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folie à deux is the fourth studio album by american rock band fall out boy, released on december 10, 2008.
the french term folie à deux (literally, a "madness shared by two") is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis - particularly a paranoid or delusional belief - is transmitted from one individual to another. stump is quick to point out that the "two" aren't pete or ashlee. or for that matter, pete and patrick: "there are lyrics on this record that go into certain things that i wasn't necessarily sure i wanted to admit. we haven't been that openly political as a band, but on this record, there are some lyrics that spelled it out. the irony is that people will probably mistake the title, folie à deux, as something about romantic relationships in some way. and it's our only record where that theme is not touched upon."
- alternative press, 2008
a celebration of FIFTEEN YEARS OF FOLIE À DEUX, from @omegalomania, @heartbreakfeelsogood, @ofalltheginjoints, @kat-sribbles, @clandestine-rabbit, @sicklysweetholiday, @ybcpatrick, @patrickmstump, @vanweezer, and @andpierres!
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Idk if this is weird or not but could you draw Diluc telling me— someone they did a good job?
Not having the best time and I love your Diluc so much 😅
oh anon :( i hope this brings you some form of comfort <3
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Okay, my brain refuses to think about anything other than Murderbot, so I looked at every use of the word "friend[s]" in TMBD and... created some pie charts. Normal human activities.
Some Thoughts™ I had while putting this together (under the cut):
In All Systems Red, Murderbot notes that the PresAux crew are all close friends (twice! and goes on to explain their internal relationships which I think is very cute). This is pretty much the only use of 'friends' in ASR, except for when Murderbot says that SecUnits can't be friends with each other.
It seems that this may be one of the first times Murderbot has ever really been around a group of friends before? Murderbot notes that this is not the norm for its contracts and admits that the fact that they are all friends and the way they interact with each other make it actually enjoy that contract (before!!!! the hostile attack, so it already enjoys this contract before they start seeing it as a person etc ghghhhh). [Inference: Friendship seems enjoyable.]
The first character that calls Murderbot its friend is ART in Artificial Condition. Murderbot immediately refutes this (and then goes on to call ART its friend to its clients for the rest of the book). [Inference: Maybe ART is Murderbot's friend. And maybe that is... agreeable]
Rogue Protocol has more than twice as many instances of the word 'friend' as any of the other novellas. Why? Miki. Friendship and its implications for non-humans are a central theme because Miki is friends with everyone. Murderbot initially scoffs at the notion that Miki and Miki's humans are friends. At the end of the book, after witnessing how desperately Don Abene tried to stop Miki from trying to save them, and her grief after its death, Murderbot has to admit that she had in fact been Miki's friend. [Inference: Humans can be friends with bots and can sincerely care about them]
In Exit Strategy, Murderbot tentatively uses the word "friends" for its humans for the first time (several times actually). It questions whether it can actually call them its friends or not and later realizes that it had been afraid what admitting that the humans are its friends would do to it. At the end of the book, Mensah tells Murderbot the PresAux crew are its friends, which is the first time a human has directly said that to it (at least on-page). [Inference: Humans can and want to be Murderbot's friends]
In Network Effect, Murderbot seems to be more habituated to the word 'friend', confidently calling ART and Ratthi its friends, like it is no longer just trying the concept on unsure if it fits. There are many instances in which other characters refer to MB as ART's friend or the other way around and Murderbot's humans refer to Murderbot as their friend several times. Generally, there seems to be less hesitancy, because yes, all of them are Murderbot's friends, why wouldn't they be. [Inference: SecUnits can have friends. This SecUnit has friends. They care about it a lot.]
Conclusion: The Murderbot Diaries tell the story of a construct that does not seem to consider the possibility of friendship for itself and is fine with that - until it accidentally starts caring a little too much and suddenly more and more people annex it as a friend (ew) to the point where it can no longer deny that this is happening and has to begrudgingly admit that yes, it has friends now and maybe that is actually not a bad thing.
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