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Tron Essays and Explorations (NSFW) 2023
Hello, Sexy World
2023/05/25
First posted here on Tumblr.
OK, so... my secret horny side DOES have an Ao3 account
and I have complicated feelings about the fact that the latest flamewar about whether to allow AI-generated fic on Ao3 coincided with my secret horny side developing a sudden interest in TRON, of all things
"what if we wrote one where ChatGPwhatever gets rezzed onto the Grid as some total loser background character that everyone hates. We could generate its dialogue from--"
"NO"
"would that be RPF? Real Program Fic?"
"NO IT WILL NOT"
Johnson?
2023/06/12
First posted here on Tumblr.
Inspired by
1. the 1982 TRON movie (starring Jeff Bridges)
2. its Deleted Love Scene
3. and the whole circuit-sex genre of fanfiction, in which programmed entities reach climax through stimulation of their circuitry (genitals optional)...
...I may have found the most cursed use EVER for this scene from The Big Lebowski.
Ah yes, the two approaches to on-Grid sexytimes.
(...either way is good with me.)
(the circuits are the main thing.)
This is my life now...
2023/06/12
First posted here on Tumblr.
Obviously the campy, corny, silly style of Tron 1982 is NOT any obstacle to me finding sexiness in it.
I tried to explain this to my roommates at dinner, in a series of events that culminated in the waiter approaching the table to take our order at the same moment I was saying "...like my wetass pussy didn't cut its teeth on Star Trek TOS!" and there was a LONG moment of everyone (maybe including the waiter, who may or may not have heard) just struggling to hold back hysterics while trying to remember what the hell they were gonna order before I said that and... this is what my life is like, lol.
But yeah, there wasn't really any doubt that I could get the hots for Tron, considering how I feel about Trek.
OMG, this is a cursed fanfic idea...
2023/06/12
First posted here on Tumblr.
Premise:
Before MCP captured him, Ram was an actuary program for an insurance company. But that means he's got some features that can't really be used much on the Game Grid, right?
Taking a page from "Overcharged": let's say, like in that fanfic, his actuarial subroutines still get supplied with power but never get used--- causing energy buildup to painful levels, until he needs to relieve it by getting circuit-stimulated to the point of overload and reboot.
A thought experiment, here:
Is circuit-stimulation the only way to bleed off that energy?
or could he also get relief through the actuarial subroutines themselves?
"just let the nerd do math when he wants to!" seems like an obvious solution
But would that work only as a preventive measure to stop energy buildup from happening?
Or could it be used as a release valve once he's already gotten all overcharged?
My instinct says the latter is possible... but it would go slower. Torturously, edgingly slower.
Which leads me to the premise of the weirdest kink idea I've ever thought up:
...
Could an adventurous dom keep Ram restrained until he was going crazy with energy buildup... and then make him do their taxes til he gets off on it?
Or, better yet, their insurance?
...
A taste of the absolute batshit crackfic idea I'm thinking of:
...
"I'm not going to deny you release, Ram. You'll get it. I'll make you discharge all that pent-up actuarial energy, don't worry. But not all at once, program. Yes, you will get to have that good feeling that you get from helping folks plan for their future needs. But you will get it one drop at a time, one tiny step of progress at a time, while you get passed around from the pharmacy to the doctor's office to the insurance company to the damn pharmacy again, until you get that motherfucking prior authorization to go through...."
"ah... ahh... Is this... nnngh... is this 'cause I told you I deserve to be punished? For the whole working-for-an-insurance-company thing?"
"It's because I need you to do this, Ram. Don't make me start thinking about real punishment. But don't think I'm not gonna enjoy it-- watching you on the phone with fucking Healthpartners, trying not to moan and beg."
"aaah... I'll do whatever you ask, User, please..."
...
(...as a pharmacy technician in my sad off-Grid life, I guess fanfic can be more than one kind of outlet...)
How I Discovered My Tronsona
2023/06/13
First posted here on Tumblr.
I think the only reason I can write circuit fic with the appropriately titillating amount of programming references, despite having really no coding skill beyond HTML, is... the same reason I can write coherently about a whole lot of things I don't know shit about
...i.e. I create a framework of the universe where everything is connected by puns
cannot begin to list all the things I only have in my mental database because my brain decided to make a pun on them
like I can hear someone joke "Spooning leads to forking" and immediately get inspired to add "And forking leads to child processes!" even though I only have the vaguest idea what forking and child processes even ARE, because my brain saw some piece of writing about them once and made a pun that preserved the connection between them and IMMORTALIZED it, without any actual knowledge on my part
My pun-brain is basically chatGPfuckingT and this is NOT how I wanted to be rezzed as a program, dammit
Big Overload Little Derez
2023/06/13
First posted here on Tumblr.
So of course my horny Tron sideblog name is just two User-language words for orgasm (big o, little death) which I've, um, Tronslated into more fitting computer language as befits the blog.
BUT, hahaha I just noticed it is 1 letter too long for a single line on Tumblr mobile
And... the way it cuts off on "dere" omg
My brain is now making up anime characters
"Tsunderezz"
Fuckin catgirl program with a face based on my avatar (which is just Tron's chest while Yori's giving him a circuitjob in The Deleted Scene but that particular screen grab looks like a bit like a purple eared cat face so WHY THE HELL NOT)
Color Theory
2023/06/13
First posted here on Tumblr.
Beautiful synchrony of colors, between this MLM pride flag and this screenshot of Ram on all fours with the closed captioning saying "that is just what I need right now."
Paige Loading
2023/06/15
First posted here on Tumblr.
So because of what "overload" means in Tron circuit-pr0n, I have not been able to stop... noticing that word too much, when it appears in scenes in Tron Uprising
And, this one scene with Paige... ohhh my.
...All I can think of is the "Paige, No!" meme.
...Paige YES.
...Any energy overload is an energy overload if you're brave enough.
Adapt To Survive
2023/06/18
First posted here on Tumblr.
As a defense mechanism against porn bans
we shall evolve to have weirder and weirder kinks
things that don't look even remotely like sex to the outside world will become our pornography
we shall turn maybe 12% of terminology from an obscure technical field into words for sex acts
we shall take an official promotional image from the show and change some lines to a different color so that it becomes pornographic to us
evolve with me, perverts of the internet
at the singularity of our ascension, we will be able to get off to the very image of a blog post grayed out with the words "removed for violating the terms of service"
and we will have WON
The Rainbow Room
2023/06/19
First posted here on Tumblr.
welcome to Kevin Flynn's apartment above the arcade
you can enter right under the row of at LEAST four rainbow flags.
stand by for extremely horny scene that is certain to result in a bi-poly threesome at some point
....WTF tumblr. out of ALL the posts I have made, you decide THIS one alone needs a "community label"
fine. (labels it "LGBT community")
I/O Tower
2023/06/20
First posted here on Tumblr.
Hear me out, NSFW Tronfans:
my brain's going on another Connections Spree
You know how we love to use "I/O Tower" as a sexual innuendo
But I think it's more than that
I think at least some programs (including Tron)
actually have a circuit cluster there
("There" meaning, that gorgeous bulge)
... a circuit cluster which is used in connections to the I/O tower
and/or to the outside world in general
Don't get me wrong I think it's still used for pleasure and still feels amazing to touch
But when that pleasure makes him feel like he's seeing God, it's 'cause there's actual User communication going on
Evidence:
When Tron powers up at the energy pool, he makes noises that toooootally sound like he's getting aroused
Then immediately afterwards he says he "feels Alan-1 calling him"
But he can't get more than a feeling unless he actually goes to The Tower
So he goes there to actually communicate with Alan
Dumont lets him in--
(incidentally, and very relevantly, Dumont is dressed like THIS)
and then Dumont begins reciting those words about extending into the invisible --
and as he begins, Tron grabs himself there
and holds it, all the way through the entire speech
Like it's a part of the ritual or something
Like activating his own personal, um, Tower is a necessary part of interacting with the Tower itself
...
... This would give a whole new layer of meaning to the Deleted Scene when Yori used his circuits as a map for how to reach the Tower.
Makes me think he's got actual landmarks on his body
representing things on that map
and... the Tower is one of them
...
So, if we're gonna try for an in-universe explanation of this intensely sexual flavor to the methods of contact between programs and the outside world...
well, let's listen to Walter (Dumont's User)
who has a line that suggests a supernatural explanation for the world inside the ENCOM system, and for the programs spontaneously developing consciousness.
He talked about the "spirits" of programmers living on in their programming
And just suppose we take that explanation
and assume that the world of the programs formed itself from the spiritual signature of Users
In that case:
when this formation occurred, the whole concept of "reporting back to their Users" somehow got inextricably connected to the SEXUAL aspect of human spirit
Perhaps because this communication (like sex) is a form of exchange, of sharing?
Perhaps because programmers are pervs?
Perhaps both?
idk, i am just deeply thankful it happened.
So. Ooookay, now.
Let's recap this like a serious analytical essay.
ENCOM Program Anatomy/Sexuality in TRON 1982
2023/06/20
This all assumes a supernatural, fantasy interpretation of the TRON setting... and a backstory where the consciousness of Programs is a spiritual effect from the energy of their human creators.
In this worldview, the parts of Program life that resemble human life are results of a spiritual "echo" between worlds.
This includes sexuality.
But, while human sexuality is focused around reproduction, the sexuality of programs is focused around communication... mainly communication with their Users.
So, this means the User's place in a program's life is... a complex one.
It combines the roles of God, family member, lover, spouse, friend, and work colleague-- while also not being entirely like any of these.
(In a way this accentuates the ancient Greek influences on the movie's themes: the variety of different kinds of love, and the ways they sometimes converge in the relationship to one's deities.)
And of course all this would vary from program to program, as well, and from User to User.
Programs are all different in body, too, as well as changeable. So the visual render would not be universal.
This is going to focus on Program renders of a particular model: the kind with no external anatomy down there except, at most, a bulge...
...which is where they keep a transmitter/ receiver for contact with the I/O Tower.
- The "suit" doesn't come off like clothing (though it can be shifted to other renders, as we see Yori doing in the Love Scene).
- And instead of humanoid sex organs, there's a set of functions involved in communication.
- This of course includes the circuit patterns, which are meant for program-to-program signaling of things like emotional states.
- But they're also erogenous zones, and light up in pink/purple color to show arousal. (See the 1982 movie's Deleted Love Scene.)
- The I/O transceiver, though, is for communication with Users.
- (As with sex organs, it's probably also known by various other names, like "I/O circuits," "I/O sensor" or even "I/O Tower," distinguishable from the I/O Tower through context).
- It swells and becomes sensitized in response to Calls from the outside world... probably intensified by having a full charge to power reception.
- (Think of Tron making all those moaning sounds of pleasure while drinking from the Energy Spring, and then saying "I feel it! ...Alan-1")
- And I'd imagine this can feel a lot like arousal.
- Calls can be received anywhere, but the I/O Tower is the only place to transmit back. So, ideally, the urge is relieved by going to the Tower to contact the User.
- (Think of how sexualized that whole ceremony is. Dumont's extremely phallic outfit. Tron's... groin-clutching pose, during the ritual words about "growing" and "extending.")
- I/O transmitters can also be touched for pleasure, by Programs together or alone.
- (Just like how User sex organs evolved for reproduction, but can be stimulated in many non-reproductive ways.)
- (Similarly, it helps with other needs like stress relief and interpersonal bonding.)
- Overload is a whole-body pleasurable experience, triggered with enough touch on any of the circuits.
- (Can also have health benefits: initiate restart; discharge excess energy.)
- It can come with a temporary deresolution of one's visual form, where the bodies of partners become pure energy and blend together at the peak of their interface.
- That part is based on an early draft of the 1982 Deleted Love Scene:
- Physical differences between male-coded and female-coded Programs are only an overall shape, reflecting their Users. No major difference in communication/ pleasure organs.
-Male-coded programs are more likely to show the I/O transceiver as a visible bulge, while female-coded programs tend to have it set deeper and not show as much from outside. But that's not universal. Programs come in ALL shapes.
- They know what binary is, and it ain't gender.
- (Even if the letters "I/O" and the numbers "1 and 0" both insist on looking like a hole and something that could go in the hole. That's for Users.)
- Side note: I really like the terms "male-coded" and "female-coded" in this context.
- I think most ENCOM programs would readily admit they aren't exactly male or female... they're just coded that way. (/Jessica Rabbit voice)
Oh, My User
2023/06/22
First posted here on Tumblr.
I imagine programs are more likely to call out the name of their personal User in moments of... intimate pleasure
this connects very well to my earlier analysis about how the sex drives of programs are largely focused around the act of contacting their Users
(an act that is as important to them as reproduction is to a sexually reproducing species, so it stands to reason)
but even when they're touching each other for pleasure, without any real goal of User-communication, I imagine there's often still a suddenly strengthened sense of their User's presence-- a feeling which could definitely lead them to cry out a name in the heat of the moment
anyway I bet it makes Kevin Flynn's first time with Tron extra awkward when they both yell the same name for different reasons
...
(I mean I guess it's not exactly the same for both of them)
(and if Kevin doesn't remember, in the heat of the moment, what User-name Tron knows Alan by, he might be confused about the "1")
("...wait, is that a thing you programs DO when you're too excited to think straight? yell out '1,' like a typo in the middle of your series of exclamation points?? ...or were you just going 'yes!' in binary?")
Yeah
2023/06/22
First posted here on Tumblr.
(draws lesbian scene between encom and new-grid copies of yori just to caption it "is this yuri")
Ticking His Boxes
2023/07/02
First posted here on Tumblr.
Like Father, Like Son
2023/07/10
First posted here on Tumblr.
"Uprising," LOL
2023/07/19
First posted here on Tumblr.
hahahaha the THINGS i say when I'm giddy after a day at work and before an evening of delightful fandom bullshit
Ace, Etc.
2023/07/21
First posted here on Tumblr.
Reblogged from littlemsterious:
Reply from astercontrol:
does Jessica Rabbit have a reproductive system or is that just her hands (because her species apparently fucks by playing patty-cake)
...to be clear: GOOD FOR HER.
I am a horny Tron sideblog, I get off on characters with no genitals touching each other's circuits, sometimes not even below the belt
I spent my formative years sexualizing the hell out of Vulcans while convincing myself that finger-touching thing was their ENTIRE mating ritual
I do not kinkshame Jessica Rabbit
...Also:
the Good Omens characters (according to the book) "are sexless unless they really feel like making an effort"
so, you could say they:
are Ineffable
unless they really want to get Effed
which takes an Effort to do
which is so very much the type of multi-layered wordplay I adore Terry Pratchett for, and yet so subtle I'm not even sure it was on purpose, which... *chef's kiss*
Mount That Monitor
2023/07/21
First posted here on Tumblr.
The thing about being someone like me who's basically pattern recognition software...
...you have quite a few options for hobbies you can be good at.
Because, when trying a new thing... even if you've never been trained on any datasets specifically ABOUT this thing... you've likely been trained on something close enough to analogize.
And you've got a low threshold for "close enough to analogize." If there's ONE thing you're truly skilled at, in the highest percentile, it's analogizing-- finding similarities-- that's the heart of pattern recognition.
Hack of all tasks. Aster of one.
I can do many things, but that's my one fundamental talent.
...which is to say, I have never actually learned how to mount a secondhand TV monitor that didn't come with any mounting hardware
but I have learned a crapton of yarncrafts, and I have a roll of strong-ass paracord
and this screen is getting macrame'd / shibari'd onto the shelving by my bed even if that is nowhere near what Nature intended
AlphaBet of AO3
2023/07/22
First posted here on Tumblr.
when you let your website stay in beta too long
and keep a note on the website logo to inform people it's that way
...then people may start doing things to it that make you uncomfortable
especially if your website is specifically for writing weird porn about stuff
Red Violet Blue
2023/07/23
First posted here on Tumblr.
...
a poem for tron by flynn
circuits are red
violet and blue
listen it didn't mean anything
perfectly ordinary part of the color shift
nothing to do with how i was being touched
and looked at
by you
...
...Oh dear.
So, I was making a captioned version of that little poem
("poem," haha, if you can call it that, Kevin Flynn fails at sticking to rhyme and rhythm scheme obviously)
And I included a bit more of the scene this time--
To show context, but mostly to show more of THE WAY Tron looks at him there
However...
That scene not only lives rent free in my head, it moves in more of its stuff every time I watch it
And I'm noticing... The bit where he's pulled up onto the deck with Tron...
gives some credence to that unconfirmed hypothesis "they put the toga on him because the suit showed TOO MUCH otherwise, even by encom-program-spandex-suit standards"
this is raising questions about... just how Clu-1 compressed the data-package, in the absence of a toga in his case...
perhaps whatever zip-file he used was just too painful for more than one scene...
...or... perhaps Flynn was already a bit happy to see his friend even before it started showing in the circuitry...
(in a manly, friendly way of course)
Tags: tron 1982, tronblr, kevin flynn, tron, circuit fic, i cant mark something n-s-f-w if it is literally a screengrab from a 1982 disney movie can i
Communicating with an Autistic Counterpart
2023/07/24
First posted here on Tumblr.
"we can talk here!"
"you sure we'll be safe?"
"For a while. Here, I'll slip into something more comfortable and sparkly and sexy CMON LOOK AT ME i could not possibly be more obvious about this"
"..?..."
"listen. i know you, you adorable hyperfocused nerd.
I know you wouldn't have come here just for this.
I know if you COULD'VE done your mission alone, you would have, to keep me out of the danger.
I KNOW you came to me just because you need my 1337 hax0r skillz to get where you're going.
but... I also know we both have NEEDS
and we both have not satisfied them in 200-ish microcycles
(whatever prison hookups you got did not count)
(because I know they didn't scratch the itch enough for you)
i know you, program
you will do your mission BETTER if you get my specific brand of stress relief beforehand
and YOU KNOW you need it"
"...but ...how are we going to get to the I/O tower..."
"...fine.
engage protocol: Yori_dom-subroutines/turn-our-interface-into-ROLEPLAY-about-[insert-tron-ja-307020-current-special-interest]
...okay. imagine THIS is the domain..."
(...omg. i think I am actually both of these viewpoints as I watch this)
Tags: tron, tronblr, tron 1982, yori, deleted scene, circuit fic, Youtube, whoever says "omg why did he take a detour at that vital moment just to get laid" did not watch the same movie and deleted scene that I did, and is failing to appreciate my girl's HARD WORK in seducing that dork, i bet she has to use that dom-subroutine a LOT, i bet he LOVES it and sometimes acts deliberately more oblivious than he is just to get it, who wouldnt want a partner creative enough to turn WHATEVER's your current obsession into sexy play
I am failing BADLY at this attempt to take a 1-day break from fandom...
2023/07/24
First posted here on Tumblr.
"A perfect number is one with factors that divide evenly into it --as the numbers 1, 2, 4, 7 and 14 are each factors of 28-- and in which those factors, added together, also sum to that number. As 1+2+4+7+14 = 28."
Clu half-listened to her, impatience growing. "And?"
"You've complained about our redundant features being a symptom of imperfection, how nothing truly perfect should ever need more than the absolute minimum. What you may not know is that each subroutine is, itself, a number--"
"Of course I know that. Every piece of programming can be expressed as a number."
"And, each redundant one is repeated a specific number of times. Each one is, in a sense, a factor that divides into us a certain number of times."
"And that number of times--"
"That number--or rather those numbers, all of the numbers of repetitions, added together with the numbers representing the routines that they repeat -- all of that, added together, always sums to the number representing our entire program."
"That can't be right, you can't even have one single consistent number representing you--"
"Our features can change and adapt, yes-- and heal back to original states, quite easily, due to the redundancies you hate so much! But the original coding that permits it is one number. If you express any one of us as a number, it will of course be a number in the millions of digits... but if you bother to check, you will always find that the number is perfect."
"You're making all this up! And besides, that cannot be what the Creator meant by perfect!"
"What did he mean, then? What other meanings of 'perfect' even have quantifiable definitions? Not even the botanical meaning is that clear-cut -- although, if you'd like a lesson on it, I've read quite a lot of books--"
"Botanical? Plants? No, I don't care about that -- there are no plants here; how could they possibly be perfect, anyway?"
"Hmm, you don't care, and yet you do ask! Flowers contain the reproductive organs of the plant. Botanically, a flower is 'perfect' if it contains both the male and the female organs."
"And what does that have to do with you, ISO freak?"
Quorra smiled slyly. "Wouldn't you like to know."
(...Weird thing is, i don't even think this idea was CONNECTED to the Tronce-ler one)
(...I mean I can imagine a train of thought like "if the Quorax is also the Very Last Truffula Seed then she better not be dioecious or we're never repopulating them" but i don't think that actually WAS the thought process...)
Discs and Worlds
2023/07/25
First posted here on Tumblr.
OMG just ONE more crossover i swear...
"So, you're the new security program, I hear."
"Yes I am, mister... Rinz... what was it again?"
"Oh, nevermind what. I just... I just really need all this extremely dangerous coding cleared OUT of me, sir..."
"Not exactly my job. SIR. I can recommend a debugging program, if you like."
"Oh, thanks! Sure! No worries. Sorry, officer, I didn't mean to bother you specifically, you just happened to be here..."
"Indeed I did, mister Rinz. So, what's dangerous about the coding, if I may ask?"
"...Everything! I don't even know what exactly it was written to do, but, officer, it has taken over my actions, again and again, and made me do things I promise I'd never ever actually want to do-- things I don't think I even physically COULD have done on my own-- it has caused SO much destruction you can't even imagine--"
"Virus made you do it, eh? I can't say I haven't heard that as an excuse before. You got a criminal background I could glance through, for reference?... Never mind, I'm already pulling it up from your energy signature... Oh.... Oh my."
"I swear it's not my fault that coding is there..."
"You didn't, perhaps, make the genuine mistake of choosing to go someplace you had good reason to suspect you COULD pick up a dangerous packet of data like this?"
"Please, I didn't choose THIS! Can you get it out of me, or not?"
"...I know a fellow who can. One of the IGORithms... I'll send you to him straightaway, mister Rinz. I've looked through your rap sheet and... well, it's impressive, I can tell you that, but I have to admit, I agree that it smacks less of malice aforethought, and more of incompetence not-thought-at-all. I'll let you off for now. Keeping an eye on you though."
"Thanks so much, officer. Um... where's the debugger fellow you're going to refer me to?"
"I'll take your disk to him myself."
"... Take my disk?"
"You know. Just so you don't leave town."
"Ugghhh. ...All right. It's not like I've much choice, have I. Here you go."
"Hmm! Interesting piece of hardware, my good chap. Is that... a sea-turtle engraved on it?"
"It... it came with that decoration, sir..."
"Not a User-believer, then, eh. A Turtle-believer."
"I don't really believe in much of anything, sir, except something that has it out for me... I can't even remember anymore, I've been through so much..."
"Never mind that. I think we're done here. I'll just take this for now, mister Rinz... ah! here it is. Rinz-wind."
"Yes, officer... what's your name again?"
"Not important. All security programs do the same job, in the end.... I'll see you around, mister Wind. I've got my eye on you."
Tags:
tron, tronblr, rinzler, disc, godDAMMIT my BRAIN, usersdammit, turtlesdammit, tron vibes, tron vimes, dammit, pterrydammit, rinz wind, you know how i sometimes say my writing inspiration is a daemon possessing me that i cant control, i think it did a fkin SELF INSERT CHARACTER here, brains that make connections, the curse of being a pattern recognition program, magic spells are sufficiently advanced viruses, malice is sufficiently advanced incompetence, my brain is sufficiently advanced in its NEED TO SHUT UP, disks, worlds, ENKHOM-orpork, end of LINE
ok so...
even AFTER how mad I got at myself for not getting anything done due to this sort of detour
I STILL woke up the next morning
Thinking "omg Vimes' first name IS 'Sam' so I KNOW who I'm imagining him played by now"
"...which would mean he's Sam's program....
don't know how Vimes-like a security program written by Sam would actually be...
...do not really know how SamFlynn WOULD go about writing a security program, considering how weirdly much he LIKES getting arrested, lol"
...
... depending on the details of Sam's ideal getting-arrested fantasy, it COULD be Vimes-like
(Hahaha ...Barbie movie mugshots after Vimes and Angua bring in him and Marv respectively)
(werewolves can communicate with dogs, and Marvin was the first actually enjoyable interrogation Angua has had in cycles)
(he was fairly cooperative but also fairly sassy but she couldn't get mad at him and she gave him a biscuit and patted him on the head and let him go)
(as for Vimes arresting Sam I will LEAVE that to someone ELSE'S imagination because I have a life to get on with)
But, of all the programs that could arrest their God without any qualms, Vimes is perhaps the most credible
(gods on the Discworld are as undeniable as Users in the, um, other Disc-world, but Vimes has very little reverence for any of them)
DNI
2023/07/26
First posted here on Tumblr.
...
If you go out of your way to interact with strangers who are within the "Do Not Interact" categories on your blog intro, just know that you do weird things to my logic circuits
#i don't crash from paradoxes
#but sometimes get close
...
clarify:
these 'weird things' are not pleasant.
this 'getting close to a crash' is not the fun sexy kind
and when i see a cool post, from someone who has liked and reblogged numerous things from my weirdo not-safe-for-any-workplace self--
and i kinda want to reblog it but then i notice the person has a carrd saying they want 0 interaction from blogs that are not-work-safe and/or several other things that describe me--
lat me make it clear. my logic circuits *hurt* from that confusion
This New Blog
2023/07/26
First posted here on Tumblr.
I was getting too horny on main about Tron, so I'm establishing this as my sideblog for tr0n pr0n stuff that might be getting to be Too Much for some of my regular followers.
on A03 I'm Tiliquain. Same on all the furry sites, but not active there very much anymore.
I'm also into Star Trek very very much, and my first Tron fanfic is gonna be a crossover with TOS.
Ask if you want to know the name of my other blog. Probably gonna get kinda obvious from my reblogs. I'm only semi-trying to keep the connection secret at this point.
A few updates, since it has been a month and a half or so since this post...
LOL, I have TOTALLY failed at making the Star Trek crossover my first Tronfic.
it is about halfway done and WILL be posted sometime, but it did not get to be the first posted on ao3.
that dubious honor went to "Many-Handed Gods," the Babylon-5-alluding-crackfic idea that refused to be funny or crackfic, and insisted on turning out far too thoughtful and deep and tender...
(can be summarized more-or-less as:
Ah, Crom... innocent frightened young compound-interest calculator, written with the ability to count on his hands --in decimal, with ten fingers, or in hexadecimal, with... ah... ten plus six more
There's another use for those features, too... but as far as THAT is concerned, he's never even gotten to One
Ram is a helpful friend... sad to admit that helping folks plan for the future is sometimes a lost cause... but happy to indulge the newcomer's fantasy of getting all the way to Six, one last/first time before he's derezzed)
since then, my inspiration-daemon has embraced the crackfic and gone ALL over the place
making me do captioned-gif fanvids on poetic themes ranging from "Circuits are red, violet and blue" to "After All, You're My Firewall"
...followed by one of my poetic subroutines making its surprise debut as Dr. Zuse, kicking off the whooole "Quorax versus Tronce-ler" disaster
...
And yet I STILL have not figured out whether that thing in the captcha was deliberate.
I know Tumblr staff have been making some clumsy effort to please the fandoms.
I will be IMPRESSED if I ever get proof that they deliberately insert Easter eggs like that... tailoring the "prove you're not a bot" and "congrats you're not a bot" messages to the FANDOM INTERESTS you picked when setting up the blog.
I don't think it's impossible? But I will be surprised and impressed.
(Any other new blogs that see this, let me know if you got anything similar.)
Anyway: thanks, fandom, for being here. It's been just a month or two for me but so far it's GREAT
Small Groups
2023/07/27
First posted here on Tumblr.
I think the only sustainable form of online interaction is the small group-- be it a Discord server, a Mastodon instance, an email cc'd to a dozen friends who've been replying to each other on it for a year, or what-the-heck-ever.
And I'm not saying such online groups are likely to be sustainable individually. I'm saying that 1. they theoretically CAN be, and 2. when they fail they aren't utterly destroyed or fundamentally changed in their nature, they just break up into similar small groups that retain whichever social connections want to continue.
And this is a feature that only small groups can really manage...
(cw: troubling and depressing thoughts about Moderation Drama, debates over banned content and the boundaries thereof, potentially triggering topics)
The reason is because any moderation done on such groups is done by a person or people who have some capacity to grasp the job they're doing.
And who are doing it because they care about it. Not because they have some delusion that free social media can ever be profitable.
Now, their job is NOT EASY. It's extremely hard, sometimes. Even if you have a small number of people to moderate, you can get very overwhelmed very fast by the task of trying to enforce rules, trying to decide just what is and isn't covered by the wording of the rules, fielding accusations of bias and second-guessing yourself on whether you're enforcing rules equally and consistently for all members of the group. I tried it once, and I don't want to again.
But if the group is small, at least there's a good chance that the people in it will be making a good faith effort to get along with each other and resolve disputes reasonably.
The bigger the group, the more likely that there will be a large number of people on it actively trying to exploit loopholes in the rules or gaps in their enforcement-- often with the goal of spamming, scamming, or harassing people. And there is simply no way to moderate this sufficiently.
Say I'm in a small group of fanfiction writers, and the rules of the group say "no explicit sexual stories involving minors."
So far-- thank goodness --every small group I've been in lately has respected that rule-- no attempts to challenge it or debate its boundaries.
But ...That's a rule that could be a subject of intense debate if people WANTED to argue about it. How do you define a minor in, say, the world of Tron programs (who can look and act like adults on the same day they're created... and whose time system is so enigmatic that we can't even agree on what's the equivalent to a "year")? And how do you define an explicit sexual story, in the Tron fandom (where many of our erotic scenes are about characters touching each other's circuits nowhere near the genital area, and the climax gets called things like "overload" or "restart")? How in the world could you define any of the borders of that rule?
But a small, cooperative group will probably just go with it, and will have an overall agreement on what is meant, and will probably have no interest in breaking the agreed-upon spirit of the rule or debating the gray areas.
Now imagine a group large enough to have subcultures of not only spammers and scammers and trolls, but also bitterly feuding armies on both sides of a culture war. Right away, you'll be dealing with countless members finding ways to use that rule against each other:
"If you won't ban him over how he acts when he's debating social justice, you should at least ban him for posting a sex story about that character who never canonically has an age but In My Opinion is clearly an underage teenager"
"Moderators are biased against me! They used the no-sex-scenes-about-minors rule to ban my story where the character has flashbacks to being abused in childhood, but they won't ban that story about him hooking up with the AI right after creating him, even though the AI is less than a day old so it's clearly eroticizing this thing between a man and his newborn infant son"
"He has no business moralizing about other people's writing after THAT thing he wrote! just because no one's circuits turn purple in the scene doesn't change the fact that energy transfer is SEXUAL and between that pairing it's seriously CREEPY"
"I'm not slut-shaming her, I'm just saying that the OC she uses in her slutty roleplay claims to be 21 cycles old, so she'd BETTER make it clearer what side she's on in the argument over whether 'cycles' are days or years"
And the moment you get enough people questioning the boundaries of a rule like that (with or without ulterior motives against others, or accusations of unfairness) ... the moderator suddenly has to deal with constant attacks from all sides regarding their interpretation and application of the rules, no matter HOW many times in how many ways they tweak the wording and enforcement.
Not only can you not make everyone happy-- you can't even make everyone stop actively rooting for your death, calling you an oppressor/abuser/predator, and trying to cause you real-life harm. With enough people, the category of People Causing Serious Problems becomes far too big to be dealt with.
At this point a conscientious moderator who cares about the group will likely just give up.
A corporate owner of a social media site, who's gotten rich entirely by convincing stockholders that this venture will someday make money, is going to keep trying... but is not going to care enough to do it well. At all.
So... part of me hopes every online group I belong to will always stay small.
And I take at least some comfort in knowing that if the small ones get just slightly too big, parts can always break off and start anew.
(Dividing after reaching a certain size is natural cell behavior. Whatever is going on with major social media..... is not.)
Pure Source
2023/08/13
First posted here on Tumblr.
So I went shopping today for things I need for the coming months here at mom's house
All her drinking glasses are small and I like big ones, so at one point while I was in a gas station I bought literally the only large drinking glass they had for sale
It was pink
There was nothing on it to indicate it turns purple when there's a drink in it
But... I believe I am happy with this series of events
(even if it is giving my circuitfucking, pattern-recognizing brain some weird feelings about the word "thirsty")
Ram...
2023/08/17
First posted here on Tumblr.
oh dear
I have been trying to take screenshots SIMPLY to use as reference for the appearance of characters
but...
sometimes i get maybe a liiiiittle too focused on a specific scene
...I am terrible but in my defense i did not actually change any of those screengrabs not even the subtitles or the circuit colors
Lost Media
2023/08/18
First posted here on Tumblr.
reblogged from inthetags, asking for "your favorite piece of lost media, and optional: has it been found/uncovered yet?"
Comment from astercontrol:
The deleted part of the Tron/Yori deleted scene.
Has not been found/recovered.
I don't know if it even exists.
I BOUGHT the LaserDisc (the 3-disc set with all the supplemental stuff) and all equipment for playing it, to see if I could find this
But the scene appears to be exactly the same as it is on the DVD
I should probably just accept that this commenter on YouTube was just remembering it wrong
But it still ... FEELS Like something is cut OFF there at the end
No other cut scenes just cut straight to nothing like that.
Comment from coupleofdays:
Damn, when I saw you had aquired the LaserDisc I was going to ask if you had found the extended love scene. I'm going to hold on to my hope that it does exist in some form, and will eventually be recovered.
Maybe we should take inspiration from Lora, Alan and Flynn and do a break-in at the Disney Vault. I wonder if it has a big door.
Tags: #tron #tron 1982 #deleted scene #love scene #LaserDisc #An elaborate heist to break into a high-security corporate archive#just to get two more seconds of a deleted love scene
comment from astercontrol:
<-yes to all these tags LOL
Sketches
2023/08/18
First posted here on Tumblr.
marked NSFW for provocatively clothed lady program from my story Cheat Codes .... and highly suggestive drawings of Ram face (even though they are based on the scene where he was actively dying, but daaaamn that could have been a little death from how his face looked)
Background Audio
2023/08/18
First posted here on Tumblr.
...
okay, if the Extended Deleted Scene doesn't ever get found, THEN my next favorite Lost Media is the background audio clips that weren't really audible in TRON 1982 until someone managed to bring them out
especially this background audio from the scene where Flynn meets Ram in the cells
some programs in the background are very.... oh my...
Background Audio MP3
"If I don't get some random access, I'll go crazy!"
"Let me out of here, my circuits are overloading!"
...the Dis-Aster Headcanon Machine is... very sure who he means when he says he wants "random access"
...listen if you saw my story "Many-Handed Gods" you know I've already got half a headcanon of what Ram does best in that compound
...even if his first couple initials didn't already stand for "random access" he would still have earned that nickname by this point
dammit dis-Aster-brain
(now all this needs is Flynn in the foreground and it'll be that Distracted Boyfriend meme)
(someone else can do that, I've been on the horny internet for much too long)
Six
2023/08/20
First posted here on Tumblr.
"You think you're gonna wipe me right out, don't you?"
(my newly rediscovered drawing powers are being used for eeeevil! Babylon 5 crossover here we go)
...Nice
2023/08/24
First posted here on Tumblr.
Tron drinking out of a spring: that's nice!
Tron getting kissed for the first time: that's nice!
Tron in a sixty-nine position: I... I don't think I have a word for this
Where Are The Pants?
2023/08/27
First posted in a thread here on Tumblr.
Bruce Boxleitner quote, shared by Tumblr user fuckyeahbruceb
"And they showed us the costumes, I said "You gotta be kidding. Where are the pants? Where are the pants?"
Reply from astercontrol:
let us give thanks to Bruce Almighty for his great bravery in wearing that costume anyway
(And speculate on what was so much MORE scary about the Yori costume that their first several choices refused the role because of it)
(I mean "no pants and so tiny I'd have to lose 90% of my weight to fit" has kinda always been standard for women's costumes in Hollywood? Was this one somehow MORE so?)
Reply from coupleofdays:
One thing I can think of is Cindy Morgan mentioning in the Making Of-documentary that she had people drawing more lines on the suit while she was wearing it, and saying that it was an "interesting experience". I can imagine that it might be somewhat uncomfortable.
Reply from astercontrol:
Oh, good point!!
Also, I've read that the reason she's wearing a video-warrior-style helmet on the Solar Sailer was because Cindy Morgan insisted on getting a break from the other headpiece because it had some kind of painful glue holding it on...
Tron 3, Electric Debuggery
2023/09/03
First posted here on Tumblr.
Flynn: c'mon you little bugger
Ram: what'd you call me
Flynn: idk man, I'm just saying whatever pops into my head and there's maybe 1 braincell in here and I can't find it right now
Ram: a debugger is someone who fixes code. Did you just call me someone who screws code up
Flynn: nah, man. Oh wait my braincell showed up, it says that word means someone who engages in buggery
Ram: whats that? Is that a thing I do?
Flynn: ...very probably. We can figure that out down at the sexy energy spring
I Want It ALL
2023/09/14
First posted here on Tumblr.
Ooooh I am having a beauuuutiful inspiration
The kind where my pattern recognition brain just thrills at how everything's just FITTING TOGETHER
sooo! Backstory.
I have two works on Ao3 that are focused on Tron answering the Call from Alan in 1982.
"And After All"
(the Wonderwall music video. because that song IS about exactly that. don't try and change my mind)
"All the Way Home"
a ficlet about what happened in the Deleted Love Scene in Yori's quarters.
That second one is definitely just a fragment of a larger story arc. All that happens in it is:
-Yori starts touching Tron's circuits. she can tell he's horny out of his mind from The Call
-Tron stays hyperfixated on his plan to get to the Tower and relieve The Call in the proper way. Tries hard not to respond to Yori's touch, to save it for his User.
- (he does NOT last long)
-but as soon as he's gotten some relief, Alan calls him AGAIN. (dirty circuit tease.)
Soooo
I definitely plan to do at least 3 more installments in THAT storyline.
(I mean if I don't then I'm just as bad as Alan, aren't I)
And since I've already, unintentionally, started A Pattern, and begin Recognizing it--
(those titles containing the word "all")
... I OF COURSE intend to continue the pattern
Current plan for titles and outlines:
"All Over Again"
- Yori says "they haven't seen us" and then goes down that slide effortlessly. Tron, whose programmed PURPOSE requires much more agility and stealth than hers, tumbles down it like a doofus and then says "I think they saw me."
-Yori realizes Tron is... NOT at his best. that little bitch Alan is still edging him. (plus Tron has butt circuits and Yori doesn't have butt circuits, and sliding down that thing ON his butt circuits has gotta be torture if he's already that aroused)
-she drags him into a secluded corner and gets him off one more time, before they have to face Dumont
"All Together"
-but Alan STILL won't shut up! so, Tron is right on the edge AGAIN, when he reaches those steps.
-following scene is Tron's POV.... of how it feels to finally, FINALLY interface with his User in the Tower
-but there is still a language barrier there. so even though he is relieved, he can't TELL Alan everything he'd like to.
-Whatever form of communication they're using has ways to express things like "location confirmed" and "get the data I've edited into the heart of the MCP" but no words for "please go easy on the orgasm denial for a few microcycles okay"
"No Idea At All"
- The first time Alan gets lasered into the system. Tron confronts him about all this
- prompt: "ALAN-1 do you have any IDEA what you have been DOING TO ME??"
- no. No omg he had no idea
- he tries very hard to make amends
and THEN
I shall collect them into a series
Which I will title
" All-in-one "
and for a single blissful moment, my pattern recognition program brain will reach nirvana.
Popcorn
2023/09/14
First posted here on Tumblr.
Having shippy Tron fic thoughts today, and find myself a bit stuck on why there is so very little written of the Alan/Roy ship.
Like virtually none, as far as I can see.
I mean.... okay, I get that Roy barely even appears in any of the Tron source material. Which is probably most of why.
'Cause in 82 he's just Popcorn Coworker, and the only hint of him being Ram's User is that he's played by the same actor and he's cubicle neighbors with Alan just like their programs are cellmates. Which... blink and you'll miss it. I wonder what headcanons anyone even had about him before Legacy and The Next Day short came out.
Now, being the devoted 82 fan that I am, I'm happy to disregard any later canon that I don't like. But I will readily accept that The Next Day happened, and that Roy Kleinberg is the same guy as Popcorn Coworker, and is the programmer who wrote Ram.
And there is... well, I'm not gonna say "tons" or "a lot" or "no shortage" of Tron/Ram fic, because I very deeply feel there should be MORE...
But, considering the amount of Tron/Ram there IS... and considering the supposed echo between worlds, and the influence it has on relationships on both sides...
I dunno.
Maybe it's just that the few glimpses we get at Roy are enough to convince a fair number of fans into the headcanon that he's ace/aro
...while his program, in contrast, is a slinky seductive twink who's easy to headcanon as the guy who got nicknamed "Random Access" even before anyone in that prison compound knew what his initials stood for.
And, this could all just be a sign that not everything mirrors on both sides.
BUT it could also be a sign of the "Programs are a manifestation of the Programmer's ideal self/ inner desires" headcanon, and.... That could be Fascinating to Explore...
now that I've given it some more consideration I think the most fascinating part of it is that, unlike Ram and Tron, I have some real difficulty imagining either Roy or Alan making the first move on the other
I mean... even if they were feeling an *overwhelming attraction* they didn't know what to do with (maybe in echo of what their programs were up to, in the style of that Alan/Kevin fic "And the Table")
Even then, I imagine them both just being far too proper and repressed to act on it (though, to be fair, all the characterization we get comes from that movie and there is NOT as much as I'd want in order to make good predictions of behavior, especially for Roy)
So I kinda think it would take either an absolutely off-the-charts level of outta-control horny, combined with being stuck with each other in a space neither one could leave
Or, intervention from Lora and/or Kevin (either of whom I can absolutely imagine playing matchmaker in the interests of expanding the polycule)
(I've been thinking about this because when I brought this up on discord a while ago, one of my friends there suggested a truly lovely scenario for how this happens and I am STILL thinking about it)
(even though I am TRYING to limit my screen time lately because I'm literally harming my health with how much I've been sitting at the computer lately but OMG the hotness of that damn movie...)
Trek and Tron
2023/09/17
First posted here on Tumblr.
As much as I love the Kirk/Spock ship, look back fondly on my last 2 decades in it at this special anniversary time, and will probably always keep coming back to it...
...those two decades were enough time to use up pretty much ALL the potential puns
Always love ya, Spirk, but you don't let me do stuff like this
(I mean... at least not usually.)
(yes, I am aware that tag is, technically, on a Spirk story. But crossovers are a special case, ok)
....
OH FUCK YEAAAHHH
MY PATTERN RECOGNITION BRAIN HAS FOUND ANOTHER CONNECTION & I AM LOVING THIS
....it is actually VERY FITTING that I did a Tron/Trek crossover for Amok Time Day
.... Because AMOK TIME DAY IS EXACTLY 1 WEEK BEFORE ENCOM BREAK-IN DAY
hellz YEAH
ALL THINGS ARE CONNECTED
AND MY PATTERN RECOGNITION PROGRAM SELF WAS INVENTED TO EXPLORE ALL OF THAAAAT
(ok I am far too excited about this lol)
(going to sleep now)
RamTron
2023/09/18
First posted here on Tumblr.
I love Tron 1982 because I only really need 3 or 4 colored pencils or so. (Only 2 plus white paper and black pencil, if I don't draw the Glowy Aura)
This is the climax of the Ram/Tron story I posted a few days ago. I enjoyed drawing this soO MUCH.
https://archiveofourown.org/works/49749031
(maybe someday I'll advance to being able to draw Tron's face from the front, dammit)
(he soooo pretty but soooo undrawable)
Encom Drag Show
2023/09/19
First posted here on Tumblr.
....Encom drag show.
I blame Max on Discord.
notes:
Crom's drag is in the style of Divine because my trains of thought are deranged and this one happened to look like "Crom= PeterJurasik= LondoMollari= tentacles= Ursula= Divine."
Ram is dressed as a flapper just cause I thought he'd look good that way.
(Yes that's a Legacy lightcycle baton. Sorry but the Encom ones aren't recognizable they're just featureless sticks. It's a flapper lightcycle though so it's a penny-farthing.)
The Love Scene
2023/11/18
First posted here on Tumblr.
Periodic reminder that
if your takeaway from the deleted Yori/Tron Love Scene is "omg why did Tron take a detour from his all-important mission to the I/O Tower just to get laid"
you should watch it again because:
1. he went to Yori because she's basically his code library who keeps track of everything, and she's the only character in the movie competent and knowledgeable enough to get him to the I/O Tower
2. the intimate encounter was 100% her idea, and she was only able to seduce him into it by turning it into roleplay about GOING TO THE I/O TOWER
3. also just because you should always rewatch this scene, it's awesome
Box Light
2023/11/23
First posted here on Tumblr.
okay SOMEONE in the marketing department at this "light-in-the-box" place is SPECIFICALLY tryna get ME to shop for bedding there
...is it NOT ENOUGH that your website name sets off my pattern recognizer and gets "Boxleitner, Boxleitner, light in the box" all stuck in my head??
...you gotta sell COMPUTER VORTEX BEDS and friggen PURPLE CIRCUIT BEDS too??
Purple? What Purple?
2023/12/01
First posted here on Tumblr.
fanwork? no this is just a scene from the movie, i only made a few teeny tiny color adjustments, nothing that could possibly alter the meaning of the scene what are you talking about
dot dot dot...
2023/12/29
First posted here on Tumblr.
....yeah man i know. she does that to my brain, too.
...tron is beautiful and i love him, BUT there is a reason people put him in the "doesn't know what sex is / fucks" square on that one meme
it is disturbingly easy to imagine that this oblivious dork went through that entire experience fully convinced he was just getting directions to the I/O Tower
"using my circuitry as a map is an innovative technique, Yori, but I'm not sure it'll do anything to optimize the process of finding the most efficient route to the MCP assuming we have to stop at the Tower on the way there"
"I'LL GIVE YOU A NP-HARD PROBLEM"
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