#made data

[sabertoothwalrus]

not who YOUD peg ☝️ but who seems more likely to be getting the strap

[grovylelover]

Walked into the local marriott and guess who was behind the front desk. yuuuuuuup. the immortal king of legend who vaporized so many people it permanently fucked up the timeline.

[shyflops]

[heartorbit]

hello, sekai! 🌎💫☘️💿🎪🎼

it's a good movie sir

[giddlygoat]

DO I LOOK LIKE HIM?

[staryenight]

XIAOHONGSHUUUUU (☞≧ヮ≦)☞

THEM!!! /p

[waddledeeliveries]

kris illness

instead of brain there is kris dreemurr

[madnessatdawn]

Not to be a raging Digimon fan for a second But there is something so funny about the fact that in the newest game, they're like Oh, you can have Digimon as mounts now. People who aren't familiar with Digimon beyond the gun jokes are like, 'Oh, you can ride on the quadrupeds and the monstrous bipeds, like a wolf or a battle cat or something. Not realising that Digimon's variety allows them to go beyond.

Why stop that Japanese-inspired fox thing?

When you can be inside a mess-up robot! (There is a chance there is flesh in there beyond your own)

Or ride on a demon's bike like your parents warned you about.

Or finally be the flexible and fierce royal you were meant to be, riding on a dilf in a wholesome!

[muffinrag]

sometimes Data will be looking at something he's never seen before, and he'll get transfixed, and do tiny, mechanical motions with his head - just little twitches. almost birdlike. im completely obsessed with him. how did spiner absolutely nail pretending to be a machine

[aibafiles]

metaphor prologue

[nicjeann]

brent spiner star trek casting orgin story is so fucking funny like they really saw this hilarious goofy musical theatre guy and then were like “let’s cast him as the robot” for shits/giggles and then lives were changed.

[hollis-art]

playing dress up with my favorite dolls !! yippee!!

[inkedinserendipity]

the "art doesn't lie actually" post

this post has been rotating in my head for weeks now, so i decided to actually write it out. thesis: despite what murderbot claims, art doesn't actually lie.*

this is gonna be long, so buckle up!

*obligatory disclaimer: we're cherry-picking a specific definition of "lie" here, because art actually lies by omission all the fucking time. but what's interesting to me is that art's words are factually true. so here we're taking lie to mean (shoutout merriam-webster, y'all i did homework for this), an untrue or inaccurate statement. in the real world lies of omission are still lies etc etc etc., but afaik english doesn't have a word for "factually true but missing backstory". so really this is a manifesto on how when art says something, its words are factually correct, you just might need to look a little further. (and how that ties into its interactions with murderbot in particular. our most funky and fabulous unreliable narrator.)

okay! so!

art doesn't lie, in the sense that the words it speaks are factually true. in a way it reminds me of the fae - it is very careful with its wording, and you have to be wary of double meanings or missing context, but it does not lie to you. art 100% means what it says.

examples that come to mind, in no particular order:

i have a debris deflection system, it says. murderbot says, you have a weapons system. it says, for debris deflection. rating: technically true! it has not lied. however. those are in fact guns. and guns by any other name can still kill you.

art says, my crew has the means to produce the original charters. murderbot, who knows art really well, goes so you mean forge. and art ignores it. because forgery is, technically, the means to produce. rating: true! wholly missing context.

arada goes, transport can you please explain what the fuck happened? art says, i am prioritizing the medical system. it could definitely respond! but it definitely does not want to! (it's fine, secunit will explain when it wakes up, right? right?) rating: probably true! most likely, it is prioritizing the medsystem!

and the most recent, from rapport: art says, completely truthfully, No intel drones have been aboard me. it is correct. (as far as i can remember,) secunit didn't have its drones with it during artificial condition. rating: true! technically! but leaves out the much more alarming fact that oh my god art you let a secunit aboard???

(sidebar: that last one convinced me of this theory. that is such a specific statement that is so clearly meant to cover up a bigger secret. art, you obfuscating ass, you haven't had drones aboard you but you have had a fucking secunit!! i am so full of affection for this absolute menace of a transport.)

there are probably more examples i'm not thinking of. but as far as i can remember, art does not lie. it omits, and it obfuscates, but when it tells you something, you can be pretty fucking sure it means what it says.

so, why does it lie? is it, like our beloved murderbot, completely devoid of self-esteem? or does it just enjoy lying? no! this is the Asshole Research Transport, the Perihelion, the machine intelligence who will demonstrably do absolutely anything to keep its people safe. no, art lies because it has something to protect.

in each of these examples, art is protecting something. its identity. its crew's mission. its prospective relationship with secunit's humans. secunit's entire existence.

(you know, the more i write about art, the more i become convinced that protectiveness is its #1 defining character trait. as a side note.)

so, when art says something, you can be pretty sure that art is telling the truth. but wait a second. murderbot calls it a liar. why could that be?

(theory over now, by the way. this is about to diverge into headcanon/make fun of murderbot time. shoutout @marvelousmawn for the idea, because her brain is so big and sexy!)

yeah, why would our funky little secunit decide that art is a liar? what could art possibly tell its favorite construct that would make it decide that art is lying through its metaphorical teeth? what has secunit consistently, constantly been wrong about throughout the entire series? any guesses? i've got one!

yeah, my bet's that art complimented it one too many times, and murderbot decided it was full of shit.

what a way to get a reputation for being a liar. by being too nice to your bestie.

seren end theory.

[wistfulwatcher]

[neopuff]

[kawaiicanica]