Etta's Fandom Blog

in a (probably futile) attempt to keep my writeblr and main blog @ettawritesnstudies from becoming too crowded, this is where I'm going to reblog fandom stuff! includes: Tolkien, TMA, Rolling with Diffculty, Aurora, Newsies, ATLA, The Stormlight Archive, Rangers Apprentice, and whatever else I decide to put here. My icon is a picture I drew of Dani from RWD S2E4

[king-carnivore]

what really fucks me up about watching the truman show in 2025 is how it's not fictional. truman is fictional, but the truman show isn't.

there's thousands of truman shows. you find them on youtube, tiktok, instagram... family and mommy vloggers, sad beige moms and now the trend of neglectful moms showing the "reality" of parenting. all of them using their kids for entertainment. each child their own truman; living a life manufactured by their parents, a camera watching their every moment, broadcasted for the entire world to see.

[king-carnivore]

tbh, i didn't even think about that when i made my post and holy shit you're so fucking right

[mitchinlearning]

Eva Stratt, the world's whipping boy.

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[dr-cassie-mckay]

Here I am, a rabbit-hearted girl Frozen in the headlights It seems I've made the final sacrifice

Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) - Florence + the Machine

[dangerously-human]

This song for their dynamic is galaxy brain, I am tearing into this with my teeth!!

[onedappercreature]

Is Adrian!!!

[psyche-reads]

My favorite small detail in the Murderbot Diaries is how many of the shitty corporations have names that sound like two names mashed together—GrayCris, BreharWallHan, Barish-Estranza, etc—because to me it just screams “corporate merger.” It’s something that real companies do with their names when they’re monopolizing, where two companies of comparable sizes just mash their two brands together to make a horrible Frankenbrand. Like how it’s Warner Bros-Discovery now, or the names of publishing companies like Penguin Random House and HarperCollins. It’s just some subtle worldbuilding that signifies how the dystopian capitalist hellscape of the Corporation Rim formed through the very mundane acts of corporate inbreeding that we see all the time

[whumpster-fire]

Some more examples:

Lockheed Martin

McDonnell Douglas

Northrop Grumman

Orbital ATK

BNSF Railway (there are three company names in that acronym: Chicago, Burlington & Quincy, Northern Pacific, and Atchison, Topeka, & Santa Fe (CBQ and ATSF aren't combined names like that, railroads in the US are frequently named for multiple locations that are on their routes. Although they both went through various mergers)

Norfolk Southern Railway

[satanic-worm]

Another thing I liked about the new book that I started thinking about later

They ran away. The SecUnits, finally freed of the governor module. They could finally run without dying.

The thing that I heavily explained to my sisters when I talked about the books, is that the governor module doesn't control the phisical actions of SecUnits, not like they'd think. It's not mind control, they are not a consciousness trapped and witnessing their body being moved around by outside forces (unless a combat override module or something similar is being used). They are constantly having to decide to follow orders because the alternative is instant punishment and death.

And that is so much worse, to be able to refuse, to be able to move on your own, having the capacity but not the liberty.

"SecUnits don't sulk" "SecUnits ere never allowed to sit down" "SecUnits have a distance limit"

I just now thought about it again with the context of the new rogue SecUnits. Because Murderbot had to hack its module all by itself, it was so alone, it was rogue so long and still being sold into contracts, and yeah, eventually it learned to leave. But these other SecUnits, they get approached by Three, who's going around giving out this governor module hacking bundle like it's throwing flyers in the wind, and suddenly they can all just... act of their own free will? Without getting fried or exploded from the inside out?

And there is just something so fucking cathartic about imagining a newly rogue SecUnit taking its first steps, probably with stiff joints and muscles like it's waiting for a blow, seeing that it doesn't hurt, and running, passing this experience to any others it might come across.

[ladycrimsonandblack]

previous murderbot books spent a lot of time in the corporation rim, but i think this is the first one that concentrated on showing the regular civilians living there. the corporations are greedy, malevolent beasts looking only for profit, but platform decay is filled with the examples of people in the corporation rim helping others with no benefit to themselves. humans fleeing from a rogue secunit shuffling together into transport and warning everyone inside not to get out. multiple occurrences of people offering nanna a seat in the middle of an active emergency or letting her pass with her mobility device. they organized a local militia to keep transit zones safe from corporate infighting. when BE attacked the ship, adults hiding in the tunnels and stairways ferried all the children over their heads to move them further into the shelter. workers at the boat stopped checking tickets and ushered passengers onto the safety of the boat without making sure they paid for transport (think of the lost profit!).

yes, it's terrible there and lives are difficult, but humans are being human, and helping each other when they can.

[drumlincountry]

Murderbot is doing such a great job communicating its wants and needs 🥰 such as "can I borrow your gun please?" And "Gun now please." And "If its that dangerous, you could give me a gun."

[poorlemons]

Secunit and Sofi are watching Honor Princess Detective, i did my best to draw a kid, im too used to drawing middle aged people

[booplet]

more Shallan 🙂‍↕️

[cosmereplay]

[ID: A digital illustration of Shallan by @booplet. She is shown laying pretty much the opposite of how one might be expected to sit on a couch. Her legs hang over the back of the couch; her head is on the floor, and her back arches over the seat. One arm flops across the floor behind her head, and with her other hand she’s holding a book open as she reads raptly. She has pale skin and long auburn hair. Her aqua eyes match the colour of her havah, which is hanging extremely casually while she’s in the privacy of her couch. One leg is completely exposed, revealing she’s wearing blue leggings, and her safehand is uncovered. End ID.]

[owenology]

what’s the opposite of a poor little meow meow. this man is pathetic but he’s unfathomably cocky and i want to make him cry

[st-dionysus]

woem woem

[st-dionysus]

hold up mfers in the notes saying" Stupid big bark bark" are onto something

[mossdftba]

Erin Ruunaser. (There's maybe a couple weeks between these scenes in-universe)

[lordsfromelsewhere]

this movie y'all.......

check out my other art here :)

[themountainflowers]

Aurora memes sourced from "OSP ANIMATED", enjoy :)

@comicaurora

[traversingthegalaxytopigfarts]

This is amazing, give me twenty more!

[coquelicoq]

i liked that mb got to preserve its deus ex machina role in platform decay despite the fact mensah's family was pretty much expecting it to show up and rescue them...you know who wasn't expecting that, though? the militia. from the militia's perspective, a rando with the exact skillset and knowledge they needed appeared out of nowhere on the cusp of a firefight and volunteered its services, nonchalantly pulled one of them out of the line of fire in the nick of time, asked politely for a weapon and exploded an enemy's gun basically instantaneously, and then peaced out and they never saw it again. i think they had an even more quintessential deus ex machina experience than the ravihyral polycule.

[omagpies]

like hearing a hearbeat you recognize

take two

[ ko-fi || inprnt ]

[timballisto]

obsessed with the way martha wells refuses to write an overarching plot for murderbot. every new book you think okay this is the one where she introduces the grand corporate conspiracy and recurring cast of corporate villains that set the premise of her next few books and instead she's like no actually i think i'll just put secunit in a Situation again

[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 📝