#gunpowder time

[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?"

[reegis]

🎵🎵WHAT DO YOU DO WITH A DRUNK SPACE PIRATE🎵🎵

[trisshawkeye]

Okay, I don't *think* I ever shared this anywhere else as it was sitting amongst a load of other random Fringe photos, so here you all go. One (1) photograph of the Once Upon A Time (In Space) set at the 2012 Fringe, likely during Sleeping Beauty given who's singing/playing.

[unsat-and-strange]

silly thought :)

text id cause of handwriting:

panel one: TIM chosen weapon: fire extinguisher

panel two: TIM chosen weapon: gun

panel three: JON chosen weapon: borderline god-like powers given by an entity powered by fear

panel four: JON(NY) chosen weapon: gun

[persephone-tim]

GUNPOWDER TIM.

[zurdurer]

I rewatched the hnoc performance again

Seperate drawings under cut

[justpentdraws]

handful

[transbot-brian]

you ever think news of the mechs reached the people who loved them before they got mechanised? Bertie hears a rumour of a man with long hair and strange eyes killing hundreds without breaking a sweat, he looks over to Tim and laughs about it with him

[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

[chippdhearts]

This specific shot of Carla Gugino

[biherbalwitch]

one thing I love about wesper (besides being uhaul gays in both book & show) is that they have a healthy, beautiful relationship with communication & support in times of conflict (perhaps the healthiest in this damn universe) while also being questionable/morally grey people who are literally part of a gang bc often in media queer relationships are either tragic, one of them is toxic OR they're perfect benevolent people with 0 flaws and yeah sure those are required ofc but I like the idea of queer characters getting to be a lil bad, be gay do crime, and deserve a good & happy love life all the same especially since Jesper is bi and I can count on one hand how many bisexual characters got to be in a nice stable relationship peacefully

[reegis]

Can we see more of Ashes? Ur version of them is so wholesome

theyr in love, your honor

[bluberimufim]

No out-of-context line from a song will ever be funnier to me than "the Kaiser wants to microwave the British infantry" from Gunpowder Tim vs the Moon Kaiser.

Like, wtf even is that line. Try to explain that to someone who doesn't know the Mechs without sounding deranged. None of those words make sense together.

[alicemain0541]

Would anyone be interested if I did a mechs tarot set?