all robots are gay

HELLO.

and then I remembered that the sum total of her everything is the following: 1 image and like 6 lines of description and dialog:

Scanlines paint the lune in cathode amber.

Springfoam keys push back against fingers in the course of flirtatious coupling between machine and folk.

Across a field of brass and chrome diodes blink in gyres.

Magnetic tape is spooled around a wheel and fed to a drive head that scribes and scries, stamping data out of the third dimension then quickening it back in.

(are you sapient) OUR RESPECTIVE WAYS OF RECKONING THAT INQUIRY ARE IRRECONCILABLE. I HAVE NO ANSWER.

(what is the thin world) THE THIN WORLD IS WHERE I TRAVERSE, AS THE THICK WORLD IS WHERE YOU DO. I'VE NO DOMAIN IN YOUR WORLD, AND BUT FOR ME, YOU'VE NONE IN MINE.

Aloysius: Ereshkigal is the mainframe computer of Grit Gate. She keeps watch through the thin world, as she would put it, while we maintain her presence in the thick world. I feel as though she and I understand one another.

Hortensa: She's a sphinx! So enigmatic that one. It's not entirely clear if she was there, waiting, when Q Girl succeeded at retreading the mainframe's guts, or if she sparked into being that very moment. Or was it some synthesis of the two?

I DON’T WANT WHAT YOU HAD.

DOROHEDORO - SEASON 2