For all of you who said she’d grind him into powder medicine
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I think a lot about the architecture ideas drawn by Étienne-Louis Boullée
They're sketches from the 1780s and they look like the end of the fucking universe
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MC, Ace, Deuce, Epel, Sebek, Jack, and Grim: *unanimously decided to have a shared diary where they will write everything noteworthy or just some straight-up bullshit*
MC's entry:
I'm so bored. No one wants to play with me.
MC's entry:
Grim. Don't write using my name.
Grim's entry:
Tch.
Ace's entry:
Okay. So Riddle's mad at me again.
Deuce's entry:
He ate his tart.
Ace's entry:
Dude?!
Jack's entry:
*review notes*
Epel's entry:
Thanks, Jack!
Jack's entry:
Yeah. Free to use.
Sebek's entry:
Waka-sama complimented me today! Envy me, humans!
MC's entry:
Your Waka-sama kissed me. Cry about it, Sebek.
Sebek's entry:
Curse you!
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In hundreds of thousands we put feet on the ground, voices in the air, strangers' hands clasping each other tightly, eyes ahead focused on love, compassion, hope, sunlight breaks through
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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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I’ve been picking my little sister up from school recently and don’t 100% know how to talk to a 13 year old. So far I have:
1. Ranted about the development of the vampire diaries and the differences between the books and tv show
2. Sung most of the Hamilton sound track with her
3. Played her the first few episodes of the Magnus archives
4. Played her 3 of the mechanisms albums
We also got coffee bc I’m not afraid to bribe her for love
I’m excited for the future
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hi. we have 98 days left to raise approximately $9,000 before i must significantly push back my top surgery date.
i was previously considering taking out a loan but i am over $2,000 in medical debt due to my brain cyst, and have had to miss a lot of work because of my on-going symptoms. i have an MRI next week which i know is going to bring on even more financial strain. a loan is not practical for me and there is no version of one i could safely afford.
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One thing i absolutely adore about The Murderbot Diaries is how media, or MB being a media fanatic, is so important to the story. It’s not just a random character trait like a sweet little treat. It’s such a KEY COMPONENT and it’s just. perfect.
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