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Eleanor was rich, mean, spoiled and entitled. She was a pretty blonde girl with rich parents and massive social status. As head cheerleader she policed the popular girls.

Lia was slutty, curvy, sexual and nasty. She was a dirty chav slut with massive tits, fake nails, blowjob lips and a mean attitude. She ran the chav gang that dealt with the bad girls.

Together they were the two nastiest girls in school and everyone was scared of them. However they hated each other with a passion and spent most of their time fighting. That wasn't entirely by accident of course.

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Idk if you've talked about this already, but what's your opinion on the alien remnants in the Murderbot series? It's never really elaborated (I think) what happens with remnants that get studied or what's the deal with aliens as a whole - what happened to them, are the remnants from the same species, etc.? And also the fact Murderbot doesn't give a fuck about them unless it endangers the humans

It's really annoying that they're used as a plot device but never integrated in the worldbuilding

Thanks for the question, I haven't been able to talk about it in any detail....because as you said, there is no detail. I've read all the stories in this series, including the ones that don't have Murderbot at all (Data Ghost, 2025, Obsolescence, 2018), and there's still no elaboration or even a basic explanation in any way.

And I'll tell you why:

She's just ripping off the Alien franchise, but not bothering to do any of the worldbuilding that goes on in the Alien franchise.

A thing I only realized while playing Alien: Isolation, and realizing that the more I was thinking about the Alien series, ~suddenly, like magic~ what's supposedly going on in The Murderbot Diaries makes sense.

Because she's writing it like it's shitty Aliens fanfiction, where she's not doing any of the actual exposition of worldbuilding, as though this is listed on Archive of Our Own as an Aliens fanfic summarized as, "No Xenomorph AU, What if David decided to protect the crew of the Prometheus?"

There's no worldbuilding in this series at all, including basic character descriptions, because she's writing it like it's fanfiction.

Alien: Prometheus (2012) and Covenant (2017), both establish the "backstory" of how xenomorphs came to be, which I think is absolute cowardly bullshit, but that's besides the point.

The point is Xenomorphs are a result of what I call "xenomorph goop". It's a black swirly thing like tiny dust particles that mutates things it comes in contact with.

If we go along with these movies, some Big Grey Aliens (ringing a bell? Remember how the ~alien remnants~ were turning people grey and compelling them to build specific types of buildings?) who were also the reason life exists on Earth, with humans being "made in their image". (there's a whole thing about Christianity and David, the android, getting to see his creators meet their creators going on), created the xenomorph goop, and were using it in weapons by dropping it as bombs to kill people, a thing it did almost instantly to the Big Grey Aliens, but for humans, it caused a whole lot of mutations and other stuff.

The ~alien remnants~ in The Murderbot Diaries is a very blatant rip off of this same concept, and we know Martha Wells has watched these movies, because she goes around telling people this. The reason book 3 takes place on an abandoned space station is because of Alien: Isolation.

The fact that she's ripping off the Alien franchise, but then refusing to do any actual worldbuilding in regards to what she's ripping off, is also the whole entire reason they're on a "survey planet" in book 1 in the first place.

You notice how we literally never got, and still haven't gotten, a single explanation for what Preservation was doing there?

It's because Martha Wells didn't bother to think of a reason, because of course they have to be on a survey planet, that's how people die in an Alien movie! And so we never got an explanation, even though the reason was supposedly good enough, in the minds of Preservation, to justify becoming slave owners.

Also, remember how that planet was absolutely covered in alien life? That again got zero description or worldbuilding at all? "bird-things", plant-like things, Graboid-like things?

But somehow none of those count as "alien" enough for "alien remnants", and then the whole entire rest of the series never goes to another planet like that again, in the desperate hopes that we'll all just forget that there is alien life in this universe outside of these completely undescribed "alien remnants"

The idea that something can only get an explanation if the narrator personally cares about it is doing a lot of heavy for excusing Martha Wells shit writing in this series, lol.

She's not doing any worldbuilding, she's not even giving us basic character descriptions, she's not giving us any expositions, and people keep excusing the objectively bad writing by claiming "well Murderbot just doesn't care! That makes sense!"

Even though Murderbot's supposed to be the exact sort of character that should be obsessing over every detail around it, it's supposed to by hypervigalent and obsessed with protecting people. So how am I supposed to believe it "just makes sense" for it to never do any research on the supposedly "extremely dangerous" alien remnants?

Especially after that was what almost got everyone killed in book 1?

We don't get to know anything about the "alien remnants" because it's badly written as though it's bad fanfiction (good fanfiction would still be exploring these ideas and going into detail on them, lofl). And since people keep enabling her bad writing, Martha Wells is just getting worse since starting this series, not better. (See: Witch King)

So yeah, long post short:

We don't get any details on the "alien remnants" because this series is written like very badly written Alien fanfiction.

We will probably never actually get more information than we have now.

If you want to at least be able to grasp what is supposed to be going on, you have to go and watch Alien: Prometheus and Covenenant, horror movies, as though by reading The Murderbot Diaries, you knowingly signed up for reading bad fanfiction from a source material you haven't' watched yet, even though you were never warned this is fanfiction for a source material you haven't watched yet.

That's not a satisfying answer, but it is, unfortunately, the truth.

We could all sit around making things up to make the "alien remnants" make sense, but Martha Wells is getting paid for this shit, and we're not. It's not supposed to be our job to do the most basic writing necessities for this series.

But yeah, unfortunately, there's really not much to say aside from pointing out that it's just badly written Alien fanfiction, because I'm not getting paid to do the worldbuilding Martha Wells is supposed to be doing. If this were actually well written and already fleshed out, I'd love to speculate further, but at this point, I'd just be doing more work that I should be for free, for a book series I've paid for.

There's really no satisfying answer here. Just don't let the series make you forget there was alien life on the planet in book 1, and we're also supposed to be totally fine with all these people, who we're supposed to think are good people, endangering entirely planetary ecoystems through literal space Colonization.

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...Aaand one more! This one’s extra gooey

More Axetale sans + goop @axetale

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Witches and the Circle by cinemamind.

Commissioned by Chilling Entertainment for the Simply Scary Podcast.

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Azamet your a manticore chieftain get ahold of yourself. Also dirge more important things man! Drawn by the amazing http://kitsune-kreations.deviantart.com/

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Ello! I thought I would do traditional art for once with an ink pen. It's a wolf. Don't worry that's not blood, It's just some weird black goop.

#art #traditional art #wolf #tradionalart #black goop #/blood #<tagging that just in case xddd

Day five of Inktober a quick sketch of myself, funny how none of my stuff looks finished isn't it?

#inktober #self portrait #ink #black goop #art wip

TRIPLE THREAT

Eleanor was rich, mean, spoiled and entitled. She was a pretty blonde girl with rich parents and massive social status. As head cheerleader she policed the popular girls.

Lia was slutty, curvy, sexual and nasty. She was a dirty chav slut with massive tits, fake nails, blowjob lips and a mean attitude. She ran the chav gang that dealt with the bad girls.

#evie hyde #merging #black goop #slime #bitchification #f2f #bullies

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