#the mechanisms are Jon’s college band

[johnnycagesrightnut]

Jonathan Sims wears eyeliner and he’s really good at it cause he was in a band in college (the mechanisms) and he wore a lot he doesn’t wear as much anymore but he still wears it send tweet

Oh and yeah Tim is really surprised cause his boss is a stick in the mud and doesn’t seem the eyeliner type but yeah anyways they’re in love

[v0idwraith]

What if TMAGP universe Jon is Jonny D’Ville

[insomniaruler]

YK what’s peak comedy in tma fics?

When ever the Mechs are mentioned and Jon’s like “that’s so silly, a band? And I sound like this DeVille character?” While he is sweating BULLETS because he doesn’t want asshole work Jon to be associated with Jonny DeVille (his space steampunk pirate persona)

[ceaseless-whore]

Just listened to the entire discography of The Mechanisms so if anyone wants to talk about it i big prommy to be sooooo so normal about it :3 <3

[uths-ethnol-spam]

i'm mulling over again about the magnus archives. lately, i realised how much i love the collective agreement (fanon) that jon was a singer in a band when he was in uni - and consequently, that he and georgie were punk-adjacent (still are, even). of course. they are queer, jonny is a singer in a band - of course jonathan "the archivist" sims (head archivist of the magnus institute, london) is punk*. i love the implications of this. what about more fics about the poor employees of the institute and their +1 stricking and demonstrating and fighting fascists actually

*: i say punk, i know it's not always punk though

[goldenhawk-k]

Thinking about Jon’s uni friends that would’ve played the mechs in a “Jon played Jonny D’Ville” aus. What are they up to. I think they all had soooky encounters.

[dogthatlookshigh]

Im finally listening to the mechanisms and hoooly shit I love this

[asherlookit]

was scrolling through the "the mechanisms was Jon Archivist's college band" tags on ao3 and misread "martin finds out Jon is the lead singer of his favorite band" as Melanie, and i honestly think that would be a hundred times funnier. imagine your eldritch boss who you fucking hate but sounds vaguely familiar asks what you're listening to one day out of awkward obligation to make British Small Talk and you roll your eyes and tell him he probably doesn't know them and then you drop their name and he goes very still and flushes and suddenly Jonny D'Ville is speaking in your airpods and you're looking at your boss (who again, you fucking hate) and your world crashes and burns

[the-skitty-pink]

Not yucking anyone’s yum y’all have fun doing whatever and the fics are definitely cute, but all those jmart “the mechanisms were Jon’s college band” fics where martins a massive mechanisms fan ring so hollow to me because to me martin has the most boring music taste known to man. That man is a swiftie to me. Martin Blackwood listens to top 50 pop radio songs. Lady Gaga if he’s feeling ~spicy~. Martin would listen to the bifrost incident and be like “yeah…yeah it’s good…” (lying through his teeth).

Someone would walk in on him later googling “how to tell my boyfriend I think his band sucks ass without hurting his feelings”

Edit: everyone saying Melanie is a mechanisms fan is 100% correct.

[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."

[myrabbitistryingtokillme]

Inverse of the tag “the mechs were Jon’s college band”

Please consider

“The Magnus archives is the mechanisms dnd game”

[one-of-many-mothmen]

Imagine the S1 crew finds out that Jon was in a college band, and when they ask Jon says, "You are researchers. Figure it out." (he doesnt think they will be able to alone with the extra work he's gonna give them to keep them busy) but they DO find The Mechanisms and they were expecting classical music, maybe jazz but a band about immortal space pirates where Jon is the lead singer and plays the HARMONICA???? Beautiful.

[rocksanddeadflowers]

I don't see enough talk about involving Jordan Kennedy in those "The Mechanisms are Jon's college band" AUs. Like including Basira and Nicola is mwah immaculate perfect but please don't forget about my man Jordan. It can have both hilarity and tragic irony! Picture Gunpowder Tim as a poor nervous traumatized bug exterminator. Now also picture Jordan having written Tim's backstory with Jon in college only for everything (the tunnels, Jon(ny) being more than he appeared and kinda making Jordan/Tim immortal, etc) to parallel horrifically during season five. Just giving Jordan that kinda background with Jon I just. Idk I've been thinking about it so much.

[mightybeaujester]

The Mechanisms being Jon's college band is out, the Magnus Archives being jonny's first job is in

[goldenhawk-k]

I hope that every “The Mechanisms were Jonathan Sims’ College Band” au writers are aware they made it canon in their universe that Jon Sims (the archivist) plays the harmonica

[catboy-joyfriend]

i havent listened to much of the mechanisms but i think the people who hc it being jon sims tma's in universe college band or whatever have a VERY different idea of the type of theatre kid vibes jon has than i do