#robogender

I've posted a lot more art over here of her, but never explained WHO she is! This is

My Robot OC is called EM-AA1 Marionette or Mari, who's a prototype android that was built for a purpose she can never accomplish as she was never completed, instead forced to do mundane jobs.

She yearns to one day to be finished so she can do what she was built for. (Tags call her E1AX Marionette as that was her early name, keeping because I have a lot of images there!)

I got a comment on the trans Mass Effect characters post that pointed out that Edi really is transfem all things considered, not tagging them because I don't know if they'd want that, but it made me think A LOT about her gender, so with the help of a friend who really really likes pride flags, we scrounged up a bunch of feminine aligned genders that feel like Edi.

Some of them are your run of the mill transfeminine, some of them are nonbinary girl or agender woman, some of them are more complex relationships with feminine identity, and there's a robogender for good measure.

It was really fun thinking about how she may relate to human notions of gender in relation to being an AI or a ship, or how people may interpret her being gendered as a woman from a queer perspective (I the OP am genderqueer) since it's seemingly done in canon because she's got a feminine voice and is, well, a ship, a thing often gendered that way.

Anyway that had us thinking about Joker, logically, they're married, I don't make the rules I just play the game right, and the way he talks about falling in love with the Normandy is something I could talk about for hundreds of hours. As a disabled person as well, it's heartening to hear him talk about something that clearly gives him a level of autonomy that not only he lacks physical ability to take for himself, but has been taken from him multiple times, especially with such affection. It speaks to a deeper reason he releases EDI from her shackles. She, too, lacks an autonomy by the very nature of her form, that Joker hands back to her willingly long before she gets a body. I think that's inherently a queer, disabled love story, down to it's core.

Anyway, this is a stamp post.

So, the disabled brigade that follows me everywhere snapping their fingers on one hand while using their canes with the other convinced me to make some objectum/techtum/technosexual Joker stamps too. Because he talks about loving that ship more than I can ever imagine him loving a human being. I think it's important that EDI is the ship, to the affection the two of them have for each other.

All the flags are named in the image descriptions

2 years ago I made this meme but with only like a dozen robots. Now I have collected so many more beautiful machines to fill my heart with joy! I love fictional robots so so so much!!! Me fr!!! 2026 version!!!

FULL BOBOT LIST UNDER CUT

  MY GREATEST INVENTION . . .

  KERFUR FICTIGENDERS !

— pink kerfuric : a masculine or femuline gender , with themes tied to robotics, sentient AI, upcycling, old tech, cats, astronomy, satellite dishes, general sciences, the wilderness, devotion to your companions, and loneliness and isolation. — alternatively, a pink kerfur charic gender!

— blue kerfuric : a feminine or mascemine gender , with themes tied to robotics, sentient AI, upcycling, old tech, cats, astronomy, satellite dishes, general sciences, the wilderness, devotion to your companions, and loneliness and isolation. — alternatively, a blue kerfur charic gender!

— red kerfuric : an autonine or outherine gender , with themes tied to robotics, sentient AI, upcycling, old tech, cats, astronomy, satellite dishes, general sciences, the wilderness, devotion to your companions, and loneliness and isolation. — alternatively, a red kerfur charic gender!

— orange kerfuric : a kenoine gender , with themes tied to robotics, sentient AI, old tech, cats, astronomy and general sciences, uncanniness, "coming back wrong" or not quite the same as you once were, feeling hollow, radioactivity, and being seen as intimidating or threatening. — alternatively, an orange kerfur charic gender!

— killfuric : a vanuine gender , with themes tied to robotics, sentient AI, old tech, cats, possession, losing your identity / your concept of self, wandering aimlessly, orphan sources, robotic body horror; such as meat and viscera in place of mechanical parts, cracked glass bleeding and rusting metal peeling back to reveal flesh, living machines, and panicked, frenzied bloodlust. — alternatively, a killfur charic gender, or a gender related to the abandoned kerfur event!

— skerfuromic : a silent macric gender , with themes tied to robotics, sentient AI, old tech, cats, possession, the terror and dread of losing control of your body for just a moment, violent and sudden transformation that ends in an instant, amnesia / blacking out and coming to somewhere else, the guilt of knowing that someone close to you saw what you had become, corruption, robotic body horror; such as being a machine covered in viscera and blood, cameras replaced with eyes and screens replaced with mouths. — alternatively, a skerfuro charic gender, or a gender related to the skerfuro event!

— all of these are based off of voices of the void, and were originally intended to be presentation terms, but i got too into it and they're genders now. whoopsie daisys!

— no flag IDs, tagging @radiomogai for archival

— title PT: my greatest invention... kerfur fictgenders!