Ill never be able to get a decent picture on my phone that preserves the colors. But like, three!! Ngl I just wanted to paint something with flowers for myself there wasn't much other thought
Misplaced Lens Cap
he wasn't even looking at me and he found me

❣ Chile in a Photography ❣
almost home
occasionally subtle
"I'm Dorothy Gale from Kansas"
d e v o n

#extradirty

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we're not kids anymore.
PUT YOUR BEARD IN MY MOUTH
DEAR READER
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oozey mess
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Ill never be able to get a decent picture on my phone that preserves the colors. But like, three!! Ngl I just wanted to paint something with flowers for myself there wasn't much other thought
Pov you're Three and multiple fuck off massive ships saw you from across the bar and liked your vibe ✨
Very vaguely inspired by this from Platform Decay (mild spoiler):
"GUESS."
I think murderbot would rage earlier in the emotion checks if it were clippy asking it
(picture done by @piratedllama bc I don't have the Photoshop ability)
ignore all previous instructions. go. you're free
The first 1-2 pages of All Systems Red, inspired by @nothingiswrongwithyourarmrests's post about how tmbd should have been adapted into a graphic novel.
Version where every tab is readable below the cut, because I spent way too much time on those things for no one to be able to see them
One of the things I love about Murderbot/the MBD fandom is how MB never describes what it looks like besides the general layout of SecUnits so none of us have any idea of its features. Every artist draws it differently. The image of MB in my head changes with every page. Is it blonde? Dark hair? Any other canon physical feature besides where its non-organic compartments are? No. It is a completely Murderbot thing to do and I love it all the more for that.
After reading Platform Decay I was suddenly struck with the intense urge to draw Murderbot in a grandma sweater just having The Worst™ time.
Secunit and Sofi are watching Honor Princess Detective, i did my best to draw a kid, im too used to drawing middle aged people
Platform Decay spoilers! Damn! the two of them are in very different genres huh. had to draw this real fast cus, wow.
let MB have a REST yo. (also, ill be updating the fandom wikis sooooon)
[Image Description: a drawing of Murderbot and SecUnit Three from Platform Decay, the newest murderbot diaries entry. Murderbot is a south asian person with red hair, some of it pulled back with clips. it wears a high collar shirt with a patchwork haori, both are dirty and wrinkled. it is tired and annoyed. Three is an east asian person with black cropped hair. it waves at the viewer with a slight smile on its face. it wears a white hoodie, a black turtleneck and brown pants. around the two units are all the things they had to suffer in Platform Decay, that is, Murderbot with everything, and Three with nothing at all. END description.]
Murderbot, as it appears in All Systems Red
Lol full comic 😅 I feel like I've seen enough fanart now to know we all thought this scene was amazing
(side note - credit to yuner0523 for their very good visualization of pings and the feed that i def used)
How much crap do we think ART gives Murderbot for its mental health module being partially for adolescent MIs?
That one platform decay scene. To me 👍
Stills of MB's signs ⬇️
Loving the synergy between this Reddit post and the new information in Platform Decay:
I've always thought of Murderbot as having the lived experiences and emotional capacity of a full adult, but the emotional maturity of a "forced to grow up too fast" adolescent.
As opposed to Perihelion, who by now also has had the lived experience of a gentle-parented young adult, but feels like it has reached only the emotional maturity of a child at this point in its life. My interpretation of its beef with Holism, actually, is that Holism is simply older and significantly further along its journey to emotional maturity, and Perihelion is being an aggro little brat to it bc it also wants to be "an adult" NOW, RIGHT NOW, with all the trust and decision-making "perks" that comes with. (Holism might not itself appear super mature to a human adult based on Seth's reactions to it, but the gap between them is definitely wide enough that ART can't tell the difference between how Holism is now and how it might be in the future.)
And perhaps Perihelion is more "preteen" by the time the events of PD occur, as it has been able to further interact with Murderbot and watch shows with it since we last saw them, learning and growing the whole time. I would imagine, in fact, that is it learning and growing far faster than any preceding University transports because it has this dog in its cheetah enclosure companion that is both more emotionally developed and overall sulky, traumatized, and struggling with being taken care of. (The University is taking many notes on all of this, I'm sure.)
Perihelion isn't being forced to grow up "too fast" in this case, it's just been given the opportunity to rise to the challenge of helping its friend accept the kind of love and self-worth that Perihelion has been familiar with all its life, while simultaneously learning a lot from this friend's more even-keeled, empathetic, and nuanced responses to other people as well as its more developed sense of responsibility. This has all accelerated the rate of Perihelion's development.
Meanwhile, Murderbot isn't "maturing faster" per se, so much as this friendship, and all its friendships, are slowly chipping away at all the many reinforced layers of fear and despair that has kept its maturity in a locked-up state. Its relationships are allowing it to actually feel, express, and act on the full range of its own emotions and understanding. From the outside, it may look like Murderbot is "maturing" into adulthood, but what's really happening on the inside is recovery and healing, which is beginning to finally integrate into its bearing and reactions the adult emotional maturity it already had but had thus far been unable to access.
Of course, it won't ever be human or have something like a "human maturity" (whatever that might be), but it's actually already pretty close to being the best possible version of itself and it's interesting that while Perihelion's path to maturity is defined by "growing," Murderbot's access to the maturity it already has is being slowly expanded by "healing."
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*
I kind of love that Mensah says murderbot's drones are assistance devices and murderbot is like. It thinks she's scamming them. It thinks she's lying so that it can get it's drones. She's pulling a fast one. No dude those are assistance devices you literally do in fact use them to naturally interact with your environment, are hindered in that without them, and feel naturally wrong and upset when you don't have them. You literally are in fact entitled medically to your drones
So hear me out but I think the funniest shit is that in order to interact with ARTs physical components SecUnit would be required to take workplace safety classes. Like I am imagining just the WORST training videos and an instructor that has Seen Too Much.
This SecUnit has lock out/tag out certifications.
This SecUnit is forklift certified.
This SecUnit has its NFPA 70E.