ethel cainhurst †

we went half-and-half

societies will develop and promulgate effective memetic defense against agentic AI influence, against belief in machine-words or faith in the objectivity of machine-mind-facsimiles

people also initially took them entirely at face value, believed that a photograph was as near to a perfect scientific reflection of reality and truth as it was possible to achieve, and this photo staging & manipulation was particularly effected in the early window

like photography, a thing that was so difficult for people to conceive of that nobody even published a credible hypothetical imagining of it in speculative fiction until after it was discovered, required the same kind of cultural inoculation in the 1800s

we were talking to someone, we think possibly ivy, about a this a few months ago, that right now the ~ai psychosis~ stuff and even just, like, treating the computer as a source of Factual Information, or like it Knows Things is worrying but can be culturally inoculated against

a while back we noticed that all the people we most routinely permit to dominate us are much shorter than we are and we have been leaning into it quite hard ever since.

with our aggressiveness & penchant for sadism we are more of a disservice top, personally

titanium teeth biting into bioceramic plate, cracking open like a shell and gushing blue coolant from ruptured circulation lines. sweet taste of ethylene glycol, tinge of bitter copper. fingers pressing into new wounds, new orifices, new anchors, searching for something to feel.

it is birch bark!! the best kind of bark!!!

they're making hsts camo now

runner shells pressing neon fingers and tongues against any kind of sensitized port they can find on each other, probing tongues across bitter-tasting chemically lubricated plastic shells, smelling like processed protein goo and heated hydrocarbons

yeah!!!

we are getting this piece done! it is all handpoke so we've only gone through one of probably seven sessions to complete it.

imagining a kind of goth gorpcore.

we also kind of want angel bites but we would genuinely not be able to go that long without making out with people or having oral sex.

bleaching our hair and getting a septum piercing to blend in to the local population

8th anniversary with our wife today 🤍

dark sun gwyndolin from dark souls

technically the only specifically textually transexual character is implied to be the original pilot that formed the basis for the pilot mental sync template, a ptsd-haunted near-mute autistic transsexual woman with preternatural ability to mesh with the neural interpreter network

importantly the sturmgestalt hormonal rebalancing is to prevent rejection of the hypnosurgically grafted mental gestalt construct, the original subject can have +any+ gendered experience of endocrine system as a base it will +all+ be neutered and replaced with a standard operating environment

that they perform the +feminine+ role in gendered relations is ultimately a product of pervasive patriarchal norms and the insatiable sexual & violent appetites of men in these inhuman, inhumane, systems to exert any kind of control & violence over anything they see as weaker, frailer

like for warsprite we would say that the Perpetual Liberation pilots are an industrially forced, logistically demanded transhuman project. they have not transitions gender, they have had their gender and social role +annihilated+ in an industrial process to bring them in line with military demands

it has been interesting seeing transexuality +specifically+ become so core to how a lot of later mechsploitation explorers write about the genre when so much of the early work is not textually or philosophically transsexual in nature

MORE TRANSGENDER MECH PILOTS

A trans woman’s experience in the most moral army in the world.

careful with this one. it’s pretty gross.

archiveofourown.org/works/80532426

reading "Bombing to Win" on the subway and shaking my head to show everyone I'm against bombing to win

chronic bio changer, discerning username changer

customers in any given port or station want to see exposed neural jacks, surgical implant markers, exposed synth-skin subdermal armor weaves to get the 'authentic' experience

post-war cyberized troops (infantry, mech pilots, integrated artillery crew, etc.,) forced to wear erotic mockeries of neural-sync & combat-sleeve suits because it became a popular pornographic shorthand thanks to the widespread distribution of combat footage snuff videos & battlefield sex tapes

being a doll is actually something to be proud of