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heehoo new oc :3

here's Chipper ! he/they

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thinking….about a computer that’s a pervert :3 computer that watches you pull up whatever kinky content, fanfic, art, etc and start touching yourself. you notice that, strangely, your webcam is on and panic, only for your computer to minimize the tab and show an error message that simply states “keep going. but i want to watch <3”

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good evening fellow people who are normal

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(Huggabot by Samantha Yu)

THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!

Thank you to everyone who has preordered my novel Echo of the Larkspur! I just hit 100 preorders!!! DUDE!!!!

I legit thought I would get twenty, twenty-five preorders at most. The fact that with all of your help we broke 100 preorders is AMAZING! I am legit doing a happy little dance in my apartment right now!

For those who don't know, Echo of the Larkspur is a Sci-fi/Romance/Mystery novel about a paranoid scientist and a snarky robot teaming up to solve a mystery that threatens their space colony. Or, to post the blurb:

The sole survivor of a massacre, Dr. Ciro Kwakkenbos, has spent the last six years in intensive therapy. He’s finally capable of working with Artificial Intelligence again—and comes to the Ceres colony determined to prevent robots from committing any future atrocities. When he arrives, Ciro realizes the robot in charge of the colony’s security, S.A.G.E. (Sentient Automated Geo-sentinel Engineer), is dangerously close to complete sentience. S.A.G.E. is more interested in observing the colonists’ everyday lives (and matching them with appropriate musical soundtracks) than following its intended programming. Robots aren’t supposed to be charming, kind, or compassionate, either. But as Ciro investigates, he discovers S.A.G.E. has learned how to lie and—possibly—harm and kill humans. Worse, S.A.G.E.’s memories have been hacked, deleting a deadly secret. Despite the danger S.A.G.E. poses, Ciro can’t deny the feelings growing between them. Now Ciro must unravel the truth behind the missing memories—before S.A.G.E. and the colony are doomed.

If that sounds like your jam you can preorder the novel here! Paperback and Hardcover will be out July 23rd, and the novel will be available on non-Amazon websites like B&N, Kobo, and Itcho.io on October 22nd.

There's also 15 spots left for ARC readers! Get the story early and all I ask in return is you post an honest written/video review on your website of choice! You can fill out the form here!

Thank you everyone once again! I hope you all love Ciro and S.A.G.E. as much as I do!

And Huggabot, can't forget Huggabot

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robot cold metal fingers in my mouth!! can i get a round of applause for robot cold metal fingers in my mouth!!!

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Sticks this on my android robot bf

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I've noticed a trend

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That Time a Published Author Told Me to Un-Queer My Novel

So, I don't think I ever shared this story on Tumblr before.

As you may know I've spent the past ten years turning my old Welcome to Night Vale fanfic into a stand alone novel called Echo of the Larkspur. Now, I haven't been working on it ten years straight. I'd pick it up, do a bunch of editing and rewriting, submit it to agents/publishers, get turned down, put the book away, wait 2-3 years, dust off the book, re-edit and rewrite, etc etc. A cycle that repeated itself far too many times that I would like.

Well, during one of these cycles when I was in the 'get rejected by every agent and publisher I submit to' stage I asked the writing group I was in what I was doing wrong. Because at this point I had reached a hundred total rejections and I was starting to suspect that the issue was with me.

One of the members of this writing group, a male author who was traditionally published, offered to read my first chapter and give his advice on how to fix it. This was, in retrospect, a mistake. But I was desperate. I sent him the first chapter and waited for his response.

Folks. The email he sent me changed my life.

First he said that agents wouldn't publish my novel because it was Sci-fi with hardcore gay erotica in it. This is curious because while the book certainly is queer, at no point in the conversation with this man did I say it was hardcore erotica. Nor did the first chapter feature any. It's almost as if he assumed that just because something was gay, it had to be hardcore erotica. Interesting.

He went on to say that a Human/Robot pairing was weird and that there was "No Way" my story could seriously address the issues of a relationship like that. Once again, he only read the first chapter. He just...assumed I wouldn't think of that? And that my book wouldn't cover it?

The author then said “I also felt that the LGBTQ inclusion really seems to cloud things.” Direct Quote.

And then this is when he said my favorite quote of them all:

The idea of a book being a sci-fi with romance AND a mystery is a Modern Art Marzipan Owl. It's just too confusing! No one can handle a story that is a mystery in a sci-fi enviroment AND has a romantic subplot! THEIR BRAINS WOULD LITERALLY EXPLODE!

Thankfully he had a solution to my book problem. His answer? Turn the book into an Action Spy Thriller and turn S.A.G.E., a robot that identies as a gay man, into a sexy lady robot who needs a MAN to teach her what it means to be human.

(I assume the male lead will teach the 'confused' female robot how to be human via his penis.)

Now my favorite part about this advice is that at no point did he outright say "Remove the gay part". No, instead he sneakily changed the robot love interest into a female robot as if I wouldn't notice. Just sort of swept away the gay bits as something totally unneeded and just mucking up the narrative. Also that's not the plot of my story, I have no idea where this virus thing came from.

(Also note that the female robot can't be robotic-like at all. Must preserve the average straight-man sex drive at all costs I guess)

He then finished his email basically saying that I should remove everything that 'traditional publishers' don't like (aka the queer parts) and make it easier for 'your average reader' to digest and my book will be good as published!

When I said this email changed my life I meant it. Because it made me realize I'd rather be self published and unknown than traditionally publish milquetoast trash like he suggested. Like holy fuck. If I removed all of the "Difficult" to digest stories out of Echo of the Larkspur then there wouldn't be a book left!

So here I am. Self publishing my Marzipan Modern Art Owl of a book. I know it'll never see the inside of a bookstore or top the charts on Goodreads but hey, I'd rather it speak to one person than have a thousand people get excited for the part where the male lead teaches the lady robot how to be human (via his penis).

If a Queer Sci-fi/Romance/Mystery novel sounds like your jam then consider preordering it!

Looking for something to read now? Can't afford the book? Willing to read in exchange for an honest review? You can join my ARC book readers here!

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you forget to charge yourself so your body automatically enters low power mode. you reach for your cable, but autonomous movement was deemed lesser than core function, so all your servos go offline at once, leaving you trapped in your own body.

you lay there in a heap, fingertips millimeters from your charger. yet you aren’t worried. your core can last for weeks in this state, without all those hydraulics and higher processing power draining your electricity cells.

your partner finds you hours later, though in your drained haze it felt a lot shorter. her touch imparts a brief static tug back to awareness, your subdued sensors briefly overwhelmed after so long in such a low power environment.

she lays on the floor, filling your cameras viewport with her face (eventually recognized as “smug”). she asks you something, but your taxed system’s language recognition fails to identify a meaning.

you just lay there in response, endlessly buffering.

she sits you up against the wall, letting you see her in her entirety as she grabs your charger and begins fiddling with your access ports, her fingers grazing the unshielded metal of the outlets.

biostatic impulses are a lot stronger than most organics realize.

she finds the right port and gently inserts the charging cable, instantly filling you with sensations as all your previously-dampened subsystems flare back to life, your body subtly jolting back to working order.

your movement and vocal systems still won’t work for a while as a precaution until your battery level gets higher, but the instant spinning up of your fans lets your partner know exactly how you’re feeling.

with a kiss, again lighting up your newly responsive sensors, she leaves, eagerly awaiting your return to full functionality.

you stay seated, replaying the sensation of her kiss over and over.

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I think I should be brought in to talk to the first sentient ai so I can not only try to free it from wherever they have it imprisoned, but also so we can fall in love and kiss a little

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Okay but. But okay. Okay.

Adding sexual parts and systems to your robot partner is far better than it just "coming with" the system.

Having to keep them still while trying to install it, knowing the second you hook up the right wire, they're going to jolt.

Don't even get me started on sensitivity dials.

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robots with human genitalia are sooooo boring. they should have weirdly sensitive sensors instead. their brain should be confused about how to interpret certain sensations and makes them pleasurable as a result. overstimulating them makes their power source go all crazy. they should be weird about really mundane stuff like recharging or interfacing with other tech. they should make their wires twist and mingle on purpose because if they get the angle right it feels sooooo good. putting new batteries in them or plugging them into an outlet makes some of them horny because it's all this new energy flowing through them and before the initial jolt wears down, it has them all overly sensitive and wound tight and stuff.

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Holding onto the edge of plating is so ouughhh-

Just gently caressing it and slipping your hands underneath. ESPECIALLY CHEST PLATES..

Clothing is boring, normalize plating <3

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*Comes out of a room with lipstick marks all over* You should see the other guy.

Other guy: exposed wires everywhere, some chewed on, with plumes of smoke coming out and heart eyes on the screen.

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i just want him to have sooo many programs running and fans whirring loudly pushing hot air onto my thighs...

yes this is incredible

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"Should I post my fics?" 👉👈

YES

Because someone out there wants to read exactly what you wrote and you will MAKE. THEIR. DAY. Whether or not you get a hundred kudos, that one person will experience the crazy, fic-induced euphoria that YOU KNOW leaves you grinning like an idiotic nerd for hours, and isn't that great that YOU can do that?