Unofficial Mechanisms Lore Archive

We are attempting to create an as-complete-as-possible archive of Mechanisms canonical material. This is a fan project unaffiliated with the band or any of its members.

[mechanismslorearchive]

About Us

This is meant to be an as-complete-as-possible archive of Mechanisms and Dr. Carmilla lore, sources, and content. We hope to preserve as much material as possible and prevent further loss of information to the depths of the Internet. As a secondary purpose, we also hope to create an easy reference to as much canon as possible. 

We have expanded to accepting videos of Jessica Law's current shows! If you have recordings of Jess live we would love them!

Here is the link to the archive:

Mechanisms Lore Archive

Relatedly, here is a link to a metapost about Dr. Carmilla 101 by mod garecc

If you would like to submit an an artifact, photo, video, etc, please either message @garecc (ask or dm, either works) or send an email to [email protected]. You can also send an ask here!

If you commissioned a Marius Message and would like it included in the archive, feel free to reach out!

If you can't find what you're looking for after checking the archive, feel free to send an ask!

Addendum to the above: We do not answer asks regarding out of character photos.

This project has been compiled by tumblr users @miralines and @gunpowderdtim / @garecc. Both of us are fans of the Mechs with no association to the band, who began this project in November 2022 when Elon Musk’s purchase of Twitter led to concerns about the site’s future. We worked to screenshot and preserve the lore posted on the official twitter as well as what individual band members have posted. It expanded from there, and is still in progress as we preserve existing sources and occasionally discover new ones.

Brief Q/A - before you ask, check here!!

Q: Where can I get band merchandise?

A: Currently, there is no official band merchandise available. There have been plans to possibly drop more CDs. This was stated on Twitter.

Q: Can I have photos of a certain mechanism?

A: Yes, but all photos are available in the link above in the Photos folder!

Q: Wait, Doctor Carmilla is making a new band??

A: Yes! Dr. Carmilla & The Void Quartet exist. They are currently working on their music. In the meanwhile, check out Maki's bandcamp for more Dr. Carmilla content!

Q: is there a live recording of [name] HNOC song?

A: Unfortunately not. The video on YouTube is what we have. The camera died mid show :(

Q: Did you ever find that BBC radio show?

A: No. The BBC radio archive is not public and accessing the radio archives is pretty much impossible for hobbyists like ourselves.

[mechanismswomensweek]

Come celebrate the women of the Mechanisms universe!

Hello all! Mechanisms Women’s Week 2026 is officially planned!

The event this year will run from August 10-August 16. All kinds of creativity are welcome: art, fic, music, collages, or whatever else you come up with! The only rules are that works are created for the event, and that they are about Mechanisms characters who are canonically women.

Here are this year’s prompts:

For each prompt, you can pick one or both words to create around. To share your work during the event, tag this blog. This year I’ll also be creating a Women’s Week AO3 collection, so keep an eye out for that!

I’m so excited to run this again, and I can’t wait to see what y’all come up with <3

[mechanismslorearchive]

I am obsessed with Brian but when I was scrolling I found this picture (the top one) and I cannot tell where it’s from, where the hell is it from???? My friend told me it might be HNOC because he’s singing but I’m sure it’s not, and it’s not DTTM because the lighting is wrong, where the hell is it from😭 (if you know what is written in the white patch that would be cool too but mainly where is the pic from)

I don't know off the top of my head where this one is from, but feel free to thumb through the sources document in the archives photos folder

Based on the Bifrost Incident patch (you can see photos of this patch in the merch folder) its probably a bifrost incident showing, and therefore most likely I aquired this off some facebook post!

[mechanismslorearchive]

Seeing steam powered giraffe tonight ! If anyone else is going, ill be there!

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I was curious if we have any confirmation on Lyf's gender? i mostly see them referred to with they/them in fandom but idk if that has any like, Word of God evidence or anything.

Not off the top of my head, but I think somewhere they/then was canonically used!

[mechanismslorearchive]

I've recently come into possession of an octokitten! Thank you very much @lesbianmelkor for the creature!

Ive taken it upon myself to take some photos with a ruler for general reference for others!

I am unfortunately quite American and the only ruler i have on hand for some reason is imperial only, so uh. Maybe ill make another post later if I find another one. With centimeters. But I think the only ruler I own that had centimeters broke last year so ╮(￣_￣)╭

If anyone wants any other angles, I can provide them!

I will have access to another octokitten physically in about a week. (it will be within 5 miles of me) ( @bird-brainz get here faster loser) (stop being in college) (drop out and join my emo band)

ANYWAY

ill get more reference photos of that one then and update this then!!

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Hi, i would like to ask Where did that design of Jonny with tail and pointy ears came from?

I keep seeing it but I have no idea if it's just a fun design from fans or something actually based on canon events.

Its not canon! I know its been around a few years but iirc @wreegis / @reegis popularized it in its recent iteration - with the long rat* tail with a poof on the end. Lion tail? Idk

The idea of jonny as not human definitely around circa 2020 - i spent my time in 2020-2023 dying by jonny having sharp teeth, though I dont think i ever gave him a tail

Its a facinating subject! I can't find it, I have looked recently but I cant find it, but there was a silly post back whenever by people who saw the mechs live that was like "why does jonny dville have a tail now. I would know if he did. I met the guy over beers once"

But yeah. No canon basis. I think there is one post out there somewhere that's like "for all we know OUATIS is about space spiders and we've just translated it into english" - but yeah, no. Tail and sharp teeth and anything-but-human mechanisms designs are purely fanon!!

[mechanismslorearchive]

I just really want to know who’s the guy next to Tim. It kinda looks like Brian but it also doesn’t

He's no one important, just the guy who the Flickr album a bunch of photos to belongs to.

If you go into the sources document and click through the Flickr sources you'll find his Flickr eventually.

Friend of the band, probably! No one important or that I know anything about.

[mechanismslorearchive]

Hiii so i got this picture of jonny and i was curious of like. The context of the picture. Like, where is it from?

Hi.

I have no idea what this is or where this is from.

Please email this image to [email protected], so I can add the highest resolution version you can give me to the archive.

This looks like the correct era and photography style to only be a photo Morgan Wilkinson aka the actor for Ivy Alexandria would have taken, the problem with that is that I have scoured both the servers he was in and sending old photos in to death, and I have not seen this one.

Judging by the walls, it's in one of the college dorms. I could track down other photos from this day probably!

Who did you get this from if I may ask?

[a--b--d]

Hi hello hi I think me and @merlindville found marius' exactly coat

Its from the brand raven I think,and I can't find any resellers currently

[arbitrarilyselected]

So I found an alternative to the coat with the same fabric and it's defo not the same but could be a nice alternative??

[mechanismslorearchive]

You're actually very quite close! You've got the right website and everything!

Marius' coat was sold by that website, Gothic Romance circa 2014!

Currently, they sell the coat you added, as well as a marius adjacent skirt in another color!

And previously sold (though I dont think we ever found the link to this first one)

A Marius dress! Two even!

*edit. It has been pointed out to me these are the same dress, one just has a lace accessory. WHOOPS.

I similarly don't have proper links to the host pages rest of these as I got them tooling around in URL mode on wayback, but:

objectively cooler version of the coat they're currently selling

Shirt and pants!

And a vest!

image links: x x x x x x

[mechanismslorearchive]

Where did the Fuck you and fuck your train Friday come from? I know the line is from Thor, but how did it become a joke? Was it like the Tube Sun or something else?

I remember vaguely the original post, it was a parody of i think flat fuck friday? Out of touch tuesday? But i havent been able to find it for years. Ive scoured my blog @gunpowderdtim bc i know I reblogged it but i swear its just gone!

[mechanismslorearchive]

Via @mossyvulture

Relevant fanlore section.

See and what's killing me here is i apparently wrote that???

I apparently forgot I managed to track it back to the source. I wrote a lot of the fanlore page for fandom history stuff.

^ added fyfyt friday information.

User louchie. Thats meeeee

[mechanismslorearchive]

Where did the Fuck you and fuck your train Friday come from? I know the line is from Thor, but how did it become a joke? Was it like the Tube Sun or something else?

I remember vaguely the original post, it was a parody of i think flat fuck friday? Out of touch tuesday? But i havent been able to find it for years. Ive scoured my blog @gunpowderdtim bc i know I reblogged it but i swear its just gone!

[mechanismslorearchive]

Forgot to post this--- i (mod travis) am at Shayfer James tonight!! If anyone else is here id love to say hello!!

[palinasin]

do most ppl know theres mp3s of live recordings on the mechanisms lore archive? more songs n theyre already mp3

[mechanismslorearchive]

Everyone say thank you to todd @alientoastt for them. We all love tod alientoastt

[mechanismslorearchive]

In my defense of awnsering the wrong ask ive been at work for 9 hours and I dont think i slept last night. In other news:

best folder in the mechanisms lore archive (non-exhaustive)

audio

video

photos

any of the social media ones

album art

merch archive

transcripts

fandom content

if I forgot one / egg jonny

Voting ended onApr 3

[mechanismslorearchive]

Is there any known context to that picture of gpt on the floor with those bin bags and bottles?

Ok um. Train and cal im so sorry for the double ping

Its from a non-mechanisms production of a play called Pirates! put on by the theater group a lot of the mechanisms actors were in at Oxford. Ben Below was also in it iirc

@x-ca1iber @trainwreckisawreck THIS IS THE CORRECT POST.

Cal or train do either of you have the link to that Facebook production group for Pirates?

I didnt save it because it wasn't mechanisms related but I think one of you have it!

[trainwreckisawreck]

hi yes i’ve got you!

it’s actually from the OULES production of Villainy!, from when they were filming a movie version of their stage production

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tim played a vampire named gabriel. this is also the production in which jonny played the devil (source: https://web.archive.org/web/20241110114025/https://oules.lightentertainment.org/shows/villainy)

Piracy! is a different OULES production with some members of the mechanisms, record of it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250114090633/https://www.oules.lightentertainment.org/shows/piracy and some recordings of the production here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2AA83C73E02C0223&si=nh_d8GiT_BNMPw9V

shows:piracy [OULES]

Piracy!

Songs taken from the Oxford Light Entertainment Society's Hilary 2012 show: Piracy! Recordings were taken on the Wednesday night performance

[mechanismslorearchive]

Wait we found videos of Piracy and no one told me.

Wild!

Anyway yeah, what train said anon!

[mechanismslorearchive]

Is there any known context to that picture of gpt on the floor with those bin bags and bottles?

Ok um. Train and cal im so sorry for the double ping

Its from a non-mechanisms production of a play called Pirates! put on by the theater group a lot of the mechanisms actors were in at Oxford. Ben Below was also in it iirc

@x-ca1iber @trainwreckisawreck THIS IS THE CORRECT POST.

Cal or train do either of you have the link to that Facebook production group for Pirates?

I didnt save it because it wasn't mechanisms related but I think one of you have it!