fifteen minutes

Team Murderbot. Team Vetinari. Team Nightingale.

[fimofomo]

[fimofomo]

[animentality]

[mac-draws]

Murderbot sketchbook page 🤖

I posted some digital drawings recently that got their start on this page but I love seeing all of them together like this

[securityunit-ese]

Some things we know about Season 2

As of 30 May 2026:

From: AwardsBuzz interview about Murderbot 12 May 2026

episodes will be a little longer

boiling down the 3 remaining novellas into a single season

is ambitious for visual effects and action

the core is a character commenting on its life

they are not trying to replicate what they did in the first season

season 2 is totally new stuff

season 2 will be around 350 minutes / 5 hours long (so about 35 mins per episode)

intending to deliver within about a year (before June 2027)

he's looking forward to the visual effects and sound so he can see his mind on the screen

bunch of new characters being introduced

showing the new characters s1 to see how the show feels like

getting a lot of the original cast but not ALL of the cast

he's hoping it will have something for everyone

both repeatedly called it ambitious and super ambitious

From Martha Wells Q&As on Platform Decay 10 May 2026:

they’re filming in Madrid right now, and Martha is going to go see it in June.

for the next season they’re doing Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy, with some changes.

it's just Chris and Paul, brothers, who are the writers, directors, and producers.

they’re trying to figure out ways to show the interactions between ART and Murderbot, or Murderbot and the ComfortUnit.

changing things from a first person internal narration to third person in three dimensions.

In the second season they’re going to continue with showing Sanctuary Moon and some other shows.

I don’t think anyone gets much choice on what they look like. There’s something I want to tell but I can’t tell… It’s kind of fun. (regarding a discussion about muttonchops = secunit with a beard?)

From Martha Wells Q&A on Platform Decay 8 May 2026:

they are filming now

Martha doesn’t think they have cast ART yet (there's a stand-in reading lines)

said that next season will be all the way through Exit Strategy

She was very happy with the changes to the tv series for logistical reasons and considers it a parallel universe to the books

(She specifically mentioned she wished she had thought of LeeBeeBee for the book)

Also from 8 May 2026:

Martha is consulting on the show

likes their approach to portraying how ART and SecUnit communicate.

From 6 May 2026 Q&A (private discord attendees):

The TV show struggled (is struggling?) with portraying ART's presence.

They want to do something unique that also gets across the way that MB and ART communicate in a way entirely inhuman (ie, theyre not planning on doing scrolling text)

Martha hasn't seen final design for ART, has seen the initial ART design.

Has seen Tapan, Rami, and Maro design/costumes.

She is going out to the set to consult in June.

From 5 May 2026 Q&A (private discord attendees):

There will be 10 episodes and they will be longer (S1 Eps were supposed to be longer but the voiceover changed the calculations so they were shorter than intended.

Get to see Sanctuary Moon and Worldhoppers plus a few other new shows.

From Toa instagram story 13 March 2026:

Directors on site in Madrid scoping out potential filming sites

From The Coode Street Podcast Episode 692 December 2025 podcast interview with Martha on Murderbot release date:

No, it'll be 2027.

They're working on it now.

They're kind of in the pre-production writing the script and you know, doing the production design and all that kind of stuff and then they'll film it next year.

And then they'll be out in 2027.

Same podcast, consultation with Martha on the TV show:

No, I talked to them a lot.

They call me all the time when they're working on it and they need questions and answered fast.

Because sometimes and stuff like that, I know you don't know what you don't know until you get ready to do something that you need something answered really quickly.

Yeah, so we talk about it a lot.

From instagram stories and posts:

the directors have been in madrid since March 2026

skarsgaard is in madrid from early April 2026

(potential 2cm hair growth from tourist photo in Madrid)

Concept artist and set designer discussion: season 2 will be more visceral and more gorey

[kosmogrl]

june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be good june will be

[agreeableartist]

anyone here? pls take this PC Peter Grant and DCI Thomas Nightingale

Leyendecker paintover bc this just screamed The Folly to me and I have been obsessed with these characters since discovering the book series a few weeks ago! Hope there are some fellow fans still around!

[only-cat-memes]

[xavantina]

Murderbot + text posts [166/∞]

[theonion]

[hometoursandotherstuff]

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwydx34kzlvo

[runcibility]

"Vanderhorst had been under the influence of MDMA and three litres of vodka she had consumed on the night of the offence last September, her lawyer Michael Hill told the court."

three. liters.

[anais-ninja-bitch]

i support women's wrongs

[homoqueerjewhobbit]

[probuccalfat]

i have a Persian agenda where i encourage every man i know to grow the longest and prettiest hair possible

[probuccalfat]

personal agenda. Personal.

[argentcochon]

[probuccalfat]

i’m speechless. there’s a guy for everything.

[m0ose-idiot]

Ahhh, I'm covered with bugs and Kitty isn't helping!! Bug spray or a nit comb, what do I do, WHAT DO I DO??

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

i NEED people to realise foreshadowing is. in fact. a literary device. and not a Bad Thing. the audience picking up on your hints is a Good Thing. because. it makes the story and it’s conclusion make sense. and some people will not see those but enjoy seeing them on a second read through. red herrings are one thing but if your novel consists of nothing but red herrings it’s not a coherent story it’s just a collection of paragraphs that don’t actually plausibly link to one another. you're not fighting with the audience you don’t look clever you look like you don’t know how basic fiction works. be vulnerable for once in your goddamn life and don't treat writing like a game to be won where the audience losing is a good thing.

[ineffectualdemon]

Getting to the end of a story and going "THE CLUES WERE THERE THE WHOLE TIME!" is always joyous for me whether or not I picked up on the clues leading up

If I saw the clues and caught the hints then yes! I am clever and me and the author/creator/artist etc were in on it together the whole time!

If I didn't notice the clues or got fooled but can clearly see them in hindsight then "Ha! You won this time storyteller! I am delighted by this game we play!' and then I enjoy putting the pieces together afterwards and enjoying how clever it was. I feel like the creator respects me as an audience

If there is a "twist" that comes with 0 clues or foreshadowing at all I'm annoyed. I'm pissed off. I feel like I'm being condescended to and patronised. It's not clever or interesting and makes me annoyed I ended up caring about characters and plot points that ended up meaningless.

Because it's not that these stories don't have foreshadowing or plot clues. They just abandon it for a "surprising twist"

A story that pays off the clues is letting me into the fun and makes a participant in the story

A story that just gives me a "shock" but no pay off is telling me not to engage or get attached or care. So why would I watch?

[s-n-arly]

OMG! THIS!

Random plot twists that don't connect to anything in the story are not clever. If we don't see it coming because the writer didn't provide any clues, they aren't clever and it's totally unsatisfying (and I will NEVER read this writer again). These clues need not be lit up in neon with a parade of elephants and showgirls. But they need to be present

I'm a writer and am rarely surprised. Often, if I am surprised it's because the writer was a dumbass and included a "twist" that makes no sense (and therefore isn't really a twist, it's just random bullshit). If a writer genuinely surprises me, without being an absolute dumbass, I am FUCKING DELIGHTED! I will tell everyone I know to read the book/see the movie/watch the show.

[ardentmystacina]

Foreshadowing is the reward for paying attention. It's the story letting you in on the secret like a co-conspirator because you're the clever little audience member who has been picking up on the clues the writer has been setting up.

It even makes watching/reading again more worthwhile because if you didn't notice the foreshadowing the first time you have the joy of being able to notice the things you missed!

[klinefelterrible]

🥚

Reblog this to give Sam Vimes a hard-boiled egg.

[magpiesketchins]

The entire Discworld fandom on the 25th of May.

[fimofomo]

y'know The Oatmeal halloween cartoon with all the pumpkins flying out of his laptop?

that, but with lilac & hard-boiled eggs instead of pumpkins. somebody with photoshop?

happy glorious 25th of May

[m0ose-idiot]

On it, boss!

[henk-heijmans]

Donkey getting some shade on a hot sunny day in Greece - photographer unknown

[chippyyyz]

Donkey about to get the fuckin drop on father konstaninos - photographer unknown