Turingfest Dear Creator Letter
Apr. 26th, 2022 09:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isoxysHi fellow robot liker! Thank you for taking the time to read my letter. I've written up a list of general likes, as well as some robot specific likes and fandom-specific prompts - feel free to browse around and see if anything inspires you. But also, I am just so excited to see whatever you come up with!
Treats welcome!
Likes:
- hurt/comfort (and hurt no comfort >:D )
- pining and slow-burn
- pre-slash and other fic where couples are not quite together yet/in the process of getting together
- polyamory (and poly relationship negotiation)
- messy/imperfect relationships
- shipped characters as exes
- friends to lovers, and fluff which shows the little things characters love about each other
- trust kink / loyalty kink
- angst and existential angst
- power dynamics with sexual tension (not necessarily acted upon, but could be!)
- nemeses being forced to team up
- horror, especially cosmic horror/eldritch horror, but other sorts of spooky are great too
- queer headcanons, especially transmasc headcanons
- scenes that are dark/violent but also surprisingly wholesome
- deleted scenes/alternate interpretations of canon scenes/fic that explains something left mysterious in canon
Robot specific likes:
- Very inhuman robots/exploring robots experience of their inhuman bodies
- Robots that really want to be human, and robots that do not, and fic which explores these perspectives
- Navigating robot/human or robot/organic relationships
- When robots say/think that they "don't have feelings" because they're a robot, but obviously they do
- The intimacy/vulnerability of having a body with replaceable parts, and of letting someone else do repair work on your body
Art likes:
- trippy colors
- limited or monochrome color palates
- intense black linework/crosshatching
- art deco, art nouveau, german expressionism, medieval woodcut style
- cyberpunk and glitch art
- religious motifs
- classical art references
- Comics!! And other storytelling mediums
Smut likes:
- characterization revealed by sex / plot relevant sex (less of a fan of PWP)
- Awkward sex/figuring out sex
- fingering/handjobs as the climactic sex act
- nipple play
- kink discovery
- kink negotiation/communication (but tbh I also love shit where they don’t communicate)
- rough sex/fighting which becomes sexual (love love love when this is combined with kink discovery in a “characters fighting realize they’re both into it” kinda way)
- bondage/restraint
- Ghost sex/magic sex
- Hands (and too many hands)
-
Do Not Wants:
- A/B/O
- violent noncon (dubcon fine)
- jealousy/possessiveness played as proof of a character’s love
- legal marriage as main focus of a romance story
- mommy/daddy kink, ageplay, or sexualized infantilization
- sexualized feminization/forced feminization
- sexual submission framed as a character needing to “relax” or “turn off their brain”
- bimbofication/kink where becoming horny or hotter makes a character “dumber”
- pregnancy kink
- genital mutilation
- referring to men’s chest as “tits”
Prompts by fandom:
Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future
Rags Parkland/Beaux Weathers
I want more people to know about this musical! (and if you don't know if but you're a robot liker, highly recommend checking it out!) The idea of a robot/human couple of radical folk singers is so cool. I'd love to see more of Beaux and Rags's relationship pre-canon - how did they meet, how did Rags learn that Beaux was a robot? Was Beaux being a robot and Rags being a human ever tense in their relationship? What was their life like as organ smugglers, or as uranium miners, or on mars? Would also love smut-fic or art of the two of them - is the Android Love Song an accurate depiction of their sex life? Also, I'd be super thrilled about something which explores the worldbuilding - the musical leaves so many interesting unanswered questions about the position of robots in society!
Pluto (Manga)
Epsilon/Hercules
I just love to be sad about these boys, and am really here for anything tragic about their relationship!! I love love love Epsilon's pacifism, and would love to see something that explores his choice to be a pascifist even though he is, technically, a super-powerful war machine - how does that come up in his relationship with Hercules? Does he ever question that choice? One idea for a prompt might be something exploring their relationship back during the war. I would also love fluff of the two of them getting to be happy together though!
Gesicht/Brau1589
I am so so here for the "Silence of the Lambs, but robots" dynamic of this ship, and would loveeeeee something which leaned into that tension and Brau seducing Geischt in some sort of way. The way canon plays with the vulnerability and trust involved in swapping memory cards is very very iddy for me.
Skin Horse
Nick/Virginia Lee
Kinda an obscure one but I am obsessed with the idea of a cute and wholesome human/helicopter relationship and I think that it was a cop-out move in canon to only have the two of them get together and get it on after Nick got his human body back. I wanna see more of how the two of them figure out a romantic or sexual relationship with Nick's helicopter body!! What does human/helicopter sex look like? Or a human and a helicopter going on a cute date? ok I'm gonna stop going on about the whole shipping helicopters thing rn also I just really love this ship I love their extreme nerd4nerd dynamics and I would be really into any fluff about the two of them
Metropolis
Maria & Hel
Hel & Man who dies in a duel for her
Brigette Helm is my ultimate "I can be your angle or yuor devil" and I wish that we got to see Maria and Hel interact more in canon (rip 1920s movie special effects, ammirite?) Basically, I wanna see Hel as Robot!Maria wreak some absolute havoc. I want peak Harlot of the Apocalypse shit. Huge bonus points for anything which leans into the Whore of Babylon symbolism - but I'm also just so interested in any character studies of Maria or Hel! I am not immune to the robot-clone selfcest potential, but also we do love to see Hel wrap men around her finger and lead them to their deaths :D
Blade Runner
Rachael
Blade Runner canon did Rachel dirty on the character development front and it makes me so mad. I wanna see better endings for her, or just more exploration of her! How does *she* actually feel about being a replicant? What sort of kinship with or distance from the replicants Deckard is huntind down does she feel - does she ever interact with them, and how does that go? Especially here for Replicant-and-a-Lesbian takes on her.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
God I love Data and honestly seeing him interact with any other character is a delight.
Data/Geordi
I love Data and Geordi's relationship - the awkward friendly banter, the comfortable friendly intimacy of the moments where Geordi is repairing or studying Data, the way Geordi is so willing to helpfully play along with Data's experiments in human interaction. I'd love fic or art where the two of them got together romantically - how does that getting together work? Is it one of Data's experiments in human interaction? Does Geordi make the first move? How is Data parsing out his romantic feelings when he's already so uncertain about most feelings he experiences? I also love when they LARP on the holodeck together so Sherlock Holmes or other settings are welcome!
Data & Q
Man that ep where Q loses his powers and kinda becomes buddies with Data about it is one of my favorite Star Trek eps of all time. I would love to see more conversations between the two of them, exploring the sort of parallels and differences between their situations (either in that episode, or in other contexts) - its interesting that both of them are in some way a very inhuman being who interacts a lot with humans and is fascinated by humans, but they have such different ideas about whether they want to be human, and are good at such different parts of it - and I'd love to see the two of them talk that out.
Treats welcome!
Likes:
- hurt/comfort (and hurt no comfort >:D )
- pining and slow-burn
- pre-slash and other fic where couples are not quite together yet/in the process of getting together
- polyamory (and poly relationship negotiation)
- messy/imperfect relationships
- shipped characters as exes
- friends to lovers, and fluff which shows the little things characters love about each other
- trust kink / loyalty kink
- angst and existential angst
- power dynamics with sexual tension (not necessarily acted upon, but could be!)
- nemeses being forced to team up
- horror, especially cosmic horror/eldritch horror, but other sorts of spooky are great too
- queer headcanons, especially transmasc headcanons
- scenes that are dark/violent but also surprisingly wholesome
- deleted scenes/alternate interpretations of canon scenes/fic that explains something left mysterious in canon
Robot specific likes:
- Very inhuman robots/exploring robots experience of their inhuman bodies
- Robots that really want to be human, and robots that do not, and fic which explores these perspectives
- Navigating robot/human or robot/organic relationships
- When robots say/think that they "don't have feelings" because they're a robot, but obviously they do
- The intimacy/vulnerability of having a body with replaceable parts, and of letting someone else do repair work on your body
Art likes:
- trippy colors
- limited or monochrome color palates
- intense black linework/crosshatching
- art deco, art nouveau, german expressionism, medieval woodcut style
- cyberpunk and glitch art
- religious motifs
- classical art references
- Comics!! And other storytelling mediums
Smut likes:
- characterization revealed by sex / plot relevant sex (less of a fan of PWP)
- Awkward sex/figuring out sex
- fingering/handjobs as the climactic sex act
- nipple play
- kink discovery
- kink negotiation/communication (but tbh I also love shit where they don’t communicate)
- rough sex/fighting which becomes sexual (love love love when this is combined with kink discovery in a “characters fighting realize they’re both into it” kinda way)
- bondage/restraint
- Ghost sex/magic sex
- Hands (and too many hands)
-
Do Not Wants:
- A/B/O
- violent noncon (dubcon fine)
- jealousy/possessiveness played as proof of a character’s love
- legal marriage as main focus of a romance story
- mommy/daddy kink, ageplay, or sexualized infantilization
- sexualized feminization/forced feminization
- sexual submission framed as a character needing to “relax” or “turn off their brain”
- bimbofication/kink where becoming horny or hotter makes a character “dumber”
- pregnancy kink
- genital mutilation
- referring to men’s chest as “tits”
Prompts by fandom:
Rags Parkland Sings The Songs Of The Future
Rags Parkland/Beaux Weathers
I want more people to know about this musical! (and if you don't know if but you're a robot liker, highly recommend checking it out!) The idea of a robot/human couple of radical folk singers is so cool. I'd love to see more of Beaux and Rags's relationship pre-canon - how did they meet, how did Rags learn that Beaux was a robot? Was Beaux being a robot and Rags being a human ever tense in their relationship? What was their life like as organ smugglers, or as uranium miners, or on mars? Would also love smut-fic or art of the two of them - is the Android Love Song an accurate depiction of their sex life? Also, I'd be super thrilled about something which explores the worldbuilding - the musical leaves so many interesting unanswered questions about the position of robots in society!
Pluto (Manga)
Epsilon/Hercules
I just love to be sad about these boys, and am really here for anything tragic about their relationship!! I love love love Epsilon's pacifism, and would love to see something that explores his choice to be a pascifist even though he is, technically, a super-powerful war machine - how does that come up in his relationship with Hercules? Does he ever question that choice? One idea for a prompt might be something exploring their relationship back during the war. I would also love fluff of the two of them getting to be happy together though!
Gesicht/Brau1589
I am so so here for the "Silence of the Lambs, but robots" dynamic of this ship, and would loveeeeee something which leaned into that tension and Brau seducing Geischt in some sort of way. The way canon plays with the vulnerability and trust involved in swapping memory cards is very very iddy for me.
Skin Horse
Nick/Virginia Lee
Kinda an obscure one but I am obsessed with the idea of a cute and wholesome human/helicopter relationship and I think that it was a cop-out move in canon to only have the two of them get together and get it on after Nick got his human body back. I wanna see more of how the two of them figure out a romantic or sexual relationship with Nick's helicopter body!! What does human/helicopter sex look like? Or a human and a helicopter going on a cute date? ok I'm gonna stop going on about the whole shipping helicopters thing rn also I just really love this ship I love their extreme nerd4nerd dynamics and I would be really into any fluff about the two of them
Metropolis
Maria & Hel
Hel & Man who dies in a duel for her
Brigette Helm is my ultimate "I can be your angle or yuor devil" and I wish that we got to see Maria and Hel interact more in canon (rip 1920s movie special effects, ammirite?) Basically, I wanna see Hel as Robot!Maria wreak some absolute havoc. I want peak Harlot of the Apocalypse shit. Huge bonus points for anything which leans into the Whore of Babylon symbolism - but I'm also just so interested in any character studies of Maria or Hel! I am not immune to the robot-clone selfcest potential, but also we do love to see Hel wrap men around her finger and lead them to their deaths :D
Blade Runner
Rachael
Blade Runner canon did Rachel dirty on the character development front and it makes me so mad. I wanna see better endings for her, or just more exploration of her! How does *she* actually feel about being a replicant? What sort of kinship with or distance from the replicants Deckard is huntind down does she feel - does she ever interact with them, and how does that go? Especially here for Replicant-and-a-Lesbian takes on her.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
God I love Data and honestly seeing him interact with any other character is a delight.
Data/Geordi
I love Data and Geordi's relationship - the awkward friendly banter, the comfortable friendly intimacy of the moments where Geordi is repairing or studying Data, the way Geordi is so willing to helpfully play along with Data's experiments in human interaction. I'd love fic or art where the two of them got together romantically - how does that getting together work? Is it one of Data's experiments in human interaction? Does Geordi make the first move? How is Data parsing out his romantic feelings when he's already so uncertain about most feelings he experiences? I also love when they LARP on the holodeck together so Sherlock Holmes or other settings are welcome!
Data & Q
Man that ep where Q loses his powers and kinda becomes buddies with Data about it is one of my favorite Star Trek eps of all time. I would love to see more conversations between the two of them, exploring the sort of parallels and differences between their situations (either in that episode, or in other contexts) - its interesting that both of them are in some way a very inhuman being who interacts a lot with humans and is fascinated by humans, but they have such different ideas about whether they want to be human, and are good at such different parts of it - and I'd love to see the two of them talk that out.
