This Feels To Me Like The Kind Of Conversation Bots And Constructs Would Have With Each Other About Some

This feels to me like the kind of conversation bots and constructs would have with each other about some apparently stupid thing humans are doing. Why are we creeping up to the scary hole and tilting our faces in toward it like idiots? Our eyes are stuck on our *faces* Murderbot!

I don’t mean to sound exasperated bc this is actually a hilarious image in my head: Three, MB, ART, and Holism in a feed channel, watching some human thing going on in the BE channels they’ve hacked into, being a little judgmental, frankly… I might have to write this bc I don’t think I can draw it, but I’ve been thinking about it for a couple days now.

Couldn't resist a bit of Valentine's fun with the birds at work! This is one of our ambassador red-tailed hawks, Jesse, trying to get at her snack! Jesse is a non-releasable ambassador, not a pet, and she had been at our facility for 25 years this year, so she deserves some love! (She is not very good at enrichment, so sometimes she needs 'help!')

Preservation: we don’t like wolves, either, so you should come live with us!

MB: ::confused “wolf” noises::

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.

(They have always been items.)

I said, "ART asked me to join its crew for a mission." ... Amena paused her feed and frowned. "For how long?" "For the duration of the mission." But I had the feeling that ART meant for this to be the first step in a longer...association. Amena's forehead indicated suspicion. "Just the one mission? Kind of like asking someone to come stay with your family for the break between work seasons, to see if they all like each other before you get serious?" "I don't know what that means," I said. I was noticing ART hadn't jumped in to tell her how wrong she was, and I knew it would have, if she was wrong. So she wasn't wrong. "But yes, maybe."

-From Network Effect

And I had decided, for real this time, which ship I would be on when I left. Do you know where we're going next? I asked ART.

-From System Collapse

So...are Murderbot and ART an item now? Because that kinda makes it sound like Murderbot and ART are an item now.

I love this so much. It gets across so much of the vibe so perfectly.

I’d love to see other covers reimagined by @milkymolle

yes btw i am catching up on murderbot. drew a poster for da first book for fun :^)

Gilbert Williams, 1977

If I, some rando, were to be in charge of the Murderbot show 1. It would be animated. 2. It would be framed from the perspective of Murderbot retelling its story to us. So it would have drones the whole time that most of the footage would be shot through, or stationary surveillance cameras or from its own perspective. Very found footage. During silly moments we'd get future Murderbot's internal monologue VO and during serious moments that would subside to let the audience live in that moment. But most importantly, every time MB had its helmet off in the first book, it would be shot from behind or there would be a convenient leaf or something over their face. It gets to the point that you can tell it's deliberate. That finally changes when it makes the decision at the end of All Systems Red to go off on its own, only then do you see its face as an act of self determination and vulnerability.