Where my Insanity hides... here be Voices

[syntia13treeman]

Sideblogs:

My Good Omens fandom contributions (not many and only season 1)

My Magnus podcasts fandom contributions (mostly Protocol for now)

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[cosmictealeaves]

collect your badges people!!!

[vee-thebee]

i like my women broken, traumatized and a little reckless

[vee-thebee]

in a similar vein i like my men broken and grunting in pain

[syntia13treeman]

Oh, you're in for a treat then 😁😈

[vee-thebee]

i like my women broken, traumatized and a little reckless

[syntia13treeman]

Hell yeah Derelict!

You get a Bad Day (TM)! And you get a Bad Day (TM)! Everybody gets a Bad Day (TM)!

[sabertoothwalrus]

asexuals I love you very much but sometimes you will get hangups about very funny things. I made a "fuck marry kill" poll and dozens of people are asking how they're supposed to vote because they don't want to fuck anyone and are asking for alternatives for that category like playing video games or drinking tea instead. but killing is totally fine

[syntia13treeman]

Ok, A) - as an ace I can confirm that I'm WAY more comfortable with committing fictional/hypothetical murder than with committing equally fictional/hypothetical sex (either short-term or long term), and much more importantly,

B) I can tell you with 80% certainty that the aces who sent those asks ARE, in fact, sex-repulsed (please shut up the 'oh but not all aces' crowd) and not only are they uncomfortable with contemplating the fuck/marry options, they know from painful experience that no matter how many ppl will roll they eyes and claim it's just a game, dude, chill out, there are many shitstains that will immediately go "AHA! I knew you were just pretending/lying/confused/whatever, you just admitted you would fuck somebody, therefore I'm justified in pestering you for sex". And going through this shit irl will make you shy away from any kind of virtual version of the same, no matter how irrational it may seem.

[cooking-with-hailstones]

HELLO MURDERBOT FANDOM

At the behest of some folks reading through the books and wanting to engage with all the awesome fanart, I've compiled a quick Google doc of a good chunk of my fave fanart from the series, divided into what books it contains spoilers for!

Tmbd fanart by book spoilers

Tmbd fanart by book spoilers All systems red/TV show https://www.tumblr.com/cooking-with-hailstones/804286565005295616?source=share https

Obv not complete and there's a pretty obvious ART bias, but I'll happily take suggestions about other pieces to include!

[seerya]

I have the same reaction to ads

[everythingunderthesky]

Book 3: Rogue Protocol

Book 2: Artificial Condition

Conclusion: ART is the reason Murderbot believes in ghosts.

[syntia13treeman]

[anarchopuppy]

"dont feed the trolls" is an even more important rule in an age where that troll is likely to be a chatbot trained on bad politics crawling tags specifically to waste ur time. do not engage

[tally-art-deactivated20201005]

Only the subtlest metaphors on this Tumblr.

[pastel-hutt-deactivated20180115]

This works as a metaphor for children but also it works perfectly well when played totally straight because horse people are actually like this

[rider-waite-blog]

it literally took me three solid readings through this to realize that it wasn’t necessarily about horse people, because they are exactly like this

[curiositysavesthecat]

Are you clenching your jaw right now?

Yes

No

Remaining time: 3 days 19 hours

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[clouwindwing]

The Murderbot Dairies Colouring Pages!

Life is super stressful right now and I started colouring some silly fun colouring books. I wanted one for TMBD, so I decided to draw some!

2 pages per book, for all 8 books so that's 16 drawings! I'm proud of myself.

I am giving you here a variety of MBs, inspired by the countless designs in the community, as well as various levels of colouring details.

I hope you enjoy??

If you colour any, show me???

All drawn in CSP with the Pigma and Mycron brushes (with the occasional other brush for funsies). They should all be postcard ratios, and if you want the 100% rez files for printing or whatever, here they are: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/2446ac4563s2psb20d7fj/TMBD_Colouring-2026_ByLunarBlade.rar?rlkey=nt7fh8w4brap7kcqob24gbhum&st=gmrvdjx0&dl=0

Be good to each other and enjoy! :D

[everywaythatmatters]

ART about to meet its best friend in the whole wide universe: what if I started this conversation in the scariest way possible

[purr-in-ink]

🐾🐾🐾🤍

[vee-thebee]

Oh btw I might be disgustingly behind but the podcast is on hiatus atm anyway while the production team works on the next season but i got in on the ground floor of this podcast and the fact that there’s like no attention to it here hurts my heart so EVERYONE LISTEN TO OBSERVABLE RADIO RIGHT NOW

[syntia13treeman]

Sooo... I checked it out like the obedient little pod-drone that I am, and went through the first few episodes over shopping/cooking this morning and I have to say: the 'found footage, fictional but barely even fiction anymore, we might be living those scenarios in just a few years' time' thing they have going on was damn eerie to listen to while waking down the mall ailes. Very moody, very unsettling.

And then came the holiday episode. 😂

I'm still recovering from the whiplash it gave me.

No notes, 10/10 wheezes of fright and laughter. 👍

[rongzhi]

A naked eye 3D pterosaur installation at Shanghai Natural History Museum

(The guide is describing the exhibit and talking about the various "flying dinosaurs" and their appearance through history as they emerge from the fossil displays)