bitches love my wires

ARE YOU TIRED?

what?

ARE YOU TIRED?

uh..

AREN'T YOU EXHAUSTED?

... yes i am

These might not work for everyone, but i tried my best to come up with things. :] >_

C:\> Leather. Probably just a personal thing but wearing leather boots and jackets sort of feel like metal plates on my body. Having buttons can also be like taking off the plates to expose your wires.

C:\> Coloring water. You can color water to be the same color as oil and drink it. Gets you to drink water more, but don’t overdo it as food colouring in large amounts can be dangerous.

C:\> Perfume. Know that smell computers have when they overheat, brand new or just been fixed? Try and find perfume that smells like such. (Don’t know any good perfumes, sorry.) C:\> Bracelets. Thin colored bracelets can be like wires and big chunky ones with beads can stimulate the sound of your metal joints clicking and moving.

C:\> Sleeping. If you struggle with sleeping, think of your bed as the charger like how some phones can be put on a disc to charge. C:\> Voices. Doing voices similar to Cyn from Murder Drones, HAL 9000 from A Space Odyssey and other popular media can help. Doing Cyn’s voice glitch personally helps me with dysphoria. >_

Robot-HRT

You pull out the set of needles. Just like your girlfriend, 1ml syringe with 23g and 20g needles. You draw some into the syringe, the standard .2ml

You steel yourself as the needle pierces your skin for the first time. The routine is weekly, and you feel amazing... But strange.

After about a month you notice your skin hardening. Every once in a while you move and feel it, almost like plates. Throughout the days you notice the hardened patches becoming thicker, covering more of your body. It hurts, a lot.

After about three months you start feeling nauseous 24/7 from changes within you. You can feel the flesh turn to or be consumed by metal, silicon, and plastic. Burning pain sensations spread throughout your abdomen and everything is much harder to engage in. Around the same time, your skin starts to seperate. Those hardened plates of skin turn to steel causing you to bleed as it surfaces.

Six months in and your joints start to lock up, fluid between joints being replaced with synthetic lubricants. It's hard to move right, and you start to have some trouble focusing for too long.

About a year in and your head hurts. A lot. It's really hard to remember much, your girlfriend had to start giving you your injections in whatever little skin you had left because you couldn't focus enough to do it yourself. You had to take time off of work for this. So much pain from the metal taking over your skin, the constant bleeding and cracking. When you defecate it's full of discarded blood, and eventually entire organs. You're almost there, you've waited and saved so long for this.

One and a half years on Robot-HRT and your vision is blurry from it finally reaching your eyes, and at one point you lose your sight completely for a couple days before it comes back clearer than ever. Your body is writhing in agony as the last semblances of humanity leave your body through all of your orifices. It hurts, it's agonizing, but you know it will be worth it.

You lose track of days but it's eventually been two years. The pain is gone fully, and your head is clear. You take a look in the mirror and see a machine. One that moves as you do, who's words it speaks are your own.

It's you. The you that you've always wanted, that you've always been.

After a year of the most agonizing transformation you could fathom and unimaginable love from your partner, you've finally done it.

You plug yourself into an old mobile device just to see how it feels, and it's euphoric. You feel everything the machine feels, you know everything there is to know. Operating with frame by frame precision you never had as a human.

Your memories and skills are tucked away like files within folders, your mind and body reorganized and rewritten... Exactly how you thought it would be. Exactly how it was before anyways.

Eventually you enter a low power mode as your joints start to become heavy and hard to bend. You plug yourself in for the night next to your partner, knowing that tomorrow will be another day of your new body.

You wake-no, boot up the next day. You're here, you're alive, and you're...

>>(From a robotkin)<<

>>> I’ve seen quite a lot of tips for therians and otherkins online, but I don’t actually see a lot of advice towards robotkins. So here’s a list of some stuff I think can help if you want to feel more connected to robots or just feel more comfy in general. :)

>>> [DISCLAIMER!!] These tips are NOT a must and are only suggestions! You do not need to follow a specific standard to be considered valid in your identity and self. Your identity is what’s in your core and you should only do what feels right. <3

>>> It is also important to note that you shouldn’t cut yourself off from real needs or feel like you have to “detach” from humanity to be who you are. Remember to stay safe and healthy! [+]

1. SENSORY INPUT

>>> Personalise your surroundings! Maybe put some cool LED’s in your room, surround yourself with pieces of tech and little gadgets, maybe keep your items sleek and organised according to your algorithm, get some wires to hang around.. it’s your preferences. Get yourself comfortable.

2. ACCESSORISE

>>> Decorate yourself! Don’t be afraid to get creative. Wear some metallic chains / jewellery, put that USB stick on a necklace, maybe find some little pins or hairclips that are computer / robotic themed, gloves and rings can feel nice too. If you’re rich, you could even get a hollowed out CRT to wear as a mask, or buy one of those cool robotic masks or some other pretty techy things you can find.

3. MEDIA

>>> Find media online that resonates with you! Games (e.g Ultrakill, Portal, Machinarium etc…) or movies (e.g Electric Dreams, 2001 A Space Oddesey, etc…) with robotic characters/themes, gifs or videos of robotic parts and machinery, cool robot character designs.. you name it. It can feel nice to observe what you relate to.

4. IDENTITY

>>> This one is based purely on personal choice and will be unique to everyone, but if you want to, don’t be afraid to refer to yourself with robotic language / pronouns. Calling yourself something like a “unit”, giving yourself a robotic name or nickname, using pronouns like it/itself or other neopronouns etc that you feel close with, using words like “recharging” and “overclocked” etc to describe your emotional states. You could even do what I’m doing and use computer-like fonts and characters in your messages! Do what feels most like you.

5. CREATIVITY

>>> Take part in creation! This could involve making robotic OCs / designs, write about the way you feel, draw out how your body or system feels.. maybe you could even go as far as to create something like a cyberdeck, or play around with something simple like a microbit!

Robots with cheap, shitty plastic casing that they stick together with tape or replace with whatever they can find

Robots with batteries who's ability to hold charge has diminished over time, leaving them always kind of exhausted or burnt out, spending a lot of time at home so they can plug in and recharge whenever they need

Robots that always smell a little of dust and burnt out wires and are constantly replacing their insides to stay functional.

Robots who's speakers are muffled and staticky because they were built to last only a couple years and weren't designed to be easily replaced.

Robots with busted screens that make it difficult or impossible for them to emote as they'd like to.