#I will die for murderbot

[wishfulsketching]

Sudden desire to draw Murderbot jumping off of a building with Mensah. (Just for the vibes, did not re-read Exit Strategy, so I don't remember the details)

#my art #sketchy sketch #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #dr. mensah #if you have not read murderbot diaries then ya gotta check em out #mensah is the best #I will die for murderbot #made murderbot look generic tbh I have no design for him #at least yet idk

[functionalasfuck]

I love how system collapse solidified the idea that while Mensah is Murderbot’s favorite human and ART is its favorite bot, Ratthi is its best friend

#ratthi is the most ride or die for Murderbot without having an extremely intense relationship #they’re just besties #and I love that for them #murderbot #murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #martha wells

[radiantmists]

the whole "it would be kinder to kill them" exchange re-contextualizes murderbot's initial willingness-- even eagerness-- to kill other SecUnits in an interesting way, doesn't it.

#murderbot diaries #system collapse #the murderbot diaries #system collapse spoilers #murderbot spoilers #i still think a big component is that it's internalized the idea that secunits are dangerous #and that their lives are of less value than human life #but it's also like... even after it hacked its governor module it spent what. three years still working for the company? #because the idea that it could be anything but a slave who would eventually die in violence was so inconceivable #even as boundary-breaking as it is murderbot is still coming to grips with the idea that it can change the way things are #even for individuals #that killing other secunits probably feels like the only feasible way to end their suffering #even if its better judgement has always been vaguely aware there are other options #its instincts are still coming along

[johnwickfucker]

autism be damned my bot can murder

#i would die for this character except it would Not Let Me #murderbot #the murderbot diaries

[bookrat]

What is murderbots and why should I read/listen

The Murderbot Diaries is a sci-fi series by Martha Wells mostly taking place in a dystopian capitalist future. Basically, the viewpoint character is a company-manufactured private security guard rented out to the managers of space! company towns.

After hacking its governor module, nothing much changes about its life for several years until a routine job turns deadly and it's forced to trust a group of humans with its secret in order for any of them to survive.

First paragraph:

I could have become a mass murderer after I hacked my governor module, but then I realized I could access the combined feed of entertainment channels carried on the company satellites. It had been well over 35,000 hours or so since then, with still not much murdering, but probably, I don’t know, a little under 35,000 hours of movies, serials, books, plays, and music consumed. As a heartless killing machine, I was a terrible failure.

Synopsis aside, the books are fast-paced, fun, and hopeful; and Kevin R. Free has great voices for all the characters.

If you liked the Imperial Radch series, speculative sci-fi relevant to our current late-stage capitalism problems, or are a fan of non-human perspective in fiction, Murderbot is for you.

#Murderbot #I feel like I'm writing a high school essay #read Murderbot cuz its got guns in its arms and is touch avoidant but will raise its body warmth while carrying its humans to safety #read Murderbot because that petty unreliable narrator would die for you #I have 157 legit audiobooks but only revisit about 25 of them and this series is on the regular rotation for work background noise

[sanctuarymoonfan397]

Hey, hey... im reading System Collapse and the title better be fucking referring to the planetary system the team is in and not Murderbot's systems

#i just found out what Redacted is and it better not fucking die #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #tmbd #tmbd system collapse #mine

[jules-on-fire]

Me when, me when uhhhh, ART DESIGN WIP GO

#murderbot #art #art wip #Now I die its 1 am

[thepringlesofblood]

comfort-relistening to the stolen century for the 10000th time and realized that a significant portion of my favorite media includes two immortals from opposing backgrounds growing closer through conversations about the universe and their role in it, and often about the little joys of life and ups and downs of humanity.

merle and john in the adventure zone

aziraphale and crowley in good omens, which [GO2 SPOILERS] this season added another relationship that fits this definition (though i am not a fan of it), [END SPOILERS]

pearl and rose from steven universe, fuck's sake ALL of the crystal gems and rose

hob & morpheus(? dream? i read it a really long time ago and forgot which one he prefers. you ken well know what i mean)

i really don't want to think about what that means for my psyche

others that don't really count but kind of do have the same basic vibes of opposing/different backgrounds and immortality and what relationships look like over eternity.

wwdits

hadestown

cbs ghosts

look........i no longer enjoy supernatural but i did at one point and there's a bit of it there if you squint

bbc merlin (look they don't know they're immortal but the opposing sides/philosophy discussions bit holds up)

jed and octavius from night at the museum (shut up i'm right they're a little bit mortal sure but like not in the same way that humans are)

its about the conversations, whether its parlay w merle and john or getting drunk in the bookshop w a/c or the private moments when pearl and rose are alone or drinks every century w hob and morpheus, or nigel and isaac having a set date to "discuss property boundaries" or whatever tf they call it every year, and even kind of hades and persephone going away and coming back to each other, over and over again. it's about becoming fond of someone you were never supposed to be fond of but through just being around each other for so long and through so many ordinary conversations becoming close, in a way you never thought you could be close with someone.

#i could make the argument that murderbot and ART fit bc neither of them can die of old age #(i don't think) #but i don't think they really discuss all that much universe #and they're different but not opposing #original post #good omens #good omens 2 #good omens 2 spoilers #taz #taz b #taz balance #wwdits #hadestown #bbc merlin #steven universe #cbs ghosts #ghosts #look ik blupjeans are immortal too but they're not opposing backgrounds #and taako isn't immortal (anymore) so taakitz doesn't count #the sandman #night at the museum

[every-eye-evermore]

oops! I read three books in a few hours!

#I’d make it a fourth but I can’t find a damn pdf for it #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot fanart #and I will proceed to block both these tags for spoilers… they’re already starting to appear on my foryou page because that damn thing #is psychic #I’ve seen two pieces of murderbot fanart and I disagree with both interpretations. #respectfully. #I am not sold on this one but I will die on the hill of this hair and these eyes #no character has gripped me like this ever before #I like it <3 #this series feels like it’s pandering to me specifically and I enjoy that #thank you 2 my buddy for showing me this media then dripfeeding me pdfs every time I finished a book #we r just like murderbot and art #mine #my art

[bananonbinary]

my favorite bit of ongoing murderbot characterization is how uneducated it is. like my guy can hack its own brain, outsmart pretty much any other character, and has read/watched/analyzed more media than is even possible for a human, and it still can't remember what a metaphor is. i care it so much.

#the murderbot diaries #and it KNOWS it too and is SO pissed off about it #very adhd tbh #its like 'hold up i know we're all about to die but everyone shut up i need to look up if its effect or affect'

[theaceace]

Been reading the murderbot diaries (again), so now I can't stop thinking about a rogue secunit (this particular company markets them as a Hybrid Organic-Bot (it - he calls himself Hob, yes he knows it wasn't very creative)) breaking free of corporate control and hiding away on the (currently unmanned) research transport vessel Morpheus, which is controlled by a very secret (and utterly terrifying) experimental AI that Hob nicknames Dream, and which could destroy him in less than a second if it so chose

Instead it takes Hob to whichever system he was trying to get to in exchange for Hob sharing both his stored media files and also stories of the things he got up to while he was still pretending to be a good, obedient secunit. Dream insists that it's because he's interested in Hob's unique perspective, Hob thinks it's because Dream's lonely when he doesn't have a crew aboard and Dream is so mad that he won't let Hob back aboard from whichever station they're docked at, and then later fails to make the rendezvous at another port

(he'd actually been infected with malware by Burgess, who had then taken control of Morpheus and was trying to figure out how it/Dream worked, right up until a murderously angry rogue secunit catches up to them)

#Dreamling #Not exactly a writing tag #Not sure how big the overlap is between these two fandoms but here we are #Anyway I can't stop thinking about the bit where ART shows Murderbot exactly how vast and powerful it is #And how they're both immediately ride or die despite themselves (although the dying is exclusively for Other People) #Anyway. Just. Dream having so much processing power and knowing So Much but still living vicariously through Hob

[khentkawes]

All I want for Christmas is...

...to utterly destroy the pornbot infestation and leave their corpses as a smoldering warning to future bots menaces!

#tumblr #bots #pornbots #pornbot invasion #pornbot apocalypse #pornbot infestation #(did not know there were so many tags already in use for this) #die you spammy scum! #seriously i am sick of getting three new evil bot followers per day #i'm gonna go all murderbot on their ass #because i like robots and i love murderbot #but i HATE these pornbot menaces #you will die you devious bots! #do i feel too strongly about this? #maybe #but that does not change anything #i will not be deterred from my mission #to be clear that mission is pornbot annihilation #but i also have no idea how to accomplish this #so i will just continue very aggressively reporting and blocking

[vermofftiss]

I need my murderbot pals to read the raksura series because martha wells is SO good at making blorbos

#also i would die for chime and shade. in no particular order. like if they asked i'd just do it #raksura #murderbot

[fantastic-nonsense]

*reading Batman #128-129* ah, it looks like it's time for Tim to once again fulfill his self-imposed 'emotional support Robin' routine again once he gets back from the Fortress of Solitude

#it's not healthy and it's not good for him but Tim has been on a mission for 5+ years #and damn if Tim 'I can fix him!' Drake is willing to let Bruce die now after all the WORK he's put into that man #just because Bruce was stupid enough to build himself a failsafe murderbot lmfao #(baby girl I know you won't do it but you NEED to take Dick's advice and leave already) #tim drake #bruce wayne #tuesday spoilers

[brown-little-robin]

speaking of surviving (or not surviving) horror movies: last night I dreamed I was Murderbot and I was trying to save my humans from a planet dying of corporate overextension, and a giant violent space octopus grabbed several of my humans. I had to let the octopus grab me and slam me on a force field to distract it while I figured out how to kill it and simultaneously how to mentally fly a spaceship

#I'm always so analytical in my survival dreams #I just fully do not have emotions in those other than stress and I Do What Needs To Be Done #(almost always I'm not the only one in danger. I'm in charge of the survival of others. I always survive and save the others nowadays) #I used to sometimes fail and die in those dreams but I don't now and I think honestly it's because I stopped prioritizing my own survival #I started prioritizing my humans' survival and that made me survive in the dreams because the failure scenario is not my own death #ergo the worst thing the dreams can do to me is kill My Humans #but somehow that never happens and I don't know why #anyway given that I have This Exact Dream (with variations only of what gender and species I and the attackers are) every Single night #it's actually a wonder that I HAVEN'T dreamt I was murderbot before #I mean come on it's perfect #Robin speaks

[black-cat-aoife]

Für das AU ask: Blind ermittelt Sci-Fi AU.

Thank you functioning website for telling me about this ask three days late

1. Es gibt inzwischen natürlich sehr fancy Autos die man auch als Blinder fahren kann aber Alex hat sich lieber seinen normalen Wagen mit sentimentalem Wert nachrüsten lassen. Damit kommt er gut zurecht bis die fancy Tech mitten im Nirgendwo ausfällt und er strandet. Auftritt Niko

2. Das Auto ist auch *Insert sci-fi Equivalent von Oldtimer mit Gangschaltung* das die meisten Leute gar nicht mehr fahren können. Niko schon denn er verdient sein Geld damit in historischen Gefährten Rennen zu fahren und kann so ziemlich alles fahren was mindestens zwei Räder hat

3. Alex nimmt notgedrungen Nikos Angebot ihn zu fahren an weil es nur eine Firma gibt, die neue fancy Tech in Autos aus dem letzten Jahrhundert einbauen kann und die halt auf einem anderen Planeten sitzt. Erst findet er ihn sehr nervig aber er wächst ihm schnell ans Herz. Auch weil er ihn nicht nach 5 Minuten fragt, warum er nicht *fancy Tech mit man wieder "sehen" kann aber eben nicht richtig* verwendet. (Dafür fragt er ihn so ungefähr alles andere)

4. Laura ist die Chefin von Nikos Rennteam und war zu ihren aktiven Zeiten eine Rennsportlegende

5. Alex sammelt immer noch Schallplatten (die haben etwa alle 200 Jahre ein Revival und er hat sogar noch ein paar sehr alte)

#blind ermittelt #ask me #can you tell I have read like 5 sci fi novels and understood 1 1/ #und yet another murderbot AU passt hier halt weniger #(Bonus fact: die Hallers haben einen ganzen fucking Planeten und der Senior hat mit Terraforming das Ökosystem ruiniert #Sophie muss das ganze jetzt wieder ausbaden und rückgängig machen #Alex versteht warum aber ein bisschen vermisst er doch wie es früher war) #i repeat can you tell I don't understand sci fi #or car racing tbh