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My biggest issue with the show is that they only show the trashy tv shows that MB watches, while in the first book it mentions also listening to music and reading books in passing. I have to know what kinda wack ass music MB listens to, release it's mixtapes NOW

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(started, and) finished Compulsory and Artificial Condition today and I don’t have too many thoughts specifically on Compulsory but my braindump on AC and Murderbot in general so far (spoilers):

I am spiritually kissing Murderbot tenderly on the forehead. It’s still so good

Watching Murderbot learn to have feelings and start to recognize its more human tendencies vs its more robotic tendencies is so fun!!! The whole bit of “I watched myself on the camera and I had thought I had been doing a good job blending in but in hindsight I Was Failing So Hard” was fantastic. The “I didn’t technically not complete my job but I felt like I was letting my clients down by not retrieving their data”?? So good. Love

LOVE seeing how Murderbot and ART think of people differently because of their functions. ART caring about its crew and wanting that belonging for MB was so sweeeeet

Everything about ART is fantastic actually

ART being scared of the shows and being upset when crew members on the shows die???????? Babyyyyyyyyyy my giant asshole machine babyyyyy

MB “unlocking” the ComfortUnit at the end of AC was an interesting choice. I still don’t have a good grasp on how MB views other constructs, like it’s clear that it thinks of bots and humans and constructs all differently but it isn’t clear to me how much it values the lives of other constructs or how much kinship it feels with other constructs due to their mutual Type of Existence

Oh also NEOPRONOUNS STAY WINNING HELL YEAH

POLY PEOPLE STAY WINNING HELL YEAH

THIRD GENDERS STAY WINNING HELL YEAH

Okay back to Types of Existences

Aliens… like, I knew aliens were around because we saw the big hostile fauna in All Systems Red but it didn’t really click because it was just so much human vs human stuff going on, but this time I was really like “oh shit yeah, aliens like… are around. There Is Evidence. Hmmmm”

Also that MB always distinguishes “humans and augmented humans” implying that they’re two separate categories, even though we’ve only seen humans with pretty low levels of augmentation is interesting

I need more on the politics of the world!!! Tell me more!!!!!!!!!!!

Okay back to ART. ART gets bored. ART loves its crew. ART has a weapons array. ART????? ART I want to put you under a microscope. ART I want to read all your systems files. ART who owns you???

MB thinks about PresAux often, even a couple times outside of the context of the news of its “escape” (at least if I remember correctly)—I wonder if we’ll ever see them again (part of me hopes so but part of me likes MB off on its own. Maybe like in a few books I want it to meet up with PresAux again)

Speaking of which I wonder how MB is gonna stay under the radar. MB I’m wishing you safe travels

Anyways I thoroughly enjoyed AC as much as I did ASR, and I have Rogue Protocol in my possession and Exit Strategy is ready to be picked up at the library so I am very excited to continue

I was worried about the length of the series because I get burnout pretty fast but the fact that the books are relatively short and are (at least, so far) pretty self-contained adventures but with overarching plot in the midground (definitely not background) makes them really easy for me to read

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“beauty and the beast” where beauty’s dad comes home with the rose and is like oh shit oh shit this terrible monster says i have to come live with him forever because i picked his favorite flower and beauty just goes fuck that and puts on her pants and marches down to the beast’s castle herself

and she’s expecting this horrifying dark fortress but it’s actually sort of just a normal castle with big rose bushes and furniture that’s sometimes alive

and she thinks, i can work with this

and the beast comes out and he’s like don’t look at me i am a hideous monster and beauty’s like dude you’re like a talking tiger in a cape are you kidding you’re AWESOME can i pet you can i stroke your paws can you give me a ride

and he’s like what and she goes around the castle like okay we’ll put curtains here and expand the kitchen and this could be a really cute breakfast nook

and the beast is confused because isn’t she supposed to be terrified and hate him and he had all these intimidating speeches planned and he’s like uh aren’t you going to try to run away

and beauty’s all are you kidding this is a magic castle i’m going to live here forever

so they just sort of settle in together and one day beauty goes home for the weekend to visit her family and they’re all amazed that she’s alive and her sisters go WHY DIDN’T THE HUGE MONSTER EAT YOU TO DEATH and she’s like nahhh he’s basically just a big cat he’s kind of cute actually sometimes he plays with yarn when he thinks i’m not looking

and she explains how it’s really not that bad, all the dishes wash themselves and i get all these gorgeous dresses for free because the castle doesn’t know what else to do with them and yeah there are flowers everywhere but hey that’s his hobby y’know i’m not gonna discourage that man

and then one day while beauty’s re-alphabetizing her magic library and trying to decide where to put that enchanted mirror the beast comes up and he’s like hey so this is awkward but are you like………………………………..in love with me……?????????

and beauty’s like oh uh wow haha um sorry no you’re…sort of a tiger

and the beast is like thank goodness because if you were i’d have to turn back into a human and i’ve kind of gotten used to being a big lion thing with horns and the ability to speak english for some reason like why would i want to go back to being a spindly little man and then beauty laughs and she’s like okay well can you go catch us a wild boar for dinner, dear

and they end up getting married in the end just because it’s easier to explain that way, you know, a single lady ~~living alone with a man~~ even if he’s not actually a man, and that’s fine with them because beauty was never really into the whole boys and sex thing and the beast (whose name is jeff) is honestly more interested in his flowers

and whenever any of the other ladies in the village give her any shit beauty is just like, oh, you don’t like my crepes? well you know my husband, who is literally a tiger, loves them and then everyone leaves her alone, which is really all she ever wanted

and she goes back to her magic castle and sits down with a book in front of the fire and rests her feet on her cat husband and nobody bothers her ever again

can that happen

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let us take a second to appreciate how well done the edwin-getting-sacrificed-to-a-demon-flashback is. it's insane

First of all: switching the picture to have the borders on the side is an amazing use of medium. it's creative and shows that a) we're in a completely different context than before and b) that context is from a long time ago. the black and white not only helps that but also shows a sort of bleak atmosphere, the dark is very pronounced and this is how edwin seems to see his world at that time.

Second of all, the music? having that unsettling, "knocking" sound is already very cool (traditionally i would interpret that knocking as the devil like in the opera "der freischütz". don't ask about it i'll yap for hours) but something about the instruments makes it sound like the music for a very old movie; it's sort of distorted because of the audio quality of these old recordings. it reminds me of those silent movies that are creepy because everything is - in lack of a better word - wrong. The picture is grainy, the audio is tinny. something about it is unsettling.

In conclusion: it's cold, dark, sort of claustrophobic. And that interestingly makes it very, very, different than Charles' death scene. I love this show.

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Details I adore in dbd (in no particular order)

There may be some vague spoilers, be warned

1. The bracelet that the cat king gives Edwin looks like an ouroboros with a cats head (an ourobrpuss if you will, I’ll see myself out)

2. Maxine has cleaver earrings when niko confronts her about her love/ obsession of Jenny

3. Nikos outfits are all monochrome, the colours may have meanings in some way, I’m too lazy to cross reference, white is used for death in some cultures and she wore white in that final episode

4. The first thing we see in tragic micks shop is the polar bear

5. The animation style being different for each person telling a story

6. Charles and Edwin pick up on each others language, Charles can quote Edwin’s dad and Edwin has said ‘that’s brills’

7. Niko wearing a ring that is then worn by older niko

(Credits to this post for pointing it out)

8. The way the cinematography made the neon crown sign line up with the cat kings head

9. Apparently Edwin stands like a ballerina (post)

I will add to this post as and when but this has been saved in my drafts for months and I’m an impatient soul

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The Brave:

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Mensah’s reaction to Leebeebee’s peepee monologue is gold

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I have liked every murderbot book sequentially better than the one before and network effect shows no sign of breaking the streak (which I expected bc I understand it to be “the fucked up one”) but like she can’t keep going like this indefinitely. she can’t keep getting away with it

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everyone should watch Murderbot just for Ratthi's background expressions

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the weirdly vengeful and petty tones aborted babies take in pro-life propaganda images are so funny like this passive aggressive "was it worth it mommy?" and "it's a shame you can't join me in heaven mommy 😔" like do you ever wonder if you were aborted for a reason you little bitch ass baby

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Before the pub / after the pub

(Sophie Aldred is strong af and amazing, I love her)

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Great idea: A nature documentary about the most scientifically accurate, realistic, and lovingly rendered dinosaurs, but it's narrated by just some guy who knows nothing about dinosaurs and is also really fucking high. Like just going

"Holy shit look at this guy. Fuck look at that fella. It's like a parrot with fingers. It could probably open a coke can. Look at him go."

Dinosaur: KAAA! :V

[moved to tears] "Holy shit you're so right little dude. No idea what you're saying but you're so right."

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This has likely been dissected to death already, but it still tickles me that the first thing SecUnit does with its autonomy is 1) pick a name 2) decide it's private

In a world of constant, inescapable corporate surveillance it gives itself something private

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I get the idea behind it but I'm begging Doctor Who to get some companions who aren't girls in their early twenties who happen to come from the same year the series is aired, please I'll lend you my idea for a tragic gladiator who's saved from slavery and fighting to the death by space adventures only to find there's still horribleness and fighting everywhere/when and who has historical tidbits to drop all the time. Get a zany alien. Hell, get Amelia Earhart or something.

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Apple TV Murderbot + Text posts