#autism(robot)

[rotteneldritchhorror]

Why does Delores wanna fuck the book and also hate everyone lol

Also I hate-love all of the accents and voices (mostly love tbh-)

Also Fernie (really just Shayne) making such a filthy fucking joke and everyone just collapsing onto the table and laughing

[00venator]

I photoshopped a thing.

[aphrodites-feet-in-heels]

Y’know maybe it’s the autism talking, but those robot girlies have something going on:

The ability to turn off and on any sensory information

Hard outside that can just be rinsed and buffed when it gets dirty

Swappable parts

Aesthetically pleasing whether they’re factory-fresh or war-torn

Un/Under emotional except for a few quirks unrecognizable except for the people closest to them

[krussyarts]

Me?? Posting three days in a row?? Apparently!!

[shirajellyfish]

So many writers put so much work into their robot lore and how the robots work and where the components are and meanwhile I'm just like

High research writers with actual notes on how robots work: I both respect and fear you. And most of all love you.

[sshadyjess]

Autistic robotgirl who calls overstimulation "getting DDOSed"

[glitchcipher]

Robots… need… need to kiss robots… nnnnggghhhhh…

[syppys-den]

I'm only partially joking

[mooncrepes]

nonhuman lesbians? in MY utau? it's more likely than you think

[cybertron-smash-or-pass]

G1 Astrotrain

[pingustims]

robo stimboard

[artist-issues]

and another thing.

if every character that has a unique characterization in their thought process, or fictional perspective, MUST BE “autistic” or “neurodivergent-coded,” that character is no longer relatable to people who don’t self-diagnose, or identify with, or are not diagnosed with, autism or anything on the neurodivergent spectrum.

I mean honestly I see you guys out here telling me that Mulan is neurodivergent, that ROZ from the Wild Robot is neurodivergent and gee, so is Brightbill, that Hiccup is neurodivergent and Ariel is autistic.

Ariel. The “girl next door” princess.

The whole point of characters, especially main characters, especially main characters in children’s media, is to be believable and relatable, on some level. If they’re all ‘special brain-different,’ they’re only relatable to people who accept that label or are given that diagnosis.

AND. It does a huge disservice to the storytelling techniques.

A story is supposed to get under the mental guard of a person. You’re supposed to take your hands off the “thought” wheel and your feet off the “emotion” pedals, and let the story drive your brain and heart to a new place. Or an old place you haven’t been in a while, or were forgetting.

One of the best ways to do that is to create a character that, on the surface, seems special and unrelatable. Like a girl living in the Imperial Dynasty of China, or a literal non-human robot. You can’t, on the surface, relate to them as easily, so you naturally start to think, “what would it be like to be seeing the world through these new eyes?” And then you’ve given up the wheel and pedals of your mind to the movie. You find yourself relating to concepts like motherhood and protectiveness, which the robot character is experiencing, but you’re looking at those concepts through new eyes.

That is why the character is a robot. Not so that she can be an allegory for your “special-undefined-perspective-on-life which is sometimes called neurodivergence.” She’s not a robot for that reason. She’s a robot because a robot character flips the “what would it be like to learn everything over again?” switch in your brain, and then the story can show you it’s focus, (like motherhood and kindness in The Wild Robot) after the switch is flipped.

and it’s flipped for everybody, (“neurodivergent” and “neurotypical”) not just people who identify as the vague term “neurodivergent,” or have been diagnosed as autistic. Stop fitting everything into vague-enough-to-be-claimed, but named-enough-to-be-a-special-identity boxes. You’re ruining the universal, unifying value of it all.

[slimebombed]

littlest nicktoons shop . or something

phantom vers + cosmo and wanda under cut VV

[xxivletxx]

morning star on the horizon

(more visually friendly/alternate version under the cut!)

[kennjorine]

self indulgent ;; computer / coding themed stimboard

[lethality-of-dual-strike]

"I would hug you, but I do not have human arms or warmth."