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Been meaning to make this for over a year; felt appropriate that it's my first project of 2025.

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I can't believe this is even a debate but even if someone's disability is genuinely fully caused by their own actions they still deserve accommodation and community

Yes this applies to substance use yes this applies to reckless behaviour yes it applies to purposefully injuring yourself.

If someone disables or injures themselves on purpose to such a large degree then they need aid regardless of how you feel about their actions

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I have some news for members of the united states armed forces who feel like they are pawns in a political game and their assignments being unnecessary.

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Mother and child training longsword in Chile, at the Centro Esgrima Histórica

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I have to wonder how a conversation between an aiel and someone from Tear would go, like

Siuan: It is not often you see aiel travel beyond the waste, and one would be amiss not raise concern at sight of shark in shallow waters

Aviendha: ...sight of a what?

Siuan: that kind of positioning much seems like an octopus grasping its own jar but I suspect the shade of the reeds hides more than one pike in this instance

Aviendha: yeah I, uhm.... sure, you gotta account for the pikes

Siuan: only a fool would see the advance of aiel and think of it only as the strutting of a blowfish. This narrative has holes in its net and mark my words I'll mend them before a single makrill slips through

Aviendha:

Aviendha: ...for sure, yea

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Elayne: how did the meeting with amyrlin seat go?! What did she say??

Aviendha: babe I have no idea

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natasha romanoff + jackets

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—Aeschylus (trans. Bryan Doerries), Prometheus Bound

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executive dysfunction is literally like. ive had a random dollar on my floor for two weeks and i dont know when ill fit it in my schedule to pick it up. people dont realize this

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Apple TV Murderbot + Text posts

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Can't find the post but, someone on here headcanonned that Murderbot is a pirate (the torrenting kind), the way it speaks of Sanctuary Moon. It switches from Episode Number to Season Number fluidly, because it downloads bootleg torrent files which means no standardised Episode Numbering System.

These examples aren't pulled from the books but essentially, when Murderbot says "...from Epsiode 678 of Sanctuary Moon", and in another incident, "...from Season 16 of Sanctuary Moon" (or even the other shows it's watched). That's like sourcing parts of a show from EZTV and the other from YTS. But enough about that.

I posit that Pirate!Murderbot actually IS canon, and can be found in text.

Remember those "advertisements" SecUnit gets perpetually annoyed with? Those 'step on it and it blasts noisy, flashing adverts on your face' kind that it always complains about. Iirc it complained about them on Exit Strategy, during the rescue mission; and while in the PresAux space station, it was glad there weren't many of said adverts.

A rogue bot construct that's essentially a supercomputer with the capacity to hack into complex computer systems in a heartbeat, doing everything in its power to circumvent official lines and Avoid Ads At All Costs, piggybacking on existing communication networks just to get access to security, surveillance, AND restricted, paywalled media...

You cannot tell me it ever pays for a Netflix/Hulu/Prime/etc subscription in its entire existence. Absolutely no way its giving corpos any credits for access to the entertainment feed. That murder machine sails the high seas, 100%. And if it were alive in our time, it's definitely best of friends and cohorts with Fitgirl, QxR, FLUX et al. Heck I'd even argue Murderbot is probably just TGXGoodies irl.

Oh, and without a shadow of a doubt, Murderbot is one of the mods of r/piracy.

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Murderbot 1x06 "Feed Command"

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Murderbot 1.07 Complementary Species

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bodies should have crash logs. why the fuck did that just happen.

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no, but the soft way Mensah looks at Murderbot when she realizes what the show means to it is so important to me

it's such a great moment of acceptance and understanding that it makes my heart ache. she could have dismissed it as stupid or even selfish but then she actually looks at what is happening and because she's such an empathetic person she understands. she understands that Murderbot is trying its best to help in the only way it knows how and in doing so, it's letting itself be vulnerable without even realizing it

like here is this person who's struggling with personhood and all its complexities and pitfalls, who's found profound comfort in something so seemingly trivial. Murderbot is just as stressed as Mensah is and it ends up being more comforted by the show but how fucking cute is it that Mensah finds her own comfort in her fondness for it in that moment

and of course it's refreshing to see a character's special interests or hyperfixations or whatever you want to call them not be looked down upon for once. yes, Mensah was angry at it at first but that's before she realized the full scope of what this means to Murderbot. and the whole sentiment of 'it doesn't matter what I think of it, it matters what it means to you' is on point