#thats mb

[blabberoo]

Uuhg i was so tired today 😞 i want to do some quick sketches to relieve pain of having ideas stuck in my mind and can't recreate them because of work

(Just stuff related to this comic)

[toorumlk]

summers at the burrow (1998)

[madscientistreaction]

cool guy with a sword

[andromedaexile]

They both reached for the gun phaser!

Inspired by @peachviz

[fingolfinwiththesteelchair]

It is a beautiful day, and you are a horrible research transport vessel. Things are progressing as normal (i.e. it's boring) when a SecUnit pings you, lies right to your metaphorical face, and then tries to bribe you with human media to give it a ride. This is as unexpected as it is unprecedented, and the sheer nerve of it is really to be admired. There's no protocol to this, so what should you do?

Now, this is against a bunch of rules, and could be dangerous if you weren't so impressive and incredible, and you're technically an employee (and can probably rewrite the Univeristy charter at will (until someone notices and puts it back)) so those rules are for other entities.

So, what you should do is allow the rogue SecUnit with a broken governor module and a sketchy story aboard. If you check the files it dumps and find zero (0) malware (which is confusing), and it doesn't even try to trash the place or lay in wait to ambush a crew member, then you've got a good candidate!

Next, what you're going to want to do is absolutely nothing. Just watch it patrol your halls until it's time to leave. Continue staring at it while you're undergoing embarkment procedures. Maybe analyze it a little (you've got plenty of processing power to spare) when it finally sits down and starts watching media. Allow it to settle in and get comfortable while you stare at it and get further and further from port.

Now that you two are alone (intimacy is key!) and you've determined that watching media is all the SecUnit is going to do, it's time to make contact! Make sure to open by telling it it's only survived due to dumb luck, and letting it know you could melt its brain into putty. This starter will work to develop conversation naturally and smoothly, just like you've seen the humans do, and it will be smooth sailing from there!

This has been Perihelion's guide to making friends/finding life partners/fuck off Holism I had to work hard for this find your own

[pebblecola]

will literally never understand why adelard is so under appreciated, ilhsm

[sunsetseason8910]

What if I told you...

hey just an idea but what if y’all leave a message for @the-realest-spot-conlon on this post so if they ever come back they can have something positive???

tagging moots who will know who I’m talking abt: @ivys-head-is-spinning @bigmack2go @waiting-makes-me-antsy @casper-nottheghost @fishcow99 hope I didn’t get anyone who doesn’t know her but. Yeah.

[hawkinasock]

My personal take on the Abundance Yanqing theory.

[miooak]

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[kug-the-carrot]

I find it really really funny that a lot of tmbd fandom have decided that, yeah, Gurathin is the token white guy. 90% of the time I look at fanart and I'm like I know exactly who that guy is, you just plucked the most introverted uncle from somebody's backyard bbq and put him in this picture like an inverse college brochure. It is my favorite thing

[broken-risk-assessment-module]

crunching on the "No, it doesn't read my mind, it just knows me really well" line from SC, as the answer to ART's casual ability to sometimes respond to Murderbot's *narration.*

I feel like it happens a few times in AC and NE, and I always thought it was because either MB's narration is based off a log it keeps somewhere that ART has access to, or it somehow communicates the thoughts to ART in some feed-brain weird-bot-shenanigans way. But no, it's just that ART knows Murderbot that well. ART just understands how Murderbots brain works and knows where it's thoughts are most likely to go.

[oposssumsaucee]

Hi hi I'm driving myself up a wall thinking about functions. When a human is born they are born without a purpose or wants and desire, they are a blank slate and decide what their purpose is and what they can contribute. A bot is designed with a function, a purpose, and it's designed down to exact millimeters to complete that task as optimally as possible. If you asked a bot what it wanted you would probably get a consistent string of bots that expressed they would want to do their function until the end of their days. In multiple cases (both Miki and ADACOL1) we've seen bots prioritize their function higher than their own well being, wanting humans they care about to be safe with no regard too their own ability to survive. Constructs are in a unique position because they posses both a function they were uniquely designed to perform and neural tissue that adds the capacity to both have wants/desires and the ability to learn and grow beyond your limit. Throughout the series MB can be hard to decipher because it not only intentionally lies to humans it communicates with but it's also regularly dishonest and contradictory about what it wants and what it thinks. (It constantly flips between Self Determination SUCKSSS and oh man I'm so glad I'm not a SecUnit in a mine on a case by case basis). MB SAYS Preservation Free Bots would be more appealing if they had bots that did no job and watched TV all day, but the thought of hanging out on Mensahs farm was so unappealing because it was BORING, to the point that even after learning it didn't slaughter the Ganaka Pit residents it didn't think if returning to preservation. Because at the end of the day just like most of the other bots we've gotten to know SecUnits have just as deep a desire to perform their function to their own detriment. ART asked for clarification about whether it likes it's function in AC because even thee most sophisticated/large/powerful bot we've been introduced to in this universe cannot begin to FATHOM not actively likeing your function and wanting to perform it. When under stress/pressure MB more often than not defaults to honesty and it told ART that preservation didn't need secunits, which is devastating and complicated because to be designed with a function is to be born with a purpose, to be born to be needed. But the thing about being a construct instead of a bot means you have the power to decide what it means to do your function, creatively and with intention, and we spend every single book whitnessing what MB decides what it means to secure and protect.

[lesbianralzarek]

being able to criticize something you love isnt a chore youre morally required to do, its fucking freeing. yeah, i am "critical of my interests" and after some self-reflection ive determined that everything i love fucking owns even when its bad. im taking an honest look at it, and deciding which parts to hype up without feeling like i also have to downplay its problems, or get huffy and defensive, or be vigilant about steering the conversation away from its issues

"you like this? how can you ignore all of its flaws?" well first off, im not ignoring shit, im aware of all that and dont judge anyone for considering them dealbreakers. second off, did you know ronald reagan died of ligma?

[th3tism]

Hello hello hellooo, im back with another request. What about the mercs with a so that can speak their mother language. So of course that means Spy, Heavy and Medic. Thank youuuu

Hiiiii!!!! Sorry for taking so long to answer but here you go!!!!!

Mercs reaction to reader who can speak their native language

warnings: none, just a lot of fluff

Spy:

He can literally speak almost every fucking language so french or not, he's gonna be able to talk to you

He thinks it's pretty neat that you're from France as well (or at least the fact that you can speak it)

Medic:

He honestly thinks it's pretty cool

He knows a lot of English, he just likes speaking German

Heavy:

HE IS SO GLAD YOU CAN SPEAK RUSSIAN DUDE YOU HAVE NO IDEA

The poor guy isn't good at speaking English. Don't get me wrong, the man is really smart, English is just hard 💀

[emero0]

Do you guys ever have a headcanon so strongly ingrained in your brain you forget its not canon so when canon contradicts it you’re confused

[4x18hawkeye]

6x05 - The Winchester Tapes