#trans robots

[pluralsword]

it's been pointed out before that super robot lifeform & gen selects primus were intentionally based on g1 rodimus. we don't think solus's helm in transformers one is intentionally similar 2 idw1 rodimus but there definitely is a similarity, which we 💜 as a trans rodimus enjoyer

(if you're wondering what our personal headcanon has been for years regarding various canon continuities, that would be rodimus as a transfemme, and we happily recognize reads in other ways as long as no punching down is involved)

[destroyingangelneveragod]

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!

[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.

[average-transfem-robotgirl]

g,,gender goals,,<3<3<3

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Arcade Android

She'll show you how to score! ♥

[its-funnytwittertweets]

[tgirl-robotics]

Robot girls accidentally connecting to the same device

Robot girls sending data to one another

Robot girls holding hands

Robot girls interfacing with one another via a cable

Robot girls sharing a charging port

Robot girls kissing

Robot girls frotting their exposed wires together

Robot girls building a computer together

Robot girls merging their tech into a bigger, stronger, gayer, multi-conscious robot girl

[itsjesscapade]

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

[pluralsword]

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

[vevellauline]

> Robot girl whose body has sentimental value

> Robot girl whose owner has covered it in stickers of things she likes

> Robot girl whose owner does its maintenance and whose body is so far from the factory default that its owner is the only one who can do that maintenance

> Robot girl who is covered in small dents and scratches from the antics it gets up to with its owner

> Robot girl whose body tells a story

[zotarozoestar]

how to flirt with your local robot trans girl

...

it's me this is how to flirt with me

[pluralsword]

Pinned post updated to include the comic adaptation of Arcee, Anode, and Lug meeting for the first time also by blurrito, the symbol some of the bots have is the of the Delta League / Anti-Vocationist League was one we first described in prose in chapter 2 and that @ vanszero (discord) iterated the visual design for with our input. Also including a link to our essay on canonical IDW1 Arcee and overlaps with real trans history regarding surviving transmedicalism and her part as a direct successor to G1 Arcee in personality and the two's combined legacy

A commission for @pluralsword for the lovely fic Addendum over on AO3, following Arcee on her gender journey! Some snippets are under the cut, including the bit this illustrated scene is from.

Keep reading

[ashes2caches]

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

[rattlegeist]

Concept sketch for “IKYK”, a little comic about seeing someone like yourself. Also robots.

I’m moving on to cleans now, it’ll take me some time, but I can’t wait to share it!