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Kait. Sidhe/her. Melancholic. I've been lying about my age on the internet since 2008, I'm not about to stop now.
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It's funny because I picked sing any song and I think I would continue to pick sing any song even if writing prose was one of the options. Because if I could write anything perfectly, it would erase the mess and if I erased the mess, I would never have to create the way out of the mess and then my writing wouldn't be nearly as interesting. It would be perfectly boring.
But with singing, all I want to do is to be able to sing other people's songs anyway. No creation necessary, just adoring mimicry. So I'm good with it being perfect because it was never supposed to be anything more.
No see results, we die like artisans
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within fifteen minutes i have found two different grown adult men who have dating app profiles that say their worst fear is:
werewolves.
one was funny. two is like... hang on, do we actually have a werewolf problem in this town?
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it’s easy to forget, so I’ll remind y’all: you can make fantasy versions of anything. yes even things you might not think about. like soil types. I am thinking of fantasy soil types right now
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oh right ok i’m a disposable killware clone of myself that’s fine—oh ok i only have extremely limited sensory input that’s ok—oh huh i only have partial memory that’s alrigh—WAIT NO MY MEDIA COLLECTION
love that 2.0 has it’s priorities straight
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one cute detail about murderbot is that its always running calculations on how likely an event is to happen. its always commenting on the statistical likelihood of something. and yet. it still thinks “but what if theres a space monster, like in my shows”
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Okay so I’m still thinking about ART in Artificial Condition and I think that its possible that it didn’t just let MB board it out of curiosity or boredom, but out of professional curiosity. Because like as far as I can tell everyone in this universe seem to think that a SecUnit’s primary purpose is data mining and their secondary purpose is enforcement; only the SecUnit themselves appear to believe that their primary purpose is — or should be — security.
And we know that ART’s secret side job is corporate espionage. So what are the odds that it initially saw letting MB board it as an opportunity to observe and analyse a crucial component of a corporate surveillance system, something which would be very useful for it to know about in order to a) better prevent its crew from being surveilled and b) deploy counter surveillance or even piggyback on corporate surveillance when possible.
Like, MB thinks that ART must be worried about a rogue SecUnit damaging it or its systems because rogue SecUnits are known to be violent, right? But that’s how humans think. ART isn’t perceiving MB the way a human would, it’s not worried about MB attacking it or damaging its systems; it warns it not to attempt to hack them. Different thing. It’s worried about MB trying to access its data. It is thinking of SecUnits as crude instruments of data gathering first and whatever else they do as not being particularly relevant to it. I mean, it said it itself: it doesn’t really know what humans get up to outside of its hull and it doesn’t watch media.
I mean, think about it. Given as ART doesn’t even know what governor modules do when it meets MB, at that point it might not even think that a SecUnit being rogue is such a big deal. Like, okay so they don’t have to follow orders, but neither does ART. And it doesn’t understand the idea of not liking your function. So really you have to wonder whether ART even knows about the myth of rogue SecUnits being mass murderers, or if it did hear about that once and then immediately decided it was unlikely.
So, back to my initial theory: ART invited MB aboard with the goal to learn more about how corporations use SecUnits to spy on people. Sure, it ended up getting a whole lot more than that. But it also did get to do that, when it watched MB work on RaviHiral. Not only that, but aside from learning every way that corporations use SecUnits for surveillance, ART also got to learn ways that SecUnits and ComfortUnits can hide data from the corporations. Something which saved its life in Network Effect when it used that trick to hide its core files!
And if that wasn’t enough to give you an emotion, then lets consider the additional fact that ART was already heading to RaviHiral when it met MB. Probably to do some corporate spying. Putting aside the whole thing with Tapan, Rami & Maro and their stolen data — which obv ART must have been thrilled to be able to help with — there’s also the fact that here’s MB, telling it that something horrible happened here some time ago, and it was so completely deleted from existence that no one would be able to even know something happened without intense digging. And it has to be investigated in person.
So here you have ART presented with a scenario in which, if this was a mission with its crew, it would not be able to help with. They would have to go down alone, like MB is doing now. But then MB comes back and it turns out the data it recovered was hidden in such a way that nobody human or bot could have ever found it because nobody else would have known where to look. Not even ART itself or its crew, who are supposed professionals at this.
So now ART has observed two field missions (the security job and the investigation) during which:
- It got to ride along SecUnit’s feed and help in ways it never could do before, and then it also got to experience the frustration of not being able to help when MB is down in Ganaka pit and Tapan doesn’t get on the shuttle;
- Just like how watching media with MB helped it process emotional context, observing MB on the station must have also provided ART with a shitload of new data and better understanding;
- SecUnit is just like. Super competent at security and data retrieval, above and beyond what a human team can do, even ART’s own humans;
- SecUnit knows stuff that ART itself doesn’t know and can navigate corporate systems with ease; not only that, but during this book MB comes up with a new and more efficient way to loop cameras, which means ART got to watch it invent new ways to hide from corporate surveillance on its own on the fly.
TL;DR: when it gave MB the comm at the end, ART was absolutely already drafting its employment contract and rehearsing ways to convince Seth to let it try to hire MB. There is no way it didn’t go back to the university with a 200 slide powerpoint presentation on why it needs MB to join all its missions forever and ever. No way.
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murderbot: I am going to make the ultimate sacrifice
murderbot: [sigh]
murderbot: I will allow you to hug me if you need a hug
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Murderbot: Not feared like a SecUnit nor patronized like a pet robot but a secret, third thing.
Dr. Mensah: Loved and respected like a person?
Murderbot: Absolutely not.
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Murderbot: God, I fucking hate humans *adopts every earnest and nice human it meets* they're so annoying *practically melts every time one listens to it or asks for its opinion* they're so stupid I'm just going to let them die when they make stupid decisions *almost dies protecting its humans multiple times* If one more human touches me I will break their wrist *holds scared humans' hand and raises body temperature as reassurance* don't even get me STARTED on that asshole research transport I hate it so much *misses it constantly and compares all other bots to it* I'm just a scary angry rogue SecUnit who everyone should be afraid of *sits on the couch and watches serials for 20 hours straight*
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This is 1) kind of making me want to do Preservation Worldbuilding in the form of food and cookbooks 2) reminding me I DID make a Murderbot Cookbook
It amused me greatly to imagine Murderbot, who doesn't eat and doesn't have any particular interest in food and tbh thinks the whole "eating" thing is kinda gross, writing a cookbook from its perspective of the foods it observed in the books.
(Image credits:
“Hot” mug image from Damiaonosullivan on Wikimedia Commons.
Bread image from FranHogan on Wikimedia Commons.
Potato image by Fir0002/Flagstaffotos on Wikimedia Commons.
Rice image from Massimo Adami on Unsplash.
Watermelon image from Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Monster attacking human art by epSos.de in Quito. Accessed on Wikimedia Commons.)
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murderbot's primary combat tactic is to go up a wall. that's its favorite move. no one ever sees it coming, man. its second favorite combat tactic is to body tackle entities in the face. nothing on or off the planet is funnier than murderbot fighting like a flying squirrel
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The scene in Exit Strategy where MB is recovering from accidentally deleting its brain is always so funny to me because basically its been telling us all along that it doesn’t know what it wants but as soon as it wakes up with no filter, no memories and no ability to control its mouth it sure as hell tells us what it doesn’t want lol
Like it immediately wakes up and starts complaining like
- I don’t want to be a pet bot
- I don’t want to be human
- I don’t like Gurathin (but Ratthi is my friend I guess)
- Your ship is old and shitty
- I don’t like planets
And then it hits us with the emotional hit of « I don’t like planets because 1. Something is always trying to eat the humans and 2. They’re harder to escape ». And like ouch because yeah okay MB just told PresAux that escaping is always on its mind, but it also just told them that escaping is always its second priority after protecting the humans 🥲
But mostly its grouchy and complaining about everything and that is just deeply funny to me. Deadly murder construct get its opportunity to express its deepest, most unfiltered thoughts for the first time and just immediately starts airing petty grievances and telling you your ship sucks ass
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Me watching tv: it’s what murderbot would have wanted
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Murderbot: I’ll make you pay for endangering my humans
ART: I’m a giant space ship you cannot hurt me in a way that matters
Murderbot: *locks itself in the bathroom and refuses to talk*
ART: *on the verge of tears* I don’t care even a little bit
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