PresAugust

A celebration of Murderbot's favorite humans. Icon by @chimaerakitten

[presaugust]

Welcome to The Murderbot Diaries PresAugust Event!

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PresAugust is an event for celebrating the PreservationAux Survey Team. Did you see some cool fanart on tumblr, or want to rec some fanfics? Got any WIPs centering one or more members of PreservationAux?

This August:

save your fave PreservationAux bookmarks to the AO3 collection

vote in unOfficial PresAux Polls and get art prompts

post your fanworks to tumblr, AO3, or other social media

post about your favorite fics/arts/podfics/etc

reblog/share PresAux fanart, meta, etc

spread that PreservationAux appreciation!

For more on how to celebrate PresAugust, check out our About Page!

[elkatt-art]

so ive been getting into a new book series

[wigglybunfish]

Designs for the funky humans of PreservationAux, Perihelion, + one very tired SecUnit and a monstrous Research Transport AI.

[crispinkiss]

redid some of my tmbd human designs so here they are + various murderbot doodles ive been stockpiling

[mechanicoly]

now that tumblr resurrected my attention on the Murderbot series, I'm gonna lovingly toss out this old, rushed attempt of illustrating one of my favorite moments from the first novel All Systems Red 💖💖💖💖

It doesn't do it service but gahh Murderbot's character is such a refreshing read, and their friendship and the character development grrgrhrhrhrgrhhr

[sentient-pineapple]

art inspired by this wonderfully sweet fic

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[ID a digital art piece showing Mensah sanding on the right, Murderbot sitting in the middle and a livestock guardian dog on the left, all under a tree watching over green fields of sheep. In the distance is a sunset with puffy white clouds. Mensah wears a colourful orange top, pale trousers and a straw hat. Murderbot is wearing a dark blue outfit with faintly embroidered patterns. They are surrounded by bees and small purple drones, one of which sits on Mensah’s hat]

Murderbot deserves to *relax* dammit. Someone give this construct a holiday it needs one. Also I am channelling the studio ghibli vibes with a vengeance

[tenowls]

When constructs were first developed, they were originally supposed to have a pre-sentient level of intelligence, like the dumber variety of bot. But you can’t put something as dumb as a hauler bot in charge of security without spending even more money for expensive company-employed human supervisors. So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects. In the deployment center, when I was standing there while Dr. Mensah explained why she didn’t want to rent me as part of the bond agreement, she had called the increase in intelligence a “hellish compromise.”

mb and mensah, first meeting

[charliebot-art]

if you dont allow your pet secunit to purge some of its innate bloodlust it’ll start scratching up the walls and getting zoomies at 3am

[charliebot-art]

[ID: A colored comic with characters from murderbot diaries. Panel 1: Mensah and Murderbot stand in a room with windows showing outer space. Mensah is a black woman with lighter brown short wavy hair, wearing a blue and gold caftan with blue and gold jewelry. She is holding a black tablet and it typing on it. Murderbot is an android with tan skin and blonde hair wearing a black tank top and grey jeans. It has visible seams at its joints and on its face. It is looking downwards seriously and clenching its fists. Murderbot: “I’d kill for you.”

Panel 2: Murderbot suddenly looks up with a sinister shadowy expression, lifting its hands to clench its fingers. Murderbot: “Please as me to kill for you.” Mensah, not looking up from her tablet and cutting off the end of Murderbots speech bubble: “No, SecUnit.”]

[2405omu]

A very messy doodle of Murderbot and Mensah

[noomyart]

The ultimate security measure has finally bested our SecUnit in its hacking endeavors

[nerdywyrds]

This is my entry in the Murderbot Gift Exchange– @koseiris requested some funny slice of life, so here are Ratthi and SecUnit bringing Gurathin and Mensah up to speed on Sanctuary Moon. I hope you like it!

[ucale]

メンサーのビジュアルは原作と食い違っちゃったから一考の余地あり。またいろいろ考える

[blessphemy]

MB: メガネ？

ART: そう、ここで買っておくといい

MB: 弊機にはそんなもの必要ありません

ART: だからこそよ

ART: 人間は単なるオシャレでメガネおするだろう

ART: ボットが人間になりすますのにうってつけだ

ART: てごろな変装手と言える

MB: 不要な矯正器具を好んで着けるなんて

MB: 人間の考えることはわかりません

ART: なかなか様になってるじゃないか

ART: お前のフィードからメンさー博士にお前の画像

ART: 送っといたぞ

MB: は？

ART: お！さっそく返信だ

To: SecUnit

Mensah: よく似合ってる！私もメガネを持ってるのよ

Mensah: お揃いね！

MB: まあ。。。

MB: 変装として

MB: 検討する価値はある、かも。。。

\*

MB: Glasses?
ART: Yeah, you should buy them here

MB: I don’t need glasses

ART: And that’s why you should get them

ART: Humans will wear glasses just to be fashionable

ART: It’s perfect for a bot trying to pass as a human

ART: You could call it a disguise

MB: Why would humans use augments they don’t even need
MB: I don’t get it

ART: They look good on you

ART: I went ahead and sent Dr. Mensah a picture of you

MB: Hey!

ART: Oh! She replied

To: SecUnit

Mensah: They suit you! I have glasses too

Mensah: Now we match

MB: Well

MB: I guess they might have some worth, as a disguise

[remnantglow]

today i offer u even more murderbot art. tomorrow? who knows

[hiridraws]

did you know: i love them

mb ended up looking vaguely like a disgruntled kpop idol which amuses me greatly. one day i'll have a consistent design for it but it is not this day.

also i think about murderbot and mensah gently linking their pinkies every goddamn day. just enough contact to not set off mb's touch aversion. the intimacy of it all. also something something hands for healing hands for hurting gentleness touch starvation. all that.

[id in alt text]

[alex-van-gore]

Based on a fic by @aerii-korvatris - Dr. Mensah holding Murderbot’s hand, for once, not the other way around.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/30639137

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

[presaugust]

this has been: fanarts of "the ultimate sacrifice"

[indigo]