#mbd tag

[every-eye-evermore]

Sorry for the odd question:

Do you have a favourite book?

I do! I really like the Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells- 9 times out of 10 the art I reblog is fanart of that series.

It’s about a security android that goes rogue and escapes the company that owned it with the help of the first humans to ever treat it like a person. Then it goes on adventures throughout space helping people and figuring out what to do now. It’s a very fun series with enough action to keep me engaged + an overarching story with so many cool concepts that have spawned a very imaginative fanbase lol

My favorite book of that series is Fugitive Telemetry, which is a murder mystery that highlights a lot of bot culture (one of my favorite parts of the series)

I reblog all my murderbot posts with #mbd tag or #murderbot if you’re interested in seeing more!

#I will take any chance I can get to get evangelical about my interests #especially murderbot <3 #mbd tag #mine #asks

[do-rey-me]

if murderbot learned what autism was i truly believe itd go "wow humans are so ridiculous they cant even agree on their own stupid human social rules" and then never think about that or its possible relation to its own behaviors ever again

#mensah: secunit here are some accessibility drones so u can interact with the world more comfortably #mb: its super impressive how she can make up reasons to get around the 'no drones allowed rules' just so she can bribe me #ratthi has his head in his hands. like deities send me strength i cannot fucking deal with this #tmbd #mbd #murderbot diaries #i dunno the tags man. i also do not know if its even funny anymore #im so tired #lost track of my life and didnt realize i ran out of sleep meds haha. fuuck #tomorrows gonna fucking suck balls #my posts

[elexuscal]

don't mistag fanfics

don't deliberately keep off a zesty trope tag, or mark a romantic pairing as platonic, or add a pairing that isn't actually in the story, or whatever, just to get more views

it's incredibly rude, and potentially hurtful.

i know, i know. you like what you're writing. You want more people to see it, and you think that people would like it if they just gave it a shot.

but you don't get to make that call for your readers. yes, using this technique, some might read something they otherwise wouldn't, and enjoy it. but many will be avoiding that ship/trope/etc for a reason. at best, you might just annoy them; at worst, you can accidentally trigger someone.

it's a courtesy to be as honest with your tagging as possible. it helps people avoid things they don't like, and conversely, find things they do like.

What if I genuinely forget to tag something or accidentally mistag it?

that's fine! accidents happen, we're all learning. just be willing to listen when and if someone asks you to make changes : )

What if I want the trope/pairing to remain a surprise?

then use 'authors chose not to use archive warnings'! or you could have a beginning author's note saying "hey this story/chapter gets into some intense themes, check out the ending authors note for a full list". those are good tools to preserve the surprise while letting people opt-in or out as necessary

Be nice to your fellow readers, and help keep the fanfic community a safe, fun space for everyone :3

#fanfiction #ao3 #fanfic #born out of learning some people are deliberately tagging romantic MBD fic as platonic to lure in new readers #don't do that it's a dick move #plus a post going around deliberately suggesting mistagging to get more readers

[bestiewave]

"Anyone who thinks machine intelligences don't have emotions needs to be in this very uncomfortable room right now."

#mbd #murderbot diaries #network effect #surrealism #love #hope #edit #credit.bestiewave #again: don't usually tag with the stuff my pieces are based on #but this one is very heavily based on the book and uses text from it so #this series has rewired my brain #i actually made this last year but forgot to post it #it's been sitting in my drafts for months

[tenowls]

a masterpost of my mbd fanart in chronological order :D this only includes drawings that are scenes directly from the books, also some of the posts have multiple scenes from different points in the book in them but i tried to organise them roughly in order!! 

Pre-ASR

MB and Mensah at the deployment centre

All Systems Red

Cubicle scene

PresAux meets MB

Artificial Condition

MB meets ART

Exit Strategy

Company gunship scene

Home: Habitat, Range, Niche, Territory

MB offers Mensah a hug

Fugitive Telemetry

MB, Pin-Lee and Mensah banter

Leaked photo of MB, Pin-Lee, Bharadwaj and Mensah

MB, Ratthi and Gurathin crime scene investigation

It’s joking, that’s how it looks when it’s joking (stop joking)

Network Effect

It is a person!

ART bathroom scene

MB flips off ART

MB and Amena

#mbd fanart chrono #thank u to dragon for the idea!! :D #i like it bc im terrible at tagging n sometimes forget to tag the books HAHA #havent drawn anything for rp yet bc i need to work up some confidence in my robot drawing skills to do a design for miki HSDKJKS #ill update this when i do more drawings :D #lov this series so much.... if it isnt obvious by the amount of drawings ive done for it HSDSKJDSKKDS #thank u to pip for posting abt it which got me to read it :')) <33

[iceblink-ink]

skljkljk it feels like there are so many different ship names and new variations constantly being invented. i know every individual can use their social media how they want to… but would we perhaps be amenable to tagging murderbot ships posts with a catch-all tag like “murderbot shipping”? I prefer to filter tags than block people 😶‍🌫️

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #mbd #curating my online experience but the only 2 options are filter and block #and I’m starting to think filter won’t do it… #esp rarepairs #I’m sorry guys skdjksjf #i usually just lurk... posting to fandom tags scary #maybe the correct thing to do is just block rather than ask people to change what they're doing but idk then i'll miss their other stuff #don't look at me i'm nervous

[thirtheenprimes]

What scene from Murderbot Diaries plays on repeat in your head and is maybe your favorite or maybe just one of your favorites that you can't stop thinking about? (Genuine question I want to hear other people's too)

Mine is in the first book when Murderbot is confronted with vulnerability like its never experienced before because Gurathin discovered it wad rogue and everyone around it is reacting better than it ever thought possible but Gurathin is still being skeptical and pessimistic and tells everyone "It calls itself Murderbot" and Murderbot accidentally moves before it can stop itself and makes eye contact and says "That's personal"

Occasionally I just get emotional about SecUnit and it's weird relationship with names

And the line "That's personal" punches me in the gut randomly throughout the day when I think about it. Honestly, it makes me feel like I don't even have the right to use its name despite the fact it's a character and I'm a reader.

#and then for the rest of the series every one of them knows its name but never uses it #and also I think a conversation on Preservation Station about why it didn't want to put its name on its feed id #tmbd #mbd #murderbot diaries #except when mensah was traumatized and needed confirmation on who she was talking to #look i dont remember the full original of that particular tag i just had to fix a dumb autocorrect that i did not like

[charlemane]

going to a Murder By Death live show is always so fucking funny. adam will step up to the mic and be like "this next song... is super depressing" and the audience will all hoot and holler and jump up and down excitedly. this will happen no less than ten times over the course of the evening.

#and the thing is. like. it's not that the people in the crowd don't appreciate the emotional depth of the music #like... there's a certain other depressing musician with a rabid following whom i shan't name. #whose young fans love to turn their depressing songs born of deep personal turmoil into weird and tasteless memes. not so with MBD #i saw grown men shedding genuine tears in that pit #and i saw the same grown men go WOO!!! YEAH!!! the next time adam warned us that they were about to play another depressing song #mbd band #<- using that tag bc any time i try to search ''murder by death'' on tumblr #it comes up with ninety jillion blorbo x reader fics tagged ''tw murder'' and ''tw death'' #bless tumblr's search function's heart

[persianflaw]

did yall know that martha wells is problematic for writing a book in first person because it means that the main character's pronouns aren't being used as frequently (a clear sign that she doesn't respect people with it/its pronouns)

#personal #text post #fandom talk tag #just when you think you've seen the dumbest mbd post......

[seventh-district]

wow!!! nothing better than watching your AO3 subscribers stat go down every time you post a new chapter of your current fic!!!

#/sarcastic btw. i am. Not happy about this recent development #Seven.txt #writing stuff #ao3 #like. don't get me wrong i do understand why and i can't fault anyone and i'm not like.. Mad. but it does hurt a lil #but alas. tis the nature of creating and posting things. not everything's gonna be received well and that's fine #it does suck to see a fic i put so much time and effort and love and part of myself into flopping so hard #not because i wrote it for anyone's sake other than my own #but i'd be lying if i said i didn't want people to enjoy the things i create. that's like. a normal and common desire #and i think i maybe killed it before it could get going with how i tagged it and the bigass disclaimer at the beginning #i think those turn a lot of ppl off that might otherwise read and maybe even find that they enjoy it?? #but i would rather over-warn ppl for the triggering and non-canon aspects than under-warn them and potentially trigger or upset someone #and i can't blame ppl that subscribed for some Other thing when they open their email and see a notif that i posted smthn #and it's a mile of upsetting/negative sounding tags for a fic abt a guy they either don't know or don't wanna see mischaracterized #and so of course they unsub and that's okay. it's okay. #anyways. enough bitching abt my fic not doing well. i don't have much room to complain! #most of my stuff is fairly well received imo. so i can stand to have a flop fic every once in a while. gotta balance things out lmao #the good thing is it's already fully written so the lack of engagement can't stop me!! there's no motivation to kill! it's done already! #anyways. i'll post a chapter a day as planned and then it'll be out of my system in a week and i can post other stuff again finally #next up will be an [N]MbD oneshot. then i'll finally post the Dew Ghost Band OCD fic. then another [N]MbD oneshot ehehe #and thennn ES Ch.5! fucking finally. i can't wait to continue that story #the Dew fic is a oneshot too btw. once AEIWNF is fully posted then the only multi-chapter project i'll have is ES. and that's Enough

[chelshiart]

Wip!!

#murderbot #murderbot diaries #secunit #mensah #amena #ratthi #iris mbd #seth mbd #martyn mbd #i have to tag iris properly #because turns out my blogs got multiple best girl daughters named iris with two dads #ART #asshole research transport #perihelion #just assume that iris is talking to peri hahaha #im one step closer to character designing arts gijinka #fanart #martha wells

[every-eye-evermore]

Need the murderbot show to come out right now, I have so many AMVs to make

#none of my fandoms are visual!! #it’s books and bands!! #but finally… I can combine them… #just came back from a drive where I plotted out the entirety of the song upcountry lemonade to asr #mbd tag #mine

[desiblr-tales]

@dobaara : Do you ever want to talk about your emotions, shat?

@iktarapdf : … No.

@wtfrochh : I do!

@dobaara : I know, ro

@wtfrochh : I’m sad!

@dobaara : I know, ro

#is this accurate? #desiblr #mod love #desi tag #incorrect quotes #mbd

[missgrelle]

im in such a hater mood today 😔

#i thought it would fun to re-familiarize myself with MBD and. no it was not fun #the crossdressing parts... i know it was 2010/2013 but jesus christ #Grelle should hunt alan and sebastian for sport #this is why its so important to rewatch the shit you enjoyed in middle school #Theres a lot more to say about mbd but ill leave it here #mostly bc i didnt fully rewatch it since i do like myself a little #and i dont wanna speak out of my ass #id rather rewatch kuro II ten times in a row #i dont know why i write my post in the tags #i wanna be complainy but i dont wanna clog the dash so it goes here

[bestiewave]

"Don't hurt my humans..."

#mbd #murderbot diaries #i don't always tag my media inspired pieces with whatever they're based on but #this series has a hold on me right now #and i feel like this piece can benefit from juxtaposition with the original inspiration #credit.bestiewave #lostcore #surrealism #hope #edit

[belovedcherie]

IM BACK TUMBLR I MISSED U

#life updates in the tags muahaha #currently listening to the mean girls musical so i am feeling DRUNK WITH POWER #ummm i started steven universe :D #THE SONGS R JUST SUCH BOPS I CANT RESIST ANY LONGER #i tried before but i dont think i got pass episode 2? and im at 3 now so its progress #SCHOOL IN 2 WEEKS GAH #some ppl already started tho praying for yall #AND I GOT A DEKU PLUSHIEEE HES SO CUTE #okay back to my hole i go #i liked a bunch of stuff to reblog later so mbd for the spam in advance #cherie's chats