Wet machines
This Fediverse thread (by ifixcoinops on retro.social) talks about how cars are unpleasantly wet machines to work on if you're used to dry electronics.
Cars: 🚙 great tanks of juice, all different sorts, some is thick and some is thin and some cools me down and some explodes and some is super super slippery and all of it smells weird, hurry up with your cup of tea because I want so desperately to leak and spurt and trickle and squirt it all over your skin and hair and face
Cars are just… unpleasantly wet, that's all. Always pumping and squirting the juice around, sloshing, gurgling, bleeding, dripping, they can't help it, they're just Wet Machines. It's their nature.
But boy oh boy am I not used to it
And naturally I thought of Titans. The little techfolk are probably dry inside except for a small amount of joint lubricant, and their coolant pipes. Like a fluid-cooled PC. But the Titans? They're like walking battleships, or like huge heavy plant. They must be full of mighty engine manifolds and pipes and hydraulics, dripping inside with many assorted juices. The Titans adore their tiny comrades, and their factions love them back, but they're so strange and alien and vast.