#ttbtv2

[cryptile]

🌟

⭐

✨

⭐ At last, his heart, its beating slowed

✨ 🎩

All alone and a-lowly ✨

⭐

🌟

🪐 ✨

✨ 🌟

But it did not cease, his tale was not o'er

🪐 ✨ ⭐

🫀

⭐ ✨ 🚀

Lost in the cosmos, lonely ✨

🌍

⭐ ☀️

[alicemain0541]

-“Escape pods still working fine”

-“I won’t leave you”

YALL I CANT TODAY

[zurdurer]

Okay so, i feel very silly because I don't remember who sent the ask and Tumblr ate the original buttt

The Briar Rose!!

Pre and post mechs..

And my personal headcanon that she ended up as the Queen of Hearts from Alice

[cindytoast404]

i think we as a society need to talk about actaea and lyssa more actually

the overlapping melodies at the end??? the vocals???

[flamet-draws]

Mechtober 2024 Day 10: Doctor Carmilla Siblings

“Sister, I'm scared

It's Olympian land we roam

Their rage is well known

But we don't hunt alone

Beside you, I stand”

.🎶🎶🎶.

Alt prompt with Actaea and Lyssa for day 10 because I love that song so so so much

[dropitdoeeyes]

About time for some TTBT(v2) content, here’s Arachne from Twisted Threads :)

[ID. A digital drawing of Arachne from The Mechanisms. She stands on a grey background, shifted to one side. One of her hands is raised as if explaining something, and her other hand rests at her side, tightly clutching a newspaper. Arachne has a slightly stern expression, looking off to the side.

Arachne is a very thin woman with medium brown skin and long legs. Her braided hair is dark brown, though most of it is bleached blonde. Her hair is in a large bun, save for eight braids that flow behind her like spider’s legs. Arachne wears thin oval glasses, a white shirt with a pointy collar, medium blue blazer detailed with spiderwebs, dark blue slacks, and black shoes. She’s wearing a few pieces of jewelry, four thin bracelets and two necklaces, all in the same color. end id.]

[mech-characters-fight]

Hmmmm… The Odette vs. The Ratatosk express?

[thefandomlifechoseme]

hey I was trying to find the mechanisms but I can't find it anywhere - do you perchance know where it could be?

MKAY!

So!!

The mechanisms were a storytyelling musical cabaret band that ran from 2012-2020, when they released their first album, Once Upon A Time (In Space).

You can find their website here.

If your looking to start listening, i would recomend listening in release order (OUAT(IS), UDAD, TTBT Vol I, HNOC, TBI, Frankenstein, TTBT Vol II).

If you want an intro to the characters, I would reccomend Revenge Of Spaceport Mahoen, which is a good mixture of origin songs.

I'd also recomend checking out TheVoidSings, who holds this fandom together with blood, sweat, tears, and lyric videos.

The final thing they played was Death To The Mechanisms, which can be found here (bandcamp) or here (youtube livestream/lyric video mashup, because it went funky near the end. (it has closed captions throughout the entire thing))

[randompajamaalt]

my take on general caterpillar from alice by the mechanisms!!

this was actually super fun to draw. the design is loosely inspired by @/reegis (love their work btw go check them out)

i loooove caterpillar ough. love them so much. had fun with the markings

took about an hour and 15 mins on ibis paint x :)

[simonfairchildirl]

"i got my nuts chopped off, they got replaced. and now i cant die, punch me in the face" wise words from my favourite cishet male at school, who i have recently told about the mechanisms

currently, he likes tales to be told ii, prometheus and odin

he does not fuck w once upon a time in space and frankenstein

i will return if he listens to ulysses dies at dawn and high noon over camelot

[gwenboucharddidnothingwrong]

YOU have been deemed DETRIMENTAL TO THE WAR EFFORT :)

[cryptile]

You ever get so enamoured by your two boyfriends' gorgeously blending voices that you forget to sing the backup vocals for their song?

[aiiidoneus]

had to combine both underworld blues bc i ran out of room :') maybe if it wins i'll do separate poll w just those two

anyways ! this was born of curiosity only but if you'd like to reblog for a larger sample size then i certainly won't stop you :)

[zurdurer]

Stranger ramblings because I am a broken man - this is literally just about the fact dbb and gpt sing each part of this lol

I wrote this half asleep so please excuse any over explaining or whatever, I'm copin w exam season and i needed enough context for it to make sense to whatever unfortunate member of my family i decided to throw it at

Drumbot Brian is cast away, killed by the people he wanted only to help. Called a witch for his abilities and mechanical prowess when he used his machines to revive a priest. His work clashed with the religion of where he had landed and was strictly a last resort to the townsfolk. After saving the priest from breaching the veil of death a mob was gathered, determined to put an end to this man who played God. They fired him into the cold of space using his own machinery.

Brian is benevolent, moral; he does only what he believes to be right. However, he is never allowed full control of his own situation. He was near completely stripped of his humanity by Dr Carmilla, his moral trajectory can be changed at the flip of a literal switch. He only wants to help, he only wants to love and be loved back. He knows that when people learn about that aspect of his mechanism and what he can and will do when the change is made there is a risk of them manipulating it - him - to their benefit.

This is why ‘Stranger’ is so utterly heartbreaking. Of course the story behind it is tragic:

A crane visits a man disguised as a woman and falls in love, they marry and live together happily. Over time though, the crane grows sick as it sells its feathers to support them both. One day everything changes, the man discovers the true nature of the crane. He says he cannot love her any further, that she has to leave, he cannot see through her deception. Heartbroken, it respects his wishes and leaves but as she goes it tells him “You are not worthy of loving a Crane.”

Now, in the song it is Brian and Tim singing the parts of Cranewife and husband; Brian playing the Cranewife. This is incredibly important to who he is as if you look at the folktale and compare it to Brian’s experience there are a great deal of similarities.

Brian wanted only to help the townsfolk with his gifts, the Cranewife only wanted to love and support the man he (it?) loved. Neither want to be alone, in fact: Brian makes a point to never sing or perform by himself, not singing at all during the retelling of his own tale. Both give up parts of themselves, to the severest degree, to help others and yet despite all of this they are rejected and cast off. Something changes. The truth about the Cranewife is discovered just as the extent of Brian’s abilities are and they are looked upon with nothing  but disdain and fear.

Similarly, in ‘The Ignominious Demise of Dr Pilchard’, Drumbot seems particularly upset that their kidnapper hadn’t believed what he told him and accused him of lying. This was likely also to be the case when in ‘The Hanged Man Rusts’ Arthur and Gawain didn’t listen to him. Drumbot is an honest man, he takes it rather strongly when people cannot place trust in him or his word for he knows he is not a liar. He knows when people think they have been lied to they feel threatened, when they feel threatened they often don’t hesitate to hurt him.

When the Cranewife is discovered, it is accused of “spinning falsehoods into gold,” but repeats the phrase, “I meant no deceit”. It didn’t mean to lie, he didn’t want to lie. He was living truly but concealing a secret out of fear for that rejection. Not a misplaced fear though as we learn from the line, “In your place a monster I do see”.

This story is an anecdote, of course, but it sounds almost personal to Brian. As though this is what he himself has lived before or after becoming a mechanism. Even if it is not his own, him singing it feels almost like he is healing from the trauma that haunts him. Afterall, this is one of the last things we hear from him before his death. His death being something I believe to be a sign that he could face himself, his past, and give himself the chance to return to the biting cold that should have taken him aeons before.

Not only is it important that Drumbot Brian sang the part of the Cranewife, but also that Gunpowder Tim sang the part of the husband. Tim’s mechanism is his eyes after they got burnt away by a blast strong enough to annihilate the moon. Before this, however, he had been blinded more metaphorically. After the death of his close friend Bertie during the war waged by the Moon Kaiser he fell into a deep bloodlusting rage where quick and mad he carved through the Kaiser’s men. He was eventually captured by the Kaiser which led to the loss of his eyes and the introduction to his new ‘immortal’ life as a mechanism.

From this point on, near every character Tim has played has had some sort of issue with foresight, actual vision or a combination of the two. In ‘Ulysses Dies at Dawn’ he plays Oedipus who is not only blind after gouging out his own eyes but also failed to recognise the identities of his mother and father along with the Olympian’s plans to drive him off world. In ‘High Noon Over Camelot’ he plays Gawain, a hot headed young man with a blind hatred for the Ghouls. In ‘The Bifrost Incident’ he plays Loki whose own mind is hidden from her. In the song ‘Alice’ he plays Major Hare who is likely rather short sighted as he fails to notice a doormouse sat in the teapot he is sharing with opposing Major Hatter.  In ‘Pieces’ he plays Osiris, changed and unreachable after being rebuilt by Isis. In ‘Twisted Threads’ he plays Arachne who cannot see the web Athena has caught her in. This trend persists in ‘Stranger’ where he plays the husband.

The man could not recognise the true nature of the Cranewife until it began to get weaker. When he found what he had thought he loved in a form he described as a “metal demon”, he was blinded by fear and betrayal. Unable to see the person he loved, he couldn’t listen to its begging for him to listen and understand.

Anyway they make me sick and I can't be normal about them :]

[cindytoast404]

ashes was 23 when they got mechanised? they should have been at the club

[alicemain0541]

MY LIFE IS A MECHS REFRENCE