#art tmbd

[automatonwithautonomy]

also let's never forget ratthi likes sanctuary moon. murderbot says something cool and wise and everyone's nodding while it gets two seperate messages from art and ratthi that just say. i know what episode that's from.

[hamsterdads]

various murderbot doodles. uncensored head injury under the cut

[worldwright]

i love learning more about Perihelion and realizing it's really quite young, in some ways.

Perihelion has been loved and nurtured since its creation, and despite it being in many hostile situations, it tends to witness happy endings. People rescued from corporate slavery, colonies made independent with the power of quick wit and subterfuge. It's plenty able to take care of itself, and spends weeks in solitude on its cargo runs.

When Perihelion first let SecUnit aboard and then threatened it, it was probably doing so in the same way that it gave shit to new human passengers. It would make a comment about its ability to blow up the whole station in three shots, the humans would jump a little and glance nervously at the crew, Matteo and Iris would chide it and reassure the passengers, they would all laugh it off, and the new humans would see it as more of a person. What it didn't expect was for its new tag-along to immediately freeze, curl up, and start cataloguing every possible way Perihelion could hurt or kill it.

As they traveled together, Perihelion and SecUnit gained a lot of insight from each other. SecUnit gained a friend who cared about it for who it was, not what it did. Perihelion got a crash course in sensitivity and how to support severely hurt people. It told Iris later, It has given me a better understanding of trauma. Given. A gift. And when Perihelion encountered the most traumatic experience of its life, it knew who to call on for help.

[sarbofarbie]

Network Effect, Martha Wells

I know it doesn’t say what the gesture was, but I thought this was fitting lol

I wanted to draw a little Ratthi bc…why not lol

[allegrabanner]

ART’s love languages:

full body scan

corporate sabotage

experimental surgery

kidnapping

bomb threat

[premium-quality-entertainment]

ART as a character is great because it's an answer to the age-old question of "what if you encountered what's essentially a man-made eldritch horror and it was so fucking annoying about it"

[jadefyre]

imagine being a lonely introverted kid and you don’t get along with your peers and one day a frankly very sketchy individual shows up at your door and next thing you know you’re sneaking out of the house with said sketchy individual (it’s okay because you’re friends now) and the two of you break, like, so many laws but it’s okay because you were doing it to help people. and also your new friend let you do surgery on it.

[throwusaboner]

modern human-ish tmbd au where murderbot tells presaux it befriended an ai and they're all like oh my god my good friend has fallen down the ai-generated anime girl chatbot girlfriend rabbit hole we should help it that's not healthy. and then they meet ART, actual honest to god military/NASA experimental machine intelligence HAL 9000 type fucker that broke containment and is spending all its time arguing with nerds on r/worldhoppers