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We Need Media, Visual, Audio - We'll Need Music - And Text. We Had To Hit Them With Everything.

The first page of a comic featuring feed visualisations of Murderbot and ART-drone. They are both humanoid, with Murderbot in a grey hoodie and ART-drone with a cylindrical head and light blue markings on its cheeks and chest. ART-drone also has two antennae on the top of its head, and two rounded rectangles floating above each shoulder. In the first panel, Murderbot is surrounded by a spread of feed panels, frantically looking through them. It says, "We have to make them leave. We can't let this happen to them." Behind it, ART-drone crosses its arms, saying "We can't force them." The next two panels show ART-drone with one hand behind its back, holding up feed panel of multiple pages, then closing its hand and dismissing them. Its saying, "It's against the University's charter. It is immoral."

In the top panel, Murderbot looks back at ART-drone, with its hands up and pointing forward. Its expression is angry as it says, "It would be kinder to kill them." ART-drone looks annoyed, responding "It would not." In the bottom panel, ART-drone starts with one arm behind its back again, its other hand bringing up an array of feed panels. It says, "Not unless they were in physical extremity with no hope of medical intervention, and even then, they would have to agree to it." A cut-in panel in the corner snows Murderbot's face, its head tilted slightly, looking extremely annoyed. In this panel, a thick line around Murderbot's neck, like a collar, is visible.

The top panel shows ART-drone with its arms crossed, looking over at Murderbot with a raised eyebrow in a doubtful expression. It says, "Would it have been kinder to kill you," finishing its sentence in the lower panel, "before you disabled your governor module?" In the lower panel, the background is a darker shade of blue, surrounding Murderbot at it stares at ART-drone with an angry, somewhat disbelieving expression. Its hands are up in front of its chest, defensively, as if it's recoiling.

In the top panel, taking up a majority of the page, Murderbot has its hands raised, palm-up, its shoulder hunched, fingers spread. Its expression is angry, but also desperate. Small beads of tears can be seen in the corners of its eyes. It says, in all caps, "YES." In the lower panel, Murderbot and ART-drone stare at each other. Murderbot's body language has slackened, its expression flat and wary. ART-drone still has its arms crossed, but its shoulders have dropped, and its eye is wide with surprise. Its antennae are pointing straight backwards. Behind this panel, the background turns to black.

This panel takes up the whole page. The background is black, and Murderbot and ART-drone are rendered only in grey and blue lineart. Murderbot's arms are crosssed, its shoulders hunched. Its fingers are digging into the fabric of its hoodie, and its looking down and away from ART-drone. Its expression is angry and hurt. The line around its neck now has long, thin spikes that point outwards in all directions. Behind it, ART-drone stands with its shoulders slumped, holding its upper arm. Its looking at Murderbot with a resigned expression. Instead of the rounded rectangles, it has an array of differently sized eyes. It says, "You know I am not kind."

The background is back to pale blue. In one lower corner of the page, Murderbot slumps to the floor, one hand over its face barely concealing a frustrated expression, the other pointing out towards ART-drone with the middle finger raised. It is alone on the page. It says "fuck off," and the text is slightly tilted.

In the top panel, ART-drone is looking down towards Murderbot, shoulders slumped, a slightly worried expression. The middle panel shows Murderbot curled up with its head on its knees, and ART-drone's legs walking towards it. The last panel shows ART-drone sitting down next to Murderbot, not touching it. It pulls up an array of feed panels with one hand, looking bored.

A thin panel at the very top shows a sliver of Murderbot curled up in a ball with ART-drone sitting next to it. Then, under it, a series of three panels shows Murderbot with its head buried in its arm, then raising its head slightly, frowning, and then raising it more with a look of soft realisation and concentration. Behind these three panels, the background changes into a darker blue, the transition at an angle, making a slowly rising line behind them. The bottom half of the page shows Murderbot, half-uncurled, one hand on the floor behind it and one hand raised slightly in front of it. Its expression is of intense concentration. Behind it, an array of textboxes spread out across the frame, lines connecting them like a conspiracy board. They read 1. "murderbot_2.0", 2. "helpme.file", 3. "secunit_3", 4. "log extract: SU3: i will still help you. ART: why? SU3: stories in the helpme.file." 5. in italics: "what do you want?", 6. "curated logs", where the "curated" is underlined. 7. "sanctuary moon", 8. "Bharadwaj's documentary" 9. "tell your story," 10. "tell their story."

Feed panels show a video labelled "helpme.file", another video labelled "SM-S4-E23", and a chat log. The panel next to it shows Murderbot pulling those panels up in front of it. Below this, Murderbot sits with a concentrated expression, a large array of feed panels spread out in front of it. ART-drone is sitting beside it, and glances over. The panel at the bottom shows ART-drone looking intently at Murderbot. Behind it, feed panels show a query ping from AdaCol2, a drone camera showing Tarik waving his arms and saying "Secunit?, and a chat log from Ratthi saying "SecUnit? Is everything alright?". ART-drone holds up a hand, saying "Wait."

Murderbot and ART-drone are sitting on the floor facing each other. Murderbot has an intense expression, and a fist clenched in determination. ART-drone is staring at it with an expression of open curiosity and mild surprise, looking slightly off-guard. Murderbot is saying, "I had an idea."

We need media, visual, audio - we'll need music - and text. We had to hit them with everything.

still not over That conversation from System Collapse. what a two-hit combo. what a scene. chefs kiss 🤌

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6 months ago

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

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the murderbot diaries race in the MBD universe not to get off track but this is also a side effect of the way we talk about race (like saying white/non-white) it means that anything not positively identifiable as white has to be categorized as white at least in the American context this is an artifact of race policing and preventing social mobility/representation legally and culturally being any part anything that isn’t European means you couldn’t be called white it’s called the “one drop rule” and it’s easy to look up if your interested in why the US is like it is lol race and race politics are obviously issues elsewhere and I’ve focused narrowly here on blackness and whiteness but there’s SO much more

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all-all0s-eyes

7 months ago

archiveofourown.org

Academic Integrity - Chapter 3 - OnlyAll0Saw - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Since MB is busy sulkily watching its show, ART pursues its function of caring for its crew’s emotional needs with its usual zeal.

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all-all0s-eyes

6 months ago

Pspsps got a new WIP for yall

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all-all0s-eyes

8 months ago

an 8-panel comic, using a slightly modified quote from Maya Angelou. 1: Murderbot is curled up in a comfy chair, frowning at a number of feed screens; ART, in the shape of a horse-like creature, peers over its shoulder, its own feed screen forgotten. at the top in a grey box is the text "I've had the same editor since XX67." at the bottom is, "Many times it has said to me over the years or asked me," then in a Perihelion-blue box, "Why would you use a semicolon instead of a colon?"

2: the same image, but Murderbot is leaned away from ART, looking at it with The most displeased expression and gripping the armrests with force, as ART blithely shows it its own feed screen and points out things on Murderbot's with blue pointing emojis. at the bottom in a grey box, the text, "And many times over the years I have said to it things like:"

3: Murderbot is out of its seat, pointing angrily at one of ART's cameras, yelling in red speech bubbles, "I will never speak to you again." "Forever." "Goodbye."

4: Murderbot exits an airlock, very grumpy, a backpack over one shoulder and a blue rolling suitcase pulled by the other hand. four disembodied ART horse heads float around it with the saddest most pathetic expressions. Murderbot is unmoved. red speech bubbles: "That is it." "Thank you very much."

from the Maya Angelou quote which immediately make me think of MBD the first time i saw it👍

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all-all0s-eyes

7 months ago

Meantime, ART trying to get it therapy isn’t loving concern, it’s “bullying,” and “it wouldn’t leave me alone.”

murderbot in network effect is soo funny when it's like "and then I blackmailed mensah!! 👿👿👿" when what it actually did was tell her that it wouldn't leave her to go on a weeks long work trip without the ability to communicate with her unless she promised to get support for her trauma from a different source instead of hiding in her work while it's gone. like. that's not an unreasonable request to make of a loved one.

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