ZenerRocksMC @zenerrocksmc - Tumblr Blog

Hey!

My name is Nik, I’m 20, this Tumblr is likely to be a mess as I do not know what I’m doing on this platform! Honestly I don’t know what I’m doing most times. I just know that this is a good place for various communities.

If you want to contact me try:

Discord: ZenerRocksMC

Discord Server: https://discord.gg/jNrurMRrhK

(Note; if you wanna listen to Murderbot Diaries through audio books or hear about anything I’m on feel free to join, you don’t have to disclaim who you are on Tumblr at all, just come vibe)

Community server for creative and sciency queer and neurodivergent people! + others | 60 members

#tumblr confuses me #send help

avengersnewb

The guild’s insistence in achieving a minimum guaranteed staff level for episodic TV was considered an extreme long-shot when the contract discussions began in March.

They achieved a new-model streaming residual formula that should help fellow striking union SAG-AFTRA in its quest to achieve a revenue-based residual. The WGA’s formula amounts to a bonus system based on pre-determined, high-bar performance benchmarks for individual titles. But it’s nonetheless more than industry dealmakers predicted the guild would secure when the first round of WGA-AMPTP talks began in earnest last spring.

The nitty-gritty details of language around the use of generative AI in content production was one of the last items that the sides worked on before closing the pact.

They did it.

Solidarity works.

Unions are our only tool against capitalistic greed.

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#wga strike #sag aftra #sag strike #crossfingers

behindthecodes

BTC Springtrap gesture studies

#springtrap #fnaf #five nights at freddy's

scificrows

Today I'm thinking about this:

Or Miki was a bot who had never been abused or lied to or treated with anything but indulgent kindness. It really thought its humans were its friends, because that’s how they treated it. I signaled Miki I would be withdrawing for one minute. I needed to have an emotion in private.

And about how Murderbot slowly starts calling its humans its friends in Exit Strategy, tentatively at first:

Were they my sort-of human friends? My clients? My ex-owners, though legally that was only Dr. Mensah. Were they going to see me and yell for help, alert security?

but also more confidently later:

Maybe that was why I had been nervous about meeting Mensah again, and not all the other dumb reasons I had come up with. I hadn’t been afraid that she wasn’t my friend, I had been afraid that she was, and what it did to me.

The only tag I can access on Ratthi is a partial that says my human friend. That’s strange and unlikely, but the pre-catastrophic-failure version of me seemed sure about it, and I don’t have anything else to go on.

and Mensah confirms this at the end of the book too:

I just want you to know you already have options here, and I expect you’ll have more offers for your services or advice as a security consultant. And that you have friends here you can discuss things with, whatever you decide to do, or wherever you decide to go.

The thought that a bot could see its humans as its friends (and because they treat it as a friend too) made Murderbot so emotional in Rogue Protocol that it needed a minute to process it. And later on in the series it starts to understand that its own humans are its friends too - and how much they care about it and that it can go to them for help if it needs them and I just. I think I need to withdraw and have an emotion about this in private too.

zenerrocksmc

Clients -> my humans -> ex clients -> friends -> family? 👀

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #secunit

ingradient

unstoppable force, immovable object

zenerrocksmc

This looks great!

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #perihelion #martha wells

catasters

zenerrocksmc

Agreed

captainsupernoodle

I Love and Adore that Martha Wells said "Here are two characters. One of them is a superhumanly strong and fast security specialist with guns in its arms and a tragic backstory, hunted at every turn. The other is a traveling university building that was raised in a nurturing family environment and had to watch a television episode a few minutes at a time because it thought its favorite characters were in danger. One of these two had to be talked down from an orbital bombardment and it's not the one you think."

zenerrocksmc

And was dissuaded out of orbital bombardment by another high-tech security specialist but this time with projectiles in its arms and sunshine enough that it just wants to help.

#secunit #secunit three #three the secunit #murderbot #asshole research transport #the Murderbot diaries

homosekularnost

manifesting an artificial condition postcredits scene where art comes back for the comfortunit

zenerrocksmc

Insert: “Why are you running?” In ART’s voice

#the murderbot diaries #asshole research transport #martha wells #secunit #comfort unit

zenerrocksmc

Final one, hopefully, where on Discord?

Your Server (which already has a Book Club channel, VC and roles)

A New Server (that’ll take me a moment to set up as I’m sick currently)

Privately (just add my Discord and let me know when you’re free)

Voting ended onSep 20, 2023

So, my server has a specific Murderbot Fanclub role and a Book Club role so if all you want to do in there is the audiobooks you’ll only get tagged for that with those roles. The Book Club channel also already has a pinned link to the scans of the books and the audiobooks on YT so you’re welcome to pinch those too.

Note: most people in my server are already reading/have read the TMBD so youse won’t be alone.

(Link, feel free to snoop: https://discord.gg/jNrurMRrhK)

Community server for creative and sciency queer and neurodivergent people! + others | 65 members

With a new server, again it’ll likely take me a bit to set up as I am currently sick and will need to catch up on Uni work when I’m not and currently can’t sit up for long periods of time (roles are easier to set up on desktop).

With a private set up, if you have a group of friends that wants to listen together or would do better just listening with one other person then you’re welcome to just add me (UN: zenerrocksmc).

zenerrocksmc

I forgot to mention again for anyone who hasn’t seen these polls before; you are welcome to message me on here for the YT playlist of the audiobooks I just don’t know how Tumblr would treat me posting the link publicly.

zenerrocksmc

We have 8 people in the server who have responded to the ping for questions and are starting from All Systems Red, (2 at AC, 2 who have just finished or are close to finishing NE).

I’ll make the listening party exclusive server when I can if people still want it- generally it’s looking like the weekends will be the most ideal but I can do another poll here and in the servers.

#the murderbot diaries #kevin r free #audiobooks #listening party #scifibooks #scifi #murderbot

alostcuttlefish

Question for my fellow Murderbot fans who have access to the ebooks (or just extremely good memories).

You know how Secunit keeps referring to “humans and augmented humans” as if they are similar but distinct categories?

Do other characters do that? I know some of them refer to augmented humans as “augmented humans”, but do they ever add “and augmented humans” onto “humans”, as if “humans” wouldn’t include them too?

I realized halfway through Fugative Telemetry that I can’t remember any other characters doing that. But I could be wrong, and I only have the audiobooks for most of them which are hard to search for phrases.

gamebird

Much discussion has been had about this!

And to my knowledge - no. No one else makes that distinction. Only Murderbot divides humans into 'humans and augmented humans'. An interesting point is the short story Compulsory. In the original, MB refers to 'humans'. In the revised version released this summer, Martha Wells changed that to 'humans and augmented humans'. An audience member asked her in an interview (also this summer) about why it made this distinction in general and she said it was because augmented humans were significantly more of a threat to it.

I thought @rosewind2007 had a meta about it, but I can't find it right now.

rosewind2007

Yes! I wrote a meta called Expurgate

Chapter two of which is basically an analysis of the way Murderbot uses “humans and augmented humans”, and I was delighted when Martha Wells updated Compulsory, and should update Expurgate, here’s chapter two!

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

zenerrocksmc

Huh, I wonder if it’s a security thing (like augmented humans being more of a threat, ie. the assassins sent after Mensah being drugged augmented humans, noted as having similar strength to a SecUnit) or to do with the ways Cor Rim separates their humans (like how to escape and seek refuge is easiest for non-augmented humans, and likely those with augments are more expensive/skilled/can do more).

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #tmd #martha wells #secunit

trexinacorset

On this final day of my silly chronic pain post I will say this...

No matter their age, physical fitness, or perceived health... when someone says they are in pain it is not your right to dismiss or diminish their claims. Their body is their body and only they know their thresholds.

#likewise for fatigue #likewise for heart stuff #chronic pain #invisible illness #nerve pain #cfs/me #potsawareness

It has arrived.

I love them so much, the cape is smaller than I expected but it feels fine and looks good! I now officially have a dragon in my plush hoard nyehehehe…

#ace pride #asexual #dragon #dragon plush #plushes

maccreadysbaby

Some of my favorite words and phrases to describe a character in pain

coiling (up in a ball, in on themselves, against something, etc)

panting (there’s a slew of adjectives you can put after this, my favorites are shakily, weakly, etc)

keeling over (synonyms are words like collapsing, which is equally as good but overused in media)

trembling/shivering (additional adjectives could be violently, uncontrollably, etc)

sobbing (weeping is a synonym but i’ve never liked that word. also love using sob by itself, as a noun, like “he let out a quiet sob”)

whimpering (love hitting the wips with this word when a character is weak, especially when the pain is subsiding. also love using it for nightmares/attacks and things like that)

clinging (to someone or something, maybe even to themselves or their own clothes)

writhing/thrashing (maybe someone’s holding them down, or maybe they’re in bed alone)

crying (not actual tears. cry as in a shrill, sudden shout)

dazed (usually after the pain has subsided, or when adrenaline is still flowing)

wincing (probably overused but i love this word. synonym could be grimacing)

doubling-over (kinda close to keeling over but they don’t actually hit the ground, just kinda fold in on themselves)

heaving (i like to use it for describing the way someone’s breathing, ex. “heaving breaths” but can also be used for the nasty stuff like dry heaving or vomiting)

gasping/sucking/drawing in a breath (or any other words and phrases that mean a sharp intake of breath, that shite is gold)

murmuring/muttering/whispering (or other quiet forms of speaking after enduring intense pain)

hiccuping/spluttering/sniffling (words that generally imply crying without saying crying. the word crying is used so much it kinda loses its appeal, that’s why i like to mix other words like these in)

stuttering (or other general terms that show an impaired ability to speak — when someone’s in intense pain, it gets hard to talk)

staggering/stumbling (there is a difference between pain that makes you not want to stand, and pain that makes it impossible to stand. explore that!)

recoiling/shrinking away (from either the threat or someone trying to help)

pleading/begging (again, to the threat, someone trying to help, or just begging the pain to stop)

Feel free to add your favorites or most used in the comments/reblogs!

#fanfiction writer #creative writing #writers #writing tips

emilyparagraph

just finished Network Effect and oh my GOSH i love the dynamic between murderbot and art

Like, ART is in the throes of early married life to Murderbot. ART is already planning which family to spend which holidays with. ART didn't dispute the baby thing. ART made its drones clean itself before Mensah (MIL) stepped on board. ART proposed with a mission.

Poor Murderbot, meanwhile, is over here struggling with the concept of close friendship, unaware its been in a queerplatonic relationship for cycles upon cycles already.

gamebird

Exactly!

zenerrocksmc

Look, Mur doesn’t know how to handle the idea of Planetary Space Mum yet alone queer platonic Ship Spouse, hopefully sunshine Three will help it a bit with marrying the concepts.

#murderbot #asshole research transport #murderhelion #murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #martha wells #scifibooks

lunar-wandering

fun fact!! it turns out that now when u make a new blog, tumblr forces you to follow 3-4 people before you can change your icon or modify your blog in any way!! this, of course, means that, yes, some of the "potential bots" many of us have been automatically blocking could have possibly been genuine new users who were only just seconds in to having an account!!! tumblr is literally screwing new users over!!!!

thedaswolves

I see this spreading today a lot, rumour that apparently "new users can't add icon, blog description, post or anything without following people first", and that we might have been blocking/reporting new user instead of bots.

THIS IS NOT TRUE!

I don't know why people repost this without testing or checking themselves first. I just signed up for completely new account with new email today (September 15th 2023), and can normally add my icon, banner, description, posts.. or edit blog in any way I want.

This is the new blog I just created and all functions work normally despite my not following anyone @sweetchild5250

I will delete it in few days just wanted the proof. don't believe everything you read without testing folks :) Keep blocking those pesky empty bot accounts :)

rosecandy-deactivated20260313

I was curious so I actually tested this myself three times. Whether they make you follow people or not is entirely dependent on the sign up method.

If you sign up using email and create a password directly or use an apple account, it does not require you to follow multiple people before setting up your account. You can just go directly to your dashboard, set up your theme, header, icon, etc. without any interference. Then you can follow people.

However, if you sign up using a gmail account, it requires you to follow at least five tags and at least three people. There's not a skip option. After you've finished following people, then you can edit your theme, header, icon, etc. You cannot change or customize your blog in any way until you follow people unless you close the tab and reopen tumblr altogether.

This is a case where both OP and this addition are true but, as I said, it depends on how users are signing up. I'm not really sure why there's entirely different sign up methods like this.

#updated #huh #I wonder if it’s privacy differences or something #it might be good to check if this is also a regional thing #tumblr