#mechanismskin

[milo-is-unreal]

self portrait! IGNORE THE HAND IGNORE THE HAND IGNORE THE GOSH-DARN HAND I DONT KNOW HOW TO DRAW HANDS

[fictionkinfessions]

can the toy soldier cook? or are its skills limited to making an excellent cup of tea?

this is a question that requires much research and perhaps an unwilling first mate as sacrifice

(joking, joking. i'll spare you all the torment and just borrow an octokitten. not tim junior. i will be shot for that)

- raphaella la cognizi (the mechanisms)

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[thereal-toysoldier]

intro post

good evening chaps! this is my kin blog!

(main blog)

you may refer to me as the toy soldier, toy, or TS!

you may use it/they pronouns for me!

i am currently nonbinary and aroace, but in my memories i was agender, panromantic, and orchidsexual!

in general, i will type like this, but occasionally i will be capitalising All My Words! it’s a pain to do it all the time… @^__^@

in case it wasn’t obvious, i am toy soldier fictionkin! i am not jessica law…

i believe i am spiritual fictionkin? i don’t think about it that hard, but i view it as a past life!

for my own posts i will be using “ts speaks🫖”! i’ll probably be mechsposting and talking about memories :)

tally ho, have a lovely day!

[fictionkinfessions]

Canon Songs and Canon Cooldowns are one in the same for me. While deeply irritating while still on Midgard, the music of the Mechanisms became very comforting to me.

I had and still have issues with flashbacks and panic attacks and simply being overwhelmed to the point of a meltdown, and though these instances no longer leave reality warping around me in rainbow hues, they still get very bad and are extremely upsetting. But music helps.

I memorize songs *very* easily, and both in my canon and now I can use that to help ground me to the here and now and calm my nervous system. The Mechanisms are often my choice of music to self soothe, though they are not the only band who's music calms me, just the one I have the most personal connection to for obvious reasons.

I'm particularly fond of Once Upon A Time (In Space) and The Bifrost Incident, though Hellfire from High Noon Over Camelot might be tied for my favorite song by them. I miss them a lot, but it's nice that I can still hear them sing the stories we loved to tell.

Sorry for getting wordy (again), I have a tendency to ramble ^^

-Lyfrassir Edda #🪦💜🌙 (The Bifrost Incident, The Mechanisms)

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[fictionkinfessions]

For the obscure canons ask game,

I'm not sure if this counts, as the Mechanisms does have a fairly dedicated fandom online, but I can count on one hand the number of people I've met irl who've heard of them without me infodumping first (which I do. Often). Add to that being from a specific album they released and I feel as though I'm from a relatively obscure canon?

-Lyfrassir Edda #🪦💜🌙 (formerly 🌈🌌)

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[fictionkinfessions]

Canon objects -- for my Toy Soldier (The Mechanisms) fictotype i have one specific hat that i like to wear during kinshifts, and also my electric violin

For my Gerry Keay (The Magnus Archives) fictotype i like stealing my sibling's leather jacket since i had a leather jacket in canon :}

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[fictionkinfessions]

Ach… I just went through all of the mechanismskin tag here and… oh… oh I love/miss you all too………

- Raphaella La Cognizi

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[fictionkinfessions]

I’m so sick of trying to read fanfics and having everybody infantilise me. Yes, I didn’t feel emotions the way most people did (on account of being a toy soldier), but I didn’t break down at every little thing! I could recognise I had wants, even if I didn’t know that was what they were.

This even extends to a lot of smut! I was a nymph, if I broke down every time someone accidentally ordered me to do something I would have been fired!!

It just grates my nerves. I wasn’t helpless. I found exactly one (1) fic that I felt accurately captured me. -the toy soldier (the mechanisms) #🪐🦕🌻

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