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Wait

What???

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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people are making edits. everyone is getting shipped with everyone. there was cheering at the post credits scene. avengers tower fan fiction is being written. marvel is SO BACK

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booktok did ruin a lot of romance novels bc of the demand for instant gratification but culturally it is kind of a slay that so many young women are just reading smut and masturbating all day #respect

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fanart i did for Sharade_12 on AO3 for their super awesome fic!! I havent done art in a while so it's. Um. Very messy and inconsistent art style wise ... but their works really like. Motivated me to start doing it again after being busy for a while and I rlly wanted to give smth to them 🫶🫶

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wow wow wow its finally finished

I started a doodle midway thru listening to Dimension 20's Neverafter and then just kept going

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No. 25 SILENCE IS GOLDEN: Duct Tape

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Ready to be wrong

Rizz's dad died YEARS ago, even maybe 12 years ago.

Rizz's dad was eaten by kalvaxious.

Rozz's dad was on the oracle's ship. And was eaten.

The oracle was killed within a year of FH:FY.

When the fuck did rizz's dad died and am I wrong about him being on the ship and am I wrong about the ship being sunk just prior to first day of school?

Just seriously, what's the consensus?

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So About That Armor…

I regret to inform myself that I like it.

If you haven't seen it:

I'll give you time to take it in. This is a static, (hopefully) eternal text post, so take your time.

Ok so before I go further, you are allowed to have any and all opinions about the armor. Do not listen to me; I am a stranger on the internet who attaches himself to fictional murder cyborgs and treats them like kitty cats.

So first of all, it's weird. And I like it for that. Even if I found it to be the most infuriating piece of costume design ever, I still wouldn't be able to help but respect it for how strange it is.

When it comes to fanworks, adaptations, new installments in a franchise, or even just different takes on the same trope, I love it when creators take things in an unconventional or even seemingly unrelated direction that upon closer inspection still relates to the base or original concept. To get what I mean, think goth interpretations of Rarity or Cosmopoliturtle's Pokémon redesigns. The TV series armor sits alongside these for me, because this was the thought process of the designer, Tommy Arnold:

First of all, it is so funny that The Company would just brand their armor and by extension their secunits, their combat/security products, like Louis Vuitton bags. Also, the logo of The Company strikes a nice balance between being simple enough to be easily reproducible and recognizable, but complex enough to read as a logo and not just a simple shape or pattern. Plus, The Company logo being mostly just concentric Cs, clever there.

But there's also some worldbuilding and character expression in this design.

The Corporation Rim is just capitalism but more. A company slathering everything and everyone they create and own in mountains of logos, even when it's potentially impractical, showcases just how extensive corporatism is in this setting. Additionally, this design could be something of a status marker. Secunits are high end additions and/or alternatives to other security measures. Much like how logos on purses, tennis shoes, and cars serve to tell observers, "I have the fancy, expensive version of [insert category of thing here] ergo I am a very wealthy/powerful/cool person", a secunit covered in corporate logos communicates the high status and access of the client(s).

Now what was one of the first things we learned about Murderbot in the books? It disabled its governor module, the thing preventing it from defying orders and having any level of freedom, but instead of doing what it could to leave The Company, Murderbot just stayed with it and kept doing its intended function. For over four years. What else do we learn in the first book? That it feels most comfortable in the armor because this prevents humans from seeing its face, from treating it more like a person or human rather than a tool or bot. This makes the armor being composed of the logo of the group that both created and hurt Murderbot very symbolic.

Murderbot has internalized the message that it is a dangerous weapon and not a person deserving of care to the point that, at least at the beginning of the series, it shies away from anything that insists that it deserves the same kindness that humans do. It's only ever been taught what the company built it to do, so it doesn't know what to do next once it's obtained some semblance of freedom for itself by disabling its mental shock collar and so keeps doing what it's always done, even though it very much would rather not be in such a situation. Even by the most recent book, System Collapse, Murderbot is still wrestling with the idea that it matters beyond how it can assist others. Murderbot finding comfort hiding behind the very thing that will not let you forget the company that enslaves it, is just juicy theming.

Also, the helmet looking so weird works well with how many humans don't know what secunits look like, with some not even thinking they have human-like faces. If you had no context for this image, you might very well assume this is a fully robot character or even a statue.

I have my own gripes and worries and hopes concerning the upcoming show, but I just couldn’t get this fun bit of character design analysis out of my head. Shouldn’t have watched so much TB Skyen.

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"do you ever fear that the kindness shown to you by your friends is a reflection of their character? our family did not love us. and perhaps there is some trait of us that made that easy" um yes I do actually bleem shut the fuck up

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A piece I’ve been sitting on for a long time, never felt quite finished but I’m pretty happy with it nonetheless. The scene in sophomore year of Adaine in the bubble was something that really stood out to me visually, so here it is!

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Die Hard (1988) dir. John McTiernan

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In a world like corporation rim and the like (it's a common science fiction trope I've come to find) I think there's a BIG missing piece and its food.

Food, in the future, will be calorie/fat dense but nutritionally lacking. Expensive food is food with real nutritional value. Thin/healthy is expensive.

They maintain workers bodies woth just enough calories/nutrients to maintain their mines and working conditions but not enough to function normally.

I'd love for MB to comment on how the Preservation Team is the first group of humans to HAVE energy past work hours. Maybe the company spikes drinks to keep workers just that much addicted.

Just random thoughts about a Dystopian future.

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POISON IVY concept

Sketch+Cintiq+Photoshop. Blog: http://oliviersilven.blogspot.com/2024/10/poison-ivy.html TUMBLR: http://oliviersilven.tumblr.com/ All Artwork Copyright Olivier SILVEN.

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so uhhh. yeah.

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Scott Reeder, who was prop master on Walker shared bts about the steak eating contest.

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by Guenther Reissner

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Murderbot bookmarks collection so far!