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i love when baby rats look exactly like their parents ......like yes

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do you guys wanna see the most perfectest png of my cat

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(second century warlord making a joke at the expense of those who lived in the past) first day as a first century warlord: i can’t write anything down cause paper hasn’t been invented yet

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I ain’t afraid of no goats.

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Listen, I know it's soft sci-fi and we're not meant to think about it in depth, but also I love to imagine that Murderbot sorta just doesn't know shit about fuck when it comes to its own organic parts, like

MB: I don't take in nutrients like humans do. I don't need food or water.

Incorrect. Resupply lines are mentioned in the first book. At the most basic high-school biology level, if you need oxygen at all its because you're undergoing cellular respiration so you also need glucose. Not to mention potasium, sodium, other electrolytes and WATER!! All that shit is coming from somewhere. Either your one dinky little lung is pulling it out of the air somehow (I'd buy it for water at least) or the resupply lines function as parenteral nutrition.

MB: I don't produce waste.

Incorrect. Aerobic or anerobic, cells produce waste that needs to be filtered out of the blood, not mention cellular breakdown from trauma or natural death. Either there's some sort of internal recycling system going on, or the resupply and repair lines also function as dialysis. My bet is some combination of both.

Show MB: There's no dopamine there.

Maybe romance doesn't trigger dopamine release for you MB, in which case sure, but if you mean constructs don't have dopamine that's INCORRECT AGAIN! We know you have muscles, if you can move those muscles you have dopamine. If you have organic motivation to do ANYTHING you have dopamine. And we know you've got epinephrine, which is made in the same place as dopamine so you def have dopamine.

Show MB: Neural tissue is one of the best data transport material there is.

This one I fully fucking believe, because unlike wires you can send more than just On or Off. Neurotransmitters are so fucking complex if we could use them as WIRING!?!?!? No wonder every ship and system in MB has fucking emotions. No wonder a bot pilot can "Scream and die" when faced with killware. What the fuck is killware btfw??? Do we think it's part computer virus part datapacket that gets translated from binary to mRNA that then hijacks organic cells to fucking kill them?? Do you think there's killware that's turbo brain cancer or digital rabies??

There is so much biopunk potential hidden in the cyberpunk and I'm scrabbling for the crumbs. Martha Wells PLEASE I need ANSWERS!!!

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I saw this post on tiktok and as soon as I opened the comments I started sobbing

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I need this show to get enough seasons to get us to Preservation because like. In the books, Mensah and Murderbot are already very intense about each other by then because they’ve been through a lot together and rescued each other. This Mensah and Murderbot are going to have that AND she’s been hands-deep in its spine, and it’s sang the Sanctuary Moon song to her. They’re going to be EVEN WEIRDER about each other and I need it.

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Who made this edit, it's the most valid one

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Unpopular opinion but I actually like how the Murderbot tv show took each of the character’s primary personality trait in the books and is apparently making that the endpoint for this season’s character arcs. Meaning they’re not there yet, they gotta work for it.

Pin-Lee in the books is known to be confident with a take no shit attitude? -> in the show they have difficulties setting boundaries and speaking up about their wants/needs

Ratthi is effortlessly everybody’s bff? -> Ratthi is kind of trying too hard, he keeps inserting himself into other people’s business out of what seems to be a lack of self confidence he is compensating for

Arada is a peacekeeper? -> Arada sucks ass at reading the room and intuiting what other people want/need

Baradwaj is understanding and non-judgemental? -> She kind of thinks she knows better than other people, either in her field of work or about the CR vs Preservation

Gurathin is quiet but self-assured in his skills? -> he’s a big ball of nerves that doesn’t feel like he fits in and needs to prove himself

Mensah is calm and decisive? -> unsure and anxious

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I've just. I've got feelings about Mensah and Murderbot in ep 6.

She's obviously mad. She's got the disappointed mom voice in Full Effect, the one that makes you wanna go "hey I gotta go be. Anywhere else. Where you're not looking at me." From her perspective, this SecUnit's voiced that it doesn't particularly care that the others are in danger, it's dumped helpful data to make room for trash TV, slacking on its job and now endangering everyone's lives. She's understandably furious.

I don't think the episode of Sanctuary Moon calmed her down. I think the realization that Murderbot was doing its best, for her, surprised her enough to shake her out of it.

I mean, first of all, it starts singing the theme song. We've already established this is weird enough to make a combat SecUnit stop and go "what the fuck," and Mensah definitely has the same reaction. She's upset because to her, this is just SecUnit caring more about its shows than about the team again. But then it's picked a "calming episode." More than that, it's picked one specifically to help her current issue. It's breathing along with the show. She's watching, in real time, how it uses this trash TV show to better understand humans, and is now trying to use it to help her, specifically, with her exact needs, right now.

I think at this moment she realizes SecUnit isn't good at being a person the way she thinks about people, expects people to be, and recalibrates her understanding of it as something that is very much not a person, but trying to interact with her in a way that she understands, when she hasn't been doing so for it as much. I think this confusion and realization stops the initial anger and fear long enough for her to recenter and for them to move forward.

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rip to all the “fuckyeah___” blogs that carried our society at one point </3

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“The Heart’s A Stubborn Muscle”

Summary:

“…but these children—“ She looked through the window again. “They awaken something in me.”

“Something— like what?”

-BIOSHOCK: Rapture by John Shirley

What if Tenenbaum was able to awaken that same something in Fontaine? What if he realized he liked playing the role of the hero? What if orphans could find a family? What if there was such a thing as redemption?

And a few other impossible questions with impossible answers…

(Mostly based on the canon of the RAPTURE prequel book, with a divergence after the Second Age of Rapture)

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