I'm fucking losing it Jon, basically: eye daddy, could u kill this bug for me? The Beholding, proud of their kid: anything for u, bby.

@someoneawesome8717

3 жыл бұрын

As Melanie said later "Snoop God's Favorite Kid"

@randomdoodlesandye5922

2 жыл бұрын

the ceasless watcher's special little boy

@lonewaffle231

Жыл бұрын

I mean John is the MVP the the Dread powers, him and Magnus, those two actually helped them the most

@midnights2631

Жыл бұрын

The Beholding loves his kid

@MrGeneralHeavy

9 ай бұрын

Jon can have a little bit of smiting, as a treat.

Jon is the epitome of "be careful who you make fun of in middle school". For the first four seasons all the avatars got to dunk on him and now he gets to do the dunking!

@Gekyouryuu

Жыл бұрын

That meme IS about people becoming good "looking" after all. *ba dum tish*

@lyx8039

Жыл бұрын

@@Gekyouryuu HELP?

@Gekyouryuu

Жыл бұрын

@@lyx8039 ?

@panflurr

Жыл бұрын

@@Gekyouryuu LMAOOO

@irca318

6 ай бұрын

"looking"@@lyx8039

I like how Martin doesn’t react to Jon’s most powerful ability thus far with horror, but with “that’s fucking sick dude” energy

@flamingtorrent2109

Жыл бұрын

Thats my reaction too

Jon doing slam poetry with carnival music in the background at the apocalypse is a very specific mood, but a mood none the less

@jaderush4141

3 жыл бұрын

Weirdly enough, hits just right this year. Who would have ever thought.

@fruitygarlic3601

2 жыл бұрын

The slam poetry was my real life "Hello Jon, sorry..." moment.

@confused-as-ell

Жыл бұрын

i love that bit so much

season 1 Jon: idk sounds fake, also Martin ur annoying season 2 Jon: trust no one! I don't need sleep, I need answers! season 3 Jon: must! stop! the! apocalypse! season 4 Jon: everybody hates me, I miss Martin, also it's my fault Tim is dead season 5 Jon: viva la apocalype, Martin, watch this: *kills Not!Them because she threatened Martin*

@lonewaffle231

Жыл бұрын

Season 5 Johm: Ceaseless Watcher lay your gaze upon this thing I dont like

@catdn7011

Жыл бұрын

i feel like that was less about threatening martin and more about sasha everytime someone talked shit about sasha it did not end well for them

@cupcaketv5673

Жыл бұрын

​@@catdn7011That's what I thought too

@valeriyav2149

4 ай бұрын

@@catdn7011 i think it's both. but not!them gloating about killing sasha was the last drop

im sorry nothing is better than jon insisting hes not adorable last episode then talking about how he likes marry-go-rounds this episode.

@shanefung9788

3 жыл бұрын

Yes perfect

@toastghost9145

3 жыл бұрын

"I was in a weird place."

@SuperClass3000

2 жыл бұрын

Add in martin's sassiness going up after the end of the world and you got something we can't help but enjoy

@SeerOfTime577

Жыл бұрын

Yeeees.

@citra1885

6 ай бұрын

​@@toastghost9145a strange place certainly

I'm sorry but jon saying "Ceaseless watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing" was sexy as hell and I will stand by that for the rest of my days

@jonahyogman6282

2 жыл бұрын

LMAO RQ LIKING UR COMMENT

@arkay1063

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonahyogman6282 I JUST SAW THAT THEY DID WHAT THE FUCK

@pho_is_not_interesting

Жыл бұрын

LMAO THE FACT THAT THEY LIKED THIS COMMENT I CANTTTT

@lonewaffle231

Жыл бұрын

Its so badass

@Watchers_Puppet

Жыл бұрын

RQ hearting this means they agree and endorse hot monster Jon No I will not be taking criticism on my 100% factual take, good day to you all

I was expecting Martin to be unnerved by Jon when he killed the NotThem. But his response of just sheer awe was hilarious.

@someoneawesome8717

3 жыл бұрын

I mean she was talking some really big shit

@cupcaketv5673

Жыл бұрын

What's also funny is that in the transcript it says for Martin, " _Cross between pride and glee - hurrah!_ "

@BoxofMadness

11 ай бұрын

Its biggest mistake was bragging about killing sasha to the one who rules the fear domain currently

@cantaloupegodling352

5 ай бұрын

​@@someoneawesome8717 It was like "Ooh look at me I can't hurt you because you're touched by other powers and am actively bragging about murdering your friend" What were they expecting?

@valeriyav2149

4 ай бұрын

such a contrast to how others reacted to Jon's powers in S4. I'm really glad he has Martin by his side now T_T they're just so good for each other

I love how Martin's immediate reaction to seeing Jon smite not-Sasha is "is the merry-go-round safe to go on now??"

@sunnlovesorange

Жыл бұрын

@Lucinda Gomez we all do

@midnights2631

Жыл бұрын

@Lucinda Gomez I definitely do

@cupcaketv5673

Жыл бұрын

​@@tyhbyfjnOng Jon deserves some fun

How to throw Jon in rage mode: Mention Sasha, threaten Martin. You knew better Not!Sasha.

@cantaloupegodling352

5 ай бұрын

When it mentioned Sasha I knew it was fucked.

All these people being like "Man, all the other avatars have cool powers and all John can only just 'look at people' and 'know things.'" How's that going for you?

@effeilensucre

3 жыл бұрын

I love how this season cast the 14 powers in a different light so far. There was the xenophobia angle with the Corruption that worked surprisingly well and now this new side of the Eye; for empathy is also a form of knowledge, and can be terrifying in itself. I love the idea that confronting a being so intrinsically tied with some type of fear with the perspective of someone who suffers the most from that same fear litteraly anihilates them, it makes a lot of sense !

@mimkyodar

3 жыл бұрын

@@effeilensucre heck, are you in for a ride

@someoneawesome8717

3 жыл бұрын

Heck anyone who said "the eye isn't that scary" clearly never had their privacy violated or faced the pressure of constant judgement

@jormungandrworldserpent6437

2 жыл бұрын

Technically whatever he did in this episode wasn’t his power, it seems like he was just calling on the power of The Eye, like a conduit of sorts.

@dude59974

2 жыл бұрын

@@jormungandrworldserpent6437 Yes that's how all the avatars do it.

Martin is LIVING for all of Jon’s new archivist powers lmao

@jaderush4141

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr?! Finally somebody appreciates the fine things in life! The girl squad can go eff themselves with their toxic "eH, mUrdeRInG iS bAd" attitude.

@broblerone413

Жыл бұрын

i mean i think we all are

@anatine_banana_69

Жыл бұрын

Unlike Not!Shasha

Martin sounded wayyyy too excited about Jon murdering someone lol

@TheNitpickChick

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, it’s the apocalypse. I think Martin’s earned a little murder, as a treat. 😉

@sitromxe9472

3 жыл бұрын

>Someone >Implying lol

@belugaval144

3 жыл бұрын

"someone" is a strong term. more like he dismantled a weapon, destroyed a torture chamber, or at least damaged it.

@vanessa2603__

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheNitpickChick hello! how are you doing after mag 200! (this is my new favourite pastime now)

@TheNitpickChick

3 жыл бұрын

@@vanessa2603__ OOF my comment hurts me now! 😫 I didn’t mean it like that, Martin! I DIDN’T MEAN IT LIKE THAT!!! 😭😭😭 But yeah the finale was absolutely amazing, but it came for my very soul and I’m still not over it. lol 🥲

"That's weird" Martin says in response to a monster saying he doesn't know why he doesn't hate poetry anymore while they walk beside a carousel of swapping identities and torment.

@jaderush4141

3 жыл бұрын

At first I was like "checks out. what's your point?" Like I was legitimately so confused for a couple of seconds that now it's ultra-hilarious.

Sure Martin gets happy over his boyfriend murdering someone everyone thinks its adorable. I fall head over heels for Elias after the brutal pipe murder of Jurgen Leitner and everyone thinks I need therapy.😝

@chiarag2756

3 жыл бұрын

I get you

@Catglittercrafts

2 жыл бұрын

I’m an Elias fan girl. I get it

@micahconnor8954

2 жыл бұрын

Okay but Jon is just a man trying to do his best, and is avenging Sasha. Elias is a rat who hurt Martin and Melanie

@caramel9154

6 ай бұрын

@@micahconnor8954 ...he's a well dressed rat

@kehlcassidy9562

4 ай бұрын

I'm here for it

I can't get over the fact, that Jon likes to ride marry-go-rounds and thinks it's thrilling

@johnathansmith9405

3 жыл бұрын

It went fast okay?!

@quantumblur_3145

3 жыл бұрын

He likes the speen

@yumiendercat3685

3 жыл бұрын

@@quantumblur_3145 *Jon goes speeeeeen*

@azulBjort_1406

2 жыл бұрын

In Basira's words it goes "Woosh"

@superawe

9 ай бұрын

@@quantumblur_3145 Jon likes the *spleeeeeen*

I really love how the music goes wonky as soon as Not!Sasha realises its mistake. It's such a great way to convey its enormous sense of "UH-OH".

this show is so well written overall (obviously) but i think this is one of the most impressive examples of the range of jonathan’s writing skills

@zoekirk8767

7 ай бұрын

HONESTLY!!! His writing is SO COOL!!!

@waffleaffle231

3 ай бұрын

​@@zoekirk8767 it makes me sad how good it is, I want to act it so badly 😅

Martin, after Jon _literally killes something_ in front of him: So,,, you think the merry-go-round is safe now?

@broblerone413

Жыл бұрын

i mean... mood

@Idran

Жыл бұрын

I mean, it's pretty obvious he meant for the victims; he just said he hates merry-go-rounds :P

Jon must be great at staring contests

@Quazex

3 жыл бұрын

Also I'm gonna show this statement if I'm ever asked to explain why I love the stranger so much

@f_mva

3 жыл бұрын

stare too long and you might no longer have the eyes to do it

@jaderush4141

3 жыл бұрын

Doesn't take much to win a contest against a pile of ash, I bet.

@Sheena000

3 жыл бұрын

I’ve always wondered if you could befriend the beholding by giving it eye drops.

@randomdoodlesandye5922

2 жыл бұрын

I like to imagine after the change he just doesn't blink. like at all.

hey jon, any particular reason you mellowed on your opinions about poetry? any particular person responsible for the change in heart?? anyway hell yeah fat martin rights, also love to see a cruel abomination get smote.

@alicepersson9568

3 жыл бұрын

This comment went in so many different directions

My name is Hannah and I was just vibing through this episode so when out of nowhere Jon said, "But I'm still Hannah," I gasped

@bananaboatcharlie

2 жыл бұрын

My name's Anya and that name is *_never_* in shows so that was a freaking trip

@bi-theway-thatsit3050

Жыл бұрын

Oh my God same I was so spooked (Well technically it's my old name but I still use it)

@biancamlf288

Жыл бұрын

@@bananaboatcharlie How does it feel to share a name with the universe travelling badass, Ms Villette?

@lavorre_

Жыл бұрын

ME TOO HAHA

@midnights2631

Жыл бұрын

So far, I haven't heard my name yet.

Martin wanting to ride the ghostly merry-go-round after watching Jon murder a cryptid with his eye-of-terror powers is a mood and a half

the transcript: *has commas for breaths* former choir boy jonny: nah edit: also that was dope as fuck! call me a static-soundscaping nerd but i loved that.

@confused-as-ell

Жыл бұрын

as a choir kid, yup lmao

Dudes. This is literally my favourite episode ever. By a long shot. No joke. - Was it a good poem? - I don’t know! You don't know? YOU DON'T KNOW?! Yes. Yes, it was a good poem, Martin. It was a great fucking poem. And you should absolutely listen to the tape, because otherwise I can't imagine how sad and empty your existance will be. Holy shit. This was powerful. Like, really powerful. The delivery absolutely sells it. I've been listening to the last act of Gunpowder Tim vs The Moon Kaiser for a week now, non-stop, and I can confirm w/o hesitation that Jonny's poetry reading slash rapping skills are nothing short of divine. Jon going into a feat of rage and murdering the absolute crap out of Not!Sasha in Sasha's memory is iconic. He is the ultimate soft boi. "Never been adorable"? Bitch please. Martin's reaction to unholy Cyclops-style lazer-murder that has just transpired: /laughs in amusement as if Jon has just chugged an entire barrel of beer at a fraternity party/ Ho-ho-ho, my boy good man sir, that was really hot, kay, just saying. You wanna talk about it? No? That's cool, that's cool. So you wanna jump on that big ol' wooden horse and ride into the sunset while you play that poetry tape for me and we maybe possibly make out violently? Honestly, same, Martin. Same.

@a.b.6689

2 жыл бұрын

There should be no rational explanation for why somebody would even understand what you're talking about, yet here we are.... ""my boy good man sir" masterpiece

@SeerOfTime577

Жыл бұрын

This comment makes me feel extremely validated for adoring this episode so much.

@biancamlf288

Жыл бұрын

I think this comment validates my decision to not relisten to this podcast on Spotify because look at this *community*.

@octoberwind_

Жыл бұрын

I hurt smiling so much and giggling like a little girl sitting alone in the kitchen and reading this

I was afraid Martin would br shocked after the murder but he was as excited as I was and I love it

@shanefung9788

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Martin is just helpless

I see people talking about martin's "do you think the merry-go-round is safe now?" But no one's talking about "did it stir up any emotions for you?" "Yeah, nausea!" I was cackling so hard

The Unknowing must seem like an easy summer day compared to this.

@someoneawesome8717

3 жыл бұрын

I never thought I'd say this but I miss the clowns

@broblerone413

Жыл бұрын

@@someoneawesome8717 ikr they seem so chill compared to this hell

-notshasha threatens them -jon: "no" -obliterates her with the gaze of the fear god

Loved the episode, absolutely adoring the season in general so far with the interactions between Jon and Martin feeling so natural considering the world’s current state. Jon gets a little murder, y’know, as a treat. HOWEVER is anyone going to mention the patron “Is The End Looking For Any Sexy New Avatars” because that’s a mood and a half

You knew Jon gets snappy whenever you mention Sasha, you had it coming a mile away. That was so cool!

Man. Jon's little horror section is so incredibly written!

So uh when is Jon gonna release a rap album

@belalima9908

3 жыл бұрын

LMAO

@trin-is-late

Жыл бұрын

Well fyi it isn’t rap but you should check out The Mechanisms

@ashcanicall5297

Жыл бұрын

@DoorToRiver I did, and it was amazing! I was obsessed for a hot minute with it 😄 thanks for reminding me

finally the line that got me into this podcast lmao every scene with feral!jon is the best

@komoriaibo-2086

3 жыл бұрын

What was the line what was the line

@conibal5045

3 жыл бұрын

@@komoriaibo-2086 the ceaseless watcher one :D theres so much fan content for that one line i couldnt resist lmao

@aubarlowe

2 жыл бұрын

i never imagined that "Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing" would be _in the context of Jon trying to murder someone_

@quinnkaplan172

2 жыл бұрын

@@aubarlowe not trying that would imply it did not work.

Funny how Jon's among the only beings who can't get away with saying 'I dont know'

@Badficwriter

2 ай бұрын

He doesn't know why he's OK with poetry now! I feel like Martin should get some kind of prize for discovering this.

Jon: uses his terrifying powers to obliterate the monster Martin: Whoa! Cool!

Now that I think about it: So Nik, who played the Calliope, was part of this horror circus and one day he just left because he felt like it and got himself a nice family and chilled?? And the circus was like "ok whatever" ????? Or did I miss something

@wrigglenight93

3 жыл бұрын

Best i can tell was that the circus didn’t really have an endgame yet at that point. So the individual members had some freedom, hence the couriers breaking off for a while

Jon: Pathetic. Not-Sasha: Not as pathetic as your little friend as I ate her life. Jon: *Okay. You're dead now.*

Everyone seems to be interpreting Martin's last lines as him wanting to go on the merry go round, but I interpreted it as him being worried about the victims?

I actually hope Elias is satisfied by the outcome because I feel like it would ruin his character if he just said 'fuck go back'

@someoneawesome8717

3 жыл бұрын

Do you care about spoilers?

@someoneawesome8717

3 жыл бұрын

Bastard's last words were "I don't want to die" and I was just there like "you pathetic little shit"

@Catglittercrafts

2 жыл бұрын

@@someoneawesome8717 nooooo. Not my Elias. He went out like a chump fr?

@someoneawesome8717

2 жыл бұрын

@@Catglittercrafts not even killed by paranormal means. Stabbed to death

Jon CANNOT say he isn't adorable and then the next episode say he thinks merry go rounds are thrilling

Ok let me just say, Jon having had ENOUGH and bringing his full, apocalyptic power to bear on this monster that has dogged them for five seasons, and forcing it to experience every demented thing it forced upon sasha and the others.. is the single most satisfying moment of the entire show so far

I had a visCERAL reaction to Jon's 'I'm still Hannah!', good God

This poetry is on another plane of existence

Can you imagine a PvP horror version of tag based on this statement? People play as the Faceless Things, casing down identities as a horde, then whoever gets the final hit gets the identity, maybe a few Perks representing who they used to be, and a few seconds of invincibility before they're the Prey instead.

ok but that was sick as FUCK bro the freakin coolness in the line "ceaseless watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing" plus the raw cold *anger* when it mentioned sasha i just-

this episodely banter between martin and jon is keeping me ALIVE

martin being a worried boi

even with everything going on now, it feels amazing to get some true retribution for sasha once and for all. funny enough if not!her didn't push it by bringing her up again I think jon would have left her alone. The little "i'm sorry" as she finally realizes how fucked she is is so satisfying

@SourGummiWyrm69

8 ай бұрын

the Not!Them was overconfident to a fault, even before The Change. it was tricked and bound by Dekker because of its bravado (78), and The Change gave it enough free fear that the possibility of defeat within its own domain didn't even occur until that fatal slip of the tongue

Damn ol’ Jonny boy really using his lyric writing skills in this one. I could genuinely see this being turned into a Mechanisms song. 😁 I had forgotten just how fantastic this episode was. I remembered it was great, but it hit even harder this time around. I love it. ❤️

@shanefung9788

3 жыл бұрын

Yea

god i love the spiral of the poetry

My ears hurt, if you are reading this before waching, turn your volume down around 18:20

@possessedpeach4455

3 жыл бұрын

Your doing the lords work good sir

@someoneawesome8717

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

@Noah-xc3vd

3 жыл бұрын

I wish I saw your comment in time

I'm loving the "Martin and Jon relationship" sub-plot of this season, so far. :D (what existential terror? Definitely no Not-Sasha to talk about)

You know, I don’t remember where, but I’ve seen or heard that line “Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing” before. I’m glad I finally know where it’s from and boy is it a great line in context

Love that i had no context for the "ceaseless watched, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing" until I listened to this show, and just got a burst of mania at finding out that *this* is where the phrase comes from.

Jon: I SMITE THEE The Eye: observes popcorn Martin: :D You're doing great sweetie Love this podcast

*Me, worried that Martin is going to react to Jon with horror:* *Martin:* That was so sick 😍😍😍

Yeeeeees, Jon protects little bean Martin! ♥

THIS IS WHERE THAT LINE IS FROM??? THE LINE I'VE SEEN ON ALL THE BOOTY SHORTS??? 165 EPISODES IN and i was none the wiser.

Who the hell wrote a slam poetry session for a statement? Was it you sasha?

@someoneawesome8717

3 жыл бұрын

Not!Sasha

I’m starting to think that Jon is a Paladin just waiting to unleash that divine SMITE.

@Badficwriter

2 ай бұрын

I mean... if he was serving an evil god, sure. 😄

I cannot believe I am about to be up-to-date with this series!!! It's thrilling and makes me sad to know we near the end.

it was fun reading people's comments about how uneasy it is when jon mentions your name since my slavic name is unlikely to be here and i was safe from such an experience but here we are

martin is just a little bit too excited about not!sasha being smote lmaoo

Sometimes you forget The Eye is also a Dread Power and also terryfying. That was a fair reminder

The end of this one is competing for the "hottest moment in Magnus archives" with Daisy's own encounter with the stranger being the top contender. I wonder why the Stranger makes the characters do the coolest things?

It took an apocalypse for us to get these cute moments between John and Martin

I wasn't ready for 'your face is not your face' took me SO off guard

Very pleasing that they brought back the music from the Unknowing

I’m in love with The Stranger’s poem. Played it for the third time now and it still gives me the chills

"If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here, while these visions did appear."

@Catglittercrafts

2 жыл бұрын

That’s Shakespeare right? Midsummer nights dream maybe?

Hey Alex! Didn´t know you had actual sponsor.

I know damn well that Jon doesn’t hate poetry anymore because Martin does it

The episode where Martin watches his boyfriend being an evil elder monster killer and figures out something new about himself

The key of the carousel music changed from minor to major when Not!Sasha went. What an incredible detail.

Jon: * sigh * *Your face is not your face is not your face-* Me: Woah

yes! i love episodes about the stranger, they're so abstract and horrifyingly fun!! show martin the spooky poetry im sure he'll love it

this one and "upon the stair" are hands down my fav episodes

Intresting that her or "its" name was Hannah. Flip it around and it's still spells Hannah. even when everything is turned on its head the name is still easier to remember. Intresting detail I guess XD

awawaugh roomy Martin TwT ahh, the hugs he must give! lowkey jealous of Jon now

oh now this episode was viscerally terrifying thanks johnny

Yall need to read the fanfic where Martin gets shoved into mister spiders house and some serious stuff goes down

@bluebird9870

3 жыл бұрын

Links or titles?

@vanessa2603__

3 жыл бұрын

You can't just say that and not tell us which one it is

@agustinamagpie

3 жыл бұрын

Come clean and give us a title!!!

I love how far Marin has come with his fears. Like he's still afraid and voices that but he has so much more courage, especially when it comes to Jon's powers. Working at the Archives through so many trials and tribulations really toughened him up, made him braver. I like to think he's also putting on a brave face for Jon, because Jon both helps with that fear and needs Martin's support.

I love how that statement was written!

The feeling of finally catching up to present day

Does this mean, exposing those eldritch horrors for what they are is the way to destroy them? It would make a lot of sense when you think about it. Rationalizing your fears, turning the spotlight on their pathetic, sad or ridiculous origins. Like seeing a monster's claws moving in front of your window during a nightly storm, only to find out it was the bending tree next to your house once the sun rises.🤔

Jon and Martin casually talking and walking through a fear apocalypse is like a horror getaway for couples. Man. Jon is getting good at banishing horrors.

This ending had been my absolute favorite moment so far. Fuck yes John!

I could see Jon's voice actor having great potential for villain roles

So Jon's into slam poetry now?

Now the only thing I can think about is John riding a merry-go-round and, honestly, I'm not angry about it! And to add extra fun to the picture, he's also wearing a cute carnival hat while doing so

when jon killed not!them i was like "oh poor martin" but nah he was weirdly excited about it.

don't get on here rapping. jon: don't get on here rappin' I'm stackin' it makin' it happen

When I was thinking "wow, Jon is saved yet again by someone else and lucky timing, I wonder if he'll be able to stand up for himself by the end of the series" during the season 2 ending I could have never expected this

[EXT. SOMEWHERE IN THE UK, A DIVISION OF THE STRANGER] [TAPE CLICKS ON.] [IMMEDIATELY WE HEAR THE HOWLING RUCKUS AND MUSIC OF A CIRCUS. IT’S ALMOST LIKE WE’RE IN THE UNKNOWING AGAIN.] MARTIN Wow. ARCHIVIST I told you. MARTIN I mean, yeah, but when you said big - ARCHIVIST I meant big. MARTIN Yeah, but - I mean, how big is it, actually? [A LITTLE HEH AS HE SAYS IT.] ARCHIVIST I-It doesn’t really work like that. MARTIN Yeah, figures. ARCHIVIST If you tried to measure the diameter, I - uh - it’d probably only be a half mile or so. But the curve doesn’t work quite right, and if you stayed in the same spot and just - hopped on a horse and let it carry you ‘round, it - might be… days before you passed the same spot, or, uh… [THERE ARE DISTANT SCREAMS - OF JOY? OF FEAR? IT’S HARD TO TELL - IN THE BACKGROUND AS HE SPEAKS.] MARTIN (overlapping) Or you might never see the same spot again? ARCHIVIST (exhale) Exactly. MARTIN Yeah. (sigh) I think I’m starting to get it. ARCHIVIST Good. MARTIN But - you said we needed to go through these places. Is that even gonna work here? ARCHIVIST (squeaky breath) Uh - We need to go through them… metaphorically. Psychologically, we need to experience them. [SOMETHING SCREAMS IN THE BACKGROUND.] MARTIN Hm. (slowly) You think we could - get - that experience just - walking along the edge? Because, uh - I really don’t like the look of those riders. ARCHIVIST Would you believe me if I said they were the victims? MARTIN At this point, I’m not even surprised. ARCHIVIST Either way, best not to actually climb onto the thing if we can help it. MARTIN Fine by me. (laugh) Never really liked merry-go-rounds anyway. ARCHIVIST No? You - gone on any recently? MARTIN What? No. No, I don’t think so. Not since I was a kid. ARCHIVIST (heh) I actually, uh… There’s one at London Zoo - uh, was one at London Zoo. Big old thing. Went quite fast, actually. Su-Surprisingly thrilling. [AS HE SAYS THIS, WE HEAR MARTIN TRYING TO CONTAIN HIS MIRTH. AS SOON AS THE ARCHIVIST FINISHES SPEAKING, HE LETS OUT A LARGE BURST OF LAUGHTER.] ARCHIVIST What? MARTIN Seriously?! ARCHIVIST It was years back, before the Institute. I… I was in a weird place. Had a good time, though! [MARTIN LAUGHS AGAIN, IN SURPRISED DELIGHT.] MARTIN Well. ARCHIVIST I mean, obviously I wouldn’t want to ride this one; we’ve got quite enough thrills already. MARTIN (teasing) You - Are you sure? I could speak to an attendant - ARCHIVIST (overlapping) I would advise - (softer) against doing that. MARTIN So you said the riders were the victims… where’s the monster? ARCHIVIST I’m hoping if we’re quick we can avoid her notice. MARTIN Her? (pause) J-John, please don’t tell me there’s an evil clown doll down there, because - ARCHIVIST (overlapping) No. N-No, Nikola died with the Unknowing; it’s, uh… (shaky inhale) an old friend. MARTIN (realizing) …Oh. ARCHIVIST Yeah. I’d really rather not deal with her if we can avoid it. MARTIN Yeah, good call. Um - in that case, do you want to - do your thing now, then, before we start moving? Uh, are we close enough? ARCHIVIST Yes. Yes, I-I think so. Good idea. MARTIN Thanks. ARCHIVIST You, uh. You might want to take a bit of a walk. This - feels like a strange one. MARTIN What does - “strange” mean, with something like this? ARCHIVIST Don’t think you want to know. MARTIN Good point! Um, okay, well, uh - good luck; I’ll be, uh - over there. [WE HEAR HIM WALK OFF.] ARCHIVIST Right. [IMMEDIATELY, HIS STATIC KICKS IN.]

@stevenredacted1322

3 жыл бұрын

ARCHIVIST (STATEMENT) Your face is not your face is not your face around the curling carousel it twists in place to take from you and all the tattered stolen souls who sense of me is swollen and distended into nothing. Round and round and round it goes and when it deigns to stop who you might be you cannot know, so touch and feel the skin atop your skull to test the limits and extremities of where this canvas comes to rest, in robbed identities and peeling names that you could swear were never yours. [IN THE BACKGROUND, SOMEONE SCREAMS.] The music swells through you. The music vomits from you. The music calls a name that through the tears of half-grasped memories seems almost and eternally familiar. So dance. Dance to the beat of the thump of the chase of the still and plastic horse hooves which cannot break from where they are secured by bolts and glue and eggshell-thin reality that paints a visage of sense almost enough to tell you that the nausea that swells and pushes at the limits of your mind is incorrect. There’s nothing wrong. The world in which the carousel will twirl is not the hollow hell you fear; it is the world. Just the world. A world where if you’d wished to have a name it must be stolen, carved and pulled full-bloody from the frame of others who would wish in vain to hold their selfness close. You want a face? Take it. There are so many here, and those who cannot hold them, well, whoever chose to give them such a gift must take the blame, knowing they could never keep it in a world of so much thieving strangeness. And soon enough they will forget they ever even had one, rest assured; it’s best to step the dance and keep your face secured as much as you are able. Just. Keep. Running. [MORE SCREAMS.] Your feet - or are they just the shoes with emptiness within? - will pound upon the creaking wood of carousel-top, or perhaps the only ground there’s ever been, so struggle not to look behind, though - can you trust your eyes to tell you quite what it might be that dogs your steps and see the poor procession of those gory, faceless wretches who have lost possession now of all their treasured wants, identities to those who are now them? Like you. You tire of the chase of course, the fire and all-relentless pace of competition reaching for a name, identity, and face that has long since worn through all reserves of hard, enduring vigor in you. Yet still you only stay a self while willing on your aching legs that feel like breaking just to keep you forward of the frenzied fray of hazy clawed who are yous. So run. Just run, and listen to the music of your panicked flight from those who long to take what you have stole from those no longer worth a name. Ever-onwards-forward on the curling path of merry-go-round that’s twisted, wound, and spinning in its harrowing sound of organ-piping-circus-tunes that merrily hound the steps of your escape. Could you turn a thought and burn your lead on your pursuers, an angle change a charge now perpendicular to your intended line of best retreat, and stake it all on one last hope, your bruised feet pounding to the edge? The boundary. Don’t stop the ride, but you still want to get off. But no, for all the dreams of bounding, leaping off into the great unknown, you see the ring of broken mewling wretches who have shown the sting that comes with such rejection of the truth, so seldom spoken yet inside you all- that there is no way off the merry-go-round. And so perhaps the twirling round that pushes all who passenger the carousel might help you stay ahead, and so you seize the rough and peeling pole of ancient wooden horse, ignore the sloughing, screaming wood that comes away in clumps, and grip the saddle hard, in hands that should be clean but now have never seen a day they were not caked in glue and slaked with blood of all the robberies existence deems the only way to live. Ride away. Just ride away. Up it goes. Down it comes. [THAT SAME SHRILL GIRL’S SCREAM.] Hold fast to the joy of the rise, despise all thoughts you might descend. And in the end, protest against that fall back down to painted wooden spinning earth, with all the tear-streaked grasping of the mass of gasping, still-unnamed oppressed. Cry to the horse, Go higher! Faster, offer painted apples that you think perhaps it might desire, but the frozen face is still the same, the simple cast of equine terror, framed and caught in wood and plastic bulging eyes of fear. Its pace remaining as it ever was; it does not care for coming pains as you are torn. Doesn’t it know who you are? No. And soon, neither will you. (shaky breath) Although to call it “all is lost” is more dramatic, yes, than has been earned. For those upon this carousel who have not been you already, perhaps they know without a memory how good it is to have a face and name. It’s not the same as what you had when first you climbed the brightly painted stairs, but not the worst who you have been. And as the horse drops through the air into the crowd of eager, waiting thieves you are unbowed and, yes, afraid, but still the music plays, and turns the world upon its gaudy axis. You will be someone again, someday. The hands and fingers reach and breach the gentle veiled complacency and respite that had just been yours upon your mount’s ascent, and now the wood is bent and bowed as faceless things who long to be a who pull splinters from the rot of screaming saddle and of rider. You, who feels the mask of sharp and hard identity begin its gentle fracture into jagged shards of names that you once were. I’m still Hannah! you try to scream, but are you? No. Perhaps there’s some Veronica as fragments there, or Julian, or Anya, but - no. You feel the last of names and who you might have been be torn away and borne towards new bodies. New pages, blank, determined to be people. The rotten, ragged rush of fetid fingernails that dig and push and reach around the edges of your face until they scrape against the bone in such a rough, scratched tone, that rocks and echoes through the space that was your mind, and when they peel it from you, like the skin of an orange, the skin of an apple, the skin of a pig, the skin of a child, the skin of a you, then comes the briefest flash that surely now it’s done, so much perhaps the pain will be somewhat lessened. There’s no way it could hurt as much as you remember. But it does, and so, of course, you scream and scream and curses foul, obscene will tumble garbled over where there once sat other people’s lips or yours now gone and teeth that once shone yellowed ivory are crimson in the flowing sanguine flood. And as you lie in agonies and fading dreams of personhood, of knowing who you were and what that might have meant, you hear the bitter whisper of recriminating seekers who have found the treasure of their eager dreams, but see, it seems there’s not enough. For all. And so they fall to frantic tearing conflict, just as vicious as it was when it was bearing down on you. You lie there in the fugue of vivid pain and feel that gentle rain from violence overhead; some fall dead, or close as this place lets you lie, for - truly thus to die would be too eager an escape, and listen to the ebb and swell of slow, melodic wail that well you know conducts the flowing rhythm laced into this endless, faceless dance. At last, a victor breaks away in clinging heartfelt terror of his former comrades, sprinting bold and holding to his skull the severed face that was once yours. Willing it to stick as those who notice try to pick themselves back up and give pursuit to close the gap. Perhaps you should arise and follow on the things that once you would despise but now have joined. You are, of course, a faceless thing as well, and so should quickly match the pace of those who chase the self-same prey. But now it is too late; they’ve gone. Their chase will not abate until their former friend is ripped apart in turn. And you have learned to wait. For there are many faces out upon the carousel, and many names that you might be. So bide your time a while and wait the coming of another one whose fate and face might sit upon your grinning carmine skull. So turn with the turn of the merry-go-round and dance to its jolly old song. Who will you be, with a name or three, and a stranger’s face worn wrong? ARCHIVIST End recording. [TAPE CLICKS OFF.]

@stevenredacted1322

3 жыл бұрын

[EXT. THE DIVISION OF THE STRANGER] [TAPE CLICKS ON.] [WE STILL HEAR THE CIRCUS MUSIC, LOUD AND CLEAR, ALONG WITH A SCREAM OR TWO EVERY NOW AND THEN. THE ARCHIVIST AND MARTIN ARE STILL WALKING THROUGH THE STRANGER’S DOMAIN.] MARTIN You’re joking! ARCHIVIST (amused) I’m not. [BRIEF PAUSE.] MARTIN So was it any good? ARCHIVIST Uh - what do you mean? MARTIN Was it a good poem? ARCHIVIST I don’t know! No? You’re the poetry expert, Martin, not me. MARTIN Well - did it stir any feeling in you? ARCHIVIST Yes, nausea! Because of the horrible things in it. MARTIN That’s not quite what I meant. ARCHIVIST (laughing) Then I don’t know what you mean, Martin; I’m not a poetry person, I don’t - get it. I never have. MARTIN (long-suffering) That’s - That’s fine; I understand. ARCHIVIST Look, I’m better than I was. I used to think all poetry was bad. MARTIN Sorry, what? ARCHIVIST I mean, I just thought of - (small puff of a sigh) I sort of thought it was pointless. Just - (inhale) write some prose, and stop - wasting everyone’s time. MARTIN (thoughtful) Hm. What changed? ARCHIVIST I don’t know, I just - mellowed on it, I suppose. MARTIN That’s - kind of weird. ARCHIVIST In my defense, there is a lot of bad poetry out there. MARTIN I guess? [BRIEF MOMENT OF SILENCE AS THEY WALK.] MARTIN I kinda want to hear that tape now, see how artistic the Stranger actually is. ARCHIVIST Or just look up. (sigh) See it for yourself. MARTIN Uh - (heh) No, no thanks. Trying to avoid thinking about it, actually. [A VERY LARGE, SHRILL GIRL’S SCREAM.] ARCHIVIST (sigh) Of course. Sorry. MARTIN How much further? ARCHIVIST I think we’re past the worst of - [A STRANGE ALMOST-MUSICAL HUMMING SOUND.] ARCHIVIST (quiet) Ah. MARTIN What? ARCHIVIST She’s here. [WE HEAR A STATIC BEGIN TO COME IN, RISING QUICKLY. IT GETS SHIMMERY QUICK, HOLDING A HIGH QUAVERING TONE THAT BELONGS TO SOMETHING FAMILIAR. UNDER IT:] MARTIN (quiet) Oh no. NOT!SASHA (heh) My dearest colleagues. MARTIN Just - get back! [A THUMP, LIKE HE’S TRYING TO HIT IT WITH SOMETHING.] NOT!SASHA I can’t believe you’d decide to pass through my neighborhood and not say hello to dear, old Sasha. ARCHIVIST Just ignore it, Martin. NOT!SASHA Oh, you wound me, Archivist. And we used to be so close. ARCHIVIST I have nothing to say to you. NOT!SASHA Nothing to say! Well, you crush me, bury me in the foundations of your little temple for a year, and now you have nothing to say? ARCHIVIST Leitner did that. And Peter released you. All I’ve done to you is to not die. NOT!SASHA Oh, and I would say that is quite rude enough. ARCHIVIST Leave us alone. I won’t warn you again. NOT!SASHA And what if I let you choose this time? Which one of you would I wear next? Martin looks very comfortable, positively roomy. Oh, wouldn’t you agree, Archivist? MARTIN John, do we - do we need to run? NOT!SASHA Oh, yes, Martin. You very much do. I’ll even give you a head start! [A PAUSE. AND THEN WE REALIZE THE ARCHIVIST IS LAUGHING.] MARTIN …John? [THE ARCHIVIST BEGINS TO WALK TOWARDS THE NOT!SASHA] ARCHIVIST You’re bold, I’ll give you that. NOT!SASHA (hissing) Last chance. ARCHIVIST Desperate for one last morsel of terror from us? [THE NOT!SASHA SNARLS.] ARCHIVIST (amused) A final sip, and then we’re gone? Somehow we manage to keep just ahead of you and get away. [IT BREATHES OUT HEAVILY, MORE ANGRY HUFF THAN EXHALE.] ARCHIVIST God forbid you actually catch us. [ITS ANGER GROWS.] ARCHIVIST Doesn’t bear thinking about. MARTIN John, what are you talking about? ARCHIVIST She can’t touch us. [THE NOT!SASHA CONTINUES TO MAKE NOISES OF ANGER, GROWLING AND SNARLING AND HUFFING LIKE A BULL.] ARCHIVIST We’re so far beyond her now. She’s just like everything else here: ruled by the Eye. (slight laugh) And she hates it. [THE NOT!SASHA LETS OUT SOMETHING LIKE A ROAR AND BEGINS TALKING: FAST, ANGRY, NO HINT OF THE SYRUPY SWEETNESS FROM BEFORE.] NOT!SASHA Well of course you want to wallow in my shame like your voyeur master. [THAT STRANGE MUSICAL HUM COMES IN AGAIN OVER HER WORDS.] NOT!SASHA Do you know how it feels? To be - anonymous? And yet known! To have all the sweetest dread I can create tainted by the relentless gaze of that damned Eye. I’ve suffered enough. ARCHIVIST Pathetic. [A CLINKING, SHUFFLING SORT OF SOUND; HE SHOULDERS HIS BAG.] ARCHIVIST Martin, let’s go. NOT!SASHA Not as pathetic as your little friend when I ate her life. [A DRAWN, DANGEROUS PAUSE.] [THE ARCHIVIST TAKES A STEP BACK TO FACE IT.] ARCHIVIST (low, deadly) What did you say? [THE NOT!SASHA DOES NOT RESPOND. A SOFT STATIC BURSTS IN, JUST IN THE BACKGROUND; INSTEAD, THE NOT!SASHA DRAWS A SHARP BREATH.] NOT!SASHA I-I’m sorry. [IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CIRCUS MUSIC SHIFTS KEY, HIGHER.] MARTIN John? ARCHIVIST You were wrong, you know. [THE STATIC RISES. THE NOT!SASHA CRIES OUT IN PAIN, SMALL, WHIMPERING SOUNDS. THE ARCHIVIST’S VOICE AND GAZE ARE RELENTLESS.] ARCHIVIST There is more suffering than you can ever experience, so much more. The horror of your victims, their constant, senseless agony. [THE STATIC BUILDS AND BUILDS AND BUILDS OVER HIS WORDS, THE NOT!SASHA FORCED TO DRINK IT IN, CRYING OUT AS THE TERROR FLOODS IT.] ARCHIVIST Feel it now. Understand it. You have drawn out so much despair, and now finally, it’s your turn. [THE STATIC REACHES ITS UPPER REGISTER, THE MOST SCRAMBLED OF ITS TONES. THIS ISN’T THE ARCHIVIST’S TYPICAL STATIC; IT DOESN’T TAKE AN ANGELIC QUALITY. IT’S SQUEAKY, VARIABLE, SIMILAR TO HOW PETER LUKAS’S STATIC SOUNDED. IT IS STRONGER, HARSHER.] [THE NOT!SASHA IS SOBBING.] ARCHIVIST Ceaseless Watcher, turn your gaze upon this wretched thing. [THE STATIC PUSHES AT THE EDGES; IT BOUNCES, THUMPS, THROBS IN THE EAR. A NEW, LOWER-REGISTER SEGMENT HAS ARRIVED; IT SOUNDS RATHER LIKE A DRILL BIT. THIS IS THE SORT OF STATIC THAT, IF LOUDER AND MORE INTENSE, COULD BLOW OUT SPEAKERS, PUT PRESSURE ON THE EARDRUM.] NOT!SASHA No! No, please, no! [THE STATIC MOUNTS AND SWELLS AND BURSTS. IT SOUNDS LIKE A GLITCH, LIKE SOMETHING WRONGLY HEARD.] [THE NOT!SASHA SCREAMS A FINAL WAVERING AND DISTORTED NO! AND THEN FADES.] [THE STATIC LINGERS BRIEFLY, BUT FADES QUICKLY AFTER.] MARTIN (impressed) Who-a-oa. ARCHIVIST (quiet, drained) I, uh - MARTIN What was that?! ARCHIVIST I, I destroyed it. K-Killed her. MARTIN (a cross between pride and glee - hurrah!) Are you kidding me? You - you obliterated her! You - you smote her! ARCHIVIST (mumbling) We should go. MARTIN What about the merry-go-round? With her gone, is it - is it still the - ARCHIVIST (snapping) I don’t know! MARTIN Yes, you do! ARCHIVIST I, I don’t - want to know; pl- We need to go. Please. [WE HEAR ONE OF THEM GRAB AT BAGS.] MARTIN (surprise) Oh, oh, okay, a-alright, alright, lead on! [TAPE CLICKS OFF.]

@thistleywistley681

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevenredacted1322 OOOHHHHHH GET R E K T NOT!SASHA ALSOTHANKYOU

There's something really cute about Jon and Martin going on a tour of the various entity's terrific worlds

Not!Sasha literally *dying* from being percieved is actually a mood and abstract poetry with background armageddon circus music gotta be one of my favorite genders love how they managed to keep the "statement per episode" structure by Archivist absorbing the vibes and spitting them at the nearest recorder

This is probably one of my favorite episodes of the entire series. Jonny is just showing off, at this point, both in how well he can write and how many WORDS HE CAN SPEAK IN ONE FREAKING BREATH--

rap god Jon

Thank for the nightmare fuel!

@shanefung9788

3 жыл бұрын

Yep I wont be sleeping for a while

@someoneawesome8717

3 жыл бұрын

It did it's job then