#ouatis

[fayzart136]

Once upon a time, in a far off sector of a very old galaxy...

(I decided to put the design details in the alt text this time! Once again, genre mixing is very fun.)

closeups under the cut! Please tap/click for better quality and to see the full picture.

#artists on tumblr #sfw #ouatis #once upon a time in space #the mechanisms #the mechs #digital #lineup #art #formatting these is a NIGHTMARE tumblr doesnt like horizontal pics.

[cavalierclavier]

tfw you’re breaking out a science experiment with a broken snooze button and you keep sassing one another between the senseless violence

#the mechanisms #the mechs #the mechanisms fanart #once upon a time in space #jonny d'ville #nastya rasputina #briar rose #ouatis #comic #my art #there are supposed to be rose reds in the big room but i forgot :P #i considered adding bloodstains to imply them but it felt too cluttered lol #anyways hell is drawing rooms and guns and jonny's eye marks consistently #i'd say it was good practice though

[reegis]

✨mechanisms character designs!!✨

lyf gets to be blue because i said so

who else should i draw!!!!

#galahad my beloved #i read exactly one (1) fic where lyf had a tail & immediately decided that was canon #the mechanisms #the mechs #hnoc #galahad hnoc #high noon over camelot #lyfrassir edda #lyf tbi #the bifrost incident #rose red #once upon a time in space #ouatis #ouatis cinders #galahad slander is Not allowed thats my baby girl #short king rights abdkgkgkd #my art

[curiositykilledtheradiostar]

sorry we used your girlfriend in an unethical cloning experiment. she's the new genetic base for an army now. yeah, she has fought and she has bled. now eternity will see her dead. sorry.

#curio chatter #ouatis #your boyfriend meme #the mechanisms #once upon a time in space

[ifthestarsarewilling]

Mechs albums have taught me:

OUAT(IS): love conquers evil. gays rule, old men drool

UDAD: the government hates you

HNOC: racism caused global warming

TBI: eldritch trains kill people, or make you snakes if you're gay enough for the mind-bending squamous beings

DTTM: gay people dying is very sad, and the bury your gays trope transcends immortality

#the mechanisms #the bifrost incident #once upon a time in space #high noon over camelot #the mechs #death to the mechanisms #ulysses dies at dawn #the mechanisms udad #udad #dttm #ouatis #the mechanisms band #hnoc

[rowan-on-the-moon]

*walks up to a lesbian couple* so, which one of you is waging war on a hundred worlds on a thousand battle grounds and which one took your name from the ashes of your burning planet

#the mechanisms #once upon a time (in space) #ouatis #rose ouatis #cinders ouatis #the mechs

[miralines]

happy fuck the rose and you as well sunday! in honor, I am posting my thoughts about the line in pump shanty, because god do I have thoughts!

there are no rose reds at that point, right? they're fleeing the wedding. The only Rose explicitly in canon is... Rose. Snow's sister, who's just been kidnapped. Even for Greyditch, this seems... a little insensitive, to say the least.

But! There's also the phrasing. It's not "fuck Rose." It's "fuck the Rose."

See also Our Boy Jack. "When the red Rose, it comes a'marching," and "when the Rose comes over the water." Now, these could very concievably both refer to the Rose Reds, but consider: what if they don't?

What if the Rose is an established Crown insignia? Greyditch isn't saying fuck Rose, he's saying fuck the Crown. This makes a lot more sense in context.

This leads me to believe that Rose was named for the Crown symbol, which. Adds whole new layers to everything that happens to her. Woman destined from birth, by her name, to be a tool for Cole. I think her parents saw her red hair (the Crown’s color) and named her for it, in the hopes she’d continue their family’s legacy of serving the king. And she did, and every one of her clones did, to hundreds of thousands of deaths…

#this also plays nicely with Travis gunpowderdtim’s headcanon that giants in our boy Jack refers to the rose reds #as in giants is a slang term/slur for them #but that’s not terribly relevant to the main point of Rose vs The Rose #she never had a chance really… #the mechanisms #the mechs #ouatis #rose ouatis #once upon a time in space #my meta #don’t even get me started on her family legacy and WHY they’re one of the noblest families…. #or rather my headcanon for why they are

[oh-peacemaker-oh-warmonger]

posting it here too actually...... was thinking about rose a lot today

#the mechanisms #ouatis #rose red #id in alt

[amelie-isnt-french]

"Jonny 'I don't write happy endings' Sims" this, "Jonny sits in his castle of screams and tortures characters" that - every story that man has put out into the universe is three raccoons called Hope, Humanity and Love wrapped up in a trenchcoat of horror and his writing gives me hope that us humans aren't completely doomed maybe.

Try to change my mind, but you can't!

#jonny sims #the magnus archives is a podcast distributed by rusty quill and is single-handedly powering my will to live #when you think you're signing up for horror media #and instead you get gut-wrenching stories of the power of love #something something #the indomitable human spirit #shitpost #question mark? #the mechanisms #ouatis #udad #hnoc #tbi #tma podcast #family business #thirteen storeys #attention ali

[minimalist-wallpaper]

Based on the album Once Upon A Time In Space by The Mechanisms

#the mechanisms #once upon a time in space #ouatis #the mechs #wallpaper #phone wallpaper #illustrator

[candlecoo-sideb-art]

i would KILL to see rose and cinders

I'll give a Snow if you don't kill.

#the mechs #the mechanisms au #the mechanisms #once upon a time in space #ouatis #snow ouatis #cinders ouatis #rose ouatis #my art #digital art #fan art #art #the mechs fanart

[secretlyhuntokar]

(Also including the super long songs bc I love them)

((This is how I find out every album starts with the album name except dttm))

#the mechanisms #polls #ouatis #udad #hnoc #tbi #dttm #gptvtmk #frankenstein the mechanisms #alice the mechanisms

[cryptile]

Hey hey shhh dont cry- twenty theee warriors and a king, laid in blood when the battle has done

#julian posting #the mechanisms #ouatis #once upon a time in space

[reegis]

Happily Ever [ERROR]

#the mechanisms #once upon a time (in space) #ouatis #cinders ouatis #briar rose ouatis #blood #death #tw blood #tw death #hello lads how are we feeling :^) #literally been thinking abt drawing this interaction for SO LON G #my art

[allthedoorsareopennow]

I'm feeling soo normal about how fucking beautiful jonny's voice is in rose red

also can we talk about the really cool round thing TS and jonny do??

open fire, opEN FIRE! is a kind of gender I think

#jonny d’ville #rose red #ouatis #original post #the mechanisms #the toy soldier

[bisexual-lemon1]

I wanna talk about the main four mechanisms albums, and the ways in which they tackle tragedy. This shouldn’t be too long, and I’m kinda new to writing essays like this, but it seemed like fun.

Firstly OUATIS, I could go on and on abour OUATIS, like how the tragedy of OUATIS is baked into the genre. from the get go it’s about war and trauma and fascism, all things that while not exclusively, lend themselves to death and murder. You can listen to the first half of OUATIS and realize “oh shit, everyone involved is gonna die” by genre and the thematics of it alone.

Because that’s what war does

That’s what war is

For UDAD it’s a little more esoteric, and I probably have the least to say about it cuz it’s not my least Favoirte, not bad, just my least favorite. I think the best way to describe it is the line from twisted threads “how can you expect to escape if you were caught in a web before you began.” It’s made clear from the base set up that the olympians control everything, and as much as a heroic victory and triumph would be nice, some things just truly are too big to fail. Though arguably, amongst all the albums it has the best ending, the Olympians may not be brought down(in the album), the city might not be saved

But Ulysses gets to die, truly die and rest.

Something billions, perhaps trillions had stolen from them.

HNOC is definitely one of my favorites on this, being such a distinct and fun story and narrative. The tragedy is of the people themselves, and in a way I think it makes it the “most tragedy” out of the four, all of its preventable, yet entirely understandable. Hell, “just this once there could be a happy ending” is literally a line in it. Mordred’s actions are deplorable and violent and ruin everything but they’re understandable. He lost everything, why should the world live? It’s a dip into true nihilism and whag could lead someone to feel that way. Sometimes worlds are saved, and sometimes they aren’t. Sometimes worlds are killed, sometimes they simply grow old, but sometimes they kill themselves. And I think what makes it the most special compared to the other three is when it becomes doomed. OUATIS is about a bloody war, UDAD they were born into a web, TBI yhe conflict itself was resolved 80 years before the modern day the story is told through. But HNOC wasnt doomed from the start, the station wasn’t guaranteed to die, the Saxons weren’t guaranteed to be slaughtered. Yet nonetheless they were.

And finally TBI, now it’s what rly got my brain going on all of this, because I had the question “where does the tragedy become inevitable?” And frankly, there’s a lot of answers. TBI is doomed because the nuclear chaos was on its way before lyfrassir was even before. Because Odin wouldn’t stop no matter what. Because even if they hadn’t of messed with kyvasir there would have been dozens of other bifrost trains. But more than ALL OF THAT I think that the tragedy is inevitable because, as the album says. “A day, a week, a thousand years, means naught to what the train draws near.” It doesn’t matter, even if Loki’s missile had killed Odin and stopped the bifrost, someone else would have come along. Even the victory we got in the album itself, it wasn’t a victory, it was merely a prolonging, inevitable death was merely stalled, that’s the closest thing anyone could ever get to victory against the roiling nuclear chaos.

#the mechanisms #the bifrost incident #TBI #once upon a time in space #OUATIS #high noon over camelot #HNOC #UDAD #ulysses dies at dawn #essay