This is a murderbot blog now I guess

No I don't know how to use tumblr. Yes I refuse to learn. Many fandoms. Still on the BG3 bullshit. Will probably just reblog a bunch of stuff.

[avatar-roko]

[avatar-roko]

[brambeag]

sad little sera

[lakevida]

i'm so glad i'm not a teen anymore i'm sorry for teens that you guys still have to do that. whole heartedly prefer the ways my 20s suck to the ways my teen years sucked

[moderatly-fast-chickens-blog]

The new guy is going to dissolve himself with his face issues

[litera1lywhat3ver]

theyre so stupid

[midomochitea]

For FMABruary last day: Truth

It's been like... a long time since I've watched the anime but it still reigns as one of my favorites! I was late to the Fmabruary challenge this year hence the last day prompt but was happy to contribute anyways <3

I also have this as a print now!

[the-shrimp-alchemist]

love this guy. sometimes i wonder what he was thinking during those years.

[dreamsy990]

forgot to post this but i drew it in class

[unidentifiedspoon]

part 2 of this. what if instead of be not afraid you said Be Afraid but joke's on you, asshole, it's been afraid its entire life

[normalgiirl]

mr milchick my morally ambiguous lying king <3

[pangur-and-grim]

can I make a confession that might get me in trouble

[pangur-and-grim]

I save scummed through every variation of this guy’s dialogue tree because I really, really wanted him to perform unethical surgery on me. like I’m still so angry about this. WHY have the gross knife hand doctor if he can’t pull out your appendix and laugh about it??? what is the POINT

[pangur-and-grim]

wait hang on I’ll post a pangur photo. don’t unfollow

[pangur-and-grim]

[jasonmantzoukas]

parks and rec but it’s just the memes (pt. 1)

[cultivating-wildflowers]

You want me to turn on automatic software updates? The thing that made Murderbot commit mass murder?

[trekinist]

> The Stalker says he can take me to the Zone

> I ask if the Zone is creepy or wet

> He doesn't understand

> I light a cigarette and make my speech about what constitutes something being creepy or wet

> He does not laugh and says "The Zone demands respect"

> it's creepy AND wet

[hellofriendhawke]

Your Murderbot has such incredible physicality and the expressions are GOALS!!! Do you take requests? Any more murderbot would be great (or murderbot 2.0?) Thank you for sharing your art :) :) :)

Thank you! I'm glad you like it. I hope you enjoy my offering of 2.0 :)

[woodfrogs]

like every book there's a scene where murderbot has to explain something horrific that secunits are put through to its humans and it moves on (because it is functioning 90% due to denial and repression) while everyone else is horrified and each time it feels exactly like this:

"the governor module will freeze you in place at your client's command and force you to do nothing as they're kidnapped then will kill you terribly and painfully when they're taken out of acceptable range"

[liminalbeauty]

Murderbot just knows it as ‘the way it is’. As it starts to break free the story follows its own journey to self-awareness and the beginnings of an understanding of the value of life. The story skims lightly over a deep sea of horror and abuse, because that’s the only way to survive until you can start to heal. Preservation is the mirror being held up to ‘the way it is’. Humans don’t have to be like the way they are in the Corporation Rim. Murderbot has the genetics of its own oppressors built into itself, which it hates and wants to deny in the beginning. But it realizes that the ones oppressing it were the product of their own system, and they themselves were victims as well. Sanctuary Moon was its first look into what it means to be human. Or part human. What humans dreamed of being as well. Maybe Preservation was a window that allowed Murderbot to escape. But it had to first understand how to make a human connection.

I read a very formative article a number of years ago which said that every book a child reads, no matter what their life circumstance, improved their life outcome. The act of reading helped the child’s brain to grow, gave them more ability to imagine something better for themselves, and increased their awareness and compassion for others. This, in turn, made the entire trajectory of their life better.

I think it was the same for Murderbot.

[cooking-with-hailstones]

I wrote this all out in the tags but it turned into enough of an essay that, fuck it, it's going in the post.

I just reread Fugitive Telemetry and I think it's so interesting to see all the little moments like this with Indah and Aylen.

They both start out deeply afraid and suspicious of MB, in a way that MB doesn't want to acknowledge but is definitely very painful. But through the course of their interactions, they have enough Wendy's Lady moments that they start to change.

And I don't think Murderbot picks up on this much, if at all. I think it would be surprised to know how much both of their opinions of Murderbot have changed through the course of the events of FT. But MB just keeps dropping these little hints, little stories and anecdotes, little things about the CR that it just Knows. And they're both standing there like "what the fuck... Holy shit... That's so fucked ...." And they both soften up so much to MB. (Helped significantly by the extreme competency MB displays the whole time, but also just through its sheer... Well humanity isn't the right word. Undeniable personhood. They start to see past the scary Secunit and start to see the scared and hurt person that Mensah first saw wrapped up in a blanket in the cubicle.

The moment that drove this home most to me is the way Indah quietly supports it after What Happened with The People in That One Scene. When you know MB is devastated but not actually able to articulate why even to itself in any meaningful way. And Indah is just there, supporting it quietly and carefully and giving it space, but also affirming "you have just been violently dehumanized, and I'm sorry. For what it's worth, I do see you as a person and it sucks that this happened and I'll press charges against them if you want." (I think MB doesn't really process that concept. Imagine a SecUnit making a complaint about a human and it being taken seriously? It's definitely not ready for that yet.)

But the way that in the last chunk of FT she's just quietly affirming MBs personhood. She's seen the cruelty it's lived with all its life and now she can see the person who never deserved it. It's earned Indah and Aylen's trust, and probably most of the station security team, just by being itself, through its undeniable personhood.

[liminalbeauty]

Yes ❤️

The *layers* in the writing.