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Handsome

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Therapist: and what do we say when people ask us about ourselves

Murderbot: I have to check the perimeter

Therapist: no

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I can't believe 2/3 rn voted the ocean. It's trains! Trains people! They have rhythm! The are lengthy and phallic! They go through tunnels!

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Murderbot getting disqualified from the SexyEnby poll because someone bought thousands of bot votes for it is honestly the funniest possible outcome of it being included in the first place.

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The closest experience I've ever had to discovering "the vitamin" was buying a 100% wool outfit and wearing it in the winter.

Not only was I not freezing anymore, I was not sweating and overheating either. The horrible sensory nightmare of winter clothes disappeared.

In particular, I bought a pair of wool pants. They were a thrifted pair of fancy dress pants like you would wear at an important office job, and they were easily the most comfortable pair of winter-appropriate pants i'd ever worn. I wore them Every Single Day.

From that point on I realized a lot of my clothes were making me feel bad, and the common thread was polyester. Especially polyester blends.

It's a trap because the polyester clothes are the ones that always feel sooooo silky soft when they are in the store, whereas cotton, linen and wool can feel comparatively rough and scratchy. But when actually wearing them for hours throughout the day, it's the natural fibers that feel more comfortable.

Maybe the secret to sensory comfort is not about the presence of softness, but the absence of overloading sensations. Or maybe the sensory stress and agony is not triggered by texture of the fabric, but by how it breathes and regulates temperature.

Then there's the problem of clothing life span: polyester blends, no matter how soft they seem at first, become rough and scratchy and covered in hard, itchy pills after wearing them 10 or 20 times, whether or not they have been tumble-dried or even washed at all. (I tested it!) Linen and cotton become softer and more comfy the more you wear them, polyester but ESPECIALLY polyester blends become a constant stressor. Polyester blend t-shirts I used to love for their softness now feel bristly and irritating.

So now I'm trying to change my wardrobe to as many natural fibers as possible, and the more natural fiber clothes i have the more I realize that the plastic fibers stress me out. It's so easy to overheat or freeze in them and they're always degrading and becoming less comfortable and it sucks.

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people who are just finding out about internet tracking and data mining in the year 2025 and that your special robot friend does not respect your privacy lol

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I have now read All Systems Red from The Murderbot Diaries, and I think the main charm of it is I went in fully expecting a "Humans treat robots like appliances then some of them slowly learn not to because of This One Special Example" but instead the crew immediately goes "No, Murderbot is a person. Look at it, it's got anxiety."

Meanwhile, Murderbot itself is like "Why was I cursed with a face. Please treat me like an appliance so I don't have to make eye contact with any of you. I've got anxiety."

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men are always buying huge trucks and huge guns and whatnot because it makes them feel small and cute

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Why does like every language do things with their R sounds that nobody else understands

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[muttering feverishly] I need to chase that man around my gothic manor in a silk nightgown

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babygirl I'm bothered by noises you wouldn't even hear

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Love the universe need of all babies human and animal to just lay on adults

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murderbot is really like "thru the power of all of the tv i have watched and my robotic components which include a lot of weapons, I can handle any situation"

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this post was made unrebloggable, so im stealing it

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aroace murderbot! will have these as stickers in the near future

in my roughs post someone pointed out people might wanna use as icons, so I made some of the other versions nicer too:

just credit me please!

I will probs make some of these as stickers too, since I do manufacture at home. I can do requested combinations I guess lol. we'll see what happens

I might do a nonbinary/agender variant? I'll just have to figure out colours that work

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when you get half eaten by a hostile creature cause you’ve gotta save your stupid clients 🙄