#*robot sry

[doctortonytchopper]

Everyone fuckin slandering the iron giant to hell and back for taking a long time to get involved as if it isn't a constant joke how long we had to wait for a computer built 30 years ago to boot up back when it was NEW, much less how long a computer running like windows 95 would take to start once it was EIGHT HUNDRED years old 🙄

[driftsart]

Unblurred ver:

I need to draw these two more often, since they're supposed to be my main au characters lol

[pchelik-please]

Headcanons for cardbots' anatomy and culture(kinda)

I wrote most of them to set cardbots apart from cybertronians and write down ideas for their mechanical insides. Tumblr seemingly doesn't like the formating im using.

Warning! Its a long read.

Anatomical hc:

Optic is a one whole led screen, very expressive, easily breakable 

Charge instead of a spark (a ball of electricity with nerves that run through the whole body, you should under no circumstance touch it)

Charge consists of the Charge Core (a ball of high voltage electricity in the chest) and Charge Veins (thin vein-like strings that run through entire body from the Charge Core) 

Charge Core is protected by dense shell made out of machinium. Charge Veins are attached to it

There are five main CV: 2 for arms, 2 for legs, 1 for head, if the mech has any other appendages (Deep Bite has a tail) than there is an extra CV

CV can split to fill smaller connected appendages (fingers, finials) and to connects to the internal organs (fuel tank, transformation hinges, hydraulics, etc) 

If the CC' s shell is breached than it will start fizzling out. If the breach is big and not sealed in time the CC will dissolve and the mech will die

Thinner pieces that have CV ( finials, fingers, wings, FV’s flat thing) are very sensitive because the CV is closer to the surface, but fingers are less sensitive cus they’re used often

No combiners (Flame Nova is an exception*, Blue Cop got it from Deus Machina, I don’t fucking know what’s going on with Blastrain)

Can eat multiple form of fuel (it all converts to energy) 

In the show they have a weird vicious liquid in their bodies for some fucking reason and I hate it. CHANGE all fuel converts to electricity, no viscous greens

No medical ports (thus can’t download data directly to their processor, have to learn it manually) But maybe they have bluetooth??? 

They just bonk their heads and send small not important files to each other (photos, short videos and gifs, tho the last two will have shitty quality). But if they have hats they need to take them off.

No partial patch thing (at least not through a cord, maybe through a em connection)

No subspace, its taken by their metal cards and weapons 

sealed bots have subspace because their metal cards are stored in the metal breath, but its not big

Alt modes aren’t an exact copy of the scanned vehicle (it like 80% same)Change, they cant chose a different altmode, they are stuck with one forever. Change, the can choose their alt mode but not an exact copy 80%

I don’t think some of them even cared to scan a human vehicle and just stayed with their old altmode even on earth (Blastrain, Sky Gallop, Deep Bite (his altmode still would look animalistic as hell tho), Speranza crew)

Their windows are always tinted, even the front

EYE THINGIES ON FRONT WINDOW (all have it, a projections to better emote)

Very expressive even in alt mode

Have no mouths, there’s nothing like a mouth under the battle mask

Optic color can be changed through a simple medical procedure, means nothing really

There’s no specific organ that lets them transform rather its in their whole body (we have so much shit that makes us walk, not one specific organ)

Wings, cranes and other thin shit on the frame is more sensitive, cus the CV are closer to the surface

Can’t open the charge core chamber, if breached and not closed the charge will fizzle out very quickly, but injuries to charge veins are not lethal (they are very deep and small) usually they lead to the temporal paralysis ( mega ambler's things work the same) 

Usually smaller than cybertronians (4-6 meters usually, some are just fucking big (Black hook is a boat but its a tiny ass boat, Heavy Iron was made like that for funsies), some are bigger cus of their frame types (Blasttrain and Sky Gallop))

Metal card can be used even in alt mode

Only one alt form, no triple-cadruple-sixtruple changers (triple changer is like a fantasy, their Spiderman would have it)

Vehicle only alt modes, no monkeys, guns or boomboxes

If an injury is sparking and leaking than its very very fucking bad and you need to go to a doctor NOW

They generally produce much less noise (fans are quiet, electrical inside are not noisy) 

Frame types: car (Blue Cop), flight (Cielo, Shadow X), water related (Black Hook (YES HE IS A FLYING BOAT, BUT BOAT NON THE LESS), Deep Bite), other weird wheels (Rock Crush, Blastrain) 

Yes there many sub frame types, but its mostly just civilian-small, standard, bigger transportation, giant guy. OWW has different sub types (car different wheels (tank), weird land vehicle metal wheels (trams and trains), something else construction vehicle (Rock Crush) )

OWW are rare

Animal traits are very rare, its a mutation

No claws, maximum is pointy fingers (exception Deep Bite)

FUCKING HATS. They are born with them (I mean not everyone, but it’s not rare). They are held down with small magnets 

Are more common in ground frame than in any other (ground, oww, fly, water) 

Something getting stuck on frame like a little magnet is okay, but too much of it and you can get sick

They can absorb gas fuel through their fans but its not very effective 

THEY HAVE PORES IN THEIR MASKS TO ABSORB OTHER FUEL (they can taste)  

Optics are very fragile and can break easily from underwater pressure (water frames are an exception). 

water frames have generally sturdier optics, there is an additional layer of protective glass above the led.

Said additional layer can be installed manually (Phoenix Fire has it cus of his job (he has a lot of mods I think)) 

Are cooler in general (electricity produces less heat) 

If they are damaged severely in their rout mode they cant transform (no hand/leg = impartial car that's missing something most likely vital)

The funny ahh guys who are kinda combiners but not really (Flame Nova, Blue Cop Trinity, Blastrain)

Flame Nova and Blastrain were supposedly born like that (not sure about FN) so when they are combined they should feel everything with their outer layer (touches, damage, em fields)

BC wasn’t born with Loader and Commander so when he’s combined he can’t exactly feel anything beyond severe damage and touches (but only cus he knows someone’s touching him)

Can I just make it very fucking individual? They all have different things regarding the combination ( it can be inborn or acquired through fucking magic or through illegal means (???), but it would be different for all of them)

Different fuels taste very different (methane is delicious kinda sweet, gasoline is basic a bit salty (potato), diesel is similar but fruity (???))

Energon and its variants taste like different acid/energy drinks with a fucked up electric aftertaste, bitter, leaves you sick but wanting more

Cardbots have a very diverse diet. Its advisable to consume 2 different types of fuel a day ( usually electricity and smt else)

The taste of the fuels can vary depending on the manufacturer and brand (‘ Coca Coalla’s diesel is weird, I like Fuelnta more its sweeter’ “Dude, Fuelnta is so poorly filtered, your pores have tiny pieces of minerals after you drink it”)

Energon is like a fucked energy drink for them. If they drink it they are going to run on walls for hours at best (at worst they will run around in circles for an entire day, their mind hazed and crazy, and they’ll get an incredible stomachache after all of that) 

Cardbots have an organ for converting fuel to the vicious green liquid (I hate it. there's no reason for its existence(VICIOUS GREEN NO MORE)). Different fuels have different processing time (electricity is the fastest, straight to the core) 

Energon is very energy dense compared to other fuels, so it's processing is kinda weird (the organ is working at max % with evey other fuel cus efficiency and it would take very long otherwise, but energon slips through it with such speed that the entire fps** can be fucked from it) 

Imagine dropping a glass of liquid high concentration fuel into a wood oven 

No charge pulse, constant buzzing instead (you cant hear it from all the plating around it) cannot be tracked by cybertronian tracking devices

They’re denser. Can be tossed around without getting any serious dents for much longer than cybertronians

Cultural (kinda) hc :

Electricity expelled through body (spark and little charges) is explained next

electricity expelled through body right next to someone is a horny kinda gesture

if you nuzzle someone and let out a spark of electricity, it will deepen the kiss and considerate a romantic gesture

you ate too much, if its continuing for more than a day than its a health problem related to fuel to energy transition or its an equivalent of a fever (mostly likely the fever)

Gender is expressed mostly only through pronounce

Optic color can be changed quiet easily, but due to optic’s construction it will be one solid color. Dark colors are not used at all.

Wingspeak is known by all flight frames from birth ( flight frame with autism will not know it sry)

Brighter optics = good mood, dim optics = bad mood or a health issue

SLEEP PILE SLEEP PILE SLEEP PILE, warmer bots sink, you know a guy for 1 one day and you now can sleep in a pile (not considerate horny at all). Usually sleep like that in rout mode, alt mode is less comfortable for a sleep pile

Names consist of two words or two roots or a word and a letter (Blue Cop, Blasttrain, Shadow X). The last one is rare and new (like giving your kid a fancy new name)

Something something magnetism and em stuff is very weird and they are very sensitive to it. (Em storm will give them strong migraines or make them horny idk yet)

No spark bonds or anything close to them

They sulk in their altmode (a car sitting in a dark garage is a sad giant robot)

Its harder to notice their fans are working (aka blushing)

They have shallow soup plates with for exmp gasoline and they dip their face mask in it and it slowly gets absorbed

If its gas fuel maybe its like a bong???

Cords and wires are mostly associated with internal organs and thus are kinda gross

Seeing cybertronian's medical ports and cables is very weird and gross

There’s deffinetly something like old English (Sky Gallop speaks with fucking thee thy and thou s)

Red Blitz’ name from Sky Gallop sounded like Crimson Flash (???)

That means that their language was changing rather rapidly (kinda like English) if the old version is still around, but the major changes occurred long ago enough that most people who speak it are either old Knights (Sky Gallop) or some high old caste (also Sky Gallop)

Maybe im making baseless assumptions based off of one character

DEUS MACHINA IS A GINORMOUS BALL OF ELECTRICITY THAT USES A COMPUTER AS A SHELL

CC is a parallel to Deus in a way ( the essence of a person is in a ball of electricity that is in protective shell / the essence of a God/Creator/Planet is a ginormous ball of electricity in a protective shell/computer)

The computer itself is just a shell, without it Deus will be absolutely incomprehensible for cardbots (they will receive every em signal that Deus consists of and just BOOM). I think that if you stood infront of itself with no shell you would understand everything She wants to say but also absolutely nothing because of the way Deus is constructed

I have a scene of Blue Cop floating in front of Deus in Her core. She doesn’t say anything but hundreds and thousands of meanings of Her words are in his processor. She cares about her creations but she knows they will never comprehend Her real form so she just sticks to the giant computer in the core of Machina.

Since Her shell is a computer it needs service. Every service bot of Hers is also a religious figure

I think her presence would stretch for miles, washing everything in Her em signals and Her electricity. Deus is omnipresent without Her shell. When Machina was blown up everyone had sensed Her. Her dying spirit. Her presence. Her emotions.

She has desmos music vibes

ELECTRICITY SYMBOLISM in visual art

A spark or a bolt between 2 bots is romantic, meaning close intimacy

A ball with sparks around it is a religious thing. Has a caring, kind, all-knowing undertone to it

Half a ball with sparks is also religious. Has an omnipresent, all-knowing, always watching undertone, used rarely. Mostly used in religious texts and paintings/posters

A lot of thin bolts of electricity around someone = pain, sickness, punishment for greed (if the sparks are closer to beak)

2-3 sparks around beak = good taste, awesome fuel, hearty meal

CN structure = insides, strong but thin and curvy, weasy

Im gonna reread it later and think 'bruh what was i on'

Cardbots generally deal with loneliness worse. And they all at least for some time were alone when they landed on earth (their save capsules/podes are for 1 person) so they do appreciate the company more. S1 group is especially clingy in their sleep pile cus no one wants to lose anyone again (its a bit denser than a normal one) even Heavy Iron couldn't sleep alone for very long. And they are generally more sociable than cybertronians I think.

Number 1 psychological issue is abandonment issues/anxiety

Smaller bots sleep curled up, the bigger the bot the more they spread out ( HI is 🧍‍♂️ while BC is 🧶)

The single-colored optic (exm Heavy Iron) is an intimidation tactic. Though can be turned on instinctively if the bot isn’t thinking straight (BC high on energon, Flash&Bit bros with the metal from s2)

[toxiccaves]

"This is what made me realize that I am not alone. That there are other Metal Cardbots that have arrived on this planet besides me."

[rosedevoir]

colressbot and anomerlocaris 🌐🦐🤖🧜‍♀️

[maraschinotopped]

happy super bomberman r 2 release day!!! what do you mean the game has been out for 4 days now

[in-this-essay-i-wont]

I’m rlly never beating the autistic robot lover allegations because every FUCKIGn time I see a robot character it’s always like well what if they just need a friend because they’ve never been shown how to be a human and maybe they’re unloving exterior is a façade they’ve been programmed to have it’s not their fault surely this doesn’t sound simila-

[mothocean]

Would u guys forgive me if i rbd some uhh ns//fw stuff

[aubrey-plush12]

OLEASE 1 oneshot with upgraded shiny x reader I'm dropping to my KNEES...... He's not loved enough shiny likers r STARVING!!!!!!1

I am rlly sorry for doing this really super duper late..I’ll make the reader another robot since u didnt say what u wanted the reader to be…

upgraded shiny x robot!reader

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You were another robot who worked in the edf team,and your job was to also help fight the kaiju,but also evacuate the citizens when thunder or shiny couldn’t.the robot you had admired most had been shiny.you found him adorable.everything about him made you feel warm inside.today was another kaiju battle,and while you evacuated the citizens thunder and shiny took care of the kaiju.you turned your head around for a quick moment,only to see thunder tell shiny “heads up.” Before a decapitated kaiju head fell on shiny,making him stumble and try to get it off.you chuckled a little,finding it how silly shiny was.you hoped that he would never change.

Back at the edf base,you looked over from your hangar to see the workers in thunders hangar cheering him on,while shiny,covered in kaiju goo,waved back at everyone as Alex congratulated you three.you turned your head to shiny,feeling bad for him.he kept complaining about these past few kaiju missions,and you could tell that he was tired of it.the little antenna on his head bending down in sadness.eventually after hearing all of the bickering it was night.and you and thunder had shut down,besides shiny.you tried opening your eyes slowly,and you saw shiny sneaking out of his hangar.thank god he didn’t notice you were watching him.you don’t know if you should confront him and ask what he was doing,or tell thunder yourself.but instead,you kept quiet and went back to sleep.hopefully it was nothing important..

The next day came,and the kaiju alert rang.you got out of your hangar just like thunder,only for shiny nowhere to be seen..you looked at his hangar and wondered..where could he be?thunder also looked at shinys hangar and was just as confused as you were.”where is shiny?” Thunder said,looking at you to see if you knew where he was.only for you to give him a shrug.then not even five seconds later,you and thunder both heard a loud booming voice that sounded similar to shinys.”the new and improved shiny is here!” You and thunder both turned around to see shiny,but instead of his normal self,he looked more…well you just didn’t know what to say.your head tilted while thunder looked in surprise to this new form of shiny.he was mostly black,with red neon everywhere on him.even having some features of thunder like his Mohawk,and the things on his shoulders..so this must’ve been what he was sneaking out for last night..?an upgrade?was it because of what he said the other day?you thought,looking at shiny..for some reason you couldn’t get your eyes off of him…as alex became concerned,wondering if shiny could handle upgrades,shiny started to walk towards the giant edf door.”there is no time for figuring this out.there’s a kaiju that’s in our atmosphere if you didn’t notice.” Is what shiny said as thunder followed him from behind and you did as well.”but shiny,what is this?you have equipped yourself with unauthorized expiremental components..” shiny stopped walking for a moment to turn his head around to thunder as he raised one of his arms.”thunder. Gawk at me,follow me,or get the crunk out of my way.” Shiny said as he flew off right in front of thunder,leaving you two.but eventually thunder flew off,and so did you.

It seemed like ever since those upgrades he’d been acting like a jerk.shiny would always destroy the kaiju before you or thunder could do something to it.and you don’t know why,but it sometimes seemed like shiny had been…flirting with you?he would often glance at you and smirk,use his weapons in front of you to impress you,and he would only argue with thunder but never with you.but you shook it off as nothing too serious.it’s not like he felt the same way as you did..

It was another kaiju battle,and of course shiny defeated it himself.as you were knocked out by the kaijus tail earlier,you didn’t realize a building was about to fall on you as you laid down.before you could move shiny stepped in,pushing the building away from you as he reached out a hand.”are you ok?”you squinted your eyes at him for a second.shiny had never been so caring like this after his upgrade,did he really feel the same way as you did for him?you didn’t say anything,only giving him a quick nod and using his hand to get yourself up.as it was now sunset,you three were walking back to the edf base.as you were walking in between them,hearing thunder and shiny both argue about his new upgrades,you couldn’t help but feel shiny overheating and getting more angry from thunder arguing.you slightly leaned on shinys shoulders,which caught him off guard as you asked him if he was ok.he managed to mutter out a little “fine.” Making it seem like he was annoyed,but he wasn’t.your touch cooled him down a little from the heated argument with thunder.you felt bold,and gave him a quick kiss on his helmet,making him freeze for a moment before he went back to walking with you.it took a moment for him to smile back at you as you two kept walking.thunder luckily couldn’t see you giving him a kiss on his helmet because he was too busy still arguing and trying to make a point.and as you looked down you realized that shiny had never let go of your hand ever since he helped you get up..

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[andi-1oh]

everyday the rokos basilisk thought experiment becomes more of a possibility

[vamprisms]

had a teacher at my school who used to make speeches in assembly where he would say we needed to 'aim low' in life and never pursue the arts or sports or anything that made us happy. we should start doing that to ai

[driftsart]

A Miner's Fate

[pchelik-please]

I need to disassemble Speranza crew's design for parts that were also used in the design of the ship. I feel insane.

[the-alphonze]

H

How did you, like, upload it?

It’s simpler than you’d think. With certain peices of technology you can make different types of souls into a sort of “copy” which you can put into a vessel to allow that Soul to control something to stay alive. Making it from scratch is very difficult but we already had somethin’ that can do that. The usbsea. And myself

Usbseas is that specific type of technology I mentioned, usually used for Warforged or Construct Souls but adding a part of a different Soul to the organic one would give it enough of a hold to the usbsea so it can stay ‘alive’

So I put a piece of my soul into the usbsea and then put that into Fuckass’s brain matter (luckily it hadn’t been dead for long) and then waited for its Soul to “soak” into it. Then when it seemed done I put the usbsea into my vessel and allowed the Soul to “roam” around the part that allows me access to here, 1 ‘cause I don’t want it to control me or any parts of me that’re important, 2 cause I know yall liked Fuckass, and 3 also as a temporary holding spot until I can get Fuckass a vessel of its own. Until then you’ll see it every now and then when you see this [𓅰]

So there’s your answer :]

[tylidae]

ohoooo yea. it's that time of year again.

[chrisbangz]

Just popping into say 🩵🩷🩵🩷🩵🩵🩷🩵🩷🩵🩷🩵🩷 Lily, you're sooooo lovely 🩵🩷

hi jess !! 😸 and pls you're too sweet 🥰 as are you !!