#robot thoughts

[tulliolamonster]

I’m still stuck on colorblind Transformers.

If Cybertronians interpret colors through something similar to human rods/cones or with sensors that pick up on the intensity of red, green, and blue light, then they could probably have colorblindness types similar to humans. So some Cybertronians might have difficulty distinguishing between certain colors, distinguishing between colors, or seeing color at all.

I think it would be fun if their more mechanical nature extended their range of colorblindness. Maybe the color filters (red, green, blue) their processor has to apply when interpreting color are slightly out of line, so things appear as multiple colors at once, or colors shift as their head moves. If they need to send out light first in order to interpret the reflection, would a malfunctioning light impact their color perception? Maybe they can only see on other light wavelengths, so colors look different. Maybe they need both optics to properly perceive color, so damage to one eye means they have difficulty perceiving color. Maybe they can only perceive color in bot mode, but use other sensors when in vehicle mode.

Is the color vision different between forged and cold constructed bots? Does color interpretation change when one becomes a Prime? Does the size of the bot determine the degree to which they depend on color differences? Does alt mode change how bots see color? There are so many possibilities

Anyway, this is a very long way of saying I’m trying to find a plausible way to make Thunderclash colorblind. This would not change his character and would have no impact on the story. I’m just doing it for the love of the game.

[strawberrisaturnz]

TW: SEXUAL TOPICS + SWEARING

can we like, normalize being a robotkin/robot/robotgirl without all of the weird fetishy sexual stuff? like i want to find robotkin posts and robotgirl posts on tumblr without every second post being nfsw or suggestive. smh... it grinds my gears :'[ i dont support identifying as robotkin for sexual reasons btw just saying so if fur into that stuff then plz get away from my blog 3:< oh and robotfuckers/robotphiles GET AWAY TOO!!!!!!!! IM NOT A ROBOT FOR U TO GET TURNED ON TO >:[ I WILL KICK U IN THE BALLS!!11111!!11111!!11 /SILLY

[flipdotbot]

brushing my teeth is maintance

I try to say that with other self-care and hygiene stuff but it doesn't work as well, but my teeth are hard like metal so it works

I'm doing that thing that people on tiktok do with really old and rusty pennies where they tape one half and then use specific chemicals on it and brush it real good to make it all shiny and good as new!

[twilighttrekkie]

are there other conky-2000 fans out there in the world. and by the world i mean tumblr specifically. please tell me i'm not alone 😭i love that robot (my robot bias strikes again, wahoo) he's so SILLY and HELPFUL and NICEEE waaa also the way he just. idle animations behind pee wee half the time is so me

also the little glitches in his speech scratch my brain, they're very nice goofy little sounds (to me at least lol)

friend :)

[avatar-of-the-vast]

So, we have robots and AIs who don't feel emotions, but robots that feel too much? Robots who don't know emotional control since they were fully formed with adult intelligence and emotional skills are often learned in early childhood socialisation. Because their programmers don't realise that knowledge of how emotions work doesn't actually mean they know how to control and safely handle them. Robots where every time they get angry they can't do their other functions since it's overwhelming, shutting down when they're sad, things like that. Needing to learn the emotional skills that humans start learning in daycare while being more intelligent than all their peers and it being deeply frustrating to them

[boyslit-moving]

actually reading up on the iron cavalry lore it seems like the firefly we met is a mental/dreamworld projection of sam's, maybe how she sees herself internally? because from the sounds of it the cavalry are biomechanoids, not really one or the other. and i love this concept. gonna keep chewing on it. slowly bc my head hurts like fuck today

i feel like i posited this question the other day but what's the transgenderism thoughts on being manufactured as a tool and selecting a gender to fit your self-built, hard-earned personhood? what about robots "designed" to resemble one human gender or another? is there a cis/trans arrangement to that? much 2 consider

[junajunajunajuna]

Finding fresh new ways to reframe all my experiences as analogous to robotic experiences. This is healthy. I think.

[unterfrau]

I definitely have an abuse kink. I want some truly heinous stuff to happen to me. I want to be exploited and gaslit and love bombed.

[queertrashpotato]

Sometimes I see blogs come across my dash and it's like "I followed you many updates ago and I no longer need this" and I simply love the growth tbh

[haro-draws]

[tulliolamonster]

I had some free time and tried to figure out a bit more about Old Cybertronian.

First, the alphabet is just a cypher for the English alphabet. Very fun for finding cute hidden messages, but not useful for finding the sounds each letter makes (unless you assume they’re pronounced like their English alphabet counterparts, which I do not).

Most of the examples of spoken Old Cybertronian in the comics is spoken by fluent speakers (like Vos and Cyclonus). As a result, their dialogue isn’t much help for phonetics either. However, we do get a bit of an insight when Cyclonus attempts to teach Tailgate a song. Mispronunciations in the dialogue of new speakers can give an understanding of which sounds a new speaker familiar with the descendant language might not be able to distinguish. These mistakes might mean the sounds of those letters are similar.

The song fragment we see Cyclonus teach can be deciphered as “I’VE GOT MY OWN” (Old Cybertronian doesn’t seem to have an upper and lower case). Tailgate’s first attempt is deciphered as “I’VE GOQMY RWN” (spacing is true to speech bubble). From this, we can see two things: 1) the “T” and “Q” sounds are easily conflated by new speakers, and 2) the “O” and “R” sounds are as well.

The “T” and “Q” conflation doesn’t seem to be that odd to me. In English, they’re both unvoiced aspirates made by blocking the flow of air through the mouth; the main difference is the location of that block (front of the mouth/teeth for “T,” back of the mouth/soft palate for “Q” and “K”). Though we don’t know what it would sound like, from this we can assume Old Cybertronian has at minimum one, likely more, distinct unvoiced aspirates.

“O” and “R” is different. It seems a little unusual for a vowel to be understood as a consonant… UNLESS that vowel is actually the result of a language that places greater emphasis on the voicing (movement of the vocal chords during pronunciation) of the consonant instead of viewing the consonant and vowel as distinct sounds. Perhaps, then, what readers might understand as an “oh” sound (like in “own”) is actually an “rrh” sound with voicing before it.

I think this focus on consonant sounds, their placement in the mouth/throat, and their voiced/unvoiced qualities makes sense for Old Cybertronian. Other examples of the language in the comics that don’t use the Old Cybertronian alphabet are almost always a string of consonants. On top of that, these sounds might be more easily replicated across Cybertronians with significantly different facial structures (lacking lips, animal heads, hollow cheeks, etc) by replacing them with more metallic sounds. Unvoiced, unaspirated stops could be made by tapping parts of the faceplate together. Aspirates are the same with a short burst of ventilation. Certain kinds of voicing could be made by rumbling engines, etc. We know there’s some kind of screeching and groaning involved, we just don’t know where or by what means

I couldn’t easily find more examples of characters learning Old Cybertronian, but if there are more, I’d love to see them! I’d like a larger sample pool to more accurately guess what it might sound like in real life.

Please feel free to share your thoughts!

[et-in-arkadia]

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Mission mode change detected, now in Monument Mode Goodnight friends. After exchanging our final bits of data,

I will hold vigil on this spot in Mare Crisium to watch humanity's continued journey to the stars.

Here, I will outlast your mightiest rivers, your tallest mountains, and perhaps even your species as we know it.

But it is remarkable that a species might be outlasted by its own ingenuity.

Here lies Blue Ghost, a testament to the team who, with the loving support of their families and friends, built and operated this machine and its payloads,

to push the capabilities and knowledge of humanity one small step further.

Per aspera ad astra!

Love, Blue Ghost

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no you are actively crying over a dying robot on the moon i am doing just fine thanks

[flipdotbot]

i love calling people on discord because it's like... yeah! i am just your portable friend in your phone! take me anywhere! :] and before you can even blink i can zip on over to another friend's device and hang out with them too! maybe even at the same time!!

[kicks0u]

*kicks your door down after the "what other smush should i draw" post*

DOLL SMUSH DOLL SMUSH DOLL SMUSH

i heard the calls for doll smush and i had no choice but to answer

[chloesimaginationthings]

IDK what William Afton expected to happen in FNAF..

[avatar-of-the-vast]

Nothing quite feels the unique kind of horrible of needing to do an art but not yet having the skills to actually communicate the ideas you need to get across. I'm dying