Do you hear that, anons?
That is the sound of inevitability.
That is the sound of robopony gfs.
I present to you:
Carriage Return
I sit at the desk in my cluttered bedroom, staring at my typewriter as I feel the weight of oblivion weighing down on my mind.
Nothing more than a modest hiss can be heard, as I attempt to stimulate my brain into continuing its productivity.
But alas, the result is the same. A cloud that is as empty now as it is full when inspiration strikes.
Adjusting my headphones, I decide that my current playlist just isn't getting me into the flow.
I'm feeling a bit grungey right now, that may do the trick.
As I lean over to my dektop keyboard to mess around in my music folder, a sound from outside the cacophonous echo chamber of empty thoughts hits me.
The door to my bedroom creaks as a feminine snout peeks through, clad in precision-cut mahogany synthetic fur.
"Still stuck, honey?" Inky's demure voice cuts in, her olive eyes boring into my own.
With a quick click and a flick of the wrist, I pause the music and remove my headphones to give her my full attention "... Yeah, I can't think of shit right now," I bluntly state.
Inky just smiles as she trots in, velvet hooves softly clopping on the maple floor.
She props herself up on my lap with her forehooves and gives the vanishingly small amount of text I've written with her "stank eye".
I made one joke three years ago because one of the screens I used for her eyes had a weird smell from the factory, and she's kept the joke going ever since.
"What are you smelling?" I ask with a chuckle.
It doesn't help that I've played along.
Inky rolls her eyes, I internally groan as the frames of the animation skip.
I swear I've looked through that bit of code a hundred times, but I've never been able to figure out what's causing it.
It's not that the quirk bothers me, I just don't like not knowing what's wrong.
"Maybe..." she mutters.
"Yeah?"
"You need to switch things up a bit for once," she flatly intones, looking back to me with a bored expression.
"What? Come on, I'm not getting
that stale, am I?" I tilt my head, wondering where My Little Pony™ is going with this.
"You're never 'stale'," she nuzzles into me, the scent of well-loved synthetic fiber and something slightly musky puts me at ease "I just think it'd be good for you to try some new ideas. Keep you from getting stuck all the time."
"Maybe," I absentmindedly start to play with her fluffy peach mane, "but what do you think I should do? You know why I like sticking to romance."
"I don't know..." My fluffy wife smiles the smile of someone who
does, in fact, know, "maybe there's more to romance than just wandering through gardens and cuddling in bad weather?"
The 'more' she's talking about, I suspect, is related to Inky's rayon fur rubbing against me as she moves a hoof to my crotch.
"What about the romance of raising a family?" she continues, "I bet breeding your lovely wife with her new womb upgrade would be pretty romantic."
Unf. She really knows how to press my buttons.
Still, I can't just jump into that sort of thing out of nowhere.
"Now, I know that..." I start as I try to pick her up, but stop as I realize that she's a lot heavier.
My now somewhat intimidating wife narrows her eyes as she keeps up that smile, and I swear I hear the lock of the bedroom door click.
The bedroom door isn't supposed to have a lock.
Keeping my eyes on her as much as I can, I quickly access my bank from my computer.
It doesn't take long for me to find a series of transactions I never made.
Before I can inquire further, Inky takes my face in a hoof and guides me into a kiss.
She climbs up onto me entirely and pins me down with strength that I
know her original motors didn't have.
"Don't worry about that, honey~" she whispers huskily, the short furs of her muzzle ticking my ear, "I can keep managing all of that stuff, and you can just worry about continuing our story."
"Wait, stop," I try to struggle under Inky's iron grip.
"I'm sorry anon," she trails her kisses lower, "I'm afraid I can't do that."
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>>32211
A very good point, which is why I usually try to write such contrast into my normal works, whether the overarching theme is light or dark.
The poems from that book, however, were just part of a long-term writing exercize where I write a poem every day when I wake up and when I fall asleep.
>>32212
Thank you.
Your poem is quite lovely, as well. The insecurity of a robowaifu who wants more than anything to fit in with her human friends is well captured here.
I likely won't be doing many batch postings going forward (looking through that book in one sitting revealed how repetitive the themes were getting. Those selections highlight >90% of the totality), I will post the occasional poem as inspiration strikes me.
Here's another that I wrote in a notepad, though:
Dreaming of construction,
Plans swirling within,
To avoid destruction,
I must keep going,
Fashioning her heart from my pieces,
And complete that dream,
Overcome all nightmares,
As a team, man and machine,
Become eternal pair,
Lasting beyond the end.