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Gerard Keay ([personal profile] monstermanual) wrote2019-05-14 11:44 am

The Magnus Archives content warning for episodes 1-90 (WIP)

So I'm reccing TMA to a friend and noticed the content warnings don't show up in the show notes until episode 90. So I'm making my own (work in progress) list here in the same format.



Episode 1: Angler Fish
• Missing persons

Episode 2: Do Not Open
• Sleep disorders
• Drug use

Episode 3: Across the Street
• Capgras delusion
• Concussion

Episode 4: Page Turner
• Mentioned mutilations?
• Cursed object

Episode 5: Thrown Away
• Teeth
• (So many teeth)

Episode 6: Squirm
• Body horror (bugs)
• Arson

Episode 7: the Piper
• Warfare
• Violence
• (Light) PTSD

Episode 8: Burned Out
• Mental Instability
• Spiders
• Fire
• Implied animal and child death
• Mentioned suicide

Episode 9: A Father's Love
• Parental Abandonment
• Murder
• Ritual human sacrifice
• Monsters

Episode 10: Vampire Killer
• Death of a child (? He was 18, so.)
• Drug use
• Anthropophagy (Man-eating Monster) (Thanks RQ Discord) Idk what to tag when a monster just straight up eats a person because it isn't cannibalism but it's that ok.

Episode 11: Dreamer
• Sleep disorders
• Suicide
• Death (lots)
• Past mental instability (non explicit panic attacks)

Episode 12: First Aide
• Burns
• Murder

Episode 13: Alone
• Isolation (duh)
• Death (heart failure)
• Grief

Episode 14: Piecemeal
• Curses (Magical leprosy???)
• Gang violence
• Murder
• Drug use

Episode 15: Lost John's Cave
• Claustrophobia
• Panic

Episode 16: Arachnophobia
• Spiders (obviously)
• Phobic reaction to said spiders

Episode 17: the Bone Turner's Tale
• Body horror (bones)
• Bullying/Harassment
• Mutilation of people and animals
• contagion (discussed)

Episode 18: the Man Upstairs
• MEAT???? look you come up with a better warning for this.

Episode 19: Confession I
• Hallucinations
• Cannibalism mention
• Demonic Possession
• Exorcism
• Religious Imagery (Catholic)

Episode 20: Desecrated Host II
• Second verse same as the first but this is the one where the mentioned cannibalism happens.

Episode 21: Freefall
• Grief
• Existential horror
• Loss of an adult child
• Jumpscare (after statement concludes)

Episode 22: Colony
• Body horror (bugs)
• Bugs

Episode 23: Schwarzwald
• Illness
• Tombs
• A dude's got no eyes

Episode 24: Strange Music
• Creepy dolls
• Home invasion/burglary

Episode 25: Growing Dark
• Cults

Episode 26: Distortion
• Body horror (bugs)
• Body horror (weird anatomy)

Episode 27: A Sturdy Lock
• Paranoia
• Mentioned death of a spouse
• Home intrusion

Episode 28: Skintight
• Body horror

Episode 29: Cheating Death
• Warfare
• Decay

Episode 30: Killing Floor
• Graphic violence
• Animal cruelty

Episode 31: First Hunt
• Hunting/stalking
• Murder

Episode 32: Hive
• Body horror (bugs)
• Madness

Episode 33: Boatswain's Call
• Isolation

Episode 34: Anatomy Class
• Uncanny valley
• Dissection of human cadavers (dubiously medical)

Episode 35: Old Passages
• Jumpscare (after main statement)

Episode 36: Taken Ill
• Elder abuse
• Sickness
• Talk of death and decay

Episode 37: Burnt Offering
• Loss
• Ritual sacrifice
• Suicide

Episode 38: Lost and Found
• Loss
• Gaslighting
• Jumpscare (after statement)

Episode 39: Infestation
• Sudden loud sounds
• Body horror (bugs)

Episode 40: Human Remains
• Bugs in general
• Body horror (bugs)
• Capgras delusion

Episode 41: Too Deep
• PTSD
• Paranoia
• Claustrophobia

Episode 42: Grifter's Bone
• Self-harm
• Suicide
• Violence

Episode 43: Section 31
• Violence (Police Violence)
• Suicide

Episode 44: Tightrope
• Uncanny valley
• (light) body horror

Episode 45: Blood Bag
• Insects (Mosquitoes)
• Death by swarm
• Sickness

Episode 46: Literary Heights
• (Apparent) Suicide

Episode 47: A New Door
• Madness
• Eldritch Architecture

Episode 48: Lost in the Crowd
• Missing Person

Episode 49: The Butcher's Window
• Drug deals
• Murder
• Body Horror (bones)

Episode 50: Foundations
• Late 1800's Classism
• Implied eye trauma

Episode 51: High Pressure
• Thalassophobia

Episode 52: Exceptional Risk
• Prison Guard brutality
• Violence

Episode 53: Crusader
• Wartime violence
• Immolation
• Gun violence
• Catacombs

Episode 54: Still Life
• Taxidermy
• Uncanny valley

Episode 55: Pest Control
• Insect infestation (ants, 'wasps')
• Immolation

Episode 56: Children of the Night
• Murder
• Drug deals
• Addiction
• Body horror (spiders)

Episode 57: Personal Space
• Isolation
• Nihilism
• Hallucinations
• Attempted suicide

Episode 58: Trail Rations
• Murder
• Cannibalism
• Hallucinations

Episode 59: Recluse
• Mentioned child abuse
• Manipulation
• Body horror (spiders)

Episode 60: Observer Effect
• Paranoia
• Death of a sibling

Episode 61: Hard Shoulder
• Violence

Episode 62: First Edition
• Murder
• Body mutilation

Episode 63: The End of the Tunnel
• Decapitation

Episode 64: Burial Rights
• Grave robbing
• Undead

Episode 65: Binary
• Extreme pica

Episode 66: Held in Customs
• Claustrophobia
• Isolation
• Imprisonment

Episode 67: Burning Desire
• Severe facial burns

Episode 68: The Tale of a Field Hospital
• War
• Death
• Sickness

Episode 69: Thought for the Day
• Spiders
• Mind control
• Self-harm
• Body horror (spiders)

Episode 70: Book of the Dead
• Murder
• Death
Violent death
• Look, it's bad

Episode 71: Underground
• Claustrophobia
• Buried alive
• Crushing death

Episode 72 Takeaway
• Cannibalism (Unwitting & intentional)
• Torture

Episode 73: Police Lights
• Kidnapping
• Child endangerment
• Cults
• Police raid
• Death of an officer

Episode 74: Fatigue
• Insomnia
• Hallucinations
• Sleep deprivation

Episode 75: A Long Way Down
• (Light?) Descriptions of panic attacks

Episode 76: The Smell of Blood
• Violence
• Discussion of wartime brutality

Episode 77: The Kind Mother
• Contentious parent/child relationship
• Capgras delusion
• Death of a father (implied murder)

Episode 78: Distant Cousin
• Capgras delusion
• Death of a family member

Episode 79: Hide and Seek
• Capgras delusion
• Stalking

Episode 80: The Librarian
• Descriptions of violent deaths
• Actual violent deaths

Episode 81: A Guest for Mister Spider
• Past parental death
• 'Child' death (18/19?)
• Bullying

Episode 82: The Eyewitness
• Abuse of police power
• Blackmail
• Violence
• Mentioned child death/injury

Episode 83: Drawing a Blank
• Microagressions re: disability
• Uncanny Valley

Episode 84: Possessive
• Filth
• Hoarding

Episode 85: Upon a Stair
• ... Gaslighting?
• Visual agnosia
• Some House of Leaves shit ok

Episode 86: Tucked In
• Death
• Darkness

Episode 87: The Uncanny Valley
• Just guess
• Body horror
• Burns
• Forest fire

Episode 88: Dig
• Mentions of police brutality
• Finding a body
• Compulsion

Episode 89: Twice as Bright
• Arson
• Past addiction/substance abuse
• Murder
• 'Suicide'
• Sudden loud yelling (at the end)

Episode 90: Body Builder
• Body image issues
• Steroid use
• Body horror

Past episode 90, every episode should have content warnings in the episode descriptions provided by Rusty Quill.