#automatophobia

[poppitron360]

B= Bipolar disorder?

I don't know much about bpd but I know it starts with a b

@frayna-of-the-hollow

starting a tag train!

So the train goes like this: we're naming mental disorders, phobias or quirks in alphabetical order. You say the next letter, then tag ONE person, and they continue it!

A = Autism/Adhd

@poppitron360

[tsamsheadcanons]

More of my Bloodmoon headcannons because he's my blorbo.

1: Their OG body can regenerate due to their nonomachines, and they could theoretically be sliced in half and live/rapidly heal. The only reason they stayed dead the first time was because they were lowkey completely incenerated by the barrel blast.

2: Bloodmoon flips people off on the daily. He'll also playfully flip off people's pets.

3: Bloodmoon Is actually quite fond of animals, and they secretly feed stray dogs and cats scraps from their kills.

4: Bloodmoon radiates crackhead and Bastardcore aesthetic energy.

5: Bloodmoon really likes music, I feel like he would listen to artist like Radiohead, Mindless Self Indulgence, Miracle Musical, and Maretu. Twin 1 likes Death Metal and Alt rock, while Twin 2 likes Emo and theatrical.

6: (Idk if I doube listed this, sorry if I did) Bloodmoon is bilingual. They both can speak fluent Russian, and since no one else around them understands Russian, It's like their own secret language. I can just see Ruin lecturing them and they'll just mutter 'this is stupid' to eachother in Russian under their breath.

7: Twin 1 has Monophobia (the Fear of being alone, even while eating/sleeping), while twin 2 has Thantophobia (Fear of dying [specifically his twin dying]). They both have Automatophobia (Fear of human-like dolls/mannequins).

8: If Bloodmoon was a Pokémon, Twin 1 would be a Hisuian Zoroark, While Twin 2 would be a Midnight Lycanroc.

9: Bloodmoon stims. A lot. Mostly nail tapping (long claws go brr), repeating phrases from media, swivel chairs are stimming heaven, walking on his tiptoes/simulating walking anthropomorphicly, popping bubble wrap with his claws, spacing out (staring into the void).

10: Bloodmoon can solve a rubix cube in about 45 seconds.

11: Bloodmoon is on the autism spectrum, and socialization is incredibly confusing to him. Like, must everyone speak in social riddles? Can people just say what they mean the first-time 'round?"

12: Bloodmoon is morbidly curious. ((TW Gore)) [As in: what would happen to a human's body if the spine was completely removed with surgical precision? What would happen if a human body was filled with rats and sewed back up? Would they eat their way out?] that kinda morbidly curious.

I love your headcanons!

[adobe-outdesign]

Have you gone to any tourist attraction as a kid and hated it there but also loved it? I recall this was a lot of my experiences with museums, because I had automatophobia back then and the wax statues and REAL human corpses scared the hell out of me. And once, my parents got lost in a museum and we ended up staying even after everyone had gone home, there were wax statues everywhere and you never knew which ones were motion triggered animatronics...

No, I don't think so. Honestly I think I'd have a lot of fun in a wax museum but I've never been to one before so

[oidyre]

FEARtober

Day 14 - Automatophobia

[poppitron360]

I have "Automatophobia"

Fear of creepy animatronics and shit.

I went on a Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ride at Alton Towers one time when I was six and the animatronics on that ride freaked me out so bad it took me a while to start reading any more Roald Dhal books. Still haven't seen the movie all the way through.

I stay the FUCK away from fnaf. Although, I do find it validating bc I know that people make horror movies/games about common phobias.

It's part of the whole "uncanny valley" thing. If it's meant to look like a robot, that's okay. But if it's too humanoid or animalistic, all plasticy smiles and creepy voices-

No. Nope. No sir. No way.

Which is weird that I tend to obsess over fictional engineers and mechanics but that's not something I'm gonna unpack right now.

I know this is supposed to be child phobias, but still.

Also, the "Are you my mummy?" Episode of Doctor Who still haunts me a little. I saw that ep when I was ten but that shit STICKS.

@lavenderfairiez @ginnyluna @groverapologist @echo-stimmingrose @demigod-shenanigans @keefessketchbook @sleepyycapybara @euryvices @123letsgobestie @fairytalesociology @four-leafed-queer-gal @child-of-helios @green-tea217 @puzzled-pegasus @ollieisanerd @twomanyfandomshelp @lokiwiiiiiii @yoshuko-ew @frayna-of-the-hollow @via-rant @daonedaonlyskh @hadeslegacyhephgirl @siimplyapril @pjowasmy1stfandom @thetourturedwritersclub @m-for-now @inky-void @imarayoffuckingsunshine

You know what, I’ve been tagged in so many of these tagging games, I’m gonna start one of my own!

This came up in a conversation with my friends, so I just gotta know:

What was your childhood fear (and why)?

What haunted your dreams, made you afraid of every shadow, and caused you to ask your parents to check in your closet and under your bed?

Since this is my tagging game, I’ll get the ball rolling with:

THIS. FUCKING. THING.

For those who don’t know, this is Tyrone from Backyardigans and this episode is called “Whodunit”. Backyardigans was my childhood, and I still watch it from time to time, but this episode absolutely creeped me out as a child.

Tyrone is a sweetheart and I love him in any other episode, but…

👆👆👆

LOOK AT THIS!!

LOOK AT HIM!!

LOOK AT HOW CREEPY THEY MADE HIM IN THIS EPISODE!!

THIS IS SCARY FOR A LITTLE KID!!

HE LITERALLY MADE HIS FIRST APPEARANCE BY POPPING OUT OF THE MIST!!

THEN RAN AROUND THE SHADOWS LIKE A FREAKING GOBLIN!!

I LITERALLY HAD NIGHTMARES ABOUT THIS DUDE!!

For those I tag, you don’t have to participate if you’re not comfortable sharing, especially if it’s a sensitive topic. But if it’s an embarrassment thing, I started it off by saying I was afraid of a cartoon character that was only creepy for one particular episode. We don’t judge here. This is a safe space.

@littledudeholland @letsbelikethewindtogether @pixanefan @kazumahashimoto @sweetheart-weeb-33 @revlischarm @rinkunokoisuru

[goose-are-bumped]

[ilovcakez]

i have a deep fear of the Avatar animatronic at disneyworld, i think that thing will reach out to me and rip my torso off effortlesly.

[klownoffables]

My marionette of Automatophobia

[haredjarris]

did....... did markliplier name his dog after the chicken animatronic from five nights at freddys????

[fictionkinfessions]

Being Kazuichi I can say that I have like, the complete opposite of Submechaphobia or automatophobia(?). Like, it's a morbid facination or even obsession. Those pictures bring a sense of comfort, if that makes sense? -Souda!

[toomuchknowledgetoomuchknowled]

"One of"? There is more? I'm going whit automatophobia (fear for animatronichs) and in the FNAF episode it gone/got better

(Idk if I wrote that right i'm spanish)

fun fact before i left the glitchcord (it was chaos there) dan milano said this so uh....take what you will from it

[futurescope]

Ａｕｔｏｍａｔｏｐｈｏｂｉａ

The fear of being automated out of a job: io9 has a nice piece about 10 possible diseases that might afflict us in the future. Inspired by a tweet chat with Cornelia Daheim today, I've come up with another #nearfuture disease.

// This is part of my New Year's resolution, to design/publish/create more future artifacts/fictions/prototypes and design fiction things. Sorry in advance for unfinished & quick stuff like this one.

[CC BY-NC 4.0] [picture from Ryan McGuire]

[futurescope]

CREATIVITY VS. ROBOTS - The creativity economy and the future of employment

Nesta released a follow-up to their "Our Work Here is Done: Visions of a Robot Economy" report from 2014. This time they are looking at creativity in the UK and how creative jobs will be more resistant to automation in the future.

In 'Creativity vs Robots' we show that creativity is inversely related to computerisability: 87 per cent of highly creative workers are at low or no risk of automation, compared with 40 per cent of jobs in the UK workforce as a whole. At the regional level, we see that places with a higher proportion of the workforce in creative jobs, most obviously London, are also more immune to automation.

Such findings should not be surprising: they reflect the fact that machines can most successfully emulate humans when a problem is well specified in advance – that is, when performance can be straightforwardly quantified and evaluated – and when the work task environment is sufficiently simple to enable autonomous control. They will struggle when tasks are highly interpretive, geared at ‘products whose final form is not fully specified in advance’, and when work task environments are complex – a good description of most creative occupations.

A further new study for Nesta shows that creative occupations tend to be characterised by higher than average levels of life satisfaction, worthwhileness and happiness – but also higher levels of anxiety.

[Read the report (PDF)]

[futurescope]

First robot in history to ace No. 16 at Waste Management

Progress. 19 years after Tiger Woods.

In the opening round of the 2016 Waste Management Phoenix Open, LDRIC the golf robot gets a hole-in-one on the par-3 16th hole.

[futurescope]

I've created a machine in the image of a man, that never tires or makes a mistake. Now we have no further use for living workers

-C. A. Rotwang, Metropolis