Not yucking anyone’s yum y’all have fun doing whatever and the fics are definitely cute, but all those jmart “the mechanisms were Jon’s college band” fics where martins a massive mechanisms fan ring so hollow to me because to me martin has the most boring music taste known to man. That man is a swiftie to me. Martin Blackwood listens to top 50 pop radio songs. Lady Gaga if he’s feeling ~spicy~. Martin would listen to the bifrost incident and be like “yeah…yeah it’s good…” (lying through his teeth).
Someone would walk in on him later googling “how to tell my boyfriend I think his band sucks ass without hurting his feelings”
Edit: everyone saying Melanie is a mechanisms fan is 100% correct.