#mech

[himecommunism]

traditional gouf activities (standing menacingly on top of high perches)

[evileyedoll]

Until The Night Time Comes, I'll Be With You Again

[miss-macross-in-g-loc]

THE EXTRA LEG SUPPORT COMING DOWN BEFORE THE BLAST????

The Five Star Stories

1989

Mamoru Nagano / Kazuo Yamazaki

SUNRISE

[silkburrito]

Finally got a base set up for my anchorite shrine

[blazing-butterfly]

My biggest problem with mecha as a genre (besides the usual Needs More Yuri that applies to every genre*) is that so many of them are just too big. It means they can't interact with their surroundings in any meaningful way, and sure you could get all deep about alienation from everything except violence or whatever but it's still less interesting.

My ideal mecha are roughly car-sized or smaller. Unlike big skyscraper-sized mecha where everything else is at most a tripping hazard, car-sized mecha find themselves surrounded by cover, obstacles, hiding places, different elevations, improvisable weapons, vehicles they could ride on, all sorts of things that can add more variety into a fight scene. It also makes them much more useful for non-combat work where a huge mech would be unable to do much besides stepping on things.

*(Yes I've seen Witch From Mercury, and I loved it, but I need MORE mecha yuri)

[smoked-salmon-official]

Save me fem hot rod… save me…

[very very rough and rushed sketch] [tf dying light]

Thank you to @sideswipesjetpack for the idea!!!

[cheesy-cryptid]

He said he wanted no pickles !!!

[s-pyder]

KENVA

[dragonkid11]

Mech should have radiators not because it makes engineering sense but because a mech fuming smoking hot coolant from its vents and its white-hot radiator struggling to keep the internal temperature down after firing off high intensity beam weapon or activating highly advanced systems is fucking hot.

[neobiohazardus]

Every* Type of Mecha

*Not Actually Every Type.

Something I spent WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much time on lol. This is entirely just riffing off of the many 'kinds' or 'tropes' in mecha design I found. Feel free to suggest more of them.

Might make a document providing examples for each one, but idk. I think most of these are pretty self-explanatory.

Tell me your favourites below

[Update: Here's the sequel to this chart, cataloguing Kaiju instead!]

[himecommunism]

falling comet, silver star, beautiful scourge

wandering ghost

[diblmetta]

Pranking the machine (GONE WRONG)

[tothesolarium]

Judges mech - a four legged tank!

[porer]

[acerby]

Beware the Pipeline

Whether it is a teacher or a handler you want to be praised and told “Good Job”.