This feels like a break from form. In this case we got someone explicitly feeding on fear and seeking more out, whereas others had someone drawn in, lured, without the fear being super explicit.
I don't know if Needles is exactly an avatar, but they seem like a vector of fear more than any other statement characters so far.
Also...no one at the OIAR was really scared of this guy who was deliberately trying to elicit fear. FASCINATING.
i lied, i dont actually like sex. put your clothes back on. have you ever been involved with the magnus institute
There's so many double meanings in TMAGP episode titles so far. On that note,
https://www.britannica.com/technology/protocol-computer-science
Dans le fond des forêt,
Votre image me suit.
In the depth of the forest,
Your image follows me.
Phedre by Alexandre Cabanel (1880)
random tmagp characters that seem to be Characters™ but we don't know them yet:
ink5oul
fancy man with a bag of spooky objects
I would bet anything that the OIAR's computers have magnetic tape data storage, and that at the same time FR3D-1 began reading out cases, that storage was overwritten by the Magnus Archives tapes.
me when i’m all out of bowls but i have salsa and some tostitos scoops
Tim, Publisher of the DPHW
*slides RQ a tenner* now do tim
This has become... relevant.
TMAGP's liminal spaces so far (EP 7 spoilers):
1. The Graveyard, the Magnus Institute
2. In5oul's studio
3. The Garden
4. N/A? Perhaps where the protagonist met the merchant
5. The Theater
6. N/A? Does an alley count? Does a call station count?
7. Hill Top
I'm calling them liminal bc they're described only at certain times of day (middle of the night for the graveyard) or in terms that make their entrances and exits, as well as the passage of time within them, unclear (like the tattoo studio and the garden). The theater preserved from childhood memories, yet staffed with only one employee, the Magnus Institute where doors are all open while it lies abandoned, etc., feel solidly liminal to me.
Hill Top is mainly there because of, y'know, but I do think the events of 7 make it a space with unclear limits and volume. It would be ironic if it has nothing to do with Hill Top Road.
I feel like the OIAR office is liminal (between sunset and sunrise, for one thing). The sheer vibes off that place!
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Happy to share that I have illustrated Kristen Britain's new Green Rider novel, 'Falling in a Sea of Stars' coming later this year from DAW books. The commission request was made for me, with a field of stars and Karigan in armor!
Hard to believe, this is the eighth painting I have created for Kristen since first tackling High King's Tomb back in 2006!
Link for the preorder of the novel from our local bookstore, here in Brooklyn: https://booksaremagic.net/item/deHNKsv3TS9YU1PYnWXK2g
Falling in a Sea of Stars
24" x 36" Oil on Panel 2025
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