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Welcome to #MurderMetaMay!

This is a event for creating, sharing, and enjoying meta for The Murderbot Diaries. Our AO3 collection is accepting submissions from now through June 8.

We have weekly "themes" and bunch of meta prompts in the AO3 collection to get you started on making meta! But feel free create works that don't fit into specific prompts. Follow your meta-analysis heart.

Week 1 (May 1 - May 10): Inside: close readings & character analysis Week 2 (May 11 - May 17): Outside: connections to other media, social issues, etc. Week 3 (May 18 - May 24): Outside-In: expanding the setting via speculative additions Week 4 (May 25 - May 31): Inside-Out: personal reflections of how the books have shaped how you feel, think, and live

If you post your works to tumblr, remember to use the tag #MurderMetaMay

For more detail about the event, and prompts to get your meta-thoughts flowing, check out our AO3 collection!

(This blog's header image is from the free-to-read pre-series short story by Martha Wells, "The Future of Work: Compulsory," hosted on WIRED and illustrated by Tracy J. Lee.)

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So i was bitten by the zine bug this semester and i keep thinking that a collaborative zine would be really fun to organize, especially one i could open up to my little corner of the internet. Not the shiny polished fandom zines that are really cool but also more of an anthology than a zine. I'm talking DIY photocopier and scissors zines--or as close as you can get over the internet, as the case may be.

The most fun and low stakes idea i have at the moment is a doodle zine. Like, what kinds of scribbles or shapes or little creatures do you draw in the margins of your notebooks? Fill a zine-sized page with them and send me a photo! Zero expectation of artistic skill or effort, just fill a page with marks and have fun.

And then i could stitch them together into both a digital zine file and a printable version you could use to make a paper copy. I think that would be a cool way to get as close to the physical collage vibes of a traditional zine as you can in a project that would obviously have to be conducted over the internet, where we can't just hand each other pieces of paper.

Anyway, i finally have both the motivation and the energy to potentially dive in to making this happen, but only if other people are actually interested. And this would look very different if 8 people want to participate vs. if 40 do. So:

Please feel free to reblog/spread this if you know others who might be interested! Right now this is just an idea i'm playing around with, but it might become a Real Thing very quickly if other people are also excited about it.

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this system sure is collapsing, am i right?

anyway meet procedure module <3 it has like..... chill older brother energy. its design is not creative lmao

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murderbot.

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i've seen this scene illustrated a bunch of times by now, but let me add my 3-year-old cake to the buffet table :]

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okay I cave. I thought about it too much and now it's a post. this one's for @ilovedthestars and @needlesandnilbogs

risk assessment module's tumblr url is accounting-for-competency and it reblogs parkour and martial arts videos, speed runs, no-hit/perfect boss fights, and fight scene gifsets from media.

in the tags it always manages to notice and appropriately compliment a very specific technique the person is using in order to protect themselves/be safe

occasionally it will also do deep in-depth analysis posts of the choreography of a fight scene from one of murderbot's serials. how the moves would work in reality, how the film translates a real move/technique so its more dramatic and visual appealing, and also the skillset/movie magic behind keeping stunt actors safe.

threat assessment module doesn't have a tumblr but risk assessment sends it links to posts about how to relax, detox its mind, meditate, or plane-shift.

"it's medicinal, y'know. for the stick up your ass."

education module just reblogs interesting facts, but always reblogs them with a reliable source link if the original post doesn't have one. it's favourite facts are about weird alien fauna and space station physics.

risk assessment convinced it to make it's url "pieceofcrap" because that's what Murderbot calls it. it kinda wants to change it to something more "professional" but is also weirdly attached to it, so it won't.

language module's url is too-many-human-words and most of what it reblogs is to do with translations of media. analyses of translations of poetry, books, and manga. meta posts about subtitles. those posts that are just people trying to explain words that don't have direct translations into other languages.

it also really likes those posts that are like... a bunch of curated screenshots of internet posts, famous quotes, and lines from poetry or books or shows, all put together cus they're vaguely about the same thing or attempting to describe the same feeling. it likes how humans find so many ways to say the same thing.

governor module does not have a tumblr but if it DID, it's url would be governor-931625384 or some shit like that. it's blog would be completely empty and uncustomised. the only thing it would use it for is searching for posts that violate tumblr's terms of service or community guidelines and DMing the poster directly to tell them which rules they've violated. it would get reported as a spam bot every time.

procedure module has a tumblr called apparently-a-panic-module that it uses like an actual personal blog, as in it posts it's random thoughts and stuff that it's done that day. also creates polls for the most out of left field stuff, including completely asinine decisions it has to make.

it reblogs how-to posts and recipes. it doesn't matter what they're for, just that they are a step-by-step guide on how to do something. in the tags it critiques the clarity and format.

it's by far the most active on tumblr out of all of them. it gets anon asks (mostly from the other modules) that are like "don't you have anything better to do" and it always just responds "no."

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ratthi: it was a sexual discussion

secunit: 🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️🏃‍♂️

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I love how much we get to see SecUnit's humans being protective of it.

Ratthi immediately piping up whenever anyone says something insensitive.

Pin-Lee having a hair-trigger and jumping straight to attempting to obliterate Senior Indah's career for calling SecUnit a "dangerous weapon."

Gurathin hanging around to wait for Preservation station security to show up because he just knows they're gonna hassle SecUnit and wants to be there.

Mensah physically placing herself between SecUnit and a company gunman in power armour (she is so fucking cool)

They might not be the sort of protective to kill everyone in the room and then themselves if it gets hurt, but they still try just as hard to keep it safe, in whatever ways they can. And to be quite honest I don't think Pin-Lee's above a bit of violence either.

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hi BRAM :) just wanted to say i think you are cool. your art style is so cool and your module character designs in particular have lived in my head rent-free since before i joined the discord and met you, i'm pretty sure. i will also never shut up about Discomfort Protocol being the first ever murderbot fic i read and still one of my faves. i hope you have a lovely day :)

omg 🥺🥺🥺?? hi stars!! this is so lovely thank you so much 💜

I'm glad you like my modules!! they hold such a special place in my heart as like. one of my favourite ideas 😊 I'm hoping to do some more module stuff soonish. 🤞 But thank you so much for sharing how much you love them because its truly so motivating 🥺🙏

(it's just good to know people are still excited about my ideas even if they've been around for a while 😅)

And my dear Discomfort Protocol. I feel like that fic is a landmark of a personal fandom phase, and I'm still proud of it even if I don't think I could write it today. It's one of my longer fics and working out the plot, premise, character moments, action scenes, suspense and then actually finishing it was so much work, but I reckon I did a pretty good job!

(Honestly the fact that it's the first fic you read and it's one of your faves makes me appreciate it for that alone. One of the coolest people in the fandom read my fic first ?? 😎 that's my claim to fame baby.)

Genuinely thank you so much for this Stars 🙏 in my humble opinion you are one of the most caring and compassionate people in our community, you spread positivity wherever you go, absolutely phenomenal vibes. we're lucky to have you 😊💜

as a lil treat I drew you some language and education modules:

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Yet more of my favorite duo 💛 different style, far too much perspective lol. Considering getting prints made of this one....

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“I hate leaks.”

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*proceeds to talk about having a not-baby together*

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I wonder how often team Preservation think about SecUnit's look of abject horror at the idea of having to spend more time with them, back in the first book.

You're a group of nice scientists who want generally to do the right thing. Over 20 days most of you grow to think of the spy drone amazon sent you as a useless appliance that exists to record you fucking and shoot things (what's it even going to shoot, some cute alien deer for straying too close to the hab? Pin-Lee, for leaving dirty mugs in the sink? please.)

Then in one single day it proves that, yes, you did need it to shoot stuff, and also it's literally a full person you've never even tried talking to, and also that you're about 20 days too late to start treating it with respect and also that, even if you start doing that right now, it doesn't even want to hang with you.

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HUH? y'all didn't tell me I could get CURSED doing this

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REUNITED WITH MY TABLET PEN AFTER GDC!! time for murderbot