Why Is This Messing Me Up?!?

Why is this messing me up?!?

system collapse

activities secunit is demonstrating for three: how to sit on a chair like a human. how to put your boots on the furniture like a jerk.

other things which are notable:

- three understands what pockets are for. it understands, conceptually, that hands can go in them (it's seen humans do that before). it hasn't yet quite grasped that *it* can put its hands in its pockets. it'll get there eventually.

- murderbot knows three is watching it instead of the show. it's trying really hard to ignore that.

- if you look very closely you can see that three has acquired an earring! Amena's doing, surely.

If it matters/is of interest (this is going to start at the level of text and then get increasingly meta, but is also absolutely me trying to talk about a special interest without info-dumping. Anyway, you’ve been warned, lol):

Canon vaguely supports MB and nearly all of the characters as non-white (Mb says it is unremarkable in appearance; it remarks on especially pale or dark humans; it rarely has to do so. This all points to a default expectation of brown humans in general, and MB is generic).

Last I heard, WoG is that MW headcanons a black female actress (Viola Davis, I think?) as MB.

And it’s a pretty well established theme of far-future sci-fi that humans will mix so much either as they leave earth that racial categories cease to be legible enough to call anyone white (or anything else specific).

Even in the raider episode in NE the term for populations isolated enough to appear phenotypically distinct is “divergent,” suggesting the difference is marked enough to look like the beginning of a new kind of human altogether. (Timeline is weird on that possibly - but we don’t know how long ago Earth was so who knows.)

But it’s also just nice for there to be more main characters that buck the “traditional” trend of straight cis white male (coded if not explicitly identified) leads in American sci-fi.

Honestly, I love that people almost exclusively draw MB as non-white

I love this, and bc I have brain worms I have to add that this has a less generous reading, too: the humans named the research vessel (much more powerful than them, difficult to control) that they specifically raised with humans to prevent [bot supremacy, the matrix, etc] after the key aspect of its experimental significance: an orbiting body to its primary - a ship whose primary is very intentionally cultivated to be its humans, even though arguably the relationship is actually most analogous in the reverse. It is its crew’s primary, and aboard they are closest to it.

Also again, brainworms: primaries and orbiting bodies don’t touch. They are incompatible with contact. ART is a super sentient bot, it has a ship body but its physical interactions are in a sense permanently indirect. Its experiences, feelings, and consciousness is permanently foreign to its humans, and vice versa.

It and humans are within each others’ metaphorical (since I’m using the astronomy term) spheres of influence but there is always going to remain an existential space between them.

do you guys ever think about how the definition if perihelion is "The point in a solar orbit where the orbiting body is closest to the sun."

like sure they named the research vessel after scientific initiative but they also named the sentient mom-bot after a cosmological metaphor for intimacy

This is fucking AMAZING MB fan art.

I love the galaxy interpretation of ART, especially. Wow. Gorgeous.

Murderbot Diaries Art Dump

P1: Murderbot sitting in front of a porthole, the nebula shining outside has a pair of star in the same star system. ART is showing murderbot its analysis of this system. It is implied that their relationship is akin to that of the star system's. also just a side note, i imagine that if ART actually has an eye, it will look something like the nebula shown.

Partially inspired by Volatile Stellar Relationship (by discodaemons), i actually started thinking about drawing mdb in front of a window and somehow encountered this fic and i LOVE IT!!!! This can be seen as either friendship or not.

P2: My first impression of Murderbot in its repair cubicle.

P3: Miki the little angel bot sent by cyberheaven 👼

P4: Humanoid!ART launching missiles. the design of humanoid is from fishoyor on lofter!

I fucking can't this is a whole ass sitcom

Murderbot: I need to talk to ART in private

Human who knows wtf is up: About your relationship?

ART, thirsty for Murderbot: 👀

Murderbot, oblivious: Haha, very funny *slams door*

Murderbot to ART: we need to make a baby together