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📸 || Tattiawna's Instagram post.

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Yes! I loved that too! I think it was a really successful scene on a number of levels, one of which is that so far, Murderbot drawing its cues from TV has been working out pretty well for it (I mean, there's a little embarrassment now and then, but mostly it's finding that a silly sci-fi soap opera is actually a pretty good guide to humaning). But that was like a cold splash of ice water on both its and the humans' blurring of the lines between fantasy and reality.

seven episodes into murderbot and i gotta say, i really love the reaction of the crew when murderbot blows leebeebee's head off - like, it's such a wonderfully jarring moment all around. i love that it's such a gruesome shot, in a way that undecuts the ~heroic last minute rescue~ of it all, i love that everyone's reaction is this shocked horror and reconsideration of their fairly naive perspective on murderbot, i love murderbot's baffled hurt about it all - it DID save the day, after all! come on! to it, the sudden gruesome violence to save the crew wasn't meaningfully different than taking its helmet down to calm arada down - it's helping! why is everyone mad at it all of a sudden!

idk, i love that despite the borderline black comedy of the moment, it's still treated seriously - that the death of a person, even a bad person, is still given weight.

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the insane experience of missing a fictional character . like you can always go back and reread the book , replay the game , rewatch the show or movie , you can always go back & see them , but you can never experience them & their story for the first time again . its absurd to miss them because they'll always be there , but you'll miss when there were still new things for them to say .

for a small time they were real & growing and changing and you hung onto every new word, but now all they can do is repeat the same story forever&ever & they're not real anymore because you know everything they're going to do. & you miss them. its fucked man...

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It occurred to me that Sinclair never finds out if they won the war with the Shadows. He never even knew if his friends survived it.

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Most Recent photo of a Green Heron:

First Photo of a Green Heron:

I've been enjoying bird photography for about a year now. I was going back through my photos and really enjoying how much progress I've made, how much I've enjoyed myself, how thankful I am to live in such a green place, and that can afford equipment/travels to go see birds.

I have a good number of birds queue'd up from my first few months birding and sharing more recent photos of the same bird, or my favorite images of the same bird.

Some of the "quality" increases are undoubtably equipment based - its foolish to think otherwise.

However, I think I've really improved in spotting compositions, using light to my advantage, and literally just SPOTTING the birds. But, most of all, patience. Anticipating where the birds are likely to go and preparing for that shot instead of only taking the one that's in front of me.

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if anybody needs me I’ll be checking the perimeter 🥲

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(AppleTV)

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They are just so beautiful in this group shot from 1x10. I wish it wasn't so wide - it's difficult to get everyone in without them being tiny.

AND THEN NOTHING BAD HAPPENED TO THEM AGAIN EVER.

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best ship dynamic is when they go from "you fool" (derogatory) to "you fool" (desperate)

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🎵 there's a place beyond the wormhole a place that only lovers know the brave, the hopeful, the lost, the true... 🎵

Murderbot (& Dr Mensah) in Sanctuary Moon | 1.04

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Murderbot S01E10: The Perimeter

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There was only one member of their team who understood the threat I posed.

Murderbot 1.09 All Systems Red

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MURDERBOT 1.09 "All Systems Red"

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Time for a softer approach. I'm asking you to please get into the hopper.

Murderbot 1.07 Complementary Species

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And while I'm thinking Murderbot-related thoughts, I was thinking about Gurathin being the one to physically attack the guy holding a gun on the Preservation group in Exit Strategy in the bookverse. (And apparently doing it competently, too.) And also an interview with Martha Wells that I don't have a source for at the moment, but basically my takeaway there was that while Gurathin's drug addict background is new for the show, the Corporation Rim spy part of his history is something she already had in mind for him; it's just that Murderbot doesn't know about it because Murderbot doesn't care enough to ask, lol.

Anyway, I know the two of them are off living their own lives in the books and may never meet again, which would be fine; it's always possible that Gurathin may not appear in the books again since he's not that relevant to the current direction of Murderbot's life. But I also think it would be hilarious if in like book 9 or 11 or something, we find out that Gurathin has had this entire freelance espionage career that Murderbot knew nothing about because no one had ever mentioned it in its presence (or if they did, it just completely failed to pick up on it), and this has been quietly going on in the background the whole time.

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I was thinking that one reason why Bharadwaj and Gurathin seem to be especially bonded within the PreservationAux group (TV version) might have to do with Bharadwaj being the Preservation equivalent of a weird loner herself. There's the soap hoarding, but also, when she's sad or hurt she seems to withdraw or try to cover - we see her crying and then immediately trying to fake being all right when Gurathin walks in; she's sitting by herself after Leebeebee's death when Arada notices and comes over to hug her; and there's the entire thing with pretending to be more okay than she is to go back out in the field. And she's definitely giving socially awkward vibes in some of her scenes, especially talking about her mistaken advance on Pin-Lee in the dinner party flashback.

I just feel like she and Gurathin recognize each other as fellow weird loners in the group of socially well adjusted extroverts, even if his damage is miles beyond what she can even comprehend.

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obsessed with how alexander skarsgard kept ruining the take for That Scene because they couldn’t have the robot cry