Said a Person Not in the Story

Besotted

[darkcrowprincess]

People always saying Wei Wuxian is a chaotic gremlin king, but I honestly think Zhao Yunlan from Guardian should be crowned the most chaotic little shit:

The man thought it was a good idea to walk into traffic blind. He constantly tries to touch the forbidden artifacts that he knows is dangerous. He thought Shen Wei was a serial killer at first but still flirted with him and let himself be around him without back up. He thinks it's hot to piss the black cloak envy off, who he knows has the possible power to erase his memories. The number of times this guy has run head on into danger with just his alien killing gun, when you know the powers some of these guys have. The man is a chaotic little shit.

[stellarflex]

[stellarflex]

[saffronhouse]

Beautiful in the sunshine

[katmegere]

Keep it?

If you all keep encouraging me I’ll keep drawing this stuff lol

[marinella-ela]

[ohumrak]

Zhu Yilong 朱一龙 | Vogue World event [2025.10.26]

[saffronhouse]

Zhu Yilong wearing diamonds oh lord

[darklynoon-deactivated20170407]

Reblog if you’re 30 or older

This is an experiment to see if there really are as few of us as people think.You can also use this to freak out your followers who think you’re 25 or something. Yay!

[mbrainspaz]

idk what neurodivergent young adult needs to hear this but you are NOT supposed to give 100% at your job. I've gotten more promotions and raises since I started giving 40-60%, which my evil CEO uncle informed me is what bosses actually expect when they say 110%. My mental health has improved tremendously. I've spent 2 out of 5 workdays secretly writing my novel for the last 2 years and I've never been more respected and appreciated. Also--when you see glaring wasteful errors in the company's operating systems, say absolutely nothing! Embrace inefficiency. It is your friend in this capitalist hellscape.

[happypath-finder]

I was already emotional about Three being named after the other two SecUnits that where with it in the task force, but then I made me more emotional thinking that even if its name is a memorial it is also a celebration because it plays along with 2.0 (who gave it the code to hacking its governor module) and Murderbot 1.0 (whose memories showed it there is a path forward). Three lost its group, its not-family, its not-partners, but it was not left alone. Not for a single moment since going rogue it was left on its own— not even in name.

[forbiddenchapel]

Melania: Devourer of Men

[monniebiloney]

Murderbot Diaries: Network Effect Chapter 9: Pg. 144-145

A short webcomic page made for Murderbot 2026 New Year gift exchange. (forward_9's Prompt: The bathroom scene from Network Effect)

[mikes-hard-official]

A lot of people draw ART as interacting with a regular embodied MB, however I posit that actually this is not what is happening

If you look at the gunship sequence, the actual event not the post brain explosion memory reconstruction, MB repeatedly refers to it's body as a separate entity from it's self. This means that there is also an incomprehensible nebulous MurderBot who just happens to be inhabiting a physical murderbot most of the time. Occasionally not though, such as when it's inside the feed hanging out with entities that generally happen to be botpilots. It also spends most of it's time with Miki leaving it's body hanging out in hiding spots while it goes and rides Miki's feed (like ART does to it when they watch tv together)

[transcarcinization]

mensah and mensahlings

[saffronhouse]

So cute! sec unit's expressions!

[stardustcleaningguy]

vastly overlooked moment in amok time: spock talking abt how vulcans go crazy during pon farr, saying that kirk will find it distasteful

and kirk responding ‘will i?’ in this shaky, almost giddy voice . weirdo freak is EXCITED abt that

[tachvintlogic]

"No, there aren't that many shows with SecUnits, and they're either villains or the villains minions." The only SecUnits in entertainment media were rogues, out to kill all the humans because they forgot who built the repair cubicles, I guess. In some of the worst shows, SecUnits would sometimes have sex with the human characters. [...] In the entertainment feed, SecUnits were what the clients expected: heartless killing machines that could go rogue at any second, for no reason, despite the governor modules. -Artificial Condition, chapter 2, pg 30-31

It's kind of strange to me that Murderbot believes there's no positive depiction of SecUnits. After all, SecUnits are a product. That means they can be the subject of product placement. I can't imagine a bond company like the Company would like media depicting its SecUnits as rogues waiting to happen.

I would imagine a lot of innocious depictions of SecUnits would be sponsored as advertisement, to show that so-and-so's SecUnits are competent, reliable, obedient, and helpful to the heroes (unlike the SecUnits used by the competition of course, who are rogues waiting to happen).

But maybe Murderbot purposefully avoids any entertainment media that was sponsored by the Company or any other bond company, so it's never seen these depictions, which means I've answered my own question.

[saffronhouse]

Brilliant take.

[bleeding-seraphic]

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

[nbcreates29]

[saffronhouse]

Oh, just superb !