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i like "twisted threads" by the mechanisms SO MUCH. raphaella as athena ...... tim as arachne!! arachne's wild joy in her "mud-slinging" ....... her voice being used for propaganda at the end ..... the seCOND PERSON POV OF THE STORYTELLING!!!

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"Money flows easy when you're in the shadow of Athena."

TheCity!Arachne (on their tablet, the headline Reader "The truth about Olympus!")

I love the way the whole weaving and web thing is used for The City!!

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gunpowder tim and Raphaella la cognizi in the same song is TOO MUCH for me 😭 they sound so good what-

#Gunpowder tim #the the mechs #This is about #twisted threads #By the mechs #GAH #Raphaella la cognizi

I think the part of Twisted Threads that fucks me up the most is that the Olympians just... didn't have anything on Arachne. The "sexual indiscretions" she talks about Zeus committing are completely true- Heracles confirms so in Favored Son- in fact, Zeus' sexual behaviors seem to be well established public knowledge.

Athena is spoken of as a master of communications, she was, after all, the one who mentored Arachne and is an Olympian herself. And she does deceive, regardless of what she told Arachne, Athena does flat out lie using Arachne's voice at the end ("the recent accusations against Zeus have proven to be fraudulent"). But even Athena found Arachne's record to be so flawless that the only option the Olympians had was to kill her. Arachne had neither done nor committed anything that could be spun to be as remotely vile as Zeus.

There is the argument that Arachne's trusted (again, trusted, where the Olympians are largely not) voice and powerful brain made Athena believe that it was simply a better use of resources to kill and then puppet her. But I would argue that public humiliation and disapproval has repeatedly been shown as the preferred method of the Olympians to bend people to their will (Heracles and Oedipus) and the most effective way of making someone irrelevant regardless of their prior standing (Ariadne). Well, the song said it itself "Nothing goes to waste in the City," the Olympians would not have discarded Arachne if they had a way to regain control over her.

There was no way to "smear" her in return, for all her flaws exist only in her ambition, and that ambition was only a flaw to the Olympians, not the population of the City at large.

#Athena literally says she expects to have Arachne fall back under her control before Arachne made public statements against Zeus #Athena did Not want to kill Arachne but she had to #arachne the mechanisms #the mechanisms #twisted threads #tales to be told vol 2 #ulysses dies at dawn #udad #hottest mechs take I have is that Arachne was a more genuine and for-the-people reporter than Brian ever was at The Oracle

End: Easy Come Easy Go (The Decemberists) A series of extremely short vignettes about people dying suddenly and violently, including the deaths of children from a serial killer who no one suspected and a young starlet who's body wasn't found for weeks afterward

Web: Twisted Threads (The Mechanisms) Arachnae story where the weaving is politics, until she weaves a political web around herself that gets her caught in Athena’s schemes and after her death her face and voice are puppets to fuel propaganda

Music Redemption Winners' Bracket Round 2 Bout 2

End: Easy Come Easy Go (The Decemberists)

Web: Twisted Threads (The Mechanisms)

Voting ended onNov 11, 2025

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Mechtober Day 17: Acheron

“It doesn’t matter what you weave // If you’re caught in a web before you even begin”

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I have had nothing but Twisted threads on repeat for days. Please forgive the handwriting x

[ID: A drawing of Arachne staring straight at the viewer through a television screen. She is a thin black woman, with a purple long-sleeved shirt and white pants. On her shirt, there is a silver plaque with the Acheron symbol. Her arms are behind her back, and her image is slightly glitchy. She asks "Have you considered applying for Acheron pre-selection?". The television frame is dark and blue light illuminates it. End ID.]

#the mechanisms #leart #twisted threads #fuck what are the tags for instory characters for the mechs #described #VERY SORRY FOR BEING INCONSISTENT WITH IDS I FORGET TO ADD THEM IN #dont come @ me for the subs having glitchs too please i did this in class and didnt want to check #this was originally an aggie doodle lol

Gunpowder Tim as Arachne >>>

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There was no way to "smear" her in return, for all her flaws exist only in her ambition, and that ambition was only a flaw to the Olympians, not the population of the City at large.

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