A slut for the duality of man

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[maxe-murderer]

started and nearly finished this ages ago but i finally got around to finish the shading

[yearofdoodles]

Queen of diplomacy 👑

[dooplissss]

the #mb-perihelion channel sometimes takes me to places I wouldn't go with a gun

more murderbot art

[chromaticrainarts]

I think this ship (spaceship) is really funny

[bleeding-seraphic]

ART being brought back in NE. To me. If you even care

[omagpies]

things to say when you are not a place of honor

original text by @inkskinned can be found here. I’ve made a comic with it before but wanted to make a mbart version for a while

[dreamofbecoming]

we don’t talk enough about how funny this moment is. fucking scoob and shaggy ass reaction

[omagpies]

artificial condition (2018)

[xstick-noodlesx]

I just started Artifical Condition, and I am obsessed with the fact that Murderbot immediately accommodates for ART when they watch Worldhoppers together. It lets ART pause to process the death of a main character, rewatches an episode with it three times when ART is relieved that the character is actually not dead and agrees to watch the final episode of that storyline by playing it two minutes at a time because ART got scared of the ship in Worldhoppers being catastrophically damaged and the crew being killed.

It even puts up a content filter because ART got so upset about the next media they watched being inspired by a real story of a transport being badly damaged and parts of the crew being killed.

Murderbot cares so much, even though it knew ART for only a few cycles at that point.

[elegantheartdaze]

Murderbot constantly complaining about being a 'pet bot' is funny because its major desires are to sit and lounge around ART/the Argument or the couch in Mensah's office doing nothing (watching media), or perching on the corner of Mensah's desk and hovering in corners watching its humans. It doesn't want to be touched but also like yeah ok you can touch it if you're special. It wants to walk in, do it's thing, and leave.

Also like ART is *so* excited to have this feral construct show up on its door step. ART brings MB inside, bathes it, gives it medical treatment and a safe cozy space, and then tags it (with the comm receiver stored under MBs ribs) and sets it free to do its thing, hoping it will come back some day. It's like Tag-(neuter)-Release for stray cats. ART likes to dress it up and squeeze it and talk about it and show off pictures of MB to its humans...

Murderbot doesn't want to be a pet, but it's already a cat.

[youremysunshine8]

Secunit, talking to Three: ok, now if you want to pass as an augmented human you're gonna need to get surgery. Personally ART removed some length from my limbs, but it had some more extreme options available as well-

Iris: Wait rewind. ART did surgery on you?

Secunit: yes

ART: Yes

Three: it was obvious someone did surgery on it, look how off model it is

(to humans, Three and Secunit look identical in body shape)

Ratthi: I kind of assumed you'd just grown out your hair

Seth: ART doesn't have the permits to do that kind of surgery

ART: it was consensual

Secunit: don't say it like that

Iris: what were the more extreme options????

Secunit: I'm not having this conversation. ART, you handle this. Don't be a freak.

[asthedeathoflight]

Iris says in Rapport that ART never speaks impulsively or says anything it doesn't mean to, which... Doesn't super gel with what we've seen of it in the rest of the series. It seems like its more honest than it intends to be a few times in network effect at least. And part of that may be because it's just been through something very traumatic and may be acting in a way that would normally be out of character for it, but i also wonder if Iris may be assuming something is inherently part of its personality which is actually a side effect of her humanity.

Like, when it's talking to humans it has to wait to respond to them. Iris describes it as speaking in basically a normal human conversational pattern, which means it has to be delaying its responses .5 seconds or whatever. It would be really jarring for a human to have a conversation with someone whose reply appears instantly as soon as you hit enter. So regardless of how long it actually takes to formulate a response, it is in the habit of waiting before it speaks. And then it has to wait for the humans to read the message. And then it has to wait for them to respond. Human conversation must be an unbelievably slow process for ART.

And then there's Murderbot. Who isn't quite as fast as ART, but can still keep up with it in conversation at ARTs native, digital speeds. MB mentions being able to clock hundredth-of-a-second hesitations in ART's speech, which means it and ART must be talking INCREDIBLY fast. And I think it's entirely possible that some of Iris's perception of ART as levelheaded and icy in its rage comes from the fact it is essentially communicating with her via snail mail. It has SUCH a long time to think about what it says to her or the rest of the crew. In comparison, its conversations with Murderbot are suddenly happening in real-time. And so it says things that are a little bit crazy sometimes, because despite what Iris believes it isn't actually more levelheaded than a human, its just /faster./

[thekalpar]

Further evidence of Murderbot being an unreliable narrator:

Murderbot: Well, I guess I'll use these crappy drones that the cheap-ass company paid the lowest bidder for. I wish I had better drones.

ART, watching over MB's shoulder: Those drones are so cool. I want drones like that. Dads, can I have drones like that? Can we get new drones on the way home?

ART's family: Peri, where did you schematics for state-of-the-art, highly secret, corporate military tech?

ART: Oh. You know. Lying around.

[omagpies]

insufferable

[freak-motion]

oodles of doodles. you know how it is

[stealthetrees]

Obsessed with how Murderbot and Perihelion were literally made to be together. Secunits were designed to interface with multiple larger systems like hub and med systems and to be part of a much larger network of bots and programs. ART is, essentially, a hub system that can react and interact with the other pieces of its systems in ways most hub systems can’t. It has the capacity to feel emotions but lacks the experience and inputs to be able to fully understand some of them until it uses Murderbots systems. Murderbot doesn’t have a deep understanding of humans and how to pass as one which ART gladly provides. ART cares deeply about its crew but can’t follow them into dangerous situations but Murderbot can. “Mutual administrative assistance” takes on a much deeper and more intimate meaning when it’s taken with the context of a software programs and its hardware counterpart.

[freak-motion]

cutest scene in murderbot history btw