kaberett: A drawing of a black woman holding her right hand, minus a ring finger, in front of her face. "Oh, that. I cut it  off." (molly - cut it off)
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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.

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Date: 2020-02-08 02:50 am (UTC)
kindkit: A late-Victorian futuristic zeppelin. (Airship)
From: [personal profile] kindkit
So, if I want to give the Mechanisms a try, what do you recommend as a starting point? Do I need to listen in order?

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: 2020-02-13 12:49 am (UTC)
kindkit: A late-Victorian futuristic zeppelin. (Default)
From: [personal profile] kindkit
Cool, thanks!

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)
vass: Small turtle with green leaf in its mouth (Default)
From: [personal profile] vass
...I mean, I knew he wasn't the Admiral.

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Date: 2020-02-08 01:23 pm (UTC)
rydra_wong: Cassette tape with "statement begins" and "statement ends" around it (statement begins)
From: [personal profile] rydra_wong
The Admiral outranks everyone, and Jon accepts this because occasionally Jon is right about things.

(Apologies to [personal profile] kaberett, who I believe has not yet met The Admiral, for being enigmatic.)

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Date: 2020-02-08 07:34 am (UTC)
rydra_wong: Black Sails: later seasons Silver, looking haggard and dramatic. (black sails -- silver pirate)
From: [personal profile] rydra_wong
I saw a post in passing that discussed the question of who is technically in charge given that "Quartermaster" is a very different rank on a pirate ship (as Black Sails thoroughly explored).

Of course, whether this also applies to space pirates is unknown.

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Date: 2020-02-09 08:33 am (UTC)
rydra_wong: Lee Miller photo showing two women wearing metal fire masks in England during WWII. (Default)
From: [personal profile] rydra_wong
Side-note: Frank is currently trying to exploit the attempted coup at Rusty Quill for career advancement and knives.

https://twitter.com/AvoidedDrowning/status/1225841251930591232

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