#high moon over camelot

[thatmoththoth]

Art request

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ghostlahad meets gerry >:3

Galahad may have forgotten to mention the whole “space religion” thing

Gerry will not be getting any context

[allthedoorsareopennow]

thinking about how the darkness must feel comfortable and natural to the saxons. generations have presumably lived in the outer levels, they must be somewhat adapted to it, it must feel safe and comforting, even though the radiation hurts them. gun beats knife every time but not in the dark, not when the saxons know the landscape and their eyes are always adapted to the dark and the fools from above cannot see where to shoot. the darkness must feel protective and comforting and what incredible bravery to leave it and stumble out into the open to meet those who treat you like vermin, virtually defenceless against twice the number of guns as you have people. and the horror of your friends, your family mowed down in front of you in a storm of bullets, with nothing you can do

[thatmoththoth]

Had to do Galahad for this one

MECHS ARTISTS! REDRAW ANY OF THESE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!

:D

[allasters]

GPT IN OIL PAINT! It only took months, but I finished it!

Done on an 11x14 canvas :-]

[persephone-tim]

I can only draw gunpowder tim. Please help me.

[nerointhecorner]

kisses galahad on the mouth. kisses ygraine on the mouth. kisses ulysses on the mouth. kisses snow on the mouth. kisses loki on the mouth. kisses lyf on the mouth. kisse bertie on the mouth. ki

[i-will-steal-your-knees]

All my fellow Mechanisms fans out there, this one’s for you

After spending a bit of time here on tumblr dot com, I haven’t seen anyone talk about this but. I believe that good old first name Gunpowder last name Tim caused the events of HNOC. Let me explain

The first and most important piece of evidence is the music. During DTTM, when they’re describing Tim’s death, the music playing is the intro to HNOC. It only seems important because of what music they use for everyone else (like Lost in the Cosmos for Brian, and I think either Hades or Lucky Sevens for Ashes, etc. (I don’t remember for the rest of them)). But like. Tim isn’t really tied in any way to HNOC thematically or narratively, as far as we know (and if we’re talking about music that’s thematically relevant for the character, referencing GTVTMK would make more sense I think?)

The other evidence I will present has more to do with the lore of the albums. Tim specifically steals the largest gunship to ever be created. And as evidenced by the scale of Fort Galfridian and the fact that the person in charge of it was a general, it makes sense that this civilization would have the technological and military capability to create said gunship. And we know Tim went on a murder spree, so maybe that’s why no one was responding to their distress calls? And then, of course, Tim finally dies by crashing into a space station (not wearing his seatbelt). At the start of HNOC, Fort Galfridian is already in disrepair and in a decaying orbit, and what better to leave it that way than being crashed into by the largest gunship ever? (And, tying in with the first piece of evidence, the music referenced was of course that of the one album that *took place on* a space station.)

Anyways, yeah, that’s my one hot spicy Mechanisms theory, feel free to reblog with anything to add/anything I might’ve missed

[a-cat-in-toffee]

Vyncent doesn't have any mechanism, he just helps repair it whenever they break

Also you told me about the heart thing and I'm tempted to give it to Dakota now...

I AM A VYNCENT SOL GUNPOWDER TIM TRUTHER. MAKE HIS MECHANISMS HIS EYES !! okay youvce triggered my autism i have to tlak about mechs au pd now okay so

dakotas mechanisms would obviously be his heart. like in canon. that ones easy. I THINK GIVING WILLIAM NASTYAS MECHANISM (quicksilver blood) WOULD BE SUCHA CONCEWPT..... bundle him up in a jacket

ironically theres alreadya character named ashes. but i think ashe would have a wing mechanism. because yeah

[rainbowstargazerlilies]

Mechs Ships Tournament: Transport Bracket Round 2 Poll 3

The Silvana: A ship Doctor Carmilla spent some time on after leaving the Mechanisms. It apparently has a bad Wi-Fi connection, according to the Mechanisms fandom wiki.

Moon Kaiser’s Life Pod: It was shielded against the force of twenty suns, even if Tim couldn’t get the visor up in time.

Arthur’s Lifepod: the last remnants of Fort Galfridian, and the tool Mordred used to save his father before plunging into the sun. Who knows how long Arthur stayed there, mourning his fallen world? He might still be there.

[lonleyhumanbeing]

Random Mechanisms moments I love:

I haven't listened to TTBT volume 2, and am refusing to listen to DotM so this is incomplete, and terribly formatted.

"Wasn't it the aristocratic one with all the knives?" "Ah yes, the Marquis de AlltheKnives,"

Ashes has a lot of gold on board, 'for tax purposes'.

Jonny "I got a prescription of 1/2 an ounce of lead to be injected directly into the brain. AND IT WASN'T A PRESCRIPTION FOR ME!" *bang* d'Ville.

The first time we canonically meet Jonny he commits patricide, murder, and arson.

The card taps in One Eyed Jack scratch my brain so well.

The fact that Oedipus is called a motherfucker. Multiple times.

Guinevere's verse in Blood and Whisky being faster, because she is the fastest draw.

“We’re not pure of heart but we’re sure of aim,”. These three I swear.

All the Suits turning up in pinstripes.

The entirety of Gunpowder Tim vs. the Moon Kaiser. It's getting its own post, and I have listened to it 27 times since 12/03. That's 270 minutes, or 4.5 hours.

The dwarf Dopey just being General Tuco DOPED up on drugs.

The Toy Solider.

The fact that, even for a moment, love won in the end of High Noon Over Camelot.

How creepy Holder of the Grail is.

The Riddle of the Sphinx’s answer is man. The riddle of the sphinx virus was also man, taking the life force for themselves.

10 caliber= X-caliber= Excalibur.

The sellguns on Fort Galfridian are the same as freelances in medieval times.

Baldur was killed by Missle Two.

“Any window with a hammer can be an emergency exit”

Tim and Brian during the tea party in Alice.

The entirety of Alice, actually. I feel like it’s a hidden gem.

Lost in the Cosmos :(

[jonnywaistcoat]

my dad has decided that gunpowder tim vs the moon kaiser is about world war 1

This is very funny to me - it's like saying your dad decided High Noon Over Camelot is about the wild west, or Ulysses Dies at Dawn is about film noire. Like, yeah, Gunpowder Tim is riffing on WWI - almost all the songs are based on old soldiers songs from the war, the tunnel-fighting is inspired by trench warfare, and the last time Germany had a "Kaiser" was Kaiser Wilhelm II, who abdicated after the German surrender.

Genuinely curious as to what you thought it was about, if you didn't have WW1 as a cultural touchstone?

[thatmoththoth]

As Galahad’s number 1 fan(probably), reblog this post with all your art of him or your headcannons and my life is yours.

[forklesbian]

So, I've been thinking about how much I love Death To The Mechanisms (Both the album and song, but particularly the song) I love how the instrumental under each death sounds different. Gunpowder Tims sounds more dramatic (I'm not sure if that would be the right word) and takes on the style kind of like the Bifrost Incident and how Marius' sounds like High Noon Over Camelot. Brian's has Lost in the Cosmos underneath it, which is just so perfect and so sad because it's both his past and his death. I love how there are two kind of categories for how they die, either a purposeful death that they did themselves or some small accident. Like Gunpowder Tim knew he was dying so he went on a rampage to possibly go out in a big explosion of infamy, but what took him out was not wearing a seat belt, because why would he wear a seat belt? He's survived ship crashes and much worse before, why would that be the thing that finally did him in? And Johnny dies in some probably completely avoidable bar fight. Imagine finding out the "immortal" that became such a big part of all your history was found dead from a simple stab in the heart.

That is if they even found most of their bodies. Brian's might have been found by a wandering ship, kept around as a interesting trinket they found, maybe never finding his heart and knowing he once lived. Nobody probably bothered to check the ship wreckage for Tim's corpse, they would probably just glad the mad man blowing everything up was dead. There is no way in hell anyone found Raphaella body. Ivy's body was probably discovered by explorers who wanted to check out the long burned library (and possibly find more interesting books than what she had saved) and found a long chared skeleton that became a museum peice for a short while due to its odd brain and several long gone items that appeared to be talisman or memorabilia of some kind, some say that one looked like a small violin or wings or metal playing cards, but nobody will ever know for sure. Johnny's body was probably quickly stripped of valuables and left to rot, or maybe they burned him to make sure that he wasn't as immortal as he claimed during the fight. Nothing was left to find of Marius. No one was left to find Ashes. Finding a wooden puppet on a empty planet was interesting to be sure, but nothing ground breaking, it didn't move and was hollow except for some rotting tissue in its throat, it's face looked oddly sad but it was probably just a discarded art project and was left to collect dust until the star nearest to its resting place took everything out. Some conspiracy theories might pop up about the crew, but eventually, enough time will pass that it doesn't really matter if immortals ever existed and any traces of them will be lost to time as well. Any history books mentioning things like The Moon Kaiser, New Texas, King Cole, or a crew of immortal psychos causing trouble or singing about war will rot or burn or just become uninteresting to everyone else.

[harpie-raven]

Wanted to do a ⚡️Lightning Round⚡️!

I took the winners of all the other “which is the best [mechs] song?” Polls I did, and I bring you…

[persephone-tim]

Help me. I'm drawing him everyday now. It's not even funny anymore...