#rogue protocol

[bakedbananners]

murderbot in rogue protocol is so fucking hilarious HELP

[sanealex]

Another one of those moments where I had to put the book down and stare at the wall for a little bit

[ghostcashewart]

working on my miki design!!

[chaoticats3]

Miki: oh man do I love my friends, Rin you are now my new friend yippieeeee

Murderbot: why is this bot so trusting and cheesy and thinks its humans are it's friends, it almost like it wasn't abused and lied to and-

Murderbot:....

Murderbot:

[brightbeautifulthings]

"I hate caring about stuff. But apparently once you start, you can't just stop."

— Martha Wells, Rogue Protocol

[verdiris]

Murderbot is questioning all the life choices that led it to this moment 😌

[ghostsandyoumightdie]

It's fine. I'm fine. It's just that Murderbot was giving Miki the silent treatment right before it died and realized too late that it actually had free will and wasn't programmed to be sweet and friendly. And that it genuinely considered Murderbot its friend.

[lhoandbehold]

Stole a handful of half hours here and there and managed to finish the Murderbot bookmark #3 - Rogue Protocol! Murderbot should absolutely be wearing some kind of spacing gear here but I wanted to draw the hoodie outfit, so?? Handwaves

[queereads-bracket]

Queer Adult SFF Books Bracket: Round 1

Book summaries and submitted endorsements below:

The Murderbot Diaries series (All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, Fugitive Telemetry, System Collapse, and other stories) by Martha Wells

Endorsement from submitter: "Asexual and agender main character. In later books side characters are revealed to be in poly relationship."

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

Science fiction, novella, series, adult

Hunger Pangs series (True Love Bites) by Joy Demorra

In a world of dwindling hope, love has never mattered more...

Captain Nathan J. Northland had no idea what to expect when he returned home to Lorehaven injured from war, but it certainly wasn't to find himself posted on an island full of vampires. An island whose local vampire dandy lord causes Nathan to feel strange things he'd never felt before. Particularly about fangs.

When Vlad Blutstein agreed to hire Nathan as Captain of the Eyrie Guard, he hadn't been sure what to expect either, but it certainly hadn't been to fall in love with a disabled werewolf. However Vlad has fallen and fallen hard, and that's the problem.

Torn by their allegiances--to family, to duty, and the age-old enmity between vampires and werewolves--the pair find themselves in a difficult situation: to love where the heart wants or to follow where expectation demands.

The situation is complicated further when a mysterious and beguiling figure known only as Lady Ursula crashes into their lives, bringing with her dark omens of death, doom, and destruction in her wake.

And a desperate plea for help neither of them can ignore.

Thrown together in uncertain times and struggling to find their place amidst the rising human empire, the unlikely trio must decide how to face the coming darkness: united as one or divided and alone. One thing is for certain, none of them will ever be the same.

Fantasy, romance, paranormal, series, adult

[jammy-badger]

If anyone cares, I made a murderbot playlist that lowkey slaps. I made this specifically focusing on the first four books but if any fans of the show like it that's awesome too!

The awesome fanart on the playlist is by @moggettt (my personal headcanon for MB's appearance!)

[ostensiblyarticulate]

murderbot like “i am making mistakes bc i have not had time to chill out and watch a few hours of shitty tv in a while” might be the most singularly relatable thing this highly relatable person has ever said

[rriavian]

I cannot tell you how insane this quote has made me ever since I read it

[ghostcashewart]

"Huh. That wasn't a lie, but it sure wasn't the truth, either."

miki and don abene from rogue protocol!!!

[spyrograph]

Murderbot isn’t autism-coded. Murderbot is autism-hardwired.

[l3viathanss]

Thai editions of All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy

[penig]

I realized this morning, while making anniversary blueberry pancakes, what the Problem of Miki is.

It's not that MB made friends with it, had a fight with it, and it died trying to help it before they made up.

It isn't even that Miki's situation turns its own situation upside down: a bot who is only ever treated well, who loves its friends and is loved back, enough that it had freedom to set its own priorities.

It's that Miki was MB's friend, and MB was never its friend back.

It never expresses anything, in the narrative, but contempt, irritation, and envy toward Miki, but it resents it tattling on it to the humans enough that it stops talking to Miki on the feed, to Miki's visible distress. It uses Miki the way it routinely uses connections with lower-level bots and systems, but Miki isn't lower level at all. And then it goes and dies like that.

MB at this point doesn't know what Mensah is to it; or it does know and is afraid of what that does to it. So it's no wonder that it screws up at every stage.

It's no wonder that Miki haunts 2.0.