#machine heart

[scrittarts]

Sensory Overload

The initial post-integration time isn't fun either, as mechs provide vastly expanded sensory input over what most people are used to. It can be hard to sleep if you can suddenly hear wireless traffic, see new colors, feel magnetic fields... and if your previous body schema was bipedal, learning to walk on all fours can take days if not weeks of cumbersome stumbling around.

[aeztheticzforthemuzes]

[krastbannert]

Another snippet I wrote recently, this one from machine heart, an Aloy character study with a side of Ereloy:

[felrend]

Looting the prize

[kelseaballerinii]

— Machine Heart by Kelsea Ballerini

[machine-heart-swiftie]

I don’t have a machine heart 🧡

[fearlessonthecoast]

I pushed and pulled it. I let you do it too. Like it was metal. Like it was bulletproof. I forgot to cry when I was sad. I forgot to fight when I was mad. I made the moves that others would approve. But it ain't calculated. It ain't by the rules. And you can hate it, baby. But it's gonna do what it's gonna do, yeah. I don't have a machine heart. Can't tell it to stop. No button to push to start. You'll see it break. You'll see it fall apart. 'Cause I don't have, I don't have a machine heart. No, a machine heart.

Machine Heart by Kelsea Ballerini

[horrorgay]

Machine Heart 🖤❤