#striking mechanisms

[green5quirrel]

TL;DR: I think Monroe's striking and chiming clocks were underutilized for truly hilarious interruptions when the hour strikes and 5 or so clocks announce it in sync.

I think we've all looked over a very important detail in Nick having stayed over at Monroe's for a time. I feel like I REALLY want someone to explore this in a fanfiction of some sort.

Monroe has several "striking" clocks in his house. A striking clock (or just clock for those who differentiate clocks as striking and timepieces as non-striking) makes sounds every hour, half hour, or can chime every quarter hour depending on the number of mechanisms.

Monroe obviously has a grandfather clock (or grandmother clock as I'm not sure the height of it) thanks to him telling Hap not to touch it. So that is definitely a striking and chime clock. Or has the potential to be as such if it's not silenced. He also has potentially more than one cuckoo clock.

Can you imagine the absolute terror of a person who has never been in a house with more than one striking clock as it hits the hour or half hour for the first time.

Now, ideally Monroe will have silenced most of his clocks. I don't know. I don't have any working clocks. I don't know how most horologists do things at their private homes. If they find the striking nostalgic or welcomed. But let's err on the side that Monroe has been living alone for a long time and actually does find a few chimes and striking nostalgic after growing up with it as his dad seemed to also be into clocks.

Let's layer this with the fact that Nick has very sensitive hearing (though I'm not sure when that happens. I could have my timelines wrong). Despite that, you're just getting to sleep at around 11pm or midnight and for some reason have been oblivious to or accepting of the chimes during the day. Or this is your first night in your friend, Monroe's, house and suddenly the first floor below you erupts in various chimes and tunes.

Can you imagine?!

I'm actually kind of astounded that this was never properly explored in the. In not one scene does any of Monroe's clocks strike despite how long everyone is at his house. I mean, if I had clocks I'd at least appreciate one of them striking.

The point is, I really want to either write or read a fanfiction where either Rosalee or Nick or Hank experiences the sound of an hour in the most unexpected way and grumpily complains to a completely and adorably oblivious Monroe.

(It would also have been a great gag if in the middle of a dramatic conversation it struck the top of the hour and Monroe patiently waits for his clocks to sound off before continuing. And Nick/whoever he's talking to is just like "Seriously dude?" And he's like, "What? ...fine! I'll silence them. Jeez! I didn't ask you to be here anyway, man!")

[cicada-candy]

jonny dville,,, worlds babygirlest Absolute Worst Guy Ever i love him

[heph]

It's so interesting how submissive House is to Wilson. In basically every scene where Wilson gives his 2 cents about a case, House without fail (for the most part) follows his opinion. Wilson gives him unsolicited advice and half the time he listens without saying anything, and the other half he argues but ends up listening to him anyway. House starts psychoanalysing Wilson and Wilson does it right back to him and House shuts the fuck up or gives a one line quip back at him (to have the last line) but knows deep down Wilson is right.

For a man of House's stature and how he interacts with Literally Everyone Else, the writers really hammer it into your soul that House only really listens to Wilson and no one else

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

I just remembered Seb's bet with Sky Germany... I just know that 1 he is pissed as fuck with the FIA and 2 he had a blast watching Max

[skunkes]

[unsat-and-strange]

headcanon when the mechs perform hnoc, during gunfight at dolorous guard, instead of them using a bell Brian just hits his arm or something with a hammer

[saym0-0]

grahh the little jingle that plays whenever the mechs bring up themselves in an album >>>

[iris-echos]

"Fuck the ship"

"I do"

"Ew"

I LOVE THE MECHANISMS

[djuvlipen]

(TRG Spoiler)

The funniest moment of The Running Grave was when Strike said "you're in therapy?" and Lucy replied "well yeah, aren't you?" and Strike was like "No???"

[majorshatterandhare]

In the conversation Nastya and Jonny have in The Aurora Strikes, Nastya tells Jonny she is informing him out of curtesy and that she had already told Brian to lay in the coordinates, to which Jonny gets upset and complains that Brian is an “insubordinate piece of brass” and Nastya’s response is to *agree* with him. I know that she’s placating him, but her telling him “yes yes I know [he *is* an insubordinate piece of brass for doing what I told him to instead of bringing it up to you, whom we have all agreed are not the captain anyway]” is very funny to me.

[keepthedelta]

fuck your f1 fantasy driver line ups and your f1 fantasy championship battles my f1 fantasy is proper unionisation leading to collective action that holds the powers that be to account!

[mechanismslorearchive]

Hi so I'm absolutely freaking out over the HNOC Debut Dropbox collection thing right now (/Pos) do you by chance know if the other albums / debuts / live recordings also have Dropbox files or something similar?

Ohoho I am so pleased to be able to (possibly) introduce you to my personal favorite recording of OUATIS!

This is the link to the SoundCloud recording, but there are also Dropbox files I can link to once I have wifi again.

To my knowledge, there isn’t audio like this for TBI or UDAD, but there is a video of the TBI debut in a Google Drive here!

[cicada-candy]

The Bifrost Incident: Any School-Child could tell you about it...

Facing the horrors <333

ID in Alt, titleless ver under the cut:

[chekhovdraws]

Hello! Back in 2020 you drew a gorgeous art piece of Rose and Cinders from Once Upon a Time in Space by the Mechanisms. I am now obsessed with them, and wondering if it would be all right if I used that art as my blog header for my ouatis blog (with credit to you in my bio, of course). I know not all artists are comfortable having their work used that way so I wanted to make sure I had your go-ahead if I did. Either way, thank you so much for drawing it-- it's one of my favorite pieces of ouatis art of all time-- and I hope you have a nice day!

Oh, sure, go for it! :D I'm happy you liked it!

You mean this one, right?

[hyacinthsdiamonds]

So... the drivers might be plotting action against the FIA? LET'S FUCKING GO

I hope this is the GPDA @ the FIA:

[luckthebard]

I see your tags about which DnD gays winning and I hear you and I bring you: stunning strike. Wizards aren't exactly known for their con saves. I think beau could just stunlock them until they're out of health points.

Caleb, with his transmuter’s stone, has a +8 on CON saves before he turns into an ancient dragon. And that’s just base, it’s +9 if he also has the Stone of Good Luck equipped, and a +10 if he instead has a Staff of Power like he did at the close of C2.

Also of note: the Convergent Future and Chronal Shift Dunamancy wizard abilities. One allows the caster to just decide a roll succeeds or fails, and the other allows a reroll as a reaction.