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I hate 2nd person fics. I like smut, but a reader-insert turns me sex-repulsed instantly.

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Love is Love!!

HAPPY PRIDE TO ALL NON-PARTNERING, LOVEQUEER, LOVELESS AND HEARTLESS AROS OUT THERE!!!

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Murderbot is such an ace icon

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Happy Pride Month! Today i offer you: aspec knights. Choose your fighter.

I also had idea for anattractional monarch but i never finished it

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I swear to fucking god. I would claw out OneDrive from my computer if I could. I would burn down their servers if I could. I would run down their stocks to the ground if I could. I hope every single one of their workers gets a better offer from a competitor in the next 24 hours. I hope every single one of their light bulbs explodes at the same time. I hope every single carton of milk in their fridge will always be expired.

Stop backing up my fucking files.

Stop asking me to back up my fucking files.

Stop taking my fucking files off my fucking computer.

I don't want a fucking reminder in three fucking days. Let me fucking say no.

Fuckers.

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by Emily von Trapp

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The thing that I think really sets Murderbot apart from a lot of other robot media (particularly mainstream entries like the I, Robot movie) is that bots and constructs aren't a uniquely oppressed class, and humans aren't a uniquely privileged one. A lot of robot media rings a bit hollow because it portrays humans as all living a lavish, comfortable lifestyle, free from the burden of physical labor or control by their corporate overlords, and it's like. I think if the rise of generative AI has proven anything, it's that corporations and billionaires have absolutely no interest in making life easier for anybody, but will gleefully use new technology to make life infinitely worse if it means an extra buck in their pocket.

We are shown over and over again throughout the Murderbot Diaries that humans are mistreated just as badly as (or sometimes, in MB's own opinion, even worse than) bots and constructs. We see humans stripped of their rights, reduced to corporate assets to be bought and sold, sent into suicidal situations, abandoned and discarded as things. We see humans trapped in multigenerational labor contracts -- people born into an indentured servitude that requires them to pay back their food and lodging to the same company that will not let them leave.

None of these are hypothetical scenarios. These are all things that happen to real people in our world today.

And that is a huge part of why it resonates so much. The overarching theme of "capitalism is hell" actually means something because it isn't only applied to the fictional dynamic of bots vs humans. The theme is constantly reiterated through the humans themselves.

And that's also why it's so important that MB demonstrates empathy for and solidarity with humans who are themselves victims of the system. Because ultimately, that's one of the main things the series is about. It's about what it's like to be simultaneously a product, and victim, of a corporate hellscape.

That theme simply can't work if the humans aren't also forced to navigate that issue. If the story can't acknowledge that right now, in our own world, there are humans facing these same problems, and that these human rights matter quite a bit.

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There are some characters where giving them therapy and cleaning them up is the fanfiction equivalent of buying antique furniture and painting it white

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my potential side-eye at coding both the part-machine characters in Murderbot as autistic is overcome by my delight at the acknowledgment of the phenomenon that can only be described as My Autism Is Allergic To Your Autism

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If you're aromantic and worried you're missing out on something amazing, let me just tell you as someone who used to be alloromantic: You're not. Romantic attraction can feel kinda nice, and it can definitely be intense (especially if you're a teenager, I guess, because a lot of things are extra intense then), but it's nothing world-changing.

You're fine, I promise. It's really not that great. I don't even miss it, I wouldn't want my romantic attraction to come back tbh. All those people who act like it's the most amazing thing on earth have just bought into the hype and/or are actively heavily crushing on someone. That stuff really messes with your brain, while you're crushing you think it's the best thing ever, but when the limerence eventually fades you realize it wasn't that big a deal.

Anyway. It's honestly not that special. It's a bit like having a hyperfixation on a person, if that helps? It's not like a super special amazing shrimp emotion that only alloromantics and some romo aros get to experience. It's just a way of being drawn to people (or sometimes objects I guess?) that some people experience and some don't.

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i keep seeing misinformation about this, so: queerplatonic relationships do not have a set definition. the name comes from the idea that it's "queering" the platonic relationship, tailoring it to the individual relationships' own desires. it isn't necessarily romance lite, but it also isn't necessarily whatever definition you want to impose on it. the point of queering the platonic relationship is to break away from strict allonormative views on friendship, romance, and sex, not to make a new categorical box to fit in.

the answer to "what is a qpr?" is "whatever you want it to be." sometimes that is romance lite. sometimes it's a deeply committed friendship. sometimes it's friends who have a sexual relationship. sometimes it's based on an entirely different mode of attraction. sometimes it's fluid and impossible to put into words. it's whatever you want it to be. it's queer.

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and if i jump off a bridge .

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Another design:

Free AAA Battery Stickers:

(with aro ace agender green flash flag)

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Some more combo flags with this design:

Aroace flag:

AAA battery/ aro-ace-agender flag:

Lavender Ace Flag:

|| My version of a 5 stripe Asexual flag, that matches the aro, aroace and other a-spec/ LGBTQIA+ flags (and is way more aesthetically pleasing in my opinion because of the symmetry and the colours). It's a flag for anyone on the asexual spectrum. (Feel free to use this if you like it!)

Possible meanings for the stripes:

black: asexuality

grey: grey ace spectrum

white: sexuality

lavender: queerness/ the queer community

purple: the ace community

lavender already exists in the LGBT+ community as a colour representing queerness, diversity and acceptance.

That makes lavender a really good fit for this new ace flag!

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your cry of "they're totally gay!!!" is valid and i support you. what i will not tolerate is you implying the actions they took could only be motivated by romantic attraction instead of a deep bond of friendship