THE MAGNUS ARCHIVES #44 – Tightrope

MAG0044 – Case #9790302 – Yuri Utkin
Statement regarding an encounter with a strange circus.

The Magnus Archives tells the tale of a young boy’s exploration of a colourful carnival that comes to his home village and discovers all the fun of the fair is not what they expected.

Starring: Gertrude Robinson – Sue Sims; The Archivist – Jonathan Sims
Writer: Jonathan Sims
Director: Alexander J Newall
Editors: Alexander J Newall, Mike LeBeau

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[MPythonGirl]

John: I don't know why she stopped recording these. Also, I'm gonna start hiding my tapes out of paranoia of my colleagues.

[JesseColton]

PSA for newcomers who don't know: Gertrude is voiced by Jonathan Sims' real life mom

Second PSA: don't read the replies to this comment bc there are some spoilers and I can't edit other people's comments 😭

[CrazyTimeTraveler]

Gertrude has the exact voice I pictured in my mind for her

[RelativelyBest]

See, now I'm wondering if Getrude mismanaged the archive on purpose, perhaps to force her successor to go through it all and start drawing conclusions. Between this and the fact that the forces of darkness apparently put her on top of their hit-list, she seems to have had it together.

[bat]

Dude those two men in overalls were the delivery men.

[just.Athena]

Only 5 minutes in, but my face dropped when I heard the words "Steam organ".

[camiart_casual]

I love that Gertrude's voice also become's more businesslike after the "Statemend ends."

In Jon's case, we now know it's him deliberately trying to seem like he's not affected, like he's skeptical. In Gertrude's case though... I always thought it was far more genuine. Like she's legitimately unaffected.

[PrincessDerpy]

Me, anytime something vaguely familiar is mentioned: I don't like where this is going :)

[theWeaverofTales]

For some reason Gertrude reading feels like my grandma telling me a bedtime story (only much more upsetting)

[f_mva]

feeling like gertrude definitely knew what was up

[albuseisenhorn]

"A crunching violence" is unbelievably vivid but just vague enough - the writing is so damn good

[achnav]

Does this mean that Denekin, the grandpa of the callopee lady, was a bad guy ?
If the circus was far safer after he left, he sure was a really bad one.

[Panneapple]

So now I'm curious how the organ went from the circus to that one guy in season one, with the murderous clown dolls.

[georgemakeev]

9:00 the phrase "тигр еще не готов" can mean both "the tiger is not yet ready" and "the tiger is not yet finished" depending on. Guys at rusty quail seem to either have done some simple but satisfactory research, or they had someone who actually speaks russian.

[morttuen]

i must say, Gertrude is much better at russian than Jon (native speaker here)

2024 edit: hi, didn't expect this comment to be seen so many times. enjoy the podcast <3

[maryagrimm]

Why is literally every voice so gorgeous. Just every single one is a joy to listen to.

[noamratner]

Can Gertrude like...read me a bedtime story?

[julesking]

This is the circus Mr Bobinsky from Coraline used to perform in

[hermazingbartels]

Every single time I’m always shocked by the softness of martins voice doing the outro bc I’m so used to Jon doing it

[toby]

"Gertrude seems to know more than me" bestie I don't know how say this but whether or not you can achieve does not change the fact shes been working at this place for YEARS. Obviously she knows more than you????