oh shit! my media!

~MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS~ a place for my obsession. not really in character, but not exactly out of character either

[genderbinaryisforlosers]

really fond of the idea that the adjustments murderbot made to its appearance for this mission made it look more a member of mensah's family

ID below the cut (copied from alt)

ID: Digital art of Mensah, Amena, and ART helping Murderbot bleach its hair. Amena is stood behind Murderbot's chair, applying bleach into foils with a brush and smiling. An arrow pointing to her says, "called in as hair expert." Murderbot has its eyes closed behind the foils and an arrow pointing to it says, "all sensory input (except drones) off, watching Sanctuary Moon." Overhead a representation of ART watches the process with an arrow pointing to it saying, "supervising." Standing to the side, Mensah is reading the back of a box of bleach over her glasses, frowning. An arrow pointing to her says, "invited to help to distract from panic attack."

Digital art of Murderbot holding Sofi aboard a busy public transport vehicle. Its hair is bleached to the same lighter brown as Sofi and Mensah, and has a curly texture. It is wearing a red patterned shawl knitted in the same style as Sofi's rainbow sweater. Sofi is loosely holding on to Murderbot's neck and looking around nervously, while Murderbot easily holds her in one arm, looking in the other direction. In the background, a digital display can be seen reading, "Next stop:" but is then cut off. /end ID

[friend-unit]

this is adorable and it occurs to me that if they don't have a better method than foil and bleach in whatever Year 3000 Murderbot Diaries takes place in I will rage until the dying of the light

there has to be some sort of machine where you scroll through a catalog and pop your head into that will change your hair color and texture in 30 seconds

but for the purposes of Maximum Murderbot Discomfort I will allow it

[genderbinaryisforlosers]

there definitely is a better way, i mean ART's surgical suite did far more than that in AC (and realistically it was probably responsible for this appearance change too) but........ i wanted to draw murderbot going thru the horrors of a box bleach job with mensah and amena lmao

[suckunit]

got a kofi request human!au miki! first time i’ve drawn its canon design either actually… my beautiful cringe pookie bear. sure hope nothing bad happens to it

[magsintherain]

“SecUnits are never allowed to sit down or use human furniture whether on or off duty, so I sat in one of the chairs and I put my feet up on the table. Then I took my feet off the table because it wasn’t comfortable.”

just got to this line in my murderbot reread and it is possibly my favorite line in the whole series. just. the way martha wells casually drops the most devastating comments about the treatment of secunits in the midst of badass action sequences, and murderbot figuring out what to do with its newfound autonomy, and liking things?? and figuring out how to exist in relation to what it is and used to be?? idk if I’m being coherent I just love this bit so much

[avatar-roko]

in which SecUnit “afraid of eye contact” Murderbot has a staring contest with a small human

[thornysort]

murderbothering / print

[razielim]

Do you ever feel tender about the relationship Perihelion inadvertently ends up having with Arada? This was its temporary captain, its liaison with all these new humans cluelessly crawling around inside it, and the one calling many of the shots on the operation that ended up rescuing every member of its crew (and later, Murderbot), against great odds.

Arada's not family the way Seth is, but she's the one who kept everyone organized and focused on the goal of getting its family back.

[graylibrary]

ok so we don't actually know how the "negotiation" between the Preservation humans and ART went while Murderbot was hiding in the bathroom fuming, but later the plan is to distract the colonists by having the humans say ART is forcing them to look for its friend while it blows things up. The point of that is distraction but it's funny because Ratthi is like "Will they believe that story?" and it's fair because while the colonists have been cut off for awhile so if anyone is going to believe it without asking more questions it's them but very specifically ships DON'T talk much less bomb things independently in that way in the CR or basically anywhere but the super secret university program that makes ART class ships. it's NOT a very believable story.

BUT AT THE SAME TIME. that's.... that's basically what happened ok. like the Preservation humans got kidnapped and the ART said you're going to help me get my humans back, you have no choice. They're decent people so they actually probably would want to help anyway and they actually DIDN'T have any other options really but ART was absolutely hellbent on getting its family back. so that story. was almost true.

[psumnt-studentcouncil]

my giiirrlll my giiirlll I love herrr 🥺🥺🥺

Some Iris (Iris..es?) and a doodle of a scene from Rapport

PNGs after the cut if anyone wants them!

[emily-e-draws]

this platform sure is decayed

[securityunit-ese]

“I’ve fucked everything up,” I’d told ART. This was when I was in Medical after my “incident.” Mensah and I had called Amena so she wouldn’t worry (or at least so she would know that I was still alive, even I know that’s important for human children). I told Mensah I wanted to watch media and she had left, and I’d blocked the humans’ comm and feed access to the room.

ART had said, That’s nothing new.

I ignored that because it was just trying to reassure me. If it started being sympathetic it would be terrifying. “Your crew isn’t going to want me to do their security anymore.”

Why is that?

That question was obviously a trap and I should ignore it. It wasn’t as if I could put the answer into words. I was different. It wasn’t just the alien contamination.

What came out was, “Something in me broke.”

System Collapse, Martha Wells

[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

[primarybufferpanel]

Something I love in the Murderbot books is how even in the corporation rim, people will do good things and help others when they have the option. People in charge of lowering zone barriers wait until the last possible moment to give more of the public a chance to evacuate. People in charge of transport warn passengers not to get off (because there's a dangerous situation) or like in the new book, go 'screw tickets, get as many people on board so there's a chance we can get them safe'.

Even as tiny cogs in that brutal, dehumanising system, people find ways

[yearofdoodles]

It is NOT escaping the third mom allegations 🚫

Thank you to @securityunit-ese for the excellent prompt and to @emily-e-draws for making me want to immediately draw mb at the rainforest cafe when I saw your art 💖

[there-are-no-gods-here]

TMBD art I made for a class! Quotes are from All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, and Exit Strategy

[uovoc]

new rule, asking secunit is cheating

[razielim]

imagine you're don abene for a second.

you encounter a secunit for the first time.

it saves your life in a situation where no one else would have been fast, strong, agile, and composed enough to do so.

your security team is immediately more alarmed by its presence than the attack that is obvious to you as the bigger issue at the moment

they insist it's dangerous and struggle to relax enough to take their weapons off of it

then a combatbot attacks your group

somehow this secunit, much smaller than the bot, unarmored, without any heavy weaponry on its person, manages to take it down. some real jaw-dropping action, all over in less than a minute

then it leaps into a room with two combatbots and not only survives, but it gets your unconscious friend out alive

then it immediately comes to your own rescue, disabling impressive combat armor

it then is dead-set on killing your attacker who is already immobilized and harmless

clearly this is an incredibly competent and dangerous and powerful person

then miki tells you that it IS rin and you finally put it together that not only is this person competent in the field, but it is also calling all its own shots and has truly come here all on its own and volunteered its services to help and protect you without needing to be asked or ordered

so this person is incredibly competent, dangerous, powerful, AND kind, AND fiercely protective, AND reassuring, AND intelligent, AND selfless

and it's still coming up with great ideas and still thinking proactively about how it's going to face down or distract another combatbot as though there's no doubt in the world that it, still bleeding heavily, still unarmored and barely armed, is ready for another round with a terrifying machine that appears to be nothing BUT armor and weapons

so you step forward to help treat its injuries

and it jerks back a step with the single most frightened face you've ever seen, as though you had lifted your arm to inflict pain and it was helpless to stop you

behind you, even miki can read the devastating expression that's breaking your heart and says "abene won't hurt you, secunit"

where did the fearsome fighter from moments ago disappear to?

who did this to it?

[ablueblur]

It's the Ponyo revolution meme.