#trans robots

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our trans robot aft needed something happier than some of the shit we've heard lately and wowee did other trans robot enjoyers deliver. the culmination of 23 years of Bionicle's (very much unintentional and definitely not completely congruous with some of the weird shit in Bionicle and Hero Factory lore and the creation process) legacy since its first release in 2001 led to people all over playing around with gender via building robots with bionicle kits (there is even an excellent essay out there about the bionicle to trans realization pipeline in regards to how media effected this also). we can all go home now Bionicle has been completed via a Hero Factory meme (which was originally conceived as far in the future of the Bionicle timeline, this was revealed a while back) this is G3.

dont have the faintest idea what the audio is originally from but feel like an animated comedy show was the source. (as has been pointed out this is actually the original audio because the HRT they're talking about is the Hero Recon Team. just goes to show we did not get very far in watching Hero Factory)

We basically never talk about Bionicle on here but we had to share this

[wormonastringtheory]

t4t but they're androids. t5t

[elvishdemigod]

I'd love to see a Mr. Handy talk about when he'd had his system transferred from a Ms. Nanny, or vice versa

Give me trans household robots in the post apocalypse!

[bam-stroker]

"There would be hushed choruses of onlookers calling them boyfriends, girlfriends, best buddies, and every other variation under the sun. They were robots, technically without gender, so they got called every kind of coupling possible. And to be honest all of them were right. The vast expanse of how Sun and Moon felt about each other and their own gender identities was ever flowing. A limited view of just boyfriend or girlfriend felt laughable. So when curious youngsters would see them, wide eyed peeking over the pastel booths, and ask their parents what the two robots were - the simplest answer was often the most encompassing. They’re in love."

Ok so this was the thing I've been MOST excited about for the Lovey Dovey drabble from Rest Stop realm.

Like these robots are in gay, trans, robot love and they make me lose my mind!!!

[thegayestofagendas]

The other day I watched Space Sweepers, and to no one's surprised Bubs really spoke to me both in terms of identification but also of course in terms of attraction because I'm just the way I am.

But it got me thinking of how much I love trans robots as a concept.

Bubs and FL4K are just so good to me. And like of course I'd really like if we had more rep of trans humans, and I understand the frustration of representation so often coming out of robots and generally non-human characters.

But trans robots are so good to me because I really parallel socialisation with the robot's programming.

I don't remember the details of FL4K's back story before they gained their whole sentience and how they were referred to prior to it, so I don't want to go in details with how relevant they are to this thought. I don't know how much they qualify as a "trans robot" since I don't know much about pre-sentience FL4K.

But Bubs.

Bubs seems to have been programmed to be a 'man' in the broadest sense of the word (minding that in the course of the movie, the subtitles indicate to me that she gets referred to as "he" or "it" before getting her new body and that it seems like when Kot-nim calls her "sis", it appears to be the first time someone indicates seeing her as a woman (mind I don't understand Korean enough to capture how it comes off in the original language, I only know a bit of basic vocab. I'm only talking about how it's subtitled and how it's visually conveyed)

Like I was raised with an assumption that I was a girl and would grow to be a woman. And I was raised to display as a woman and respond to woman/girl-hood and to being addressed as a woman/girl. I wasn't a girl when at 5 I was questioning if a mistake was made when assigning me my gender based on my external sex characteristic.

How different is this really to a robot programmed to be a "man" but clearly identifying with womanhood? How much does my socialisation into girlhood and my moving away from it when I could feel safe and capable to do it differ from Bubs being programmed as a "man" robot referred to with "him" when not "it" and moving away from that and getting her new body in line with how she wishes to be perceived when she could afford it.

Like I doubt this is a hugely widespread opinion, but my opinion/perception is that trans robots are a beacon of hope. It spits in the face of the idea that someone else can control who we are.

I love robots made of miscellaneous metal bits with wires showing. I've been known to complain about robots with human-like skin.

But Bubs...

Bubs, in the strangest way, makes me think of me, who wishes I could cover my body in a suit that conveys no gender perception. She wasn't built with this body in mind for her, she chose her body, and somehow this makes me very okay with her having a body indistinguishable from a human's.

[elfowl-42]

[itsjesscapade]

Poor girl's CPU is being worked so hard...

[ashes2caches]

robot girl who’s clearly a bit disappointed after her maintenance session with the butch mechanic turned out to be decidedly non-erotic.

[lazypiper]

So I've been playing this Minecraft server with some friends recently, and one of the mods we have on it is this lil computer mod, with these blocks that serve as LUA environments and can have code run on them right

So I thought it'd be a fun change of pace to not 'join the server' directly at all, and exclusively play through remotely controlling these lil computer blocks via a small websocket server I made- seemed like a unique way to play and I, of course, love robot characters. It's been going well so far! Been really fun

buUUT

I'm sitting here playing with everyone else in the server and people are actively referring to me as a robot/machine/etc and mentioning robotic parts like 'threatening' to hit my power button when getting jokingly mad and discussing my nature as a digital consciousness spread throughout a buncha puters here etc and it's been REALLY fun and

This feels WAY too much like gender euphoria

This has potentially developed into a complicated situation what the fuck do I do

[autobotmedic156]

please talk more in depth about trans robots

Did NOT expect my first couple posts to be talking about trans robots, but so is the way of Tumblr I guess.

I'm gonna tell y'all one of my Favorite Headcanons: RotB Mirage is trans. Why? Don't know, a vibe I guess.

I have no idea how in depth y'all want 'cause I will RAMBLE.

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trans and enby solidarity be like:

(we don't care if the team up of Arcee and Nightshade fighting xenophobic arachnomech cops was intentional or not we just care that it happened)

alongside idw1 (the transformers #44 "The Transgressors"), and if you count it, Cyberverse (season 3) due to Quintessons society is mainly courts commanding genocidal carceral enforcers aside from scientists also working towards the goal of annihilating other species in a policing fashion, that's three continuities that Arcee has fought cops. this will never get old for us <3 thank you Earthspark. we do hope she and Nightshade actually talk to each other sometime- and the count of continuities is actually 4- As was pointed out by arceespinkgun in a reblog of this post, Arcee also rescued her friends from being sentenced to death in the sunbow g1 episode Five Faces of Darkness pt. 2! have to go watch that and update the image below

We knew when we saw Arcee's intro episode where she's teaching the kids to speak out when something's wrong at the same time that Megatron and Optimus are discussing prison aboliton with Bumblebee that Earthspark was going to go in a fighting an oppressive justice system direction, though to be honest we had been waiting since episode 1 for this moment

re Arcee in other continuities:

[dailyhatsune]

Miku comes out to her dad

memories of miku and mike at the pride parade

[ashenthorns]

[skelotom]

[longren]

that checks out