#the mechansims
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“Von Raum” (derogatory)
“Inspector Lyf” (affectionate)
#the mechansims#the mechs#lyfrassir edda#baron marius von raum#violinspector#lyfrassir x Marius#lyf x Marius#tbi#the bifrost incident
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gunpowder tim’s high notes in Hereward the Wake <3
gunpowder tim’s low notes in Stranger <3
gunpowder tim <3
#gunpowder tim#gp tim#the mechansims#the mechs#i may be aroace#but i’m still gay for him#okay but he could share some of that gender with me#he has so much gender it’s unfair
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Round 1 poll 28: Raboneil from The Stormlight Archives vs Nastya Rasputina from the Mechanisms
#Raboneil#The Stormlight Archives#the mechansims#Nastya Rasputina#slss round one#slss polls#slss round one polls#tournament poll
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Y’all ever think about the Bifrost incident?
How some of the final thoughts swirling in Loki’s brain are of Baldur’s death (sunlight and it’s merry song) and her regret of it?
How she, an asgardian, feel in love and married a midguarduan? The romance that is implied here?!?
How Thor, for all his flaws, is a man who sees what is in front of him? He’s not like Odin, a distant architect guiding her people from afar, he’s an engineer working directly with his hands, caring for his people and never got the chance to take over and perhaps eventually lead to change? (Source: extrapolation from how he seems to be set as a contrast to Odin)
How Tyr’s lost hand implies that the Fenrir gambit from the myths could’ve happened? Meaning Tyr could’ve been somewhat of a double agent, friend of Fenrir, until a final betrayal?
And of course poor Lyf. A little alternate universe Jon, isn’t he. He has all the warning signs by red signal, he’s seen the terror by The Calling, and he knows it’s coming by Jormungandr. He doesn’t need to keep watching, he doesn’t need to make the report. He knows nobody will hear it, it won’t make a difference. But he needs to know, to fully understand, to record this information. he won’t be another mystery.
#the bifrost incident#the mechs#the mechansims#lyfrassir edda#it’s 1am and I think things instead of sleeping
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drumbot filled with insatiable rust. thank you thank you
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I'm still so mad at Jonny for writing such a beautiful scene of love winning from greed and hope that things might work out and then proceeds to kill everyone barely a sentence later /pos
#“3 shots rang out from the shadows of the doorway”#I am going to find you Jonny and I will kill you and then I will kill myself#I love trsgedies but ough the false hope hurts so much#the mechansims#high noon over camelot
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A toy soldier, Tim, and an octokitten inspired by my octokitten Nameless. click for higher quality :)
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Jonny d'Ville stimboard for @twopairsofeyes! [sources]
~L.P.
#the hold this bastard man has on me#am I allowed to say bastard here? idk#stimboard#stim#jonny d'ville#the mechansims#the mechs#originals#request queue#guns //
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“Riddle of the Sphinx” in Ancient Greek
Translation:
”τὸ τῆς Σφιγγός αἴνιγμα”
ὀρφανεύομενος
ἐν τῇ πενιῇ ἐπόνησα
τὴν ἰατρικήν ἐκπονήσων
πᾶσι γεραιρόμενων
οὐκ εἶδον τοὺς Ὀλύμπιους
λάθρᾳ τὴν τιμήν τεκόντα
εἶτα συνηξάμην
ἐμαυτόν παρά τὴν Σφιγγά
CHORUS:
ὁ τετράπους τῇ ἕῳ
ὁ δίπους τῇ ἡμερᾷ
ὁ τρίπους τῇ ἑσπερᾷ
σῶματος καὶ νόος ἀποφθίνοντος
.
δεινός νόσος
τοὺς ἀτημέλητους
πένητας καταβάλλῶν
ἐν αὐτοῖς
αὔξην ἐπείγει
τοῦ μηνός θάνουνται
οἱ παιδές
γερουσιν εἴξουσιν
ὅι ὡς κλάειν οὐ μεμαθήκασιν
τὸ αὖον νέκρος καίτοι παῖς
CHORUS
ἐτή πόλλα πεῖραν
ἐποιησάμην
τὸν γένος ζητέων
ἁι πόλλαι
πεῖραι προχωροῦσιν
σὺν τῷ φαρμακῷ
τὸ ἐκβαῖνον
τὰν κακήν σύστασιν
πρὸς Ὀλυπιῆς ἀθανασιῆς
δε τοῖς Ὀλύμπιοῖς εἶπον
CHORUS
FATHER:
Οἰδίπου
σύ μὴ ταράσσε
ἡ σκέψις δεινή γίγνεται
νὖν παύου
ἐργόν ἀλλό εὕρε
ἤ τόδε σὲ φθερεῖ
OEDIPUS:
ὅστις ἄν
ἐμοί γ`ἀπειλέῃ
τήν ἐμής ὀργήν ἔξει
τοῦ ἐμοῦ ἐργοῦ μὴ ἅπτου
CHORUS x2
οἱ Ὀλύμπιοι ἔμαθον
τὴν τῆς ἀθανασιῆς τῖμην
τὸν ἔλεον ἔσκηψαντο
τῶν τοὺς κείμενους πενθέντων
εὑρίσκειν ὄδον ἥν
βλάβην μη ἐπάξουσην ὤμοσαν
μοι τὸν πλουτον ἔδοσαν
εἰσήγαγον γυναῖκα μοι
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Transliteration:
“to tēs Sphingos ainigma”
orphaneuomenos
en tē peniē eponēsa
tēn iātrikēn ekponēsōn
pasi gerairomenōn
ouk eidon tous Olympious
lathrā tēn tīmēn tekonta
eita synēxamēn
emauton para tēn Sphinga
CHORUS:
ho tetrapous tē heō
ho dipous tē hēmera
ho tripous tē hespera
sōmatos kai noös apophthinontos
.
deinos nosos
tous atēmelētous
penētas kataballōn
en autois
auxēn epeigei
tou mēnos thanountai
hoi paides
gerousin eixousin
hoi hōs klāein ou memathēkāsin
to auon nekros kaitoi pais
CHORUS
etē polla peiran
epoiēsamēn
ton genos zēteōn
hai pollai
peirai prokhōrousin
syn tō pharmakō
to ekbainon
tan kakēn systasis
pros Olypiēs āthanasiēs
de tois Olympiois eipon
CHORUS
FATHER:
Oidipou
tous mē tarasse
hē skepsis deinē gignetai
nyn pauou
ergō allō heure
ē tode se phtherei
OEDIPUS:
hostis an
emoi g'apeileē
tēn emēs orgēn exei
tou emou ergou mē haptou
CHORUS x2
hoi Olympioi emathon
tēn tēs āthanasiēs tīmēn
ton eleon eskēpsanto
tōn tous keimenous penthentōn
heuriskein odon hēn
blabēn me epaxousēn ōmosan
moi ton plouton edosan
eisēgagon gynaika moi
.
Back Translation:
“The Riddle of the Sphinx”
Being an orphan
I struggled in poverty
In order to learn the doctor’s art
And be praised by all
I did not know that the Olympians
Secretly engendered my honor
Then I engaged
Myself against the Sphinx
CHORUS:
Four-legged in the morning
Two-legged in the day
Three-legged in the evening
While body and mind waste away
.
A terrible disease
The uncared-for
Poor striking
In them
Accelerates growth
They will die within the month
The children
Will resemble old men
Who have not learned how to cry
A withered corpse, and yet a child
CHORUS
For many years
I experimented
Studying its kind
They at last
Succeeded
With the cure
The consequence
The evil substance
From Olympian immortality
And I told the Olympians
CHORUS
FATHER:
Oedipus
Don’t you make trouble
The research becomes dangerous
Cease now
Find other work
Or this will destroy you
OEDIPUS:
Whoever, if
You threaten me
You will feel my wrath
Don’t interfere with my work
CHORUS x2
The Olympians learned
The cost of the immortality
They feigned pity
While they mourned the fallen
To find a way which
Would not lead to harm they swore
They gave me riches
They led my wife to me
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Translator’s notes:
Line 1: It’s very cool how Ancient Greek has a verb just for existing as an orphan. It’s not very cool how there’s no way to phrase incorrectly thinking one exists as an orphan in a way that fits into the original line.
Line 4: I think I’ve implied that Oedipus became a doctor just for the status a bit more strongly than is warranted.
Lines 5–6: I tried put back in that Oedipus has secret rich parents using a verb that can mean “create” both in a building and a birthing sense. I used the same verb (τίκτω) in “Broken Horses,” though, so there’s a weird implication in at least one of these songs.
Lines 23–32: A lot of medical and scientific terms happen to come from Ancient Greek without the good manners to have equivalents in the language of origin. The technobabble (biobabble?) in the translation is consequently a lot more vague than in the original.
Line 51: “To lead in a wife” (εἰσάγω γυναῖκα) is a euphemism for marriage. It suggests a bit more direct involvement by the Olympians than in the original, but it seems to me like there’s a bit of a dearth in good introductory verbs.
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Questions and suggestions welcome.
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Starting Death To The Mechanisms
I
I just
Mr. D’Ville sir your commentary is everything to me
I’m so sad
I just
Sugshwugsidhvdiwisbdnndnfbdhd
PAIN
AAAAAAAAAA
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Okay, you know that scene in Catwoman v.1 where Selina begs Maggie to scream, cry, lash out, & curse her rather than turn to a darker version of herself?
I need you to understand that, if it were written with any sense of integrity, that would be the attitude Bruce has towards Jason post-resurrection. At least after becoming privy to the fact that Jason does not personally blame Bruce for his death.
In my opinion, Bruce would sell his arm for a penny on a streetcorner providing it gave Jason non-homicidal means of coping, for Jason to view him as responsible, as a second murderer. For him to curse "hereoism", & vigilantes, & the whole fucking lifestyle- decry it as an unbelievable farce & leave it all behind to go back to being Jason Todd of Crime Alley, who only did what he had to do to survive. Bruce would be so far beyond willing to carry that weight if it meant his boy would be off the track of his homicidally self-destructive rampage. If it meant Jason realizing he is more than just a revenant, that he is alive, that he can have a life.
The only way it makes any sense to me is if Bruce would accept, even embrace a world in which Jason views him as a horrible dad, an irredeemable piece of shit who is directly responsible for his murder, if it just meant that Jason did not have to utterly sacrafice his sense of humanity & compassion to make it through the world. He'd give near anything for it or it makes no sense. That's his son. His son who was dead but is now alive, for all he does not seem to grasp that himself.
Also he should have let Jason pop the clown. Not even for ethical reasons, but in the chase of giving Jason a chance at the realization in the world they do live in where Jason will not allow himself to view Bruce that way. Because he refuses to harm his son, or let him be taken in another explosion. Not when he just got him back, not when his son has not even gotten the chance to truly come back to life.
(I also think it would be a far more interesting jumping-off point post-utrh for Jason, but that's somewhat besides the point.)
#like when it's said bruce should be continually grieving for jason it shouldn't just be for robin jay but a jay who sees his value as a#human being rather than near-nothing more than a symbol of violent retribution.#and i stand by that.#but yeah this is also why i think the idea of Leslie being majorly involved in Jason's immediate post utrh arc would have been genius.#like she is literally the epitome of “i am going to critique vigilantism both politically & as a coping mechansim” in the bat mythos & more#over she would be Jason's ideological diometric opposite at that point as a pacifist & they have a history together meaning it would not#only be some who witnessed the climate of Gotham in the aftermath of his death but also someone who knew HIM before it. & like positioning#them as not neccessarily opposing sides while still being in conflict at first only for that to lead to development over time as jason heal#& WITH HER CONNECTION TO THE GOTHAM WORKING CLASS TO TOP IT OFF... we were robbed.#it also fits with my personal heavy insistence that Jason's healing arc have nothing to do with Bruce for like... a solid couple in-univers#years. it's important for jason to heal with agency & his own ideological growth & emotional reconciling.#bruce wayne#bruce & jason#dc#dc comics#jason todd#dc meta#batman meta#red hood
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#art#sona#me#coping mechansim: draw yourself doing the out of touch thursday dance#mental health is not doing too well :')
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I really like the Bifrost Incident.
So let’s take a look at a few of my favorite details
- Lífþrasir is one of the two humans to survive ragnarok, Edda is of course a reference to the Eddas
- Odin cannot kill Loki in Norse myth (blood brothers) so he chains up Loki in a punishment worse then death —> Odin does not kill Loki, instead mutating her brain
- “All I can recall is sunshine, and it’s merry song” while perhaps just referencing being imprisoned, it also could reference Baldur and a remorse for killing him
- MISSILE TWO JESUS CHRIST JONNY (Loki killed Baldur with mistletoe”
- Garm is referenced as a hound that guards hel’s gate, with associations with the twilight of the gods
- Hati and Skoll are the wolves that chase the Sun and moon, and when they catch the bodies that signals the end times— they’ve finally caught up
Kinda cool that the gang that Sigyn brings are all wolves
- Kvarsir was the god of poetry, turned to a wine (kinda?) through trickery by Odin, which he drunk, giving him even more knowledge
- Heimdall is the first to die- he is the one who signals the end times with his horn “he’s skinned alive by his own cry the end is neigh”, he’s also a far-seer so only his eyes remain
- Frey is killed by Surt, the king of the fire giants, represented by a giant sun. For his wife he lost his sword and it was prophesied that without his sword he’d die to surt => “no weapon, no defense, as his void burnt flesh is flayed”
- Odr is obscure, but he is Freya’s husband, who leaves for some reason, causing Freya to cry red-gold. I could not find anything on Freya’s death
- Tyr lost his hand to Fenris’s mouth when they bound him (implication is Tyr could’ve been a spy involved in Fenrir’s capture), he regrows it only to die in battle with Garm, as is prophesied
- Odin becomes Jormungandur, the one prophesied to kill Thor. The emphasis on the one eye is interesting because the lost eye was a sacrifice for knowledge.
- Interestingly Odin might be one of the few who escaped her fate, (aside from Loki, perhaps the only one?) she’s supposed to die to Fenrir. I take this as an indication of how much she’s warped the plot by calling outer gods
- For his transgressions, Loki was locked under the world, tied to a table with a snake dripping poison into his eyes above him. Sigyn joined him, holding a bowl to keep the poison at bay. —> How they delay the train :(
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bandom shipping is like south park shipping to me
#like it’s meant to rile you up. i never see the MECHANSIMS of audience retention more clearly than during allegation bait#purposeful or not
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Debating whether to post the video of me singing the hanged man rusts upside down from a tree because on one hand, posting my voice? And self? On the internet? Bad idea. But on the other hand, it's the funniest shit ever.
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th1s v1de0 makes me feel a way
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l1ke the mechan1sm 1s s00000 prety and the way 1t z00ms 1n at t1mes just <p0s> guhhhhhhhhhhhhh </p0s> y0u kn0w?
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