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• MAG 90.5: Body Builder - Rebuilt by enigmaticNeurologist

  Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)  

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  04 Jul 2025

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  • Marie Balandin
  • Ross Davenport
  • Jared Hopworth
  • Stranger Entities Breekon and Hope (The Magnus Archives)
  • Elias Bouchard (mentioned)
  • Jonathan Sims (mentioned)
  • Body Horror
  • Body Dysmorphia
  • Gyms
  • Gym culture horrors
  • Weight Issues
  • Eating Disorders
  • Less food focus and more body focus tho
  • Episode 90: Body Builder
  • Podfic Available
  • Podfic Length: 20-30 Minutes
  • as a gym enthusiast i listened to body builder and went hm you're almost there but i can make this worse
  • ch1 is a fully new statement from Marie's pov
  • ch2 is a revised version of the original statement
  • there is the opposite of body positivity in this one folks
  • body negativity
  • these guys are Struggling in similar but unique ways
  • Oh also
  • Gender Dysphoria
  • performance enhancing drug use
  • bodybuilding
  • if i had a nickel for every gym fic i wrote... two nickels
  • mentioned animal death
  • Obsessive Behavior
  • not quite OCD but OCD adjacent in a fun eating disorder way
  • Statement Fic (The Magnus Archives)
  • Original Statement (The Magnus Archives)
  • Canon-Typical The Flesh Content (The Magnus Archives)
  • The Flesh Fear Entity (The Magnus Archives)

  Summary

  Statements of two encounters with the gym run by Jared Hopworth in Aberdeen, Scotland, in the summer of 2013.

  Statement 1: Statement of Marie Balandin, recorded to audio by an archival assistant from the Usher Foundation in Washington DC
  Statement 2: Statement of Ross Davenport (MAG 90), edited

  Language:

  English

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  Chapters:

  2/2

  Comments:

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  Kudos:

  3

  Bookmarks:

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