in these dark times we are all Sam, freaking out when we hear the words “magnus” or “tape recorder”
secretly a little bit punk jon is my favorite thing
NEW HWLLUVA EP
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LIKE LOOK AT THEM
i love you so (please let me go) // i love you so (please let me go)
(study of consolation by jc leyendecker)
Honey don’t feed me I will come back
Look, TMA is a workplace comedy, but relistening just adds an extra flavor to it. You get moments like Elias telling Jon not to cross the Lukas family and its all ominous and sinister and threatening but then you meet Peter Lukas and he turns out to be a depressed 60 year old man with social anxiety who's trapped in a situationship with a centuries old corpse possessing a stoner so he can cosplay middle management until his apocalypse idea takes off
New hc This is why Oliver Banks liked him so much
Jon doesn't want to die. he thinks he should die, which is a feeling that's followed him since he was eight. he goes through most seasons with the air of someone who fully believes they're about to take their rightful place in the grave, and he's terrified of it. there are some attempts in s4 where he tries to convince himself that he either wants to die or thinks he shouldn't, but I don't think any of it truly sticks. everything he's lived since he was eight has been with time bought by the death of someone else. and he's going to die, it just hasn't happened yet!
then the apocalypse happens, purely because he just hadn't died yet. he should have, but he didn't!
then he meets Annabelle Cane for the last time and learns that he was, in fact, never meant to die. at least not until he does everything the web planned for him.
jon must have been so good for the end
Podcast so good I finished it and am now having coughing fits
i feel like people forget that tim stoker is just. a huge fuckin nerd. like yeah he's Assigned Canonically Hot by Basira, kayaking king etc. but he references iocaine powder from the princess bride! he has a specialist interest in architecture and regularly infodumps about robert smirke to jon! he casually namedrops stanislavski while bantering with sasha! he's got a first class degree from trinity college! he's forever borrowing books from the library! he's able to regularly phish utility companies for confidential information! he figures out where the unknowing will happen based solely off his own research even though the rest of the archival team have been trying for months! anyway live laugh love timothy stoker you wouldve been a great archivist if you weren't so silly at heart.
Will anything ever bring us as much joy and comedic bliss as the reveal of Jason Mendoza? Will I ever feel as alive as I did in that moment when Jason utters the words "heaven is so racist"? Will there ever be a moment in time that slaps me so hard in the face with surprise as the moment Jianu the monk rapidly turns into Jason the Jacksonville dirtbag? Will we as a society ever capture that kind of magic again?