Hoezeer ik Oekraïne ook de overwinning toewens, hun inzet van drones laat wel zien dat dit de chemische wapens van de 21ste eeuw zijn. Horrorbots die een dikke 3000 km kunnen reizen zijn een verschrikking.

Then you start to hear skittering sounds under the drone. Squeaks and yelps.

You feel the smaller horrorbots running around your legs and over your feet, masked by the fog hugging the ground.

And you realise the Dronebot is calling.

And that it's already too late.

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1741) Dronebot. A strange, discouloured fog descends across the landscape, shrouding everything in a grimy miasma. And then, you hear it: an echoing dirge, reverberating through the foul half-light, an alien sound that repeats at irregular intervals...coming closer and closer... #Horrorbots

1734) Vastbot. You journey through the wastes, seeking the distant pale object on the horizon, the only feature in an otherwise empty hellscape. After many hours, you realise it is much further away than you think, and yet also vastly, vastly larger... #Horrorbots

1743) Collectionbot. Is picking up some things for its collection. #Horrorbots

1738) Approachbot. Is getting closer to you by the moment. #Horrorbots

1730) Dittybot. Sings you a little, repetitive tune. Doesn't stop singing you a little, repetitive tune. You can't get the tune out of your head. You put the robot in a cupboard, but you can still hear the tune, and when you look in the corner, it's there, even though you locked it in... #Horrorbots

1733) Bedtimebot. Timeeeeeee tooooooo tuuuuuuuuuck youuuuuuu iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin. #Horrorbots

1739) Deepbot. Is rising from the deeps. #Horrorbots

1732) Barkerbot. Come one, come all, to the Robot Carnival! Wonders to amaze you, amazements to terrify you, terrors to bring unforgettable dreams that will keep you awake night after night after night! Tickets half price; only half a soul per soul... #Horrorbots

Shit, I forgot I was planning to give myself a break this week by reposting Horrorbots from a couple of years ago.

1737) Abyssbot. Stares into you. #Horrorbots

The question is, do I start reposting the Horrorbots I did a couple of years ago? Because the response to them at the time was...let's say "mixed". It was not cutesy fun Halloween.

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And maybe some eye drops. #Horrorbots

That would be wiser indeed...
But there's a few people I follow nowhere else...

...and like a billion horrorbots and creeps and worse...

It's adorable. It can stare into me anytime.

If robots needed to eat, I would make a hot chocolate and toast for the Abyssbot. It looks like it needs warming and comfort.

#Horrorbots

I LOVED the Horrorbots and would be delighted to see them again, personally. I really enjoyed the tone shift, but I can see how people might have found it jarring!