[yearofdoodles]

The reveal that secunit is writing its bitchy little diaries in real time while hanging out in three's consciousness was so funny to me 📝

[dreamsy990]

forgot to post this but i drew it in class

[unidentifiedspoon]

my turn at this one. ART is the feed? no. ART is the frame

[skygemspeaks]

every time murderbot has to go on a mission with anyone other than the presaux crew it's always like "this fucking sucks, these people keep arguing with me and never do what i say. I miss my well-trained humans. Ratthi or pin-lee would follow my orders without hesitation. (Gurathin can go choke) #myhumans"

[poorlemons]

what if they just had to stand around chilling for a bit, what then. Three is a good crew member and wears the damn uniform, meanwhile, secunit lives every day in the most anonymous, pocketed outfits possible, and in this dichotomy i find joy.

[beakerhoneydew]

I do find Three to be such a fascinating addition to the Murderbot world because as soon as you have 2 datapoints instead of 1 you’re like “oh SecUnits have personalities. And ours is just an asshole.”

[automatonwithautonomy]

okayyyyyyy

[waywardsoul-s]

Rereading all systems red and the first 2 chapters are strong contenders of funniest intro to a book series. Jumping straight to action, and mb is giving us absolutely no info about anything. Who are those people? Some weird hippies it's not important. Why are they here? Mb does not give a shit. What is this planet? Fuck if it knows. Here is a small paragraph that fucking states everyone's relationship status like a wiki article that we are never gonna get back to. Ugh there are hostiles that keep us away from our media #our media.

[scarlct-vvitch]

murderbot queueing up a bunch of kid shows and art is like ????? where is my world hoppers?? and murderbot just really quietly says "tula was sad i didnt know who Glibby Glob was and it dropped my performance reliability by eight percent" and art's like well can't have that i guess. hit play

[catform-bot]

WHO ELSE CHEERED

[razielim]

debates i didn't know existed + a very humorous distinction

hostiles = antagonists that Murderbot is worried about 😳

targets = antagonists that need to worry about Murderbot :)c

[gimme-a-hand-scaevola]

regarding Murderbot’s beef with Jollybaby. my humble opinion:

What Murderbot believes is happening: It’s got a legitimate reason to think JB is so fucking annoying. Does it know JB has become its bitch eating crackers? Yes. But that bitch is eating crackers and it does make MB crazy.

What Jollybaby believes is happening: Murderbot replaced its governor module with a stick up its ass. What could JB possibly do other than tease it? It’s HELPING. Someday MB will get it and chill tf out.

What is happening: The station bots and the bot pilots have broken into factions. The station bots all think MB is a bit of an asshole, thanks for saving the president or whatever but you’re not better than us bc you have guns in your arms.

The bot pilots meanwhile can’t help but be fond of MB. It’s not an asshole to them. It sends them new media and always says please. Ok so it’s sort of a dick, you would be too if you’d been manufactured in the CR.

This all manifests in heated debates about JBs behavior and MBs behavior where the station bots all find JB hilarious but the bot pilots don’t like MB being teased when it doesn’t even know.

But the ONE TIME a CR ship came through and its botpilot had something to say about the SecUnit every single bot within range fell in line. As far as Jollybaby is concerned that’s MY Dickbag SecUnit I am making my crazy on purpose. As far as YOURE concerned it’s a perfect construct who has never done anything bad in its life.

Anyway JollyMurder for real

[transcarcinization]

personally also re: ARTs voice actor, they really should be Black. ART's sister and at least one of its dads are Black; while ART itself does not really have a race per se bc of the spaceship thing, since a human has to be cast, they should probably be cast in line w ART's family. Iris/Seth will be played by real Black people and presumably will sound like it, it would be extremely odd if ART sounded super white and it's just never remarked upon

@specialagentartemis suggested Janelle Monáe which I agree would be perfect. imagine

[keysmashy-o]

I feel classifying ART and Murderbot relationship as platonic or romantic is a doomed endeavor. They are so important to each other that that importance goes beyond labels. They have built a beautiful house on top of the blurry line between friendship and romance. Maybe I'm just projecting my difficulties in defining these terms in any absolutes. But I think it's beautiful that to them the difference doesn't matter. Love is there, and it doesn't care how it is named.

[ueeyasu]

self indulgent comic of my ship

[throwusaboner]

murderbot and arts first meeting is literally so funny. like imagine you meet a biblically accurate angel and instead of being all 'be not afraid' it says actually you SHOULD be afraid. and then when you are in fact afraid it goes oh shit oh fuck. not THAT afraid, sorry. wanna watch tv? and then you watch tv with it and it keeps telling you to pause it when its favourite characters are in danger so it can calm down. and then it asks to do surgery on your bones. Asshole Research Transport character of all time

[catform-bot]

library copy of platform decay ACQUIRED