How we saw the world 5000 years ago.
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How we saw the world 5000 years ago.
Harry! from The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
What was she to say? "The prodigal has returned? The mutineer wishes to be reinstated? The subordinate, having gone to a great deal of trouble to prove her commander wrong, has come back and promises to be a good little subordinate hereafter, or at least until next time?â
Harimadsol the woman you are
imagine you're don abene for a second.
you encounter a secunit for the first time.
it saves your life in a situation where no one else would have been fast, strong, agile, and composed enough to do so.
your security team is immediately more alarmed by its presence than the attack that is obvious to you as the bigger issue at the moment
they insist it's dangerous and struggle to relax enough to take their weapons off of it
then a combatbot attacks your group
somehow this secunit, much smaller than the bot, unarmored, without any heavy weaponry on its person, manages to take it down. some real jaw-dropping action, all over in less than a minute
then it leaps into a room with two combatbots and not only survives, but it gets your unconscious friend out alive
then it immediately comes to your own rescue, disabling impressive combat armor
it then is dead-set on killing your attacker who is already immobilized and harmless
clearly this is an incredibly competent and dangerous and powerful person
then miki tells you that it IS rin and you finally put it together that not only is this person competent in the field, but it is also calling all its own shots and has truly come here all on its own and volunteered its services to help and protect you without needing to be asked or ordered
so this person is incredibly competent, dangerous, powerful, AND kind, AND fiercely protective, AND reassuring, AND intelligent, AND selfless
and it's still coming up with great ideas and still thinking proactively about how it's going to face down or distract another combatbot as though there's no doubt in the world that it, still bleeding heavily, still unarmored and barely armed, is ready for another round with a terrifying machine that appears to be nothing BUT armor and weapons
so you step forward to help treat its injuries
and it jerks back a step with the single most frightened face you've ever seen, as though you had lifted your arm to inflict pain and it was helpless to stop you
behind you, even miki can read the devastating expression that's breaking your heart and says "abene won't hurt you, secunit"
where did the fearsome fighter from moments ago disappear to?
who did this to it?
in absolute tears about the pride module at my work
HOLY SHIT GUYS, I WAS INSPIRED BY THIS POST TO TRY MAKE THE SONG AND YOU WOULD NOT BELIEVE THE SCREAM I SCRUMPT WHEN I DRAGGED THE TRAINING AUDIO OVER THE BACKING TRACK AND IT LINED UP PERFECTLY
Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...
Tagging @batshit-auspol because as an Australian you're the only big account I know who might share (sorry).
happy first day of pride everyone
I donât want to do anything
I dreamt that there was a new meme that went, âIf I dids it, I dids it. If I didsnât, I didsnât.â There was a third line, but I forgot what it was.
happy to report iâm back on my bullshit
and a rare variant
HOW DID YOU KNOW THEY WERE CAT MEMES IN MY DREAM
>:3âŹ
THATâS IT, THATâS THE MEME FROM MY DREAM
Do you ever think about how mythical and godlike Murderbot must be to the other rogue secunits in Platform Decay? More importantly do you think they all have a crush on it??? *murderbot shoots me with a sniper rifle killing me instantly*
Shout out to @ekho-ekho-ekho for writing a whole ass fic in my tags, this has destroyed me đđ
debates i didn't know existed + a very humorous distinction
hostiles = antagonists that Murderbot is worried about đł
targets = antagonists that need to worry about Murderbot :)c
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Just remember. There is no such thing as a fake geek girl. There are only fake geek boys. Science fiction was invented by a woman.
Specifically a teenage girl. You know, someone who would be a part of the demographic that some of these boys are violently rejecting.
Isaac Asimov.
yo mary shelley wrote frankenstein in 1818 and isaac asimov was born in 1920 so you kinda get my point
If you want to push it back even further Margaret Cavendish, the duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673) wrote The Blazing World in 1666, about a young woman who discovers a Utopian world that can only be accessed via the North Pole - oft credited as one of the first scifi novels
Women have always been at the forefront of literature, the first novel (what we would consider a novel in modern terms)Â was written by a woman (Lady Muraskaiâs the Tale of Genji in the early 1000s) take your snide âIsaac Asimovâ reblogs and stick it
even in terms of male scifi authors, asimov was predated by Jules Verne, HG Wells, George Orwell, you could have even cited Poe or Jonathan Swift has a case but Asimov?
PbbBFFTTBBBTBTTBBTBTTT so desperate to discredit the idea of Mary Shelly as the mother of modern science fiction you didnât even do a frickin google search For Shame
And if you want to go back even further, the first named, identified author in history was Enheduanna of Akkad, a Sumerian high priestess.
Kinda funny, considering this Isaac Asimov quote on the subject:
Mary Shelley was the first to make use of a new finding of science which she advanced further to a logical extreme, and it is that which makes Frankenstein the first true science fiction story.
Even Isaac Asimov ainât having none of your shit, not even posthumously.
You know what else was invented by women? Masked vigilantes, the precursor to the modern superhero. Baroness Emma Orczy wrote The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1905. The character would later inspire better known masked vigilantes such as Zorro and Batman.
Got that?
Stick that in your international pipe and smoke it
I have literally been telling people this for over a year.
the first extended prose piece - ie a novel, was not, as many male scholars will shout, Don Quixote (1605) but The Tale of Genji (1008) written by a woman
The first autobiography ever written in English is also attributed to a woman, The Book of Margery Kempe (1430s).
The day may come when I find this post and do not reblog it, but it is not this day.
i like to think that the reason janity keeps shooting murderbot weird looks is bc she is VERY familiar with leonide's endless tirades about wanting to THROTTLE some fuck-ass secunit that is absolutely the WORST person she's ever met, and she's not convinced it even IS a secunit; it doesn't LOOK like one and all the humans that are supposed to be "controlling" it love it to PIECES and also seem to follow its ORDERS (??) rather than simply take its assessments under advisement, and what she wouldn't give to hire security that mindbogglingly competent for herself and the whole family but not like. specifically THAT "'"secunit""' bc it's an ASSHOLe and she HATES it and also it saved her life in an absolutely impossible situation and that makes her want to STRANGLE it with her bare hands. her techs STILL can't understand how the hell it had hacked its way into controlling HER ENTIRE FUCKING SUPPLY TRANSPORT and also she still can't figure out how it had managed to STOP DEAD that one secunit that was about to break the whole door down or *drags hands down face* where the FUCK did the university or preservation or whoever GET THAT THANG
so janity is looking at this thing and thinking. this looks. a lot. like mom's description of the fuck-ass secunit
which is both bewildering, bc it's?? here?? somehow?? why?? but also, going off memories of her mom's stories about its STAGGERING quantities of competence... it showing up is the single most reassuring thing that could POSSIBLY have happened in their situation
me when i gET YOU
Today is litteraly the only day in all of human history where it is physically possible to reblog this. Given that I posted it today
Like to charge reblog to cast
LMAO and Loam have the same letters. coincedence? or is this another shining truth that earth and soil is joyous and plentiful
Malo means bad and we laugh at bad loam
Murderbot is such an inaccurate name but AllHomicidesCompletelyJustifiedOrCompelledConstruct doesnât really roll of the tongue