#Murderbot

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Murderbot is Agender, Aromantic, and Asexual and uses it/its pronouns!

[rosewind2007]

Bharadwaj:

[gleefully-macabre]

Murderbot and ART need to stop agro-flirting on the general feed during life-and-death situations(please don’t stop; it’s adorable).

[leguinning]

my favorite thing is the fact that it is canon that muderbot likes musical theatre

[sanctuarymoonfan397]

I cant draw bodies or faces or anything but do you get my vision

This is what i imagine when i think of ART wrapping itself around MB's feed

[rrainbowmagnet]

Murderbot: Stats Overview

Mental processing speed: 500%

Emotional processing speed: 5%

[charlie-artlie]

i think… they’d be friends

[foxprints]

Murderbot: looks like it can kill you, can actually kill you, would prefer to just be left alone to watch its shows.

Three: looks like a cinnamon roll, can actually kill you, and will actually kill you without blinking if it thinks you're a threat.

[coloredcompulsion]

[ilovedthestars]

there really are few emotions i find more compelling in a story than "you should be afraid of me. please don't be afraid of me"

[ploppythespaceship]

I've just finished the first Murderbot book and it's very funny coming from Star Trek to this. In Star Trek you have androids and such actively campaigning for themselves to be considered full people with rights that deserve the same considerations as anyone else. Meanwhile in Murderbot all the humans are telling this guy that it's a person with rights and it's their friend and they like it and its response is basically

[rosewind2007]

…the only loner, but he seemed to like being with the others. He had a small, quiet smile, and they all seemed to like him…

IYKYK

[ghostcashewart]

guess who ended up drawing a comic of an entire scene from Artificial Condition

[devongeorgeart]

HEY! Go read Murderbot!

[sanctuarymoonfan397]

I hope we see more Three in the future, i wanna see it go on its own adventures with its own set of humans

[unheavenlycreatures]

one of the reasons i love the murderbot diaries is how it doesnt flinch in trying to grapple with some of the Big Questions, such as "why is it that Humanity™ is the goal to strive towards for artificial intelligence if it wants to be acknowledged as a person?" and "What does it look like when someone is both undeniably a person but also unapologetically nonhuman?" and "what if the magic school bus had a gun"