"Do you know where we are going next?" I asked ART.
Y'know what, I think maybe I don't need any more Murderbot books. I think maybe ending things here is fucking perfect and as much as I love Wells's writing I'm genuinely not sure it can get better for me.
Like, so much of the books are about MB learning how to be a person, about becoming okay with being a complete individual with everything it entails. The first thing it does once it's actually allowed to decide on its own is it runs away from it all (admittedly to go on a mission to confirm some things about its past, because it genuinely just wants to be *good*). It shoves all its emotions away as much as it's able to. Then shit happens, and it makes its first friends, makes decisions based on these friendships, goes through a lot of emotionally intense situations...
And we get to this point here. MB having zero doubts about going with ART says a lot about its relationship with ART, but it also says a lot about its relationship with its humans - it knows that wherever it goes, when it comes back, the humans will still be there. Its humans actively acknowledge its struggles with being a now-free SecUnit and MB is willing to entertain the discussions to an extent and share information about its deeply personal experiences. Hell, System Collapse ends with MB admitting it might be somewhat broken, but that's okay as long as it can keep doing its job, and agreeing to basically do counselling - this is the guy what would rewatch its favourite TV show again and again in order to avoid acknowledging it even had Emotions a couple books back.
Reading this, I know that MB will be okay. It has hopes and goals and genuinely believes in itself and it has an amazing support system that its willing to lean on for the first time in its life. I'm convinced it'll go on to do great things with ART. And that's really the only thing I need to know.
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currently angry (+++) at the world for everything.
this feeling has been simmering under the surface for SO DAMN LONG that I can't contain it anymore.
so, if i disappear from the internet for a while, don't worry. i'll be working my ass off to become better (as a human, as a future engineer, as an inhabitant of this godforsaken planet) and find ways of actually correcting the multiple wrong paths that our civilization is going towards
i really, really wish our societies weren't engineered to lead us to these critical points, but sadly here we are. wars, famines, bigotry, always trying to stab each other in the back...
i'd like to meet other people who are tired, angry, and who wish there'd be something better for us to achieve than killing each other and destroying other species at the same time
i mean- i was raised on the values of Star Trek (which are sometimes wonky, because of the distortion due to the current american values, but they still stand). i value life, knowledge, open-mindedness and much more.
i know that change can't be a reachable goal if there's only a few people working on it. so there must be people out there, hoping for a better future.
could we work please towards that together? as one, united people?
that's a dream of mine, and i hope we could achieve this together (perhaps it's only false hope, but i'd rather die trying tbh)
- a disillusioned engineering student with HOPE and LOVE for humanity
PS: anyone is appreciated, not looking for only stem people but people who are curious and wish to learn
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so there's a trans woman who goes to the centre and everyone calls her by her birthname which she is like... fine with but only because she has no choice but to be fine about it. anyways I've known her for a while through a trans group before the centre so I asked her today if she'd rather I call her by her birthname or her chosen name and she said she prefers her chosen name but I can call her by her birthname if I want and oh my god I was about to cry for her bc god I really feel that whole situation fjdkdl, I just told her "no I WANT to call you by the name you prefer, that's why I'm asking, I want to make sure it's safe for you if I call you [preferred name]" and she seemed so grateful and I'm just :') eeurrgghh i hate how we have to be grateful with crumbs !!!
its just absolutely wild to me that she's presenting femininely and wears skirts and dresses and everything and uses her preferred name when she writes her name down on stuff and yet everyone at the centre calls her by her birthname and he/him pronouns. like. how are people so fucking rude and oblivious ??? she's even worn a she/her pronoun pin to the centre like.... people are so fucking stupid about trans people I stg.
idk I'm just hoping to make her feel a bit more comfortable and maybe if I start calling her by the right name and pronouns then everyone else will too eventually because I know she doesnt feel safe correcting people. I'm not going to make a big thing of it obviously bc I don't want to put her in danger but I will be using the correct name and pronouns now that I've double-checked with her about it, and if I start feeling like it's making things worse for her then I'll check in with her again at that point. I've honestly been stumbling trying to use he/him for her when I mention her to other ppl because she is just... she/her in my brain. it's what I know she wants to use so it feel fucking awful to use anything else !!!
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i have to organize my life by where i am physically as it has such a dramatic effect on my mental state and life circumstances
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would you rather never be able to go out during the day or during the night?
( @mod-coffee-is-here )
As much as i want to say I'd skip going out during the daytime because im more nocturnal (and totally not a vampire) all my friends preffer daylight, therefore i must say i'd skip on going out at night, regretfully
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