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#ouatis is pure chance I think#depends heavily on where I live within that universe but. odds aren’t great
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oops I've been really bad at posting my @mechanismswomensweek fics here how about I just give you the last three all in one post
remember me, I sing: For the prompt Past/Future. A character study of Snow. 10k words, 1/2 chapters.
fireflies: For the free day. Four times one Rose Red OC (Freckles) saw fireflies. 3.3k words.
the crossroads (where you're forced to draw the line): For the prompt Technology/Immortality. A character study of the Red Hood. 7.7k words.
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Original Characters, Colonel Tuco, Rose Red Clone(s) (The Mechanisms) Additional Tags: no Rose Reds are present but they are most of what's discussed, Rumors, Gossip, Camaraderie, War, bioengineering, the politics of halfs, Canon Disabled Character, cyberpunk elements, Mechanisms Women's Week 2025, Mental Health Issues Series: Part 21 of One Thousand and Three Summary:
Tuco snorts. "Don't apologize. People say all kinds of nonsense about the giants. They're legends by now, despite the General's best efforts." She puts the brake on her chair and settles back, opening her juice bottle. "Just remember. There wouldn't be so many giant-killers if the Reds weren't flesh and blood just like you."
The rebels have countless legends about Rose Reds. Some of them are even true.
Written for day 5 of @mechanismswomensweek: Music/Legend!
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: Major Character Death Relationships: Snow | General White & Rose Red Clone(s) Characters: Snow | General White, Rose Red Clone(s) (The Mechanisms) Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Sisters, Grief/Mourning, set in the early days of the war, Identity Issues, as in general white's insistence that snow is dead, Mechanisms Women's Week 2025 Series: Part 10 of One Thousand and Three Summary:
Cordelia draws her gun and begins to raise it before she registers that it isn’t moving. It doesn’t even seem to be holding a weapon, and its face is open with confusion. She’s never seen a look like that on one of them, but it’s still a look she once knew very well.
Before she can shoot it, the giant hesitantly asks, “Snow?”
General White encounters a Rose Red who finds her strangely familiar.
My fic for day 4 of @mechanismswomensweek! Loved ones/Enemies <3
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Rose & Snow | General White Characters: Snow | General White, Rose (Once Upon A Time In Space), Rose and Snow's Parents, OC: Theodora Prince Additional Tags: combat trauma, Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD, Vacations, Sisters, attempted shenanigans interrupted by crushing ptsd, Mechanisms Women's Week 2025 Series: Part 2 of One Thousand and Three Summary:
In a fit of desperation, she finally asks Mum for a Friday off and books a weekend trip for herself and Rose. If she can’t get any rest or relaxation at home, maybe she’ll be able to do it on an Arielian island. It can’t hurt to enjoy some good food, cooler temperatures, and the sounds of the ocean.
After Rose returns from her first deployment, Snow tries to help her relax. It doesn't go to plan.
My fic for Day 3 of @mechanismswomensweek!
#one thousand and three#my fic#rose ouatis#snow ouatis#ouatis#once upon a time (in space)#the mechanisms
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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: Once Upon a Time (In Space) - The Mechanisms (Album) Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Cinders & Original Characters Characters: Cinders (Once Upon A Time In Space), Original Characters Additional Tags: Acts of Kindness, Travel, cinders' thirty-year road trip, Cognitive Dissonance, cinders' complicated feelings about who rose was and what she represented, Mechanisms Women's Week 2025 Series: Part 16 of One Thousand and Three Summary:
“My wife–” she finds herself saying as she closes her hand around the stranger’s. The linking technology is common enough, and lots of people go missing under Cole. Sharing those details won’t identify her. “She’s gone. Missing. It’s linked to her ring. If I don’t find it…”
They pull her to her feet. “We’ll find it,” they repeat, more firmly. “It won't be gone, I promise.”
Cinders loses her wedding ring. A kind stranger helps her find it again.
My first fic for @mechanismswomensweek!
#feels a bit corny to tag myself but also. If I don't follow my own rules what kind of hypocrite am I#one thousand and three#my fiction#cinders ouatis#ouatis#once upon a time (in space)
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Mechanism's Women's Week starts tomorrow!
For our last countdown question before the event: If you could mechanize any mortal woman in canon, who would you pick and why?
#general white. she’d be awful I want to see what she does with immortality#she deserves it /derogatory /affectionate
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2 days!!!
Today's countdown question: Which woman in the Mechanisms universe do you wish we had more canon about?
#prev you. you know about cyberian demons right#like the scuffed recording from lashings.#or do you mean you wish there was a better recording of it (which. SAME.)
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2 days!!!
Today's countdown question: Which woman in the Mechanisms universe do you wish we had more canon about?
#I’d say Rose but. I think it’s important that she almost never shows up except to haunt the narrative#I would however kill for more about Ivy’s backstory
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mechtober day 5: backstory
i love it when women do unethical experiments. raphaella tell me ur secrets pspsp
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Women's Week starts in 3 days!
Today's countdown question: What's your favorite Mechanisms ship involving at least one woman?
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Playing Pretend
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4 days until Women's Week!
Today's countdown question: Who's your favorite woman in the crew?
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5 days to go!
Today's countdown question: Who is your favorite woman in the albums and/or fiction (not counting the crew)?
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Women's Week begins in 6 days!
Today's countdown question: Do you have any Mechanisms OCs who are women? What are their stories?
#and my answer is. oh boy do I#lots of rose red ocs#many background ouatis characters#a couple of old ocs related to the crew as well but these days it’s mostly ouatis
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