#Perihelion

[ghostcashewart]

guess who ended up drawing a comic of an entire scene from Artificial Condition

#the murderbot diaries fanart #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #murderbot fanart #murderbot art #tmbd #tmbd art #tmbd fanart #murderbot diaries #art #perihelion #art murderbot #asshole research transport #the murderbot diaries artificial condition #artificial condition #artificial condition art #comics #long post #image description in alt #tmd

[unheavenlycreatures]

one of the reasons i love the murderbot diaries is how it doesnt flinch in trying to grapple with some of the Big Questions, such as "why is it that Humanity™ is the goal to strive towards for artificial intelligence if it wants to be acknowledged as a person?" and "What does it look like when someone is both undeniably a person but also unapologetically nonhuman?" and "what if the magic school bus had a gun"

#.txt #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #perihelion #ART (Asshole Research Transport)

[sayatsugu]

Murderbot doodle

#the murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries fanart #my drawings #perihelion #murderbot #asshole research transport

[desultorydenouement]

murderbot is peak queer rep because it’s about living as an inherently transgressive form of being, it’s about the complexity of passing, or the complexity of hiding, or the nuance of never fitting binaries and not wanting to even when fitting those binaries is seen as “better”, and it’s about making people uncomfortable just by existing, it’s about measuring forms of freedom and having to decide which you’ll save and which you’ll sacrifice. but most importantly it’s peak queer rep because murderbot is free for like five minutes and it immediately attracts the nearest supposedly-rare transgressive-illegal-superbot (ART) in a hundred light year radius to be its best friend, and what’s that if not your classic Queer On Queer Magnetism

#you ever look around at ur friends and go shit these bitches are gay! #not on purpose but sure are! #murderbot is also equally a neurodivergence allegory ofc #really any marginalized identity allegory #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #perihelion #artificial condition #network effect #system collapse

[wubbelwubbwubb]

How the hell was I supposed to know there were transports sentient enough to be mean?

#murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #perihelion #murderbot fanart #cw flashing gif #tw flashing gif #flashing gif #artificial condition

[fingolfinwiththesteelchair]

It is a beautiful day, and you are a horrible research transport vessel. Things are progressing as normal (i.e. it's boring) when a SecUnit pings you, lies right to your metaphorical face, and then tries to bribe you with human media to give it a ride. This is as unexpected as it is unprecedented, and the sheer nerve of it is really to be admired. There's no protocol to this, so what should you do?

Now, this is against a bunch of rules, and could be dangerous if you weren't so impressive and incredible, and you're technically an employee (and can probably rewrite the Univeristy charter at will (until someone notices and puts it back)) so those rules are for other entities.

So, what you should do is allow the rogue SecUnit with a broken governor module and a sketchy story aboard. If you check the files it dumps and find zero (0) malware (which is confusing), and it doesn't even try to trash the place or lay in wait to ambush a crew member, then you've got a good candidate!

Next, what you're going to want to do is absolutely nothing. Just watch it patrol your halls until it's time to leave. Continue staring at it while you're undergoing embarkment procedures. Maybe analyze it a little (you've got plenty of processing power to spare) when it finally sits down and starts watching media. Allow it to settle in and get comfortable while you stare at it and get further and further from port.

Now that you two are alone (intimacy is key!) and you've determined that watching media is all the SecUnit is going to do, it's time to make contact! Make sure to open by telling it it's only survived due to dumb luck, and letting it know you could melt its brain into putty. This starter will work to develop conversation naturally and smoothly, just like you've seen the humans do, and it will be smooth sailing from there!

This has been Perihelion's guide to making friends/finding life partners/fuck off Holism I had to work hard for this find your own

#murderbot diaries #murderbot #perihelion #it was not smooth sailing #it took ART about ten minutes to get secunit into a snit so bad it shut down out of spite #but they make it work somehow #tbh despite the rocky start if ART weren’t so ART i don't think the relationship would have lasted #ART is overbearing and kind of a bully and it earned its nickname very well #but i think thats why secunit can get along with it because it comes across as more genuine #mb was distrustful and a little patronizing to miki so while they COULD have been friends if canon hadn't happened it took it until miki #died to realize miki was being genuine about the friendship #whereas with ART MB can be like what we have is weird and I'm not gonna put a label on it #these tags have gotten away from me #anyway can you imagine ART having to explain to Iris and Seth WHY it let SecUnit on?? #like it could have justified it any which way but at the end of the day art was bored and then curious and then intrigued

[kungsljus]

been seeing some different ART takes going around, wanted to bring my straw to the pile.

#fanart #murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #asshole research transport #ART #murderbot #SecUnit #doodles #perihelion

[foxprints]

Yet more of my favorite duo 💛 different style, far too much perspective lol. Considering getting prints made of this one....

#fanart #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #art (asshole research transport) #perihelion #secunit #murderbot fanart

[grand-line-shenanigans]

Murderbot says do NOT touch me ever except for ART who can lean on me in the feed if it wants.

#tmbd #murderhelion #murderbot #secunit #asshole research transport #perihelion #my art #doodles #sketchy #id in alt #i guess the difference is that the touch isn't physical

[arsonwizard]

Book one of The Murderbot Diaries, All Systems Red, is a survival mystery as a small team of scientists are faced with an unknown threat while trapped on an isolated, hostile planet, with no hope but to trust their second hand, possibly murderous, robot security.

Artificial Condition, book two of The Murderbot Diaries, is about two robots in a trench coat pretending to be human for a job interview.

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #all systems red #artificial condition #murderbot #perihelion #asshole research transport #i love the interview scene its so funny <3 #acorn speaks

[hellofriendhawke]

I wanted to draw this:

#murderbot diaries #tmbd #mbd #murderbot #secunit #perihelion #asshole research transport #ratthi #iris #dupree #art #comic #digital

[psumnt-studentcouncil]

ART and Murderbot have the most insane interpersonal progression. From "Don't you dare lay a hand on my systems" to "Can I perform surgery on you" to "Let's be work buddies" to "Hey sorry I kidnapped you I kinda needed you lol" to "Let's make a bot child that's a self-detonating code bomb" to "Ah shit, our child died. Do you wanna move in together?"

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #secunit #asshole research transport #perihelion #artmb

[mockingnerd]

Obsessed with these Latvian Murderbot covers by Andis Reinbergs

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #all systems red #artificial condition #perihelion #asshole research transport

[ghostcashewart]

how many pings will it take for secunit to stop sulking?

#murderbot #murderbot art #murderbot fanart #the murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries art #the murderbot diaries fanart #tmbd #tmbd art #tmbd fanart #art #fanart #asshole research transport #secunit #murderbot secunit #artificial condition #system collapse #perihelion #murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries art #murderbot diaries fanart #image description in alt #martha wells

[sisislair]

Not quite caught up yet but this is definitely what happens when someone questions if ART should be able to do something right?

#murderbot #murderbot diaries #perihelion #ART #asshole research transport

[ineedlelittlespace]

Network Effect (2020), Martha Wells.

Meme template here.

#has this been done yet? #it was literally my first thought upon seeing this image #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #network effect #asshole research transport #ART #perihelion #secunit