a conspiracy of cartographers

Still yelling into the void about the Mechanisms! Still more or less on track to write one Mechs fic a month, too -- like, I last posted a complete fic in May, and here we are in July, but given that I did all 79k of this one in June and July, I think we can reasonably say that still counts as about a fic a month.

lies we tell the universe, Nastya/Toy Soldier, Jonny/Tim, Marius/Raphaella, Mechs ensemble

If there was one thing Nastya's kid brother didn't need, it was to be told that he was a god. But here he was, wrapped in dark leather with makeup lines of black lightning spiderwebbing across his face, surrounded by a massive crowd of worshipful enablers.

(Every ninety years eight gods return as young people. They are loved. They are hated. In two years, they are all dead. It's happening now. It's happening again.)

Iiiiit's a The Wicked + the Divine AU! A lot of them play D&D in horrible tunnels! I had so much fun writing it!!

Look sometimes you and your housemates start imagining ever-more-elaborate weird games that the Mechs might play given that they enjoy violence and cannot die, and then you find yourself writing several thousand words of silly nonsense about it. So, uh, here we are!

Spin the Knife, Jonny d'Ville/Mechs ensemble
As described.

(I keep trying to write Mechs fic that isn't from Jonny's POV, but it goes at a normal pace, and then I start anything from Jonny's POV and entire absurd fics just fall right out.)

Happy 2021, I have already finished a fic! It is, uh. Well, I was having a bunch of Magnus Archives feelings, and then me + my housemates all went on a collective bender where we listened to every Mechanisms album within a week, and on the other side of it I have emerged blearily to discover that the first fic featuring cannibalism that I'm putting on the internet is not a Hannibal story but instead one about chaotic immortal space pirates.

Stave Off the Boredom (with Fire and Food), Jonny d'Ville/Ashes O'Reilly, Jonny d'Ville/Gunpowder Tim

Jonny opened his mouth to point out, crankily, that everyone on this ship was a fucking pedant and only Ashes had the thimbleful of brain necessary to understand that obviously he was asking about kinks they'd enjoyed, when Tim said, "Maybe the question should be, what's the kinkiest thing you've never done that you want to try?"

Feat: unsafe wax play, lots of body horror, cannibalism and chill, other bizarreness. I'm slightly worried because the entire Mechs tag seems to be earnest kids from the same discord server, and they all seem lovely but I'm coming in with ... this. Lol.