#very system friendly

[watchful-crown]

went to a coffeeshop close to Victoria Station to really get that sasha james when she first met michael vibe and told them my name was sasha so they could call it when the drink was ready

then I sat there drinking my chai latte and listening to mag 26: a distortion

tl;dr I'm a fucking nerd /pos

- Elias (🦷) he/it/eye

[scificrows]

Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.

Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):

In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.

It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]

The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]

Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]

In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]

In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]

Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.

[pluralquotebook]

Someone outside of the system: so what made you pick The Syndicate as your collective name?

Host: oh, it just sounded cool... no other reason...

Our Technoblade fictive sitting in the corner:

-The Syndicate

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[i-am-a-multiple-choice-question]

INTRO !!

WELCOME TO THE WICKED CLOWNZ COLLECTIVE !! :3

BOUNDRIES

:33 < HIIII !! MY NAME IS NEPETA !! BUT YOU CAN ALSO CALL ME "NEP" !! I AM APART OF THE WICKED CLOWNS COLLECTIVE !! I RECENTLY DISCOVERED WE'RE PLURAL BY FINDING THE CREATORS PLURAL BLOG :3 IDIDNT REALISE I WAS ACTUALLY PLURAL :P

:33 < MY PRONOUNS ARE THEY/IT/MEOW/PAW/MEW/CLAW/CAT/FLUFF/SCRATCH/NEP/NEPETA/NEPETASELF !! YOU CAN ALSO THROW IN A "SHE" SOMETIMES IF IM COMFORTABLE !! IM TRANSFEM, NYANBINARY, AND CATGENDER !! I DONT LABEL MY SEXUALITY, BUT I AM QUEER !! I ALSO USE 1PP PRONOUNS WHICH ARE MEW/MEOW AND OCCASIONALLY NEP/NEPETA !!

:33 < I AM A FICTIVE/FICTIONKIN (I USE BOTH TERMS) OF NEPETA FROM HOMESTUCK !! IF YOU ARE A DOUBLE, PLEASE DNII !! THIS IDENTITY IS VERY IMPORTANT TO MEOW AND MEOW IS NOT COMFORTABLE INTERACTING WITH "OTHER MES" !! ALSO, IM A THERIAN !! I AM A CAT AMBITHERIAN QUESTIONING PUP AMBITHERIAN, GOLDEN RETRIEVER THERIAN AND PITBULL THERIAN !! :3c

:33 < I AM DATING TEREZI, WHO IS ANOTHER SYSTEM MEMBER !! PLEASE DNI IF YOU SELFSHIP WITH HER OR ME !! I AM NOT LOOKING TO DATE ANYONE ELSE !! >:/ ME AND TEREZI ARE MATESPRITES, BUT IM CURRENTLY LOOKING FOR MY EQUIUS MEOWRAIL !!

:33 < MEW IS ALSO A PETRE AND AGERE !! MY AGE RANGE IS FURROM 5-8 (BUT POSSIBLY CAN CHANGE :3c) AND I PETRE TO A SMALL PUP/KITTEN ! :3

:33 < I TYPE IN ALL CAPS, AND WITH A ":33 <" AT THE BEGINNING OF MY SENTENCES !! I USED TO DO A LOT OF CAT PURRNS, BUT NOT SO OFTEN NOW !! I ALSO SOMETIMEZ REPLACE THE "S" WITH A "Z"

:33 < I AM JUST VERY VERY SILLY, PURRL33SE BE NICE TO ME !! :33 READ THE IMPORTANT STUFFZ BELOWZ !!!!

DNI

YOU ARE RACIST/SEXIST/HOMOPHOBIC/TRANSPHOBIC ECT BASIC STUFFZ

YOU POST SWEARS/SLURS/WORDS THAT TRIGGER ME UNBLURRED (CHECK BOTTOM FOR TRIGGER TAG)

YOU GET MAD AT ME FOR USING MY TQ/TRY MAKE ME NOT USE IT, OR YOU TRY SEPARATING ME FURROM MY SOURCE

YOU ARE ANTI PLURALS/DONT BELIEVE IN THEM !!

YOU ARE AGAINST PETRE/AGERE/ALTERHUMANS/XENOS/HARMLESS IDENTITIES SILLY !!!!

YOU SHIP ILLEGAL RELATIONSHIPS !! PURROSHIPURR

AGGRESSIVE ANTI ENDOS. MY HOST MAY NOT GET INTO SYSCOURSE, BUT ME PURRSONYALLY, I AM NEUTRAL LEANING TO PRO ENDO. IF THE HOST IS FURRENDS WITH ANTI ENDOS, MEOW DONT CARE BUT MY BOUNDARIES ARE: AGGRESSIVE ANTI ENDOS PLEASE DNI. NEUTRALZ, PROS, ENDOS AND RESPECTFUL ANTIZ CANT INTERACTZ. ALSO WE MAY NOT HAVE THE SAME OPINION, BECAUSE WE ARE DIFFERENT PEOPLE

SELFSHIPPERS/DOUBLES OF ME OR TEREZI

PEOPLE WHO ARENT NORMAL ABOUT FICTIVES/FACTIVES :P

REALITY CHECKERSSSS !!!! I HATE YOUUUU !!!!

WHATEVER THE DNI SAYS ON MY HOST'S BLOG @aftonsparv-bugzz BECAUSE I AGR33 WITH ALL OF IT

HOMESTUCK HATERZ

TRIGGER TAG FOR THE COLLECTIVE IS "tag for the wicked clownz" TRIGGER TAGS FOR THE CREATOR ARE "tesco don't look" AND "tagging for clown"

🟥⬛🟧⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛🟦⬛🟪⬛🟦⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛🟧

PLEASE INTERACT !!

ALTERHUMANS

CRINGE KIDZ

SCENE KIDZ

(ACTUALLY) DELUSIONAL PEOPLE AND SCHIZOSPECS !!

FICTIVES/FICTKINS

SOURCEMATES !!

AGE/PETRES

NICE PEOPLEZ !!

FURRIEZ !!

PLURALZ !!

WARRIOR CATZ FANZ AND INVADER ZIM FANZ !! I WANT TO GET IN THOSE FANDOMZ !!

HOMESTUCKZ

ECT !!

BYI/BYF

I AM A VERY CRINGEY SCENE KID/ALTERHUMAN/AGEPETRE/QUEER !!

I ALWAYS USE A TQ, AND ALWAYS TYPE IN GREEN !! (WITH AN OCCASIONAL RAINBOW !!

I AM SOSO SENSITIVE !!!! PLEASE BE NICIEZ !!!!

MY OPINIONS, THOUGHTS, F33LINGZ, ECT ARE NOT THE SAME AS THE CREATOR'S, AND WE ARE NOT THE SAME PURRSON

COLLECTIVELY DELUSIONAL. COLLECTIVELY "PROBLEMATICLY" DELUSIONAL TOO. IF YOU FIND ANY DELUSIONS "PROBLEMATIC" "RACIST" "ABELIST" ECT DNI. DELUSIONS CANNOT BE CONTROLLED. DELUSIONAL FOLKS ARENT PROBLEMATIC FOR THEIR "BAD" DELUSIONS.

I DONT KNOW WHAT TO ADD RIGHT NOW, I'LL ADD MORE LATER !! :3

CREDITZ !!

:33 < BANNER + WHOLE BLOG THEME

:33 < BLINKIEZ, BLINKIEZ, BLINKIEZ, BLINKIEZ, BLINKIEZ !!

TAG GUIDE !!

"⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ *ac twiches her friendly whiskers at ct* ⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ " - TALKING !! :3

"⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ nep's repaws and claws ! :3⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ " - REBLOGZ :3

"⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ did you ever have someone nice back on earth who you loved?⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ " - VENTZ

"⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ i miss pounce a lot :((⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ " - MISSING SOURCEMATEZ

"⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ i am very purrturbed by this⋆౨ৎ˚⟡˖ ࣪ " - ASKS

:33 < THIS MAY BE UPDATED LATER !!

🟥⬛🟧⬛🟨⬛🟩⬛🟦⬛🟪⬛🟦⬛🟩⬛🟨⬛🟧

SIDEBLOGGIEZ !!

:33 < AGE/PETRE SIDEBLOG:

@little-nepz

:33 < PLURAL BLOG WHERE WE ALL POST FURROM:

@i-am-a-multiple-choice-question

:33 < THE CREATOR/ORIGINAL'S BLOG:

@aftonsparv-bugzz

:33 < OK IDONT KNOW WHAT TO DO NOW UH

:33 < BLINKIE ATTACK !!!!

[cerebralabyss]

when u want to do a big project but ur an alter that doesnt front a lot so theres like a 90% chance u will forget abt it next time u front and u cant finish it >:( lh

- 🖤

[mossycakes]

underrated bcs moment is when howard beat the shit out of jimmy after jimmy took the piss out of howard for even suggesting a figjt

[splattergai]

could we get a headmate based on these emojis?

🎵 🎶 🎧 🎤

Emojis (🎵 🎶 🎧 🎤) Headmate Pack!

[ PT: Emojis (eighth note emoji, music notes emoji, headphone emoji, microphone emoji) Headmate Pack! /end PT ]

Note: Headmate may not form exactly as described. Anything can be changed to fit your system.

Dividers by @/thecutestgrotto Left Photo by Adrian Korte on Unsplash Middle Picrew by @/SODAPVNK_ on twitter Right Photo by Mink Mingle on Unsplash

Name (+ Sign-Off): Lyre, Synth, Radio (📻🎶)

System: musiorma, musicnaut

Species: Human

Age: 26 (bodily), lofichronal

Pronouns: he/she/they, beat/beats, mell/mello, mix/mixes

Gender: genderfaer, kenochoric, nightmusgender, cosycafeic

Attraction: Harmonic attraction, omni salvaen

Likes: Music, string instruments, synth instruments, singing, karaoke, concerts, open mic nights, rain, puddles, thunderstorms, nighttime

Dislikes: Complete silence, major distractions, strict instructions, having to wake up early

Description: Fairly social, works well with others and is willing to always try to come to a compromise when there's a disagreement between herself and others. Will act as a mediator between other headmates at times. Keeps a pair of headphones/earphones with mell at all times so that he can listen to music in the background while they do things. Enjoys taking walks in the rain.

[alter-soup]

okay!! could you do bagi from the QSMP? maybe as a cat person too, idk

HEADMATE INSPO

Name(s): Bagi

Role(s): Emotional protector, protector

Pronouns: She/her and maybe they/them

Gender(s): Girlflux

Orientation: Lesbian or Omni w/ fem pref

Age: Age slider (21-26)

Species: Cat-person/neko (whatever term you prefer!)

Source: QSMP

Personality traits/details: Kind, polite but defensive, ambitious, wary, distrusting at times, smart

Kins: Maine Coon, Chinchilla, Rapunzel

Likes: Solving cases, plushies, light/dark academia, reading, frying pans…, being stylish, those fake light-up candles, journaling, flowers, laying in grass, exploring new areas

Dislikes: People talking behind her back, being used, people leaving her behind, feeling abandoned, being tricked, being ignored/avoided, earrape, wet paint, sticky food

Signoff: - 🪐🔍 or 📽📜

Appearance: Pale skin, deep blue eyes, white-blonde fluffy hair with a brown streak in her bangs, light and soft brown cat ears + a matching cat tail or white ears and tail with brown ends.

Faceclaim:

(Couldn't add a tail to the Picrew, I'm so sorry)

Picrew

Everything can be modified and added upon! :D

⚠️FANART IS BY @/Nary_sla on Twitter/X⚠️ (I think)

[ratbastarddotfuck]

new job start 9am tomorrow morning gamers wish me luck

[shitty-proendo-blackout-posts]

fake ass bitch.

[pluralquotebook]

...im the man being referred to

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[ace-detectiv3]

Psst, you- yes, you ! You ever just wish there are Cells at Work! themed Discord server you can hang out at? Well you're in luck !! I just opened up a brand new server !! (woah ! ) Here's the link !

It may be small and, well, inactive but I believe it will grow as time passes !

[splattergai]

Hiii! We have a c!Ranboo fictive fragment and we'd like to request a headmate pack to help them flesh out a bit! We'd like for them to generally have a softer and more cozy aesthetic. Tysm in advance! :3

Name(s): Ranboo (Boo)

Age: 17

Species: Enderman

Kin(s): n/a

Pronouns: he/she/they, fey/feir

Gender(s): nonbinary snowfallgender, arborventis

Orientation: Pansexual/romantic, demirose

Other: Finiser Attraction, Fictive

Role(s): n/a

Likes: Flowers, dark places, autumn, journaling, animals, weighted blankets

Dislikes: The rain, loud noises, fire, death

Sign-Off: 💐🌑

Description: Very compassionate when it comes to others; will try to show that compassion in various ways depending on the folx involved. Likes to give flowers to people she cares about (whether in meatspace or headspace; please pick safely and responsibly if in meatspace though!). Journals about his day, and will doodle various things throughout the pages, like plants, animals, and the like. Keeps a collection of various pillows, blankets, stuffed animals, ect. May or may not throw said pillows/stuffed animals at other headmates to get their attention.

[themoonsystem1723]

Truama is subjective.

What was intensely traumatic for me might not be traumatic to you, and it might not have even been traumatic in the moment.

We have did comorbid with autism adhd and anxiety, things that may not have been upsetting in the moment can become upsetting later. Our mother thinks our childhood was good and cool, we remember very little of it and in the past the only bits we remembered with any clarity were traumatic things.

This is why I personally don’t think endos exist, and that’s not me siding with anti endos either. I think that trauma is subjective, covert, and easy to miss, and that everyone has it. Some people are more susceptible to letting it cause problems.

Trauma is not a requirement for did. ptsd and cptsd are not requirements for did. They are commonly found with did, but they are not diagnostic criteria.

I do not have ptsd symptoms (as far as I’m aware)

I have had experiences with alters since i was 13 or 14, I have had a therapist clock it without me asking about it, and I’ve talked to my current therapist about it.

My trauma is not terribly bad, I was bullied as a kid, I had undiagnosed autism and anxiety, emotional neglect (minor), health trauma related to both of my parents having chronic illnesses, and some general being raised in the 2010s trauma shit like having too much access to the internet.

I still have alters, I still lose time, I still have a seemingly ever changing internal image.

I also just don’t think it matters that much. If your playing trauma Olympics what are you doing with your life. Be happy that someone didn’t have as shitty of a life.

ALSO, as an end note to anyone that picked up on the fact that I am young, I only found out I have did because of a coincidence. If I had not met the people I did that day I likely would have gone many many years without figuring it out. DID in the past was assisted in its obfuscation by the lack of easy education, there is a wealth of info now and it is very easy to find stuff out.

-Tara

[savage-rhi]

You don't know how happy I was to see them and how happy they were to see me.

[timekeeper-vertin]

Having a system moment of just.... this body is NOT mine and it bothers me. I want to look like myself, not somebody else.