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Distress level measured in how early an episode of Sanctuary Moon we need to function.

Murderbot is the best example I've ever seen of PTSD where the trauma-haver just. Completely dissociates from its own physical trauma responses. "Oh, for some reason I'm suddenly unable to speak, can't move from one spot, and feel trapped in a specific thought loop or memory. Must be nothing. Anyway, time to fly off on another dangerous mission that takes up all my time, energy, and focus for no reason in particular."

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Have you ever seen an interview/review/article about The Murderbot Diaries that doesn't both use the incorrect pronouns for MB and refer to it as a bot or android? Like, even once?

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Been saying this from the start. They are perfect, and OFMD got cancelled shortly after they announced the erroneous casting. It would be so perfect.

for me, Murderbot should be played by Vico Ortiz. look at them

the gender. the eyebrows. the empty stare. do you see it

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I need a book to fill the void that The Murderbot Diaries left in my soul, does anyone have a recommendation?

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This and the joyous fantasy of a character who in a wildly corporately corrupted universe was accidentally engineered to be *very fucking good* at not taking that universe's shit.

I'm so intensely hyperfixated on The Murderbot Diaries right now. I just need to express it. It's not often that my brain gets stuck on something that I genuinely think is GOOD (as opposed to just the right shape for me to get stuck on, despite me considering it deeply flawed) so I've been recommending it non-stop.

It's just, the humor, the emotionally unreliable narrator, the contemplation of personhood, the unfortunate inability to stop caring about people, the kindness and friendship beginning to heal trauma, the assholeness of certain research transports, the importance of agency, the slow opening up to people who care, the adorableness of the less complex bots, the enviable ability to use drones and security cameras to avoid looking at people directly, the delightful human friends (and augmented human "friend it doesn't like"), so many scenes that were genuinely hilarious, the (sometimes overlapping) scenes that were genuinely upsetting and emotional, the defiant way it sits down and the way no one notices, the relating emotions back to media to process them, the way it's probably the least booksmart 'robot' in the history of scifi and is in fact kind of a dumbass, the enjoying of soft clothes with lots of pockets, the autism, the anticapitalism, the random polyamory, the way all the other secunits are now taller than it, every interaction with murderbot and a child/teen, just ART in general, its amusingly frequent hypocrisy, the way it's like "no one should trust me, I'm dangerous" but then is SO OFFENDED when people don't immediately trust it, how much murderbot and ART care about each other, the potential of Three, the snark, just EVERYTHING , , ,

I just love it so much.

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isometric rooms, 2021 + 2023

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Every time I see some AI-generated landscape with like four horizon lines and the walls become trees become curtains the further in the background you go, I imagine that's what the compulsive construction in Network Effect looked like. Just off, unsettling, with a note of depressing in the realization that it's taking over your culture and the people brainwormed by it either truly can't tell it's terrible, or are dedicated to pretending they are.

Is this... what it's like to be dealing with alien remnant contamination?

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Where do these words come from?

*RPing* Brain: Oh yeah, the word you want there is "moribund". Me: ... do we even know that word? What does it mean. *Some googling later* Me: Huh. Brain: Toldja. Write it down. M-O-R

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Me, but amab: I simply seeketh to understand the issue from an objective perspective.

u ever see someone with extremely fucked up views (or actions) and think wowww if a couple of things in my life went the tiniest bit differently that would have been me

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every single time

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oh boy

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I'm Eternal Sunshining any reference to the impending show out of my head and replacing it with this. Vico Ortiz even looks like that Teagan and Sarah fan animation.

anyway. a couple nonbinary actors of colour off the top of my head who i would've loved to see as murderbot :)

(indya moore / janelle monae / vico ortiz / sara ramirez / aya furukawa / amandla stenberg)

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Murderbot, played by a white dude. Fun.

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ursula k le guin said sci fi/fantasy does not have to be about giant wars or battles of good and evil or galactic disaster; it is best served as a lens through which to examine what is actually intrinsic to the human condition and what, once removed a few layers from our own perceptions & assumptions, begins to fall apart. and she was correct.

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Ich bin kein kartoffel?

Language learning is wild, because you can think wow, I am getting a handle on this language, and then walk into your kindergarten and the teacher is like, "Are you a potato?"

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Tag yourself, I'm 2. Big Salieri energy.

Every friend group needs:

Nominal protagonist who'd rather be literally anywhere else

Perfectionist rival whose libido is so tangled up with their drive to compete that it's unclear whether they want to fuck you or kill you

Ray of pure sunshine with something deeply wrong with them

Emotionally impenetrable cipher guarding an unspeakable secret that turns out to be actually kind of dumb

Hyperviolent meathead who's just happy to be here