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hello and welcome to the Magnus archive
season 3 Q&A special I’m Alex Newell
director and with me I’ve got Johnny
Simms I am the writer and I play the
archivist yes so we are going to be
going through all of your questions we
are going to be doing our best to answer
them I am excited but I do have a few
caveats before we start I’m less excited
we’ve got a lot of questions like a lot
of question alex has a little pile of
paper and a lot of them sort of doubled
up so whilst we will be doing our best
to make sure that everyone’s sort of
credited with their questions I will be
cutting through some of the wording to
get to the sort of the the crux of it as
quick as we can yeah to get thanks for
that to get through as quickly as we can
and make sure that we do get to everyone
so here’s our first question
Tim not Sasha on the discord asks how do
you plot both in a single episode and
the meta plot what they’re getting out
is you use a lot of detail notes or is
it a more vague notion everyone knows
now that we know we have a plan for
season 5 but do we have a ring binder
with 50,000 pages of notes I in the met
at the meta plot is actually planned in
a lot more detail than any individual
episode generally right at the start of
the season me and Alex will sit down and
we’ll really hash out exactly what is
going to happen what the beats are
within a given episode ie generally I
have a vague idea of what’s going to
happen and then I’ll be going away and
just sort of percolating I guess and
sometime in the week beforehand I’ll be
like oh this will happen in the episode
because I really enjoy our season plans
where we know all of the like character
arcs and blah blah blah blah but
sometimes there will be just an episode
that says you know spooky computer yeah
and that’s just our placeholder what
it’s about and then at some point I’ll
go very quiet and someone will go Johnny
you all right and I’ll be like yes I
know where the spooky computer goes I
know what it links to and they’ll say
yeah I have been around those
conversations before ok a follow up both
saz and orable via discord and neuro sot
via reddit ask how far in advance we
plan the characters individual arcs we
have answered this before so we’ll get
through it quickly but they’re mostly
interested in martin having a crush did
we always know Tim’s backstory and did
we know that Becerra was going to join
the team for
time in order right from the beginning
yep about two seasons ahead yeah I’d say
that there was there was some vagueness
but we basically very soon after she was
introduced yes we know in pretty good
detail what our characters arc within
the season is going to be because that’s
one of the big things that is laid out
in the initial season discussion and we
have a good sense of what the the
skeleton the structure of the overall
thing is going to be but a lot of those
skeletons are built up with pleasant
surprises and for instance Becerra and
to assembly be Daisy becoming quite as
significant as they were is largely
because the characters and Fay and Frank
are amazing and the actors really came
through and we were like we want to do
more with these characters the flesh
I’ve good name in red it asks how did
you arrive at the idea of thirteen fears
specifically and with the tag on how
long have you been planning this again
as a the fears right from the beginning
that was very much the beginning like
the building block they want a pitch day
one pitch for the world was the fears I
then went and did a lot of thinking I
looked through long lists of common
phobias obviously I have read and
encountered an awful lot of horror
stories anyway and start to sort of
divide them up and just thinking more
about like how different scary things
feel in terms of the sort of fear they
generate and originally the hunt and the
slaughter were kind of the same in my
mind but the the more I started thinking
about it and we started planning it
properly the clearer it became that
those were actually two quite distinct
and what same exam as well it’s one of
the few ones where character fed back
into very much so where it became
apparent that you had two radically
different types of character yeah at
first it was not going to gel yeah first
it was Oh fear of violence nice and
simple but actually the more we did
writing and planning around it the
clearer it became that well actually
there’s two yeah there’s two very clear
strands here got a question from
we bit on reddit sure has anything
changed drastically from what we’d
originally planned yes and no grand
scale I don’t think anything’s changed
drastically but that’s largely because
the structure we built aside from one or
two very key points that have remained
the same the structure we built was
flexible enough yeah that even though
stuff has changed widely from what we
sort of assumed it was going to be it
still managed to fit very comfortably on
the same structure so this is from
Penelope Twite from reddit and Mika
Cabot’s from Facebook cool how do you
balance doling out the information for
the long term plot versus the statement
of the week stuff and more specifically
how confident were we before starting
that we’d be able to sustain the podcast
long enough to actually finish a meta
plush we got it started in terms of
confidence in sustaining it very
confident because i 100% pitched this to
Alex as five seasons it did help when
you won’t like sort of horrible
illnesses or something that no one can
predict like we’ve already locked
everything that I mean fundamentally if
if rusty quill had completely collapsed
if Alex and me both died in fiery
explosions separate fire explosive lorry
explosions though I’d like to think at
the same time oh definitely
if that if anything like that happen
obviously the podcast would have stopped
but you know you can never plan for that
sort of thing but in terms of
foreseeable x’ we knew we were going to
go the distance we started it with the
aim of doing five seasons with a strong
ending so it got a question here from
carnation lily to rose from reddit well
we’re always planning on having episode
120 be Elias reading the statement or is
that entirely because he got a huge fan
base Oh God why does everyone want no
it’s it’s fine that’s it had always been
the plan yeah right from seasons I think
it was only about it was only after 92
when he started to be properly overtly
villainous sexy so when we were planning
that out there was no way for us to
foresee how sexy Elias
probably be something I blame entirely
upon Ben so this is from I want to say
fix curtain I do not know how to
pronounce that I read it in terms of
writing them not their themes do you
have a favorite power amongst the 14 the
flesh art for the most favorite I really
enjoy writing the flesh because it
allows me to be super weird I can do
lots of grotesque body horror and I do
actually feel quite proud of the
justification behind why the flesh is so
weird least favorite least favorite
probably actually probably the dark just
because I find it draws me into tropes
and cliches recommendable where it’s
really really because the dark is such a
well explored fear that and also one
that I don’t have myself quite as
strongly like most of the ones I really
enjoy writing the ones where I’m kind of
scared of it myself so I can really
figure out what it is that gets to me
and hone in on it and there isn’t as
much of that in the dark so I find
myself having to lean a lot more on
historical stuff residence or like it’s
a lot harder to find the interesting bit
of writing a darn story certainly for me
I have a nice simple one for a least
favorite at least which is the spiral
always a nightmare I love the spiral
anyhow stage directions like everything
goes wrong that’s a sparse estate I
didn’t like em for saying goes I can
write whatever I like it doesn’t have to
make sense now links has to make its own
nonsense right going more spirals going
more specific sentient ate from ready
asked what episodes he most proud of um
a few but I thought I for some reason
the one that sticks in my mind is
actually tale of a field hospital
there’s nothing specific about that
episode that I’m super proud of but I
really like the narrator and how I got
to write him I was really proud of
finding the book a tale of a field
hospital because so little of it had to
be changed to make it nicely creepy and
it just dovetailed so well in term also
it’s one of the ones that I’ve been able
to dive into the history and more than
just a sort of
dressing sort of way mm-hmm yeah for me
it’s anything that’s a punch is a girl I
enjoy killing characters that people
love and maybe the replacement of Sasha
by not Sasha was a nice one because
enough people didn’t notice it yeah I
was always surprised I guess because you
know it’s hard not to notice piling for
duvets on top of the Nazi and just
having a scream so that they didn’t
alert the neighbors at midnight yeah
circus masks if I read it are there any
episodes that you weren’t happy with in
terms of writing or story I mean yes but
I’m 100% not going to tell never be able
to listen to them without being like
yeah I say it I will however say that it
definitely won’t be the ones you’re
thinking of so follow up from fix
curtain or FX KTN I still don’t know
which which pronunciation VY reddit
which has been the hardest episode to
write and why um I would say that that
would be number 95 absent without leave
and I have no idea why I gosh yeah I
remember we did write which no idea why
that one was so hard for me to write
like it not wasn’t emotionally it wasn’t
mentally I knew what was going to happen
it just was one of those ones where I
was sat at the computer and every word
felt like pulling out a tooth it was the
first case of block I think you I’ve
ever really done come up in years so
yeah that was the hardest zero idea why
humid nebula via reddit what is one
aspect event or nuance that you regret
putting out I mean names I’m really bad
with all the names I’m so bad with name
urging no I’ll tell you what it is it is
naming the main character after myself
it is not bothering when Alex went hey
rather than making this an anthology
series with you as the host why don’t we
make it a long-form meta block thing
where it’s the archivist is the main
character and I said yes rather than yes
in which case we better not have my name
being the name of the main character I
believe I remember this conversation
being are you sure you want the all name
to be the main cartoon you were like
yeah I’m sure it’s fine like well what
difference is it gonna make from PC i
underscore compliance by reddit how do
you write groups of episodes where the
same events are viewed from different
standpoints
I generally figure out the core of what
that setting or event is like I know the
deal with the Daedalus Space Station I
know the deal with hilltop Road then I
will write a story within that and then
when it comes to writing the next one
I’ll think well what aspects of this
haven’t I covered yet and then I will
usually have a read or a listen through
the last one to make sure that I’m
getting all the details linked up right
and I’ll be like oh yeah through myself
that little hook when we did the first
episode I’ll take that and I’ll wind it
into this other episode and gradually
just build up the whole picture and I
remember II did baked into Daedalus oh
yeah we will return to this yeah let’s
leave this three and then we’re like
okay and then yeah we can have one in
season three one in season four yeah
yeah sort of linked adverse inference
via reddit do you feel like you still
have plenty ideas for statements here is
there any media you consume to stay
inspired the media I consume to stay
inspired is generally anyone I talk to
because any time they mention anything
that could be in any way construed
spookily I will ask them to stop and
then I will write it down on a tablet or
a bit of paper or the back of my hand
and I will add it to my extremely long
list of potential spooky episode ideas I
enjoy playing the what if subject but
spooky game yeah okay you’ll say 50 as a
joke and then one of them he’ll go home
actually yeah no I can also in terms of
meteor I can seem to stay inspired
basically anything but horror not knacks
I read it which came first the archivist
and his journey or the Magnus archives
world exactly the same time as they were
they were built up pretty much parallel
I’d agree with that
Scot um’s again via Reddit and there
seems to be very little swearing is that
a conscious decision or did it happen to
work out why don’t you answer
enjoy um so episode 14 piece mail the
original cut of that I I remember I
turned up to record that one and I
started reading it out and about a
paragraph in
I said stop this there’s lots of
swearing in this one and I said yes
Caesar he’s quite a swearing man is is
is this narrator and say no he’s not and
then alex explained very very gently to
me about what the explicit tag was on
itunes and why it was a good idea if we
could skirt around it and I said what
about all the gore and the grotesque
body horror and Alex said that’ll be
fine and I said what about the the
sexual stuff I mean we’ve already
recorded episode six and that was some
pretty horrific sexual horror and he
said that’ll be fine and I said is it
literally just the swearing and Alex
said yes turns out the US market
especially for podcasts has some very
very specific preferences should we say
yeah and it turns out that it’s a lot
easier to market sell and just generally
make things for the US audience he does
let me swear but I generally need to
convince him in any given case so next
questions from cuckoo for cocoa puffs
oh I got out that’s why reddit Burke
County got a reference near the end of
episode 58 trail Russians they were very
happy by that yes is there any method
that you use to choosing locations
mentioned in the show right what I will
do is I will figure out the rough
geographical area like the the country
or the sort of the area of the US if
it’s set there and then I will go to
Google Maps and I will zoom in to a
level that I think people will find
creepy if there and it gets referenced
and they’ll be like why is he referenced
this place specifically and there’s no
particular reason but I really like
being super specific deliberately to
just slightly worried people question
from dawdling via reddit’s do you listen
to music when writing do you have any
sons that you use to get into the field
of particular powers I do listen to
music but not specific stuff that there
are various sort of playlists of dark
ambient sort of things that I will have
on in the background or I actually find
if I’m finding an episode particularly
difficult just like intense rain
soundtrack heavier than would be
relaxing
so it feels oppressive it’s a pathetic
fallacy yeah no absolutely I mean I I
basically in my mind everything
significantly more dramatic if I imagine
it happening when it’s raining very
happily I mean presumably before every
writing session you start with something
like they called me mad and then begin
writing or something yes obviously so
this one’s a tough one this is from
confectionary via reddit right right
right what aren’t Johnny and Alex’s
values when it comes to horror as in
what should well-written horror fiction
accomplish other than scaring people
obviously to me there are almost two
sorts of horror there’s what I think of
as escapist horror and what I think of
as literary horror escapist horror is
it’s very practical in a lot of ways it
is a way of catharsis it’s a way of
indulging in fear and spooking yourself
out in a controlled safe way allowing
you to safely indulge in in those
slightly darker emotions and feelings
which is one of the reasons that for
Magnus I think it’s so important to take
certain certain boundaries and treat
certain subjects with a lot of respect
and sensitivity because one of the key
things here is you need to be able to
trust that you can enjoy the horror you
need to be able to trust the the writing
and the performance that it’s not going
to suddenly cross lines and what has
previously been a very pleasing spooky
catharsis suddenly becomes incredibly
upsetting and of course I think there is
the other sort of horror and obviously
it’s not it’s not a binary here it’s
very much it’s more of a spectrum it’s
very much on on a spectrum but what I
think of more as literary horror which
is using the mechanisms of horror the
mechanisms of being spooky being scary
to actually examine and come to terms
with darker subject matter
literary horror is just as thoughtful
about how it engages with that sort of
thing and to be honest I don’t write
literary horror I don’t really feel like
I have any place writing literary horror
most of the most of the subjects that it
tackles that it deals with Wow are
things that I have no real experience of
and that I would not be coming from a
place where I’d feel comfortable
exploring exes it’s there often not my
stories to explore hmm mine is gonna be
a lot more specific but I think a lot
less profound let’s say um I think that
in all fiction you should have like I’m
gonna have to expand on this you should
avoid being intellectually lazy and I
think with horror more than any other
genre and more than any other type of
fiction you must not be intellectually
lazy now to be perfectly clear I’m not
talking about you know using big long
words or writing it in a weird way that
no one’s ever seen when I’m talking
about intellectually lazy I’m talking
about knowing that there’s a better way
of doing something and then taking a
shortcut it’s stuff like for horror it’s
very easy to spot the the shortcut
because what someone will do is they
will write a taboo and then look at the
taboo and go
I broke a taboo horror and it’s not it
is a shortcut because you aren’t putting
the work in to really engage with stuff
and try and pick out the bits that are
interesting you are just taking
something wholesale and slapping it out
there and that for horror bizarrely is
the thing that encourages people to take
those shortcuts most yeah and especially
things like body horror actually that’s
the one most often yeah you’re heading
into like horrible like torture porn
kind of subgenres and stuff and actually
it doesn’t need to be that and it’s just
about putting the work in and not just
taking the quick easy low-hanging fruit
every time when we talk about being
intellectually lazy we a hundred percent
are not talking about being original no
no no
weirdly horror is actually one of the
genres where I feel like you thinking
about it in terms of originality is
actually missing a lot at the point
there’s only so many spooky things
you can write it’s all to do with the
rhythm and the pacing and making sure
that you’re getting the the right beats
in the right place to evoke the the
emotions the same way that you know you
need to evoke the right notes from an
instrument and Astrix how are the
editors doing right now
it must be hard having huddle with all
the recent stuff they’re fine they’ve
been having some lovely weeks they’re
safe and alive
do not look for them how do we get in
the zone of giving the exact emotion
need for a piece especially in recent
episodes I’m gonna give the the unsexy
uncreate Avance ER here which is
honestly 90% of the decisions are based
entirely on logistics it is I mean
obviously that there are creative
decisions in terms of like you know I’ll
the buried should be Basie and
Nicola Ross enough if anyone’s listening
out for it has like the sound of like
needle scratches on LPS and stuff but in
a lot of it a lot of the decisions are
less about mood than about okay Johnny
has requested thousands of people
screaming and this and this and this and
this that’s not gonna be possible so
easy to write it in so what I do is I
write down what it is in order that I
can get away with and then I’ll actually
experiment and certainly when it comes
to the soundscape enos is true for the
music I have to hand all credit to Brock
he’s been doing a lot of the music this
season and he’s frankly better at it
than I am he’s getting very very good at
replicating mood with music in a way
like I’m less skilled at when it comes
to the soundscape inside a lot of it is
just you keep trying permutations until
something works which means that I also
have full soundscapes that we’ve never
used because when you laid them up they
didn’t work sumo boom oh by a discord
how do we achieve the convincing sounds
of violence so there are there are three
tips that I ask if I’m not gonna go into
the specifics of it it will take hours
tip number one get your performers to
physically act out stuff in the studio I
don’t mean fully but generally speaking
not only each other but on themselves I
get them to hold their sort of shoulders
hold their own shot what are you doing
okay so effectively everyone holds their
own shirts and then you sort of wiggle
that’s the best
can describe wiggle in the correct
literally right now what I’m doing is
just holding my lapels oh and in the
table because that wasn’t that wasn’t
controlled or safe way to do it don’t
don’t follow in our footsteps kids so
step two once you’ve done that is you
want to find all of the correct sound
effects do not pick sound effects that
are accurate pick sound effects that
sound right melons are your friends
melons punch well they smash well they
grind well they’re great and the last
step is when it comes to things layer it
up too many people spend hours and hours
and hours and hours and hours trying to
get the perfect Foley you know hitting a
melon in 50 different ways to find the
right one nine times out of ten just
layer three different sounds together
and you will get it sounding right as
the sort of bonus tip for every one base
if you want something to sound heavy
into some like it hurt use more base
less treble okay which was our favorite
episode or scene to record this season I
I mean I’d love to answer you Alex but
where Johnny you produce a ridiculous
amount of salt maybe Johnny was was
right right to believe that the only way
he could possibly record being bound and
gagged is doing entire recording you
literally just shove as much of your
fist into your mouth as you can and then
try to speak and it’s it’s not a
pleasant thing to do but it that that
there’s a just funny it’s it’s a weird
one and I’d say probably my favorite
from this season I did actually enjoy
bizarrely recording with Laurie for
Martin’s new in episode 102 clip be
clear 100 actually my least oh yeah I’m
but I’m very sorry about that I mean I
know I’m not but that specific scene was
just me and Laurie getting into a room
I’m an improviser she was an improviser
we just hit record did it and then
stopped and you just tried to make each
other Corp so that was actually quite
pleasant but with the exception of that
scene it was a nightmare okay from Steve
brad beyer edit all of the statements in
100 are they or are they not truly
supernatural yes they fall 100% under
the standard rule you will only hear
recordings about statements that are
supernatural because otherwise it’s not
fat all the red spring brigade correct
okay the dialogue was largely improvised
what was the process behind that how
much freedom did the Hat actors have
well okay so what I did was I wrote
about a paragraph that was what had
actually happened then I wrote a bunch
of bullet points about the character
giving the statement about what they
might get sidetracked on what they’re
sort of particular or the bits that they
couldn’t get past were and just
generally how they were a nightmare to
try and get a statement out of and then
I let them go and then once we got that
I sat down with the actors I discussed
it briefly
and then unfortunately because of the
nature of the show it’s very difficult
to improvise well to it so what ended up
happening is we would do a recording we
would then stop evaluate do recording
again stop evaluate do recording again
for some of them we went as far as like
eight regions of the court or some
normally within craft you just run the
thing let it go because Magnus is very
specific and it’s very easy to go off on
a tangent when you’re improvising and
say something that’s non canonical or
couldn’t work so what it’s more like is
we’d get the first two minutes me like
that’s a nice two minutes and then we’d
focus on the next two minutes asinine
another nice tune and keep doing that
but yeah that was that was a strange one
yeah I feel like I think it came out
very well but it’s not method that I
would want to use again certainly not
for this show what made us decide on a
more lighthearted episode episode
hundred in it I mean it’s what you do
you know episode 100 has got to be a
change of pace and it’s got to be nicely
self referential it’s got to be just a
little bit of a victory lap because
you’ve made it to a hundred episodes we
did discuss it well in advance you know
what we wanted one hunter and to be fair
when we were planning season three we
were like oh oh this is a really good
way to answer everyone who’s like ah I
mean does the magic sounds very eloquent
as does the magic power also make them
really eloquent storytellers yes it does
okay next questions from carnation lily
to Rose I read it and for one more nine
that had to have been brutal
with your parents berating your
alter-ego so was it difficult to hear
your parents reading those lines at you
not even a little bit it was hilarious
I’ve got like I’ve got a weird but a
very good relationship with my parents
like by this point in season three like
right at the beginning of season one
there were like quite a lot of elements
of the archivist that I saw within
myself and like he was a little bit of a
fictionalized version of me for like
maybe the first 20 episodes but as soon
as plot actually starts happening he
very quickly went on her like who went
on a strong right-angle character you’re
less of a hot garbage fire of oh you
know I’m I’m I like to think my
decisions are less overtly horrific in
many ways it was quite cathartic for me
because it allowed me to have these two
authoritative figures within the
universe just eviscerate the idiot that
shares my name a path or us via reddit
do you ever have any issues coming up
with names to use in character
statements rather than you know reusing
everyone you know as obviously I do
obviously I do why would you ask that
question the name Alex
penultimate episode of season five when
you can’t cancel anything let’s let’s
address the elephant in the room this
has been asked by a bunch of people but
especially carnation Lolita Rose and
others is Tim actually dead dead or just
mostly dead he is dead tim is dead so
dead however while we make a point not
to bring people back from the dead in
Magnus I know it sometimes feels like
that but we are very careful to never
actually resurrect anyone
we’re very happy to play fast and loose
with what might have happened to
somebody pre death and we’re not shy
about having dead people talking in
various ways we’re very keen to keep
death meaningful yeah
and it’s important to horror exactly and
so why obviously I mean Gertrude’s been
dead the entire time
so we’ve heard plenty from her so I’m
not gonna make any blanket statements
that you’ll never hear Tim’s voice again
but Timothy Stoker is dead yes
plunder duck and liquid mirrors via
discordant read 8 respectively ask Elias
are we gonna get more of him are we
gonna get more backstory of him how did
he turn from a pot head to a high priest
of The Watcher no you’re not I mean he’s
he’s in prison now so that’s that’s him
done I don’t think we’ll be seeing him
again satisfying yeah I feel like he
developed as a character and then we
wrote him out elegantly
although Easter overstayed his welcome
from Alcide yeah yeah
realistically yes obviously we would be
typing poor into what the deal is with
Alliance okay Georgie bye D Ashley well
we hear more from Georgie and especially
her auntie fear power that’s not the
phrasing of the original question just
perm yes we’ll be hearing more from
Georgie 71 Penguins V already asks what
about Agnes what about Agnes what a
great question your answer I mean again
yes we will be getting more from Agnes
from cats using coconuts via reddit what
about Michael is Michael just Helen now
and that’s the end of Michael in the I
mean in the same way that Tim is dead
Michael is Helen okay we’ve got a lot of
questions actually about this so I’ve
lumped together the other institutions
oh yes so mark Sutton via Facebook and
others the Osher Institute what’s the
deal what can you tell us about them is
there a chance that we’ll see their
people in future episodes right the Asha
foundation is the American sister
institution to the Magnus Institute and
they are similar but different they will
almost certainly not appear in the main
story in any significant way the writing
point of view I want the Magnus archives
to be a world as well as a story yeah
and I’m always acutely aware that the
more everything mentioned is super
significant and everything mentioned
ties into everything else the more it
becomes a locked-down story and the less
it becomes an open world so I’m always
very keen to add in just little things
that maybe will you’ll you’ll know
here about again but they yeah they
fleshed out and they give jumping-off
points for a wider world that anyone
wants to explore in so this one’s from
polyphonic by discord from other tapes
or other recording devices that are able
to hold statements purely neutral or
other is there a capacity for an entity
to maybe enlist them to their aid like
they can with humans they are not
neutral next question
Hobbs by discord in mag 87 the uncanny
valley we learned that Gertrude
presented the desolations ritual what
are the deets can we know what the
ritual was what it was called what it
might have looked like etc it said 100%
can know those things next question
I mean wait is is the answer to that
okay so historic references oh okay so
from self-referential main vie ready at
liquid mirrors about reddit and others
as an example we got Wolfgang von
Kempelen and Library of Alexandria and
so and so on and what are the historical
figures organizations and events are
associated or puppeted by some power is
there anything that you can go into oh
that’s a very good question and the
answer is yes and I know one or two of
them but if I already know them it’s
because they’re gonna be coming up in a
later story I can’t actually say
anything I mean there’s so much that
I’ll be like oh maybe I should do
something with this historical event all
oh what’s the deal with like I mean the
whole Wolfgang von Kempelen thing came
with me going like oh I haven’t done
much with automata yet yeah what’s the
deal with historical automata and then I
looked in and I was like oh cool so yeah
the Mechanical Turk that’s intro oh I
can use that
and who was he but I’ve also come from
Compellent and then I read compelling
biography and I was like yeah what a
spooky
he made a speaking machine that just
goes and and like it’s so often they’re
like if you actually just dive deep
enough into a bit of history you’ll be
like okay so the aunt the short answer
is yes they’ll they’ll almost certainly
have been quite a few and I’ll be diving
into
as many of them as I can find and have
time for because honestly that a lot of
that history stuff is it’s certainly one
of my favorite bits of the writing for
Marimo discord does the archivist taking
on the persona of people’s statements
revitalize him what does the archivist
just have a secret pastime of putting on
different personalities really well is
this is John a secret Impressionists we
thought I mean lore why is the first one
though we came to the conclusion very
early in recording season one the the
archivist is secretly a bit of a drama
queen
yeah really likes like it’s it’s 90
percent a hostile malevolent alien force
that was given but I mean fundamentally
he doesn’t not like getting into a
statement and really giving it a bit of
a like he probably did some and ran okay
this questions from duck pond by discord
does Tim have any hobbies unrelated to
revenge not anymore
no did Tim have any hobbies unrelated we
always thought of Tim as one of those
people who like he’s very social but
rather having like a lot of hobbies in
his downtime he would go on big holidays
adventure holidays like he probably does
likes did did some rock climbing I
always teach him kayaking
yeah kayaking yes always sucked him down
as he doesn’t do it all the time
no but he makes the point of his his
main holiday yeah yeah of the year is
always kayaking I don’t know why I I
think of it less specifically as
kayaking like he’s not gonna he’s not
gonna say no to like you know a bit of
scuba or or that sort of thing but but
yeah like I think for most of us is time
he would just general socializing
relaxing I think he probably I think he
probably played a reason why mantle like
console computer games and I couldn’t
judge that maybe he was too busy
kayaking in my brain but but yeah like
active social adventure holidays
dead oh that’s brutal so this next one’s
from southern dorable hi discord sure
what cat is the inspiration for the
Admiral what’s their name and how
precious are they okay so the Admiral is
an amalgamation of all the cats in my
life I have a real fondness for pets
with like Appalachians or ranks what are
the names of your cats Joe I have two
cats one of which is Sir pounce a lot
yes that is the reference and one of
which is the ambassador ambassador cat
it should be noted that cat is his name
and he is an ambassador he is not
ambassador cat in the sense of you know
ambassador to all cats he is an
ambassador his name is cat and he
happens to be a cat from Seraphim 755 I
read it how do you feel about fan made
podcasts riffing off the Magnus archives
for instance a registering podcast where
fans discuss episodes and the
connections between them or a fun based
non canonical podcast dealing with
statements given to the usher foundation
very flattered probably a little bit too
intimidated to actually listen so now
they’re boring a business II not nice
part hat on the licensing is creative
commons
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international license which means that
anywhere in the world you can make
derivative products as long as you do
not claim that we gave permission you do
not make money off it and you reference
the original source material as much as
possible basically I have to say that of
the to the OSHA foundation one carries a
little more complications because of
things to do like like trade marking and
branding and so on
next questions from Satanist goblin by
reddit what is your favorite podcast not
from rusty quill i binge podcasts quite
a lot so for me the answer is almost
always going to be different my my
favorite favorite podcast at the moment
and I’m very happy I can give them a
shout out because they give it they gave
us a really nice shout-out on their last
episode is Epoque repels I have that
they are they’re sort of a secular Bible
studies podcast by two comics writers
and it sounds really dry but it’s
incredibly interesting and really really
funny because yeah
I knew the playbook quite well turns out
I basically didn’t know it at all and it
is really interesting and really weird
even from her like a non-religious point
of view just as like a foundational text
result of a lot of society it’s
fascinating and they are very very
informative and very very funny so it’s
bonito Sereno and Chris Sims and they
are awesome I think they’re probably
listening so guys aside from that
pseudopod is all good nice horror is
always good I’m I’ve been going through
the back catalogue of shut up and sit
down
recent yeah because I’ve I mean I’m a
real board game phase at the moment so
from my perspective I listen to a lot of
audio drama shocker
I often reticence recommend audio drama
like pick favorites and stuff yeah yeah
because it’s a it’s it’s a dangerous
game because it makes people it makes it
sound like you’re saying some are better
than others that said I would say I
recently finished and really enjoyed
wolf three five nine oh yeah done wolf
like as a personal taste thing I enjoyed
it had good fun with it in terms of
things that aren’t audio drama so I’m
quite peculiar in that my odd my tastes
outside of audio drama are really really
generic like holy they’re always
recommending me like stuff you should
know yeah and history of Rome great
podcasts to be fair it’s good for me
because sometimes you’ll be like oh
here’s an interesting episode on
something that could be very easily made
spooky and elicited and be like yes I
can very easily make that spooky so a
nice adorably naive question here from
liquid mirrors via reddit if rusty quill
as an organization served a power which
would it be I think the web okay I think
I think that was very conclusive I
couldn’t disagree um wicked I think
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