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I dunno if it was a slip up?

I'd probably describe him like that too, I've heard all sorts of people describe others like this.

That guy with the hair

The tree with the roots

It was amazing luck for Not!Sasha that Jon was too exhausted to catch her slip-up. She straight up forgot that bones have a function other than 'spooky' and are normally in hands.

[ID: A screenshot of the transcript from episode 40 of The Magnus Archives, reads as follows:

Archivist: Well, it’s thanks to you, to be honest. If you hadn’t met that ‘Michael’ thing…

Not!Sasha: Yes, Michael… With the bones in his hands. We still don’t know much about him, do we?]

The tma fandom seems to have unlocked our psychic capabilities. Let me explain.

If you’re on the tma tag, or just have a lot of tma art on your dash, you see art of characters you have only heard the voices of. And you go “Oh, that’s Jon!” “Oh, that’s Melanie!” “Oh, that’s Tim!” And only a handful of these characters have distinctly described traits (like Gerry’s eye tattoos), and fewer still have recurring appearances, or that we hear the voices of. And yet we all agree, roughly, on what they look like. Even if someone has a different design, instead of going “who the hell is that”, you go “well, that’s not what I think Georgie looks like, but I know it’s Georgie without having to check the tags”.

This gets even more interesting when you look at Sasha. Because she gets *replaced*. And so many drawings of not!Sasha label her as Sasha for the bit/for spookiness, but we all somehow *know* when we’re looking at not!Sasha, even when the drawing has no other spookiness.

Ive seen this extend too far sometimes, with a lot of Malevolent art being inadvertently assigned to tma characters, but rarely have I looked at a piece of tma art and gone “who the hell is that??”

Some of this comes down to a collective agreement on designs that happened before I got to the fandom - by the time I got here, pretty much everyone’s designs were largely nailed down. Even so, art where the designs deviate from The Socially Agreed Design are still readily recognizable as the characters. I’m getting to see this with Alice, too - I can look at almost any Alice drawing and go “yep, that’s Alice” and she’s only existed in our collective consciousness for like three months and her design isn’t solidified yet.

Some pen drawings of the S1 cast :D. We also have Not!Sasha for funsies.

Enjoy :D