#we are your robots

[dasboligrafo]

Short-ish Takes

Dark Noon (sometime in summer 2024?) at St. Ann's Warehouse -- ughhhh...the play that finally, definitively dispensed with my tolerance for S.A.W.? Has St Anns ever staged anything not apparently calculated to earn my loathing? A play celebrated for its "South African" take on American racism and violence (lol like seriously? what a glass house to aim a stone from), and sure the actors were all black South Africans, but the playwright is...Danish. Not surprisingly the play exploited them. Unpleasant, at times grotesque, entirely devoid of even a moment of original aesthetic beauty, the only tolerable parts being samples of (American) music. I even hated the sets, which I guess were supposed to look like South African shanty towns (way to subversively showcase the beauty of South Africa I guess). Incoherent underdeveloped message about the exportation of violent culture via American popular media, a clear example of "when a good idea lands in the hands of someone too literal, simple and self-satisfied to develop it."

We Are Your Robots (Theatre for a New Audience 11/12/2024) -- also underdeveloped (arguably), but this was merely mediocre and corny, maybe a little disappointing because it's an interesting and timely idea: a musical about robots gaining sentience. The music was...clever, I guess, but only ever that. This is the kind of content that tickles your whimsy until you feel dead inside. There was a woman/twee monster next to me (on a date?) who (literally) snorted with laughter, so loudly and frequently, that she may have shaded my interpretation of this performance. A true artifact of painfully white culture (there were other non-white people in the audience though, something I genuinely love about TFANA).

Gatz -- by Elevator Repair Service (Nov 3, 2024 at the Public Theatre.) This is the play where they read The Great Gatsby, in its entirety, on stage. This was very good, though my impression is surely shaded by admiration for the feat that is this work: an EIGHT hour long play (there are intermissions, including a dinner break) that actually works as a play. Gatsby is legitimately great, a rightfully hallowed American literary classic, a book that yields new meanings every time I pick it up, decades apart, a book about the promise and impossibility of the American dream (specifically for Black people, queer people, women and those who don't inherit wealth. Not to sound woo, but I knew Tr*** would win after I saw it, mere days before the election.) Can you feel us dancing at the edge of the roaring 20s, car driving up the darkened driveway because nobody told us [the free media is dead]/only finding out when we get to the darkened mansion, that the party is over, and we are being borne back ceaselessly against the past etc. So like maybe this play would be more impressive with a book that wasn't this great and timely, though faulting it for picking a great source material feels miserly.

[frontmezzjunkies]

TFANA + Rattlestick Theater's "We Are Your Robots" Entertains Sweetly with a Shrug

#frontmezzjunkies reviews: #TFANA + #RattlestickTheater's #WeAreYourRobots dir: #LeighSilverman w/ #EthanLipton #EbenLevy #IanRiggs #VitoDieterle at #TheatreForANewAudience #Brooklyn

Vito Dieterle, Ian Riggs, Ethan Lipton, and Eben Levy in TFANA+Rattlestick Theater’s We Are Your Robots. Photo by Hollis King. The Off-Broadway Theatre Review: We Are Your Robots By Ross “What do you want from your machines?” we are asked at the beginning of the very sweet-natured new musical, We Are Your Robots, a co-production between Theatre for a New Audience + Rattlestick Theater, and as…

[chewbaccaaah]

For the price of pay what you want. This show was great!

[truuskn]

he's so cute and sillyyy 😫 my goood, look at him, just look at him!! how do we even have the nerve to pump his life with angst? my dude deserves to be happy 24/7

[scramratz]

I'm gonna be so racist towards robots in the future

[trauma-bot]

patron saint of never growing old

[transbian-vergil]

We might both be mech pilots but I pilot mine in a way that is far more homoerotic than you could ever hope to achieve.

[shradsmanifestt]

Be DELUSIONAL. I'm telling you be fucking delusional!!!!

I don't care what your circumstances are, you be delusional anyways. Tell yourself that it's already done. It's already yours because it is. It is already yours. It is already done. You have it no matter what and you have it now. Doesn't matter what the fucking circumstances are. Doesn't matter what happened or what is happening. I'm telling you right now to just be delusional to whatever happens, because you've got this. I know you do. It's yours. Let it be yours. Don't give up. You have what it takes. Persist, persist and persist.

I've had the worst circumstances take place in my life where I really felt this was just impossible. But did I give up!!!??? NO

Did I say why me and whine about it????? NOOOOOO

I looked at the 3d straight in the eye and said FUCK YOUU. I HAVE WHAT I WANT AND I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU SHOW ME.

And that's exactly what i felt. I didn't care what happened cause it didn't fucking matter. I persisted through it all. Through my tears and anger. And I got what I wanted. I always did. I always will.

This can be you. If you don't give up at any circumstance. This can be you if you just decide now and here that you won't back down. You won't let others or other circumstances overrule you.

You are the creator of your own reality!!!!! ACT LIKE IT. YOU CREATE EVERYTHING. EVEN THE FUCKING CIRCUMSTANCES THAT IS STOPPING YOU. YOU CREATED THEM SO STOP WHINING AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!!

Persist dude. Just persist for heaven's sake.

[egophiliac]

just thinking about hair and faces

[t4tcomputerfucker]

calling shit like chatGPT, c.ai or midjourney "AI" is such an insult to us robotfuckers (as well as robotkin and people who make actual Artificial Intelligence!!). there is no intelligence in that artificial, and they just waste space in your browser and destroy our planet. SIRI had more personality for fucks sake.

[haliaiii]

As partners

[prostocupoftea]

wotfi 2024 final battle redraw! with my redesign of engine form of puzzles (: why? cause i love big robots connected to rooms, that's why

i am. so tired.

click for better quality (i did not draw every little detail just for tumblr to eat it)

[cozylittleartblog]

8th annual nick valentine post! fallout 4 npcs Love sitting. they'll see a chair and ask "is anyone gonna sit here" and not wait for an answer. its like nick is on a personal quest to sit in every chair in the commonwealth. if he sees a chair its on sight

its because his joints are bad, obviously. he's like 140

[phoenixisobsessed]

Some silly Armada Skystar for the soul if you're still taking new requests :3

I return…WITH GAY PEOPLE!!!

Please accept my offering Tumblr,,,

Anyway screamy had a bad day :( Jetfire big hugs needed.

[sacredfixation]

Loki and the Deeply Valid Fear of Being a Government-Issued Android Without Knowing It

Imagine living for over a thousand years, committing intergalactic crimes, then one random underpaid TVA clerk with a monotone voice suddenly introduces the possibility that, oh, by the way, what if you were secretly a robot this whole time? And Loki, who has always carried himself with the absolute certainty of a god, pauses. Like. “Wait. What if I am?”

He hears that question and immediately does a full mental diagnostic. Have I ever glitched? Ever felt oddly mechanical? Experienced an unusual fondness for oil? Maybe he’s too good at lying. Too good at surviving. What if that’s just the programming?

The TVA worker just moves on. He doesn’t elaborate. no reassurances. theres no safety net. Just the terrifying possibility that he might get instantly vaporized for something completely outside his control.

Id like to note, his hesitation isn’t even just some random existential crisis, it’s trauma-informed. This man already lived through the experience of waking up one day and realizing he wasn’t who he thought he was.

He grew up thinking he was a prince, a god, Odin’s rightful son, only to find out he was actually a stolen relic of war. A Jotun. A creature he’d been taught to hate.

He thought he knew himself before, and he was wrong. What if he’s wrong again? What if theres something else about himself thats been hidden? If he didn’t realize he was a Frost Giant, whats stopping him from not realizing he’s actually some highly advanced synthetic being?

It’s not just a funny existential gag, it’s a callback to one of the most devastating truths of Loki’s existence:

He has never really known who he is.

It’s the muscle memory of having his entire identity ripped out from under him. It’s the learned fear of asking, What am I, actually?

Because the last time he asked that question, the answer ruined him.

[cherrym-won]

I'm the same age as ni-ki. If a normal person like me has trouble sleeping and a light sleeper, and if someone wakes me up just an hour later I've slept, my whole body starts shaking and if i didn't get to sleep at all for more than 20 hours my head literally started spinning and i couldn't concentrate properly to whatever I'm doing, AND THIS IS EVEN WORSE. IMAGINE CHANGING TIME ZONES EVERY OTHER DAY WITH NO SLEEP AND WITH NON STOP WORK, DANCE PRACTICES DESPITE HAVING PROBLEM WITH THEIR HEALTHS‼️

DANCING AND SINGING FOR HOURS WITH JUST A FEW HOURS OF SLEEP ARE YOU KIDDING ME!????

AND THEY LITERALLY SAID THEY PREFER LONGER FLIGHTS JUST BECAUSE THEY GET TO SLEEP AND REST PROPERLY ON FLIGHTS!!??? NO DORM? NO BEDS? BUT ON LITERALLY FLIGHT SEATS!!??

THIS IS COMFORTABLE??? THEIR FLIGHTS IS THEIR HOME OR WHAT????

HOW CAN THEY TREAT THEIR IDOLS LIKE THEY ARE SOME KIND OF MACHINE!????

THE COMPANY OWNER IS NOT HUMAN??? TO SEE WHAT OTHER HUMAN'S ARE GOING THROUGH RIGHT NOW!!!!? OR THEY JUST DON'T CARE AT ALL????

HOW TF THEY'RE LITERALLY MAKING ANOTHER COMEBACK IN SEPTEMBER????

GIVE THEM A BREAK AT LEAST FOR 2 MONTHS WITH NO SCHEDULE NO CHANGING COUNTRIES AND NO FILMING NOT EVEN EN O'CLOCK.

‼️‼️THEY NEED BREAK‼️‼️

WE CAN WAIT FOR THEM TO RECOVER FIRST AND THEN START WORKING AGAIN.

JUST LET THEM REST IN THEIR DROM AND EVEN BETTER WITH THEIR FAMILIES WITH PROPER CARE AND MEALS. WITHOUT ANY CAMERAS, NO FILMING AT ALL.

WE DON'T WANT THEM TO SEE FAINT AGAIN ON THE STAGES OR HAVING REGULAR VISIT TO HOSPITALS. THIS IS JUST NOT RIGHT.

WHAT KIND OF INHUMAN BEHAVIOUR IT IS????

‼️‼️ENHYPEN NEED REST‼️‼️

‼️‼️GIVE THEM BREAK‼️‼️