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[thereadingmoon]

For those on mobile or just passing through this bit of the internet:

The masterlist of the books I’ve recommended is here! Just for everyone’s convenience. If you want to see what I do when I’m not biting into books, I regurgitate my writing at @the-writing-moon. You can find my ramblings on media in the #moonymovetheglass.txt tag.

[thereadingmoon]

hold the phone, i have to go through unspeakable horrors to get to my lover: aka, the trials of being a lesbian

[oneterabyteofkilobyteage]

original url http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Dungeon/6429/

archived on 2009-04-27 11:53:59

[hanore]

hi! if you've liked this coloring and my other colorings so far, please consider supporting me on my ko-fi!, it would be such a big help, thank you!

[winged-void]

The problem is I always want to dm my mutuals some shit like "I consider you an ally to my cause"

[clevercorvidae]

People on twitter have been saying this website is extremely white and tbh its making me very curious what the demographics of this site are (of my own reach anyway) so

What is your race (predominantly)

White

Latino

Middle Eastern

Asian

Black

Indigenous American

Aboriginal Australian

Pacific Islander

Mixed

Other

Voting ended onJul 31, 2025

DISCLAIMER: Race is a non scientific concept with no exact definitions. It is a social construct primarily characterized by how society treats you and thus this is an imperfect poll. If you feel none of the options here reflect you and your experience I implore you to reblog this with your experience as I am curious about that and want to hear about it.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

superhero who used to work shitty customer service jobs and it shows, specifically in their interactions with The Public

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

saves your life but passive-agressively

general misanthropy

permanent scowl now that they're not required to smile all day

constantly bemoans the fact that Saving The Day frequently requires interacting with The Public

look of judgemental disbelief at the people they're saving (how did u fuck up so badly you need a superhero to rescue your ass)

also applies to henchpeople, goons (how did u fuck up so badly that getting your ass kicked is a legitimate professional hazard)

in times of true, world-ending catastrophe, switches to Customer Service Voice

[sethdomain]

redesign

[yuri-hell-world]

THIS SPACE LEFT INTENTIONALLY BLANK

[namedr]

[tentacleteapot]

it really frustrates me to think about how people are inevitably going to take Remmick’s one (1) singular statement about how much he resents the way the Irish were colonized and forcibly converted to Christianity and use it as fuel for “actually he had a point” and “he was right actually” and “he’s not really the villain here” posts, when the whole point is that Remmick is, through the vampiric hive mind he’s creating, forcibly assimilating people into yet another manipulative and parasitical system. he doesn't value the cultures of the people he assimilates—notice how all the vampires he turns dance to his culture's music using his culture's dances, and how he only uses the languages or knowledge other vampires have to offer when he needs to manipulate someone. Remmick is extremely transparent about the way he sees the people he turns as resources to exploit.

he’s perpetuating a cycle that he claims to hate and resent, and I think the movie is pretty damn clear about the fact that he doesn’t see anybody as valuable or useful to him except as prey and as pawns—otherwise he would just, you know, focus solely on people who actually consent to being turned. but he looked sad in that one scene and he’s an apparently attractive white cis man so people are gonna bend over backwards justifying all the harm he did.

[thereadingmoon]

this but also also. in the history of white people, they detail how italian and irish immigrants in the US felt buoyed and privileged in the new racial hierarchy made possible by enslavement and theft of Black peoples in America. in europe, anglo/germanic people were seen as top-of-the-line whites while everyone else was less so and were marginalized. but in america? where there are even "lesser" people? suddenly the formerly oppressed could be part of the elite class of general White. it's not just perpetuating a cycle: it's taking advantage of the new punching bag class of non-white peoples

oh i love this detail sm.

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Murderbot's Dream.

[thereadingmoon]

Provenance is like. Space jane austen to me.

[securityunit-ese]

been pondering murderbots organics vs inorganics ratio

the rambling thoughts under cut with full disclaimer I have only read two books so far because the fucker who has the library copy is overdue to return it by 3 weeks so i'm stuck waiting and dwelling and thinking so this is based off 2 books of vaguely remembered information, as can't doublecheck since they were library books

couldn't decide what the face would look like and saw some artwork where SecUnit's face was always obscured by something else so stop perceiving it.

so I've been wondering how the whole construct system functions. It can’t be too much human/organics since not needing to eat so the calorie/energy needs must be low? But it needs charging so primary energy must be battery (+other storage) and considering no stomach/guts the best place to put those would be in the waist/hips.

But the head at least passes for human so that must be majority human.

It has emotions and adrenalines and chemicals so it must have a vascular system to move those organics about. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the company removed most and relocated the vascular system to "streamline" it (cheaper, less organics to deal with).

And to make those emotions and adrenalines there must be adrenal glands but I couldn't decide if there would be thyroid glands to regulate hormones and emotional balance then decided the company would probably remove that and let the inorganics do the emotional regulating (or lack of)

I THINK All Systems Red mentioned a rib cage and waffled that it could be bone but then thinking about how all the Sec Units are uniform, that the skeleton may be based off humans to help organics/inorganics read it but are probably some sort of reinforced inorganic material built off a mold or something. To save on costs and for extra durability.

Lungs, small altered ones, to get the oxygen for the vascular system and organics.

Ultimately went with organics for hands cause those are fiddly fuckers so all up organics are hands, feet, vascular remaints, endocrine remains, brain and head organics.

assume the inorganics are covered in gell anti-heating agents.

[kettle-bird]

Hello Murderbot fandom. I can't explain. I'm sorry.

[xcziel]

link: https://bsky.app/profile/brainvsbook.bsky.social/post/3llc72lyhu22j

google translate defaulting to chinese at first

okay but for those of us with interests in both the murderbot and the daomu biji fandoms this is kinda hilarious

(english-side-only really, i get that the kanji and hanzi are completely different)

our good (air)ship murderbot! thanks google

[japanwords]

I love reading about these kind of translation decisions.

I've only ever seen 弊 used to refer to one's company: 弊社, as the article says.

I've been told 弊 is used to refer to one's own something, and it has a very humble nuance.

So 弊機 translates to something like "I, your humble machine" or "I, who am but a mere machine".

Japanese is great that it can say so much with simple pronouns.

[blessphemy]

Romance language translator: well we don’t have a gender neutral pronoun so I guess we’ll flip a coin for male or female

Japanese language translator, an intellectual: none of Japanese’s 30-something plus personal pronoun options have the perfect vibes so I’ll create a new one to bring that special somethin’

[imitationgame77]

What I found to be particularly clever about the coining of this very unique first person pronoun 弊機 (heiki) is that it’s a homophone of 兵器(heiki), meaning ‘weapon’

[bastardoftheblade]

“ART sounds… scared? for me? thats illogical.”

-mb, probably