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Small Robots
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here are some drawings of helpful small robots for you #SmallRobotsRemastered Patreon here: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=16161865 Nonbinary. Pronoun agnostic. 🏳️‍⚧️
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · Oct 4
Would you like to order a little picture of a robot? I'm offering commissions of existing robots in a new style that can use as icons for stuff or whatever you like! Prices start at £20 per picture. Contact me on here if you're interested.
Teabot - a robot in the form of a mug of tea with little tracks on either side - rolling up next to a stack of books with covers in different colours. The books are The Sign of the Four, Guards! Guards!, Feet of Clay, and A Study in Scarlet. The scene is against a background of a turquoise circle. Snakebot - a robot in the form of a snake, with a long, banded body and a little sphere on its tail - coiled up around itself, sticking out its forked tongue and looking kind of angry, against a background of a grey square. Crabbot - a robot in the form of a little crab with banded arms and legs and mitten-like claws - rearing up and holding its arms in the air angrily. The background is a grey circle. Bigbot, viewed from below, stomping along. The background is a pinkish rectangle and Bigbot seems to be smashing its way out, as one side of it is fragmented into pieces where it's been kicked.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 7h
1338) Voidbot. Should you venture backward or forward far enough through time and space, you will find the place/moment where dimensions fold in on themselves, spiraling into infinity, an all-consuming eternity, where there is only V O I D B O T. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween
A series of indistinct, nested glowing trails, all spiralling inwards towards a black, central void. Each trail describes a logarithmic 'golden spiral' rotated 45 degrees with respect to each of its neighbours so that the whole frame is filled with an irising swirl of light and dark. The edge of each trail is picked out with random(ish) black dots, making them appear fragmented and hazy, as if they are perhaps great bands of stellar matter, the remains of galaxies drawn into some cosmic gravitational maw. And in that maw there is a little smiling face, tilted at a slight angle, which looks like it's faintly glowing.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 4h
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 5h
It looks like she's wearing a nightie and trying to pass it off as a dress like Rachel in that one episode of Friends.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 6h
It was flapping around at the heat lamp. I got it out and managed to put it outside. How odd.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 6h
There was just a butterfly in my tortoise's vivarium! There must have been a pupa in his lettuce or something!
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 7h
I did think of posting it with inverted colours as a new version of Galaxybot...
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 7h
No colour version of this one sorry, because, well, look at it.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 7h
1338) Voidbot. Should you venture backward or forward far enough through time and space, you will find the place/moment where dimensions fold in on themselves, spiraling into infinity, an all-consuming eternity, where there is only V O I D B O T. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween
A series of indistinct, nested glowing trails, all spiralling inwards towards a black, central void. Each trail describes a logarithmic 'golden spiral' rotated 45 degrees with respect to each of its neighbours so that the whole frame is filled with an irising swirl of light and dark. The edge of each trail is picked out with random(ish) black dots, making them appear fragmented and hazy, as if they are perhaps great bands of stellar matter, the remains of galaxies drawn into some cosmic gravitational maw. And in that maw there is a little smiling face, tilted at a slight angle, which looks like it's faintly glowing.
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Asquealia Clark - Lover of Flagons @gingertotty.bsky.social · 8h
On top of everything else, I’m broke as arseholes & tired AF. So I’m going to promote some artwork you could MAYBE buy, so I can afford life’s fripperies. Like knickers, Frazzles (and rent)
apropos of nothing, ere are some cards to send to BELOVEDS dippyfishcards.etsy.com

#love #cards #bsnm #mhhsbd
I super like you, unsolicited dik pic, crazy for you bunny boiler card and My milkshake brings all the buoys to the yard
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 19h
Ah yes, this will be an interesting adjustment for you! Americans have Thanksgiving to serve as a buffer between the Christmas season and the rest of the year. But here, there's really nothing to demarcate it, so it just creeps in gradually. Halloween doesn't have enough history here either.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
1086) Sinisterbot. Just showed up this morning, looming over everything. We don't know why. It won't answer any questions. Bit worried tbh. #SmallRobotsRemonstered #Halloween
A huge, pyramidal robot looming over a dark, curved horizon. The front of the robot is in shadow, and it has a stern expression on its face.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
There are creative people out there who want to make good shows and know how to use the medium to make money, but they're not billionaires, and the only opinions that matter now are those of the ultra-wealthy.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
I mean, whatever. It's just fucking TV. It had a good run. It's just sad to see the carcass being so inexpertly picked over by the world's most pathetically unimaginative vultures.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
Star Trek barely limped to three seasons before cancellation, but it was well-regarded enough at the time to be used to fill up syndication schedules for years afterwards and slowly grew in popularity. It's almost impossible for that to happen now.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
You used to be able to have a box office bomb that eventually made its money back through home media and would later be critically reassessed. You used to get TV shows that got poor ratings on initial broadcast, but became popular in syndication or reruns.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
How would you even have a 'cult hit' these days? There's no after sales. Things can't become popular in retrospect, because if something isn't an immediate hit, it gets shitcanned and drops off services. It's the same with movies, because they hit streaming so soon after being at the cinema.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
Because the metrics are all based on the model of broadcast > home media. But you've just rolled them into one (inferior) experience, and now there's less money to make decent TV, and no one gives a shit, and the whole medium is dying.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
Plus you don't get any special features, and you don't own it (so it might just disappear from your library), so people don't get invested. Then the shows get cancelled, which further reduces willingness to invest time and energy (let alone money) and every single show bombs.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
And then they switched to streaming, and it seemed like it was going to mean even more binging! And for a bit it kind of did...but the problem is that, if you treat binging a series like the normal way to consume it rather than a little treat you get months after broadcast, it stops being fun.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
We had a decade or two of 'prestige TV', where the easy accesibility of home media meant that networks and production companies got two bites of the cherry: one in broadcast through advertising (or subscription), and one in DVD sales. And we all watched our DVDs to death and invented binging.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
And a month later no one's talking about it any more anyway, and it doesn't get a new season and everyone forgets it even happened.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
The thing is, with the modern television and media landscape, people don't go and buy a new subscription to watch That One Show. They just go, "Oh, it's not on one of the seventeen streaming services I already pay for. Never mind then."
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
"More ads" is literally the only idea these people have to make money. Eventually people are just going to stop watching TV because the whole experience has become too miserable.
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 1d
With legacy pay TV providers already dealing with dwindling subscriptions, the introduction of new types of ads risks making DirecTV less appealing as well—and it’s likely that things won’t end there.
DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026
Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
No it isn't!
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Small Robots @smolrobots.bsky.social · 1d
(Nothing wrong with showtunes per se, he just only seems to like that and possibly wrestling entrance music. The common factor, I suppose, is audience recognition. So it's more 'stuff he knows people respond to' than actually liking it himself.)
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