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full murderbot thoughts post
Alright! Finished with Book 7 of Murderbot, System Collapse, and collected my thoughts on the series.
Maybe one day I'll do one last round-up to read novellas and maybe write a Properly Structured Review Innit, so for now this is gonna be the messy notes version of this. Let me give a paragraph or two of review-y thoughts, here, though. Set the stage and all.
So: I liked them a lot! I wouldn't ever say I struggle with sci-fi, but I think in practice I struggle with sci-fi. For other genrefic novels, tropes i Enjoy the Consumption of can usually keep my interest alive long enough; like, Black Sun and Fevered Star didn't light me on fire, but there was a lot of dynamics and play within the space that I could consistently enjoy and keep. Chewing down the line on. real strawberry lace fiction. real gummy worm fiction
Sci-Fi usually struggles more with that, I guess. Or, rather, I don't enjoy genrefic sci-fi for sci-fi's sake? There is, i think, a needle to thread of Good Spec-fic, of "oooh literature on a Weird Way of Existing". that style can keep me hooked, and Murderbot Diaries manages that with all the intricacies of the SecUnit experience. and also you can just have a lot to say! and murderbot has a lot to say! overall 8.5 out of 10. book 1 is a 9 out of 10 (yippeee strained relations distrust etc); book 2 is an 8.5 out of 10 (ART good); book 3 is a 7 out of 10 (i dont really remember those people); book 4 is an 8 out of 10, book 5 is an 8.5 out of 10 but i think it'd be a bunch higher if i didnt find the middle a bit bloated; book 6 is a 7.5/10, book 7 is an 8/10. loose thoughts from my journal from here on. spoilers for the whole series begin in earnest.
I like murderbot diaries the most when its reasonably omniscient, dynamic feeling, with a bunch of pieces moving around; and when those pieces are the psychology of murderbot as it navigates shit. i popped the fuck off when at the start of the long one [that's Network Effect] we got an interlude of murderbot interacting with mensa and her family and Caring and augh. ouagh.
WE HJAVE TO PUT ON THE BEST DAMN TALENT SHOW THI S COLONY HAS EVER SEEN!!!! [this was right when i got to the documentary part of the last book lol]
what if the other sec units went stereotypical serial killer robot and murdered all their handlers. like yes i get an argument against that that goes down the line of “and then we wont be able to extract from the situation and everyone gets killed in retribution” but, also, i feel like early in this series there was a lot of text talking about how sec units don't actually. think like that. in real life. I dont know, maybe i havent adjusted to a Thematic Choice where actually that was unreliable narration, but i find my brain getting caught up on that every time. like comparing how murderbot talks about how sec units think early in the series to later on. bwah.
anyway [in regards to the end of Exit Strategy] something very unique but kind of hash tag relatable about an extended sequence of a character reconstructing their memories from base principles, all sortakinda drunk. seeing all those cute and Telling and I See How It Is moments, which i derived a lot of value from, really fun capper to a book. good times. and then they hit 100% and the microwave goes Ding and they sit right up in bed and go Damn. That was stupid. I'm leaving.
when the panopticon surrounds you on every level and you have a lot of time to think on your self and your connection to your self and gain access to every system that makes you up and makes you you and all you can manage to acheive with it is the recreation of the panopticon within the self. and being without the panopticon is uncomfortable and foreign and strange. when the character does not allow the narrative to woobify them. 😍
ships you can talk to (who talk back only in concepts) are a gender by the way. that first scene [at the end of All Systems Red] of Murderbot working out its take on the all of it to a ship who can't really talk back, and was more or less the default “easily Manipulated bot pilot” that we just kind of sidestep each time going forwards, but like. was also the Same Thing as Mbot in not having anyone to really talk this out with. we are both on the same level. we, two, have not been taught to sell our class, our people out to the humans; we can be Niceys to one another. you can seek that out and find it. there are glimmers and moments like that throughout the whole series going forwards. which kind of makes hanging out with the humies boring unless they're one of the like 3-4 that i feel have an Interesting Social Dynamic with murderbot
following on from that, i immediately started visualising ARTs feed-self as a Kirby Endboss mass of glowing, dazzling, flowing dials/lenses/clocks towering over everyone else. with speech bubbles violently louder than everyone elses. Like that was how my brain went “how would the graphic novel get this Concept of ‘I could squish you like a bug with one instant of thought you are nothing to me you little it/its freak’ across". and its good. its good
[in regards to Network Effect, and trying to sum up my whole feelings on 2.0]: Whoops! Your clone headmate you made underbaked on purpose came out with ADHD and joié de vivre and is kicking its feet up and down in its partition watching comfort media while you go through the shit that made the Expanse expand. that made the signal is. that made the Space [face/off-style pause] Dead
So, what're my big takeaways with the whole series? Everyone trying to Do Therapyspeak on Murderbot and it usually Not Working is nice. There is something wrong with you, and that's not like a puzzle to be unraveled, but the perspective the text then takes on everything else. this world isn't, like, Fascinating and realized with any special flair, but you get to have moments where Murderbot exposits how fucked shit is to other people, or judges a situation it's bitter about as people around it get Fucked Over, and it's just like. It's a fun level of fucked up, in a way, sure, but it's also those moments of like. Ah. Murderbot does not set out to be protagonist-ly about this world, to be deeply critical, to wikia-mode about it all. Only to be constantly drawn to such anyway, to being Bitter and having to exposit to make certain points land because it needs certain points to land because. shrugs, gestures. The World. All of it. but then we go back to like “Hey do you think you have trauma maybe?” “FUCK you” and it's consistent and that's all chewy in a way I find nice. It's nice. We're having a niceys time. smile emoji
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would lemon monster like to carry Keith?
He LOVES to carry Keith. It’s mostly because he gets showered in kisses when it happens.
#rey answers asks#sour rock candy#Keith#rock monster#lemon monster FNF#mirage dont look#June dont look#Ruby dont look#dross dont look
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MILLIE GIBSON as RUBY SUNDAY in ROGUE
#dwedit#tvedit#doctor who#ruby sunday#usersugar#userdiana#userksena#userrebecca#usertennant#biafrnc#timelordgifs#*mygifs#*creations#dw spoilers#lot dont look
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Ohhh my god the way he looks at Atsushi here. The way he's so visibly unfazed. Just completely accepting of it. He is fourteen years old. I need to kill something
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yeah i got motivated again :D
i also watched volume 1 of rwby and fucking loved it
#my art#pixel art#rwby fanart#ruby rose#rwby#this show taste so good when you dont have someone talking in your ear about how bad it is#and not getting to the part thats a little more shoddily written but people mistake for the whole series because all they hear is “rwby bad#anyway thats enough outta me look at the cute sprite!!! :DDDD#fml
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top 10 reasons you should NEVER visit revachol
#gah i tried to draw them more small and bitsy so i could focus more on vibe and shape instead of getting bogged down in the little#details of their faces. i did get pretty bogged at some points but i still like how these came out#ok i wanted to draw the faction leaders and the cops and maybe the churchpeople too but i just dont. feel like it rn#so maybe ill do a part two some day#disco elysium#my art#extravagances#harry du bois#kim kitsuragi#cuno#ruby the instigator#klaasje amandou#elizabeth beaufort#ikk rubys hair is supposed to just be red but it just looks nicer with brown in it </3
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SIR JAMES
#mmmmmheeeehoehoheoheo#inscryption#james cobb#lonely wizard#this is Part one for sure i am drawing more james pertaining to his story#but ohhh i adore him he's so fun to play around with#the tights were a placeholder design but it reminded me of ballet dancers so im like why not! he can dance#its a form of art! it pertains to body expression!#and he wants his body to reach an ideal form that he is positive his Master will grant him!#and now we know where the lonely wizard learned ballet. thank you#normally i dont like showing the eyes of a char who wears a helmet or mask but Amber kinda fills that niche in this game for me#and i really wanted to show off ruby mox eyes lol. and he has a beautiful face#i have a lore reason why he looks so similar to her but these tags are too long for now. goodbye#sorry for the trilliax quote
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Google, play "Closer" by Nine Inch Nails
#alright this is the thing that will finally get me canceled JDJFKGKGKKGKG#this is for you ruby 😭 ty for sending me that pic and making me distracted the entire day#i randomly thought of this when i was walking to class and then just wanted to get home so badly#THEY'RE GONNA CELEBRATE ON THEIR OWN TOGETHER 🤭🤭#hes gonna 'tuck him in bed' again. well he'll certainly be tucking smth somewhere HDJFJGKGKLG#i feel unhinged posting this 😭😭😭#truly the power of oscarmark making me post this kinda thing#haha get it google? cause mclaren is sponsored by google???#thats their song. to me. okay#mark smilied when oscar said he had to 'hang on for dear life'#well he'll be hanging onto the bed for dea- DJFJKFGK o#its so funny cause the only time ive gotten a hate anon was after I posted a very innocuous oscarmark art#so. this is uhhhhhhh yeah#ik it's not THAT bad in the scheme of things but little teasy hinty things like this make me very insane 😭#pup. something something inherent pet play something#also yeah canonically fernando saw this happen. he knows that look in mark's eyes#oscarmark#pibber#<- i think ill only tag those cause i dont think i should put it in the main tag#catie.art.
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A little style test from a few weeks ago (I think)
Also check out this awesome colored version by @sketchxx WOAAAWWWWWW
#dont look at the gun its super game accurate okay#disco elysium#de#queer#disco elysium fanart#klaasje amandou#ruby the instigator#rubyklaasje#klaasjeruby#ruby x klaasje#gun#cw gun#tw gun#lesbian#wlw#sapphic#butch#femme
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Meanwhile Martha Jones;
Why Martha Jones was perfect for him
Space Babies (2024) // Smith and Jones (2007)
#look all the doctors companions have that sense of adventure#dont tell me Martha wasn’t the most insane#she was just built different#doctor who#martha jones#10th doctor#15th doctor#ruby sunday
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I'm hoping episode 3 let's Ruby see the dark side of the Doctor. I feel that adds a very important dynamic to a Doctor-companion relationship, when they see how dark he can be and still choose to travel with him early on.
Rose watching Nine drag Cassandra back to die. Eleven yelling at Amy "Nobody human has anything to say to me today!" Donna begging Ten to stop drowning the spider babies, and then again to go back and save someone in Pompeii.
Fifteen has been FUN and I know he can do emotional range, I've seen his fear and his tears already. But I want to see him dark, and I want to see Ruby respond to that. I think it would add a LOT of depth to their relationship and is something missing.
Plus showcasing the Doctor's flaws (selfishness) will make him a much more interesting character. I want to see some conflict between the Doctor and Ruby.
#wren rambles#doctor who#fifteenth doctor#ruby sunday#something about not letting heroes have flaws#and thus being one dimentional and less interesting#its a flaw i saw them slipping into a bit with thirteen#where she was always the Moral Voice#i LIKE it when the Doctor is instinctually cruel and has to be talked out of it and actively choose to be kind#it makes the character SO much more interesting#and raises the emotional stakes so much#so far fifteen has been FUN#but he hasnt been a rounded character#and until we see his flaws hes never gonna be in the runnings for a favourite#i think the doctor is an inherantly selfish character#and he has to make an active effort to NOT be#“Im his carer” “yes she cares so I dont have to”#im worried a six month time jump removed the opportunity for this kinda thing though#i Need to be able to look at the doctor and know. this is the man who killed a planet#and i havent been seeing that in the character recently#still early days yet though!#the doctor shouldnt be the moral center of the show--his companion should be#i think thats why i love 12 so much tbh#because his whole THING is to choose to be kind#without hope without witness without reward#being “good” (and whatever that means is a discussion for another day) doesnt come easily to him#love isnt an emotion its a promise#i want to see fifteen STRUGGLING to choose to do good#and i want to see ruby witness that
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au in which wby eat the parfait midair or smth
#dont look at this too hard ok...#whiterose#rwby#rwby volume 9#rwby volume 9 spoilers#ruby rose#weiss schnee
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okay this style is working out really well actually. rubyyyyyyyyy
#leo.txt#leo.png#rubyco#skyblock kingdoms#sbk#every time i draw ruby i forget how we draw his hair HFDGLXHF this works#i dont remember what cherry blossoms look like dont @ me
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MILLIE GIBSON as RUBY SUNDAY in EMPIRE OF DEATH
#dwedit#tvedit#doctor who#ruby sunday#usersugar#userdiana#userksena#userrebecca#usertennant#biafrnc#timelordgifs#*mygifs#*creations#dw spoilers#lot dont look#ruby my sweet girl i love you so much
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fishy
#ruby rose#weiss schnee#blake belladonna#yang xiao long#derg AU#rwby#my art#tis a school assignment#could you tell this was rushed lmao because it was#spedrun the shit outta this#the bg was given and all we had to do was insert any character we wanted#blake and yang's outfits were just a random mash of their canon ones lol#yang looks so ugly in this im so sorry baby#casually hides all their feet in grass/water so i dont have to deal with them 🤣#overall this would've looked better if i didnt procrastinate hfjsahfjahjaghs
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tragic actual play siblings…
#d20#fantasy high#a crown of candy#acoc#taz#taz balance#abernant sisters#rocks sisters#taaco twins#d20 spoilers#mine#dont be weird on this post. please. -_-#looking back at acoc for these screenshots... lets just say theres a pair of codependent twins here and it aint taako and lup#but like more on ruby’s side tbh bc jet does have an identity outside of her but ruby kinda doesnt#theres a post abt how jet was the most impactful death possible bc if itd been ruby it wouldve solidified jets arc#but when ruby’s the survivor she’s just left lost and unmoored bc jet really was part of her#ruby & saccharina are especially tragic to me bc if jet hadnt died ruby wouldve loved her!! she couldve had a sister!! 2 sisters!!#but jet dying was necessary for her to enter the story at all bc of the nature of the medium... she was always doomed to be an outsider#the ‘you are my heart’ line is so good so sweet i love it so much#but what lup says immediately afterward… knowing whats coming in the very next ep… one of biggest dramatic irony moments in the show for me#& it will always bother me that taako is green on the taz transcripts HE’S BLUEEE (<- his vibe NOT his skin)
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