Hapafuil

Collection of Fandom Works The Murderbot Diaries Project Hail Mary Iron Lung Ascendance of a Bookworm

[spectros]

a dead planet surrounded with a ring full of fake life? HM

[glowbeam]

rocky has been planning this whole speech in his head for years about how he loves adrian so much and always will but he has fundamentally changed during this mission and cannot imagine any version of events where he's not by grace's side for the rest of his short life, that grace is his partner and his best friend and his love and he's changed the way he speaks and sings to better suit grace's ears, has a permanent melody that uses grace's heartbeat as a metronome, and he love love loves his mate and has waited to see them again for so long, but if they want him to give up grace he doesn't think that is something he'd be capable of,

and then when adrian actually meets grace they can't stop purring and they're saying 🎶hero grace. saved stars, saved planets. saved adrian mate. love love love.🎶 they're using a courting frequency.

grace likes their voice. cuddles up to them when they watch him sleep. they talk about science, and culture. sometimes rocky just listens to them talk.

"you're thinking too loud, rock," grace says. adrian has one of their limbs around him and chirps in agreement. "something wrong?"

🎶no,🎶 says rocky. 🎶everything perfect.🎶

[sonja-cherno]

We've talked about Grace's rainbow symbolism in this scene, but I haven't seen anyone pointing out the detail of Stratt having a line of countries' flags behind her on her first appearance

[xavantina]

Murderbot + text posts [169/∞]

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[kudeita]

surveillance prosthetic, pt. 2

[aliumfungus]

// comm

Sec-Unit/MurderBot and Mensah are so important to me. The trust and mutual affection between them is beautiful. MB has someone it can admire and rely on. Mensah doesn't have to mask around it. Two complex beings finding simplicity in each other. 🥰

[agardenandlibrary]

really the most important thing to me in Platform Decay was MB making sure all its drones got safely in the sealable, protected pocket before it started blowing things up

[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???

[biorusted]

Idk if anyone's pointed this out but Nana Naja (of the murderbot fame) is second generation Preservation (ist? Preservation-ee?) Meaning her parents were abandoned on a colony and took the trip to freedom on an unterriformed planet. Depending on how old Nana Naja is... She could have been on that ride too.

If life on a new colony is as hard as I imagine it to be, she's lived old enough to be a tough, expirenced lady!

What I'm saying is. Give her that gun. She knows how to use it. Shes a good shot. I know this.

[flipspring]

The Murderbot Diaries Starmap! ✨🧭

Routes Traveled by Murderbot:

Port FreeCommerce - Unnamed Station in Mihira & New Tideland System: [unknown time]

Mihira & New Tideland - RaviHyral: 21 cycles

RaviHyral - [Unnamed]: 7 cycles

[Unnamed] - HaveRatton: 26 cycles

HaveRatton - Milu: 20 cycles

HaveRatton - "hub station": 7 cycles

"hub station" - TranRollinHyfa: 4 cycles

Preservation - NE Survey Planet: 4 Preservation cycles

Preservation - Adamantine Colony: 20 cycles

Other Locations:

All Systems Red Survey Planet

Divarti Cluster: Tapan's collective is from this noncorporate polity.

Kalidon: Corporate Rim political entity where company funding Ganaka was based.

GoodNightLander Independent's home polity: Noncorporate, ownership of SecUnits banned.

Parthalos Absalo: Noncorporate.

WayBrogatan: Indie station.

Network Effect Survey Planet.

Station from the short story Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy.

UplandGateway One: Nearest station to the Mihira & New Tideland system. Corporate charters say stations are supposed to be independent/sovereign territory.

Planetary Torus.

I tried making noncorporate polities warm-colored and corporate ones cool-colored. But not sure I got that all right, and sometimes it's ambiguous.

Thank you to mensah for sharing their transit time notes with me!

[puncertainty]

they did heelys in space…

[atomikats]

my personal take on the matter

[genderfluid-druid]

[ID: A comic of Grace at a table with the Hail Mary astronauts. Shapiro, with her arm around Dubois, asks, "You're sure you and Stratt aren't a thing."

"Absolutely positive," says Grace.

"You've never even kissed?"

"Nuh uh. Nope."

Dubois joins in, saying, "But if she asked you to... say... get your arm surgically attached to hers. Would you?"

"...huh???" says Grace, raising an eyebrow.

"Well, would you?" asks Yao.

Grace looks thoughtful. "Like. I mean. If it was pertinent to the mission, then..."

"Never mind," says Ilyukhina. "Something much more concerning than sex is going on here." End ID]

[weirdreindeer]

[lockedharrow]

i used to work for a nature center and we would constantly have wild owls come and call out to the owls in their cages and try to 1.) get them to follow them or 2.) they were looking for a mate

[shu-of-the-wind]

in the spirit of this post: when you live in areas with wild horses, the number one culprit for horse theft is actually other horses, because the young stallions that get chased out of the herd wanna start their own, and oh, look, look at all those cute mares in just,,,,a fenced off grassy area,,,how easy would it be to lure them over the fence,,,like some four-legged yodeling pied piper,,,

i think about this a lot

[praise-suns-and-chill]

This is so cute wtf

[alexaloraetheris]

Social animals will see another animal amd be like: Is anyone going to befriend this? And then not wait for an answer.

Humans are, delightfully, nowhere near the only ones who do this.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Many such cases

[writingdose]

insane to me how, to some people, this is not a common sense

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

I think ao3 is literally the only site where no censorship means no censorship. you can post the most vile things on there — things that will get taken down on any other platforms — and ao3 will protect you, your works, and your rights to create whatever you want, however you want.

and no, this isn’t me saying “write that messed up, disgusting thing” because while, yes, write it if it’s what you want (I myself enjoy writing dark fics, something I believe would be considered “vile” to a lot of people), this is me saying in a world of censorship and capitalism, ao3 really is a treasure.

everybody say thank you ao3

[writingdose]

“I want to write a fic about this but I don’t think anybody will be interested in it” ummm hello excuse me ma’am what do you mean you don’t think anybody will be interested in it??? YOU. YOU ARE INTERESTED IN IT???? write it because YOU are interested in it and YOU want to write about it. fanfic writing should always be first and foremost about YOUR enjoyment, not other people’s.