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Shoutout to the murderbot diaries for having so much queer representation. The main character is asexual and goes by it/its, there's TONS of polyamory rep, another of the main characters goes by they/ them, one of the main characters in artificial condition uses neopronouns

I love it and we need more of this kind of thing in media

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EDIT: This meme is not about aroace people who are sex/date favorable. It's about the people who are constantly using "aroace can still date/have sex" to erase the representation of aroaces that don't feel that way. I don't believe romance/sex repulsed aroaces are better or "superior" to those who are.

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spot the difference

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Pinterest is back at it again

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Just some parts of network effect that make me insane, don't worry about it

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Gurathin's "Do you have feelings for it?" really adds another layer to his dislike of SecUnit.

Though the whole group is still grappling with whether to trust it or not, Gurathin remains the most stubbornly vocal about that distrust and on one level we already understood why. He's a former member of the Corporation Rim, someone who both grew up on the same feeds as the SecUnit engineers—'They go rogue and kill everyone all the time!'—and, as we learn this episode, has been horrendously abused by the Company itself, so why would he trust anything it gave them? One might even go so far as to say Gurathin still doesn't see SecUnit as a person, only a very dangerous piece of equipment.

Except... you don't see equipment as a romantic rival.

We know Gurathin has a rather intense crush on Mensah and who can blame him? She not only forgave him when few others would have, but she turned his whole world on its head, providing him with a new purpose and autonomy and love when he was very close to giving up. That's the level of devotion that inspires sneaking into her bedroom to smell her pillow, or staring star-struck across the dinner table, unable to think of a single critique. Gurathin loves Mensah and Mensah obviously loves him... but not in the same way.

Now toss SecUnit into the mix. Here's Company property that scares the shit out of you and as if that weren't enough, the woman you love is being so nice to it. Not just that, she's seemingly prioritizing it over you.

"It feel like it's going through something" vs. I'm going through something.

Running to talk to SecUnit vs. I was the one who was just threatened.

"I feel we can trust it" vs. I thought you trusted me?

"You need a MedBay" vs. But you won't get me to one because SecUnit advises otherwise, right? (Notably, Gurathin doesn't seem to be conscious when Mensah makes the decision to leave anyway, with or without SecUnit).

There are a lot of other moments like this and from our perspective we can see that Mensah is treating SecUnit similarly to how she no doubt treated Gurathin six years ago. The parallels between them abound, including being slaves to the Company who only start to demonstrate true autonomy after meeting Mensah. Gurathin still has a lot of healing to do, but after so many years he's in a better place than the slave that has just admitted to some level of personhood (not to mention the practical issues of them needing SecUnit to defend them), so of course Mensah is going to prioritize it to a certain extent. She's trying to help it the way she once helped Gurathin, but Gurathin is still so damaged and so JEALOUS that he can't conceptualize, "Oh. She's giving SecUnit what I was once lucky enough to receive."

He can't see that, so what comes out instead is, 'You have feelings for it don't you?' Because what other explanation does he have? If SecUnit already 'stole' her attention and her high opinion, why not her romantic love too! I don't think Gurathin would have ever asked that without the fever lowering his inhibitions, but I don't think the fever caused that worry either.

Gurathin makes me insane because I just want to scream, "SecUnit is you! It's you! It's not your rival, it's a mirror of who you were six years ago! You're not in competition with it, you're the best person to help it because you know something of what it's gone through!! You get to pass the torch, Gura, and help Mensah help someone else!!!!"

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MURDERBOOOOOOT ep.7

I had the same face as Gurathin here

like damn

the soap opera level of complicated entanglements

The sheer amount of physical and psychological torture he endured...

man, I'll need to binge the whole season again once the whole things comes out

another risk assessment module joke

Eh, close enough

I love Rathi

I'd also love to see that

That makes two of us at least

I mean, except for robotic parts

The only thing on my body that can sorta count is my glasses

honestly? not the worst way to go

and this is preeeeeety

yeah

THEY DID IT!

THEY SAID THE THING!

I love their relationship

I'm stealing this phrase

I also just need some perimeter time

how did that one post go?

the girlies are fighting! *adjusting the glasses* oh no, they are not fighting, they are, oh no, oh my....

either those literal monsterfuckers were very quick with the whole...business, or the people inside the hopper were stuck and forced to witness the whole process for a looooong time

and both versions are hilarious

that was as dumb as it was sweet of the humans to try to protect their SecUnit from the hostile one

insert another egg joke

😑😄

their dynamic basically

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Lil ART|Perihelion logo I threw together based on these diagrams!

(Perihelion : the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is closest to the sun)

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okay but if the show lasts long enough for them to do network effect

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i think back to when EIA song titles were first revealed and how "baths" was a bit like. okay. that's... certainly an unexpected word. but the more i think about it, the more sense it makes.

"baths" has such positive connotations; you take a bath to relax, wind down, baths are warm and safe and serene. it's a recontextualization of the recurring water motif: tpwbyt is all water, all endless malevolent ocean, cold and alone, asking to be flooded, walking into the ocean, sinking down, vessel pulling himself beneath the waves.

opposite of that is infinite baths which doesn't deny the suffering but can now see it from a different perspective. yeah, there are nightmares of the ocean BUT you will empty the darkness, you will keep me in motion. yeah, the future might be threatening BUT still there is something lifting the bones and dancing in revelry. i'm so tired inside i could sleep through a landslide BUT i'm finally here. the waters are warm where they USED TO run freezing.

and they're infinite, something that will repeat over and over but each time more will be learned from these lessons and they'll be approached in different, better ways next time. they're not something to simply endure (house veridian) nor something to break away from completely (feathered host). instead there's possibility of action through learning, through observing them, staying in motion despite everything, trusting or promising yourself to do so.

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everyone should watch Murderbot just for Ratthi's background expressions

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The Seventh Seal by Yuhang

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Murderbot showrunner Chris Weitz shared that Murderbot's look had partly been inspired by Max von Sydow's character in the 1957 film, The Seventh Seal.

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Murderbot show dynamics I would love to see more of when the PresAux crew have fully become its humans — based off of E7: Complementary Species.

More sass offs between Pin-Lee and SecUnit. That is 100% their love language.

Ratthi doing his really bad SecUnit impression around it when it's being mopey and hard on itself.

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devil in my detail.

by tokenofeden

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STAY CALM. IT'LL BE OKAY. YOU HAVE MY WORD.

dr mensah you move me

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i’m screamingg someone posted highlights of the full download set from the middle of the pit on iii’s side of the stage and it looks so lit i love humans 😭 these are my fave bits but PLEASE go watch the full thing here