#alexandria archives

[interwovenllc]

Were you a member of the Nightshade Network? Do you remember joining it and thinking to yourself "Wow, this is great! But it would be better simpler, slower, and less drama filled." Good news! I, Mane3d, am going to give it another go. I was co-Admin with Primrose at the servers height, and the team and I at the time did 99% of the work to make the server what it was. Our goal as a team was always to have a community hub, despite what Prim may have wanted from us instead.

This time around we are going to take all the best from NN and leave the rest. Starting over, clean slate, and this time, we aren't trying to build a cult of personality, we aren't trying to squeeze money or affection out of people, we are just trying to make a welcoming place for all members of all practices. Join me as we go through this process again, slower, steadier, and a whole lot happier.

#nightshade network #primrose #nightshadeandroses #mane3d #alexandria archives #nn #witchcraft #magic #pagan #witch #occult #discord #witchy

[kimbureh]

speaking of Ao3 not being a social medium:

it will always need money. It’s an archive. Even if they meet their yearly donation aim now without any problem doesn’t mean it will be like this in 5 years, in 10 years, in 80 years. Yeah you read that right. Ao3 is an Archive. It intends to be available forever. Like a library. Because Ao3 *is* a library. If you want to keep your library, you wouldn’t cut its budget just because it did well last year. Maintaining a library creates running expenses. The purpose of an archive is to preserve data indefinitely, and this costs money.

#ao3 #internet #okay the way we use the word library today is not the same as an archive; i mean library as in library of alexandria

[burningvelvet]

if the significance of the internet archive being threatened has been lost on anyone, maybe these quick comparisons will put it into perspective…

Banning the Internet Archive would be the equivalent of burning the Library of Alexandria hundreds of times…

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#internet archive #hachette v. internet archive #save the internet archive #save internet archive #literature #dark academia #english literature #history #writing #reading #books #bookblr #book #library #libraries #save libraries #digital library #digital libraries #accessibility #library of alexandria #lit major #literature major #light academia #chaotic academia #academia #image described

[reegis]

May we see what would happen if Jon archivist and Jonny switched places for a day?

what one more kidnapping, eh Jon?

meanwhile….

#do Not ask me what season of tma this is supposed to be bc i have no idea #the mechanisms #tma #lord theres so many characters to tag augh #jonathan sims #jonny d'ville #ashes o'reilly #gunpowder tim #drumbot brian #ivy alexandria #raphaella la cognizi #toy soldier #timothy stoker #sasha james #martin blackwood #jonny solves every magnus archives problem in one day by simply burning it to the ground & vaporizing magnus’ dusty ol corpse #& jon gets even more mannequin trauma #asks #my art

[magic-dustt]

The way I would sell my soul just to have one person who would be willing to lie on the floor with me and listen to my favorite podcasts. Am I asking for too much? I know you'd like Limetown, I know you'd like TMA, I know you'd like Archive 81. Why won't anyone just lie on the floor with me, goddammit…

#podcast #podcasts #tma #the magnus archives #welcome to night vale #limetown #archive 81 #queer #ars paradoxica #alice isn't dead #blackwood #inkwyrm #malevolent #old gods of appalachia #the Alexandria archives #the beacon #the bright sessions #the penumbra podcast #bookblr #the sheridan tapes #valence #wolf 359

[the-southern-cereal-king]

Fans of The Magnus Protocol and The Magnus Archives, PLEASE go listen to The Mechanisms if you haven’t already. It’s a band Johnny Sims is in, and it’s phenomenal

#the magnus archives #magnus archives #the magnus protocol #johnathan sims #johnny sims #johnny d’ville #the aurora #gunpowder tim #nastya rasputina #ashes o'reilly #ulysses dies at dawn #the bifrost incident #once upon a time in space #the mechs #the mechanisms #raphaella la cognizi #the toy soldier #drumbot brian #ivy alexandria #marius von raum

[puppetmaster203]

Happy new years fellow mechs and tma fans hope your year is full of statements and drunk space pirates

#the mechanisms #dr carmilla #jonny d'ville #the magnus archives #the magnus institute #gunpowder tim #drumbot brian #nastya rasputina #jonathan sims #ivy alexandria #raphaella la cognizi #marius von raum

[stars-are-shining-bright]

i will never be not insane about the fact that Ivy's backstory song didn't get archived

#SHE SPENT ALL HER LIFE ARCHIVING AND DIED IN A SHIP FULL OF BORUNG BOOKS JUST SO THEY COULD SURVIVE #YET WE DO NOT HAVE A RECORD OF HER SONG #the mechanisms #ivy alexandria #i am so sos soso nornal about this information (<- lying)

[lordzukosnosehair]

So I realized that besides announcing commissions, I haven’t really shared these dudes. I have a lot more, but these are my favorites :)

As always, these dudes and others are available on my Redbubble

#the magnus archives #magpod #rusty quill #the mechanisms #mechs #the mechs #jonathan sims #martin blackwood #elias bouchard #michael distortion #gerry keay #tma gerry #melanie king #gunpowder tim #nastya #nastya rasputina #ivy alexandria #ashes #ashes o'reilly #tim stoker #timothy stoker #tma #tma fanart #lordzukosgoober #goober

[alicemain0541]

I don’t think I’m ready to accept what this means about me. On the bright side at least I supported the mechs.

#the mechanisms #the mechs #rusty quil gaming #rusty quill podcast #the magnus archives #spotify wrapped #Spotify wrapped 2023 #gunpowder tim #ivy alexandria #the toy soldier #baron marius von raum #dr carmilla #drumbot brian #raphaella la cognizi #jonny dville #ashes o’reilly #nastya rasputina #takes to be told #the bifrost incident #high noon over camelot #ulysses dies at dawn #cry havoc ask questions later #stellar firma #once upon a time in space #tales to be told vol 2 #death to the mechanisms

[therainbowtea]

The Mechs as Fear Avatars (Plus Marks)

D'ville: Avatar of the Slaughter, hints of the Flesh and the Desolation (maybe marked by it). This man has commented every crime, he is the Slaughter. Plus, he ate people, that might be the Flesh but I'm unsure.

Nastya: Avatar of the Lonely. Just everything about her points towards the Lonely to me.

Tim: Avatar of the Slaughter. He blew up the moon and was fueled by anger, it's the Slaughter.

Ivy: Avatar of the Eye. She's a nerd (who we loved dearly <3) and wants that knowledge from all the books she reads.

Brian: Avatar of the Eye, marked by the Lonely. The Eye because of all that stuff he just knew in HNOC and the Lonely because of the line in 'Lost in the Cosmos': "Lost in the cosmos lonely". Could also be marked by the Vast due to him being in space for so long TWICE.

Raph: Avatar of the Vast. She threw herself into a black hole "just to find out what would happen". It's the Vast. Also because she has wings, but that's not my main reason why.

Marius: Avatar of the Spiral. This man just SCREAMS Spiral to me. A lot of what he did was to trick people (as far as I know, but I could be wrong) and it would just be the most fun to imagine.

TS: Avatar of the Stranger (who'd of guessed). I mean, come on, it's TS who is played by Jessica Law who played Orsinov. I think we all knew this was coming.

Ashes: Avatar of the Desolation. They fucking set a whole planet on fire, what more needs to be said?

Dr. Camilla: Avatar of the End. She might not be the End as in "The End", but the End as in bringing people by to life after they die. Also I just think it's cool.

All of them are marked by the End (dying and Camilla turning them into Mechs)

#the mechanisms #the magnus archives #tma #tma headcanons #tma fears #jonny d'ville #gunpowder tim #nastya rasputina #ivy alexandria #drumbot brian #raphaella la cognizi #marius von raum #the toy soldier #ashes o'reilly #dr carmilla #I thought about this while at work a couple days ago and it hasn't left my mind since #my thoughts

[saym0-0]

what do you think the mechs would be avatars of? my first thought was slaughter for the group as a whole bc,, duh. but now that im thinking about it, i think they'd be more eye/end aligned. because their whole thing is stories and the part they clearly deem most important is the end right? theres all the blood and gore in the middle but the important bit is everyone dies at the end

individually though, not as a whole group they're all sorts of stuff i think

ashes would be desolation for sure with all the fire and the likes, and hades makes me think web too? they're the one behind the scenes pulling the strings (granted, usually for their own entertainment but who can blame em really)

toy soldier would be stranger, once again for obvious reasons. im not really sure if theres much crossover on this one really.

jonny i reckon would be eye and slaughter, mans cares for two things and its violent crime and a good story (amen!)

brian is SO lonely coded like?? its in the backstory song man,, also vague end-ness probably, though tbf they probably all have that end cloud by virtue of being the mechanisms. maybe vast too

tim would be slaughter too, he loves a good murder spree but i feel like theres something else and ive just forgotten like half the fears lmao OUGH hunt maybe? tim goes crazy is very hunt coded

ivy is SO immensely eye. she's literally an archivist. she gathers and stores aaallll that information but her emotional connection to it is reset every night. thats so eye!!

nastya is definitely lonely, at least towards the end but probably the whole time (from what little i know of cyberian demons) and maybe dark? that ones 100% vibes i have no explanation

marius has very spiral vibes i think. hes just a silly guy ur honour i think he deserves it. i cant really think of any other one for him tbh

and raph is quite stranger coded i think, idk the detachment from humanity that comes with being a mad scientist just feels very stranger to me? more so than the average mechs detatchment from humanity

i dont know why i made this post but ive been rotating end/eye mechs in my brain for a couple days just because i think the idea of s5 jmart stumbling across a domain thats kind of an accumulation of the various album aettings and music that can be heard from anywhere in the domain and victims living/reliving the parts of the characters is very very cool and i needed to word vomit it somewhere

#grah this is horribly articulated but in my defence its 3:30am rn and im too sick to sleep #the mechanisms #the mechs #tma #the magnus archives #the fears #the fear entities #ashes o'reilly #the toy soldier #jonny d'ville #drumbot brian #gunpowder tim #ivy alexandria #nastya rasputina #marius von raum #raphaella la cognizi #cor thats a fuckin chore writing all those out #i am aware!! that i did not use all the fears but in my defence #the ones i didnt use didnt fit em right #if u saw the version of this wjere i forgot to delete my checklists to make aure i didnt forget anybody no u didnt

[virtueisdead]

friendly reminder that if the internet archive were successfully taken down, the bare minimum result would be a loss of media 528,673 times that of the library of the burning of the library of alexandria. (by the number of items held)

#kingvirtueisdead #the internet #the internet archive #nonprofit #nonprofits #information loss #book burning #library #libraries #library of Alexandria

[one-time-i-dreamt]

Jonathan Sims from TMA and Ivy Alexandria from The Mechanisms were in my kitchen, drinking tea. They seemed confused by my presence.

#dream #jonathan sims #the magnus archives #tma #ivy alexandria #the mechanisms #kitchen #tea #drinking

[fruttaseccx]

Don't mind me posting all my old and new Mechs fanarts (part 1)

And yes the first one is Uni!jarchivist band au

The third one is from a painting of some soldier that I found on my history book

#the magnus archives #the mechanisms #the mechanisms band #steampunk #the mechanisms fanart #jonny d'ville #nastya rasputina #the toy soldier #dr carmilla #raphaella la cognizi #gunpowder tim #drumbot brian #ashes o'reilly #ivy alexandria #marius von raum

[harpie-raven]

Guys guys guys

I found The Mechanisms at work today

Get it? Get it? Because they’re all ga—

#the mechanisms #the mechanisms band #jonny d'ville #the toy soldier #gunpowder tim #Raphala La Cognitzi #baron marius von raum #ivy alexandria #nastya rasputina #drumbot brian #doctor carmilla #I love them sm #chaotic bitches #the lot of them #the Magnus archives #Jonathan sims #TMA #ashes o’reilly