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Happy Halloween!
Here's an eerie song, a fannish classic, and also a total bop about SPACE GHOSTS
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Cyber Punk knew this was a terrible idea. He had a program running statistical analysis in the background as he skimmed through news articles about their latest fight, and all the numbers added up to 100% stupidity. He shouldnât be here; the risk of being caught rose exponentially with every minute he stayed. Even with the makeup and hair gel washed off, even in jeans and a hoodie instead of his tight black-and-neon studded leather costume, there was a chance Bright Blaze would recognize him when he woke. If he woke. He would, of course he wouldâeveryone knew the cityâs hero always got back up after a fight. But the speed of his recovery would affect Cyber Punkâs future plots, so he had to see it for himself. That was why he was here, in the hospital, at his enemyâs bedside. No other reason.
literally OBSESSED with Operation: Boyfriend by @worldsentwined and iâm so fcken jazzed that i got to draw the main characters, sasha and charlie :â)))
if you like extremely flustery crushes poorly disguised as supervillainous moral crises, enemies to lovers, plotty amnesia and guys who are a little too close to actual sunshine (read: Literally On Fire), you should give it a read!!!!!
#operation: boyfriend#kiraly#worldsentwined#commission#art commission#the art tag#the commission tag#the portfolio tag
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Bringing this back, since the day is approaching!
Hereâs the first of my gifts for the FTH Auction! This is for @naomilibicki, a drawing of her character Hlbiri-jimbhi. (I am SO excited for you all to be able to read her book some day, it is amazing!)
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Inspired by @worldsentwinedâs felted mole and other excellent mole god renditions, here is my own little version of @meganwhalenturnerâs mole god, patron of making bad art
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Murderbot Citations
I'm writing a giant research paper on the murderbot diaries and how Wells contrasts utopia & dystopia in her worldbuilding to deepen both sets of lore. So, I have made a LOT of citations.
Like, a LOT of citations. I can't even begin to describe. and it has been a royal pain getting them all on the computer, formatted correctly, with page # and book attached.
So. I decided to publish my giant list of citations online in case anyone else wants to do posts/papers/projects on the murderbot diaries and needs formatted, direct quotes with page numbers attached. (Also to feel like all this work has been for more than just my own academic needs.)
TLDR: A compilation of quotes from The Murderbot Diaries with page numbers attached, ready to be adjusted to the citation style of your choice & used as in-text citations where you see fit to put them. Enjoy!
ASR = All Systems Red
AC = Artificial Condition
RP = Rogue Protocol
ES = Exit Strategy
NE = Network Effect
FT = Fugitive Telemetry
SC = System Collapse
I use 'mb' as shorthand for murderbot
It's mostly ASR, with some NE and FT thrown in, but I put all the abbreviations in case I wind up coming back and putting more citations here
My list is organized according to how I'm writing the paper (all ones about surveillance here, all the ones about contract slavery there, etc.), so the page numbers are not in order, and there might be a repeat or two, but they are in book order. some of them might be repeated bc I had them formatted in lists like "all quotes related to ___) and some quotes relate to multiple things.
if you're looking specifically for gender-related mb quotes, @worldsentwined made a wonderful post collecting them a while back. I also have a few other murderbot posts that have quotes in them that might not be here, including a reblog where a bunch of lovely people added extra citations onto my original post. I hope you find what you're looking for!
All Systems Red
âI had been on contracts where the clients would have told me to put the bleeding human down to go get the stuff.â (15) ASR
âThere were groans and general complaining about having to pay high prices for shitty equipment. (I donât take it personally.)â (31) ASR crossover w slavery
âMy education modules were such cheap crap;â (34) ASR
âIâm not refundable.â (49) ASR
â(You had to check everything out and log any problems immediately when you took delivery or the company wasnât liable.)â (52) ASR
âIt was all company equipment though, per contract, and all subject to the same malfunctions as the crap theyâd dumped on us.â (58) ASR
ââThe company could be bribed to conceal the existence of several hundred survey teams on this planet.â Survey teams, whole cities, lost colonies, traveling circuses, as long as they thought they could get away with it. I just didnât see how they could get away with making a client survey teamâtwo client survey teamsâvanish. Or why theyâd want to. There were too many bond companies out there, too many competitors. Dead clients were terrible for business. âI donât think the company would collude with one set of clients to kill two other sets of clients. You purchased a bond agreement that the company would guarantee your safety or pay compensation in the event of your death or injury. Even if the company couldnât be held liable or partially liable for your deaths, they would still have to make the payment to your heirs. DeltFall was a large operation. The death payout for them alone will be huge.â And the company hated to spend money.â (90) ASR
âThe organic parts mostly sleep, but not always. You know somethingâs happening. They were trying to purge my memory. Weâre too expensive to destroy.â (116) ASR
âThe company required this as a security feature if you wanted your base to be anywhere without open terrain around it. It cost extra, and if you didnât want it, it cost even more to guarantee your bond.â (124) ASR
âOkay, the problem is, Iâve mentioned this before, the company is cheap. When it comes to something like a beacon that just has to launch once if thereâs an emergency, send a transmission through the wormhole, and then never gets retrieved, theyâre very cheap.â (137) ASR
âI said, âThis unit is at minimal functionality and it is recommended that you discard it.â Itâs an automatic reaction triggered by catastrophic malfunctionâŚ. âYour contract allowsââ âShut up,â Mensah snapped.â (139) ASR
ââŚweâre cheaply produced and we suck. Nobody would hire one of us for non-murdering purposes unless they had to.â (34) ASR
âIn a smart world, I should go alone, but with the governor module I had to be within a hundred meters of at least one of the clients at all times, or it would fry me.â (37) ASR
âI walked out a little way, past a couple of the lakes, almost expecting to see something under the surface. Dead bodies, maybe. Iâd seen plenty of those (and caused plenty of those) on past contracts, but this one had been dead-body-lacking, so far. It made for a nice change.â (44) ASR
âThis is how we fight: throw ourselves at each other and see whose parts give out first.â (69) ASR
ââDr. Mensah,â I said, âthis is a violation of security priority and I am contractually obligated to record this for report to the companyââ It was in the buffer and the rest of my brain was empty.â (73) ASR
âThe DeltFall SecUnits hadnât been rogues, they had been inserted with combat override modules. The modules allow personal control over a SecUnit, turn it from a mostly autonomous construct into a gun puppet. The feed would be cut off, control would be over the comm, but functionality would depend on how complex the orders were. âKill the humansâ isnât a complex order.â (75) ASR
ââBecause if the company wanted to sabotage you, they would have poisoned your supplies using the recycling systems. The company is more likely to kill you by accident.ââ (81) ASR
âI said, âI did not hack my governor module to kill my clients. My governor module malfunctioned because the stupid company only buys the cheapest possible components. It malfunctioned and I lost control of my systems and I killed them. The company retrieved me and installed a new governor module. I hacked it so it wouldnât happen again.â (81) ASR
"âDo they really expect to get away with this?â Ratthi turned to me, like he was expecting an answer.â (105)
ââThey may believe the company and whoever your beneficiaries are wonât look any further than the rogue SecUnits. But they canât make two whole survey teams disappear unless their corporate or political entity doesnât care about them. Does DeltFallâs care? Does yours?â (105) ASR
âFreehold meant it had been terraformed and colonized but wasnât affiliated with any corporate confederations. Basically freehold generally meant shitshow so I hadnât been expecting much from them. But they were surprisingly easy to work for.â (26) ASR
âThe other good thing about my hacked governor module is that I could ignore the governorâs instructions to defend the stupid company.â (48) ASR
âI had a moment to feel betrayed, which was stupid. Volescu was my client, and Iâd saved his life because that was my job, not because I liked him.â (79-80) ASR
âOne saw me and Ratthi and said, âAgain, this is irregular. Purging the unitâs memory before it changes hands isnât just a policy, itâs best for theââ (143) ASR
âMaybe it would work out. This was what I was supposed to want. This was what everything had always told me I was supposed to want. Supposed to want.â (147) ASR
âMurderbots arenât allowed to ride with the humans and I had to have verbal permission to enter. With my cracked governor there was nothing to stop me, but not letting anybody, especially the people who held my contract, know that I was a free agent was kind of important. Like, not having my organic components destroyed and the rest of me cut up for parts important.â (14) ASR
âIâm always supposed to speak respectfully to the clients, even when theyâre about to accidentally commit suicide. HubSystem could log it and it could trigger punishment through the governor module.â (15) ASR
ââŚif it monitored the governor module and my feed like it was supposed to, it could lead to a lot of awkward questions and me being stripped for parts.â (31) ASR
âI had worked for some contracts that would have kept me standing here the entire day and night cycle, just on the off chance they wanted me to do something and didnât want to bother using the feed to call me.â (33) ASR
âI donât know why I was dancing around the word. Maybe because I thought she didnât want to hear it. Sheâd just shot a heavily armed SecUnit with a mining drill to get me back; presumably she wanted to keep me.â (76) ASR
âThen Mensah said quietly, âSecUnit, do you have a name?â I wasnât sure what she wanted. âNo.â âIt calls itself âMurderbot,ââ Gurathin said." (82) ASR
âTo them, talking to me was like talking to a hopper or a piece of mining equipment.â (127) ASR
âI know I said SecUnits arenât sentimental about each other, but I wished it wasnât one of the DeltFall units. It was in there somewhere, trapped in its own head, maybe aware, maybe not. Not that it matters. None of us had a choice.â (132) ASR
âGuardian was a nicer word than owner.â (148) ASR
âIâve purchased your contract.â (145) ASR
âHe said, âGood news! Dr. Mensah has permanently bought your contract! Youâre coming home with us!â (141) ASR
âIâm off inventory.â They had told me that and maybe it was true.â (145) ASR
âSecSystem records everything, even inside the sleeping cabins, and I see everything.â (30) ASR
âI was supposed to check their personal logs periodically in case they were plotting to defraud the company or murder each other or somethingâŚâ (57) ASR
âOne of the reasons the bond company requires it, besides slapping more expensive markups on their clients, is that I was recording all their conversations all the time, though I wasnât monitoring anything I didnât need to do a half-assed version of my job. But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they donât tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, thereâs nothing you can do about it.â (27-28) ASR
âNow they knew their murderbot didnât want to be around them any more than they wanted to be around it. Iâd given a tiny piece of myself away. That canât happen. I have too much to hide, and letting one piece go means the rest isnât as protected.â (33-34) ASR
âNo one would be shooting at me because they didnât shoot people there. Mensah didnât need a bodyguard there; nobody did. It sounded like a great place to live, if you were a human or augmented human.â (146) ASR
âIf thereâs a chance we can save lives, we have to take it,â Pin-Lee agreed.â (57) ASR
âThey were the first clients Iâd had who hadnât had any previous experience with SecUnitsâ (40) ASR
ââYou have to think of it as a person,â Pin-Lee said to Gurathin.â (95) ASR
ââIt is a person,â Arada insisted.â âI do think of it as a person,â Gurathin said. âAn angry, heavily armed person who has no reason to trust us.â âThen stop being mean to it,â Ratthi told him. âThat might help.ââ (96) ASR
âOverse added, âIt doesnât want to interact with humans. And why should it? You know how constructs are treated, especially in corporate-political environments.ââ (107) ASR
ââYou know, in Preservation-controlled territory, bots are considered full citizens. A construct would fall under the same category.â He said this in the tone of giving me a hint. Whatever. Bots who are âfull citizensâ still have to have a human or augmented human guardian appointed, usually their employer; Iâd seen it on the news feeds.â (112) ASR
âRatthi smiled at the console. âBecause Dr. Mensah is our political entity.â He made a little gesture, turning his hand palm up. âWeâre from Preservation Alliance, one of the non-corporate system entities. Dr. Mensah is the current admin director on the steering committee. Itâs an elected position, with a limited term. But one of the principles of our home is that our admins must also continue their regular work, whatever it is. Her regular work required this survey, so here she is, and here we are.ââ (111) ASR
âRatthi came over to see if I was all right, and I asked him to tell me about Preservation and how Mensah lived there. He said when she wasnât doing admin work, she lived on a farm outside the capital city, with two marital partners, plus her sister and brother and their three marital partners, and a bunch of relatives and kids who Ratthi had lost count of.â (147) ASR
âRatthi sighed. âOh, yes, they know. You would not believe what we had to pay to guarantee the bond on the survey. These corporate arseholes are robbers.ââ (112) ASR
ââBecause the scanners suck corporation balls,â Pin-Lee muttered.â (42) ASR
âOf course I need you. I have no experience in anything like this. None of us do. Sometimes humans canât help but let emotion bleed through into the feed. She was furious and frightened, not at me, at the people who would do this, kill like this,â (107-108) ASR
âI said, âThis unit is at minimal functionality and it is recommended that you discard it.â Itâs an automatic reaction triggered by catastrophic malfunction. Also, I really didnât want them to try to move me because it hurt bad enough the way it was. âYour contract allowsââ âShut up,â Mensah snapped. âYou shut the fuck up. Weâre not leaving you.ââ (139) ASR
"I had flashes off and on. The inside of the little hopper, my humans talking, Arada holding my hand." (140) ASR
âWe had a problem at the hatch of the big hopper where Mensah wanted to get in last and I wanted to get in last. As a compromise, I grabbed her around the waist and swung us both up into the hatch as the ramp pulled in after us. I set her on her feet and she said, âThank you, SecUnit,â while the others stared.â (99) ASR
ââI know youâre more comfortable with keeping your helmet opaque, but the situation has changed. We need to see you.ââ (103) ASR
ââItâs usually better if humans think of me as a robot,â I said.â (103) ASR
ââMaybe, under normal circumstances.â She was looking a little off to one side, not trying to make eye contact, which I appreciated. âBut this situation is different. It would be better if they could think of you as a person who is trying to help. Because thatâs how I think of you.â My insides melted. Thatâs the only way I could describe it. After a minute, when I had my expression under control, I cleared the face plate and had it and the helmet fold back into my armor. She said, âThank you,â and I followed her up into the hopper.â (104) ASR
âThey were saying things like I didnât even know it had a face.â (21) ASR
âArada and Pin-Lee didnât try to talk to me, and Ratthi actually looked away when I eased past him to get to the cockpit. They were all so careful not to look at me or talk to me directly that as soon as we were in the air I did a quick spot check through HubSystemâs records of their conversations.â (39) ASR
âThey had talked it over and all agreed not to âpush me any further than I wanted to goâ and they were all so nice and it was just excruciating.â (40) ASR
âThat was when I realized they werenât ignoring the possibility of sabotage.â (43) ASR
âThis is why I didnât want to come. Iâve got four perfectly good humans here and I didnât want them to get killed by whatever took out DeltFall. Itâs not like I cared about them personally, but it would look bad on my record, and my record was already pretty terrible.â (60) ASR
âIt was nice having a human smart enough to work with like this.â (67) ASR
âI do a half-assed job sometimes, okay, most of the time, but Pin-Lee had checked, too, and she was thorough.â (71) ASR
âIt was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer, even if she didnât look like the ones on the entertainment feed.â (73) ASR
âI hoped they hadnât been stupid about it, too soft-hearted to kill me.â (77) ASR
âMy clients are the best clients.â (78) ASR
âBut I think the fact that the Unit has been acting to preserve our lives, to take care of us, while it was a free agent, gives us even more reason to trust it.ââ (80) ASR
âOverse sounded mad. âIt told us about the combat module, it told us to kill it. Why the hell would it do that if it wanted to hurt us?ââ (81) ASR
âBefore anyone else could move, Mensah said, calm and even, âSecUnit, Iâd appreciate it if you put Gurathin down, please.â Sheâs a really good commander. Iâm going to hack her file and put that in. If sheâd gotten angry, shouted, let the others panic, I donât know what would have happened.â (84-85) ASR
âShe continued, âI would like you to remain part of our group, at least until we get off this planet and back to a place of safety. At that point, we can discuss what youâd like to do. But I swear to you, I wonât tell the company, or anyone outside this room, anything about you or the broken module.ââ (86) ASR
âOf course she had to say that. What else could she do. I tried to decide whether to believe it or not, or whether it mattered, when I was hit by a wave of I donât care. And I really didnât. I said, âOkay.ââ (86) ASR
ââWe have to shut it down, or itâs going to kill us.â Then he winced and looked at me. âSorry, I meant HubSystem.ââ (86-87) ASR
âThen Arada came up and patted my shoulder. âIâm sorry. This must be very upsetting. After what that other Unit did to you . . . Are you all right?â That was too much attention. I turned around and walked into the corner, facing away from them.â (87) ASR
âI should keep my mouth shut, keep them thinking of me as their normal obedient SecUnit, stop reminding them what I was. But I wanted them to be careful.â (92) ASR
ââIf a strange survey group landed here, all friendly, saying they had just arrived, and oh, weâve had an equipment failure or our MedSystemâs down and we need help, you would let them in. Even if I told you not to, that it was against company safety protocol, youâd do it.â Not that Iâm bitter, or anything. A lot of the companyâs rules are stupid or just there to increase profit, but some of them are there for a good reason.â (92-93) ASR
[I cited this whole conversation bc I wasn't sure exactly what bits I wanted to use. apologies for the giant block text.]
âRatthiâs expression was troubled. âBut surely . . . Itâs clear you have feelingsâââ (54)
âShe looked up, frowning. âRatthi, what are you doing?â Ratthi shifted guiltily. âI know Mensah asked us not to, butââ He waved a hand. âYou saw it.â Overse pulled her interface off. âYouâre upsetting it,â she said, teeth gritted. âThatâs my point!â He gestured in frustration. âThe practice is disgusting, itâs horrible, itâs slavery. This is no more a machine than Gurathin isââ Exasperated, Overse said, âAnd you donât think it knows that?â Iâm supposed to let the clients do and say whatever they want to me and with an intact governor module I wouldnât have a choice.â (54) ASR
âIâm also not supposed to snitch on clients to anybody except the company, but it was either that or jump out the hatch. I sent the conversation into the feed tagged for Mensah. From the cockpit, she shouted, âRatthi! We talked about this!â I slid out of the seat and went to the back of the hopper, as far away as I could get, facing the supply lockers and the head. It was a mistake; it wasnât a normal thing for a SecUnit with an intact governor module to do, but they didnât notice. âIâll apologize,â Ratthi was saying. âNo, just leave it alone,â Mensah told him. âThat would just make it worse,â Overse added.â (55) ASR
Network Effect
âHumans in the Preservation alliance didn't have to sign up for contract labor and get shipped off to mines or whatever for 80 to 90 percent of their lifespans. There was some strange system where they all got their food and shelter and education and medical for free, no matter what job they did.â (35-36) NE
â...it was a natural mistake on Aradaâs part. In Preservation culture asking payment for anything considered necessary for living (food, power sources, education, the feed, etc.) was considered outrageous, but asking payment for life-saving help was right up there with cannibalism.â (201) NE
âThere were "free" bots wandering around on Preservation, though they had guardians who were technically supposed to keep track of them.â (27) NE
âPlus, it was Preservation and there were no scanning drones, no armed human security, just some on-call human medics with bot assistants and ârangersâ who mainly enforced environmental regulations and yelled at humans and augmented humans to get out of the way of the ground vehicles.â (24) NE
"Over the comm loudspeaker, Dr. Ratthi said, 'It is a person!'" (16) NE
âEven the individual humansâ feed signatures only contained info about sexual availability and gender presentation, which I didnât give a damn about.â (13) NE
âIf this went wrong I was going to feel really stupid. The Targets would finally show up and be all âWhat the hell was it trying to do to itself?ââ (305-306) NE
âThatâs one of the reasons Me 1.0 misses its armor.â (293) NE
âYou and Amena were right. 2.0 was a person. It wasnât like a baby, but it was a person.â (340) NE
âThe damage to its organic tissue and support structure is easily repaired.â (132) NE
â- because it thought you were dead. It was so upset I thought-Oh, hey, youâre hereâ (227) NE
âAmenaâs voice said âNo, it doesnât like to be touched!ââ (335) NE
ââNo, it says itâs fine,â I heard her relaying to the others on our comm. âWell, yes, itâs furious,ââ (12) NE
"It's not aliens, 2.0 said. We knew it wasn't aliens, I told it. It countered, We were seventy-two percent sure it wasn't aliens. That was an outdated assessment but I didn't need to argue with myself right now." (314) NE
Fugitive Telemetry
âPreservation had two economies, one a complicated barter system for planetary residents and one currency-based for visitors and for dealing with other polities. Most of the humans here didnât really understand how important hard currency was in the Corporation Rim but the council did, and Mensah said the port took in enough in various fees to keep the station from being a drain on the planetâs resources.â (79) FT
âThe Preservation Alliance has a weird thing about food and medical care and other thing humans need to survive being free and available anywhere.â (35) FT
âThe employment contracts for Preservation citizens were pretty simple, because their planetary legal code had so many in-built protections already. (For example, humans and augmented humans canât sign away their rights to their labor or bodily autonomy in perpetuity; thatâs like, straight-up illegal.)â (12) FT
âPreservation has high safety standards so we passed through two air walls before we got to the cargo shipâs hatch.â (70) FT
âRight now Aylen and the other officers were explaining to their individual Targets what rights they had as detainees in Preservation Alliance territory. (It was a lot of rights. I was pretty sure it was more rights than a human who hadnât been detained by Station Security had in the Corporation Rim.)â (85-86) FT
âAs part of the rights thing, Aylen had told Target Five the scanner would be on, which I thought was playing way too fair,â (89-90) FT
âStation Security was only allowed to keep the Lalow for one Preservation day-cycle before they either had to charge the crew with something or let them go.â (106) FT
âYou need a surveillance audit.â (145) âSome of those systems are under privacy lock, weâd need a judge-advocate to release their access records,â (146) FT [these are together bc its a line of dialogue from mb, a huge monologue about what a surveillance audit is, and then Indah's response, which is the thing I care about for my paper]
âMost of the stationâs clothing supply came from the planet, where human hand-made clothing and textiles were so popular there was hardly any recycler-produced fabric. (I told you Preservation is weird.)â (22) FT
âThe colony ship hadnât just been left to rot; the humans liked it too much for thatâŚPieces of clear protective material had been placed over the occasional drawings on the bulkheads, and on the pieces of paper stuck to them and covered with scribbled handwriting and faded print. Feed markers had been installed by Station Historical/Environment Management with translations into Preservation Standard Nomenclature.â (123) FT
ââŚyouâre on a giant spaceship that has been meticulously preserved as a historical artifact. If they still had intact lunch menus from however many years ago, the chances were good they still had the safety equipment.â (125) FT
âStation Security isnât armed except with those extendable batons (they donât even deliver shocks, theyâre just for hitting/holding off aggressive intoxicated humans) and the officers are only issued energy weapons when thereâs actually an energy-weapon-involved emergency.â (72) FT
ââŚthey were here to assess the damage to the transport and try to repair it. (Apparently on Preservation this would be free? Gurathin said it fell under what they called a travelerâs aid rule. In the Corporation Rim, the transport would have had tp sit there damaged and racking up fines until its owner or an ownerâs rep arrived.)â (55-56) FT
another "couldn't decide so the whole dang thing is here"
"For a name, I could use the local feed address that was hard coded into my neural interfaces. It wasnât my real name, but it was what the systems I interfaced with called me. If I used it, the humans and augmented humans I encountered would think of me as a bot. Or I could use the name Rin. I liked it, and there were some humans outside the Corporation Rim who thought it was actually my name. I could use it, and the humans on the Station wouldnât have to think about what I was, a construct made of cloned human tissue, augments, anxiety, depression, and unfocused rage, a killing machine for whichever humans rented me, until I made a mistake and got my brain destroyed by my governor module." (28) âI posted a feed ID with the name SecUnit, gender = not applicable, and no other information.â (29)
#original post#mb#murderbot#tmbd#the murderbot diaries#citations#murderbot meta#fugitive telemetry#network effect#all systems red#system collapse#rogue protocol#artificial condition#exit strategy
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OC commission from @minutia-r to @worldsentwined ! tysm â¤ď¸
[commissions open!] âââââ
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Thanks @euphcme for tagging me to make myself with this picrew!
Tagging: @thatsluttytiefling, @jamdoughnutmagician, @sleepy-insomnia-bear, @worldsentwined and @mountainwanderer!
#I love picrews theyâre so much fun#I had actually made myself with this one before and I went back and looked and I did it almost exactly the same lol
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Two Truths and a Lie!
Rules: Share two truths and one lie about yourself, tag five people to guess your lie and to share their own, make sure to guess the lie of the person who tagged you!
I was tagged by @suolakurkkutulehdus about two weeks ago, and I kept meaning to reply and not doing it /o\
Anyway! Without looking at any answers you may have given--my first instinct was to say that the earrings made with human teeth was the lie, but upon reflection it seems like the sort of thing you include to look like a lie but is actually true. Are they possibly your own milk teeth, or some sort of Victorian mourning jewelry?
My actual guess is that the lie is that you've broken your arm twice and your leg once, because that seems like the sort of lie which is plausible because it's mostly true but the numbers are wrong. Like, for instance, you've actually broken your leg twice and your arm once.
Okay, here's mine:
The only one of the Star Wars prequel trilogy I have seen is Attack of the Clones
My first online fandom was on usenet
I have never (yet) defaulted in a fic exchange
I tag @worldsentwined, @bamboocounting, @mage-pie, @ilthit, and @eightopals, and anyone who wants to guess my lie and/or tell your own; if you don't feel like it please disregard!
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Saw you down at the space bar written by Kiraly | @worldsentwined
A Murderbot/Mandalorian Podfic read by mistbornhero with a cover by @green-fifteen for the event VoiceTeam filling the challenge Role Model
Murderbot encounters a stranger at a bar. Threat assessment: inconclusive.
Podfic Length: 03:27 minutes
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Finally hung my ornaments above my desk! Luna moth is by GlassArtStories; the boys are by @reimenaashelyee and the girls are by @worldsentwined. I don't know if the people who made the hamsa have a web presence.
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First-line patterns
Thanks for the tag, @cricketnationrise!
Rules: List the first line of your last 10 (posted) fics and see if there's a pattern.
I'm gonna guess there won't be, because some are song parodies, some are drabble series, and some are more standard fics, but I guess we'll see.
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Count Claudio? [BEATRICE] He said he knew/She'd been untrue/But she's been no such thing
Like Passing Notes in Secrecy Eugenides resented being forced to dine daily with his horrible relatives and the rest of Eddisâs court.
The Thief of Queens Gen walked down the row of long cafeteria tables that had been set up in the gym, looking for board 56.
Stargazing, Skinny Dipping, and Slideshows Five minutes later, Bitty and Jacques meet at the beginning of the path down to the lake.
I Just Keep Spying on the Queen I'm afraid that he's your boyfriend
It Sure Is Exhausting, Always Being Called the Shadow Princess I have this thing where people close to me keep dying/At night I think I hear them call
Would it be enough if I could never give you peace? Irene was not much older than Eddis, but Ireneâs parents and brothers had died years before Eddisâs had, and she had, accordingly, come of age substantially sooner.
there's you in everything i do Shitty says that avoiding seeing each otherâs wedding-day outfits until the beginning of the wedding ceremony is an outdated, patriarchal tradition that needs to die and that makes no sense to carry over into a queer context, but Bitty has a complicated relationship with tradition and would like to participate in at least a few of the conventional aspects of weddings, and Jack doesnât mind.
Don't Stop Queen's-Thieving Just a gods-blessed Thief/Who occupies a lonely niche/He's a midnight sneak going anywhere
Bi Pride and a Lack of Prejudice âLizzie?â William said one night a few months into their relationship.
I'm going to say I don't notice many patterns. But anyway, I tag @cartograffiti, @eponymiad, @the-knights-who-say-book, @worldsentwined, and anyone else who wants to play!
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I was tagged by @keirgreeneyes!
Rules: Give us the links to your wonderful words with the most hits, most kudos, most comments, most bookmarks, most words, and least words.
Most hits: The Makings of Fate (Scum Villain's Self-Saving System), in which Shen Yuan transmigrates without a System, gets the hell out of dodge, and ends up as Tianlang-jun's pet cultivator. This fandom is active!
Most kudos: Bonus Material (Scum Villain's Self-Saving System), in which Shen Yuan transmigrates into a Qiu Manor servant on the night of the massacre, and ends up Shen Jiu's adopted little brother. This and Makings of Fate have a much smaller difference in kudos than in hits, which is easily explained; Makings of Fate is chaptered and was published over a period of time, whereas Bonus Material is a one-shot.
Most comments: Also The Makings of Fate.
Most bookmarks: Also Bonus Material.
Most words: Mid-Autumn Festival, part of the Lin Moniao series co-authored with minutia-r based on our Righteous Blood, Ruthless Blades TTRPG campaign. The second, third, and fourth most words are also installments in that series. They have practically no hits or kudos but that's kind of to be expected!
Least words: I have several 100 word drabbles posted as single works. And art posts with less, but that's not really the point of the question.
I'm tagging @ehrenyu @d20owlbear @minutia-r @worldsentwined
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For the art ask thing - 5, 20, 27?
!!! thank you!!!!!!!!
5. What work are you most proud of (regardless of likes/reblogs)?
gosh, honestly?? this guy!!!!
like.. it's gotten zero attention, and i'm sure a fair amount of it is i made beshelar GINGER, but 1) i was a dingus and didn't account for the warm light brown i actually made his hair when i chose the filter i then laid over top of the piece and then i spaced out on fixing the issue and 2) god i have so many complaints about the concept of an entire nation of one single skin tone and one single hair color, so he can be GINGER if i WANT him to be ginger
and just. there's. four hands in this. there's FOUR HANDS and they all RIP, plus their facial expressions, plus the draping and design of cala's AU'd robe (in the pirate au, cala isn't an Athmaza, he's a hedge maza in the republic of pirates, so i wanted the robe to be more like a smock!!), the perspective on deret's right hand, the TEA CUP, and deret's scars and proportions, like!!!! idk, this is one of those drawings that grabbed me by the throat at like 10 at night and then i came out of a fugue state about an hour and a half later with undoubtedly the best anatomy i'd ever drawn (and arguably still some of the best, though it has its issues), plus the softness the idea of such an ecstatically happy, sleep-ruffled deret instills in me..... i just. am so in love with it still. weeping crying etc etc
20. Is there anyone you'd love to collaborate with next year?
hmmmMM i've never done visual art collabs, but honestly if dearest young @calaathmaza ever wanted me to color anything.... afj;wkefojdsf
also i fully intend to brush up my illustration game for my beloved celebros' shit, bc god DAMN does Blackbird deserve all the art in the world, and that registers to me as collab honestly, probably bc we've not yet fused into one single being (it's getting a little touch and go tho; if i start talking about cat fostering on here, please tell my mother i was always, always mad at her â¤ď¸)
27. Biggest surprise while creating art this year?
god, myself, honestly??? all of a sudden i have this drive to create in a very focused and flexible tenor i've never experienced before, and it's just fuckin wild. my skills have grown so precipitously since the dinky locked tomb stuff i was posting in january and i've developed a bad habit of staring at my own art, whispering "holy shit" with tremulous reverence.
also the wild shock of having ENGAGEMENT on the shit i make (both visual and writing), like that has been mind-boggling. people like my art!!! people like my art A LOT!!!! what!!!!!
artist wrapped ask meme!
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Now that the book has been out for a couple of weeks, I am going to reblog this, which contains SPOILERS
In case anyone hasnât heard, my friend @naomilibicki has written an AMAZING book called The King is Dead, which someone really needs to get on publishing already so I can make all of you read it. These are her characters, Nirithu and Risokh. :)
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Holding up me and @worldsentwined 's fight with spirit characters. BEHOLD! gay people
#fight with spirit#devils diamond#you WILL look at our silly little baseball guys#favor is mine (green) and blitz is kiras (purple)#blitz is so down bad and favor is just happy they're having fun đĽ°#oc ref#favor#my art
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for the multifandom poetry fest, for @worldsentwined's prompt: Any, any, came back wrong
The dead are a sacred gift.
We treat them with respect We are called by their names Their families become ours.
We donât take them Fresh from the slaughter Wear them like cloaks Plunder their memories.
I could protestâ It was an accident; I didnât mean to!â But Iâm not so weak and sniveling.
No excuses.
My family has been butchered Those that remain rightfully shun me I can never go back beneath the earth.
Why shouldnât I take And take And take?
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