I HATE that every time I try looking up fiction books about machines and other forms of artificial intelligence that have souls or sentience

I get information about fake authors stealing other people's work by publishing "ai books"

I don't want your art theft!

I want Lieutenant Commander Data

I want Murderbot

I want Mosscap

I will never tire of a creature that loves and fears and fights with all the trappings of humanity... Just a little to the left. Just a little different. But no less whole and real.

I love you robots as allegories for neurodivergence, queerness, and different types of being othered

I love you robots building a found family and an identity for themselves at the same time

I love you learning that the world is hostile and you don't need to understand how someone works to accept them

So, if you have any recs, please for the love of God let me know. I need more

The blue liquid flowing through my chasis is estrogen

transition goal

i saw axis with breasts the other day in the form of a breast transplant shitpost

trans axis real

An Essay: Trans History and Retcons Regarding IDW1 Arcee and Her Spotlight

As we've slowly learned more and deeply immersed into IDW1 Arcee's writing over the years, finding much more than just kinship to her, we felt this urge to dig further, to understand, feeling threads that were there regarding trans history, but not having much knowledge regarding historical transmedicalism, so we dug. We dug because we wanted to show that Arcee's writing from 2012-2018 not only is a beautiful trans story unique in science fiction, but that her personality there and in part in her Spotlight (which absolutely did not intend trans stuff and walked into a minefield in that regard that inadvertently opened up the opportunity for the writing and consulting team in Phase 2 and Phase 3 to figure out beautiful character arcs for her) are direct successors of the original personality frameworks for G1 Arcees, and to show the impact and legacy of both Sunbow/Marvel and IDW Arcees along with more Arcees combined on many versions of her thereafter.

Here's the introductory paragraph:

In much of the last decade, a lot of people familiar with Transformers’ trans stories appreciate Arcee being trans and her arcs in that regard from 2012 onwards. But during those six years from 2012-2018 where her narratives that firmly navigated her agency as a trans gal were being established by a number of writers, with consulting help in 2015 for Ask Vector Prime and 2018 for IDW1, there was and remains uncertainty over how exactly that works for her, specifically for her comic iteration where her transness was first hinted and then plainly stated. The variety of understandings in this regard in part originates from her introduction to the IDW1 run, Spotlight Arcee, in 2008, which was received rather turbulently because of how it portrayed her gender and transformer gals at large. Writing years after would navigate resolving this rather beautifully as showing Arcee having struggled with transmedicalism, isolation, abandonment, loneliness, and alienation, the brutality of a violent (and androcentric) world, as many trans people across gender and parallel spectrums or lacks thereof have in real life. Her story is done in a wlw trans gal context in particular. She is shown getting closure on all this, finding her happiness by the end of that continuity that would along with her story at large as a sweet, ferocious, outspoken old warrior sage help set the tone for her portrayals afterwards. Much of this overlaps with how she was described in her The Transformers Universe bio all the way back in 1986. In these regards, we (the writer of this is plural, we'll have a note about that near the end) think it is pertinent to take another look at how her story played out, what was actually written and shown vs. what was intended, to navigate transmedicalist history that overlaps with her story, and to show that Arcee’s trans iterations are directly part of the legacy of G1 Arcee overall

also a brief fact check edit regarding HRT:

we said HRT only effects hormones but realized we should fact check that, and apparently for some people HRT does effect their genes!! (this is separate from the discussion of gender journeys and epigenetics which we personally know next to nothing about) this a deeply understudied topic you can read about it here:

Gender-affirming hormone therapy induces specific DNA methylation changes in blood

That's me in the corner

That's me in the spotlight

Losing my religion

Version without scars.

January 2035 from Prey!

They’re a reprogrammed Sybil 495 Science-class Operator, a model of the multipurpose robot TranStar Operator specialized for data analysis and live readings.

January’s gender is determined by what gender the player selects for their character, Morgan Yu. If you pick male, this technically makes January trans as Science Operators have feminine programming but January will be male. If I had a nickel for every trans robot in Prey I’d have three nickels.. which isn’t a lot but it’s awesome that it happened thrice!

I’ve already posted them on Twitter, but wanted to tune it up a bit and repost them here.

Their role in the story is to guide Morgan through Talos I and put a stop to the alien breach.. whatever the cost.

Scrolling tumblr

Learns about robot girl kink.

Huh. That's weird. Who would be into something like that?

Continues to scroll tumblr.

Oh shit I am.

Anyway, where do I get started in exploring this?

What are you looking at?

Foreplay with a robot girl where I slowly keep removing RAM from her while she’s still trying to tell me about the things she’s into

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

that checks out

Why did we put an hour into this meme instead of writing a bit more fic than we did at least. We’ll write more later but wow hyperfocus distraction hour while rereading how the fuck Luna 1 and the Bronze Harvest went down

Snapchat is gonna make me kms.