#mechtober 2022

[saul-tortellini]

Happy Holidays, have my top 10 LANCER textmashes compiled together

I'm glad y'all seem to enjoy these. Comcast's shit internet service is preventing me from gaming so I have more time to kill making these. Next on the list are the NELSON and the GOBLIN.

[anxiouslittlepossum]

Once Upon A Time (In Space!)

[rainyatrium]

more from the backlog: the whopping two mechs i finished for mechtober 2022

[regicidal-defenestration]

He ran a finger quickly around the rim of his glass. The note rang out sharp and clear. "A toast," Jonny proposed. "To bad decisions and worse people."

Chapter the last. Death to the Mechanisms?

[gunpowderdtim]

Mechs fandom timeline

The Before Times

Inception - DTTM. Pre modern fandom, the band was still together. The Mechschord had band members in it and they were semi-active.

Early Pre-Modern Era

One or Two members in the mechschord. ~~December 2019-febuary 2020. TMA fans start piling in. Raphivy and Timbertie are the major band ships. Mostly album based fandom and discussion.

Pre-Modern

Febuary 2020-Mechtober 2020. The Mechanisms mostly leave the discord. It's just Maki in the-carmillazone. Violinspector is king. It's all violinspector. Early loredigging occurs. We know nearly nothing of what we do now. I don't even think we knew that it wasn't Carmilla who mechanized Tim. Most fics include Lyf. Jonny & Nastya as siblings fanon is born. The beginning of the Anti-Carmilla Era.

Modern/The Heyday

Post Mechtober 2021-mid-late 2021. Tim/Jonny renaissance. Violinspector's tower slowly falls. TMA ends in this period. The fandom grows exponentially. TS is a favorite. We learn new things regularly. Loredigging in its prime. The vast majority are still carmilla-haters but a minority of fans like her.

Pre-Post-Modern

Mid-late 2021-mechtober 2021

Things are slowing down now. Less fic and art being posted. Mechtober 2021 is the final hurrah. Violinspector is now endangered. Raphivy is near extinct. Tim/Jonny still trucking on. Polymechs is still there. Beginning of the end of carmilla hating.

Post-Modern

First half of 2022. I stop engaging. Things slow down a lot. Presumably most of the carmilla haters leave.

Now

Things are picking up again. Tim/Jonny is going strong. Raphivy is basically extinct. I don't know the status on violinspector. We are in an unprecedented era of carmilla loving.

Reblog this with any addendums you want added. This is my experience.

[majorshatterandhare]

[ID: Two images, the first is a simple drawing of the Mechanisms’ Gender Rebels performance, with two panels split top and bottom, the second is a Mechtober 2022 prompt list.

Image One, Panel One: From left to right Nastya, holding her viola, Tim, with his guitar, Ashes, with their bass, the Toy Soldier, with no instrument, and Ivy, holding her flute, stand in front of two microphones. Their bodies and clothes are white. Tim leans into the mic in between him and Ashes and says “We killed our lead singer.” Which is printed at the top jn a black italic font.

Image One, Panel Two: All of the Mechs arms are straighg up in the air. The only one with a vidible mouth is Tim, who has an open mouthed smile. The Toy Soldier has thrown confetti in the air and it falls down around it. Ashes feet have small fires around them. The background is a tan color and the edges are white.

Image Two: the background is tan-brown gears. The top is labeled “Mechtober 2022 - Daily.” The first two prompts are crossed off and the third is circled in red. The prompts read:

“3. Favorite Performance

4. The Sevens

5. Tied by Fate

6. Mechanization

7. Immortality/Mortality

8. Ulysses Dies At Dawn

9. Instruments

10. Octokittens

11. The Suits

12. Favorite Relationship(Romantic or Not)

13. Storytelling/Shanties

14. Myth

15. High Noon Over Camelot

16. Position on Crew

17. Acheron

18. The Pendragons

19. Crossover

20. Frankenstein

21. Weapons

22. The Bifrost Incident

23. The Aurora

24. Tarot

25. The Asgardians

26. Favorite Headcanon

27. Outfit swap

28. Family/Domestic

29. Tales To be Told

30. Death/Endings

31. Free Space!”

End ID]

Late day three: favorite performance

To be fair I haven't watched every performance yet, cause I have to consume my hyperfixations in small doses or I'll get overwhelmed BUT. The gender rebels one is the best thing ever I love them so much I love Tim that silly guy

[flamet-draws]

Mechtober Day 7: Immortality/Mortality

Tim and Bertie and the tragedy of immortality when your best friend is dead

[monggay]

@mechtober2022 day 16: position on crew! sometimes bein the pilot just means keepin the sentient starship company when it gets rly boring during long rides

[heliophaestus]

day 9 - instrument

[ID: A digital lineless drawing of Nastya Rasputina from The Mechanisms. She is drawn from the waist up, and is shown playing her violin with a soft smile on her face. The background is white fading into navy blue, with stars. /End ID]

[immortal-stowaway]

Mechtober day 22: the Bifrost Incident

[saul-tortellini]

Back that Paracausal ass up

[anxiouslittlepossum]

Origin Stories

Lost in the cosmos

[kinglindwyrm]

@mechtober2022 day 12: favourite relationship

can a lost princess really fall in love with a spaceship... 😳 and they were both girls...? (ID in alt)

[mechtober]

Happy to announce two Mechtober prompt lists for this October!

These have been made so that participants can choose between focusing on one prompt each week or on one each day, both lists are encouraged to be used and switching between the two is completely acceptable. 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.

Other guidelines are to keep the content ratings to about 16+ at most, violence/gore and swearing are all allowed but if excessive please tag appropriately! This account will be trying to reblog all contributions, so please make sure to tag work under #mechtober 2022 (you can also @ us). 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: Two prompt lists. The first is sepia-toned with gears and wheels in the background, the second has a galaxy background. The first is labelled "Mechtober 2022 - Daily" and the prompts are as follows:

Once Upon A Time (In Space)

2. Origin Stories

3. Favorite Performance

4. The Sevens

5. Tied by Fate

6. Mechanization

7. Immortality/Mortality

8. Ulysses Dies At Dawn

9. Instruments

10. Octokittens

11. The Suits

12. Favorite Relationship (Romantic or Not)

13. Storytelling/Shanties

14. Myth

15. High Noon Over Camelot

16. Position on Crew

17. Acheron

18. The Pendragons

19. Crossover

20. Frankenstein

21. Weapons

22. The Bifrost Incident

23. The Aurora

24. Tarot

25. The Asgardians

26. Favorite Headcanon

27. Outfit Swap

28. Family/Domestic

29. Tales To be Told

30. Death/Endings

31. Free Space!

The second is labelled "Mechtober 2022 - Weekly" and the prompts are as follows:

(1st - 7th)

Swap/Crossover

2. (8th - 14th)

Fire/Death

3. (15th - 21st)

Immortality/Space and Void

4. (22nd - 31st)

First Meetings/Goodbyes

/End ID]

[artobotsrollout]

Transformers Inktober: Mechtober 2022

prompt list

If you want to join me tag your art as #mechtober2022

A favourite

Factions

Outlier

Continuity style swap

Speedster

New character

Grump

Shattered glass

Musical

Predacon

Hero

Never drawn before

Besties

Flier

Energon

Love to hate

Alt mode swap

Lovers

Zombiecon

Mechanimal alt

Dinobot

Character Redesign

Villain

Mad science

Obscure

Least favourite

Tank

A Prime

Dark Energon

Optics

Sparkeater

Feel free to interpret these how you want and use whatever medium you want. There ain't rules here!

Don't like a day? Skip it. Miss a day? Don't worry about it. ^w^

[jonny-b-meowborn]

Wow Bee got one drawing on time amazing. This may not happen again.

Day four - the Sevens! You ever think about how Ashes was literally baby at that moment

Btw my headcanon is that their natural hair color is this red