Do you have any robotkin advice? If you do, tysm :)
(most of these are things i do or want to do as a robotkin :3)
rename mundane things to more robot-y things! you can call your food fuel, call sleeping charging, call mental and physical exercise system function testing, etc
wear things that remind you of your robot self! there are lots of cool robot tights, robot-y shoes (LED shoe clips are a personal favorite shoe accessory of mine), gloves, sunglasses, or mecha accessories to headphones
listen to vocaloid and mynoise.net
change your mannerisms (posture, vocal inflection, etc) to be more robot-esque
have a specific function? do lots of things relating to that! for example, i am an assistance and information robot (similar to data from star trek) so i try to learn lots and be helpful to people whenever they need me
specific shoes make me feel very much like my robot self. clacky heels, chunky sneakers, and wedges specifically
learn code!
draw robot joints on yourself (i like using highlighter to give that glowy sci-fi effect)
hope this helps! :3
dark academia is just a bunch of immaculately dressed angsty teen slytherclaws
change my mind
Any other robotkin or similar listen to dubstep, too?
You know, beep, bop, boop?
No? Just me?
Ok
…
Anyway, I recommend-
And also my entire playlists for my alien/cyber/robot feels-
🎲Hermes🎲
- watch a comedy special
- watch a funny show or movie
- watch travel videos
- watch sports (literally any sport)
- if able learn a new language if unable to do that listen to music in a foreign language or watch a movie or show in a foreign language
- learn about the underworld and His role as a psychopomp
- the story of Him stealing Apollon’s cattle always makes me laugh so if you’re feeling down maybe read about that or watch a video about it!
- eat food from a foreign country or watch cooking videos with recipes from foreign countries
- make a bucket list of places you’d like to travel (doesn’t necessarily have to be other countries! It can be within your own country or in your own state! Or hell maybe there’s places in your own town/city you haven’t checked out yet that you’d like to go see!)
- learn some geography!
- listen to a devotional playlist for Him
- play some board games or card games or dice games
🌊Poseidon🌊
- listen to oceanic/sea soundscapes
- learn about earthquakes
- listen to sea shanties and learn about why they were used
- watch documentaries or shows about marine animals or the ocean/sea themselves
-learn about horses
- stay hydrated
- watch aquarium videos! They’re very soothing
- if able print out or buy ocean themed coloring pages/coloring books and color! (I also think the finished product could go great on His altar if you have one!)
- learn about and if able to take trips to local ponds or lakes (and if able go to the beach)
- learn about marine plants and marine biodiversity
- watch videos about naval history, or naval warfare
- learn about boats and sailing history
- watch videos about hurricanes! Learn about them!
- listen to a devotional playlist for Him
- learn about shipwrecks or maritime disasters if that interests you (my favorite YouTube channel for these vids is: Oceanliner Designs)
- watch ocean or maritime related shows or movies (I personally like The Terror which I get isn’t 100% ocean related but y’know)
quick psa cause some things need to be stated:
there’s a lot of misconception about the dark academia aesthetic right now (particularly from tiktok) and i just wanna say one thing.
the whole “dark academia” is quite literally what it is said to be. it’s not just dressing up in neutral and darker tones and chilling in a library. it actually roots in an appreciation for the arts and academia.
hogwarts ≠ dark academia lol
the aesthetic itself involves spending time reading classical literature and it stems from european culture and creating a new view of society. it is using mediums such as literature and art to enhance your own self and knowledge.
to me, it’s one of the more beautiful things, despite its bad undertones. it was created around a rich and elitist society that values the pursuit of knowledge.
if you truly want to get involved in the aesthetic, do research and separate the truth from the idolization. it can be quite harmful if you don’t know what you’re talking about.
all i’m saying is that while it is pretty to look at, a lot more goes into it than tweed coats and existentialism.
my recs for immersing yourself:
films
- dead poets society (1989)
- kill your darlings (2013)
- wuthering heights (2011)
- cracks (2009)
- the dreamers (2013)
- midnight in paris (2011)
books
- if we were villains by m.l. rio
- the secret history by donna tartt
- wuthering heights by emily brontë
- mona lisa smile by deboarah chiel
- people like us by dana mele
- dead poets society by n.h. kleinbaum
- ninth house by leigh bardugo
enjoy🙃
Everyone deserves the comfort of another
Coffee or tea (and when not having it, monster energy drinks)
Pomegranates
Blazers with ripped jeans
Dark nail polish
Having a huge range of books outside of dark academic classics, but still including those classics if you have read them
Watching Dark Academic series and movies when you’re not feeling like reading
Taking your notes in colored pens or markers with the occasional use of a feather pen
Electric candles if you can’t use or don’t have real ones and wanna set the room with some lighting
Alternatively using fairy lights to accomplish the same thing
Being an info-junkie
Cape coats
Tons of old coffee or tea mugs with rings that you forgot about with the occasional left over energy drink can you could’ve sworn you threw out weeks ago
Dark Academia youtube channels about room decorating, fashion tips, or overall tips plus book and movie recommendations
Taking photos of your notes even on a zoom class to write down later
Doing your work at night in the dark with your only light being your computer screen and either candles or small lights until ungodly hours of the morning
Plastic skulls from the Halloween store are apart of your room decorations (only until you can get a real one)
Not being able to tell some days what kind of academia aesthetic you are
A lot of what you wanna do is dependent on what you feel like doing at that time
Having a chaotic or dark academia tumblr for when you can’t always live out your aesthetic in real life sometimes
Do any other autistic or adhd people relate to like, feeling scared of losing a hyperfixation or special interest? Like, its this thing that means so much to me and makes me so happy and the idea of not enjoying it anymore scares me in a way, i guess.
kinda wanna be in a group of people where we meet up a lot and have a group chat and talk send messages like handwritten letters and coded sayings too and share our interests without being weird and be close and have sleepovers and cosplay and maybe live in a big area together and go camping and sneak out at night to read poetry and share our interests and i don't know it just seems neat
DIETYS AND OFFERINGS LIST (12/6/2022)
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
Oscar Wilde, De Profundis (1897).