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Hello!

If you’ve been interacting with the Mechanisms fandom recently, you’ve probably noticed that it has pretty much exploded in size recently. Its also changing fairly rapidly in terms of where recruitment is happening, and where bits of fandom engagement is going on and how. Becuse of this I thought it would be a good idea to look at a couple of things in the fandom:

-how fast the growth is

-where recruitment is happening

-what spaces fans are using

-what resources fans are using, and what resources they feel are missing

hopefully to help consolidate what we’re creating to help each other.

(in addition to this, also a look at what the content preferences are in the fandom, as people are generally interested in things like that) 

This has led to the above survey.

There’s more information about how the responses will be returned within the survey introduction, but the short of it is that all the data will be anonymous, most of it will just be numbers and percentages, and any written answers will be paraphrased unless permission is given to quote. The analysis will then be posted to AO3 and Tumblr to coincide with the one year anniversary of DTTM.

To do this, the survey will close January 1st 2021.

Thanks,

Jay

[Do feel free to share this wherever you wish - a good sample of the entire fandom will give the best results]

You laugh and I agree

That this thing got the best of me

This is my contribution to the amazing Ladies of Literature Volume 2 project ( ladiesofliterature )! It was an honor to work alongside so many talented artists and to get to illustrate my favourite female book character as well!

Io Moth (Automeris io), male, family Saturniidae, OK, USA

Illustrating some literal mushroom names in anticipation of baby's first convention season (as an independent artist)

Here's 1 out of 3 - Chicken of the Woods!

Heyo! I wanted to post our build book somewhere so here we gooo

We stole the table of context ontop of finished photo idea from @sarahspaceman who I'm sure saw it from somewhere else. Our cosplays are a little out there so I wanted to give a debrief on just how we came up with this concept along with a way for the judges to find more materials.

Since this wasn't a thing that existed in any sort of media it was very important to me that the judges would know that we picked from historical imagery, so I wanted to have pictures as examples of what things were supposed to look like. In addition to giving examples from the games of imagery that we used in case they were unfamiliar.

You'll begin to notice a trend of pictures that have their background removed, I just wanted to be able to fit more stuff on the page without compromising space. I also tried to block like sections together to draw the eye easier when reading about certain pieces.

Another thing that I tried to do was keep in mind what the book would look like in physical form, so we tried to mirror where we could.

Fun fact, because I had this pattern notated I was able to go back and use it to make more trim when I decided my butt was too bare. Luigi's Hosen page too a log of finagling to get it too look right with the amount of text I wanted to be on there.

Because we ended up condensing some stuff together, we ended up with an extra page, page 12 became a "here's everything we haven't talked about yet that we want to talk about" By the time we sent off the book for Metro, we hadn't updated the shoes page with their new stained leather- they look much nicer now.

Snip went into a work frenzy and didn't take any photos of him covering the base in worble, but you can take my word for it that it did happen! (I was busy weaving when he was knocking Chain2.0 out) I love love love how the Poltergust turned out. It's a functional backpack and is super sturdy!

Red hot battle fury

Forgot to post this some time ago and it got buried on my phone, whoops!

Agravaine You psychopath Killed a unicorn lying in a virgin's lap