#boxofsilence

[annabelle--cane]

My biggest disappointments with Murderbot (tv):

they did not do a direct adaptation of "I dragged Bharadwaj out of its mouth, and shoved myself in there instead." /lh, unimportant

in the books, typically, everyone is quite smart and communicates well, and shit is still fucked. this is a thing I enjoy about the books, and is less present in the show. (it's also why I have a least favorite part of Network Effect. you can probably guess.) "talk to each other you bastards" is not my favorite emotion. it's possible I'm overstating it, but still

The show really does do a lot of things excellently though, I do appreciate it.

hey have you thought much about how Team Leader has the Greycris company logo scarified into her face. fucked up.

lmao I think we have some diverging tastes because I have a most favorite part of network effect and I'm guessing it's the same slice of chapters as your least favorite 😭. my preferred flavor of character conflict is "people generally trying to get along and not be actively hostile to each other but shrimply not managing to actually do it because their situation and brains are all made of spaghetti," to me that is The Sauce.

and ohhh yeah I think about that sometimes alright, reminds me of book mb's whole thing about having the company's logos stuck on pieces of its body it can't erase, and hers is in such a visible spot. weird mix of something that feels bold and intimidating to look at but also literally brands her as belonging to a company. I have a whole set of disparate thoughts about how we see various characters do adornment and decoration while on the survey planet, that's why I was looking into bharadwaj's tattoos again yesterday, and graycris blue leader's scarification + big metal lip ring + carefully plucked eyebrows all seem like choices she makes to make her face look super striking and dramatic. neither she nor the other graycris member with long hair look like they've had time to shampoo and condition recently, but keeping her eyebrows so neat would require active maintenance, she has a deliberate aesthetic that she's curating.

[slashesotron]

so the other day I was thinking about Patchouli and Atlas and Patchouli and Eden. and then I abruptly remembered the Atlas and Eden picture which is also extremely good.

So, if I may humbly propose: All Three of Them?? what do you think

Hmmm... like this? (✿◡‿◡)

(Eden belongs to @beetle-drip​ as always! 💖)

... or like this? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

[dathen]

hello, something you reblogged prompted me to make you consider: pet theory that Jonah is miserable. he's suffering horribly because 1. nobody seems to give a damn about him in the new world order (so much for "king of a ruined world", 2. we know almost nothing about his current status, 3. he's goddamn terrified of dying. what does the Eye get by making him immortal? another pair of eyeballs? it has Jon. 4. isn't it more interesting if he's not just: Evil, Banters Somewhat, Dies/is Defeated

This is truly the Ideal Scenario

I used to think that the Panopticon would be immediately after they got through 1 of each fear domain, and Jonah would be like the miniboss before going up against the Web as the Big Bad.  But with the pacing at the current point in the show, it does seem the Panopticon will be towards the end.  The growing dramatic irony we’re all aware of, of “killing Jonah won’t save the world” could very well be leading to an anticlimax for the characters (but not for us)--that Jonah is so irrelevant to fixing the world and to the Eye itself that he’s not even in the “king of a ruined world” place he thought he’d be.

Because I’m answering this late, though, 184 is having me second guess that possibility.  If there is only Watcher and Watched, and even Martin was considered enough of the Eye’s to get his own domain, I’m pretty sure Jonah would end up as a Watcher.  I still want him to be so unimportant though, like imagine if he ranked lower on the list of Favored by the Eye than Martin??  That would be sexy.  Congrats Jonah you’re a Watcher in the new world by so were the ants.

[caretaker-au]

gah! I keep forgetting to read the stuff!! ever since the transition to text I keep meaning to and then just Don't Remember (and so, I have no questions, unfortunately)

then this is your reminder to read everything! 

[planetsandmagic]

I am, as always, incredibly impressed with your art and enjoying it immensely, but I am now also very curious about Aliya. (I might not know much about them but I can reasonably detect Mikhail's vibe from the couple of images you've posted of him. But Aliya? I'm merely intimidated and intrigued.) so um. if there's anywhere we might read about your characters, or if you'd indulge us with a ramble about them, perhaps? 🧡

Hi! Alas, I don't have any plans on making a fully fledged story atm or sharing much about them lore wise, but I can tell you that Aliya's pronouns are she/her and that she's Mikhail's niece :>

[annabelle--cane]

I have acquired and begun Murderbot (tv)

more than any of the slight plot changes, the biggest adjustment is going to be this guy's voice instead of Kevin R. Free's. like what do you mean murderbot kinda mumbles in narration. that doesn't seem right at all

the marked difference in delivery and voice is actually a godsend for me for fic writing purposes, really helps me keep bookbot and showbot's voices distinct in my mind without them bleeding together Too much

[annabelle--cane]

I think Mina Harker should get to eat somebody I think that would be fun

for me. it would be catastrophic for her.

but I feel like she could come out of that experience a week or three later with a firm resolution to 'never do that again. Except under the following extremely specific circumstances:'

it's a neatly itemized list. more than one is about her husband being in danger

YOU UNDERSTAND ME

hhhh. being forced to drink dracula's blood against her will then being forced to hunger for it...

[annabelle--cane]

what do you think of Dracula's relation to his roommates. is one of more of them his wife/concubine? are any of them his kids? I often wonder about this and I feel like you'd have more detailed thoughts.

probably either a wife and two daughters or a wife and two sisters because two of them look like him and the one who doesn't look like him takes the lead in feeding, unless it's funny to make a three weed smoking girlfriends joke, at which point they're all wives. or, rather, they were wives; no matter what kind of familial relationships they all started out with a few hundred years ago, the girlies barely tolerate him by the time of the novel and there is no love between them because he sucks and is violent towards women.