A Spaceship Landed In The Park. A Door Dilated And An Alien Stepped Out.

A spaceship landed in the park. A door dilated and an alien stepped out.

"Greetings, Earthlings! You may recall we landed here not long ago, and asked to meet your leaders."

The alien paused.

"We met the Earthlings you indicated. Very funny. Now, take us to your real leaders."

Animated scrap metal figures by Guillermo Galetti

What I like about ART and Murderbot is that they both think THEY’RE the reasonable one in the relationship.

ART is always patiently (or “patiently”) helping MB to accept perfectly logical and inevitable conclusions like “we are friends” or “you should let me perform experimental surgery on you” or “you need trauma treatment.” Sure MB resists these ideas at first, but that’s just MB for you - it’s just lucky that it has ART to help it along.

Meanwhile MB is throwing its arm protectively around lesser bots and reassuring them that the “big mean transport” won’t hurt them - and/or stopping them from doing something that would get them deleted by an overbearing and overreactive ART. Sure you can’t take ART anywhere but that’s just ART for you - it’s just lucky it has MB to help it along.

For all that they both have immense processing power, they simultaneously somehow have only one brain cell between them and I love that for them.

Baby Mongo ❤️🦖🐓

Sketch by Erik Wilson from the print copy of the first DCC book!

MANIFEST

MANIFEST

honestly yeah, fiber arts is magic. you cast spell of warm gloves, spell of nice hat, spell of stuffed animal.

material component: yarn

wand: single hooked wand or double pointed wands, depending on caster's preference

mechanical component: specific motions repeated in a particular pattern

time component: a while

look seriously the first step in a knitting recipe is "cast on", and then it's a bunch of letters and numbers incomprehensible to anyone not versed in the arcane art. that's a spellbook. yes it's a book of knitting patterns but also. it's a spell book.