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Happy Pride Month.
i think holland march stands gay as hell
Happy Pride Month.
goddd does he EVER shut up
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i think holland march stands gay as hell
At last, the long awaited sequel
I really Really appreciate murderbot and amenaās not quite sibling not quite parent/child relationship. It reminds me of the relationship I had with my aunt who was in high school when I was born. As we both got older she would babysit, so she was in charge; but also let me drink soda and stay awake until I passed out.
Secunit is not amenaās parent, or her friend. Secunit is her momās āfriendā who doesnāt quite know how to parent but cares about her enough to try.
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."
Three showing up obviously knowing it's in trouble for not following the plan and offering the lamest excuses is just . . . it's got free will now and no idea how to use it.
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Three looked at me and said, āPerihelion-drone is angry that I didnāt follow the plan.ā Yeah, I bet. āYou know thatās a you problem.ā āOh.ā Three was disconcerted. Welcome to the consequences of your actions, Three. It said hopefully, āIt canāt be a we problem?ā āNo, it canāt,ā I said. āGet in the shuttle.ā
oh my sweet bot
"GUESS."
I think murderbot would rage earlier in the emotion checks if it were clippy asking it
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imagine being that rogue unit murderbot swore at.
youāre already having the weirdest day of your life. a kind rogue unit freed you from your governor module and now youre fucking booking it through this torus trying not to get caught. you run into another unit, and go āhereās my chance!! i can do for it what that other unit did for me!!ā
only to have that other unit promptly tell you that it, in fact, already doesnt have a gov module, then curse you out and threaten you. then it sends you a whole bunch of code packets for survival as a rogue unit and tells you your drip is atrocious.
when you finally peak at the new code packets later you realize. holy shit the style is the same. these were coded by the same person who wrote the gov module hack.
i wonder how its doing now
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