#microfest

[rosewind2007]

Hey everyone! There is a micro fest for the Murderbot Diaries running!

“A collection for Murderbot Diaries drabbles dedicated to some form of love, either for self, for humanity/all sentient life, one special someone, or several special someones! Drabbles, drabble series, or micro-fics encouraged! There is no word limit, but we're aiming at short and quick here. Collection open until end of February, 2024.”

So here’s my first (double) drabble, inspired by:

[farmobileo3]

The next B & G Micro fest is April 29th!!

I’d like to thank The Wilderness Society for giving me a grant in order to make these resource gatherings happen 👍🏾👩🏾‍🌾💚

[hellocanticle]

Son of Partch, Carrying on a Tradition

Microfest MF 21 I hope that my flippant title for this review does not offend. But an artist who creates new acoustic instruments of unusual tunings which he plays and for which he has written music sounds a lot like spiritual progeny to Harry Partch. Partch had no children and even if he did it is unlikely they would have followed in his footsteps. Strictly speaking, Cris Forster may be more…

[green-fifteen]

a reason not to hack your governor module

word count: 654

summary: Murderbot should be included in the next intersystem firefighter calendar. Isn't saving small animals how you get into that sort of thing? 🐈

Written for All Systems Love: 2023 Microfest on ao3. Go read! ❤️

One time, I was really stupid. 

I mean really stupid. 

SecUnits like me are designed with roughly a billion fail-safes and kill-switches and redundancies, meant to prevent us from doing things that are really, really stupid. Of course, we're still able to follow brainless requests from clients. (Some of the important tasks I have carried out include: standing guard with my eyes closed while clients have noisy sex in Company surveilled rooms; passing letters between red-cheeked teenagers on one exceptionally painful survey mission; babysitting.)

But when it comes to decision-making, we are cheaply made machines of pure logic and reasoning. For example, our governor module does not allow us to take rash and avoidable risks with our own personal safety for the sake of small lap animals. 

I found myself winking in and out of awareness at 18% performance reliability. I was lying on my back and I couldn't contact the servos to move my inorganic parts. Then, when I tried to open my eyes, I couldn't do that, either. It seemed my stupid decision was going to have stupid, boring consequences. Luckily, I had access to the feed from the cameras in the room and also my cache of downloaded media. I opened the camera feed in the background and played episode 10 of a new show called Dawn of Sagittarius. I was feeling pretty determined not to think about the reason I was currently out of commission. 

Of course, that's when two humans walked into view of my camera, mid-conversation.

"Your mom said what?"

"It reached too far. It was in the vents with Ducky," a small voice was saying. The small body it belonged to came to stand near my head, while the other small human stopped close to the door. 

"Why was it in the vents?"

"You were there when Mama explained this to me, Koko!" Her voice was loud in my ears and I turned off the audio feed from the camera. 

"But that still doesn't make sense. I thought it was a SecUnit thing."

"So?" I saw the little girl place a hand on the table. Her bracelets clinked musically against the metal.

The other girl made a weird gesture.

"Um! SecUnits protect scientists! And, like, other people. Who have money," she was saying. "Did anybody even hire it for this?"

I wished I could turn off the audio feed from my ears.

"I don't know. Maybe I'll ask it when it wakes up."

When I woke up, I was going to seduce the nearest bot pilot and leave without speaking to anyone. 

"You want to talk to it?" the farther one said, incredulous. She was wearing a pinkish wrap-thing and had very fluffy hair. I realized I didn't actually know if these were both children or just pretty short adults.

Bracelet Human made a noise and didn't answer, like she was feeling fed up with questions. I was feeling pretty sympathetic, but then she put her hand on my shoulder. 

"My mama said that you only fell because you tried to save Ducky. If you can hear me, I wanted to say thank you." She paused and looked at the fuzzy one, then said, "Some people are saying there must have been a reason you decided to help him, since you're supposed to be really smart. I don't care why you did, I'm just happy that you were there. I'll never forget you."

Most of what she said was lost to the intense discomfort of her organic hand touching my organic shoulder. My body gave a shudder, which I interpreted as a sign that the nerves in my skin bits were recovering well. The little hand pulled away. 

"Come on, Del. Can we leave it alone?" 

Bracelet Human backed toward the door with a pensive look and then turned to follow Fuzzy Human out the door. 

I silently wished for a mercy killing and started another episode.

[gauzyfruitcake]

In honor of the Heartificial Condition Murderbot Diaries Microfest, For @getoutofthewater and inspired by the game Stray: Miki has decided that a puffy coat will make it more huggable! Murderbot is unfortunately the test subject for this hypothesis.

(Test results: the puffy coat does make it more huggable)

Pose from Unsplash (x)

[a-little-revolution]

i hope you're well!! i'm a huge professional wrestling fan and, today, i saw an article detailing the announcement of a docuseries on a wrestling promotion of LP! i'm personally really excited and hopeful for this program, and will definitely be watching when it's out. here's the description from the article (which i'll link below):

"“Big Little Brawlers” focuses on the Micro Wrestling Federation, described as “one of the most successful little person wrestling leagues in the world.” Set in Pigeon Forge, Tenn., the series revolves around “Pinky Shortcake” and “Syko,” who are both parents and wrestling partners. There’s also “Ivar the Micro,” the announcer/hype man who hopes to become a wrestler himself. “Lil’ Show” is the veteran wrestler still aiming to support his wife and children. “Hot Rod” is the up-and-coming wrestler looking to prove himself.Despite internal dramas and frustrations, Micro Wresting Federation CEO Jack Darrell Hillegass encourages the group to work together as a family as they approach ‘MicroFest,’ the biggest micro wresting event of the year,” reads the show description. “As they attempt to achieve their piece of the American Dream, a group of remarkable little people athletes with larger-than-life personalities are forced to overcome ego, injury, and the limitations imposed by society."

pro wrestling has not been kind to Little People and, while this is my opinion as someone who does not have dwarfism, i haven't seen a lot of reconciling, reparations, or progressiveness when it comes to LP in wrestling. especially not compared to how (some) other marginalised communities have been able to reclaim their right to dignified, self-directed representation - while i obviously acknowledge there's still a long way to go. i'd never even heard of the MWF before today and i'm looking forward to learning about their history and watching matches.

the quoted article: https://wrestlingheadlines.com/big-little-brawlers-wrestling-series-coming-to-discovery/

i'm curious about your initial opinion on both the show and the MWF itself conceptually/in execution if you have more knowledge about the promotion, as well as any thoughts you have on LP in professional wrestling in general. Nd no rush to respond - i know you're busy! be safe, be well, stay warm, we will see a free palestine in our lifetime, and i look forward to hearing your thoughts!! thank you for all your insight and activism

Hello!! Thank you for your patients, as I've taken quite a while to get back to you!!

LP wrestling, though it can be reclamation to many, still holds lot of weight as it's historically been a way for able bodied people to openly mock, objectify, and hold power over little people through public humiliation and display.

I recognize my bias as someone who is not passionate about wrestling (or sports in general) but the activity still fills me with worry. I see these incredibly talented, strong, charasmatic athletes, but then I turn to a predominantly abled audience and fear that amongst those who genually appreciate and respect the wrestlers, there are still many who get a sick sort of ogling entertainment out of it. Overall, I'm mixed on the subject, and pretty seperate from the wrestling world.

What I will say is that all those involved need to have an understanding of wrestling history for little people in order to keep it a safe space.

- Elliot (they/them)

[misscrimsondawn]

Malbus •microfest

Hello, guests and subscribers of my blog.

I wanted to hold an event dedicated to malbus (shipname fanon couple albus x minerva) - #malbusmicrofest subject:

 1) chance meeting

 2) modern, muggle au 

3) fellow students au

4) enemies on opposite sides, au

5) family 

6) mythology au

you can submit any type of creativity (edits, videos, collages, art, fanfiction) there is no deadline for completion. use the tags #malbus and #malbusmicrofest

[cloudybrain-fr]

I've got four springswarm scenes and three springswarm vistas that I neither want nor need, if anyone wasn't able to get them during the microfest

[bloomofficialmusic]

Bloom & Babycakes - In Full Bloom (microfest)

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[karmadealers]

What a Rockin week this week in the Dez! 🎸🌵✨ Friday April 29th Karma Dealers live at @musicboxmicrostage live Micro Fest l l One set at 8pm Located at 6260 Juniper RD Joshua Tree, CA 92252 (Up the dirt road from the Big RED Arrow at the Hwy) ———- #micromusicbox #highdesert #microfest #joshuatree #rock #blues #livemusic #normansrareguitars https://www.instagram.com/p/Cc0hMlslNOD/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[retrocgads]

UK 1982

[rosewind2007]

And another post with images, this is Love in the Murderbot Diaries—an artwork I created which shows every mention of the word love across the series…

The sentences are superimposed on an anatomical heart…

🫀

This is for this AO3 post:

Which is art of “All Systems Love”: A Murderbot Diaires Microfest

[farmobileo3]

I was able to fund The Black & Green Microfest #1 & #2 with a grant from the Wilderness Society. Check out the work they are doing ! ! 🙌🏾🙏🏾🫶🏾

[hellocanticle]

The Young Person’s Guide to Ben Johnston

Microfest MF 23 I’m guessing that my title has its origins in the Benjamin Britten piece, “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra”. That phrasing has been used by the likes of Phill Niblock and King Crimson to title retrospective compilation discs. While the disc under consideration here is not, strictly speaking, a retrospective it is a fine representation of the chamber music of the late…

[snipefr]

want to name this kid Fèis na Crùbaige (festival of the crab) after Drakeharvest but you see. well. as accents aren't allowed in names it would have to be Feis na Crubaige. aka sex of the crab.

[hempkettletea-blog]

This Saturday's sweet electro dance event... Did you get your tickets yet? Get $5 off with METTALABS, get tix now for $20! 12 hours to meet new friends, experience new things and #partywithpurpose #notarave #microfest #yoga #soundbath #openjam #firecircle #getdown #afrobeat #reiki #flow #massage #collaborativeart #livemusic #Baltimoreevents (at Creative Labs) https://www.instagram.com/p/By1Sp5BhIHL/?igshid=1x1i2ocntfbdz