The Mechs - Blog Posts
Reblogging this because as a post-DTTM Mechs fan I love finding these things <33
Also, the TBI patch says "all aboard the flying space train" while the text under that does say "all aboard the viking space train" like OP figured out :)
(I never thought I'd be using my knowledge of runes to get happy at art and products that put in the effort to actually write intelligible phrases instead of putting on random scribbles, but here we are /pos)
going through the archived email broadcasts and I am once more filled with the desperate longing to have been a mechs fan at the time. I want to go to the art bar hnoc premiere :(
I did manage to dig up the bandcamp entry for the recording of that concert however. will it let me listen to it all from there? who knows
ALSO. HIGHLY IMPORTANT
DOES ANYONE HAVE RECORDS OF WHAT ANY OF THESE LOOKED LIKE
@mechanismslorearchive
🎵🎵WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A DRUNK SPACE PIRATE🎵🎵
does anyone have the clip where, before introducing cinders song either marius or johnny say something along the lines of "no one's love is as stronger than rose and cinders, except those two moons that were so inlove they crashed into eachother" and then someone else shouts back "no that was gravity!"
do you think the toy soldier (the mechanisms) enlisted in dr. steel's military at some point in time
I think there should be more recognition of the fact that the death of all the mechanisms take place hundreds, sonetimes thousands of years apart from eachother
and on top of that they dont experience time linearly? so can they hypothetically like exist in a point of time after their death???
i feel like i should make a cover of ballad o'lil lemon (without *that* verse) but i feel like it would be sacrilege or smthn
Sigyn likes building the lego sets Loki likes the minifigures
High Noon Over Camelot, Red Dead Redemption cross-over fanfic.
Alice just interrupted Majors Hatter and Hare's date completely drenched in other peoples blood, and they're just chill with it but ig thats Alice in Wonderland for ya
i think there should be more major hatter/major hare fanfics.
I would like to go one step further from the 'jonny just pulled out a harmonica after his dads death' thing and say that he did that for all of his kills. even the casino.
i like to think the moon kaiser was wearing nike sneakers, so jonny was trying to chew through the shoe...
I think that Dr. Pilchard is bald
So are Oedipus's eye sockets just like stuffed with two of these bad boys or what
3d model of the Aurora
Here’s another thing I made for the Mechs. I based it off the picture of the Aurora on the mechs wiki, as well as the schematics drawn by the person who played Nastya. I made it to include the solar sail thing mentioned in both. Although since it isn’t clear exactly what a solar sail is, its basically just an umbrella. Under a read more since its a pretty long post.
I’m proud of the sail being functional. That took a lot of googling to figure out! I also made the sail removable, with a little insert that gives it a cap I guess. The paint definitely needs some touch ups, but not bad for about 5-ish days of work I think?
... please validate my effort? (TvT)
Hey, does anyone have a good picture/drawing of The Aurora from the outside, preferably in color? I’m thinking of trying to make a 3d model of her, since I have lots of airdry clay to spare. (I know there’s a picture of the aurora on the mechs site, but the lighting makes it a bit hard to see the details of the ship.)
Well, I know I’m massively late to the party, but I wanted to share this!
This is a mini wall hanging I handmade of the Mechs logo! I made it because I didn’t know about the mechs until well after they stopped performing, so I had no chance to get any Mechanisms merchandise or anything. So I decided to make something myself!
Unfortunately, no one I know irl is also a fan, so I figured Id share it here, since this is my only social media. I’m pretty proud of it, considering I had to make the pattern myself, do my best to color match with limited supplies, and hand sew that hemmed backing piece.
“My friends, my people, my flock; I have had a vision - a vast fiery orb, floating in an endless void, and there, so small, so fragile, us! But falling, falling, falling into the flames!”
“The first was Snow, who managed to crawl to safety, badly injured, though he lost much of herself in the process.”
(Art under the cut, contains blood)
new TBI headcanon: jonny, tim, ashes and brian were sharing the cell right next door. lyfrassir chose not to speak to them because there’s nothing in the universe that would make that experience worth it
Ragnarok III: Strange Meeting in a nutshell
Loki: Where you headed?
Thor: Gonna kill Odin with this hammer I found, you?
Loki: Gonna kiss my wife.
Both: *give the other a thumbs up as a sick-ass guitar solo plays*
these two have very similar vibes
who else sees it
The Toy Soldier, for @mx-up
Sources: x x x / x x x / x x x
The mechanisms iceberg
I am humbly asking the fandom and older fans for entries on this iceberg because it really bugs me that there is so so much lore and even easter eggs thrown around the internet yet to be brought together to light
alright i'll feed y'all with a traditional doodle of a Mechs AU of Jon
dipping my toes back into the mechs fandom on tumblr, take some sketches!
How much of Jonny's backstory I think is true:
This is what Jonny has to say about his backstory:
"Seriously? Fine. I was born a few hundred years ago on New Texas. Don’t bother looking for it, I made it up. I think. It’s the story, though, and that’s what matters. Standard ne’erdowell youth: cards, whiskey, women and murder. I’m told I had a good heart, but the Doc dealt with that after the whole patricide thing."
What I think is true:
-Jonny Grew up on a Texas like planet
-Jonny killed his father
-There was a casino in the story involved somewhere
What I think is untrue:
-Any of the dialogue. Jonny definitely rewrote everything to have better flow, be more dramatic, and make himself sound cooler.
-That Jonny's Father forgave him. I think Jonny had retold what he wants to have happened. Bonus Points for trans jonny, If he is trans I dont think his father accepted him as his son. The "I forgive you, Son." would be jonny's imagining of what happened.
I don't think jonny even remembers what really happened, and what bits are real and what bits he made up. Its been so long of him telling his rewritten story, what really happened has been lost to him, not entirely on accident either.
What I'm not sure about:
One Eyed Jack. He could have been a real person, or he could have been a symbolic character Jonny made up to represent multiple people. Or he could be taking the place of Carmilla in the story, and maybe it was Carmilla who convinced him to kill his dad. The One Eye symbolism is there.
Again, Jonny doesn't seem to even remember. "New Texas. Don't bother looking for it, I made it up. I think" and "I'm told I had a good heart."
and the
"Standard ne’erdowell youth: cards, whiskey, women and murder."
Cards ✅
Whiskey ✅
Murder ✅
Women (?)
There aren't really any women in his youth that we know of. Carmilla only came in later, so the only thing we have is his Mother who I think was a Tailor (am i remembering that right? idk where I saw that) and Himself, if you have the afab jonny hc. But the women thing sorta implies that he was having relations with women, so perhaps that was another thing that his father disagreed with? Im totally speculating here, but if his dad found out that he, being afab, had been going out with women, he perhaps did not react well to that, either hurting jonny, hurting jonny's partner, or separating them. Perhaps Jonny Killed his dad in self defense or in revenge?
Ok Ok im going to formulate a narrative of what I personally think happened:
-Jonny was born afab on a backwater planet possibly named New Texas
-He grew up with his emotional abstinence mother and either physically or emotionally abusive father
-Started hanging out at the local casino, where he can present as male. Hangs around with the prostitutes and working women, maybe even gets a job bartending or something.
-falls in love with one of the working women
-His dad finds out about the sapphic looking relationship/presenting male stuff and freaks out, going after the woman for corrupting the "Nice Christian Girl" he wanted his daughter to be.
-His Father does something about it, and arranges for the woman to be sent away, killed, or married off.
-Jonny goes to the casino looking for her, only to have One Eyed jack tell him what happened in a not so subtle ploy to get Jonny to get rid of his dad for him.
-Jonny is unsure, but goes after his dad, getting into a fight that ends with Billy dead and Jonny sobbing on the floor
-Carmilla finds Jonny, offers to take him with her. With his partner gone, Jonny has nothing left, and agrees. But he wants to have one last farewell to the casino.
-Either carmilla tips him off or he figures it out himself, but One Eyed Jack helped orchestrate the killing or sending away of the Working Woman in his employ,
-Jonny realizes Jack never wanted to help him, he just wanted someone to do his killing for him.
-Jonny burns down the casino and leaves with Carmilla.
I think him being motivated by a lost lover makes a lot of sense with the whole "used to have a good heart" thing. Jonny is very romantic in his storytelling, even when the couple always tragically dies. I think he chose to write her out of his past because it was too painful for him, and he didn't want a reminder that he used to have a heart. He has blocked it out, and now genuinely doesn't remember anything other than how he wrote the song.
What do yall think?