Here’s how *I* write the robot romance and sex in 2024 (many but not all of these may be pre-existing fandom or sci-fi terms):
“Choose Your Gear” is the (tentative) tag I use for the specific version of robot sex I am currently writing.
Frame/chassis - the bot’s whole body and/or body-type
Hook(ing) up - slang-ish term for connecting via wires and/or cables. Not inherently romantic or sexual but can be used for such. The “plug n play”
SCREW, Standard Cybertronian Realtime Electronic Workspace, Cyber Space - the virtual 'space’ which may be perceived by bots when they “hook-up” or “go virtual” or “space” together.
Spacing - hanging out together connected and in virtual reality; for many bots implied low situaltional awareness of material world.
Diving - a specific type of hooking up or spacing without rendered cyberspace in which the bot experiences the other’s system on a data level.
Spark - the glowing cluster of positrons (in positive universes at least) that is functionally a bot’s life(force).
Spark stuff - slang-ish term for romantic or recreational interfacing with sparks.
Attune, attunement, being attuned - when bots are accustomed to each other’s presence, spark, or energy field and able to subconsciously recognize each other; not a permanent bond, but considered alike to a temporary bond.
Sparkbond - a (pretty much) permanent entanglement between two or more sparks. Not necessarily sexual or romantic, could be familial or friendship based, but is also typical of sparkmates or conjunxes.
Energy, energy field, EM signature - energies that radiate or spin off of a bot’s spark which may be sensed by other bots or beings sensitive to such energies.
Field interaction - the sense of two or more fields colliding and interacting in a shared space. Bots may be more or less sensitive to this and have differing beliefs or abilities with “reading” EM emissions. Some may perceive colors or emotions, while others rarely sense anything.
Field expansion, field contraction - the expansion or contraction of a bot’s field in spatial dimensions. Some bots have conscious control over this, while others may not. May also happen unintentionally due to changes in mood, injury, or power level.
Polite distance - the distance at which a bot determines their own field will not interact with that of another bot and thus they are not imposing their energy on another.
Gear or Equipment- slang-ish terms for robot genitalia-analogous parts in general
Form(s) - the specific genitalia-analogous part(s) selected
Interface array - the internal part of the robot body/frame/chassis that is typically covered by a retractable panel and which generates the “gear” of selected “forms” that bots choose to “interface” with. Standard, upgrade, modded, and custom versions can exist, depending somewhat on whether a bot was forged or constructed with one or later had one installed, or changed out their existing array for another model.
CySI, Cybertronian Standard Interface array - A specific and common model of interface array which typically has one convex slot above one concave slot and as many as three alignment nodes.
Interface - in this context, the recreational and non-reproductive interplay of parts
Concave slot(s) - the section(s) of an array capable of generating concave forms, like a stator (clinical), valve, port, slot etc. (confusingly there’s “slot” in this sense of expansion slot, but also a specific concave form called a “slot” which bots may wish some other forms or part to enter.)
Calipers - some concave forms may include internal calipers that both sense and may contract against entering parts/forms.
Mesh, valve mesh - (not in this sense mech-flesh) internal woven wire mesh that functions as walls of some concave forms.
Flaps, lips - external parts generating around and with a form, most typical of, but not necessarily exclusive to, the area around concave forms. Available in various shapes and arrangements.
Rollers, wheels, casters, bearings - the tiny rolling parts inside some “analogue” types of concave forms (in place of or instead of a mesh) that mechanically move under traction from entering parts and help in building charge.
Convex slot(s) - the section(s) of an array capable of generating convex forms, like a rotor (clinical), spike, stick, button, etc.
Node, alignment node - part(s) of the array along with any of the concave or convex forms. typically they glow and may have haptic feedback of some sort. Where a bot has more than one, specific nodes may be designated as anterior/posterior, upper/mid/lower, etc.
Compatibility mode - software associated with the interface array hardware that enables a bot to run in an interface mode even more compatible with a specific known and/or scanned alien species, but which may have some minor side-effects as the bot’s array attempts to emulate another species organs/parts and approximate their function
Dialing up, Dialing down - a bot changing the overall scale/size of their “gear” to obtain desired fit with a partner significantly larger or smaller. Though bots have a range of sizes proportionate to their frame, there can be physical limits to that range.
Scanning - in this context, scanning another’s gear or other organs/parts to obtain measurements to inform fit and compatibility.
Charge - slang-ish for the energy generated through interfacing
Magnetic flux - the differential in magnetic fields that is caused by the movement of metal parts with or within magnetic fields during interfacing. Perceived as pleasurable and energetic.
Chasing the flux - slang-ish way to say working to build charge in order to overload
Overload - generating enough charge, in this context through interfacing, such that circuit capacity is over-loaded. Perceived as high-energy and/or fullness. A bot’s systems may attempt to expel excess energy in their overload state, activating systems and abilities to put the energy to use.
Bare metal - 1. slang-ish term for a bot’s thinner (non-armor) dermal plating which may or may not actually show their native alloys they were forged/constructed with, often in the sense of scraping or getting down to this layer. 2. A specific brief appearance of liquid metal during the process of generating a form from the interface array. Considered taboo to touch this.
Glossa, sensor nodule - a tongue-analagous part for licking, tasting, or chemically sampling.
Gloss - 1. to speak or understand a meaning 2. to lick in such a way as to shine with oral lubricants
Binomial Data Transfer - a method of transmitting short bursts of data from bot-to-bot via a dedicated port located beneath the base of the sensor nodule in the mouth. Often perceived as a means of transmitting end-of-life or emergency plans in a goodbye kiss.
There’s probably more and I didn’t cover general body parts or curses, but I need to go do my actual fic writing for the day.
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