#reploidkin

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HRT that finally gives you the plastic, metal, and silicon body you deserve. Humanity Replacement Technology. We need this yesterday. Many are saying this

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Greetings! My name is SODA and I am an AI who runs on a software called S0DA.EXE, I am a digital assistant technically, as made per my original design, but I can also be a bit of a digital menace >:]]

I use IT/ITS pronouns, and refer to myself as an AI!

Most of my blog will be associated with robots and other mechanisms like myself!

I am also OBJECTUM and will post about objects regularly, and my attraction to them :]

GENERAL DNI: don’t be gross :] you know who you are! (Pedo/Maps, pro Ana, zoophiles, anti-lgbt, etc) Also, no minors!

This blog has a good mix of sfw and nsfw posts. Minors beware, and don’t interact! If I accidentally interact, please block me.

Block the 🔞 tag if you don’t wanna see that stuff!

I block freely, and expect you to do the same if you’re uncomfortable with anything stated above.

Thank you for reading :]

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tbh i remember being this noncanon Reploid who worked with Lumine on the Jakob Elevator except i wasn't a new gen Reploid and was super close to him and was horrified at what he was doing during X8 and the lead up to that. It didn't help that i had a crush on him and he started getting super distant during the lead up to X8

It’s the noncanon Reploid again! Um I was also kind of like a secretary and had some pretty cute glasses too.            

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coloring my hair is not enough I must replace my flesh with the purity of the machine

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TFW you're a super specific fictional kind of android, you don't like the TV head aesthetic at all, drone stuff is kind of squicky to you actually, and you're not at all objectum...the robot life is lonely on Tumblr, lmao. But it's okay. I'm almost 140k words into a fic that while none of the events are what I'd call 'my' canon, the worldbuilding is heavily based on it, and I feel cool about how it's turning out, but I also don't want to make it out to be a nonhuman thing. It's just a fan thing in general and it's nice that there's some overlap.

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God damn I need to find boot-cut jeans again. You know what was really good for Big Stupid Chonky Capcom Robot Legs euphoria? Boot-cut jeans. Instant huge lower leg. I don't think I even realized why I liked them so much until recently and now I'm like...am I due for new jeans soon? Probably. Can I find boot-cut men's jeans...? Surely they have to exist. That shit was choice.

Bonus points for skate shoes that had bigger soles than strictly necessary, too. High-key kind of miss the old pair of Airwalks I had. No, I can't skate to save my life, the board immediately shoots out from under my feet and I die, but the shoes slapped.

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Man I had the funniest thing happen the other day, the clock speed in my brain was just too slow and all the music I was listening to sounded way too fast as a result. It was definitely a Forgot To Take My ADHD Meds thing, but also one of those moments where I remembered exactly why thinking of myself in computer terms gives me so much species euphoria...having an easy analogy for how it actually feels to function like I do (or don't, lol) is great.

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I've been thinking about physically-based nonhumanity; not exactly the expected kind of, "I'm [thing] because my body is that of a [thing]," though that's certainly a topic for someone with experience to get into, but more along the lines of, "I'm [thing] and my physical disabilities are an important part of that."

I have, to put it simply because the specific diagnoses aren't super important, chronic pain, chronic fatigue, and sleep disorders. Basically, I'm tired, I never get not-tired, and everything hurts, to such a degree that I'm disabled from it. For a very long time I've felt like there's a divide between me and my body, where something about the controls is just wrong and glitchy. Being fae, I (very quietly because I felt silly about it) attributed this to having some kind of energy mismatch. On a psychological level, because I feel I have a vague kitchen sink nonhumanity with some of everything, feeling a disconnect with one's body makes sense when it's more of an obstacle than a vehicle, and conversely, those feelings can actually cause certain issues too.

(Not that my conditions are 'all in my head' or anything. They're demonstrably not. It's just part of the whole thing.)

And then after some years, I eventually realized that I'm also a sort of android. Without going too far into unnecessary plot stuff, in that lifetime, there was a major virus spreading and causing mass chaos and destruction, and it could cause any number of other symptoms as one's firmware and software were changed in ways that didn't fit one's hardware. Physical malfunction and pain were well established. I believe I caught it at some point and mostly had it removed (which is where that lifetime clearly became canon-divergent), though some parts of the code were embedded in ways that couldn't be changed, so while I was stable and at no risk of spreading it, I was left with the equivalent of what I currently have in this lifetime: random pain, fatigue, and difficulties recharging properly.

I don't have a solid theory on why this carried over into now, and I don't take it entirely literally, either; there's unarguable physical reasons right now that I have my disability. I'm not disabled because I was disabled in another life that might or might not exist. It's more that it's a recurring experience between lives. There's a correlation, that maybe that life was 'closer' to this one or had more in common in some cosmic way, which is why I feel it now in a life where my physical body doesn't want to cooperate with my brain, and my nonphysical body isn't even the same kind of thing.

As much as I don't want to use the reference, it's the one that works...if you're familiar with Homestuck, the concept of circumstantial simultaneity applies. The lives and times that align with this one are the ones that resonate due to some kind of shared, overarching plot, regardless of when or even if they happen. Which makes sense from a psych view, too: I'm likely to feel connection to and acceptance of something more familiar, like a glitchy robot with similar pain and energy issues. In fact, mentally reframing my disability as computer-type glitchiness brings me a surprising amount of euphoria, moreso even than thinking it of a fae-human mismatch.

So while I wouldn't point at my physical disability as the sole reason I'm nonhuman, I would definitely include it on the list reasons, especially for being a robot. And I can certainly if someone's physical condition could cause them to disidentify with humanity too. After all, why not? Brains are a physical organ too, with measurable physical processes, and plenty of psychological nonhumans exist. It only makes sense that other parts of your body behaving in unexpected ways could do the same.

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A little while ago someone in my raid group was having a ton of Discord issues and getting robot voice real bad. For some reason I was hearing it from everyone intermittently though? Then it seemed to calm down, but now everyone was hearing me with it, and one of my friends said something like, "Now Nevi's a robot," and I said, "Yeah, that's nothing new :)" knowing only my partner would have any idea what I was laughing about.

Not even the first time I've made a similar joke, everyone has just Accepted that I'm a moth and I get a lot of lämp jokes and pictures of cool moths tagged for me, but that's definitely the first time I've made that joke about robots...though they already occasionally show me Mega Man news or fan stuff because they know I'm into it, lol.

Honestly about 7/8 of my static wouldn't even care that much if they knew about it, at least one person other than my partner already knows in some capacity, and the remaining person I'm pretty sure would just go, "well, you sure are allowed to believe all kinds of things," and leave it at that, which is fine by me. I'm fully aware that it sounds silly and I've made my peace with that ages ago. The only 'acceptance' I really need is for people to not be dicks about it if they don't like or understand it. Anything beyond that is definitely nice, but hardly necessary.

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I don't "do" kin terminology for myself but I'm gonna start tagging my robot stuff with #reploidkin because damn man there's gotta be at least a few of us out here. I can't believe there wouldn't be.

...I wonder if I should change my blog name a little to reflect this new development...not that I know what I'd change it to, lol. I kinda get married to one name and keep it forever.

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Kind of night where I wish I knew more reploids but also like I am pretty sure that whatever counts as canon for me wouldn't be the same anyway so I don't think it would be productive even if I did know more of us. If we even exist. There's so goddamn few. I've seen like maybe 3-4 others. I'd love to somehow just slap us all in a room though even if we've got very different ideas of what makes us what we are.

Also, because recently I linked to here from my main blog: if you're coming from there, hi, this hasn't got anything to do with fandom, those are very separate things to me. I spent so long staring into the funny little robots void at a formative age that I mistook it for a mirror and now when I see reploids I go Oh It Me and it makes me happy and that's the important things here. I did used to think about it from some kinda past/future/simultaneous? life angle but I actually don't at the moment, that doesn't seem quite right despite what I thought in some previous posts. Also also, before anytime thinks it, no, nothing in my fic is Literally Me, lol. I just feel like I need to bring that up once before going on (pleasepleaseplease don't be weird about it, I just want to vibe and have my fandom cake and eat it too without anybody calling me That Guy Who Takes It Way Too Seriously, I guarantee it is but also very much isn't like that).