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ratcreature) wrote2019-11-04 04:08 pm
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listening to The Magnus Archives
After coming across squeeing in rydra_wong's journal about The Magnus Archives, I spent most of my time the last couple of days catching up with that podcast. The individual episodes are only about twenty minutes each, but well, as of now, at the end of season four of a planned five, there are 160 of it, so that adds up.
Fortunately I can do things like eating or cooking while listening to podcasts, and the 31st has recently been made a holiday again (not for Halloween, but as Reformation Day), so it was only moderately life disrupting, but the podcast is kind of ridiculously compelling.
If you haven't heard of the podcast, there's a framing conceit of an archive collecting testimonies of various horrible and creepy things that happen to people, but the short stories you hear interconnect at certain points so that you discover more of the underlying mythology and background history, and the archive staff also become protagonists in the events that you see unfold in the framework bits.
Horror normally is not my genre of choice at all, because I *like* happy endings, and those aren't really a genre feature of horror, especially not in the cosmic horror kind. Also I get really attached to main characters, and that is ill advised too.
And yet, here I am considering to look for fix-it fanfic, or comfort heavy h/c set in the gap before the not-quite apocalypse happened and such. I mean, the creators were considerate enough to send two of the main characters to a safehouse, and provide a forced-proximity "Canadian Shack" setting (well technically a Scottish one) at least.
To let that ritual happen as a season ender rather than a final depressing apocalypse makes it hard for me to imagine what season five will even be like, because the format doesn't lend itself to following the remaining characters as they try to do something about the not-quite apocalypse to push fear-based entities back where they came form or such.
I mean, I suspect that they are going to use Hill Top Road somehow to try to "banish" them elsewhere again, because there seemed to be a kind of portal? or something to some sort of adjacent dimension or reality or something hinted there with the house cleaner episode (MAG 114), that could be traveled through. And she seemed to come from a regular place, and one that did not have a Magnus Archive.
So it's possible that while the entities are now all squatting in one warped reality of the Archive full of manifest elemental fears, there are others that are doing okay, or possibly now even better without the entities lurking outside anymore.
And now I have to wait until *April* for season five.
rydra_wong's journal about The Magnus Archives, I spent most of my time the last couple of days catching up with that podcast. The individual episodes are only about twenty minutes each, but well, as of now, at the end of season four of a planned five, there are 160 of it, so that adds up.Fortunately I can do things like eating or cooking while listening to podcasts, and the 31st has recently been made a holiday again (not for Halloween, but as Reformation Day), so it was only moderately life disrupting, but the podcast is kind of ridiculously compelling.
If you haven't heard of the podcast, there's a framing conceit of an archive collecting testimonies of various horrible and creepy things that happen to people, but the short stories you hear interconnect at certain points so that you discover more of the underlying mythology and background history, and the archive staff also become protagonists in the events that you see unfold in the framework bits.
Horror normally is not my genre of choice at all, because I *like* happy endings, and those aren't really a genre feature of horror, especially not in the cosmic horror kind. Also I get really attached to main characters, and that is ill advised too.
And yet, here I am considering to look for fix-it fanfic, or comfort heavy h/c set in the gap before the not-quite apocalypse happened and such. I mean, the creators were considerate enough to send two of the main characters to a safehouse, and provide a forced-proximity "Canadian Shack" setting (well technically a Scottish one) at least.
To let that ritual happen as a season ender rather than a final depressing apocalypse makes it hard for me to imagine what season five will even be like, because the format doesn't lend itself to following the remaining characters as they try to do something about the not-quite apocalypse to push fear-based entities back where they came form or such.
I mean, I suspect that they are going to use Hill Top Road somehow to try to "banish" them elsewhere again, because there seemed to be a kind of portal? or something to some sort of adjacent dimension or reality or something hinted there with the house cleaner episode (MAG 114), that could be traveled through. And she seemed to come from a regular place, and one that did not have a Magnus Archive.
So it's possible that while the entities are now all squatting in one warped reality of the Archive full of manifest elemental fears, there are others that are doing okay, or possibly now even better without the entities lurking outside anymore.
And now I have to wait until *April* for season five.