small leaps of faith

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[charlataninred]

Love how tumblr has its own folk stories. Yeah the God of Arepo we’ve all heard the story and we all still cry about it. Yeah that one about the woman locked up for centuries finally getting free. That one about the witch who would marry anyone who could get her house key from her cat and it’s revealed she IS the cat after the narrator befriends the cat.

[meraarts]

Might I add:

The defeat of the wizard who made people choose how they’d be to be executed

The woman who raised the changeling alongside her biological child

The human who died of radiation poisoning after repairing the spaceship

[eater-of-hopes-and-dreams]

The adventures of a space roomba

Cinderella finding Araura (and falling in love)

I don’t know a snappy description but the my nemesis cynthia story certainly lives in my head

[blitzlowin]

hilariously, these are almost all in my fic tag. so, a compiled list from the notes (and some extras):

The God of Arepo (graphic novel 1 / 2 / 3) (ebook)

The Monster of Sentan

The Witch’s Cat

Raise Both Children

Stabby the Roomba (honorable mention)

Cinderella Marries the Prince (comic)

My Arch Nemesis Cynthia

Pirates and Mermaid

Eindred and the Witch

The Demon King

The Cornerwitch

Grandmother Beetroot

Apocalypse Daycare Worker

Grandmother Accidentally Summons a Demon

New Year Saga

A Story About Changelings

Ranger in the King’s Forest

The Difference Between a Hare and a Rabbit

Goblin Men (Canines)

[charlataninred]

I am in love with you /p

[the-thread-of-the-infinite]

What about the one with the princess locked in a tower learning to become a wizard? That’s lived in my mind for years and I haven’t seen it in a long time

[death-of-the-endless]

Oh, love that story, adding it to the list: 20. Princess Talia and adding a few more contenders 21. Thyme 22. The Monster under the Bed 23. A Meaningful Death 24. Humans are unstoppable…until they aren’t 25. The Monster under the Fridge 26. Antler Guy 27. Cleric slamming healing spells

[death-of-the-endless]

Adding a few more I remembered:  28. The Frog and the Scorpion 29. HSTHETE 30. The First Witch in the World 31. Imagine that Oceans were replaced by Forests  32. A Faerie taking a Name  33. The Dragon on the Farm  34. Synovus & Menace  35. Raising the Anti-Christ  36. Aliens vs. Flora & Fauna of Earth (pretty sure there are even more additions to the original post but I had this one saved)  37. Doctors without Borders…in Space!  38. The Villain-Wrangler  39. The Last Contact  40. The 100 Parent-Point Children  41. And the Heavens Wept  42. The Night Gentleman  43. The Serpent God and their Priestess 

[knight-says-ni]

44. Heaven & Hell

45. Grandma Lives in the Woods

[knight-says-ni]

For some reason the HSTHETE link seems broken so here’s a new one

[nicomikha]

Hiya~ It was April, 18 then.

I was drawing Sans and Gaster Blaster for my cousin and then the urge came to digitalize the drawing. Never spent so much time trying to choose the right colors. And, in the end, couldn't choose the best one, so have fun looking at my art process with it's various versions.

[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

[wofwolwos]

This is great! Now someone do Naja’s perspective!

[omagpies]

POV you’re interrupting mbart media time. rude, honestly :/

stills:

[asteriart]

PERFORMANCE RELIABILITY: 60%

[mongeese]

The Murderbot Diaries are a power fantasy about being aromantic and still developing extremely important dedicated emotionally intimate partnerships where you are a top priority in a person's life, equal to their other family or romantic attachments despite your own emotional difficulties. And having guns in your arms

[off-the-beaten-timeline]

Martha Wells, Network Effect (2020)

I am seriously hyperventilating from the nonstop character- and relationship-development payoffs Network Effect delivers on every single page. Martha Wells is just setting them up and knocking them down, bam bam bam 😮‍💨

[the-murderbot-chatlogs]

so I don't know much about hacking or programming in general but from the way secunit talks about it, its style of "hacking" is really interesting. it doesn't break anything except as a last resort, and mainly uses its status as a (partial) machine intelligence to build trust with other machine intelligences to get into stuff. code walls are just like locked doors-- if you can convince someone walking in that you work in the building, you can get inside with no fuss. any changes to routine functions are inserted into the normal instruction list, in the system's internal language. the system doesn't have reason to consider whether the instructions are from a hacker, because there's nobody in here that's not supposed to be. secunit is sometimes a visitor politely asking for stuff, sometimes totally an employee, sometimes not even there at all.

so basically what I'm saying is that secunit is running a cyberspace leverage hit every time it fucks with a system

[off-the-beaten-timeline]

The poor humans are unprepared to be stuck on the sidelines of the Murderbot/ART dynamic.

Martha Wells, Network Effect (2020)

[currentlyjaywalking]

Based off this post by @documentary-of-a-rogue-secunit

[whispering-radiance]

Strattland, but they've switched outfits for a day

[whumpster-fire]

Love the moment in System Collapse when Ratthi makes a joke about round hatches being scarier than square ones, SecUnit decides to fact check this by searching its entire media library for scary things coming out of doors and doing statistical analysis on the shape of the doors and discovers he's right, and ART goes "You wasted processing space on that?" And then ART gets sucked into participating in the inane conversation within seconds.

[scarlct-vvitch]

ART and murderbot make me crazy because they are both so wildly apart from any other being (bot or human) around that they thought they would never have a friend. never be understood. ART is more intelligent than any other system it's ever met by a mile. murderbot is a rogue secunit that has spent its entire life lying about it. the two of them have been so alone for so long that a friend is a foreign concept, only for others, only for humans. and then they meet. and theyre like hey. wait. youre like me. i didnt think that was even possible. i want to be around you and save humans with you and be up in your business and if i can't im gonna freak out. i want to annoy you until we die. i kidnapped you when i got hurt because i dont trust anyone else. i want to do surgery on you. i put my human's lives in your hands willingly. i have never been truly seen before you. do you want to watch tv forever?

[nudityandnerdery]

Oh, Murderbot, you are eternally relatable.

Network Effect by Martha Wells

[nudityandnerdery]

I adore Murderbot in a way that would make it uncomfortable (i.e., by recognizing it in any way at all)

Platform Decay by Martha Wells

[twig-the-escaped-cephalopod]

throws my murderbot and ART feed designs at you. doodles of them under the keep reading

watching media

also watching media. or riding someone’s feed idk

first draft of them :D

[rosewind2007]

Spoiler for Platform Decay:

Good news! Well, I think it is!

In the early books, notably All Systems Red, Murderbot refers to SecUnits as “murderbots” (all lower case, as distinct from its use of Murderbot as its name)

This seems very much analogous to the way it uses sexbots for ComfortUnits

The good news? It seems to have stopped using this—its use of the word fell in the novellas and it only used it a handful of times in Network Effect and no uses in System Collapse or Platform Decay!

Graph shows density (ie use/word count) as book lengths vary considerably

[starfleetofficial]

ART and Murderbot relationship of all time. They've killed and died for each other. One has done experimental surgery on the other. They can't have a conversation without swearing. They had a baby together. If you refer to what they have as a relationship one of them will become absolutely apoplectic.