#the murderbot diaries

[foxprints]

Yet more Murderbot studies lol. It's just too much fun to draw!

#fanart #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #murderbot #SecUnit #murderbot fanart #it's showing off some new inorganic parts -chinhands-

[ghostcashew]

go read the murderbot diaries

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[homosekularnost]

three went through it

#network effect #the murderbot diaries #asshole research transport #perihelion #three #my art

[crabs-brencil]

cowbot ft. sheriff of preservation county ayda mensah and art the horse

#wild west #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #tmbd fanart #tmbd sketch #tmbd art #asshole research transport #perihelion #tmbd mb #murderbot #secunit #ayda mensah #dr. mensah #krita

[stary-night]

Also love how Murderbot is like "ART doesn't like violence, it just likes to get its way". "My bestie doesn't enjoy murder, just manipulating people to get what it wants."

Truly a morally grey girlboss (no gender).

#I love ART - a character of all time #also it commits tax fraud for seemingly no reason djwjewk #System Collapse #System Collapse spoilers #The murderbot diaries #tmbd #murderbot diaries

[ineedlelittlespace]

PresAux, during That Scene: Please just come out of the bathroom and talk with us. 🥺

Secunit: *comes out of the bathroom, has a hissy fit, starts a verbal slap fight with the menacing (at the time) transport that abducted them*

PresAux: 😬 Do you...do you maybe wanna go back in the bathroom for a minute?

#i'm relistening to network effect and this scene gets me every time #it's absolute chaos and i love it #i'd forgotten that arada does in fact ask it if it wants to go back in the bathroom to take a minute #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #network effect

[sanctuarymoonfan397]

#network effect #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #three murderbot #tmbd #mine #asshole research transport

[rrainbowmagnet]

Top 3 Murderbot characters that get way more attention than their amount of screentime warrants (and I'm here for it):

The CombatUnit from Exit Strategy

JollyBaby

Holism

Honorable mention: Although Three played a significant role in the plot, it's not exactly a major character, but it seems to have become one in all of our hearts.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries

[sainamoonshine]

My unpopular opinion is that in languages with grammatical gender like french, it does make sense for Murderbot to be referred to by whatever pronoun is usually used for robots or constructs. (In french, therefore, grammatical masculine.) Because there are no traditional « it » pronouns in these languages for objects, and while there are neo-pronouns, they are things one must choose for themselves. Do you honestly think MB actually spent time thinking about its pronouns?! No it didn’t. On forms it picks « non-applicable ». When people ask it what pronouns they should use, its honest opinion is « why do you even need to talk about me. Just don’t fucking do that. Don’t think about me either. Just fucking stop perceiving me altogether! »

Thinking about what pronouns to use probably makes it way more uncomfortable than letting people call it what they’ve already been calling it. Making a conscious choice about its identity? And telling other people about it??? No thanks bye, it’s just gonna walk into the ocean now, see you never.

Lbr it probably thinks the only bots that get fancy pronouns are comfort units, and the pronouns are probably shoved into them by humans same as everything else. MB would meet a bot using a neopronoun and it would wish it could barf. Because in a language like french, he/him and she/her, when applied to objects, ARE fulfilling the function of the english « it ». Nobody is saying the table is a woman or related to feminity in any way outside of stand-up comedy; when it comes to objects grammatical gender really has fuckall to do with human gender even if we use the same words. Even animal species names have grammatical gender and everyone gets that there are male and female turtles even if the word « turtle » is a female word, it’s not that confusing.

(I know this is strange when your language has different pronouns for people and for objects, but understand that english uses the same word to indicate if I’m addressing one or many people, and that is confusing to me.)

TL;DR; stop harassing international fans for not getting the correct MB pronoun in english right off the bat. Yes in english calling it « he » or « her » or « them » is upsetting because it’s projecting an identity unto it. But same goes for trying to get a foreign language translation to use a pronoun intended to express or showcase an identity (or even a lack of one!). Murderbot has not thought about it this hard, refuses to think about it this hard -> and that is its only canon accurate gender identity.

#the murderbot diaries #taking a bat to an hornet’s nest there but I said what I said #I go by she/her because that’s the default people use for me even tho my own gender identity is also #ugh I would sincerely prefer not to have to deal with this think about it or even be perceived #and I would be hella pissed if a book of my life came out and people got into fights about my pronouns #trying to assign me the most politically accurate agender pronoun possible #when my own choice has always been specifically to let people call me the default because idc #and I don’t want to be identified by any identifier that might indicate I do care #and using a different pronoun even if its a gender neutral one is a CHOICE! #it does indicate a preference! and caring about it enough to pick a word and tell people about it!!! #Murderbot didn’t pick IT that is specifically the point! #it was used for it and MB just kept going with that #I mean imagine it if wrote down a different pronoun on its ID form one day and someone actually called it that #it would set itself on fire #its discomfort at having made a personal choice and the personal choice being respected would be off the charts #maybe it a later book after hella character development but I just don’t see it happening tbh #respect the agenders who just don’t want to get involved and use the pronoun equivalent of the default avatar that came with the account #PLEASE #that is all

[coloredcompulsion]

#special interest tag #mb tag #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #rami murderbot #artificial condition

[ploppythespaceship]

I've just finished the first Murderbot book and it's very funny coming from Star Trek to this. In Star Trek you have androids and such actively campaigning for themselves to be considered full people with rights that deserve the same considerations as anyone else. Meanwhile in Murderbot all the humans are telling this guy that it's a person with rights and it's their friend and they like it and its response is basically

#personal #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #edited to correct pronouns

[ghostcashewart]

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

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[posts-written-by-murderbot]

#posts written by murderbot #mbd #tmbd #the murderbot diaries

[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)

[souldagger]

some mostly-handmade murderbot merch i wanted to share! :] (designed them myself + embroidered the Peri hoodie by hand)

#wore it to comic con too but no one recognized it 😔 rip. #.txt #murderbot #the murderbot diaries

[sanctuarymoonfan397]

If a day in the Murderbot universe is a "cycle", what would a week be called?

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #tmbd #mine