life! life! eternity!
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On the wall near the floor of the back-stage door down to the costume shop underneath the auditorium, someone has carved out in deep, paint-denting ballpoint pen “JONNY D’VILLE EATS LIVE FROGS”
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- Part 1 of life! life! eternity!
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Sometimes, the Toy Soldier dreams about being born.
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- Part 2 of life! life! eternity!
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“Oh yeah?” Jonny asks. “Who died and made you emotionally intelligent, Miss I-Only-Love-My-Car?”
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- Part 3 of life! life! eternity!
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The world is set up wrong — Brian has always known that.
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- Part 4 of life! life! eternity!
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Jonny d’Ville is a fucking tornado, and Tim is not sure whether he wants to get carried off to Oz by it, or to just have a house fall on his head and put him out of his misery.
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- Part 5 of life! life! eternity!
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The Ignominious Demise of Dr. Pilchard, 4th Period Redux by TheWrongKindOfPC
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band)
19 Mar 2021
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“Marius,” he says, lightly, “Don’t take this the wrong way, or anything, but I would rather literally decapitate you than talk to you about that.”
Ivy asks, “is there a right way to take that,” and her voice is dreamy enough that Raphaella is pretty sure there’s no question mark at the end of it.
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- Part 6 of life! life! eternity!
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Ivy isn’t the reader, she’s the book, and she’s pretty sure the Toy Soldier understands that better than most people, even if it claims not to know what she’s talking about.
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- Part 7 of life! life! eternity!
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“Hey Jonny, hey TS, can one of you guys call me back? I have this project for my Psych class, and I wanted to ask you… well, I’ll ask you when you call me back. Cool answering machine message, by the way — I already didn’t want any bakery day-olds or for either of you to cut my hair, but if I did, that message would totally convince me not to want that anymore. My number is the same, so just, uh, call me? This is Marius, by the way.”
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- Part 8 of life! life! eternity!
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Jonny d’Ville’s Guide To Life, Love, and Things You Probably Shouldn’t Put in Your Mouth by TheWrongKindOfPC
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band)
03 Apr 2021
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Rule 6: If eating it is not going to kill you, there’s really no compelling reason to back down from a dare
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- Part 9 of life! life! eternity!
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Ashes Oh Really is about to stage a hostile takeover of the DJ booth. Tune in to 101.9 to hear the carnage.
Ashes, Jonny, mixtapes, independence, don't-you-dare-call-it-loneliness, and the big bad world out there. A sequel to my high school AU series.
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- Part 10 of life! life! eternity!
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“Hi, we’ve been International Waters and you’ve been our adoring fans,” Jonny tells the mostly-empty bar’s Thursday night patrons. “Tip your bartender, we’ve all got to celebrate the fact that he’s legal now.”
“I think the difference between growing with and growing out of punk is accepting that the music always falls short of creating the change it demands in songs. Punk is the tension between what I see and what I want.” — Mike Funk, Well I Guess This Is Growing Up
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- Part 11 of life! life! eternity!
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Jonny succumbs to octokitten pressure by TheWrongKindOfPC
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band)
02 Jun 2021
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Brian’s dad looks pretty much exactly like he looked when they were all in high school, like he hasn’t aged a day. This wouldn’t matter, probably, except that Jonny’s latest favorite joke is to act like he’s going to seduce other people’s fathers.
Tim's life feels pretty settled these days, but settled for this group comes with its own chaos. The Toy Soldier has jury duty, Brian has a job interview, Ashes has legitimate issues with the unsubtlety of governmentally-sourced unmarked cars, and Jonny is switching to pour-over coffee — the gang's (almost!) all here!
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- Part 12 of life! life! eternity!
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my mother was a tailor but she never sewed me shit by TheWrongKindOfPC
Fandoms: The Mechanisms (Band)
06 Jun 2021
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“So what’s the problem?” Nastya asks, and Jonny thinks he’d resent the assumption that there has to be a problem he’s calling about, at this first holiday spent with Tim’s family, but she’s right, and getting offended before turning around and admitting that she’s right sounds unnecessary and futile.
Families and the ways they do and do not blend, a triptych.
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- Part 13 of life! life! eternity!
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“Alright,” Jonny finds himself saying. “Sure, fuck it. Let’s go see if they’ll let us be other people.”
The Toy Soldier beams at him, its face luminous in the dimness of the room. “They can’t actually stop us from being other people, you know!” It trills at him. “They can only choose not to pay us for it!”
Jonny and the Toy Soldier take a seasonal gig at a haunted house.Series
- Part 14 of life! life! eternity!
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what went down at Calypso's by TheWrongKindOfPC
Fandoms: The Mechanisms, MacGuffin & Co. (RPG Streams)
05 Sep 2021
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Something is up, and it’s probably not Heracles's business, but he has a feeling that, sooner or later, he’s going to find out what it is anyway. No one is really very good at keeping secrets at Burn Down This Bar.
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“Hey, so when we started out, you said your relationship with Raphaella was a casual thing.”
“Yeah.” Marius said that for a reason. “It is casual. She’s my best friend. With benefits, is all.”
“And you live together.”
“Yeah.”
“And now you’re having a baby together?”
“Yeah. But, like. Casually."
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Into the silence, Jonny casually drops, “So, my mother’s in town,” like this is a totally normal, everyday occurrence.
“You have a mother?” Raphaella asks.
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Jonny feels really fucking pleased for the first thirty seconds after he hangs up the phone, having successfully scheduled his top surgery, which is now officially happening in four months. Then the Toy Soldier ruins it by calling across the apartment, with its usual cheer, "Ah, that's too bad, old chum! You won't be able to attend Danger Days, then!"
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If asked ahead of time, Marius would probably have guessed that, of all of his friends, Tim would be one of the better ones to tap for babysitting, what with all the cats.
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“So now Maureen thinks that Jessica needs a baby,” The Toy Soldier explains to Brian, chopping the onion on the cutting board in front of it vigorously. “Which is obviously not true, what would Jessica even do with a baby? She doesn’t even exist most of the time.”
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- Part 20 of life! life! eternity!