Mechtober - Blog Posts

Welcome one and all to Mechtober 2023, courtesy of @heliophaestus and @therainbowtea !!!

You are not required to finish every prompt, and don't have to start on the first day. Join when you like, finish when you like, and do what you feel comfortable with. Askbox is always open for clarification!

Other guidelines are to please tag appropriately, especially if your work goes beyond canon-typical subject matter. This account will be trying to reblog all contributions, so please make sure to tag work under #mechtober 2023 , #mechtober, or #mechtober 23. Don't hesitate to @ us to guarantee your pieces get seen! If a day has gone by and it still hasn't been reblogged, dm this account with your post and it will be added. [ID: A prompt list for Mechtober, with a background of the inside of a spaceship, with one prompt per day.

The Starship Aurora

Gunfire and explosions

Mechsona

Fav Mech

Backstory

Makeup and scars

Airlock

Fav Album

New Texas

Doc Carmella

Unused folklore

Belief

Found family and/or relationships

Peacemaker

Tarot

Photoshoots

Clothes/role swap

Drunk Space Pirate

Narration

Redesign

Cyberia

Headcanons

Fav quote

Inhuman

(No) Happy Endings

Liveshows

Shenanigans

War

Crossover

Fav death

Beginnings and ends

/End ID]

“In A World So Vast, You’d Think It Would Have Been Impossible To Have met..”

skipped day 26, sorry gang

@mechtober-2024 day 27! space!!! aurora is shooting through star systems :D

“What’s a pirates favorite crime!”

“Arrrrson!!”

“what? no, it’s piracy-“

@mechtober-2024 day 25!! only a sketch cos i’m working through art block-

marius makes a rather dashing pirate, perhaps i’ll make a full piece in the future :3

“Nastya, i’m not sure that’s Ivy..”

@mechtober-2024 day 24!

how easy would it probably be to hijack the mechanism who’s brain is a literal computer?

(her socks are all yucky now D: )

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meow meow meoowww meow meow meow meeow meow meow meow

@mechtober-2024 day 23! i drew the octokit plushes i made as octokits!!

yes it is the background from nintendogs :3

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“Guess I Wasn’t Dead!”

@mechtober-2024 day 22! oh boy it took me a bit to settle on what to do-

jonny-in-a-box, anyone? it’s like a jack-in-a-box, but a bit more deadly!

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“They’re Only Human~”

@mechtober-2024 day 21, swap! It seems Hades and Persephone have decided to switch outfits for the day :3

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“Tim, this is the last time we pick one of your earth movies.”

“fuck you too, jonathan.”

@mechtober-2024 day 20! it’s movie night :D

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(tim chose the sound of music)

my little sister chose all their pajamas :D

they’re canon in my eyes but probably not to the rest of the world :3

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@mechtober-2024 day 19! i’m a little late guys but i’ll be getting these out asap-

anyway two of my favorite headcanons! Raph and Mars having that silly first interaction and also TS wanting to be included with the eating part of being human (it cannot, it’ll jam it’s gears-)

Alternative Text below:

1 - “Raphaella made marius’s mechanism! (after she crashed his ship into his mecha and took off his arm-)”

2 - raphaella saying “plz don’t h8 me i made u a new arm” [please don’t hate me, i made you a new arm]

3 - an arrow pointing to TS saying it “wishes it could eat”

4 - an arrow pointing to nastya saying she “has food”

“i could probably beat you with my eyes closed!”

“uh huh? doubt that, Corazón~”

@mechtober-2024 day 18! Jonny is playing slapjack, Ash is playing “how long can i stare at this idiot before he gets the hint-”

more of a doodle than a fully rendered piece but i still like it :3

as always, click for better quality :D

“Being Alive Is A Performance, Darling!”

@mechtober-2024 day 17! today i bring you our dramatic darling soldier, playing the part of a puppet as it always does since someone else is always pulling the strings

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“You’re dreaming of me?” a voice says

@mechtober-2024 day 16! (a bit late cos i had a beach date yesterday lol anyway click for better quality!)

This is based off a chapter of a Fic i wrote! :3 here’s the series if you guys wanna read it!

“Do you remember those two moons that were so in love they just crashed into each other?”

@mechtober-2024 day 15 and oh, this one quote just screams romanticism for me-

two moons, so in love that they can’t help but be pulled toward one another right up until the very end

it makes me emotional

“Inspector Lyf! I’m so glad i’ve found you!”

“I’ve come to rescue you!”

@mechtober-2024 day 14! I wanted a Lyfrassir Lives AU cos that one’s popular among fics and also i rlly like lyf!

so, Alternate Universe where Marius goes back into the Bifröst to save Inspector Edda!

they are having a beach episode!!!

@mechtober-2024 day 13! they’re having a little break on some tropical region of a planet (at night so people don’t bother them) as always click for better quality and enjoy the chibis!

i decided they’re all doing things i do at the beach like (list under cut)

- torment folks in the water (tim)

- get tormented in the water (jonny)

- find shells/critters (nastya)

- make food (brian)

- build sandcastles (TS)

- be sandcastle (raphaella)

- dig hole (marius)

- read book (ivy)

- nap (ashes)

carmilla is keeping an eye on her kids :3

“Let The Show Begin”

@mechtober-2024 day 12 and i f i nally have gunpowder tim on my page-

anyway the prompt was concert and i chose one of my favored quotes from a live show :D

i had fun with the lighting! click for better quality as always lol

also horrid apologies for not doing great on the guitar, although i play the thing i can’t draw the thing lol

“There’s nothing like doing nothing, with you”

@mechtober-2024 day 11!

i bring thee my finest robot gals, and their male(ish) counterparts as well all vibing with Aurora in the cockpit :3

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“Got a new friend, she’s a Doctor!”

@mechtober-2024 day 10!!! (IM ON TIME FOR ONCE-)

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my most favorite vampire doctor ever! she’s the milf lesbian vamp i aspire to be, truly-

(fun fact, i actually found dr.carmilla’s music before i found the mechanisms themselves!)

“she searches the riverbank, looking for her lost children..”

another carmilla! for @mechtober-2024 day 9 i chose folklore in my own culture because surprisingly La Llorona was very often told to me as to make sure i’d be no where near the water at night shdndbdn-

(someone get this poor woman a towel ;-;)

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Let’s make some noise for the boy!!!

wooo, @mechtober-2024 day 8!! decided i was gonna give mari a makeup look my fiancé did on me a while back!

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i think the colors suit him well :3 marius von raum you shall always have a special place in my heart

“Come home with Me!”

“Orpheus!”

“Eurydice!”

@mechtober-2024 day 7!! mythology go brrr- i love the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice because oh they are simply tragic-

my orpheus is very heavily influenced by @reegis / @shyaringan ‘s design for him (tagging their old and new acc just in case) because it makes my brain happy and their art just makes my brain happy in general lol

“come my way and stay, my honey~”

@mechtober-2024 Day 6, i think? i’m so behind shsndb- (click for better quality-)

sirens was my favorite UDAD song ngl and i like drawing mermaids! so have my three favorite Sirens

other version under the cut :3

“if you want to fly, craft your wings yourself”

okay so i’m so sorry i’m late- i swear i’ll get all of these out guys dhsndbd

@mechtober-2024 day 4?? very slay of raphaella

tfw you realize the two crew members who can’t eat make the best food

day three of @mechtober-2024 , the silly little found family of marius and his two favorite objects!

he’s only slightly miffed that they cook better than he does

“we’ve found this stowaway, maybe if he plays well we won’t shoot him”

day 2 of @mechtober-2024 , and the secondary character is the Stowaway! tbh i have seen no art of this man 0_o so i went off a design from a few friends headcannons!

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THEY ARE BOTH CAPTAIN FIGHT ME

anyway @mechtober-2024 day 1 (2+3 i will post tmr and 4+5 will be the following day)

i also realized this is the first time i’ve posted my carmilla on here so like she’s lovely! (click the picture for better quality)

doing mechtober but like at my own pace so y’all will get like 4 days at one time probably-

final of my catching up with mechtober posts for today

days 9&10: ~~ folklore/dr.carmilla ~~

life and death: and who better for this than two persephones?

here’s day 2: supporting character

i’m a sucker for the alice mini album so here’s the scout captain herself

i’m like a week and a half late but oh well, mechtober!

here’s day 1, captain

i love jonny but he is the first mate

also i’m gonna try and catch up throughout the date