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

hey girl. I mean. SecurityUnit.

Just say no

Transport Crate

leonide listening to murderbot talk to ART (who is, at least by her assumption, a human captain or something) and MB being like "fuck you" vehemently and ART being like "you haven't spoken to me like that in weeks. i've missed it" ... like this woman is listening to a robot (well, construct, one that presumably isnt a rogue because it's still protecting humans) swear at a presumed human, and yet no one else—NO ONE ELSE AT ALL—is acting like this is odd. it's odd!!! from her perspective, it's fucking weird!!!! and then later she's like "is that really a secunit?" because people are being kind to it, iris repaired its environmental suit, and it's talking back and snapping at people and behaving so unlike a secunit one can't help but think it sounds like a person. she's already in an extremely distressing situation, and her life is in the hands of crazy people who treat their bot-human construct like it's just some other guy. i do not feel any genuine sympathy for her, but just imagine what that must feel like. i'd be silently losing my mind.

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.

Me, holding up plushie of my new baby Blorbo like a wet kitten and presenting to all my friends: Meet Murderbot, it is a 6A-threat; Autistic Anxiety Asexual Aromantic Agender Assault Weapons

murderbot + friendship

Fascinating tidbit from tonight's Martha Wells Q&A: ART did not appear in the first draft of Artificial Condition, but in a rewrite it appeared and "tried to hijack the story" which. Yeah.

Murderbot keeps freeing random Units and like, it gave Three and the other two B-E SecUnits the actual code to disable the governor module rather than just breaking it for them like it did with Tlacey's ComfortUnit. At what point are we going to see a random SecUnit show up and go "wait you're Murderbot! I know you!" because one of the freed B-E units also gave them the code, and so on so forth

was talking with someone about the murderbot dairies and he kept using she/her pronouns for it and said the story was all about how murderbot IS human actually, and i was just like…did we read the same books?

I will never get over the fact that Murderbot had Pin-Lee put a specific clause in its contract that no one was allowed to hug it

throws my hat into the murderbot designs ring

| The Care and Keeping of a SecUnit |

Complimentary companion to this piece

Character, author, and book names under the cut

Murderbot- The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells

Harrowhark Nonagesimus- The Locked Tomb by Tamsyn Muir

Alex Fierro-Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard series by Rick Riordan