#muderbot

[roosterm3attrash]

no context for you

[desertmousy]

muderbot saying “i learned to leave” just horsekicked me in the chest holy shit

[hearsayhorizons]

My personal theory is that ART decided to befriend/help/keep Murderbot from the moment MB shared that footage/data/sensations of being tormented by the governor module.

It is a huge ship, basically a Culture-style Mind in comparison to every other tech we see. It loves its crew and its function.

ART and MB specifically establish that ART CAN interpret reactions and emotional data shared with it by MB in a way unlike getting data from humans.

So to confront a concept like this--torture at all, but also torture in the course of fulfilling the function for which you were built...

Yeah, sure, keep that comm. MAYBE we'll cross paths again later.

[wildfaeworld]

Murderbot: has a trauma response

Murderbot: it disrupted the organic parts of my insides

[things-with-teeth]

If you've been wanting to check out Murderbot Diaries, they're currently part of an audiobook bundle through Humble.

[callmecayce]

from twitter

[id: screenshot of fiveayegeethree's tweet.

the tweet says: "anyways read the murderbot diaries by martha wells" and that is above a screenshot that reads:

this isn't like a "oh i didn't picture murderbot this way therefore its a bad casting thing"

it's a "you are adapting a series with a cast of mostly non-white non-men characters and all of your writers/directors/producers are white men, and you've casted a white cis man to play a nonbinary (most likely non-white) character whose gender identity/lack thereof is a CENTRAL part of the story and it's character" thing]

[ace-and-ranty]

I know they give us the plot to Sanctuary Moon in the books, and that it's a contemporary space adventure, but the first time Murderbot mentioned it, all I could imagine was a period k-drama.

[gauzyfruitcake]

"The littoral zone is the bit where the sea, or the lake, meets the land…it’s a sort of liminal space"

For the last day of prompts, a promo poster for Littoral Zone! By @rosewind2007 . Art was inspired by the littoral zone where their machine parts meet. Such a wonderful story, like a big hug!

Pose reference from Unsplash.

[shoesxd]

Spoilers for ep 6 of murder drones !!!

BRO THEY DID NOT V *CRIES* 😿😭😢 GIRLLL

Nah bro i actually cried in that ep lMao justice for V

[antifathomable-shapeshifter]

grgshsvfjsh finished book 2 of the murderbot diaries. fjsbwjdbdjg. no spoliers i got 3-6 on hold from the library. 3 will be ready in 2 weeks. the rest in 6. akdbdjahehfkf.

hhhhjhhjghgjgjfjdbsjsbd robots. robots

robobbovobbobobotsssss

god i wish i was a secunit. not really. but kinda.

i just want to have 360 vision from security camera, gun arms and violence training, and the ability to get shot 30 times and not die. is that too much to ask. (although, unlike murderbot, id like a dick too. maybe id be a sexmuderbot >:3)

and ART my beloved. my baby bot. my widdle incomprehensibly intelligent research frieght ship. ily <333

just. ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

robots.

[dozenssporks]

Murderbot thinks it’s the one with the single brain cell of any group it’s in . . . and this is correct insofar as security is concerned but even then the brain cell does have a tendency to blip out when Murderbot should be considering options other than throwing itself to get shredded in the blender of self-sacrifice

[daemonmatthias]

You are so right!

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(@fuzzyhairedfreak)

I love for Murderbot, who has had its bodily autonomy and personhood and desires denied for its whole existence, the ability to finally be in a place where it can say no and have its no respected. No I don’t want to Become Human. No I don’t want to eat food with you. No I don’t want to have a romance or talk about romance. No I don’t want sex parts or to talk about sex or engage in sexual relationships. No I don’t want to live on a nice farm where there’s no danger and no need for security work. No I don’t want to be what you want me to be. I can be me.

[rockalillygirl]

Re: MB and holding hands, I'd forgotten about it holding Tapan's hand in AC, but I recently reread ASR and one of the things it remember between the explosion and waking up back in its cubicle was Arada holding its hand

Yeah that moment is really cool! Almost like the inverse of the scene with Tapan- a couple people pointed it out to me so now i have to go back to read it!

[katischaos]

Fiiinally finished this piece that I started about a month ago, lost motivation on, then randomly started working on again yesterday

so here it is! my favourite SecUnit

[air-of-the-waterfall]

New favourite interaction of all time:

They have a cute pet name for ART. ART has been gushing about Murderbot to its crew. Murderbot is socially awkward and can’t fathom that someone could actually like it and care for it. What if I scream and flail around forever

[honestlytoomuch]

ID: drawing of Murderbot and ART. ART is depicted as floating eyes. In every sketch, Murderbot's face is covered.

In the first scene Murderbot is saying "I'll make you pay for endangering my humans." Then ART's eyes look down at Murderbot while it says "I'm a giant spaceship you cannot hurt me in a way that matters." Then Murderbot locks itself in the bathroom. The final scene is many of ART's eyes staring at Murderbot and saying "I don't care even a little bit." End ID.

adapted from @dozenssporks ' iconic post