#robots & empire

[notyoujamie]

[number-one-shadisper-shipper]

I've seen a lot of takes on what would happen if Sonic and Tails returned to West Side Island and confronted the people who were so abusive to Tails, and I had an idea for a somewhat new spin on it.

What if, now that Tails is a world famous hero, the Islanders try to try to basically gaslight him into thinking none of the abuse ever happened? They find out he's coming and they throw a big "Welcome Home" party and give him a medal and stuff, and when confronted about their treatment of him just completely deny or twist it. Like "oh yes I'm so sorry there were a couple kids who were bullies but that happens to everyone you weren't being targeted, and we tried to get them to stop it" or "we didn't know you were alone and homeless, if we knew we would have taken you in" and all sorts of garbage like that

And Tails, who's maybe a tween-young teen now, and no longer has distinct memories from that early in his life, starts to question if maybe he really was blowing things out of proportion. Maybe he really was just bullied by one or two kids, and they weren't really that bad. Maybe people didn't really chase him away and refuse to even let him go through their garbage for food. He knows he has anxiety. Maybe he was just imagining how much everyone hated him. And he almost wants to believe it, to believe that he was never truly hated.

But Sonic remembers. Sonic remembers the gang of older kids beating and violently attacking toddler aged Tails, and only stopping when he physically intervened with his own fists. He remembers questioning the townsfolk about the two-tailed fox he'd seen and being meet with sneers and complete disdain. He remembers how skinny Tails was, how his ribs were visible even through his fur and how he wolfed down the food Sonic offered him so quickly that he nearly threw it up later. He remembers how Tails flinched from any quick movement or attempt at touch. He remembers the long process of gaining the fox's trust, a process that tested his nine-year-old patience as he spent literal weeks urging Tails to come closer, keeping his hands slow and his face friendly, finally getting the fox to join him at the campfire, to walk beside him without dashing away when moved his arm too fast, and then, eventually, to let him touch him. He remembers the first few times Tails let him try to brush out his matted, dirty fur, each knot a testament to neglect, and finding scars and wounds on the skin beneath that spoke of so much abuse. He remembers realizing for the first time that normal, everyday Mobians could be just as cruel as Eggman.

Tails doesn't trust his own memory. But Sonic remembers. And Sonic is not quick to forgive.

[thatstoomanysausages]

Grian creating another robot son for himself is something I will cherish closely in my heart forever.

How often do you think he thinks about Grumbot. Season 7 with his two robot sons, then bringing one into Season 9, then bringing him to Empires as well. Now TriviaBot? I think his paternal instincts are going crazy.

[astoundingbeyondbelief]

[astridhoff03]

Animation is not only an entertainment for younger audiences, it’s a medium, a form of art and Storytelling that can appeal to every age group. Stories that are unique and wonderful in their own way and doesn’t need to have any sort of live action remake.

[gameraboy2]

Phantom Empire (1935)

[uselessthebroccoli]

"Average MCYT has 3 robot children" factoid actually just statistical error. Robots Grian, who has as many robotic children as there are universes and 1 robotic clone, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.

[nkp1981]

Robot, 1974 // Empire Of Death, 2024

[haywardfreud]

R. DANEEL OLIVAW

R. Daneel Olivaw / It’s Been a Long, Long Time by Harry James and his Orchestra / cover art for The Naked Sun, Robots of Dawn, and Foundation and Earth, all by Isaac Asimov / Robots and Empire, Isaac Asimov / I’ll Never Smile Again, Frank Sinatra

[thesupernaturalhouse]

I got fed up always see female characters being pushed to the side in fics to focus on the male characters

And my ladies need love to! So have this book I made because of that reason and out of spite

Also, I did the math, 78% of ship fics in hermitcraft are MLM, further more, when you exclude F/M and M/M and only include F/F only 41% of the total WLW ship category remains

And 65% of all shipping fics in empire are MLM, exclud mlm and flm and only 56% of the total WLW ship catory remains

How interesting!

In all seriousness, I DO get it, I mean, 95% of the members of both smps are male. But I also know the other reason there's more fics focused on male characters and ships rather than female characters and ships.

And why even when the female ship is tagged, they get side lined and put in the background in favor of the male ship

[foolishlyzephyrus]

i’m choosing to take the spoon as reference back to twelve

[pushing500]

XiaoLiang had a mental break that we didn't feel like dealing with, so we put him in a transport pod and sent him back to Arwell—with Rand to keep an eye on him and also to get her out of our hair as well.

Bonus image of Mechi's intrusive thoughts

This desert is so goddamn crowded...

Komnenos was rescued from the pirates and shooed off our lawn, and probably reminded the lads on her way out that The Empire is still waiting to do Yeoman bestowing ceremonies for the both of them.

We've had our constructoids building a throneroom over the last few days, so after the lads give it a test run with some meditation, maybe we'll have to get them both their new titles...

They didn't really strike me as "royal gossip" types, but at least they're enjoying their throne room, I guess.

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[ellystral]

I just watched The Wild Robot movie...

Couldn't cry but my heart feels like this:

The soundtrack was beautiful too and I love Roz's voice so much.

[thornyenigma]

I might have a problem

[the-apocalypse-is-cancelled]

Wait guys I'm reading Robots and Empire and why did they say Daneels eyes are blue. The first book literally said they were brown what's going on here did Asimov straight up forget

[prismatixxkhaos]

Hi hiiii more Mechatalia sketches n designs! We got everyone’s favorite shithead as a mechanic bc his ass is NOT allowed to fly the giant robots LOL (but he can make them deadlier)

We also got Aerica!! “Khaos nobody cares about the micronatio-!” I CARE. Hima adds a micronation who’s whole thing is sci-fi, and you think I’m NOT putting them in? If Hima can add what he wants, so can I‼️

Oh yeah Lithuania is here to help as well! And Estonia who I’m working on

Also introducing the Atlases for China, England, and France! Can you tell which one I cared to design way more LOL

Also a display of the uniforms for Atlas pilots! As Italy says, they’re very grey, but at least the helmet gives SOME color.

(P.S I’m working on a fic for this AU hehe)