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logos

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mb + ART + three

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Murderbot’s pronouns might be it/its, but I am honestly kind of curious about what pronouns Security Consultants Eden and Rin might have used. Like, ‘it’ pronouns seem to be pretty clearly in the realm of bots in this world. There probably are some humans who prefer them, but as ART pointed out in Artificial Condition, humans can do what they like because they don’t need to worry about being spotted as a construct.

Eden, I think, may potentially not have had pronouns at all. Murderbot just refused to put any on its new feed page, and its clients were too concerned about the whole ‘assassins’ thing to think to ask. Tapan and Rami off-screen wondering if they should use ‘they/them’ or ‘te/ter’, not entirely sure what’s the more accepted neutral in this area of space.

Alternatively, Murderbot truly committed on its Eden-Sanctuary-Moon cosplay and picked whatever pronouns the character uses.

Then there’s Security Consultant Rin, who was running around after many more people and over a much longer period of time. Almost certainly, some of those contractors were discussing Rin when it wasn’t in the room. Not even necessarily negatively, just “Rin told you it/they/she didn’t want to have to come back.”

I think, again, Murderbot didn’t pick a pronoun for this disguise. Not unless someone directly asked it, which is entirely possible, but I think it’s also possible Murderbot might reply with an annoyed, “You don’t need to talk about me. Don’t talk about me.”

The group probably assigned a pronoun to it, not maliciously, but someone said, “They’re in a better mood than usual,” and everyone thought that was Rin’s preferred.  

Honestly, Rin may well have been assigned she/her. It’s not one Murderbot would have picked for itself (unless that’s Eden’s pronouns) but ‘Security Consultant Rin, the very real human client who exists and sent her SecUnit to protect you without telling you’ had she/her pronouns. But alternatively, that could well have just been the first pronouns that Murderbot thought of. Real Human Security Consultant Rin was not a well thought of excuse.

Maybe it’s just got an algorithm to run through them randomly. Pick a random Sanctuary Moon character every time its needs a disguise, steal their human pronouns. It’s already out in public pretending to be human, now it’s just pretending to be a specific character. Less stressful.

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Elementary | 1x13 The Red Team

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So you know this episode of Gravity Falls?

I am only just now, JUST NOW, realising that taking photos in this was was very silly. Dipper has access to modern cameras but he chose an old timey method that required him to set up a developing room in the shack. He had to buy all the equipment and chemicals and stuff. This must have been so much more expensive. And it's obvious to me NOW that that's the joke, but only just now. This came out YEARS ago and I've just never questioned it. "Oh of course Dipper would now need to develop the photos," my mind said, "that's the next logical step in this plan." I think I might be stupid.

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assorted mb + amena (+ ART) doodles

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You’re a villain. You steal things. You have a territory that you rule with an iron fist. You live in the sewers, and have caused several people to disappear down here. You’re the bad guy. So why, pray tell, is the city sending down ambassadors to discuss your management of public services?

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Murderbot bookmarks collection so far!

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Do they have sticky notes in Preservation Alliance? Let’s pretend they do

Another quick Murderbot doodle to get this idea out of my head lol

Closeup under the cut cause I spent way too much time on its face not to show it off

Its ass is NOT listening

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i love that someone pointed out that the live action didn’t get stitch as a character at all and that the original stitch is an actual intelligent being

because im remembering scenes from the movies and tv show and the one that stands out for making me laugh is in the sequel where lilo stands up and is like “elvis is speaking to me about doing a hula dance about a chicken!” and stitch just quietly pushes her back down to her seat and says with so much patience, “no he isn’t”

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another inconsistency ppl like to bring up is the multiple times in the first doctor's era when someone takes the doctor's pulse and says it sounds normal but lest we forget this only happens when the Doctor is somehow incapacitated so its possible that one of his hearts keeps stopping. man's pretty old.

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There’s a couple of points in the books where Murderbot reflects on how it doesn’t remember much before Ganaka Pit and the subsequent memory wipe, which was also roughly when it hacked its governor module.

The problem is, it also very clearly remembers what a governor module punishment protocol feels like.

I’m not saying this is a plot hole, I’m just theorising.

There are two main options here: (1) Murderbot doesn’t have many electronic memories of a governor module, but it does remember it in its organic tissue. This is somewhat flawed in that MB is able to send its memories of a governor module punishment to ART, but you know, it’s plausible it can translate organic memories into digital. It also notes several times that it doesn’t remember things very well when they’re just organic memories, but the fact Ganaka Pit was fuzzy (traumatic, one single very confusing night) doesn’t mean a repeated and common torture technique wasn’t clearer.  

I think I lean towards option (2), though: memories of the governor module are deliberately left in during memory wipes as usual procedure.

Like, realistically, the way a governor module must work is through experience, not just future threat. That utter certainty that you cannot disobey fits much better if you have disobeyed and know exactly what the punishment would be.

I assume there’s also some kind of training period (calibrating period?) before SecUnits are shipped off. Have to check the parts all fit together, that the education modules are properly integrated, and clients don’t really want the first time their SecUnit ever picked up a gun to be when something is trying to kill them.

A thorough and very personal explanation of exactly what a governor module is probably part of the training. Ordering the SecUnit to hold still while the bored tech stabs their fingers, just so it can learn what happens if it disobeys orders. Making it stand perfectly still for hours while the governor module threatens them if they so much as shift their eyes. Some bored intern turning the module on intentionally once or twice just to see if it makes the SecUnit twitch.

Probably not even entirely in training. Companies says that the SecUnit is “fresh off the line” and don’t normally mention this is literally its first ever contract, but by that point they’re pretty sure the governor module is working fine. The new SecUnit themselves still are a little too curious around this world they’re in, sometimes touching out to see what else SecSystem can do or watching their new clients with actual interest about how humans talk, but they learn very quickly what the rules are.

It’s not official policy, but usually techs find that if they leave at least some of that first contract or two after a memory wipe, they get better long-term obedience results. When they’re mainly focused on purging a specific event such as a mass murder on RaviHyrall, they might leave in some basic memories of an uneventful contract or two from a few years earlier, long enough that the curiosity about the world had faded and there was just resignation.

I’m just mostly fascinated by Murderbot’s very specific memories of its governor module when it shouldn’t have too many of them.

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Murderbot after murdering

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murderbot my beloved…..

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That one scene from Network Effect by Martha Wells.

Ngl, drawing that last panel was kind of satisfying. I wish I had skills to draw what happens right after but alas.

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I hope you’re happy 💕