magnus archives x sarah waters/affinity

[felinejumper]

one of those aten't dead things, hi, god, how are we all doing? Bad, I assume, I wouldn't know because if I think about it too hard I will stop functioning and this bitch is an essential worker (not the direct-patient kind, though). Have we thought about how taboo it will be to kiss another person in [some number] of months?

Anyway, I listened to the entirety of season 1 of The Magnus Archives over the past week, and wow fuck did I love it. Meta archival narrative? Self-deception? The translation between mediums? Dubious record keeping? Fickle memory? The things that live in the cracks of the world?! A deep voiced British academic with big skepticism vibes being mean!?! I have been swooning and getting chills in equal measure.

I'm on season two (translation: I am 10 minutes into the first episode), and Millbank Prison has come up for reasons, and now I'm just...obsessing over Sarah Waters and Affinity and the para/normal dis/belief &first person narrative dubiousness, of both stories. I love that I already have fictional context for Millbank, as it deeply adds to the contextually skin-crawling creep vibes. I just!!! I don't wanna spoil stuff but I want this fic to exist (I always want the fic to exist). Like -- Jonathan Sims reading me an excerpt from Affinity, sort've vibes. The overlap is just...just there and I so hope it gets more fodder, tangential as it might be.

Perhaps my Affinity fix it is just...The Magnus Archives? Oh boy, I feel genuinely great about that.

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[rydra_wong]

*sidles in*

Hiiiiiii. I'm afraid I have absolutely no memory of what context I first encountered you in (Black Sails, possibly?) but hiiii, you're talking about The Magnus Archives, hi.

It's SO fucking good (I am up to speed and being flattened by the new eps on a weekly basis, it's great).

[sea_changed]

I have also been thinking about the potential for Affinity/Magnus Archives crossover madness, so this was a wonderfully serendipitous post. I don't know how it would work out really, but the parallel settings and unsettlingness and the power and danger of people testifying/telling their stories--it really is something, isn't it.