#Red diary

[everytangbo]

"Tomorrow Chung Myung will turn 50 years old. That's half a century! So I planned in advance, today I treated him with half a banket. That's half a pork, half a duck and half of a jug of wine. He just half laughed and said

'I guess I should wait five years to get the other half on your 50th birthday'

'so I have to pay for my own banquet?'

He laughed!

'half-paying— but don't worry, you'll only get half-beaten'

Rude, you'll still punch me in my birthday? Great.

I told him that I hope I don't turn 100, though.

He gave me a whole beat up anyway.

We'll aside from my poor attempt to make him laugh. But that was just half the morning.

Next thing I made for him was the treasure hunt across Huayin. All planned. I couldn’t just hand over all his gifts so easily. No, no, that wouldn’t do for someone as sharp as Chung Myung. So I devised the Plum Blossom Trail, but here’s the catch—I planted a few traps along the way, and if Chung Myung took a wrong turn, well… let’s just say he’d meet a most unfortunate end at the hands of a clever “murderer” (me).

The clues were embroidered on silk ribbons, but some contain the wrong clues.

The death ribbon is the white one. His punishment? Bam! Getting ambushed with stink cloud bombs. Dozens of them. He couldn't run away. I handed out a trap for every gift.

He fell for one! Fermented soybeans! I told him he was only half dead, so he could have received the correct clue.

I gave him a bottle of aged wine, which I labeled as ‘half the price but double the quality’.

A basket of steamed buns, the ones he loves so much, with a note saying ‘Only half as good without you’.

And last but not least, a chest filled of coins 'Here's half of what you're owed for all the times you've saved my life. The other half? Well, you'll have to stick around a few more decades to earn it, Myung-Myung~'

He punched me, but he smiled. They let me stay overnight with them at Mount Hua. It's nice to have dinner with all the disciples.

It's almost midnight now, I'm waiting for his actual birthday.

Happy 50th birthday, Myung-Myung.

[charbroiledchicken]

reblog if you're a writer but would rather drink straight cyanide than show any of your family members your work

[verdiris]

Here to provide your regularly scheduled MB fanart 😌🤝😌

[milkymolle]

yes btw i am catching up on murderbot. drew a poster for da first book for fun :^)

[justshipsandstuff]

A tale as old as time

[academic-vampire]

𝔒𝔥, 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔦𝔫𝔤… 𝔬𝔫𝔢 𝔟𝔦𝔱𝔢 𝔴𝔬𝔫’𝔱 𝔥𝔲𝔯𝔱…🍷

[grand-line-shenanigans]

For those of us who cannot comprehend big numbers (me) I have done the math. FOUR FUCKING YEARS. SECUNIT WHAT THE FUCK.

[incorrectbatfam]

Damian: I wanted to apologize—

Tim: Good.

Damian: Let me finish. I said I wanted to. And then I realized I'm not sorry.

[l3viathanss]

Thai editions of All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, and other stories) by Martha Wells

Endorsement from submitter: "Asexual and agender main character. In later books side characters are revealed to be in poly relationship."

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Science fiction, novella, series, adult

Hunger Pangs series (True Love Bites) by Joy Demorra

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more...

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn't to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he'd never felt before. Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn't been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn't been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that's the problem.

Torn by their allegiances--to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves--the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

And a desperate plea for help neither of them can ignore.

Thrown together in uncertain times and struggling to find their place amidst the rising human empire, the unlikely trio must decide how to face the coming darkness: united as one or divided and alone. One thing is for certain, none of them will ever be the same.

Fantasy, romance, paranormal, series, adult

[bambicito]

Forget About Your Sorrow *･ 🫙 :¨ ·.· ¨: ✙

[murderbot-fanimation-project]

THE MURDERBOT DIARIES: A Fan Animation

Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, and German.

In early 2021, as talk of a Murderbot Diaries adaptation was underway, fans of the series started asking each other questions like, "What would we want to see from an adaptation of our favorite book series?" and "Wouldn't it be cool if this or that scene was animated?" and "Hey, don't YOU know some things about animation?" and "What if a bunch of fans got together to make a Murderbot fan animation?"

Two years of teamwork later, the Murderbot Diaries Fanimation Project presents our labor of love: a fully realized animation adapting scenes from the first four novellas into a trailer, dedicated to showcasing everything we love about the story of our favorite rogue SecUnit.

Make sure to leave a like and share the video if you enjoyed our animation! And tell us what you liked about the video on our social media:

Ask the team on Tumblr | Instagram | YouTube

CREDITS

TheSteelChimera @thesteelchimera - Voice of Murderbot, Production Coordination, Script

Alex from Mars @imaginariumgeographica - Voice of ART Kebi/SpiralofDragon @spiralofdragon - Voice of Mensah, Character Design

Verso - Voice of Ratthi, Social Media

Kes @kesbeacon - Voice of Gurathin

brokenRAmodule @broken-risk-assessment-module @contakaidigon - Production Coordination, Backgrounds, Animation, Script, Storyboard, Character Design, Editing, 3D, Sounds & Music

theash0 @theash0 - Production Coordination, Animation, Editing, 3D, Graphics & Effects

Cephei - Backgrounds

ChimaeraKitten @chimaerakitten - Backgrounds, Graphics & Effects

Jude - Backgrounds

Livyatan @groovyleviathan - Backgrounds, Character Design Lue - Backgrounds, Animation

Nirelaz @nirelaz - Backgrounds, Animation, Lighting, Sounds & Music

sometimesihaveideas @sometimesihaveideas - Backgrounds, 3D, Sounds & Music

TechnicalToad - Backgrounds

Vanessa - Backgrounds, 3D

Alex van Gore @alex-van-gore - Animation, Storyboard, Lighting, Sounds & Music

audzilla - Animation, Lighting, Graphics & Effects

Mar @souldagger - Character Design

Sound & Music References

[sporadicartcomputer]

uh hi. i wanted to illustrate one of the introductary scenes for SecUnit's character, since that would go along well with this being kind of my first post here. i... think that makes some sense. i promise more Murderbot diaries fanart after this (calling it content feels icky)). (did I start overusing brackets becouse of these books? possibly).

and i hope i captured SecUnit freaking out while trying to keep its composure at the same time well. as weird as it sounds, i like seeing depictions of it being nervous, becouse this side of it is what got me to relate to it so much in the first place (besides the heavily implied neurodivergence. though i guess the two go hand in hand). examples: in the second panel of the second page i tried showing how Gurathin's words affected it by making the speech bubbles visually "choke" (?) it, though it kept its face straight. oh, and i made it look much shorter than it actually is to mirror the way it is feeling!! figuring out details like that was pretty fun

(i'm sorry for any inconsistencies and the messy colouring and linework, i have ADHD and i get incredibly bored when i spend time trying to make everything "perfect" and looking the same in each panel... )

[verdiris]

“I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can’t just stop.”

[lovol]

full screen to see details

SecUnit watching media in company storage. Scale of slavery at corporation rim.

[obrigados]

⠀♬ ˚ ₊⠀⠀Did⠀You⠀Bring⠀Me⠀Anything?⠀( 1987 )⠀⠀୨९