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After System Collapse and Rapport, I can't help thinking about how completely and utterly insane ART and Murderbot's first meeting was from ART's perspective.

UplandGatewayOne, the station where they met, is ART's home station. In Mihira and New Tideland's system. Which is deeply anti-corporate. SecUnit even notes at the time that there aren't any security or bond companies there, so nobody should be looking for escaping SecUnits. Iris and Matteo, for all the anti-corporate missions they've been on, have never even seen one, which means Perihelion most likely hasn't either. They're not deployed on transit rings except in GrayCris-paying-to-murder-people situations, and when they are, it's a big deal accompanied by a lot of alarms and screaming and panic.

And one just kind of strolls across the private docks without setting off the weapons scanners. Wholly unnoticed.

So there was already no legitimate explanation for a SecUnit being here. That's point one. Which means it has to have an illegitimate reason.

And ART's paranoia is easily on par with Tarik's, generally speaking. Even though it's never encountered a SecUnit before it has to be aware that this could be an attack by a corporate. Except the SecUnit's got no drones, no additional weaponry, no armor, and it's wearing cargo pants and a hoodie. Which would seem to suggest that it's supposed to be mistaken for a human -- okay, maybe that explains how it got across the transit station a tiny bit? Not really. But at least it accounts for the lack of screaming.

But there's no point in it trying to pretend it's a human now, if this is the prelude to some kind of attack. It's not like ART is a passenger transport, and these are the private non-commercial docks. It can't get on board without trying to hack the lock, and it can't get too far from its handler without frying itself, so it has to do whatever it's doing before ART leaves the transit ring. Whatever attack is coming, it has to be soon. Like, right now, soon.

And it just pings ART directly.

Not even... trying to hide its presence as a potential hostile MI a little.

That is... possibly the most stupid prelude to a code attack it could have made? And if it had been trying to pretend it was human to persuade ART's crew (who aren't even here anyway) to give it access to the ship, it just blew its cover. What the hell is its human handler thinking? They're really bad at this.

And then it asks for a ride--which, again, is hilarious if it thinks it can gain entry that easily--wait. What the fuck? It's offering several hundred hours of entertainment media as a trade.

There is no human handler.

ART doesn't even have to check the governor module at that point. No human would imagine that transports watch television. Possibly, no other bots besides transports would know that they do, because transports are famously not-communicative. Nobody could have instructed it to say that. The only way the SecUnit itself could have gotten the idea that this approach might work is if it tried it before and it was successful.

Okay, so what we know for sure is: This SecUnit is a rogue, and it talks to transports.

And apparently it's hitchhiking?

This raises so many more questions than it answers.

Where the hell did it come from? How did it get across the station without setting off any alerts? Why was it chatting up transports before now? How did it even get several hundred hours of entertainment media downloads? And why the hell would any sentient being, let alone a rogue SecUnit, want to hitchhike to RaviHyral? A crummy little moon which has nothing on it except for mines.

ART's explanation of, "I was curious about you," for letting Murderbot on board is the understatement of the millennium.

This is the equivalent of a frigging walrus ringing your doorbell.

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Fuck AI, I can't believe they're disrespecting Robin William's memory like this. It really is the worst of the film industry.

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YOUR EMAIL FINDS ME ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE

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the OC of the person reading this

this is a very fun idea actually! I encourage people to reblog with an explanation as to why/why not

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Some of the many times Colin made Ryan lose it. ;D

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Once again, instead of Art Fight-ing, I drew a shitpost

First photo’s background is from a YTP on YouTube by HP inkjet

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Aren’t my reaction images so awesome?

I also have one of me and my cousin but that’s not in here because ✨privacy✨

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i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because: 

i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live 

most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person 

im not a pissbaby

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Externally, I am a 15 year old girl.

Internally, I am a middle-aged balding dad with a beer belly and the most obnoxious Hawaiian shirts you’ve ever seen.

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Wayne torturing Colin in Action Replay

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This scene lives rent free in my head

odo noises.mp4

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I have caused so much chaos with this meme. My younger brother has done spit takes and laughed during an orchestra concert over this meme and I still have no idea why

Bugs when you lift up a rock

Unfortunately I don't have the actual meme saved on the computer I'm typing this on so take my rough approximation of what it looks like (just picture this post in the Notes app)

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Apparently… my cat is a boy

I’ve had this cat for at least 8 or 9 years (I can’t remember the exact length atm), and my family and I thought he was a girl this entire time.

NO.

We found out because he had a bladder obstruction (super rare in female cats) and when the vet tried to put the catheter in, he was like “OH.”

It’s actually so funny because there have been little clues all along. When we first got him, we tried to have him spayed, but there was nothing there to remove. We assumed it was because he had already been spayed, but as it turns out…

I still can’t believe this, it’s actually INSANE.

Oh yeah, here are some cat pictures:

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Oooooo someone remind me this exists later

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I was suddenly overcome with the urge to draw whatever the hell this is instead of working on Art Fight

Why am I like this

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Ik it’s only been eleven hours but… close enough lol-

GO WORK ON YOUR ART FIGHT LEAGH >:D

in like 12 hours can someone reblog this with something along the line of ‘work on your artfight attacks idiot’ so I can be pressured into not just staring at the screen imagining attacks lmao /hj (but I mean honestly it helps having someone else ngl lol)