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so I've seen a lot of different takes on what constitutes a Combat SecUnit (and I love them all!!) but

what if somebody gets a hold of Murderbot sometime post-SC and is looking at its systems and goes "wait, crap, nobody told us this was a CombatUnit" because it turns out that by altering its own configuration and upgrading its own hacking/coding/input-wrangling skills, Murderbot basically self-upgraded into one

and then of course it breaks itself out while having a little existential crisis about it

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I know Murderbot hates logos, but I don’t. So I made some!

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Please enjoy this Ahsoka I painted in an attempt to find some inner peace recently.

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I've seen some pretty good things in my life, but this northern lights action this year is just the best. This is from earlier tonight. I also have some timelapses running, we will see how that goes. Momma nature, you're amazeballs 😍 Are you seeing any and where? This is Michigan.

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current fan creation landscape is kinda like if you went to a party with a homemade cake and everyone takes a slice and silently thumbs up at you with no attempt to start a conversation except for occasionally some guy sits in the corner with a tape recorder critiquing the cake as though he was a restaurant critic and another guy is handing the cake to an uber driver like "yeah i need you to find a restaurant that makes cake like this so i can have more of it" and the only person that's talked to you in 30 minutes is a very sweet little guy who was like "hey i liked your cake" and then ran away apologizing for bothering you the moment you said thank you.

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Thinking about a young Perihelion babysitting Iris and crying forever.

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Murderbot, every single time it enters a new building:

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Planetary storm - but Milu gets a custom skin(? and some hand-wavy science (??

okay, here's my dubious theory ---- gas giants approaching M-type stars will occasionally have local hydrogen fusion.

It's like a vision of what would've happen if it was born a star, and not a planet.

(but in book it does said Milu has a surface, so it's definitely not a borderline M-type. But by the time I found that out I already finished this painting. Fck science!)

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Anyone know if there’s a Kalluzeb week or month? Tried searching for one and *waves hand* tumblr search (dys)functionality

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quick, someone hit me with a lead pipe until i draw something

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Last Line Challenge

Rules: In a new post, show off the last line you've written/drawn.

Tagged by the lovely @loverboy-havocboy @insertmeaningfulusername & @whiskygoldwings

I got super into the WaxerBoil scribble that I just ended up drawing more... Last line was just the vague shape of a pile of leaves that they've flopped onto.

NPT: @five-oh-thirst @mamuzzy-creates-stuff @brokenphoenix99 @hurryupmerlin

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someone apologized for commenting late… 2 months after the fic was posted 😭😭 girl that’s EARLY thats fresh

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Have you heard of the Ship of Theseus?

no. was it problematic or something?

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Hey, let's talk about anons like this, because I know some people haven't been in a position to see the patterns these play out in on broader scale and may indeed not spot the trap.

And it is a trap.

An ask like this has several purposes.

First, it uses social justice language in passive aggressive and manipulative ways to try to coerce a behavior. In this case, the desired behavior is usually for the recipent to participate in community shunning and/or harrassment. The language above is intended to put the recipient on the defensive where, in the haste to disassociate themself from the Bad Thing, they quickly disassociate themself from the bad person, often with no particular fact checking or evidence.

The message is also intended to create a sense of being surveilled and judged by an unknown amount of people with unknown amount of social power and an unknown amount of relevance to your life.

Notice that these asks are usually framed as if they are coming from a follower or potential follower, someone who is addressing you personally and who cares about your opinion and who your blog has an effect on. However this is usually.... very much not the case. If you've ever had the misfortune to watch a gossip campaign from like this from the outside, you will very quickly notice that messages like this get sent in mass batches to dozens and dozens of strangers. (You can often turn these up with a tumblr search, if you look.)

The sender does not know you and probably does not follow you. They have a person they don't like (possibly for their stated reason and possibly not), and they are going through the reblogs of a post from that blog and mass messaging *everyone* with a form letter. They will not see your response and they will probably never even see your blog again.

Which brings us to the second goal of whisper campaigns like this:

Notice that I blacked out the names above? That's because when the recipient answers anonymous asks like this, they provide a platform for the opinion on their blog. An anonymous message like this that gets posted doesn't just spread gossip and apply pressure to the recipient, it is spread to the recipient's entire community.

The *goal* is to get access to your community. The *goal* is to use you as a soapbox.

Is the information accurate? Did anyone check? Does the anon have an ulterior social motive? BIG SHRUG

If you go into the comments on one of these whisper campaigns you will see that *most people never bother to check.*

They assume good faith from a follower, they're off balance defending themselves, and they jump straight to conciliation.

It's a really, really effective form of social manipulation, and really really commonly misused.

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Last Line Challenge

Thanks for the tags, @petrifiedforests and @indira-korr! I'll drop a couple of lines for two tags:

"Will you at least let me come with you tomorrow?" he asks. "I just... I wanna make sure you'll be okay."

My brain is completely fried, and I have no clue who I've tagged recently, so if you see this, consider yourself no-pressure tagged. <3