#tma x the mechs

[thatmoththoth]

I should draw a picture of gunpowder tim, but he’s holding a detonator and is in a circus with a mannequin running towards him with the text “woops wrong Tim.”

Edit: check reblogs for progress updates

[g-does-art]

There is a mechs x TMA AU bouncing about in my head. So have mechanized Melanie where she becomes The King In Yellow and commits heinous acts. Also pretty much my first time using gradient maps, so yay. Click for better quality.

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[saym0-0]

this one is sick ngl. jonny d'ville from this tma au :3 close ups under the cut

they keep their cane in their gun holster hehe

[wait----------what]

Oooooh I wanna do this!

* adds to pile of fic ideas that'll probably never see the light of a computer screen*

Rose Red working in the Institute

So I’ve seen a couple TMA Mechanisms crossovers here and there. One on Ao3 had it where Jon=Jonny and an encounter with a couple of Rose Reds set it off.

That got me thinking: what if there was a Rose Red working in the Institute?

I imagine that a small crew of Rose Reds we’re trying to go to X place for the war efforts and something happens (wormhole, tech malfunction, whatever) that causes them to crash to Earth circa 2000s. There’s an adjustment period but eventually they/she decide that they can’t get back to the war and decide to try and live until they can get help.

Compared to whenever OUaTiS happens, Earth tech is unbelievably simple so it’s not a stretch to say that the Roses make fake IDs for themselves easily. They probably choose different names maybe keeping a last name. I don’t think they would keep “Rose” considering that’s what they are not who they are. I also feel like they grow out their hair as a healing bit. Long hair takes a lot of time and upkeep and is impractical in war so growing their hair out could be a sign that they finally see themselves as more than war machines.

Now for whatever reasons, one of them decides to work at the Institute. Elias probably says yes because he finds her interesting. Does this Rose coincide w one of the named characters? Up to you. The Slaughter probably retroactively claimed them so we have the option of human murdering, we also have paintball tournaments that could be used as an outlet. Idk if the UK has paintball but it could easily be said that the Institute Rose uses vacation time to go to paintball tournaments in the US.

I feel like there could be many shenanigans of having a war clone like the Rosies in the Institute, especially if she goes to the Archives crew. If any Mechs go there and recognize her then that could also be fun.

[lazyasriel]

Drawn by me :)

so apparently I was right about the Keliser/Dockson ship (kelson?? keldox??). I've now read 400 pages of the first mistborn book and now am thinking that there must be a poly ship for all of Kelsier's crew. there's definitely some energy between Ham and Breeze and everyone seems to have some vibes with Kelsier

(this might be corruption from various fandoms I'm part of that love poly ships (tma, tmagp, mechanisms)

Is this a thing??? Are there fics?? when can I read them without spoilers??!

(also I love the art work @king-of-the-oreo !!)

[arri-kitt]

People keep making Nikola and Toy Soldier the same person but I think it’s funnier if TS is the voice box Nikola stole and now TS is flailing around on the Aurora and Jonny now has to play charades to understand who he’s killing and why

[boxes-of-soup]

what if

i finally decided

to sit down and write the mechs x tma fic thats been in my head for literal months now

[mechsconfessions]

i am tired of people who use the mechs as jonathan sims (tma) ‘s college band and nothing else. on one hand i could possibly see it. on the other hand stop butchering everything. georgie (tma) never played anyone in the mechs. can i please just. just get a good mechs x tma that isnt That

My all time favourite TMA Mechs thing is that nothing is different except for Nikola is actually The Toy Soldier

[lostonehero]

I mayhap

Have a fic idea

Tma x mechs

Carmillia is Martin's mother takes place after DTTM

Mechs work at the archive because mystery and Tim's offhand comments about his ancestors have got them curious

Martin half Xeon

[barmy-demon]

Mechs x tma funny thought

“Really archiving?”

“Like your one to talk mx acab”

[zonatcannibalism]

Ok so about my fanfiction.

I have a 26 page long outline for a longfic (12 chapters) and I have about 5k-10k words written for it, but nothing in chronological order i can post. The outline was made about 9 months ago and i simply don't have the time to write it. (Its a mechanisms x tma crossover fic set after dttm and in season 3 of tma but it has weird time travel shit going on so its also a post season 5 fic)

So i think I should probably focus on oneshots, but tbh i don't really have that many ideas. in the last year or so im much more focused on my original fiction then fanfiction. Im currently writing a short story, and I know what the book im going to work on for nanowrimo is gonna be.

The list of fandoms i want to write for but have no idea what to write:

The decameron- there is one fic in all of ao3 about it. I have to take on the mission. I don't really have ideas just the vague sense it should be something about panfillo

Tma/ tmagp- i would probably write teaholding, doorkey, dyhard and platonic relationships between the archives gang, fluff and angst/ hurt comfort/ just unresolved angsty character explorations. I could also just adapt my longfic into oneshots. I don't really have ideas and tbh its not really a thing im very passionate about

The mechanisms: that's the fandom my longfic is for, i could just adapt the scenes i have of it into oneshots

Hatchetfield- i have. No ideas. But it will probably be fluff, and focus on the npmd gang or ms Holloway. Edit: i could probably have a lit of dun writing something angsty about lautski post npmd adapting their relationship to the trauma. I do have an EXTREMELY developed hatchetfield oc, but i use them for rping and writing about them could be weird to me.

Fantasy high- i feel like i could have so much fun with writing fics for this, but im only on season 1 (ep 12 i think) and o don't want to get stuff wrong about whats going to happen

The marauders- tbh probably the one im most inspired for but I don't really like the famdom or the characters that much, the fanfiction for it is just the best ove ever read

I allredy have a doctor who fic up but i wouldn't be against writing more (im just not that interested in doctor who fanfiction. Maybe i could write something about donna before she got her memories back? Character exploration style)

Also i do love good omens and could potentially write for ot but i don't really want to

My ao3:

[thatmoththoth]

The first chapter of my fic where I throw mechanism’s characters into the world of The Magnus Archives is finally complete! It is a pleasure to present to you the first of the writing which I have spent hours pouring over, being a bit of a perfectionist.

Enjoy

[g-does-art]

As per popular request, she now has more belts

[saym0-0]

au where when martin calls jon's bluff in season 4 (? its been a while idk where exactly) about stabbing their eyes out and running away together, they go fuck you no and actually go through with it. they then go to their only other friends, their former band mates like heeyyy i just disabled myself and cant really live alone rn help 🙏 and boom somehow they restart the mechanisms. jon gets cool steampunk prosthetic eyes. they look like this. (image under the cut). oh yeah they/them jon because they deserve it

(link to the reddit post this is from)

[brainwormsprompts]

TMA x The Mechanisms: The Bet

So the other Mechanisms notice that Jonny is in a funk after Out (sry folks, Out is canon here) and in an effort to try and distract and/or cheer him up, they offer up a bet. The details of the bet are up to you but the end goal means that Jonny ends up pretending to be Jonathan Sims the Archivist and works at the Magnus Institute.

Who else is in on the bet and what they have to do is up to you. If you don't want to write all of the Mechs, you can have this happen during the Bifrost Incident so Raph, Ivy, and Marius are imprisoned on Midguard. Ashes as Basira would be a particular choice done for irony purposes and to make sure that Jonny isn't the only one suffering (you can't tell me that they wouldn't be petty like that). Now TS could be Nikola oooorrrr we can go with a potentially angsty option and have Nikola take TS's voicebox (remember, it has to follow any orders given to it). Those are the major characters who share VAs with the Mechs so those are really the only ones I have a suggestion on.

Now one of the bets is to prevent any coworkers they have from knowing that they are immortal space pirates. This is part of the reason why Jonny puts on the skeptic attitude for the Archivist. He definitely has a group chat where he's making fun of the statements, the statement givers, and the institute in general. However, when the connections between the tapes start coming, he gets invested and actually starts caring a bit. (You can't tell me that he wouldn't.) I can also see him eating the teeth apple from Lionel Elliot gleefully (TS has probably given weirder things to eat).

Now, Jonny probably knows that Elias is older than a normal human because of his eyes. So in the interview, he tenses up and try purposefully asks if Elias has met with Dr. Carmilla and is thus another Mechanism. Elias is confused and denies it and then Jonny puts back the actor mask and it goes fairly normally.

Jonny is absolutely not going to get in the way of Tim and his revenge. In fact, I can see him inciting it and encouraging him to be destructive. With the Unknowing coma, there's probably a Mechanism sitting nest to Jonny at all times. This is both out of concern for him (bc he should be awake, his Mechanism healed him, why isn't he awake?) and to mitigate panic when he wakes up. Dr. Carmilla has left a lot of hospital trauma to them and they are a tight knit bunch who are there for each other.

At the America trip, Jonny's inviting one of the other Mechs along. (It's America, we have guns and violence in spades, it sounds like a playground for these chaos space gremlins.) They steal the skin book and maybe kill Trevor and Julia. Though they may or may not release Gerry in a timely manner, he's only been suffering for a couple decades at most while they've been around for millenia, he can hold on for an extra couple of month.

Jonny is laughing internally when Daisy makes him dig his own grave and then threatens him. He's making faces to Ashes when they come to try and talk Daisy down (if they do that). Jonny is definitely giving Daisy points for making him dig his own grave when the secret gets out. He is not gonna interfere with Ashes' decision about joining the Archives. The Mechanisms know all about the Archive drama and they are immortal space pirates, they can make their own decisions. However, he is ready to back them whether or not they want to murder Elias or not.

Jonny's probably going to take the Archivist powers in stride and is trying to exploit them on the rest of the Mechs while he can. He's long considered himself morally corrupt so not being human and getting cool narrative powers sounds cool. The Mechanisms have also tried to let the Assistants quit after killing Jonny hoping that his Mechanism regains slow enough for them to make it.

One thing's for sure. Elias nor the Earth at large is ready for the chaos these space pirates are going to bring with them.

[snekberry]

So some tma fics recs! (If I specify a fic is jonmartin that means it's primarily focused on it, since most fics in the tma fandom are jonmartin in ways)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23744485

Jonmartin dating app fic (37k words rounding up, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23530732

Tim focused timeloop fic that takes place in the season 3 finale (7k words rounding up again, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22740688

Jonmartin mechanisms fic (17k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30946139

Jonmartin fic where Martin makes Jon shit tea on purpose and jon pretends to drink it because he doesn't wanna tell Martin the tea is bad (13k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/22371064

A lonely eyes crack-fic in which Simon bets elias and Peter can't live together for a month. (9k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/33528331

A fic in which jon is cursed to tell the truth (20k words, completed)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/28418346

A fluffy museum au in which the archive team try to hide kittens from jon. (7k words complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24584110

A au where Jon literally becomes head empty. (16k words, incomplete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/36590863

A au where Jon and Martin were already married pre-podcast and sasha and Tim didn't know this. (2k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/37169170

A fic where season 1 jonmartin is arguing only to get future memories in the middle of it. (2k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21406300

Lonely eyes soulmate fic. (6k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/series/2025538

A series where Jon becomes even more inhuman than in the actual podcast. (31k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/21898564

A lonely eyes fic in which elias tells peter he's not dead. In typical elias fashion (3k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23805061

Mechs!Jon fic with jonmartin. (9k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24084577

Future jon goes back in time wingfic (36k words, incomplete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24476437

Another jonmartin mechs fic! (21k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/25332742

So, you know that one tumblr post with the witch who goes around as a cat and whoever catches it can get with her?

That but jonmartin (12k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24406627

Teacher jon! (26k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/23282902

A au where season 1 jon finds a leitner that makes everyone think he's a cat. Very good jon x Martin x Tim (144k words, complete)

https://archiveofourown.org/works/24206995

A jonmartin fae jon au (38k words, complete)

Those are all the fics that in my bookmarks! Hope you enjoy!

(Also since you're planning on getting into mechanisms I recommend Ulysses dies at dawn! Not my favorite album (the bifrost incident beloved) but a close second and the one I tend to recommend to new listeners! (And if you're struggling to find songs at all the channel "the void sings" has uploaded all the albums with subtitles too!))

HELLO thank you for the food anon 🙏🙏🙏 im going to save all of these