#tmbd art

[ghostcashewart]

guess who ended up drawing a comic of an entire scene from Artificial Condition

[riseandfallofsecunit]

How I imagine this conversation went

[crabs-brencil]

jumpstart yo secunit

[drone-three]

Murderbot is living rent free in my brain. Also, I suck at backgrounds, so…

Pose reference: Justin Martin

[sanctuarymoonfan397]

[unbizzarre]

One-Esk, Murderbot, and A.R.T. watch "2001 a Space Odyssey - The Musical"

Meanwhile...

Creator’s Note: I made some more incredibly niche crossover content! Three of my favorite fictional robots/AI hanging out. This scene popped into my head when I was rereading the scene in artificial condition where ART was afraid to watch certain shows with secunit because it would get too upset if the ship cremembers in the show were endangered. (Probably the cutest moment in the whole series TBH, and definitely the moment I became 1000% on board with ART as a character.) I had a lot of fun imagining the characters reactions and trying to pick out what they should watch for their pajama movie night (obviously it had to be a musical for breq, and include space ships for ART). Hope you enjoy!

Also, here's a text-free version of my drawing, which you are welcome to use/edit/draw-over however you'd like:

Post script: if you like Martha Wells Murderbot Diaries, you should definitely check out Ann Leckie’s Ancillary Justice trilogy, or vice versa. More angry traumatized non-binary human-ai constructs for all! Mega-latestage-capitolist dystopia, or xenophobic -imperialist-socialist empire? Sentient space ships? C’mon. Just read both series u know you’ll love it.

[ghostsandyoumightdie]

I've not finished The Murderbot Diaries yet, so I've not looked up any fanart, but I'm curious how people are drawing humanized!ART (Because of COURSE they're drawing humanizations of the bots. Why wouldn't they?).

If they're drawing it like a Tumblr twink I'm gonna be real disappointed because I imagine it as big and forboding in a, like, administrative way.

Like at first you look at it, and it's just some person in a work polo and khakis typing away at its computer. You try to talk to it, and it does help you, even if it does kindof talk to you like you're the biggest idiot on the planet.

But then something happens and your work computer has a huge problem. And you call like 10 people, but none of them have access, so they eventually tell you you have to call ART. So you do, and you watch it walk in -- and you realize this admin is almost like 7 feet tall and has the bulk to match, and when it leans over your shoulder to look at your screen you feel like something has blotted out the sun. And it does fix the problem -- of course it does -- but in the process you realize it has a problematic amount of admin access to all the work systems. Possibly more than the CEO themself has. You ask it about the admin access, but the look it gives you makes you think that if you probed further, you'd somehow end up getting transferred to another worksite, despite ART not having any employee management authority on paper.

So you keep your mouth shut and get back to work. You get a ticket resolution reminder email before ART even gets back to its office.

And somehow, the internet runs faster on your computer now.

[celestialcass]

rough animation of 'humanoid' ART waiting for Murderbot

[writing-is-a-martial-art]

messily divorced (platonic) has got to be my favorite dynamic of all time

[bytheredmoon]

@ego-meliorem-esse you gave me a tablet and I used its divine power to create my dream blunt rotation

Breq (definitely human from Gerentate, not Justice of Toren) and Rin (definitely human security consultant, not Murderbot)

[goops-art]

LERNING HOW TO BECOME FRIENDS 101

1- Get a bunch of seriels

Thats it

[ghostcashewart]

how many pings will it take for secunit to stop sulking?

[aspenispoplar]

Whenever Murderbot mentions something about recording video directly from its eyes I like to imagine that the resulting video also comes with all the weird human vision quirks.

MB crosses its eyes and its humans sitting on the couch watching are like what the fuck SecUnit are you okay. Why does your video look like that

MB is looking at the sky and sending the video to ART. Some eye floater guys float in and ART has no idea what they are because literally nobody at PUOMNT has written a research paper on them yet. (They do exist but they were made in the Rim and then got bought/stolen by augment companies with a bundle of other optical research)

[crabs-brencil]

occupational hazard

[drone-three]

Messing with some energy weapon ideas for Murderbot's arms.

There is a reference that the inorganic parts around the weapons ports may look like augments, but the weapons ports look like weapons ports. Also, when Murderbot was at Milu, it commented that the skin on its fingers was sensitive enough to be able to feel the release catch for Abene's helmet, so it has skin there. And given it can pass for human with its sleeves down, in my mind the hands look human. So there we go.

Of course, my idea of what its arms and hands look like may change upon next re-read. :D

[sanctuarymoonfan397]

A little ART i doodled while trying to figure out how to draw it and MB