#gunpowder tim blows up the moon

[just-an-enby-lemon]

"The Mechanisms were Jonathan Sims college band" and "Jon is the secret real past of Jonny D'ville" are both great takes but I present "Jon's descend into an unwilling antichirst figure is The Mecs new album and Jonny plays him in the songs because they just have very similar voices for some reason."

#tma #the magnus archives #the mechanisms #jonathan sims #jonny d'ville #the mechs singing about Jon's life and interacting with it as a way to get more of the story is fun #ashes would love to join the corrupt avatar old men group for the maniuplation #they would be in all elias and peter divorce and marriage parties #Jonny is angry that people actually call Peter capitain #he is also at all grifters bones shows #and even played with them once or twice #breakon and hope accidentally adopt the toy soldier for a while #ivy helps jon be a proper archivist #marius tries to psicoanalyse elias #jonny is also just melanies bestie #she call him better jon #brian and jon discuss what it is to be human #gunpowder tim makes a whole presentation about why blowing up the moon is cooler than blowing up some clowns and he is the better tim #he also gives weapons to Martin #ralph becames an eye avatar somehow #manuella and brian insult suns together #ashes and anabelle became besties #ashes annabelle and jude perry go to parties together #ashes also hangs with gertrude and agnes they might have helped them became a couple because they now tragic saphics is a mecs classic #nastya just chills with her girlfriend at earths orbity and accidentaly saves dark sacrifice space guy and lonely experiment guy #she also bonds with manuela they discuss about spaceships and suns #she and aurora add manuella to spicy their sex life for a bit as a friend with benefit of both

[miralines]

While we’re talking about war crimes. With the massive caveat that I am not an expert on international law, I think that legally speaking, Tim blowing up the moon may not technically qualify as a war crime. Because most of the provisions about excessive destruction specify that you have to knowingly be causing excessive destruction, and I’m not sure whether it’s clear Tim meant to blow up the entire moon, or just the Kaiser’s palace. So if hypothetically speaking I were Tim’s lawyer (though I am still not an expert) I’d probably be arguing that the cannon setting off a chain reaction with the rest of the bombs on the moon was an unforeseeable side effect, and thus an accident, and that it does not legally qualify as a war crime.

That said, the rampage of Tim Goes Crazy is very clearly a war crime (or series of war crimes) based on the Geneva Convention’s provision that quarter must be given.

#I think the kaiser's palace would fall under fair game as a military objective? #if not by the letter of the law at least probably in practice #the mechanisms #gunpowder tim #gunpowder tim vs the moon kaiser #see also the fact that I think blowing up the entirety of enemy territory would count as winning the war #and I'm genuinely uncertain how many people have been successfully procescuted as war criminals from the winning side #fun? fact: the line between business as usual and war crime seems to be... worryingly thin and blurry #with a lot of don't do this unless you can tell us specifically how it will help you win #anyway file this under weird extremely specific somehwat concerning research I have done for Mechs Fandom Purposes

[find-me-in-hell]

look im not saying that timbertie WERE lovers but i am saying that going on an absolute rampage and blowing up the moon because your best friend died is kind of an insane reaction if you ask me, in the circumstances

#gunpowder tim #bertie the mechanisms #i actually see timbertie as a sort of 'too much shit was happening for them to have a chance' kind of thing #not insulting tim here btw #blow up the moon if it helps you babe #do whatever

[mag200]

all my haters become craters when i (gunpowder tim) blow up the moon

#the mechanisms

[moon-swag-tourney]

Propaganda below!

Gunpowder Tim

Stream Gunpowder Tim vs The Moon Kaiser (the story of how he blew up the moon)

he's immortal. he's gay. he's in a band. he's got eye motifs. he *blew up the moon*. he's british. he's from the future. everybody go listen to gpt vs the moon kaiser rn and you'll understand. ps it was soooo hard for me to pick a favorite image of him PLEASE look him up and look at him

Blowing up the moon not only, y'know, blew up the moon, but was a vital part of his story because he gained? Was given? Had forced upon him? immortality in response to his blowing up the moon (and also nearly himself). The moon is in fact very important to his story. Also, he blew up the moon because his best friend died in a war that took place there. Imagine someone blowing up a moon for you wouldn't that be so nice. I love Tim he's everything to me

HE BLEW UP THE MOON

Also he is so gender

He's incredibly gender and also a cool immortal space pirate

He blew up the moon!

There was a war between the Moon Kaiser and England because the Kaiser threatened to blow up London, and Tim and Bertie (his best friend) joined the army and were sent to the moon. After Bertie died, Tim went on a murderous rampage and killed a not-insignificant amount of the Kaiser's army, but was eventually captured. In the throne room where he was to be executed, he noticed two allies he had known from earlier in the war. Tim had them distract the Kaiser and his (the Kaiser's) soldiers while he pointed the cannon the Kaiser had threatened to blow up London with at the moon and lit the fuse. He got to an escape pod before it blew up, but didn't get the visor closed, and lost his eyes (and died) in the resulting explosion that blew up the moon.

Fandub Eggman

Destroyed a large part of the moon because he was mad at a hedgehog and also Obama I guess

#gunpowder tim #the mechanisms #fandub eggman #snapcube fandub #the mechanisms spoilers

[ceaseless-rambler]

Gunpowder Tim vs The Moon Kaiser is so good, and I needed to write something about it

There are many things that can be said about the setting, but for simplicity's sake, we'll leave it at a war story. And isn't that all that matters? Another war, just as meaningless as the rest. Another set of people, far too young for what they've been made to do, far too young to understand the propaganda they've been fed. So they enlist, not knowing any better. And now we have Tim, and he has Bertie, and they're just trying to survive. Death on all sides, masked by the suffocating darkness, the fear pressing in on every sense from every direction. But they can do this, because they have each other. Until they don't. Until Bertie dies. And Tim, poor, poor Tim, left with nothing but the smell of blood and the whine of alarms and the endless darkness, snaps. Of course he does. There wasn't anything else he could have done. But he will not go down alone. If he's going to lose Bertie to the war, and lose himself to that loss, then he will take everyone else down with him. He singlehandedly cuts down enough of the opposing army that their leader notices, but his massacre must end eventually, and he's captured. Brought in front of the leader of the opposing opposition, sentenced to execution, but he refuses to die here, he won't, he can't. He fights and he reaches a cannon and blows up every person in the war and burns his eyes out but the war is over. The war is over. The war is over and the story ends here.

But Tim's story doesn't. Tim is found, smiling through burned and blackened eyes, floating through the cosmos. Tim is pulled from the wreckage of the war, his eyes replaced with metal and machinery, and he can see again, and he can live again. But why does he get to live? Bertie is still gone. He's killed so many people. Bertie is still gone. He's ended the war. Bertie is still gone. He was saved because he damned so many others. And Bertie is still gone. Tim couldn't save him. Tim is alive, and Bertie is dead, and when sobs wrack his body, his mechanical eyes do not water. Though this Mechanism may grant him sight and grant him life, it will not grant him his grief. His body shakes, and liquid finally, finally spills onto his cheeks, but it is not tears. A thick, viscous fluid runs down his face, and as he tries to scrub away the horrid reminder of his situation, he feels the metal on his face. Around his eyes, a patchwork of skin and steel, shifting with the motion of gears grinding beneath his skin. A sense of revulsion floods him. He still lives, and yet so much of him is dead, lost with time and war and Bertie. The anguish rises and it is all Tim knows.

#the mechanisms #gunpowder tim vs the moon kaiser #gunpowder tim #bertie the mechanisms #ceaseless angst

[harpie-raven]

No no no cause I was listening to “Gunpowder Tim vs. The Moon Kaiser” again and I noticed something

When Jonny talks about Tim in the song, all times except for ONCE he only refers to him as “Tim”, not “Gunpowder Tim” (again, save for that one time—which I’m gonna get to). And since Tim’s the hero of this song, you’d expect a heroic ballad to have the title of the person mentioned more than just once, and it is ONCE.

Not even in the end when Tim blows up the moon does he call him his “title”, he only says it once—and it’s at the beginning of that solemn section after the verse where Tim loses it.

It goes from Tim going ballistic to Jonny introducing him as “Gunpowder Tim” for the first time, talking about all the violent and insane things he did

I can’t place exactly why this makes me feel things but it does?? Like—I fucking love Tim for so many reasons, but this is one of my favorite songs cause there’s just so much for me to think about in it, and that part STICKS with me fr—

#I think about this too much tbh #like #those last two verses #they STICK with me #the mechanisms #the mechanisms band #gunpowder tim #gunpowder tim vs the moon kaiser #mechanisms mechanisms mechanisms #mechanisms tales to be told #jonny d'ville #the toy soldier #raphella la cognitzi #drumbot brian #baron marius von raum #nastya rasputina #doctor carmilla #ivy alexandria #ashes o'reilly

[monggay]

HIIIII i uh its pearl!!!! but its a mechanisms au besically theyre immortal space pirates but also in a band.... yeah......... MORE RAMBLES N OTHER VERSION UNDER THE CUT

also see: gem as drumbot brian, mumbo as nastya-ish, and cleo as ashes o'reilly !

ok so pearlescentmoon as gunpowder tim. her mechanisms are her eyes (half based off her double life red life skin). i just want her to blow up the moon ok!!!!!! (see song: 'gunpowder tim vs the moon kaiser' specifically 'tim goes crazy') idk whos bertie tho, jonny to her is def grian tho skyduo (?) my beloved, maybe tilly or scott or smth as bertie? maybe ill add more ideas when i think of more its late maybe the coffee n cokes like fove hours ago is catching up to me or smth

#pearlescentmoon #pearlescentmoon fanart #the mechanisms #do i even tag this as that????? yeah ok #maeart #hermitmechs #idk anymore tags for this #gem is next in the works i kinda like the idea i had for her n yes there will be copper hair for gem #pearl is like i think maybe some sort of intelligence or science officer or w/e or smth she like handles the info on the ship abt stuff #like where theyre landing the planets the people their plans in fights etc #maybe idk #also for the mechs i chose boatem+gem+team zit? smth liek that n maybe etho as carmilla

[beanbop]

writing while listening to music is hilarious. i'll be scribbling down some cute lighthearted family scene while over my headphones gunpowder tim is blowing up the moon. peak comedy

#the mechanisms #writing #gunpowder tim vs the moon kaiser

[symphony-calamity]

Something Something About the Moon

Ok ok I posted it. If you want to read a short crossover ficlet that’s just Cecil Palmer and Gunpowder Tim ranting about this moon, find it on AO3, or under the cut!

Cecil Palmer did not often leave the station on his lunch breaks, but when he did, he always met an oddly dressed stranger at the Moonlite-All-Nite Diner. It was never the same stranger twice, just a never-ending sequence of unfamiliar people who without fail sat down at his table as he was eating his salad, and who without fail left shortly after, never to be seen in Night Vale again.

This particular stranger was a man with long brown hair, a distinctly—and oddly—British accent, and a pair of goggles hanging around his neck. Cecil could tell he was from out of town, and wondered how he got there.

"Wretched thing!" the man, who had introduced himself as Tim, was saying, stabbing into a slice of invisible pie so hard his fork clanged against the plate. "I ought to just blast it out of the sky!"

"Wouldn't that be nice," Cecil agreed. "It is an eyesore." He had never met this man, and could not have said why he was talking to him. 

"But noooo," he continued, waving his fork furiously in the air. "No Tim, they say, you can't blow up the moon, those people want it there!" He gave an indignant huff to show his displeasure.

"I don't want it there," Cecil said. "I’d like to throw something at it. Wipe that smug grin off its rocky face." He narrowed his eyes towards the window as he spoke, as though his lunar enemy could ever possibly see his expression.

“Like a bomb,” Tim agreed cheerily. “A big bomb that would blow it right into a million tiny smithereens.”

Cecil nodded thoughtfully. “If only we could.”

"Well then," said Tim. "That's permission enough. Clearly the residents of this planet don't want it." With that, he stood up and walked out of the restaurant.

Cecil finished his lunch in silence, wondering why this happened every time he went to the diner. Then he got up, paid the bill, and left to finish his show. 

He didn't think again about the moon, or the man, or the conversation that they’d had, until three days later, when he was sitting outside with Carlos, gazing at the vast and incomprehensible sky with the usual horrified wonder.

"Cecil sweetie," Carlos said, gesturing at the blank expanse of night, "wasn't tonight supposed to be a full moon?"

#the mechanisms #the mechs #gunpowder time #welcome to night vale #wtnv #cecil palmer #cecil wtnv #insert writing tag here #fandomposting

[gh0stgr1nder]

mini guide to the mechanisms for my non mechs followers who have zero clue what im saying when i talk about them

jonny d'ville;

role: captain first mate mechanism: heart last death: stabbed straight through the heart during a bar fight backstory: born and raised on a planet called new texas, took hitman jobs from one eyed jack to pay off his father's debt . in one of the jobs, he killed his dad . after he got mechanized, he went back to new texas and burnt down the casino one eyed jack ran.

gunpowder tim;

role: master at arms mechanism: eyes last death: crashed into a space station with a gunship backstory: him and his best friend bertie joined the starborne infantry to fight in the war against the moon kaiser . bertie died during the war, sending tim into a crazy rage, absolutely destroying kaiser's forces, eventually getting caught and taken away for execution, he managed to distract the guards and set off a canon, blowing up the moon. he survived by hiding in an escape pod, but couldnt get the visor closed in time, therefore losing his eyes.

drumbot brian;

role: pilot mechanism: everything except his heart last death: threw himself back into space backstory: landed one day on a random planet with no memory, the townsfolk were convinced he was a witch and threw him into space , everything except his heart completely froze .

ashes o'reilly;

role: quartermaster mechanism: lungs last death: dropped a match into gasoline on an un-named planet , setting it on fire as the final light in the universe . backstory: recruited into a gang at the age of 11, 12 years later, was framed as a double agent and trapped in a burning building. got mechanized, went back to the planet and burnt the whole thing down.

raphaella la cognizi;

role: science officer mechanism: wings last death: took a piece of the broken aurora, and flew into a black hole with it, as one last experiment. backstory: N/A

ivy alexandria;

role: archivist mechanism: brain last death: got trapped inside a library planet that caught on fire in a war . backstory: she was born and raised around books, she died (unexplained why) and had her brain mechanized. she cant remember her past , it comes back to her in dreams that she doesnt remember when she wakes .

marius von raum;

role: ship's doctor mechanism: right arm last death: eaten by octokittens after checking on them . backstory: he's from a planet with what used to be very powerful weapons, that slowly degraded from years of war . him and an un-named person tried to stop the war, but failed .

nastya rasputina;

role: ship's engineer mechanism: (quicksilver) blood last death(?): she ejected herself out into space before the bifrost incident, because the aurora 'wasnt the same ship anymore, being replaced piece by piece until she was a different person.' backstory: she was raised on a technologically advanced planet, and killed during a revolution, then being mechanized.

the toy soldier;

role: N/A, does almost anything it's told to as long as the directions are clear (autism) mechanism: everything but its voice last death: after all the other mechanisms died, it simply stopped pretending. backstory: The Toy Soldier originally lived with a widow who collected clockwork figures. She treated the Toy Soldier like it was her husband and tried to teach it to act like him. she died, and the Toy Soldier was donated to a museum. one day, it just decided to leave, wandering out into the street and ending up joining the Salvation Army.it met person who it ended up falling in love with. but they were in love with someone else, and the Toy Soldier killed them and took their voice. It was then found by an antiques dealer, and ended up being bought by the Mechanisms to replace Jonny for a show while he was in prison . then it just stuck around .

erm . sorry that probably made everything more confusing !

#this is also for myself because i keep forgetting their backstories and mechanisms lol #WHY ARE THE PHOTOS FOR TOY SOLDIER ND NASTYA SO SMALL WHA #yeah this bands lore gets . a little silly with it

[cyborg-central]

Gunpowder Tim (The Mechanisms)

He used to be a normal human guy until he joined the war against the Moon Kaiser, blew up the moon (probably by accident), and got his eyes burned out of his head. Then a group of immortal space pirates found him and he ended up with mechanical eyes that keep him immortal (probably aided by the vampire mad scientist who has an on-again-off-again motherly relationship with said immortal space pirates).

Short version: Tim loses his "best friend" Bertie, goes insane, blows up the moon resulting in his eyes getting burned out in the blast, and gets Mechanized eyes (as told in Gunpowder Tim vs The Moon Kaiser, Tim's origin song).

Long version: The war against the Moon Kaiser find Tim and his "best friend" Bertie alongside Jonny d'Ville and the Toy Soldier fighting in the moon war. Bertie eventually gets himself killed in battle and Tim goes insane because of this and becomes a threat to the Moon Kaiser's men. It isn't long before Tim is captured and brought to the Moon Kaiser directly, but he managed to blow things up using the lunar cannon. Tim attempts to escape in the Kaiser's lifepod in time, but he didn't get the visor closed in time, resulting in his eyes being burned out. No one knows for sure who Mechanized Tim, as its thought that his story takes place after Dr. Carmilla leaves, but no one would put it past her on coming back one more time

#propaganda #gunpowder tim

[bracketsoffear]

Gunpowder Tim propaganda: conscripted into the Lunar War (which included delights such as microwave cannons and gas attacks), lost his best friend, and proceeded to go an epic rampage through the Kaiser’s forces, then used the Kaiser’s cannon to blow up the entire moon (including his own side's soldiers). He's the Master of Arms literally named GUNPOWDER. Relevant lyrics of “Tim Goes Crazy”: “We'll murder all the lunar men with fury heaven-sent / And we'll carpet Lenny's tunnels with the rounds that we have spent”; “Take no prisoners, give no quarter / Show them all the colour of their entrails on the floor / The Kaiser's men are cattle to the slaughter / And their blood will run like wine!”; “We'll suck the ragged eyeballs from the sockets of their skulls / Their existence is a mad disease, there needs to be a cull / Upon their rancid soldier-flesh our bayonets will dull / And their blood will run like wine!” Relevant lyrics from “Teatime with the Kaiser”: “So Gunpowder Tim cut a bloody red path / Through cannon and through infantry, dealing his wrath / Battalions were gathered, and charged with his destruction / But all of them fell to his maddened corruption”. Newspaper from the background of the Ulysses Dies at Dawn playlist reads “Forty Dead in Sub-Level 54D Explosions: Who is ‘Gunpowder Tim?’” and the album liner shows a dog tag listing him as being in the City’s army with the rank Enomotarch. And he's in a band (so there's the music) who often play war songs and generally take pleasure in wanton, senseless carnage: "Having fun, violence, adventure, violence, violence."

.

#slaughter poll #asks #character propaganda

[pregnantsecondo]

Gunpowder Tim is such a funny character. Went to war with his best friend slash lover and was chill until his best friend slash lover died (apparently in a funny way) and he went utterly insane and killed hundreds if not thousands before blowing the moon up.

[ur-local-remy-kinnie]

okay this guy's really gay btw . blew up the moon homosexually . and hes dating jonny (to me) (jonny's the next one im sending) also you KNOW the band's gay if the little guys the band members made up to play as have pronouns on their wiki pages . also tim plays she/her loki in the bifrost incident i think thats important

Gunpowder Tim (performed by Tim Ledsam) is the master at arms on the Aurora, and a singer and guitarist for the band. His mechanism is his eyes. Crew Role: Gunner/Master at Arms. Mechanism: Eyes. Pronouns: He/Him Origin: Earth (Future). Origin Story: Gunpowder Tim vs the Moon Kaiser. Relations: Bertie (Past friend). Instruments: Guitar, Vox. Main Roles: Oedipus, Gawain, Loki. Performer: Tim Ledsam. First Appearance: Once Upon A Time (In Space). Last Appearance: Death to the Mechanisms.

Origin:

The story of Tim's origin is told in the song cycle/mini album Gunpowder Tim vs The Moon Kaiser (see; Tales to be Told).

As a young man, Tim and his best friend Bertie joined the Starborne Infantry to fight in the war against the Moon Kaiser, who had built a giant lunar cannon targeting London. During the war, Bertie died, and Tim flew into a beserk rage, tearing through the Kaiser's forces. Eventually he was captured by the enemy and brought to the Kaiser's throne room for execution; however, he was able to distract the Kaiser and his guard, and set off the lunar cannon, blowing up the moon. Tim survived by hiding in the Kaiser's life pod, but failed to get the visor closed before the explosion, and thus lost his eyes.

Tim was picked up by the crew of the Aurora shortly afterwards, and given mechanical eyes.

Appearances:

Ulysses Dies At Dawn;

Tim was present in the City for the events of Ulysses Dies at Dawn. The album liner art shows dog tags with Tim's name, giving his rank as enomotarch.

The Ignominious Demise of Dr. Pilchard;

See; Tales to be Told

Gunpowder Tim was taken out with brute force. While captive, he reminisces with Jonny d'Ville about a former adversary, 'the Marquis d'Alltheknives'.

Miscellaneous:

Tim is known to feed the octokittens.

Death:

Gunpowder Tim steals the largest gunship ever created, and goes on one last rampage, before crashing into a space station and dying because he forgot his seatbelt.

gru from despicable me

#asks or something idk

[neohart]

Rating the songs from Gunpowder Tim vs. The Moon Kaiser because I feel like it.

The Recruiter’s Song

4/10. Not my favorite but it does have a nice beat to it. If I was asked to join the military force and this song was the strategy recruitment, I wouldn’t say no.

Gassed Last Night

6/10. For Tim and Tim only. I’m glad he’s having fun :)

The Toy Soldier’s Song

11/10. TS doesn’t care who you are, give it an order and it’ll go feral. Good for it. It deserves to go feral.

Tim Goes Crazy

10/10. Just like TS, Tim deserves to go feral. But more violent and with a lot more blood

Teatime with the Kaiser

9/10. Does the Kaiser wear sandals? Does he have no shoes? I personally like the No Shoes Kaiser a little more because what did he do to earn shoes? Nothing. Also, go Tim—blow up that moon like the crazy bad bitch you are. Also also, “I think that’s going to have an effect on the tides or something.” (7:58-8:02)

#NeosTedTalk #the mechs #the mechanisms