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you have to understand that i once worked at a lab with a walk-in freezer set at all times to -30 degrees (-34 C) and one summer we had a horrendous heatwave and i had to bike to work every day and i didn't want to spend the first hour of work drenched in sweat, still trying to catch my breath and cool off.

well one day the first thing i had to do in the morning was grab some samples from the -30, and i walked in and all of the sweat on my body basically flash-freezed and it felt so good. i cooled down in 20 seconds.

so from then on every single day when i got to work i just walked into the freezer and stood there for a minute.

i was usually the first in so nobody noticed for a few weeks until one day i walked in, panting from my bike ride on an unusually hot day, too breathless to talk, and one of my coworkers was there early and he started talking to me but I just wheezed an apology and put my finger up to say "one moment" and I walked into the freezer and then a minute later I came back out totally recovered and I said "sorry! : ) what were you saying?"

and he said

"how long have you been doing that?"

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i’ve been peer reviewed!!

I think a part of ART that is so underrated by the fandom sometimes is how much affection it shows for the people it loves. It's big and intimidating and mean sometimes and has no sense of proportionate retribution, but it's also very open about how much it loves its crew and Murderbot. It's not really just a hair-trigger angry ship, it's deeply protective of the people it houses in its hull.

And I wonder how much of that is informed by, or contributes to, the fact that it's a research transport that also goes directly into corporate territory and it and its crew protect and shuttle slaves and indentured servants and other disenfranchised people out.

And to do something like that, it's no wonder that it's so willing to take down anything that challenges it.

I mean. Imagine if your job was to protect your humans and you lived in a universe where everything is being slowly eaten by massively imperialistic mega-corporations who want you and everything you stand for wiped off the face of existence. You have to learn how to Fight the Hell Back.

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I've been doing a lot of thinking about my family and how I was treated as a child, and honestly, my father has never seemed more amazing in my eyes.

I used to love Luigi(Mario's brother) when I was little. Like, he was my favorite character ever, and I had multiple plushies of him. Didn't give a fuck about Mario, vaguely tolerated Peach, but I loved Luigi.

On my first day of kindergarten, my dad gave me the number for his work phone and said it was Luigi's phone number. "If anything happens at school, call Luigi."And not even twenty minutes into my first day, I was having a panic attack. So I went down to the principal's office and called "Luigi."

Now, at the time, my father was in a meeting with his manager and his supervisor, along with most of his coworkers. And when I called, he picked up before he even left the room.

And he put on a very awful Italian accent and said, "Itsa me, Luigi! Whatsa the matter?"In front of his boss and coworkers. Without telling them what was going on. So they were absolutely bewildered, and he carried on like they didn't even exist. He only explained what was happening after I had calmed down and hung up, to which most of them responded with "Aww, cute."

I continued to call him whenever I got upset at school, and eventually his coworkers got in on it. I distinctly remember one of them impersonating Toad. I don't know why I'm telling you this, I just thought it might make you smile :)

this is so delightful I love your Luigi dad

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My child… my child has made it? My little anxious asexual murderous security unit made it all the way to the top of Tumblr trends? In this economy?? (I bet it hates it here)

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I think a part of ART that is so underrated by the fandom sometimes is how much affection it shows for the people it loves. It's big and intimidating and mean sometimes and has no sense of proportionate retribution, but it's also very open about how much it loves its crew and Murderbot. It's not really just a hair-trigger angry ship, it's deeply protective of the people it houses in its hull.

And I wonder how much of that is informed by, or contributes to, the fact that it's a research transport that also goes directly into corporate territory and it and its crew protect and shuttle slaves and indentured servants and other disenfranchised people out.

And to do something like that, it's no wonder that it's so willing to take down anything that challenges it.

I mean. Imagine if your job was to protect your humans and you lived in a universe where everything is being slowly eaten by massively imperialistic mega-corporations who want you and everything you stand for wiped off the face of existence. You have to learn how to Fight the Hell Back.

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ppl who celebrate fictional character birthdays are annoying pass it on

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“ Space Em’ ” ART says as its hull opens, pressure violently sucking every little grey man out of its quarters.

Currently in the process of turning some of this digital but I had to post it.

Hello again! This is my version of ART or Perihelion (Peri) from the Murderbot Diaries! Its a little avatar of its character so to speak or its “feedsona”

Here, have a song that makes me think of Peri 🤲 -Supersonic Rocket Ship (The Kinks)

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My Perihelion design! For The Murderbot Diaries, I like to imagine it more like a little avatar that follows Murderbot around. Maybe walks back and forth between its ears a little.

“Just imagine it staring longingly at me, it could stare all it wanted, I’m not apologizing” Or something like that…

Heres some more little sketches of Peri and Holism I’ve done! (Also, Murderbot)

This Avatar can have multiple hands, as Peri (ART) is the multitask master.

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Murderbot, every single time it enters a new building:

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okay. excellent. thank you for helping my sieve-brain. so here's my crack theory:

threat assessment, to me, reads as an external assessment. a threat is a threat no matter who is assessing the situation. oh that guy has a projectile weapon? threat! for murderbot, threat assessment works just fine. murderbot has seen plenty of threats, it knows what it's talking about.

but risk assessment seems more holistic. risk takes in the entire situation. yes, that guy has a projectile weapon. but all of my clients have armor! so even if threat assessment is high, risk assessment might be lower.

and here's where the crack theory comes in: murderbot's risk assessment is "optimistic" because it factors in murderbot's competence.

hear me out. so murderbot is, like, comically bad at estimating its own abilities. "i'm just average!" it cries, tailed by a litany of nigh-impossible situations that it's extracted all of its clients from. it has spent basically the entire series collecting admirers who were up absolute shit's creek without a paddle and then murderbot came along in a fucking warboat and bailed them out. murderbot constantly underestimates itself. and that's on trauma baby!

but risk assessment doesn't have that trauma. risk (and threat) assessment are just programs murderbot runs in the background, making projections based on past data. there is no messy neural tissue to get in the way of risk assessment's conclusions. so crack theory time: murderbot is only convinced that risk assessment is wrong and overly optimistic because it has a terrible perception of its own skills. so where murderbot looks at a situation and goes "oh fuck oh shit there's no way we're making it out of this alive," risk assessment, backed up by countless examples of murderbot's competence, is like "nah i think we're good actually." and murderbot goes "well that can't be right, obviously we're screwed," and then risk assessment is actually right and everything is fine because murderbot is good at its job. and murderbot learns nothing from this.

anyway tl;dr: risk assessment is right and murderbot only thinks it's wrong because it's terrible at judging its own skills, so when risk assessment looks "optimistic" really what's happening is risk assessment is factoring in its competence, of which murderbot somehow remains completely unaware.

is it risk assessment or threat assessment that murderbot thinks is always wrong? and murderbot thinks it’s too optimistic, right (whichever one it is)? help me (.file) i forgor :(

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is it risk assessment or threat assessment that murderbot thinks is always wrong? and murderbot thinks it’s too optimistic, right (whichever one it is)? help me (.file) i forgor :(

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It sucks so fucking bad oh my god. After SecUnit tells them it's working with station security to save their lives, then saves their lives alongside station then security, then station security tells them that SecUnit works with them and this guy is STILL like why do you guys own a secunit, it's probably been sent by the people chasing us. The end of fugitive telemetry is so fucked, MB sees this shit and doesn't feel a thing. For Indah this is a shocking display of cruelty that SecUnit could do THIS MUCH and still be despised and then NOT CARE. For MB this is a Tuesday.

And Indah is finally like. Oh. That's why you're Like That. She's so mad at these ungrateful fucking humans and every ungrateful human she knows its probably helped. And it keeps doing it know theyll still shoot it in the back. I think her opinion of MB settles about after this

Shout to the one security agent who's so fucking horrified and mad it threatens to throw his ass back in the box. it saved your fucking life you piece of shit. And MB is so surprised by it! Do that a few more times bud and you're going to find blast doors on your apartment

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POV you’re art and your bestest favoritest secunit seems determined to make a copy of itself to die and you cannot understand why. you love existing! you love your crew! this plan would never occur to you, you, the intelligence to whom everything is supposed to occur all the time! so you go to one of its humans and ask her what the hell is wrong with your favorite construct and she tells you that it was heartbroken and furious when it thought you were dead, which. you knew you’d been mourned, but what she describes…. and then when secunit finds the two of you your projections finish running and you realize that your secunit might be right. it might be necessary, to send this copy of it to die. so you send out the code, to save your crew. and it dies.

and later you find out who killed it.

POV you’re art and your bestest most specialest SecUnit goes “hey can you make a copy of me specifically to die” and you go “that’s an awful idea” and it goes “no fuck you it’s a great idea also you asked something to send to die so you can have me” and you shout “i didn’t mean you!” and it goes “stop yelling at me” which is maybe the first time it’s verbally pushed back on mistreatment in its life so you go entirely quiet because you are so so angry with it but also you can’t yell at it because it asked you not to

and then you send out the copy of it anyway to save your crew, and it saves your crew and another SecUnit and also itself

and then it dies

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POV you’re art and your bestest most specialest SecUnit goes “hey can you make a copy of me specifically to die” and you go “that’s an awful idea” and it goes “no fuck you it’s a great idea also you asked something to send to die so you can have me” and you shout “i didn’t mean you!” and it goes “stop yelling at me” which is maybe the first time it’s verbally pushed back on mistreatment in its life so you go entirely quiet because you are so so angry with it but also you can’t yell at it because it asked you not to

and then you send out the copy of it anyway to save your crew, and it saves your crew and another SecUnit and also itself

and then it dies

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Scar didn't know Doc's skin is a creeper. He just discovered this live on stream, today, in 2025. I'm dying

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[murderbot voice] i'm just average at my job, i'm just a secunit like any other, there's nothing special about me

[art in system collapse voice] so because you can't hack rn and also [redacted] maybe you should only fight one secunit. like obviously normally you could do way more but because of crushing trauma and also no feed let's keep it to just one if possible. thank you bestie <3

I think the best part of Murderbot is its staunch belief that it’s average at its job, and it only does better because it doesn’t have a working governor module

It’s always like, I’m just a SecUnit, the only reason I’m better is because humans somehow have worse judgement than me in my very narrow field of expertise, and I have the ability to process multiple things at once, and I don’t die when I get my shit wrecked. None of these are advantages over other bots, so I’m actually just average as far as skills go.

Meanwhile, Murderbot’s track record is something like ‘regularly takes out other SecUnits, regularly hacks fairly complicated systems, takes out multiple hostiles while saving and protecting clients/hostages, beat two Combat Bots in succession, and went toe to toe with a Combat SecBot while taking out two other SecUnits, rounding it off with inhabiting spaceships and crushing the incredibly difficult and malicious killware infecting them.’

That’s not even counting the guts, skill, and determination it takes to hack your own hardware/code which is fully capable of frying your brain in the first place