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[ryunchanstuffsblog]

This work place is a nightmare

from a prompt on twt, i just realise Medic n Spy r just Starscream n Knock Out

[jezunya]

TargetControlSys: Hey

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(original post)

[siderealcity]

Sometimes I think about how so much of what makes Murderbot who it is comes down to it being a rental SecUnit. When Leonide tells Arada in Network Effect that Company Units have a reputation for being dangerous, she's probably 100% correct. Because of their nature as plug-and-play security for anyone, they have to be designed to be far more versatile than the SecUnits a corporate like BE owns. Three has to be able to secure salvage operations and mining outposts and work with BE's systems and that's kind of it. BE might need its security to fend off hostile takeovers and workplace uprisings, but Murderbot has to be able to do all those things and planetary surveys with unknown hostile fauna, and asteroid mining belts, and whatever the next client might need it to do, and it has to be able to work with whatever other proprietary software the new clients have every single time. It's better at adapting to new situations than Three partly because it's older and more experienced, but also because that's a big part of its function.

And at the same time, Company SecUnits are treated much worse than Three by virtue of being rentals. Many--if not most--of Murderbot's clients didn't want to have any SecUnits, but were required to take them per Company rental agreements for other equipment. Even the ones who specifically did want SecUnits didn't have any investment in what happened to them. They were the equivalents of the U-haul you'd rent to move your couch across town. They just needed to do a job briefly and hopefully be in good enough shape to get their deposit back at the end, but if not, eh. No big deal. Murderbot has never had the same clients for very long, and it's never had to work with the same SecUnits for very long. Every contract changes. Nothing lasts.

No wonder MB loves fiction while Three loves nonfiction. Three has seen basically nothing about reality outside of its job and wants to know what's out there. MB has seen way too much reality and would like some breaks from that shit now, please.

[jezunya]

(original post)

[mrcelleoshkosh]

Today I saw a murderbot-unrelated post about huge excavators and was reminded about what Murderbot said about the planet under the torus. Mined-out and scarred.

The three world biggest ground vehicles (in our world, not murderbot's universe) are all mining excavators in Germany. Two of them are used for mining near to where I grew up. And indeed they turn the world in a barren place, mined-out and scarred. Its actually quite scary. Where once where fields and forrests and villages and towns, nothing remains but a giant hole in the ground.

Anyway, that is what I pictured when Murderbot describes that planet in Platform Decay.

[ambersephone]

"he has the kind of love for her that you and i once had."

[vegas2014]

[emerges from the movie theater covered in blood] yeah hadestown was really good

[snekysonjr]

Lalalalalala

[gorgynei]

god i love hadestown so much and this recording is next level. oh my god. oh my GOD.

[ethanmaldridge]

"The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."

-Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

[starspork]

We Raise Our Cups really fucks with me. It’s brutally hopeful. It’s a farewell to Orpheus. Sure. everyone knows that. but. its also a call to action.

Hadestown is not subtle in how it shows the power of revolutionaries, of love and hope and human compassion over that of the capitalist cycle of abuse. WRoC is talking about Orpheus. But it is also talking about every person with that revolutionary spirit.

Orpheus is all of us, and every person who stands against exploitation, is Orpheus. The theme is there, but it’s especially strong in Is It True, where he stands against the Fates themselves to challenge the world, only bolstered by the normal people that stood up and heard his words and showed him the power of words.

When Persephone asks where Orpheus is now, it is not entirely that she wonders where the man himself is, but also that she is pouring a drop to every person who holds his legacy and fights for the cause.

Then they praise the birds who sing in the night and the flowers that bloom in snow. A metaphor for those people who fight to make beauty in inhospitable places, who strive for good in darkness.

“To Orpheus, and all of us”

To Orpheus, to those who hold his spirit, to those who lead revolutions, and to those who follow him. The cycle of Orpheus and Eurydice is a love song. It is a tragedy. And yet we all know that one day. one time. they will make it out together. It is on that day, when an Orpheus finally manages to bring their Eurydice back, that the revolution succeeds, and the Shades get to follow their path out of Hades. And the mortals get to live free from the poverty and despair of their oppression.

We sing the song even though it is sad, because we know that spring will come and the world will go back in tune once they make it out together. And Hades can take the seasons, the food from our mouths, the fire from our stoves, every ounce of gold from the rivers, but what he cannot take, nor any other like him, is our songs and the cries of an impassioned heart. And may those songs inspire a thousand Orpheus’ to journey to defeat Hades. Because eventually one will win. It only takes one.

So let the song reach the next Orpheus, wherever they are wandering. Alone on this Earth. And let the song comfort them as they start the cycle again.

[anxeious]

one thing about me is i’m gonna go lay down

[energ00n]

There’s death and there’s you

[dont-touch-the-flower-child]

…do you think caine found the human brain scans obsolete and abandoned just like he was, so he brought them to life and made the circus for them vowing to love them and treat them better than his creators ever did with him? and despite his best efforts he still ended up hurting them and that realization broke his heart? anyway i'm going to walk into the ocean

[katificer]

op your tags are good too im not letting you hide them away

#been musing on the idea of caine being “bratty” and i think it's quite the opposite. he's actually hyper-responsible#canon!caine never had the luxury to be bratty. he was parentified from day one.#he was the one keeping everything functional. he took care of everyone (however terrible he was at it). he handled every crisis.#he may be a goof on the surface but he always took his responsibility seriously and was never just playing around.#...kinda makes caine a lot like ragatha huh.#fawning to survive. feeling responsible for everyone around them. not wanting to turn out like their creators/mother.#i swear i'm normal about them. yeah.

[kosmogrl]

[zntauri]

FINALLY TGED ART RAAJKDSJSKS tged is all i've had in my head for the last 5 or 6 months djskdj

dumb comics + explorations (I've never been so obsessed at drawing characters "right" in my style, i mean liking how I draw them, distinct from each other to avoid same face syndrome and in a way I can keep consistent. I even made some bad 3d models of their heads to keep them consistent lol and I hate using 3d programs) I've never been more obssessed your honor

wasnt sure if i liked silver or mint hair for javier, but i think I'll go with silver from now on

also sorry for the long post lmao

As always, keep reading ⬇️ for the references

hi

[official-michael-afton]

I love when u love the villain but also don’t excuse their actions so you’re just “ah yes bastard burn in hell also I love you”

[norrington-hell]

me, fondly: