mb, bb, pls ur suicidal

a tmbd and glitch feminism sideblog

[inkedinserendipity]

POV you’re art and your bestest most specialest SecUnit goes “hey can you make a copy of me specifically to die” and you go “that’s an awful idea” and it goes “no fuck you it’s a great idea also you asked something to send to die so you can have me” and you shout “i didn’t mean you!” and it goes “stop yelling at me” which is maybe the first time it’s verbally pushed back on mistreatment in its life so you go entirely quiet because you are so so angry with it but also you can’t yell at it because it asked you not to

and then you send out the copy of it anyway to save your crew, and it saves your crew and another SecUnit and also itself

and then it dies

[fuguetelemetry]

AND THEN IT DIES

[artchivary]

That one platform decay scene. To me 👍

Stills of MB's signs ⬇️

[shubbabang]

[rattusreckless]

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[elexuscal]

We do really need to consider this from Farai's POV though.

Your wife is a wonderful, caring planetary leader and scientist <3

She goes on what's meant to be a mundane planetary survey expedition

this turns into a corporate death trap she and her team just barely escape with their lives

after the death trap she gets kidnapped by the corporation that made the death trap due to them not wanting to pay damages

again. she and her team miraculously escape with their lives

after what easily had to be 6+ months she finally arrives home

Your wife is traumatized, unwilling to talk about or address this trauma, and now has a co-dependent relationship with a rogue SecUnit

You and the family are really trying not to hold the 'rogue SecUnit' thing against the Rogue SecUnit. Not its fault. But it is sarcastic and glares a lot and is non-social and has installed literal spydrones everywhere. It's willing to kill anyone who hurts your wife or her extended family. This is, to put it bluntly, a bit of an Adjustment for everyone.

Your wife decides to retire from being a planetary leader. One one hand, you think it's a good idea for her to take the time to focus on her mental health and be with her loved ones. On the other hand, it's concerning all of this has made her give up one of her passions.

One of your older children is going on her first off-planetary survey. This is good, obviously :) It's just. you are all still stressing from the trauma of your last family member's planetary survey.

It's fine. It's going to be fine. Your brother-in-law is going to be with her, and a bunch of your wife's long-standing colleagues, and-- you have complex feelings about this-- the SecUnit. it will be fine.

It is not fine.

The SecUnit and your brother-in-law and your daughter have all been kidnapped by a mysterious force for mysterious reasons.

Now your wife-- who is meant to be on indefinite mental health leave-- is off to save them.

You and your third partner want to go with her. You want to. But you have no skills for this, and family at home you need to care for. So you stay on the sidelines, waiting, waiting, waiting.

THEY'RE OKAY EVERYONE IS OKAY

thank fuck. phew. okay. now they're going to come home and--

what do you meant they're not coming home

what do you mean your child has decided to go to university off world at the school that kidnapped her

what do you mean your wife, instead of retiring, has decided to become some sort of anti-corporate activist

Yeah okay. This is not a conversation to have over the feed with a 2+ month time delay. You need to have an in-person conversation. You'll make a family trip of it; Nana and Sofia will come with. This is a good, normal, family visit

you all get kidnapped

[grammarpedant]

Y'know, this really puts into perspective how Mensah became a big player anti-corporate activist (helped negotiate a wholeass polity contract to free a colony) and then decided not to come home about it after the events of NE. So much so that her wife has to chase her down to talk to her as a family in-person and gets kidnapped en route to that talk. And their kidnapped daughter has decided to settle down and matriculate where she's landed away from home, as it were. Like, Thiago had barely had enough time to get home before Farai et al. left on this trip. That's a wild timeline. Can we talk about that? As a fandom, I mean. I think we gotta talk about that.

[onpyre]

self-determination is essential in monster theory as it applies to people who feel monstrous. monstered (othered).

i’m really thinking about this post outlining the differences between neurotypicals vs neurodivergents headcanoning a robot as autistic: the former is the impulse to other (monster) people who are different. the latter is to empathize with a character, which humanizes them. this is an act of self-recognition and self-determination.

in my mind, the whole point of Monster Theory is to restore agency (power and dignity) to the “monster”—to the other.

[yearofdoodles]

YAY FOR 500 FOLLOWERS THATS HUGE CONGRATS!!!!!! 🎉 maybe for doodle requests, mb in some colourful clothes? presaux or art gifted them to it perhaps? dealers choice if it actually likes them or not

It definitely likes them

[king-of-kaoss]

traumatized humans with unsecured weapons make me nervous

[king-of-kaoss]

it's dangerous to go alone, take a friend

[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 📝

[kudeita]

surveillance prosthetic, pt. 2

[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.

[king-of-kaoss]

im personally obsessed with how this is a reflection of mb's growth and new perspective/cautious optimism. it's been in public areas before [transit areas albeit not residential areas [except maybe on pres station]] but it's never described to us so many of these instances of strangers being kind to strangers before. i think it's some part mb passing as human because it's accompanied by humans [and thus being accepted passively] and it's also noticing good things more often in general. like how the lift prioritized resident safety before the safehouse was attacked

"I don’t know, it just makes the whole thing a little less crushingly depressing."

it's actively looking for things to be less depressed about.

and it even lets strangers touch it to help it onto the boat

"I tapped Farai and Naja on the feed, so when I pretended to be tired and let some of the yelling humans help pull me up a little boarding ladder on the stern, Farai was there to throw an emergency survival blanket over me."

humans helping each other simply because they can is all over this book and mb helps people all along the way too. it gives the rogue secunit extra code bundles, it reprograms the train so it stops without a 10 passenger quota, it saves the militia leader and shows them b-e's weak point, it makes sure the ship it took from the frat boys wont be found because "it deserved a better owner."

there's something so -it learned about the evolutionary advantages of gratitude- about it. it's being nice and less prickly and paranoid and trusting others will be nice in turn. it's more willing to be vulnerable because it keeps paying off c:

[aruviwrote]

People, my wonderful transfem friend is taking students for her class. Do your thing and help her find students. The relative value of a dollar and a rupee means that just ten international students can help her make rent.

[taliabhattwrites]

Hey folks, Swarnim's an old friend and a talented engineer. As Aruvi said, a dollar goes a longer way in India, and India's current regime is exceedingly unkind to trans women trying to find gainful employment, or even just live their lives. Please help a trans woman from the third world support herself!

[dreamsy990]

forgot to post this but i drew it in class

[foxish-draws]

After reading Platform Decay I was suddenly struck with the intense urge to draw Murderbot in a grandma sweater just having The Worst™ time.

[murderbotfandomevents]

have you 🫵 ever wondered “hey how do people find events in the murderbot fandom?”

idk how most people do it. ME, i hunt down event blogs to drag them back and put them in this blog’s pinned post. then i reblog event announcements

tl;dr follow this blog! it posts/reblogs exclusively about murderbot fandom events

also if anyone sees a new event, @ me

[there-are-no-gods-here]

TMBD art I made for a class! Quotes are from All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, and Exit Strategy

[king-of-kaoss]

clear communication ftw