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[sanctuarymoonfan397]

BAD THINGS HAPPEN BINGO || The Murderbot Diaries Edition

All prompts will be Murderbot centric; and of course involving PresAux/ART/ PSUMNT somewhere in the background. If you have an idea how to use a prompt, don't be afraid to share! I'll see if it bites and perhaps use it!

Completed works can be found on Ao3 under the name TheOriginalCowboyCat and below the cut

Ao3 links and list will be added when works are complete

[daftpatience]

ok a few more a few more

[ablueblur]

Tea time with Sofi and Murderbot.

[charliebot-art]

in honor of the last day of pride pls take this silly comic i found in my drafts

[unidentifiedspoon]

my turn at this one. ART is the feed? no. ART is the frame

[maggotsandcream]

Something I do find lovely about the first 4 Murderbot Diaries books (can’t yet speak on all of them) is:

Murderbot chronically finding new scientists/travellers to claim as “clients” (whether paid or not) like one of those sheepless herding dogs that goes around finding sheep (or anything else they can herd like a flock of sheep). Like it clearly has a protect humans instinct and a desperate need for enrichment.

Given its general lack of self awareness and unreliable narrator status, there’s no way in hell Murderbot is aware it’s doing this.

[bottle-conjuror]

the colors i had planned for these were peak trust

[yearofdoodles]

Scenes that made me lose my marbles part 356

[lenasbraindump]

"'Nanna, do you have an interface for Janity? She lost hers.' Apparently the juvenile's name was Janity so I updated my tags."

So, something I realized while listening to Platform Decay again (the murderbot series are my emotional support audiobooks to fall asleep to - nobody tell it):

Murderbot still does not fucking read it's client¹ files!

At first I thought it might be sort of waiting for Janity to introduce herself, like Tula had, for it to call her by her name, but no, it updates the tags as soon as it learns her name. From Farai.

Now, how does Farai know Janity's name? Farai and Janity are only ever physically together in spaces where Murderbot's drones can listen, so we know Janity didn't tell Farai herself. She also couldn't have told Farai via the Feed, because -see above- Janity didn't have an interface at this point.

Hypothetically Farai and Leonide could have had a talk about their respective children at some point before Murderbot came for the rescue, but I don't feel like that is something Leonide would have done. The whole interaction between Leonide and her captives seemed very pragmatic and Leonide has taken great care to keep her children out of the dangerous bits of her life.

The much more straightforward explanation is that Farai knows the children's names from Leonide's file. And why wouldn't their names be in the file? There's a codeword for potential rescuers to identify themselves to her family, not also giving the rescuers the names of the rescuees seems... unlikely. So, conclusion, if Farai does know the names and Murderbot doesn't:

Murderbot. did not read. the file. in it's entirety. Again!

¹ Granted, they're not technically clients, Murderbot just got maneuvered into their rescue by Leonide, but that's beside the point.

[redstonedust]

thinking "everyone can tell im bad at this" as i stand completely motionless doing nothing in public

[charliebot-art]

ganbare art kun

[2578325424]

so my friend is on Artificial Condition and just sent me this…

[goldensonata]

ok maybe ill start posting art again

original text:

WARNING! DANGER!! this cat is to be avoided and not touched. it is cranky and has a bad attitude. IT SCRATCHES!!

murderbot version text:

this secunit is to be avoided and not conversed with. it is cranky and has a bad attitude IT FLIPS YOU OFF!!

[yearofdoodles]

Everyone has an emergency contact for kissing right don't make it weird

Full view pleeeease bc Tumblr hates me ✌🏼

[orangechickenpillow]

Hey, so

This is insane. This is INSANE. Murderbot who is kind versus Perihelion who is moral. The difference between kindness and morality; how morality does not have to be dictated by the concept of kindness, and perceived kindness can violate morality. How it's two non-human bots who are navigating this dilemma of what would be considered an act of morality versus an act of mercy.

Murderbot saying it would have been an act of kindness to be killed while it was a slave to a brutal corporation, and ART telling it "you know I am not kind" HOLY FUCK??? Essentially "Yeah, maybe it would have been kinder, but I wouldn't have extended that kindness to you because I want you alive"

[kettle-bird]

They don’t want me. (Hey, I don’t want me, either, but I’m stuck with me.)

[ASR | AC | RP | ES | NE]

[daftpatience]

when you forget you live inside your queerplatonic life partner and it saw you doing all that weird stuff