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This paper considers the seeming difference between military drones from commercial drones and the “cute” toy drones. Debates about drone usage pay scant attention to other uses of drones for fun and service; the arbiter for moral use of drones hinges on the potential for readily-visible physical and or psychological harm, i.e. disability. Through analyzing the intimacy in consumer drone user manuals, I ask what the militarization life feels like when accounting for the nonnormative embodiments and bodies inherent to the pleasures and banality of the drone that frames the human as passive rather than the “controller.”