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[parme-san]

they just made a new law of robotics that all robots must be kissed and cuddled and loved

[now-press-enter]

Repair guy left her hanging.

[mansand]

In the year 20003, Varvara of Barbaros, crashed into another contestant's vehicle during the bi-annual canyon race of planet TRAPPIST-1e. They brought her out in pieces.

He gathered her remains, and put together a body to house her.

it took a few months before most of it was gone and changed. she's moving so beautifully now, quick and playful. She doesn't respond to Varvara anymore. she has cut her long hair in jagged ribbons, ripped most of the synthetic skin off of her body, and now bares far too much for him to ever remain comfortable in his delusion. He has to constantly remind himself that within the synthetic muscle pumps her blood, he hasn't replaced her blood so it's still her. Even if she does things she never does and says things she never would and plays pranks when she's always been a determined solemn person. She's too morbid in her humor, too crass in her language, cruel in a way someone new to the world would be, and he did not want her to be new to the world.

[cuboidcodex]

2026 vs 2024

Starting to update some older designs ahead of art fight

[cuboidcodex]

alt outfit

[squiggl3]

[noto-yellowrabbit]

티알 자캐

oc for TRPG

[eggnogo]

sketch comm

[rabbitpanching]

🔋🍑🧩

[vyanny]

Wanted to draw my Roblox avatar

[thefugitivesaint]

Bob Pepper (1928-2013), ''We Can Build You'' by Philip K. Dick, 1972

[trinketbird]

sole survivor

[doofazoid]

robot rascals

[robotgirltail]

robot girl who says .rar instead of rawr

[sleepywantscookies]

silly robot goober art fight attack for Socket ugh,,, their design is still so cool imma do a flip

[fernsnailz]

first(?) rain

[threedollarsdotcom]

machine on the fritz, please advise

you have to kiss it better and wear lipstick while doing it

[championoftheoppressed]

I've just finished the first Murderbot book and it's very funny coming from Star Trek to this. In Star Trek you have androids and such actively campaigning for themselves to be considered full people with rights that deserve the same considerations as anyone else. Meanwhile in Murderbot all the humans are telling this guy that it's a person with rights and it's their friend and they like it and its response is basically

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

One thing I've been meaning to write an essay about for a while and never got around to is the difference between older, Data-style robot people and more modern iterations like Murderbot. You've got two levels of striving for rights here, the modern one built on having internalised the older one. Every time I reflect on them I'm reminded strongly of the public-facing part of the queer rights movement.

Data, who strongly admires and desires humanity, has his story centred around being as humanlike as possible. In Data stories, to be more like a human is viewed as improvement, to be called humanlike is a compliment; everything is framed around his ability to seem similar to humans and he's good because he strives to be more human. He's similar to the nineties and early millennium push of "we're just like you! Our differences are something we were born with and we can't help :( but we can be same as you! Trans people were just born in the wrong body; if we get the right one, we fit in! Gay people can form lifelong partnerships and raise kids! Love is love! <3" in order to appeal for basic rights, safety and autonomy. Data is safe. He asks you to listen to his plea to let him through the gates, not to tear the fences down.

Murderbot is different. Murderbot knows what it is and doesn't strive for humanity. Murderbot does not see being called human as a compliment and, while it will fake being human for strategic reasons, prefers not to be confused for one. The humans in book 1 gaining sympathy for it because of how humanlike it is and talking about it in human terms is not seen as uplifting and positive but as awkward and painfully naive, something that drives Murderbot away and that they have to address in themselves when it comes back. The Preservation Aux system of allowing bots in only with human sponsors to guide them is seen as obviously unfair and condescending, a way for humans to roleplay being charitable sympathetic guides for the poor bots who clearly need their help. Murderbot is the post-aughts queer wave of "whether we are like you or not is irrelevant. We are entitled to rights and safety whether or not we fit into your systems and stroke your egos. Whether you understand us or approve of us is not relevant to this question. It is not our job to treat you as an ideal we are failing to reach in order to make you feel better." Murderbot is not safe. Murderbot does not plead at the gate that it should be let in. Murderbot is not grateful and appreciative of your generosity for opening the gate because in Murderbot's world, the fact that you're still manning the gate means you're a naive annoyance.

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

This same pattern is true for a lot of types of oppression, of course, though the timelines will be different. I used queer people as an example because it's what I'm most familiar with, but you'll see the same patterns in disability activism, racial equality, et cetera -- a survivalist's appeal to similarity, making the privileged class more comfortable in their assumption as being the default and how generous and open-minded they are for magnanimously fighting for the oppressed class' rights and safety and ability to strive to be more like them despite clearly having been born deficient in [insert topic of bigotry here], and then when the social zeitgeist is in favour of granting such rights, a second wave of "we're fine as we are and we deserve rights and safety anyway, similarity or difference to you is not relevant because we don't measure our worth by how much like you we are".

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

(I should also clarify that I am talking about book Murderbot. I have no idea how tv show Murderbot presents these issues, I haven't seen it.)

[impossiblepackage]

show murderbot seems to behave in a much more human way, to the point that it insisting on its inhumanity kind of reads like a joke. i think this might just because it is being portrayed by an actor who is a whole ass human person, tho.