just imagine
whoever is going to play with you
caressing your keyhole
touching it
feeling it
your key being so slowly inserted in
meshing with your workings
tight
tested
tension against it
but not enough to make it turn
testing just how much...
Automaton, Clockwork, Second Person
A vacation from being, turned into a mechanical automaton. choosing to be like that, enjoying it. frist time for it, but probably not the last
"and it's not permanent?" you ask them.
"no, of course not. we do have some long-term clients.
Automaton, Clockwork, Robot, Second Person, Transformation
I had shrugged it off as another automaton, in for servicing or some other reason. taking a closer look, i saw the blood on its claspers and splashed onto its copper.
"the automaton did it?"
Detective, Hyena, Noir, anthology, dieselpunk, rainfurrest
We speak our parts as automatons,
emotions leaked from slits under our eyes
to drain in tiny pools on ruined carpet,
stains of neverwas, and neverwill.
Love, Obsession, Shakespeare, loss
Blur the line between flesh and machine with such resolve, that at the time of their fall at the hand of their own creations, there had been whispers of the unthinkable: successfully transferring a person's consciousness, their very soul, into a soulless automaton
Novel, SFW, Sci-Fi
He believes that nothing says "i miss you" like a nearly lifelike automaton of a dead organist playing the myriad pieces of music that he spent his life composing on an organ or one of a dead dancer going through the myriad steps and dance moves that he's
Android, Bat, Cyborg, Owl, Raven, Transhumanism, dragonfly, fly, moth, vulture
Ps: my friend dislikes zero as much as xalo does~
xalogan ran through the underground complex with hasty desperation as talos pursued him through the desolate hallways, the pounding of his heart and lungs matched by the rumbling strides of the massive automaton
Hate-Love, Kissing, M/M, No-Yiff, Salamander, Steam Punk, Winged Wolf, Wolf, swearing
"second warning, preparing audible alert, then protocol s09"
the adrenaline flooded in the teenaged badger's body, an alarm would compromise the mission, then tom remembered when jeff hit one of those freak automatons, they react slowly on unexpected
Badger, Bear, Cat, Fox, Mind Control, Reprogramming, Robot, Rottweiler, Sci-Fi, Tigress, Transformation
The crows cawed into the sky as if in mourning for their lost automaton. their cries echoed through the patch of forest and the empty valley beyond, carrying on for minutes and miles, until finally an answering call returned to them.
Crows, Zombiology, zombies
Over him stood the victorious automaton. a custom-crafted gladiator droid packed into the chassis of an early-model leisuremech hostess unit. a sleek approximation of an idealized human female's figure. all of it colored dark pink and chrome.
Bluster, Bravado, Cathar, Fantasy, Feline, Humor, Hunting, Insult, Prompt, Repartee, Science, Slaver, Star, Talk, Thug, Thugs, Thurdsay, Trash, Trashtalk, Unarmed, Violence, Violent, artist, arts, better, bounty, combat, content, droid, insults, martial, slavers, through, wars, witty
At first robots and automatons were used as a stop gap for manual labor and other less "thought inducing" occupations. for health care though, people wanted real, organic, living, doctors to care for them.
Clean, Intro, Introduction, Sci-Fi, Story