#mb's rambling

[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"

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

Touch grass? No. Lie in grass.

[radioroxx]

uhhhhhh can we think about siffrin and bonnies relationship for a second please. can we think about how bonnie probably latched on to sif pretty hard after they joined the party? how he was the one to find them when they were lost and afraid and alone and how that wouldve impacted their bond? can we think about how much bonnie trusts them in general, even if after the eye incident, and even for small or silly things? like trusting sif to know whats really an adult issue and whats not? and to take their word in whole and to barely question it because siffrin said so and siffrin would know whats best for them? can we think about how bonnie still very specifically remembers the conversation the others had to have with them about how siffrin didnt like to be touched? on the point that it probably felt very important to them for them to remember it like that, but also that the change likely meant something to them as well? knowing that bonnie, as a child, and as the character who was most open to touching sif post ending, is probably very touch-dependent? can we think about how during the events of the game, even as bonnie “hated siffrin”, they still thought to make food special for him, to include him in jokes and teasing (what i would imagine to be a love language of sorts), etc etc? can we think about? can we

[off-traveling-in-the-stars]

what's a bit of stabbing between two guys? not gay if you both live

[hoezier-than-thou]

“I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.” – Chopin

[notdailynoco]

what if noco was yuri….. thoughts.. 👀👀

day 68: yuri

[jupiterlandings]

This throwaway line is so hysterical to me bc like though said time and again to be a canonical media junky I never considered the idea of Murderbot watching meme videos? Watching FUTURE SPACE VERSION OF VINES/TIKTOKS?? I CANNOT get over the idea of a saved folder of Classical Memez TM. Does MB know about the Roommates? The PS5???

[nomeniko]

when i said how many months ago that i dont think shidou being a stand in for kazuis childhood friend/bartender has canon implications at the current stage of the storyline i Lied. kind of. i still believe that ‘kazui treats and cares for shidou the way that he did bartender’ is just speculation, but otherwise i think the stand in thing is true, just in the form of kazui holding shidou in high regard

high regard bc kazui has directly admitted that he looked up to his childhood friend in his interro. that and the copycat theory if it holds true (kazui looking to his friend as a guide for how he shld act as an adult man e.g. getting married bc HE was married (the gold ring @ the wedding), possibly alcohol (bartender and all), the weirdly similar hair and beard and presentation etc etc)

you know who else kazui compares himself to when it comes to being an adult lol

which. shidous current shtick when it comes to his duties is that he acts under the guise of doing what the 'adults' must do and never under his own accord and self interests, which makes sense when its the whole conflict with his character. 'adults' is his perception of the standard that he embodies, 'adults' is the person that he represents as a whole. its been years since the last time weve seen him talk about anything else but his responsibilities

and when it comes to the man whos obsessed with being what an adult must be, who else is there for kazui to look up to but mr adults himself. kazui even treats helping the prison as synonymous to helping shidou. not the prison or even mahiru, when thats who yunos caring for? whats wrong with you

so i do think the shidou childhood friend stand in speculations are accurate enough. kazui looking to be of use to shidou because his image of shidou (the hardworking one) is the kind of person he believes someone like himself should be, probably in the same way he looked up to his old friend

[imunonimus]

dare i say ava and caspar

[coquelicoq]

we get a lot of really great stuff in system collapse about murderbot's relationships with ART and ratthi, which makes sense, because it spends almost the entire book with them. but i also love how even though mensah isn't there for most of the story, other people keep reminding mb of her:

chapter 2, page 25: “From ART’s personnel file, she [Karime] was older than Mensah and she didn’t look like an intrepid space explorer, either, even in the protective environmental suit.”

2, 27: “It took Karime three seconds to process the abrupt statement. (She was almost as good at not looking annoyed as Mensah was.) She kept her expression neutral and patient.”

2, 28: “In the underground colony room, Karime lifted her brows. ‘Another occupied site?’ I thought she was being careful not to show too much reaction. It was the way Mensah would have played it.”

4, 70: “Iris looked at me and I saw her hesitate, because her hesitation looked a lot like Dr. Mensah’s hesitation. And I realized I really didn’t want to go down there.”

5, 104: "Iris has that same thing as Dr. Mensah, the thing where she’s able to look and sound calm under circumstances where shit is possibly about to go down.”

it's spent so much time with her and it knows her so well and respects her so much that she's the model against which it compares all other humans. it thinks about her when they're not together. it's protective of her. it has such total faith in her competence. it (non-romantically) loves her and doesn't want to not see her again. idk man, it just gets to me! and they were teammates (oh my god they were teammates!!)

bonus:

I said, aloud, "You have to be kidding me." (ch. 2, p. 28)

seven pages later, in reaction to the same thing:

Mensah had had time to review the feed video. She muttered, "Oh, you have to be kidding me." Yeah.

twinsies 🥰

[pillowspace]

One of the most frustrating things is having the sincerest desire to participate in a hobby, and having none of the means necessary to do so. I am going to eat drywall

[crustycrackhead]

Once Upon a Witchlight Polycule

Gricko/Morning Frost/Gideon/Torbek/Kremy

But just like, Kremy just legitimately doesn’t know he’s part of it. The stupid miscommunication trope but à la Kremy. Bro is jealous but doesn’t go past that, I haven’t watched past the episode Torbek joined but I’ve been getting the vibes of them all being a polycule but Kremy is just there.

He feels like he isn’t invited and feels too prideful to ask moment LOL!!! Sigh I wish my ironic husband loves me, and also— like that shit bro??? Am I cooking??? No… but damn

[three-bunnies-in-a-trenchcoat]

My predictions for the game 👍

[reineyday]

how cute is it that sanji's promo poster has him wearing a ring with zeff's cook pirates jolly roger logo? :') im so soft

[necroromantics]

🎥 — NinaKate Headcanons

your beauty never ever scared me

- after a messy, rough, break up with jeff, and nina realizing he never truly wanted or cared for her, she was completely broken.

- toby couldn’t help, natalie didn’t know how to handle her. but at her worst, nina found solace in kate.

- she had known her prior, due to their mutual acquaintance with toby, but nina never thought much of her due to kates strong dislike for jeff

- plus, kate was always a loner. she was animalistic, feral, she didn’t care much for others and wasn’t even aware of her ability to form relationships with others

- but nina found kate, and kate was so grounding, so rational and tough. she helped snap nina out of her lingering attachment to jeff. kate taught her how to stand up for herself, how to find strength in herself, whether she knew it or not

- and nina was one of the only people who would treat kate as a human being. it was a weird sort of tenderness and care kate hadn’t experienced in years. something she silently yearned for, but beat down so ruthlessly

- but as nina dragged kate to her apartment, the low purple led lights doing well for the ferals light sensitivity, she felt weirdly at peace. she felt like this girl was treating her as if she wasn’t rabid, as if she was something worth fighting for

- kate hated showers, she hated baths. she hated feeling clean. maybe a deeprooted feeling that with losing her humanity, she lost her right to take care of herself as well. nina wasn’t having it. she would run a warm bath, and hum along to kates favourite alice in chain song as she washed out kates matted hair and it felt nice

- nina takes care of kate, shows her kindness and fun beyond what she had ever experienced. and kate keeps nina safe, grounded in reality. if ninas emotions get the better of her, kate is a perfect pillar for her to lean on

- neither of them understood the deep feelings of peace. ninas previous relationship was a warzone, and kate was currently fighting in one.

- so on those late nights with nina resting her head on kates lap as she plays through silent hill, just as she did all those years ago. it was if maybe, just maybe, there was a world waiting for the two girls beyond the destruction

- they weren’t just good friends, they didn’t just understand and help each other. there was a deep love forming, and it hurt when one of them got too far. nina would ask herself if it was okay to kiss a girl, to love another girl like she did, and kate had absolutely no idea what a good relationship looked like

- kates masculinity eased the other into her acceptance of her feelings. but when nina helped bring out kates femininity, it made her a flustered mess. to be able to hold kates rough, calloused hands in hers, and paint her nails a fitting black. to be so close. nina could barely hold herself back from showering the other in hugs and kisses

- kate would find herself adoring the sound of ninas voice, listening to her senseless rambles. she even found herself liking kesha and other pop bands she never thought much of before. she felt so human, so full of the life she thought she had lost so long ago

- an unexpected pair, but ultimately one that worked out for the best. a perfect harmony, a perfect love.

[jupiterlandings]

One of the most interesting things about The Murderbot Diaries to me is that you have a main character who is effectively a shepherd in a setting where it believes not only are the sheep above it (it may resents this fact but still does believe it, just not in the way it’s supposed to) but that upon learning its true identity that the members of its flock will misidentify the shepherd the same way it does itself; as a wolf.