#I think that MB should have a constant subroutine going that analyzes how cool its fighting was

[fascinatedfinch]

"As the hostiles came through into the private docks, I activated the new code I had been working on. Code: Deploy&Delay."

AKA: "you know the thing in media where someone disappears when a transport drives in front of them? yeah, that"

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wigglybunfishFollowDesigns for the funky humans of PreservationAux, Perihelion, + one very tired SecUnit and a monstrous Research Transport AI.#*hollering* IT IS THEM. My bots. My hoomans. my funny little guys#everyone go read murderbot diaries this is a psa#I had so much fun finding photo references of people to match the characters and looking up all kinds of afro hairstyles#anyway. here you go.#my blood and sweat#the murderbot diaries#murderbot#perihelion#asshole research transport#illustration#character illustration#character design#(btw there's a bunfish hidden in Iris's poofy hair. u get a gold star if you spot it)#(seth and martyn have matching earrings bc i say so)#wigglybunfish… See allBlaze2,113 notesLike

alostcuttlefish

I think what I love about the Murderbot Diaries

(aside from, you know Murderbot who I love and cherish)

It that it’s a very grim-dark distopian corporate hellscape setting, told through the perspective of someone who has seen some of the worst that world has to offer, who’s existence is part of the worst that world has to offer, and yet-

And yet it’s so full of hope.

Everywhere you look, there’s underground shipping routes to get refugees out from contract labour, there’s universities forging documents to get abandoned colonies out from corporate ownership, there’s people buying a secunit so the company don’t realise it’s hacked itself and has free will. A Tlacy employee smuggles out copies of the files to give them back to their owners, a human officer on HaveRatton station opens the security barrier to let Ayda Mensah escape. There’s a planet that took the promise of somewhere safe to live, of food and medical care, and kept that promise for generations.

And for all it can’t even see the hope yet, can’t even really believe it might be there yet (because trauma will fuck you up), Secunit keeps being that hope for other people.

Not just the lives it saves, not just all the times it shows up out of nowhere like a social anxious guardian angel with energy weapons in it’s arms and several lifetimes worth of soap operas in it’s storage.

When it talks to Dr Volescu all the way up the side of the crater, to keep him moving. When it sticks with the scientists on RaviHyral. When Tapan sneaks onto it’s sleeping mat, because she’s scared, and it ups it’s body temperature to keep her warm. When it keeps Amena safe from a predatory partner, when it tells her to go rest. When it hacks the Comfort Unit’s governor module. When it-version-2.0 gives Three the codes to hack itself.

Imagine being on RaviHyral. Imagine meeting a security consultant who you shouldn’t be able to afford, who goes above and beyond and doesn’t even check the payment card at the end, who tells you that sometimes people do things to you that you can’t do anything about, that all you can do is learn to live with them, who’s clearly been through some shit but came out of it with so much compassion. Imagine the hope in that.

#grim dark with left hope#I'm going feral over it#murderbot diaries#murderbot

languid-bones

Turned one of my little figure studies from a few days ago into a full illustration!! Only the full art treatment for my bestie

Because I’m only slightly obsessed with this piece and everyone has been so nice and enthusiastic about my TMBD art (🥹), I also edited it into a phone background which can be found below the cut!

#the murderbot diaries#murderbot#murderbot my beloved#digital art#illustration#cw gore

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fascinatedfinch

ALT

"As the hostiles came through into the private docks, I activated the new code I had been working on. Code: Deploy&Delay."

AKA: "you know the thing in media where someone disappears when a transport drives in front of them? yeah, that"

Bonus:

ALT

#I think that MB should have a constant subroutine going that analyzes how cool its fighting was#the downside is of course that it also has an analysis of when it trips and cannot salvage it into a cool roll#getting a good grade in life or death battles: something normal to want and possible to achieve

yeah op add this

"As the hostiles came through into the private docks, I activated the new code I had been working on. Code: Deploy&Delay."

AKA: "you know the thing in media where someone disappears when a transport drives in front of them? yeah, that"

Bonus: