writerkit | Magnus Archives: Content Warnings, Again (Reply)

I've mentioned before that I really have got to start checking the content warnings *before* I listen to the episodes-- though in this particular instance there was one *in* the episode as well, since Jon *says* "it used to be a mental hospital" when they're talking to Basira before we get to the statement. I know enough about mental hospital horror tropes to know that while I absolutely trust this show to handle them well, there is a specific territory "this place used to be a mental hospital" is probably going to cover. As indeed it does, painfully and with a lot of nuance and hitting me right to the side of things I'm actually afraid of. (It's not *quite* the thing I'm afraid of, but it comes very, very close.)

Taking bets on how long it takes for the internet to demand that Jonny reveal whether he has any personal history with mental hospitals. (I'm not on the Discord so I can't see it.) Honestly, given the way the internet behaved over the addiction episode, I'm actively wondering if the bit where he explains bluntly to Basira that it's about "fear of bad therapists, filtered through the Stranger" in a way much blunter than the point of any given episode is usually explained might have been added during the hiatus as a *reaction* to previous backlash of that sort...