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Susan Hockey defining fonts on the PDP15, Atlas Lab, 1972. via UKRI Science and Technology Facilities Council / Chilton Computing photographic archive
good morning to all robotfuckers and mecha kissers and people who think lovingly about maintenance in cramped spaces
she's just like me for real.
don't ever let me become a nuclear scientist cause if I was in one of these rooms I'd fuck shit up
thinking this evening about robots (as usual of course) but specifically those robots who have no genitals, nor desire for them, nor really any way to experience pleasure in a "human" way. maybe they're work bots not made with sex in mind, or building-sized supercomputers with no sense of touch outside of user interface areas.
thinking about intimacy with a body (or bodies) that love in a slightly different language. metal hands holding warm flesh, digging in, with the power to tear away but the care and restraint not to. a comforting voice that surrounds and whispers sweet nothings while rooms of servers and screens hum and pulse with want want want.
will you pry away its chassis and adore its insides the same way it adores yours? tangle your fingers in its wires, pull them a little when you bring your hand away to caress its face? it's the trust it takes for it to let you in so close to its heart that makes you shiver. trace the grooves in its body, so precise and intentional in their placement; find the place where it falls apart and speed up the process.
listen to its voice glitch and skip while it tries to relay what you're doing to it. hear the mechanical keening when you reach its central processing arrays, every brush of your skin on its metal sending its thoughts into a hazy, static-filled loop of touch touch touch.
you're who gets to see it like this. who gets to make it fall apart. it's a thrill like nothing else.
pretty in pink ^^
some (kinda risque) computer-loving pins from the 80s
robot who wants to feel around human guts and do surgeries the same way humans fantasize about pulling on wires or whatever