#daily murderbot

[catpeepeepoopoo]

doodling murderbot every day until i get someone to read it - day 1

[followerofmercy]

I'm emotional over the dead SecUnit in Network Effect

So throughout the entire series, Murderbot frequently references its former governor module (which is actually still there, menacingly but inactive) and how it will fry the brain of a disobedient SecUnit. Sometimes that 'disobedience' is being ordered to stand still while your humans abandon you, which sucks on its own, but it double sucks because the governor module is also primed to fry your brain if you get outside of a certain radius of your contract. Murderbot talks about this at least three times per book but it's how it normally talk abouts traumatic things: pretty flippantly, kinda funny, sometimes suggesting that 'fry your brain' isn't literal.

It did explicitly outline this exact scenario at a few points, but it never got too deep into the gorey details.

Then in Network Effect, we get to see the corpse of a SecUnit that got left outside of the allowable radius. It's just so. The buildup is so good. The corpse laying facedown with the fluid leaking from the faceplate. Murderbot actually passed over it once or twice before the humans insisted on looking at it and asking Murderbot how it felt about it.

Come to find out that the 'fry your brain' is extremely literal. Like Murderbot says it would have to scrape the remains of the other SecUnit out of the armor and even then the armor is likely toast, because the governor module does not fuck around.

And something felt different this time. I'll have to pay closer attention when I re-read the series, but I feel like Murderbot doesn't give all that much attention to bodies (besides a snarky 'splattered on the walls,' and this scene was shockingly reverent). Murderbot is not a very visual novel series, but there was detail in the dead SecUnit. I can perfectly picture that body and it's been permanently engraved in my memory. The way it was left alone. The way it collapsed forwards without a fight, its faceplate shattered, its fucking brains making a mess of the floor worse than any of the human corpses did. Every other person on that docking platform died violently, but the SecUnit's death was the most violent of them all, and all it could do was stand there.

[dathen]

“omg it’s so hard to tell which jo(h)n people are talking about” NONSENSE. The real challenge is distinguishing between Arthur Lester, Arthur “Art” Holmwood, and ART (Asshole Research Transport).

[oakys-sideblog]

Intro post:

Heyoo

I'm Oaky, and this blog is new, but I've been on tumbles since 2012.

My main blog @oakywriter is where i post all my writing. Here is where fandom goes. If i follow you it will be from that blog.

Okay other shit about me:

I'm not a minor, and i do not follow users who i know are minors.

I'm transgender and aroace. I say fuck a lot.

I write fanfiction and will eventually link my ao3.

I have a raging hatred for AI and will not hesitate to show it. That being said i sometimes miss ai art so if I share ai art please feel free to let me know.

I post or will eventually post about the following fandoms:

Good omens

Our flag means death

The locked tomb

Discworld (gnu terry pratchett)

Murderbot diaries

Doctor who

Sandman

What we do in the shadows

The magnus archives

Hello from the hallowoods

Heartstopper

Dracula daily and re-dracula

If you post any of the above you can follow or interact with me, I'd love mutuals with these interests.

EDIT: I love making friends so if you want to DM me please do, lets talk about our interests

[dragon-hoard]

secunit saying people may refer to it as MB but never explaining what that stands for

[peppermint-3]

Day 17 of doodling a queer character/duo/couple every day of pride month:

Murderbot [Non binary & Aromantic]

[dandelionsunlight]

Is it my fault that seeing Arthur Holmwood sign a telegram to Quincy P. Morris with his nickname, all caps, makes me think of a certain Asshole Research Transport? 

[rjalker]

Me: You are speaking English right now, there is no excuse for you purposefully misgendering people by refusing to use its it/its pronouns right now in English. And yes, if your native language includes an equivalent for it/its pronouns, you need to use that equivalent when talking about people who use it/its in English.

This random fucking jackass refusing to read any part of the actual post:

[ID: A screenshot of a reply by divorcecourtdad that reads, "@rjalker there are literally hundreds of languages that do not have their own equivalent for the english it/its. demanding people to butcher and mutilate their own languages like this (latinx and filipinx, anyone?) is a form of colonization and an act of violence." End ID.]

This just in, telling people it's not okay for them to PURPOSEFULLY GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO MISGENDER A CHARACTER WHILE SPEAKING ENGLISH means I'm demanding these people butcher their own native languages!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Also really shows how much this jackass gives a shit about nonbinary people if they're spreading the myth that latinx was created by white people. It was literally fucking created by latinx nonbinary people. This is fucking documented. Jesus fucking christ.

@rjalker non-english speakers and ESL speakers do not owe you anything. they do not owe you flawless english. they do not owe you the invention of new words in their native tongue. they do not owe you westernization of their language(s). western english prescriptivism is one of the most violent acts of colonization. you can still feel the effects of it today, with how few indigenous americans can speak their tribal languages fluently.

Literally pretending these people are not literally going out of their way to purposefully misgender people who use it/its pronouns because they are making the purposefuland knowledgeable effort to refuse to use it/its pronouns for people.

Literally no one on that fucking post id demanding people speak perfect fluent English. Literally no one is demanding these people forcibly insert English pronouns into their native language. IT's literally just people telling them it's not okay for them to, and I cannot stress this enough purposefully and knowingly misgender people who use it/its pronouns while speaking English and knowing what they are doing. These people are purposefully misgendering people who use it/its pronouns while they are speaking English and defending it by saying it's okay because their native language works differently, and therefore no one is allowed to be offended when they purposefully misgender people while speaking English.

[napalmstrikebarbie]

has there ever been a hotter line of dialogue than I've armed my pathfinders

[aspiringspaceship]

I would love to post about things other than Dracula daily and the murderbot diaries but in order to do that I would need to consume any other media at all and that’s just not happening

[catpeepeepoopoo]

doodling murderbot everyday until i get someone to read it - day 11

[followerofmercy]

My other favorite thing about Murderbot is Murderbot's internal narrative steadily shifting from 'resolutely denying that it's having an emotion' because, like, it was company property tf was it gonna do about it, to Network Effect's run-on paragraph that had me staring at the wall on my lunch break where it equates being out of control of a situation to being out of control of itself and then that's one step away from being back in control of the company

[dathen]

All the Murderbot fans sharing the same brain cell reading today’s Dracula Daily update: “ART! Haha Lucy is going to marry a spaceship!!”

[security-unit]

Murderbot isn't on a mission or contract so it's just sitting at the preservation station in it's permanent hotel room watching serials and writing fics. It writes 15k word chapters daily, to the complete joy and also bafflement and concern of all of its readers.

One of them comments asking "Do you sleep??"

It replies "No."

This interaction is screenshotted and added to the 4000 post long forum discussion titled simply "how are they still alive"

whenever any of them get close to figuring it out, ratthi chimes in with a red herring while murderbot, secret forum moderator, quietly deletes the post and scrubs the internet of all traces of its existence or deletion.

[meidui]

who showed up at whose house dressed in the sluttiest little homewrecker outfit knowing he had a wife and kid? who saw who dying in a vision and went full mad scientist and created a murderbot that came closer to destroying the world than any villain? who carried whose burner phone around on his person daily for two years even on his morning runs in the park? who was unashamed about checking out whose ass on the day they met and who flirted right back?? who started the narrative by exchanging scathing cut-to-the-bone affronts and ended the narrative by proving each other wrong???? AND WHO ENDED UP WITH THE FAMILY AND STABILITY HE NEVER THOUGHT HE COULD HAVE BECAUSE HE'D RESIGNED HIMSELF TO THE LIFE OF A SOLDIER FOREVER AND WHO HAD THE FAMILY AND STABILITY BUT ULTIMATELY ABANDONED IT TO WIN A WAR??

[bread-tab]

relatable disability/chronic illness moods as portrayed by murderbot:

you are always in one of two states: devastatingly efficient, or incapacitated.

you're just going around thinking you are acting like a normal human and then people randomly get very concerned and ask "are you okay???"

"this may cost me the use of my limbs" is a normal and acceptable calculation in the course of your daily activities