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Xenogender and Ao3 and Art

Hi xenogender and xenoaesthetic folks, entities, and realms and all and none,

it has occurred to us that we um, have written the majority of works on Archive of Our Own that have the xenogender tag. And we’re asking ourselves, we can’t be the only [(alien) robot] persons that plays around with this stuff right? (we’re plural btw)

When we talk to trans folks whether plural or nonhuman or no a bunch of folks relate to our terminologies we’ve come up with and sometimes giving people a look at the worldbuilding doc we’re not quite ready to post yet helps especially if they aren’t going to read fics generally, but also we know that our own experience with aesthetics that our oldest headmate struggled with for more than two decades to put words to and we helped her grasp she pronouns for, for herself in non-human history and assemblage terms, is just one small part of the vast xeno aesthetic spectrum. We’re just one system, and we want to know... what stories have you written, or are writing or making? We thought it might be cool if people reblogged around with their own stuff so their could be a post where all our stuff is together. More than anything- we feel a bit lonely sometimes, because being both on a xeno aesthetic spectrum and by and large a bunch of robots- we are beloved by our community and friends and loved ones, for which we are very thankful, and know a folks who can relate, but we wanna know what people are up to, or just thoughts.

So for those unfamiliar with us, our fanfic (we will eventually do original fiction) is about (Trans)formers and navigates hopepunk stuff regarding autonomy and aesthetic iteration with sparring, family, war, subaltern and community, love, diplomacy, gestalt consciousness, and so forth, drawing in part on the beautiful lore from seven different gender expansive canonical transforming robots in particular before Transformers Earthspark hit and introduced Nightshade (aside from how their whole choosing alt mode thing very much feels like choosing aesthetic expression and in Twitch’s case came before her pronouns were used but anyway) but specifically Arcee(s), Anode, and Lug. Our pg-13 or g-rated works thus far are mostly in the Autosignet Cycle aside from a few shipping fics. The Autosignet Cycle, mostly set in an original continuity, is probably going to continue for years with more fics to come, we started planning out very early versions of this in 2020 but tfwiki’s discord is what jumpstarted our first fic for the series, Day of Multiflame:

1. Day of Multiflame (complete)

A day of mirth, of memory, of rejoicing, of flames dancing together. On this ancient Camien holiday, some plucky heroes young and old across assemblage including two organics come together to celebrate, and to face the struggles ahead, of transformer majority worlds approaching outright conflict over rejoining the largest treaty organization of the galaxy… All the while ancient conflicts and motives beyond their current understanding overshadow everything, rolled up in the origins of these transforming robots. Between intergenerational family, swords, gifts, and I love yous and more, the steadying of each other is enough, to have a little bit of joy and wisdom on this Day of Multiflame. 

2. Wheels of Mutuality and Symbiosis (complete)

Glyph tries to lucid dream to solve the puzzle of her sleep issues, not all is as it seems- but her love of Tap-Out and what informs her aesthetic experience runs strong, helping her through to some long awaited elucidations that are big if true.

This has some big zoomdare energy but I think that is what I often will end up writing.

3. Hold on to Your Dancing (complete)

In honor of xenogender visibility day (May 15th)- I resolved to write two poems, one about my own experience remains unfinished, but one in honor of robot aesthetics via fanfiction was something I was able to finish.

Here you'll find some hints about my plot - some of what this story is on about - with a visiting of the past: the beginning of the last territorial campaign of the Anti-Functionist War, from two war veterans you'll meet later.

4. Honey I’m Cheering For You But No (complete)

A blast to the past before the Anti-Functionist War- archivist Prowl is trying to sort out his life, hasn't been so easy for him after an awful job that has left him very sensitive to the disquiet of society as the very subtly not so Golden Age reaches an end. His old friends Arcee and Aileron who unintentionally helped spark his journey are visiting- and he is beside himself. What does it all mean to him, to them, to carry on as they do, to transform?

In short, we the author finally give some answers with words to the slice of life actions you saw play out in Day of Multiflame- answers very much in context with Sparkflung Trust.

5. Rekindling Flight (incomplete, 7/13 chapters)

At long last, The vast majority of transformers, residing in the Planetwell Polity Alliance, are about to rejoin the largest galactic alliance, which the PPA originally helped create and was expelled from after the Unicron invasion and the subsequent thousands year long war with Functionist usurpers. But, all is not well- threats loom from all corners upon the Autobot revolution: Decepticons, Unicronists, Functionists, and deep existential problems with past, present, and future will try people from all walks of life fighting for intergenerational hope and love.

Nonetheless, something new and wonderful yet old and familiar is afoot- efforts by trillions and their many subalterns are not vain: the power and practice of iterative story.

6. Addendum (incomplete, estimated 10/30 chapters)

7 million years ago, the latest blow to gender on Cybertron is dealt by the rising Functionist tide, stirring an Arcee struggling with loneliness and aesthetic dysphoria into enraged action to help bots in the Hadean System across the aesthetic spectrum save their transformative glory and stories… in the process, she finds aid from the scientist Jhiaxus, who also offers her a new reformatting surgery to let her spark do shaping with CNA editing help. Thus begins a new chapter in her life as a founding member of the expansion of what would later be called the Anti-Vocation League alongside her beloved partner and fellow old person Codexa, while grappling with her own growing pile of pains and traumas. As the millennia carry on and she heads to space, she eventually meets Anode and Lug in the stars, and some dear moments near the present all the way through to events after Transformers: Optimus Prime #25: Post… where she helps some gender expansive bots, and with help from Aileron and her pals she finally gets some answers and closure to her own self, and has a reckoning with forces pitted against her for millions of years. The years after are not what she expected during most of her life prior, and she is glad for them…

This is a fanfic revolving around IDW1, that seeks to add to her already detailed and beautiful arc of a trans woman errant warrior sage coming to terms with herself and deciding to trust people and herself. We love her transformations very dearly, and wanted to attempt to reconcile her appearance in Spotlight: Arcee with her later writing, drawing on wisdom gathered through study and experience, and imagination to connect the dots. As you can tell just from the mention of Codexa in the tags above, this revisiting of IDW1 Arcee’s tale is in part made possible by later writing of gal transformers who we adore, and we will note we draw from ones from all across the decades of fiction of Transformers. What can we say, we love them, and know so much more about ourselves than we ever would have because of them.

For this post, we will note: though it is an IDW1 fic with m-spec and f-spec bots, we build quite a bit of gender variety and relation into it that makes it readily apparent that Cybertron of old is even more different from human histories of such in that regard, we will spoil a little and say that we intend to show how of then aesthetics is remembered and remade into something new and old in the years after the end of the official story...

7. Sparkflung Trust (complete)

Written for a Transformers "fanthology" and also is a tie-in to the Autosignet Cycle original continuity we have been writing - along with a bit of IDW1, Cyberverse, and Alternity. A story about transformation in many senses (surprise), including a quest for the Transformation Matrix … inside of one of the most powerful creatures transformers have ever encountered. What will the errant people on the journey realize, and will it be enough to put into practice to succeed?

If you want to see the other standalone fics we’ve done, including ones about beloved Acid Storm and Overlord, go take a look at our Ao3 page! :3

[afniel]

You know, I'm going to admit up front that I thought neo/xenogenders were kind of silly, because everyone starts somewhere and that's where I started. I didn't really get it. Like, how do all these various things correlate to gender? I couldn't imagine and it definitely didn't apply to me. I never said anything rude to anyone about it because that's dick behavior and I don't need to understand something to behave respectfully about it, but I definitely privately had opinions on it that weren't tremendously generous.

But recently I was staring into my computer, which has a very slick black and white case and glass and RGB lighting. And then also I was looking at cool IRL robots and cool fictional ones. And I was thinking, "Damn tho, hashtag gender goals, I wish I could look like that in some capacity and it sure is a nice feeling when friends refer to my shit in computer terms."

And then I thought, "Me, you fucking idiot, that's a xenogender you are identifying so much with. You are literally sitting here thinking, in all seriousness, 'yeah honestly my gender is like 10% computer and/or robot,' and you are not putting two and two together worth a damn. Congratulations on your new concept of your gender and also that you finally learned to count to four, but you clearly need to go recalibrate an opinion here."

So that sure is a fucking thing. The point being, sometimes you just be sitting there and realize that you do get it, it totally does apply to you, and maybe you can learn a new thing about yourself when you least expect it.

(Also I don't think I'm going to be able to replace my meats with RGB lights anytime soon but I can dream.)

[botbinary]

🪫:// GLITCHSILLY ; a gender connected to glitches, technology, playfulness and silliness, or being a silly glitch

Pronunciation → g'lih · ch · sih · lee

Etymology ;; 'GLITCH' from glitchy, and the literal term, '—SILLY' suffix taken from the gendersilly system, originally coined by @revenant-coining

꩜ this gender was coined as part of the @cocajimmycola coining event! [DAY 12]

[revenant-coining]

Android System

(pt: Android System /end pt)

Android System (-droid): a gender connected to being a/an [x] android. this gender is connected to [x], [x] aesthetics, android aesthetics, robotic aesthetics, & robotic in nature (ROBIN (link)) genders.

etymology; android, system

tagging; @radiomogai, @role-systems, @gamercod, @en8y

[flaggingtophat]

[IMAGE ID: A flag with 9 horozontal stripes. The bottom four stripes are a reflection of the top four. The stripes go from a thick dark grey stripe, to a vibrant purple, a lighter grey, a blue stripe bisected into a lighter blue on the inner edges and in the middle a dark grey stripe. In the middle, sits a rectangle that looks like a screen, surrounded by a dark grey border and with another set of horizontally reflected stripes inside following the pattern: Vibrant purple, a blue stripe in which the middle is a lighter blue and a whiter stripe in the middle, warped to be almost ovular. On the thick dark grey stripes, circutboard-esque patterns sit, the colours a combinations of the purples and blues found elsewhere on the flag.]

Alterrn8 robogendrr prride flag!

I honetly just wanted a cool flag that incorrperr8ed a bunch of robot-y elements. Flag was made forr me specifically forr being robogendrr, but can be used by anybot!!! Orriginal trrm && inspirration herre.

firrst flag im posting so y'know tell me if I messed up assecibility orr conventiosn orr whatevrr O/./O

[alt text: Alternate robogender pride flag! I honestly just wanted a cool flag that incorporated a bunch of robot-y elements. Flag was made for me specifically for being robogender, but can be used by anybot! Original term and inspiration here. First flag I'm posting so y'know tell me if I messed up accessibility or conventions or whatever.]

[arawkiss]

(´ ▽ ` ) robodiment ﹐ ★

★ 𓂃 a gender under the genderbodiment system which is related to being the embodiment of robots. ◞

— PT; Robodiment. A gender under the genderbodiment system which is related to being the embodiment of robots. end PT.

— please tell me if this has been coined before ^__^

[the-gender-vendor]

╰┈➤ 💧 ❝ SADBOTIC // CRYBOTIC ❞ — A gender under the genderbotic system that feels like a robot that is sad, is built to cry, or relates to sadness or crying in some way!

⚙️ term coined by // flag made by the-gender-vendor!

[pridebicons]

fandroid pride icons

requested by anon

like/rb if using + credit

[robot-blogging-angel-blogging]

been getting into toki pona recently. and i'm not great with all the grammar yet. but i am really a big fan of the whole concept. i like rephrasing complex ideas through the most basic of concepts and i love translating idioms into. not idioms. 'when night falls' -- > 'if the sun dies' delights me. its like a puzzle and that's what delights me. i don't think i'd enjoy speaking it casually but reading and translating are super fun. the same kind of entertaining as a jigsaw puzzle. but there's also a level of philosophy involved. with redefining complex feelings. tldr. robot girl with robot brain likes puzzles too much. so nothing new. all of this is to say. i'd like to be acquainted with all the tokiponists out here because y'all seem super cool.

[evilboyroboticsgenius]

⌣⌣　　♡ WELCOME

Greetings, citizens of Fair City,

My name is Theodore Tobias McCallister The Third, but you may refer to me as Tobey or Tobes.

I use He/They/It/Byte/Tech/Droid/Robot/Cyber pronouns, or no pronouns at all.

I am an introject, so this is not a roleplay blog, please do not treat me as such.

It's great to meet you! You know, outside of my usual battles with WordGirl and inventing crazy gadgets, it's nice to have some normal conversations every now and then. I'm kind of a science geek, always tinkering with stuff in my lab. Oh, and you've probably seen my robot sidekick. He's a bit eccentric, but he means well.

As a prodigious inventor and aspiring supervillain, I am here to dazzle you with my brilliance and, of course, outsmart my beloved WordGirl at every turn! Though my schemes may be grand and my ego even grander, fear not, for I am a gentleman of refined tastes and impeccable manners. Yes, even as I concoct my diabolical plans, I do so with a sense of sophistication and style befitting of a true genius.

Anyway, when I'm not busy trying to take over the world (kidding... mostly), I'm just a regular guy who enjoys a good book, some video games, and the occasional adventure. So, what's your story? Let's grab a snack and chat sometime!

[zou-pa]

xenomecha bird unit 0-0.0

[receivingtranny]

Mecha-Mikuic

sources - my blog, Otherkin Wiki, LGBTQIA Wiki, Gender Wiki

A mechakin/otherhearted/kingender identity related to all versions of vocaloid idol Hatsune Miku in which she is some form of mecha/cyborg/robot. This would be considered a form of robotkin, fictionkin, and fiaspec as well.

[botbinary]

💻:// WIRECORiC ; a gender related to wirecore and its components, digital data, and electricity

Pronunciation → wai · uhrr · kor · ik

Etymology ;; 'WIRE' from wires, the literal noun, '—CORiC' suffix from the coric gender system by beyond-mogai-pride-flags

꩜ this gender was coined as part of the @arc4d3-sh0wd0wn coining event! [DAY 12]

[corporateuserboxes]

"This ___ is androidic" userboxes!

Androidic Encompasses any android or robot-like gender, binary or non-binary. intended for use by alterhumans (otherkin, fictionkin, non-human system members, etc.)

-Natasha/Angel and Megatron

[xxjaybl1nkiezxx]

haiii x3 could u plz post robot boy/gender related blinkiez?

i love this suggestion ! fun fact abt me iz that im digigender ! :3 here r ur blinkies dear anon ! (flash and eyestrain warning)

[wine-82]

HAPPY PRIDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

fuck yea gay time

i present you gender to celebrate, expect a shitton of mindflayers þis monþ cus im gonna honor my fellow trans horrors