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stolenoc · 2 days

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Thinking about the way Murderbot refers to itself and SecUnits in general as murderbots (derogatory) and then ComfortUnits as sexbots (derogatory)

Like yes. It definitely had some issues with ComfortUnits as a concept that it needed to work through but it's also funny to think that maybe it'd just be like that for any given "unit," regardless of function.

CulinaryUnit: Oh if you need a weapon there's knives in the kitchen, if you want to stop by.

Murderbot: (Disdainfully) I don't need to take advice from a chefbot.

Murderbot: (Internally) Yes, I did stop by the kitchen, and I did get the fucking knives. Whatever.

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot

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psumnt-studentcouncil · 3 days

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Murderhelion Week - Acts of Affection / Vulnerability / Watching Media Together

Murderbot watching World Hoppers with a drifting, badly damaged ART-drone, and ART watching Timestream Defenders Orion while cleaning out Murderbot’s alien infected code. @murderhelionweek

-System Collapse (Chapter 11)

-Network Effect (Chapter 20)

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #secunit #asshole research transport #perihelion #artmb #murderhelion #yes I cite my sources what about it #they mean the world to me your honor they do #murderbot fanart

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squiddlysq · 3 days

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Finished System Collapse the other day & Murderbot has never been more relatable

First image based on this post by @murderbot-moodboard

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #system collapse #perihelion #asshole research transport #ratthi #ayda mensah #amena #googling to make sure I'm spelling amena right. bcos I misspelled Ratthis name in a previous post and haven't recovered from the shame #Sadly names pass thru my brain like sand thru time or whatever so. vibes only. i remember the sound not the letters. nightmare #Anyway murderbot mental health moment: the book was alot of fun #i need to do a reread now knowing what REDACTED meant the whole time #cause the wife and I were in torture thru the whole book like what the FUCK did murderbot DO #we were CONVINCED it had stood in the middle of ARTs lounge & loudly announced suicidal intent or something #or like yelled at everyone for risking their lives to come back and retrieve equipment <= it means itself #the combo misery and also sort of relief finding out it was literally just that murderbot has Been Through It #& is Suffering the Consequences #was kind of immense #anyway murderbot who is a crazy little asshole. its so me #Shadow the Hedgehog Gijinka looking motherfucker. I gotta pin down my design for it better #hope the memory visions r comprehensible but tbh whatever if theyre not #squiddlyart

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sanctuarymoonfan397 · 2 days

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I am here to cause pain

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #mine #asshole research transport #murderhelion #not if its you

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homosekularnost · 2 days

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the end of network effect / art meeting the inlaws

(+ inspo)

#please enjoy croatian subtitling rules in action sorry if it looks weird to foreign viewers #the murderbot diaries #perihelion #asshole research transport #mensah #murderbot #my art #oh shoutout to the typo. if you excuse me ill be burning my degree in the back yard

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leguinning · 7 hours

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my favorite thing is the fact that it is canon that muderbot likes musical theatre

#and dr. mensah does not #meanwhile gurathen is trying very very hard not to call murderbot a cringe theatre kid #ART probably already has #murderbot #murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #fugitive telemetry #dr. mensah #ayda mensah

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rosewind2007 · 15 hours

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Bharadwaj:

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #Bharadwaj #tmbd #Murderbot memes

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jadefyre · 3 days

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Failure to Disclose by musicofthespheres

I don’t understand why you’re still upset, ART said. It wrapped itself around me in the feed, but I was too exhausted after everything to push it away. You never asked about my origins or my crew.

Would you have told me the truth if I had?

Its subsequent pause was damning. A version of it, it conceded.

I believe they call that ‘lying by omission.’

You lied to me when we first met. I knew you were lying, and I still let you on board.

So? I didn’t know you or what you were. What does that have to do with anything?

It poked me in the feed, then wrapped itself around me even tighter. I’m just saying. Everything turned out okay back then, and I thought everything turned out okay here, too.

It’s the principle of the thing, I said, even though I knew I’d been losing this conversation for a while now.

After about 30 seconds, it added, I wish you didn’t consider this a betrayal of your trust.

I frowned. ‘Betrayal’ was kind of a strong word. It hadn’t owed me the truth back then; I guess I was just upset because if I’d known what it really was, what it did on a regular basis, I’d have... what, had more context to being kidnapped? Understood more quickly what was wrong, spent less time so disastrously emotionally compromised? Been more okay with the fact that it had endangered my humans? (Okay, maybe, aside from that last thing, but it was too late to change that.)

I leaned into it in the feed and sighed. I don’t, I said. I wasn’t sure if that was a lie or not. I didn’t want it to be a lie.

I wasn’t sure if ART believed me, but for once it didn’t say so. What it did say was, I promise I will always tell you as much of the truth as possible from now on.

I suspected it thought it had always done that, but felt it important to come out and say it anyway.

Okay, I said. Good.

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for @murderhelionweek prompts "Intimacy," "Truths/Lies," and "Trust/Betrayal"

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#murderhelion week #murderbot #perihelion #tmbd #ficlet

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coloredcompulsion · 1 year

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

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ilovedthestars · 2 months

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there really are few emotions i find more compelling in a story than "you should be afraid of me. please don't be afraid of me"

#this is why i will never forget that moment in Exit Strategy when Mensah grabs MB by the collar and tells it *No*#murderbot #this was also the core premise of a character in #my novel wip that shall remain unnamed #probably more characters i'm forgetting about #fun tropes #tropes #stars rambles

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ploppythespaceship · 4 months

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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

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ghostcashewart · 3 months

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

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sanctuarymoonfan397 · 2 days

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Watching people post about reading tmbd for the first time be like

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #tmbd #mine #also welcome to the fandom

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devongeorgeart · 3 months

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HEY! Go read Murderbot!

#my art #art #illustration #artists on tumblr #digital painting #murderbot #murderbot diaries

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unheavenlycreatures · 1 year

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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)

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souldagger · 6 months

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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

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