#the murderbot diaries

[grendel-menz]

just finished all systems red... murderbot itself

[murderbot-moodboard]

^ Murderbot throughout All Systems Red

everyone be cool about my horrible vibe please

[fascinatedfinch]

"As the hostiles came through into the private docks, I activated the new code I had been working on. Code: Deploy&Delay."

AKA: "you know the thing in media where someone disappears when a transport drives in front of them? yeah, that"

Bonus:

[riseandfallofsecunit]

Murderbot.text_post

[sameboot]

I just think theyre neat!

[cmchill]

Y'all, Murderbot fandom, look what you/we have done 😄 @round-hatches-are-terrifying I think you'll appreciate this

also @mearchy I highly recommend a library if you have access to one! Many also give you access to ebooks and audiobooks too, all for free! That's how I read the series (and many other books besides).

my favorite genre of fictional character is like "i am terrifying to almost everyone, i'm very good at killing, i can endure anything, i've become exceptionally good at playing into my reputation, and if you try to give me positive social interaction i will react with confusion and cower in a corner like an abused animal. and i may try to shoot you. but there is also a chance i may imprint on you like a feral dog receiving its first loving touch! good luck."

[posts-written-by-murderbot]

[dayiiting]

The Murderbot Diaries1-3

(My brain’s dying)

[angeliquecloud]

Murderbot-core

[velvetminefield]

If a job is going to be dangerous, please don’t make it boring too. The life of an enslaved SecUnit blows.

[ub-sessed]

This feels like asking people to admit that they have a favourite child, but:

[iamfuckingsorry]

Managed to get another friend into murderbot, which means it's re-read time again...

This time the thing that hits the hardest is mb constantly questioning itself when it wants to protect whatever nice friendly humans it encounters. Like so often it instinctively does whatever is needed to protect a human, then it goes "ugh why do I even want to do this, these are not my clients and this is not my job anymore, I should just focus on finding the data I wanna find here", then in the vast majority of cases it sticks with the humans anyway. It's great. It's mostly in the first few books, since later on it gets back to its own or ART's humans which clearly it would genuinely die for with no regrets or hesitation - but it happens a decent amount in those first few books, when it genuinely should feel no sense of responsibility but it kinda still does. It's like a constant battle of "is that just my conditioning and decades of terrifying punishment if any humans get hurt, or is it so deeply embedded in my code it's an essential part of who I am as a person, or is that just me choosing to act on my own free will because they're nice and they don't deserve to die," but also it's so extremely casual and in true murderbot fashion treated as just an irritating thing to deal with or (preferably) ignore until it's possible to go back to watching media, it's great.

Wells is so good at exploring that line, I just love the books so much.

[murderbot-moodboard]

Murderbot: I swear on my life.

Friend: I've seen how you treat your life, swear on something else.

[ghosthorse]

out of all the media murderbot mentions, cruel romance personage is easily my favorite

[rowan-ashtree]

ART and Murderbot themed nail art!!!