Nullverse - Tumblr Posts
Mercurialpodfic making Nullverse recordings at the same time I finally get on tumblr is an excellent excuse to appreciate old posts with new eyes.
“Two dumbasses and the voice of reason” is a fun relationship dynamic, but also consider:
Two dumbasses and a keen spectator
Two dumbasses and an inveterate optimist
Two dumbasses and an indulgent caretaker
Two dumbasses and a chaotic bastard
Two dumbasses and someone who believes they’re the voice of reason, but clearly doesn’t know what they’re talking about
Two dumbasses and the voice of experience
Two dumbasses and a shameless enabler
Two dumbasses and an oblivious dweeb
Two dumbasses and the one who lulls you into a false sense of security because you think you’ve found the voice of reason, only for it to become apparent that they’re the worst of the lot
Three dumbasses
First base is violence second base is convoluted codependence third base is applying pressure to the vulnerable parts of their body to keep their entrails from spilling out
This fic is what made a fanfic fan out of me. It’s one of the funniest pieces of masterfully written brilliant what-the-fuckery it has been my entire pleasure to engulf with my attention like ART coming down on another bot that’s just minding its own business.
It is multilayered, emotionally and complexly intelligent, and will drag you down its corridor by a deathgrip on your the nearest appendage at the slightest provocation.
I did not even know I was hungry for what this series fed.
(Feeds. It’s still going, wtf. Get in here.)
HELLO MURDERBOT FANS!!!!
after finishing the books, have you found yourself wishing that you could immerse yourself in three hundred thousand words of fanfic so deliciously written and so masterfully constructed that you will NOT be able to stop thinking about it, ever? then i have GREAT NEWS FOR YOU:
NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad by @blessphemy
this series is a canon-divergence AU from the moment in Exit Strategy when Murderbot narrowly escapes the clutches of the Combat SecUnit it's fighting. In this AU, it is captured by Palisade (the security company running that whole showdown), experimented on, and forced into death matches with that very same CSU. That's the premise of the first installment! I'll tell you for free that they escape.
What follows is a few hundred thousand of the most riveting words I have ever read, an incredibly carefully woven story following murderbot and the machine intelligences and humans that it meets on its journey. note that this series does NOT closely follow canon--all the same characters will come back one way or another (with the addition of the CSU as the most delightful and deranged technically-canon OC you will ever see) (plus you will get LOTS more ART screentime), but it does not retread the path of the canon series. i truly cannot overstate how FRESH, CREATIVE, and UNIQUE this AU is.
To quote the series description on AO3: Consider this series if you like: feral shit, disaster, continuity of identity+memory, societies of people with divergent needs/wants, chaos, robot creation ethics, violence vs security, suffering, healing, bad puns.
there is no murderbot shipping here. there are a few short installments with some robo brain sex involving other characters, but those are also designed to be skippable if that's not your jam
I'm making this post because this series is STILL updating and the latest chapter was possibly the greatest thing I have ever read. It has filled my mind with electricity in the most fireworks way possible. The payoff you will get for reading this series is exquisite, and you will have so much fun along the way. Come join us!! Weekly updates await you if you catch up before the latest installment is complete.
SO WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR?? GO GO GO READ THE FIRST INSTALLMENT
Murderbot fans, if you don’t already know about Flipspring’s Nullverse, I cannot stress enough what a fantastic romp this is.
love when characters have to have a domestication arc before you can even consider giving them a redemption arc
If you like similar energy powering a massive TMBD AU, Nullverse is for you.
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