#murderbot diaries quotes

[eirenical]

Reading Murderbot Diaries is just...

Repeatedly overwhelmed with feels as usual and then WHAM.

The mortifying ordeal of being known making me have to sit down and distract myself with media for a while as I process.

Then realizing exactly how meta that is and making this face at myself:

🙄🙄🙄

[douche-canoe-regatta]

OH OKAY

[eddyckeane]

Don't mind me, I'm just getting fucking wrecked by acerbic friends being ride or die for each other, super normal stuff

(Go read System Collapse of the Murderbot Diaries Series)

[andromeda3116]

This is my idea of the opposite of being helpful. I am here against my will and you are going to regret that.

-Murderbot, Network Effect

no comment, i just fuckin' love this line.

[broken-risk-assessment-module]

My gift for the 2024 MBD gift exchange!! This is for @silverstreams , the prompt was "Murderbot and ART get into an argument over something silly/stupid, and the crew is trying their best to not get pulled in but get pulled in anyway," which made me think of one thing: the classic wicked witch of the east audio.

[aliteratepenguin]

"It's very dramatic," Ratthi added. "The crew think you're a special security agent who betrayed the company to save us." It was very dramatic, like something out of a historical adventure serial. Also correct in every aspect except for all the facts, like something out of a historical adventure serial.

Exit Strategy by Martha Wells

[hopedtheredbestars]

[grammarpedant]

fuck "proving you're a Real Boy by learning to love," every fictional robot who's a person needs a highly specific Thing to have strong opinions and/or pick fights about as soon as they're free and/or awake. for Murderbot that's its daytime tv, for Dorfl it's the existence of gods. my man Dorfl had barely had self-determination for a day before he was picking debates with evangelists and telling gods straight to their priests that he doesn't believe in them. dorfl's function and character arc had nothing to do with gods before he self-determined; he just woke up and chose atheism. if your fictional robot isn't at least half this opinionated about shit that is not its business wyd.

[thelaughingspaceman]

"I was as indifferent to human gender as it was possible to be without being unconscious."

- Murderbot; System Collapse by Martha Wells

[idiosyncreant]

[thirtheenprimes]

Started Artificial Condition while I was at work and I marked the pages I had notes on so I could make another reread thread.

"ART, who was apparently very interested in the job scenario,"

Yeah I bet ART is super invested in this job scenario. ART, who's night job is fucking over corporations that profit off screwing over innocent people. Who was 100% already on an information run to do something to fuck over some corporation when a rogue SecUnit asked to come on board. I bet that ART is very invested in helping these young scientists that just lost their very important research to someone who is going to try and kill them so they can abuse the remenent detection tech.

And, I bet, ART is very excited to have a construct that is such a good person and hates corporations too and obviously likes to protect humans to do this little side quest that it would otherwise bot be ale to help with.

[captainoftheussthagomizer]

“Haha. ‘Vandalism expresses our corporate loyalty.’ Right. Well, the joke is on you Barish-Estranza employee because not long after you did that, you got killed and/or mind controlled by alien remnant raiders. I know, it’s a logo, but I hate it when humans and augmented humans ruin things for no reason. Maybe because I was a thing before I was a person, and if I’m not careful I could be a thing again.”

-Murderbot, Network Effect (Book 5 of The Murderbot Diaries) by Martha Wells, narrated by Kevin R. Free

[randombookquotes]

system collapse- martha wells

[elvencantation]

Gurathin: hello

Murderbot, monotone: no

Gurathin: i’m sorry?

Murderbot: no hello. go away. i don’t like you

[transcarcinization]

lockscreen i made for myself

[boooklover]

“I liked the imaginary people on the entertainment feed way more than I liked real ones, but you can’t have one without the other.”

Martha Wells, All Systems Red