Mensahbot + Mensahcule = 💖

It's practically canon. https://archiveofourown.org/collections/Mensahbotcule

[respectissexy]

Since I'm therapist-posting recently:

Legitimately self-compassion is the biggest mental health life hack of all time. I'm NOT talking about self-esteem. You do NOT have to like yourself one bit. You don't have to believe that you're a good person who deserves good things. You just have to believe that you're a person who deserves the things all people deserve.

You can't get from "I'm the Worst" to "I'm a worthy and lovable person" without passing through "I'm just a regular fuckup like everybody else."

Try it on. If you're really addicted to being mean to yourself, you can start by framing it as I'm Not Special. Embrace being a regular fuckup like everybody else.

[blemgoid]

entering the polycule not as a conqueror, but a liberator

[cryptotheism]

Can I hit or do I have to pay tribute to the rest of your polycule first

[cryptotheism]

Twenty bushels of millet to milady with the neopussy. Twenty five to the it/she because it does the dishes most often.

[gondorrevealparty]

Polycules should be able to trade people like sports teams do

[gondorrevealparty]

Listen -- you're a good defender and your pussy is fantastic, but that's not what our team needs right now. We're trading you to Greater Boston in exchange for someone who has a car.

[securityunit-ese]

Murderbot canonical relationship chart

It ended up so big I had to paste chunks of it into paint to join together...

I kept thinking about how the TMBD and MBTV have so much canonical poly rep and there are multiple people that Murderbot has a canonically weird/ambiguous/unlabelled thing with.

Yet most fanworks (fic, art, meta, music videos) are 1:1 monogamous.

Is it the broader society we live in? Is it the "puritan/conservatism" creeping into shipping? Is it the limitations of AO3s tagging systems influencing fandoms? Is it the influence of subfandom pocket cultures? Is it all the above and then other stuff I can't think of cause I am tired?

I made this using the Triangle Relationship Generator.

* Disclaimer: the canonical relationships are as of post-Platform Decay and based on how I subjectively read the characters. I'll add forgotten/missed characters but I won't do debates on subjective interpretations.

Specific sections under the cut:

Preservation Aux Survey Team + Murderbot

Perihelion crew + Murderbot

Tapan collective

Mensah family + Murderbot

Platform Decay

Leebeebee impacts

[mensahbotcule]

Mensahbotcule snippet:

[yearofdoodles]

Tano (toph avatar voice): when do I get my life changing field-trip with SecUnit

[tomdork]

Octave Tassaert, The Cursed Woman, 1859

[ablueblur]

Tea time with Sofi and Murderbot.

[sir-big-bass-knight-of-ur-mum]

Knight whose polycule has an archer, smith, and swordsperson. Call them a polyarmory

[girl-blorbo-polls]

Is your girl blorbo polyamorous?

Canonically polyamorous

I headcanon it and ship her in a polyship

I headcanon it but don’t have a polyship in mind

Nah, she’s probably strictly monogamous

Nah, she doesn’t date/have partnered relationships

Other/nuance/complicated

Voting ended onJul 3

[mnduck]

Finished reading Platform Decay and drew some.

⚠️Spoiler alert⚠️

This is when MB and Farai first met (every time I read this scene, it feels like Farai is interrogating her spouse's affair partner🥹)

And i'm happy to see the two of them building trust in each other in the latest series.

+The cutest part

If time permits, I’d like to illustrate an episode where MB is afraid of small children (because they’re so tiny), as well as an episode where Three and ART happen to strike up a conversation about MB’s drastic change in appearance—which is surprisingly radical for a SecUnit.

[skyrimhusbandmaterial]

when you find someone who's equally unwell about The Character

[hylianane]

functionally suicidal character saying “I would die for you” to their significant other and its like. I get the sentiment, honey, but if a hot dog vendor told me he’d sell hot dogs for me, I wouldn’t feel very moved now would I

[absolutelybatty]

Unethical polyamory not in the sense that the partners aren't consenting to multiple relationships but in the sense that they kill people as a group

[lowerroad]

it's a good thing mensah is already married with kids by the start of all systems red because can you imagine trying to make a new longterm relationship work when you have to explain to potential partners that murderbot will be there. no not romantically or sexually. but it is there.

[lorencethecat]

Polycule but it’s just two people in a romantic relationship with each other and their third who’s pretty obviously aroace but also somehow so deeply intertwined in their lives that it’d just be wrong to not count them as involved. Is this anything.

[mumble-muse]

kinda love that murderbot has queer poly relationships just baked into it's space future and there's also murderbot giving aroace and it/it's pronouns