#botober 2024

[bbonezie]

starscream for tf inktober day 19 - king i wanted to do more on this but i ran out of time

[maxwellshimbo]

Botober, day 8: Fuzzy Night

[totalcupcakevortex]

Snuggle Features

[anonymous-witness777]

[Image ID: digital drawing of white paint peeling; behind it, revealed through the gaps where the paint has come off, is a tangle of willow leaves and green line drawings of suns, wings, eyes, stars, nightcrawlers, and other shapes, over a backdrop of flowing lengths of green and rust-red. The willow leaves are green, burgundy, and gold. /end ID]

Botober day 5! "Great Flake." I have been drawing I promise, just forgetting to upload. Will upload more later.

[ajcrwl]

day 09. Holy Ship. Just a biblically accurate sailing vessel.

[sweetcandyholic]

october 15 2024

botober prompt: shark knight

[catsandfanart47]

I legitimately cannot keep up with all the tobers guys

EDIT: Guys can we please have the fun art challenges in other months??? PLEASE

[aiweirdness]

Botober 2024

Back by popular demand, here are some AI-generated drawing prompts to use in this, the spooky month of October!

Longtime AI Weirdness readers may recognize many of these - that's because there are throwbacks to very tiny language models, circa 2017-2018. (There are 7 tiny models each contributing a few groups of prompts; feel free to guess what they were trained on and then check your answers at aiweirdness.com)

[somesharks]

I'm doing Botober! (See AI Weirdness!)

But after the first day I felt I needed more... So I'm going to add Mega Man characters and call it Bot[Master]ober and nobody can stop me so anyways here's these.

[pandakong]

Botober day 15 - Snuggle Features

Literally all of Roxy’s features (2009-2024). And then ink I accidentally spilled on it :’)

[blessphemy]

✨ Fic Writing Review 2023 ✨

thanks for the tag @non-plutonian-druid!

the actual format of this game is this post but i rearranged it a bit so that i could hide my extremely long list of fics under a cut

Fandom fic events 2023

Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange

Yuletide Draft Dodgers

Murderbot AUpril Collection (open and accepts submissions)

2023 Aspec Murderbot Diaries

2023 PresAugust

We Were It // It Will Be Us: A TMBD Art Exhibition (open and accepts submissions)

Botober 2023

Upcoming 2024

Events:

i'm doing the Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange (2024) :3

Perhaps i'll post something for the annual 3/3 for Three collection idk (this collection is open and accepts submissions, and it spikes on March 3rd of each year)

WIPs:

Gift exchange fic

Absolute monster of a nullverse!network effect AU fic. i'm trying so hard to get draft 1 of this beast finished it's been beating my ass for over a year but i'm gonna Get It

Continue Via Solitude updates.

a 5+1 ASR bad ends fic that explores some meta shit. namely trust, forgiveness, and sci-fi horror genre vs canon.

Words and fics 2023

let's find out just how cringe (fun) i've been on ao3. i'm like. jeebus creebus i've posted a lot this year huh.

105,486 words of fan fiction. all of it murderbot. let's look at them going right down the statistics page (default sorted by hits, tho it gets kind of messy at the end with and i got lazy):

30,336 words of Via Solitude, an All Systems Red AU where murderbot has to do wilderness survival.

~5k words that's just a repost of Threat As Greeting, except with fresh interactive CSS effects.

3,346 words top 3 SURPRISING things you didn't know about the SECUNIT who pulled you out of an INCINERATOR (2023 gift exchange) outsider POV from the characters featured in Wells' pre-canon short story

1,502 words Aspec Drabbles (for the Aspec Murderbot Diaries event) it lot of fun to work with strict 100-word drabbles.

13,837 words References NULL: Logs From Project Murderbot [nullverse] the most purely concentrated angst/whump from the nullverse series yet. handle with care or skip it.

6,552 words How To Go On A Camping Trip - a guide for anxious SecUnits who are bad at vacationing (2023 gift exchange) i really liked this one tbh. fun standalone.

2,488 words Improve Your Baby AI With This One Weird Trick! (2023 gift exchange) my personal fic-titling theme for the gift exchange was "clickbait."

7,875 Alien Refuge (AUpril inspired) This is a Homestuck crossover, and reportedly the first time multiple people willingly interacted with homestuck-affiliated content, and they liked it. gottem. it's also pretty good, i did a nice job injecting homestuckism tone into the murderbot narrative style If I Do Say So Myself.

911 words No Comment: Shut Up And Dance [nullverse] fluff and humor. tfw your secunit friend (murderbot) is crashing in your living room and you (dr. ratthi) have insomnia.

2,922 words MetaMorphoSys (AUpril inspired) listen i NEED the next big fandom trend to be an AU world where people metamorphose inside cocoons. hear me out. HEAR ME OUT. in this fic we take the fridge horror of canon murderbot diaries and make it visceral, wet, biological, and ethically Even Worse. get yr Amena emotions also.

0 words SecUnit Technician Bingo Card it's funny. idk.

3,438 words nullverse reference sheet [nullverse bonus content] self indulgent AU notes

2,290 words Systems: Splorch [nullverse bonus content] a friend of mine said "how long until we get a fic with #oviposition in the murderbot diaries ao3?" i took the answer to that question into my own two capable hands at 7.5 hours. you're welcome.

2,562 words Artifacts NULL: Fire Festival [nullverse] slice-of-life friend times with nostalgia vibes. how far we've come.jpg.

388 words Entries shared by the Society for Conservation of Feed Artifacts (SCFA) (created for TMBD in-universe robot art gallery, which is an open collection that accepts any submissions!) wait this reminds me i have one more to post. i'll get to it.

9,314 words in 31 fics written for (Botober 2023) daily prompts. turned out to be a fun exercise and exploration of bot culture tho it took me longer than the month of october to finish.

4 fanarts of fics that i liked.

26 fanbindings where i printed out and made booklets out of fics that i liked.

2 translations.

3,080 words Refrain [nullverse bonus content] if you're unfamiliar with my Brand this will sound unhinged. if you are familiar with my Brand you know by now that i have a knack for taking literally Anything and treating it with tender loving care and unexpected deft so this doesn't even surprise you. tl;dr it's porn of two bots having a deeply OSHA-unapproved Fuck Session, there's no genitals involved, and it's tagged #Vivisection. it's pretty good if you're into robots and perhaps mild gore.

Rules & Tags for this game

Rules: Feel free to show whatever stats you have. Only want to show Ao3 stats? Rock on. Want to include some quantitative info instead of stats? Please do this. Want to change how yours is presented? Absolutely do that. Would rather eat glass than do this? Please don’t eat glass, just keep on scrolling.

@fishdetective @beatrice-otter @snugglyeldritchjellyfish @ilovedthestars and anyone who feels like it

[bbonezie]

day 22 of inkformers - alt mode

[maxwellshimbo]

Botober, day 1: "Collide Loopstorm"

[anonymous-witness777]

[Image ID: A semi-abstract, mostly-lineless piece of digital art of two swirling cloud-masses. The top left one is mint green and dull peach, with darker green, formless hands and lighter green sleeve-like swirls with purple stitching. It has two magenta eyes with looped purple stitching under their lids. The dull peach clouds split off into smaller blobs as they goes more up and left. The bottom right one is bluish and magenta, with blue formless hands and brighter blue sleeve-like swirls with purple stitching. It has two magenta eyes, light blue clouds swirling over top, and magenta clouds swirling underneath, which split off into smaller blobs as they go farther down the page. The two masses are merging. White lightning forks over both. The background is dark purple, with the clouds and blobs outlined in lavender. /end ID]

Botober day 1! From the prompt Collide Loopstorm, which made me think of supercell storms.

[ajcrwl]

last batch of botober scribbles

22.. Low fuzzy feats. Doggo is fuzzy, that smol plague birb is fuzzy 🤷‍♀️ 23.. Bars*. LET HIM IIIIN. (Btw, the prompt literally includes that asterisk). 25.. Hobbats. Hobbit bats?? 27.. Garbage plant. That's… probably enough of Bototber, for this.. year, I guess xD

Honestly, I could continue, but I got stuck drawing some Hades II fanart, which i made between the last of these pics. and it turned out so good, way better than anything else this month, that i'd like to finish with it. i will also upload everything to my website gallery, including some past Supergiant Games fanart.

[maxwellshimbo]

Botober, day 3: Evil gold