#fictional robots

[unbizzarre]

One-Esk and Murderbot meet in the waiting lobby for Robo-Therapy

(…specifically rage counseling )

Probably two of my favorite robot/ai/construct protagonists in literature! Though I have a lot. (What’s up Culture shipminds…)

Creation notes:

A pattern I’ve been noticing is that a lot of these robots are very traumatized, very angry, and don’t like talking about their feelings. I was gonna originally make this short comic about One-Esk (aka Breq) and Murderbot on the first day of group therapy for rage counseling and it would just be a bunch of shots of them sitting in silence cuz neither of them like talking about their feelings but, uh…. the shots were just a lot and the series of events wasn’t really flowing right so I scrapped that idea in favor of not having to draw a zillion backgrounds. Still wound up taking a stupidly long time to create a product that feels… underwhelming. I really like how Breq turned out but I just couldn’t get the hair or costume design on MB to really fit the corpo-futuristic spacer asthetic I was going for, while still capturing that social-anxiety-comfort-hoodie energy. (Was originally contemplating having a shot of MB pulling hoodie strings closed over their face in one shot but wound up scrapping that idea as well.) Cannonicallly, MB should probably be in all dark blues and blacks, but the colors just weren’t working so I went with yellow instead. Idk. Maybe it’s a loaner hoodie from one of MB’s humans.

Here’s a shot I never wound up using:

Anyways! I hope this made you smile if you like one or both of these series! 😊

Post script: if you like Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries, you should definitely check out Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice trilogy, or vice versa. More angry traumatized non-binary human-ai constructs for all! Mega-latestage-capitolist dystopia, or xenophobic -imperialist-socialist empire? Sentient space ships? C’mon. Just read both series u know you’ll love it.

[mrrotten]

Sighhhh here’s Edgar and scp 079

Can be interpreted as platonic or romantic whatever you want

[conkreetmonkey]

Curie from Fallout 4 is transfem. Please bear with me.

In the lab where she is found, according to the terminal of the Vault Tec scientist who created her, she was built out of a repurposed Mr. Handy his team already had. She was not a Ms. Nanny out of the box, she was a Mr. Handy who was given a female voice and presumably painted white. True, there is no real mechanical difference between the Mr. Handy and Ms. Nanny, but regardless, she used to be a Mr. Handy. This reasoning may seem flimsy, as she probably wasn't sentient at the time her robo-gender was changed and almost certainly didn't choose to make the change, but this is only half of my case.

Consider her entire character arc, about wanting to become human and eventually managing to upload her conciousness into the body of a synth. An imperfect yet more than sufficient solution, this new body allows Curie to easily pass as human, experience human senses, and for all intents and purposes be a biological being, just a synthetically created one, missing a few features such as reproduction but still far more physically human than machine. She is happy with this compromise, and presumably lives out the rest of her days happily as a human woman.

Like what else is there to say, that's a transition. That's just about as tight an allegory for a gender transition that I can imagine a robot undergoing without them explicitly being transgender. The factory built her as a male model of robot, and she would go on to gain sentience, discover herself, decide she didn't want to inhabit that body anymore, and become a woman.

Curie from Fallout 4 is trans. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

[mouseydate]

Gonna put these all over my house and pretend I’m on the Discovery

[aubrey-plush12]

WHY DO I KEEP FALLING IN LOVE WITH ROBOTS???WHY AM I IN LOVE WITH TAU FROM THE NETFLIX MOVIE NOW???WHY IS IT THAT EVERY WEEK I FALL IN LOVE WITH A NEW ROBOT CHARACTER??

[beepboopappreciation]

Hello every!!

This blog is really just an outlet for me to post my robot brainworms and brainrot on, but you are all welcome to follow! If you decide to do that, here's what you can expect from me:

> Fictional Robot posts/fanart reblogs

>Robot adjacent aesthetics

> My Robotsona

> other Clanker-posting shenanigans

I'm not otherkin, but I appreciate u guys from afar, ily :]

[cyborgized]

Self-Awareness by Katsuhiro Õtomo

[clinical-space-podcast]

Reblog if your art project has not, does not, and never will make use of generative ai at any point in your creative process.

[insanelyadd]

Some more FIRL (Fiction In Real Life) pictures. I feel like I should clarify that I took all these pictures myself, which I'd like to think I'm pretty good at because I took 4 photography classes in high school. I like going around and taking candid photos of environments and then drawing cartoons and other fictional characters on top of them, which is a little bit of a reflection of my love for cartoons and also my home in the Twin Cities. Some of these pictures are a bit old but I prefer posting these as a series.

Anyways isn't it crazy that there's a nexus connecting our reality to fictional ones in Minneapolis. /j

[unbizzarre]

One-Esk, Murderbot, and A.R.T. watch "2001 a Space Odyssey - The Musical"

Meanwhile...

Creator’s Note: I made some more incredibly niche crossover content! Three of my favorite fictional robots/AI hanging out. This scene popped into my head when I was rereading the scene in artificial condition where ART was afraid to watch certain shows with secunit because it would get too upset if the ship cremembers in the show were endangered. (Probably the cutest moment in the whole series TBH, and definitely the moment I became 1000% on board with ART as a character.) I had a lot of fun imagining the characters reactions and trying to pick out what they should watch for their pajama movie night (obviously it had to be a musical for breq, and include space ships for ART). Hope you enjoy!

Also, here's a text-free version of my drawing, which you are welcome to use/edit/draw-over however you'd like:

Post script: if you like Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries, you should definitely check out Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice trilogy, or vice versa. More angry traumatized non-binary human-ai constructs for all! Mega-latestage-capitolist dystopia, or xenophobic -imperialist-socialist empire? Sentient space ships? C’mon. Just read both series u know you’ll love it.

[mrrotten]

If you’re trans and like robots you should check out this video

[mistress-of-malevolence]

"It doesn't fit anymore"

✿alt versions below the cut + bonus

[koyoriin]

synthetic human [ service unit 01-2 ]

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[aubrey-plush12]

Hello everyone,I’m sorry I hadn’t been posting in the past couple of months.I’ve been trying to get my grades up in school and I was doing other things aswell,so I didn’t have that much time to post.i might start doing requests again in the summer if I can,but for now have these drawings,bye!

[beepboopappreciation]

Is this anything

[cyborgized]

"The Robot Who Dreams" by Phillipe Caza