Traces of Peregrination

Rachael, she/her. A collection of things I like, including books, comics, video games, pop culture, and cute animals.

[annabelle--cane]

ily three. it doesn't know how to mask or code switch and it doesn't really care to learn. its favorite thing to do is listen to science lectures from omniscient egomaniacs and this has accidentally made it PSUMNT's new hot popular girl (gender neutral) for all the advanced machine intelligences. it knows exactly what it wants from the word go and what it wants is to do a really really good job helping other secunits in perilous situations. it's excruciatingly bad at waving at people. it likes sightseeing. it jumpstarts a construct revolution the first chance it gets because why wouldn't it? all the constructs we know it's met have helped it and been its friends. also its name is three.

[hustlerose]

[hustlerose]

[hustlerose]

i have been informed by literally every french speaker on earth that “une pipe” is slang for blowjob

[biorusted]

Each entry in the Murderbot Diaries adds a bit of humanity to *something.* ASR is obviously when Murderbot is seen and shown as a person for the first time. AC is Machine Intelligences and ComfortUnits. RP - Human-form Bots and CombatBots. ES - CombatUnits. FT - Bots of all kinds. NE and SC - Killware, ControlSystems and a hint of SecUnits (thanks Three <3 )

The next big hurtle, in my mind, is Murderbot learning to apply humanity to SecUnits, because it has an extreme bias against them (hence its own name) so, I thought PD would showcase SecUnits (specifically MB and Three working together). (I didn't read anything about PD before reading the entry)

and I'm not disappointed! The interactions MB has with the random rogue in the book and with Three show a big improvement to its earlier biases, and the fact that Three just freed a shit ton of them makes me very excited for future entries. but! it seemed the SecUnits were in the background in this book.

Platform Decay doesnt focus on the bot/contruct side of things. It does however give humanity to.... humans. Just like FT gave an insight to life on Preservation, PD shows normal life in the Corporation Rim.

It isn't all corporates and take overs and cut throat deals. Its crying kids and wizened grannies. its moms who will do anything for their daughters. its people living where no one else will and selling fruit on the side of the road. its people moving out of the way when someone's holding a sleeping toddler in their arms. Its people saying thank you when saved by a stranger. Its getting as many people on a boat as possible to get people safely away from impending danger.

PD shows a lot of the ugly, horrible sides of humanity. The torus being a desperate copy of what the destroyed planet below them was is chilling symbolism. the pirates and the terrorists are horrible, but for every bad incident, there was another scene with people just being. desperately human.

and Murderbot going in, dealing with Everything and deciding that it can help and it Will help is... so endearing. choosing not to kill people, changing the code, protecting humans and rogue units alike. holding a child and marveling at out tiny they are. Just a little more humanity bestowed upon our beloved Murderbot.

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

So sadly the Slur Song has become too powerful and the shadowy powers that be have joined forces to stop it from charting

On the upside it means a whole panel of professional music industry executives had to sit there and awkwardly listen to the whole song which is hilarious

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

dont worry guys i have a foolproof plan

[bigfoots-biggest-fan]

looooooool

[trying-trying2lyk]

i love writing out numbers and then putting them in parentheses like "one (1)" even when i dont need to i think its funny

[justatiredlittlesnail]

[unidentifiedspoon]

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

[scarlct-vvitch]

platform decay makes me insane because it's like "what if this person, who previously believed their only possible purpose in life was brutal violence, found themselves in a situation where a young child trusted them so much that they grabbed on and refused to let go" and im just supposed to be okay after reading that???

[awzominator]

@murderbot-maladies-event day 6: manual bullet/projectile removal

In the sketch it was Mensah however I couldn’t figure out how to set it up and didn’t feel like drawing hands holding tools…so its Art doing it

[birdypng]

back on pushing my Ratthi Murderbot best friends agenda

[cutedoglover27]

omg this is so funny 😆 MAKE THEM BFFs

I have seen an art/MB project like this but this is so cute !

[dooplissss]

very much appreciate that murderbot has a full cop story, as in works with the cops, does a bunch of detective work, solves a case no one else could have solved, and comes out of it thinking 'well I'm not doing that again'. so many stories have beloved characters, especially rebellious ones (???), becoming cops as the happy ending and when we have a character that is literally Cop Gender it is given the opportunity to pursue that in a more liberated place and still says no fuck that I'm not doing that. martha wells said oh no not this time not my baby

[frcz78]

Ok, it's finally done. Home is a place, home is a person.

This story is my first major piece after several years of art block, and I'm so glad I could finally get back to drawing.

Huge thanks to my dear friend @chancekey for the support.

[unidentifiedspoon]

part 2 of this. what if instead of be not afraid you said Be Afraid but joke's on you, asshole, it's been afraid its entire life

[vankaar]

I had a vision.

[my-dailydreams]

[beardedmrbean]

One more in the W column for Japan.

[supersoftly]

Link for extension :3c

[darkestbrook]

[sentient-tent]

This is Tie, she is going to eat all of the notes

[sentient-tent]

reblog to feed her notes

[elodieunderglass]

How is she doing this