Just cuddles. Cuds all the way down folks. Nothing hurts and everything is jmart cuds.
ID: There is a single image. Martin is holding John in a big warm hug, face pressed close against his neck with a soft smile and closed eyes. One arm is resting across his left shoulder and across his neck. The other is around his arm, palm resting on his right shoulder.
THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES SPOILERS. Ok my Magnus feelings ok. First of all I want to roll up a newspaper and bat Alex on the nose for not letting Johnny do the first half of season 5 as an office romance. I know it would have ruined the pacing I know BUT I DON’T CARE. Don’t get me wrong the bits of fluff they did include were so cute and sweet and good and I’m glad they’re in there but i want more *grabby hands*.
I was so blown away and impressed that the spider had been behind the tapes. I did sort of guess it around the beginning of season 4 but it was still so impressive that there were so many layers of meta over the top of each other and that they folded down so neatly in the end. Elias’s scheme. The web’s scheme. The fact that love was what was the lynchpin that brought it all down but in a very sort of brutal and tragic way. Not in a love conquers all way. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen love used in that way. I was sad to see Martin and John’s relationship kind of struggle so hard at the end there and have their story ‘finish’ in that way (protocol bring my bebs back to meeeeee).
I don’t feel as upset about the ending as I thought I would. I think because I thought John would die and this wasn’t exactly dying. I feel like John’s choice was disappointing but also made 100% sense with what we knew about his character. I feel like season 4s end was way, way more powerful. An absolute gut punch. Staggering reveal. 'Ending’ a horror podcast has to be so difficult. How do you finish a scary but nuanced and complicated story? Most horrors end tragically. I think this was maybe the best way to wrap it up. Our precious John and Martin 'loose’ the world 'wins’ but in a way that feels sad.
I feel really conflicted because as a follow creative and as a narrative lover I’m supremely impressed and happy and feel like everything was somehow done incredibly right and well. As a listener I just feel kind of oh we lost John, Martin and the buck was passed to some other unsuspecting universe at the end. There’s a cosmic tragedy in that. WHICH IS SO PERFECT FOR HORROR THO UGHHHH.
I also have to say I adore that 'blow things up’ is the go to solution on Magnus. So many supernatural stories are like 'theres this dagger and it was dipped in the blood of a mysterious antichrist, lost for centuries but now hidden in a tomb-’ Magnus is like 'Gertrude says C4’. As a solution it’s so elegant and makes so much sense as a response to fear as an adversary. It’s so grounded and real and non-supernatural. It feels like a continuation of the way Basira handles things.
I’m so happy Basira made it. It makes so much sense to me that she’d be one of the ones. God Gang I’m starting to listen to the many q and as and breakdowns now but I am supremely pleased protocol is coming this year. While I’m sad I wasn’t listening along when it was first coming out I’m glad I have protocol to look forward to.
I may still do a bit more art (I honestly have so many thumbnails of ideas for these characters drawn up). Thanks to anyone who has been liking my little reacts. It’s been a pleasure to not be alone. Having said that bombarding my brother with messages about it has been fun. We listened to most of the season finales together and I almost listened to one without him once and this is how that went down haha
You know I tripley am glad I didn’t look at fanart before the end because holy hell Gang I would have been frozen with either feelings of inadequacy or an abundant belief that the fanart was covered and didn’t require my input
Today’s the day. Down to the last two eps. Tune in in a few hours to see me a post-Magnus wreck. Will I love again? Whose to know. I will say though the last few EPS have been fucking spectacular. So I feel like however it ends it’s going to end strong.
I think I gotta call it a day on this one. I feel like I didn’t start off with a clear enough aim of where I wanted it to finish so I’ve just been wandering around on it for the last few days.
As you know from all the wips I just want these two to have peaceful snoozes together.
As I come closer to the end of this podcast I’m thinking about the fact that, for better or worse, it has been really interesting going through a series almost completely devoid of fanart. Keeping away from all the fanart so I don’t get spoiled has meant that I’ve really drilled down on my version of these two. I like that I have been able to cement them quite clearly in my mind. I’d like to get to a few more characters done before I finish but I don’t know if that’s going to happen. *shrugs* we shall see.
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ALTTONY DALTON as LALO SALAMANCA
in BETTER CALL SAUL 6x05 - BLACK AND BLUE
