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Honestly, I love the idea of a vampire who only drinks blood taken from blood banks and hospitals, because it so beautifully encompasses someone who's more concerned with the vibes of something than the actual impact of it.

Drinking from someone on the street, barring some other condition they may have, isn't likely to kill them unless you gorge yourself. Taking blood packs? There's always a shortage of blood, and having even less of it runs the very real risk of getting someone killed in a way that is wholly out of your control once you've sipped on that blood. Someone you can't assure the innocence or guilt of, if you're the type of person who cares about that.

Despite that, in popular stuff, I often see discussions of drinking from a blood bank being somehow better or preferable, and yeah. No. The only thing it does is make you feel better while doing more harm, because of that degree of removal. You're effectively drinking blood from someone on the cusp of hypovolemic shock, but since it's not straight from the tap, some people seem to think it's better.

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im going to be honest and frank with y'all.. some of you guys are so determined to hate the harmless things you hate that you start hating the people that like that thing and it's kind of really embarrassing

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these are the murderbot artworks Tommy Arnold did for the Subterranean Press omnibus editions of the series, and a photo of Kevin R. Free, who narrates the murderbot audiobooks. when fans complain about the casting for the tv show, there is a very real basis for it in these past official/canonical aspects of the book series

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It's a drawing of Jinx from the series Arcane. She's facing forward and is should from the waist up. Her eyes glow pink and one of the has an 'x' mark instead of an iris. Her bangs and ends of her hair are shaped like 'J's intentionally. She's wearing a black top with a zipper that runs across her chest and opens around her should. The zipper is shaped like teeth where it's hanging open. she's wearing overalls that mirrow the design of her shoes. With screws, bolts and nuts hanging from threats on her belt. In her right hand she's holding one of her bombs/toys or the other she's holding a magnetic screwdriver with screws attached to the tip. Her hair is floating around her and over her. There's scribble marks all around her; at the top her name, Jinx, is written over a crossed-out 'Powder'. There's text reading 'uh-oh' on the right and a scratch of a maw with teeth around her other hand. End of description.

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im literally obsessed with them

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"Say it, loser"

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Renaissance au scribbles - powder is viktor and Jayce’s apprentice and caitlyn escorts her home 🌝

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HEY! Go read Murderbot!

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I watched you change

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how tf did they even get that pic wow

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Murderbot bookmarks collection so far!

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There's a cool moment in Fugitive Telemetry where Murderbot has a realization. (Spoilers...) It likes its plan to rescue the refugees secretly because it's not a "CombatUnit plan" (it's "a 100 percent less murderery"). But more importantly it's a "SecUnit plan ... The point was to retrieve the clients alive and fuck everything else." It's a plan that SecUnits were actually designed for, "despite how the company and every other corporate used us."

This is one of the few times that Murderbot actually refers to itself as a SecUnit positively. It's not SecUnits are terrifying killing machines and "fucking dangerous," it's hey I was designed to do something important. Murderbot, for a moment, forgets all the internalized stigma, the trauma and the self-loathing. It realizes that being a SecUnit is a good thing.

Of course that makes things more tragic when (more spoilers...) the plan goes to shit and Murderbot gets shot by the very people it's trying to save. Because the perception that SecUnits are terrifying killing machines is real. A real perception that Murderbot has long shared. But that it could dispel that perception - at least to itself - for a moment is heartening.

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@whirlpoolleaf asked: Can I request Murderbot for the sketch request thing? Thanks so much :)

-performance reliability at 60% and dropping-

(I'm a big fan of the idea that mb tends to be very expressive during fights, considering how accustomed it is to the privacy of the helmet)

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NASA released the clearest pictures yet of our neighbours in the solar system

Oh and of course us

Honourable mention

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i won’t forgive you. i’ll make you pay. PROMARE (2019)

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Caitlyn: I'm going to have to tie you up and blindfold you

Vi: okay. You should probably hit me in the face also.

Caitlyn: good idea

Vi: and then I can spit on you

Caitlyn: perfect great I'll make sure to rub your spit over my mouth while making intense eye contact

Vi: this is great our plan to infiltrate the camp is so normal and also regular