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I discovered, the other day, that Adam didn't actually know why we yelled FIRST MATE at Jonny every time he tried to introduce himself as Captain -- only that we did, and so he quite reasonably joined in.
I hadn't realised this was particularly obscure Mechanisms lore, but, well, if A didn't know the chances are pretty high that quite a lot of other people also don't.
In case you didn't know about the fiction: here's the fiction. Obviously we don't know that Jonny killed Dr Carmilla, the original captain, but also: Jonny, having grown tired of the paucity of opportunities for career advancement when you're a member of a crew of immortal space pirates, was absolutely responsible for the death of Dr Carmilla and was definitely and unambiguously attempting to usurp her, or mount a coup, or however else you wish to indelicately talk about it --
-- which, you see, is why I cried when, in the live stream of definitely absolutely the last (quantum superposition) Mechs gig, Jonny introduced himself as -- pause -- First Mate, and we all collectively both near and far utterly failed to manage to scrape together the brain to shout back CAPTAIN.
And is also, of course, why I indulge myself to the tune of whisper-shouting FIRST MATE every time Jon Sims introduces himself as Head Archivist, because somewhen in the multiverse is a quantum entanglement that leaves him (even more) entirely out of sorts every time I do.
I hadn't realised this was particularly obscure Mechanisms lore, but, well, if A didn't know the chances are pretty high that quite a lot of other people also don't.
In case you didn't know about the fiction: here's the fiction. Obviously we don't know that Jonny killed Dr Carmilla, the original captain, but also: Jonny, having grown tired of the paucity of opportunities for career advancement when you're a member of a crew of immortal space pirates, was absolutely responsible for the death of Dr Carmilla and was definitely and unambiguously attempting to usurp her, or mount a coup, or however else you wish to indelicately talk about it --
-- which, you see, is why I cried when, in the live stream of definitely absolutely the last (quantum superposition) Mechs gig, Jonny introduced himself as -- pause -- First Mate, and we all collectively both near and far utterly failed to manage to scrape together the brain to shout back CAPTAIN.
And is also, of course, why I indulge myself to the tune of whisper-shouting FIRST MATE every time Jon Sims introduces himself as Head Archivist, because somewhen in the multiverse is a quantum entanglement that leaves him (even more) entirely out of sorts every time I do.
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Date: 2020-02-08 02:50 am (UTC)whisper-shouting FIRST MATE every time Jon Sims introduces himself as Head Archivist, because somewhen in the multiverse is a quantum entanglement
"Jon has wanted to be a scholar for as long as he can remember. Almost. When he was six or seven, when he already loved books but hadn't learned to fear them, he wanted to be a pirate. Only the knowledge, unwillingly acquired by setting his favorite book down on wet sand while he went to play in the waves, that salt water does not love paper dissuaded him. For many years afterwards, though, he would sometimes dream of the ship, and wake thinking it was his turn to stand watch. Sometimes he still does."
(I mean, I guess the Mechanisms are space pirates rather than sea pirates, but, hey, multiverse.)
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Date: 2020-02-08 11:12 pm (UTC)And also: :D
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Date: 2020-02-13 12:49 am (UTC)I've accepted, by now, that I'm going to have to listen to everything Jonny has ever been involved in as well as everything Rusty Quill has ever made.
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Date: 2020-02-08 05:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-02-08 01:23 pm (UTC)(Apologies to
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Date: 2020-02-08 11:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-02-08 07:34 am (UTC)Of course, whether this also applies to space pirates is unknown.
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Date: 2020-02-08 11:13 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2020-02-09 08:33 am (UTC)https://twitter.com/AvoidedDrowning/status/1225841251930591232