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Omg omg omg omg omg!!!! A new short story in the MURDERBOT universe!!!!

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HUGE DAY FOR ANNOYING PEOPLE!!!!!!!!

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it/its pronouns are not inherently dehumanizing, unless the user wants them to be. it/its pronouns aren't weird. it/its pronouns aren't too hard to use. people who only use it/its pronouns need to have this be respected no matter what your beliefs are. you don't get to single out people with "weird" pronouns and misgender us and use incorrect pronouns. accept someone who uses it/its as you support someone who uses they/them. there's nothing wrong with it/its pronouns. respect its users.

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The secunit

It destroyed it's governor module

Yes

YES

The secunit is out

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the results are here!

Murderbot Poll

For my own curiosity (and I'm sure a few of you are also wondering), I would like to know:

I know the results I'm expecting, but I'm curious to know if the Murderbot community aligns with my expectations.

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reminder that murderbot has canonically been run over by heavy machinery before

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caught in orbit

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i did a background for once! :'D

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Thinking about Murderbot again (as one does) and like. We're introduced to SecUnits, to bots at all, through Murderbot's lens, so we assume that they're all anti-social, kind of misanthropic, and can't trust each other because of the governor module - because that's what Murderbot believes and has lived experience to show us, the audience, to prove it.

But if you think about it!

We start to meet other bots - ART, Miki, even Three eventually, and they're... not like that? ART is friendly with its crew and not worried about Murderbot at all (probably because it could crush it like a bug, but you know), Miki is openly friendly to everyone, Three mentions having friendly connections with other bots, there's even mention that the station bots share gossip and news with each other and SecUnits... so it's actually just Murderbot, maybe.

But if you think about it, it makes sense.

Most bots are unlikely to be pitted against each other. Sure, SecUnits are forced to fight sometimes, but they can't threaten a client and probably aren't allowed to kill each other because that's expensive. Sure, hostile takeovers can happen, but again, they're expensive and difficult and don't seem to profit anyone, so most wouldn't try it. What happened to Murderbot specifically was a mistake on the attacker's part, after all.

So most bots would have the perspective that yes, sure, they're all slaves in a shitty system where random humans can make them hurt each other, but really, most humans don't bother and most bots don't get enough direct human attention that they really have to worry about it. Sure, they could be played against each other, but it's probably pretty safe for a shipping bot to gossip and make friends with the folks coming through - who's going to order a SecUnit to act against a shipping bot, really? Who's going to pay enough attention to care? They're bots.

But for Murderbot, being ordered against its fellow bots - and its own clients! - isn't just a remote nightmare possibility, it's a REALITY. That HAPPENED to it! So of course it can't trust itself - can't trust another bot - when it knows, it KNOWS, what could happen.

It's just interesting to think of Murderbot, our original perspective character and thus kind of taken as the "normal" for bots, as actually being the most incredibly paranoid bot in the story. That every other bot just thinks is kind of weird XD

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ratthi & murderbot

bonus: ratthi & secunit 3

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mc character calls itself murderbot but rarely if ever murders in cold blood Meanwhile this ship just. Fucking try me i will murder you

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Murderbot Poll

For my own curiosity (and I'm sure a few of you are also wondering), I would like to know:

I know the results I'm expecting, but I'm curious to know if the Murderbot community aligns with my expectations.

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Hello! I've been appreciating your takes on murderbot, and I wondered if you would be as curious as I am about the general fandom's take on murderbot tv vs how many of those folks have actually bothered to read the books. This question has been burning me up so I made a poll. If you'd like, I'd be happy if you voted and maybe reblogged it as well, since you have a lot more MB followers on your blog and it might get a fairer response from the general fandom (I tried to be unbiased but man they don't make it easy!). If you're not inclined to do so then that's totally fine; thanks for all the excellent MB posting! https://www.tumblr.com/fiannaai/785483106934259712/murderbot-poll?source=share

oh id love to!! I think everyone should read the books and I will stand by that forever

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is everyone okay. are you being held at gunpoint. blink twice if you need help

Are You Fucking Serious

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Are You Fucking Serious

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i wasn't happy with the colors i pulled out of my stash the first time and 75% of my brain is still tied up in being Extremely Normal About These Two, so i bought fancy embroidery floss and cross stitched about murderhelion again.

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thinking abt the seen in All Systems Red post-Bharadwaj rescue when Mensah goes to check on Muderbot. even knowing that units are constructs, none of the survey team knew what that actually meant. theyve probably been trying to not think about it this whole time, too. and Murderbot just talked Volescu out of that crater. it asked about his home and his kids. its the first time most of them see it's face and the first time they all hear it's voice (and Mensah had tried not to look at it when she signed the bond agreement). she knows it was heavily damaged and would go to it's cubicle for repairs. idk what she expected the repairs to look like, but she was not expecting it huddled up in a shock blanket. wrapped up like that, it probably looked very much like an augmented human. a tired, hurt human. this is the first time it really sinks in for Mensah that Murderbot is a person