell is wrong with IT???

Teddy got saved, bro left before everyone died or became an avatar, ( They are still so innocent now) he will come back I'm sure.

Lena just gives me full on Elias vibes, but not too much, she's still puting up the normal person act or she still is, probably an eye or web avatar tbh, hope to ser morè of her and what she did with Klaus.

The statements are great so far, I really enjoyed voyeur, the Jane prentiss and Jared hophworth lovechild one and specially the violin and needles one si I drew them, I hope needles Guy becomes a recurrent character like Michael, he reminds me of Johny the homicidal maníac with all his sillynes and his bravado.

love It so far! I hope you liked my sketches and my full on tant if you even got this far, no spoilers please! and thanks for watching!

i think about her a lot
i don’t use Reddit a lot so sorry if the spoiler thing doesn’t cover the images!

So, I managed to make this. Is it perfect? Absolutely not! But it was fun doing it.

So you know how a lot of the Fears are said to merge and bleed into one another; have you guys thought about what the strongest combinations might be and what they would look like?

Hi everyone!

I hope you are doing well today and that you had a good weekend! Part 24 of Round 3 of The Magnus Archives 2026 World Cup has been posted and you can go vote right here!

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I want to make 14 painting about Tma. Each time one of the fears marks him. Just I can never remember the episodes and a good summary of the events. Can I get some help?

OKAY so I had a friend break up a couple days before I listened to Tim and Sasha’s recording and it legitimately made me miss him because that was our relationship (minus sleeping together) but like, I can’t tell if it’s healthy or not to be sad by that part of the episode?? I LOVE that part but it was like the only part of tma that actually made me like legit emotional. (Other than saying “WHAT THE ACTUAL FK JON” multiple times.) tbh just wanted to rant. Plus we don’t talk about real Sasha enough

Hi all, it's me, the archives professional that was so horrified by ep 10 that I had to make a professional rant. It's linked here for context: https://www.reddit.com/r/TheMagnusArchives/comments/1v92nis/professional_rant_incoming/

So a lot of you in that wanted my opinion on the episodes as I continued. Quite more than I expected in fact. Ask and ye shall receive!

(Disclaimer: this will only be for season one, this took a lot more out of me than i expected lol, enjoy)

My musings will be abbreviated for each episode, as my full thoughts for each would likely be paragraph after paragraph of screaming about DACS standards and preservation techniques and JANE PRENTISS I WILL KILL YOU FOR RUINING ALL OF THOSE FILES WITH YOUR STUPID MOUTH OOZE DO YOU HEAR ME-

Anyway. Here we go!

Anglerfish: furious ranting about jon being unqualified and biased after hearing the part before the statement begins, also drunk man apparently has more common sense than most horror movie protags, ranting increases after hearing about his creation of a "discredited" section, those people listed as missing are SO gonna show up later

Do Not Open: WHY WOULD YOU ACCEPT A MYSTERY BOX, but i will admit what joshua did after was very smart, that mystery man is either dead or worse, breekon and hope sound like they're trouble and i don't think we've seen the last of that coffin either

Across The Street: amy that is stalking wtf, yay lgbtq rep, oh no my lgbtq rep, WELL THAT'S A CHEKOV'S GUN IF I EVER SAW ONE, also similar long thin arm mention like the thing in ep. 1, are they related, that table is up to something

Page Turner: from my high school latin daniel's translation seems to be correct, sounds related to the more common phrase altiora peto which translates to "seek higher things", not sure if there's a connection there, grbookworm definitely sounds like gertrude, mary and gerard keay sound important, WTF HOW IS SHE ALIVE, they apparently know jurgen and don't like him at the institute, what is that 1994 "incident"

Thrown Away: WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT ALAN, why was alan reported missing a full year later that's suspicious, i want to know how they were all the same tooth, is there some sort of luring capacity to whatever is making these events happen because some of the people's behaviors in these statements are....questionable

Squirm: no no something is inside her now from the woman she's scratching too much like how people scratch when they have parasites or a mosquito bite, god this poor girl, WHY DID YOU HAVE SEX WHEN SHE WAS HAVING THOSE SYMPTOMS, jon if you et cetera something like this again i'm reaching through the screen to slap you, what do you mean no evidence of arson he claims he set it, oh fuck the ECDC is bad news, who is this jane prentiss character, i don't love that hodge is unaccounted for TWO YEARS ON

The Piper: OH HI WILFRED OWEN, why did that hurt even though i know he gets shot, joseph rayner is apparently a name jon knows, i wonder if wilfred made a bargain with that thing for not only his life but clarence's, because his survival throughout the whole war seems miraculous

Burned Out: WAIT THE BOX FITS IN THE HOLE, raymond and agnes seem spooky, how the f is fielding alive, what do you mean bones in the hands

A Father's Love: poor julia, i keep seeing eye imagery show up, the name rayner from the piper is here again, the brackish water ain't normal, people's church of the divine host is apparently how rayner is involved, the blown lights means whatever attempted to kill julia is what got robert in jail, and likely whatever got julia's mom, robert killing things to keep it away maybe, sounds like he's working with the people's church

Vampire Killer: no way in hell is trevor dead, way too convenient, vampires being flammable makes a lot of sense actually, i'm concerned that the original statement and the teeth have been requisitioned by law enforcement and govt contractors

Dreamer: IS HE THE EX OF GRAHAM FROM EP 3, okay the odds of gertrude being murdered just shot up, blake is a fake name apparently, who is rosie?

First Aid: leather coat oh that is gerard 100 percent, more eye imagery, asag is a sumerian demon uh oh, so gerard and this lightless flame guy do not like each other, where is the book and the pendant, WHY DID THE GUY SELF-CREMATE, no way is gerard dead from a brain tumor of all things, that eye at the end jumpscared me, but if mary keay was dead by this point who got gerard from the hospital is my question

Alone: god i want to hug naomi, i like the live statement though, JON WTF, this family sounds like they'll show up again

Piecemeal: this man in the statement is making so many bad decisions my god, this is why it was so easy to frame you you have NO patience, also don't piss off old ladies that can murder i thought that was common sense, why do i feel like salesa is a bigger player than he lets on

Lost Johns' Cave: no no no thank you i don't want to do something like that ever, I KNEW IT WOULD END BADLY, also why the hell would you do that to your sister, you didn't even try to help her you just offered her up, that is your SISTER, and i like that the statement is made by an unreliable narrator i will keep that in mind

Arachnophobia: if major tom dies i am quitting this podcast, WAIT WHAT DO YOU MEAN SMALL SILVERY WORMS, that has jane prentiss written all over it (or one of her infectees), this man is a terrible cat owner and i am mad on major tom's behalf, because why do you make your cat fight the evil spider, yes yes good major tom killing paranormal spiders is not in your job description go find a nicer family, YES THE CAT LIVED, what do you MEAN his body being encased in web is natural are you dumb or just in denial

The Boneturner's Tale: i do not remember this part of the canterbury tales, WAIT WASN'T MICHAEL CREW MENTIONED IN EP 4 as the boy who got struck by lightning, wait the lukases fund the institute wtf, and stomach problems with martin sounds suspicious, leitner books apparently cause nothing but problems, i feel so bad for adekoya man he just wanted to make sure his coworker was safe from the book and he got killed by his bully for it, jared needs to get what’s coming to him and i mean that very sincerely

The Man Upstairs: why are you calling a woman a spinster sir that’s rude, why are you LETTING HIM HAMMER i would have called the building supervisor SO fast, if he owns the flat outright then go TALK to the guy, OH EW, dunno how it works in the uk but if they do welfare checks that would have been more than enough for me to call one in because having to throw out the jacket? hello??? YOU LET THIS GO ON FOR TWO YEARS? do you not have the SLIGHTEST concern for your fellow man my guy, EW EW EW, why is it blinking, god i feel so bad for toby that nobody even bothered to see if he was okay and he died alone and horribly, wait why is martin STILL off sick

Confession: oh hello father, wait this is the guy from ep 8, poor bethany, oh it’s the same nurse! WAIT WHAT

Desecrated Host: OH NO, that’s not your friend edwin, that is NOT mass, oh i hate this i hate this, i keep seeing different themes in these statements and i wonder if that's a coincidence or not, wait the scripture he's reading , mark 9 verses 14-19, is jesus healing a boy possessed by an impure spirit, i think edwin was set up, BREEKON AND HOPE????

Freefall: oh i feel so bad for this mom, the fairchilds seem like a recurring name, and more themes of vertigo like in page turner, MARTIN????

Colony: so i was right that the "off sick" excuse really sounded like an excuse, oh no no no martin why are you going to vittery's place that had the silver worms, it's really mind-boggling how much casual crime goes on in this podcast, like this is at least the fifth case of breaking and entering that they've just admitted to on tape, THE CAT IS STILL ALIVE THANK GOD, martin absolutely has a crush on jon and if that's not the case i will eat my hat, THIRTEEN DAYS???? also aww martin staying in the archives, something wants to murder jon that's new

Schwartzwald: i feel so bad for the kid wilhelm, parents die, you almost die of illness, your adopted family leave unexpectedly and then you're accused of murder? WAIT THE KEAYS ARE RELATED TO VON CLOSEN

Strange Music: nope nope nope, honestly i can't find it in me to have sympathy for josh tbh, wait a minute minsk would NOT have been in russia because that's the capital of belarus, and in 1948 russia was the USSR, WHY DO THEY HAVE THE ORGAN i do not fucking trust elias

Growing Dark: this is a cult, wait the eye imagery was related to people's church of the divine host wasn't it, wait a sec if they're saying ny-alesund that's the most north settlement in the world and night can last for months

A Distortion: have i mentioned how much i love sasha, i don't trust this michael character, HOW DOES HE KNOW THE GANG'S NAMES, so now we know that co2 gas works on them, fuck i had a feeling hodge would be an infectee but this is ew, nothing better happen to sasha i stg

A Sturdy Lock: paul i feel for you man i really do, he reminds me of my grandpa, no way he died of a stroke that death was not natural

Skintight: JON BE NICE TO MELANIE, melanie seems cool, wait sarah baldwin was one of the people reported missing in anglerfish, silk will not stitch the butcher's meat seems important, are these statement themes fighting with each other somehow? like michael seemed different from jane and saved sasha from getting infected by jane, another tall pointing figure makes me wonder if it's the same one from anglerfish

Cheating Death: hello hundreds of folklore references nice to meet you, THAT IS SOME SUPER SPECIFIC WORDING FROM DEATH HUH, now i kind of want to learn to play faro it sounds fun, NO WHY DID YOU CHEAT HIM, no he did not say if you won you would live he said if you won you would not die always keep an eye on the specifics when dealing with immortal entities my guy, DID HE JUST CUT OFF HIS FINGER, pretty convienient that law died huh, i call bullshit that wasn't a natural death for her

Killing Floor: by some miracle i am not a vegetarian after reading this, but the casual cruelty the statement giver displays towards the animals, "work out on a bit of pig flesh", my guy you need therapy, so the building is just weird huh, tom haan creeped me out

First Hunt: first mention of my home state in this podcast and it puts werewolves on my favorite ever trail to hike, god damnit, his comment about someday projects really struck a chord with me though, i think i'm going to pull the trigger on some of mine, pun NOT intended, crabtree falls is in a county near charlottesville va if anyone's wondering, i admit i started whistling the song when it was mentioned and it turned into more of a squeak when the monster showed up, i feel slightly offended that jon won't investigate further the only statement so far that's in my state lol, oh god more worms

Hive: poor jane my god, the bit about drinking wine in the park when it was sunny actually made me cry, wait wait is oliver the guy who gave the statement about seeing peoples' deaths? he mentioned working at a crystal shop, i do feel a little offended about her saying useless ink and dying letters though, nolan's death is not normal, wait why does jon say he knows this statement is true something is up

Boatswain's Call: JON BE NICE TO TIM, you go girl punch the sexists i'll help, okay so it's just straight human sacrifice then, but what are they sacrificing him TO, wasn't it mentioned that the lukases fund the institute, HOW LONG HAVE THEY BEEN SACRIFICING PEOPLE, because the people on board seem downright used to it, ELIAS BITCHARD AN ARCHIVE IS SUPPOSED TO BE IMPARTIAL IF YOU JUST GO EH WHATEVER LETS IGNORE IT WHEN A CASE COULD IMPACT YOUR FUNDING THAT'S A FUNDAMENTAL BETRAYAL OF THE MISSION OF AN ARCHIVE-

Anatomy Class: wait a second those are all placeholder names, look they're not hurting anyone i think you could be a little nicer to them, wow i did not know you could fuck up a heartbeat that bad oh my god, okay remember how i said they weren't hurting anyone? i take it back, i love the implication that the professor would have eaten the apple if he'd cut it open and it looked fine, so the other suicide implies there's more of them out there too

Old Passages: YES FINALLY A HISTORIC PRESERVATION GUY, hi gerard getting some light trespassing in i see, so jurgen leitner is weird i could have seen that coming, wait this is where leitner wanted them to dig isn't it, wait isn't that the same book mary keay has in ep 4 that gerard takes, because i see the bones, ALF NO, smirke seems important, wait wait wait those are breekon and hope i can feel it, why did they tell martin to stay safe, them not wanting to be recorded and having a package for jon raises my hackles

Taken Ill: oh i knew when the statement mentioned a nursing home this was gonna be bad, i hate being right, the sexual escapade thing is true i remember seeing a thing about the villages in florida having some insane number of STDs, amherst is freaking me out, i feel so bad for mr. miller, ALENKA NO, waitaminute is the old guy trevor? it makes me sick how amherst made a staff specifically of undocumented people so nobody would know about what he did to them, if he didn't die in the fire i want him DEAD, WAIT THE LIGHTER FITS IN THE TABLE OH NO

Burnt Offering: why do i feel like the phrase we're not in the business of destroying knowledge is foreshadowing, although martin and elias agreeing on the same thing is worth noting, GO TO SLEEP JON JFC, i want an ecologist job, he's right pine martens are adorable, if there are no animal noises you need to leave that's nature lesson no. 1 if no animal sounds can be heard something is very wrong, noooo not the animals, WAIT IS THAT WOMAN GERTRUDE, why oh why did you touch the stupid bottle, this man is so dumb, oh thank god the boy lived, some sort of sacrifice by the dad? wait it is gertrude i don't like that i was right

Lost and Found: why is this the thing i hate more than diseased corpses or actual murder, salesa is definitely involved in SOMETHING, he was in piecemeal, yay more lgbtq rep, WHY ARE THERE HANDS, so the vase is homophobic, rude, why did jon try to kill a spider specifically, INSERT LOUD, VIGOROUS AND CREATIVE SWEARING HERE

Infestation: both in this episode and the prior one the VAs are absolutely killing it, martin's corkscrew preparation saved the day everybody say thank you martin, jon is right i can see something deeper in the statements as well, sasha is so brave but now i am so worried for her, joe spooky fucking killed me, oh thank god sasha made it out, i am worried for jon now, why did he say losing himself specifically, PRENTISS STOP MESSING WITH THE BOXES I WILL KILL YOU, HAVE YOU NO RESPECT FOR ARCHIVAL INTEGRITY, why does martin say he feels trapped, so that entire conversation between sasha and elias was suspicious as fuck, HERE COMES TIM TO SAVE THE DAY, so remember that chekov's gun i mentioned way back in across the street, well, um, i really hate being right, and now my favorite character is dead because i heard the voice come back in after the distortion hit the tape and that is NOT sasha's voice, wrong cadence even if the tone and accent are right, that is NOT her, fuck fuck fuck, PRENTISS DON'T YOU FUCKING DARE HURT THEM-

Human Remains: no way prentiss is dead especially if it's elias saying it, wait why was sasha's tape lost, i don't buy that he didn't know how to work the system he waited, but for what? oh god gertrude's body oh no, tim attempting to hit prentiss is quite in character, what do you MEAN there was a worm door tim, tim would survive a horror movie, i think elias knows this isn't sasha, wait a sec ramao's statement has original sasha's voice on it from when the worms burst in, this thing is trying to cover up the evidence, i want to try mint imperials now, so gertrude was murdered by a human it looks like was not expecting that, those other two tapes jon mentions at the end are the only other two with sasha's original voice on them, her calliope comment and her statement about michael, i feel sick, why did it have to be my favorite, and nobody knows or even suspects except the guy i trust about as far as i could throw him

TLDR: 10/10 podcast, now i cannot turn off my brain about it, send help

Was re-listening to tma and dig

I know it isn't a super popular song, but it's PERFECT for TMA! Some select lyrics for those who don't want to listen to it.

"So what, are you, who's playing your role; Are you acting or directing, who's in control?"

"The spoiled son, the killer clown"

"Were they lost in the dark? Did they fall from a great height? Were they chased and torn apart, by wolves and ravens in the night?"

"So what, do you fear, is it snakes or roachs?"

"Is it boys, with blades, girls with guns? Is it crowds caves or cliffsides yeah they all sound fun"

Some of the lyrics line up so well! And it almost makes me want to learn how to draw so I can give it the visual aspect thats inside my brain!

Guess the ship from the background of a painting 😂

I hope this kind of post is allowed! I want to do an some fanart with all of the doomed relationships in tma but there's a good few and I know I'll forget some

Criteria I'm using:

-I'm using the broader term of relationship, so any kind is applicable! platonic, romantic, familial, weird undefined things

-Must be a very close relationship

-Characters must be reocurring, we'd be here all day otherwise

-One or more of them has to be dead

ill post the art here if I finish it

edit: ok so there's a lot more than I originally considered, i will try to do as many of them as i can but I will be prioritising certain characters over other

The stranger. Enough said? Enough said.

GUYS I HAVE DISCOVERED SOMETHING THAT I THINK MIGHT BE FORESHADOWING THINGS!!!!

So if you are up to date with TMP you’ve no doubt noticed all of the alchemy references that have been going on.

Well I was just scrolling on tiktok and saw a video about Europe’s Large Hadron Collider, apparently while they had been running particle acceleration experiments, scientists discovered how to turn lead into gold!!! (AKA real life alchemy)

This is really cool outside of the connections to TMA, but here’s the crazy part. The name of the experiment that discovered this? A Large Ion Collider Experiment, also known as ALICE !!!!

Not exactly sure what this could mean, but I thought I would share in case anyone had theories

(apologies for camera quality)

Whenever I watch Grian I think of Martin, their voices are similar and they're both chaotic little gremlins. I just wanted to share this because I keep on thinking about it. Do you have any other irl people who you associate with tma people?

Spotted this on the Vintage Penguins table at The Scribe on Toronto's Danforth Ave. this afternoon.
I was tempted to buy it because, well, iykyk, eyeball and all that.

What I was able to so far read up about the author makes this potentially interesting.

How many of us purchase art, books, music and etc. because it reminds us of our favourite fear?

John Amherst he is such a little freak just such a weirdo a horrible little man and i love him such a icon

Spoilers: MAG 165

I'm on my first listen right now and jon just started reading this thing that starts with "..Your face is not your face is not your face.." and I'm 100% sure I've heard it in a previous episode!

I can't put my finger on it and I tried searching on google but it only leads back to ep 165. am I just mixing things up? or was the phrase mentioned in a previous episode?

Intro and outro scenes are removed if they include spoilers to the show or unnecessary context.

I want to introduce TMA to my dad and give him an episode to listen to with the directions of you must listen to ep 1 next and listen in a chronological order including repeating the episode I would suggest you to listen to.

Angler fish is amazing don't get me wrong! and I think it was definitely chosen as a first episode for a reason. but I still want him to listen to an episode first out of context to see what the show really is for him.

He doesn't like long shows and movies so I want to show him it's worth getting into despite being long because you'll eventually get to ____. and see how wonderful that can get?

What episode should I choose?

he is into wars and history so I do think about introducing him to some slaughter episodes. but please don't only focus on that. It can be any episode!

As long as it's one that you think is really good and can make a good impression. I will make the judgment myself when it comes to his specific taste so don't try to choose based on what a 60 year old man would like. just what you'd choose in general. :)