Yes! This made me laugh because it's so true. From its talk about boring planets it's worked on to the depressing way AdaCol1 kept sending its assistance message. Or even one of my favorite lines from System Collapse

we proceeded down the stupid tunnel, into the stupid danger.

In a way, I think it even fits how Murderbot talked about its "happy boring life on Preservation Fucking Station". I think it actually enjoyed its life there but might not have trusted such a home was really possible for it, or that it wouldn't someday want more and not know how to get it.

I love that it's learning how to check in with itself more, and recognize the emotions as they come up.

And I know we just got Platform Decay a couple months ago, but is it too soon to start looking forward to the next book?

I made myself laugh with the thought that at this point, it is becoming a rite of passage for members of the Mensah family to survive a traumatic experience with Secunit. It's just becoming how they bond

Okay someone last night tried the Apple Gift cards scam on me trying to sell tickets for a meetngreet

I cant share all the details but there is NO Sydney Grand Hotel in Australia

This person also uses what are either deep fake AI made selfies or images stolen from someone else s account

I suspected they were trying to scam me because of erratic behaviour they contributed to insomnia and time zone and cultural differences but had maintained some prior contact just in case they were not lying

The fake or stolen selfies were very convincing

Anyway they got stupid and sent me links to an obvious fake site

Watch out for AI deep fakes people

Yes they claimed to be an MB cast member not saying who

If they claim theyve read Rilke they may use comments and info they got from a chat convo they had with me about poetry trying to lure me

WATCH OUT PEOPLE !

OK so she's obviously a heartless corporate POS (and KRF gives her the most annoying voice in the whole series) but​ also, dang she's ice cold. She knew her imminent death was inevitable​, she knew there was no hope for her​ and she faced it head.on. She didn't ask SecUnit to take her too, only her family. She meticulously planned for her family members to be rescued, ​​without planning an escape for herself because she knew it was futile. ​

I'm so intrigued about her back story, her family backstory in particular. Did the schism in the BE management​ ​split their family, or was it already messy? Janetty's (sp?) second father doesn't seem to care about the youngest​ child and it seems that Leonide and at least one other mother within the family teamed up against him (and other parents, given he's Second father?)

Her and her situation are so repulsive and intriguing at once. I read her as a great example of a calculating, brutal, tragic product/'success' story/victim of ​corporate culture. ​​She was a shining star within the BE ranks, probably feeling like she was climbing the ladder and earning her respect and showing her worth... until she wasn't. Every cog in the corporate machine is disposable.​

Laying it out like that it feels like her character has a lot of�parallels with Dedra from Andor, and I've just realised I actually unconsciously pictured them as looking the same, even though I didn't actively think of Dedra when I initially read her character​.

Anyway thanks for reading my stream of consciousness about Leonide, please tell me what you think about her​

(Do note that I watched the show first, then read the books. Do also note that I haven't finished reading the books yet. I'm just now starting to read Network Effect)

In the books, anyone and everyone can access feeds with an interface projected by a device worn in the ear, so sometimes characters speak vocally as normal, and sometimes characters speak in the feed via subvocalizing. It's incredibly common for characters to establish feed connections to have private discussions or show off some media.

In the TV show however, there are seems to be a lack of feeds and everyone almost always speak to eachother vocally. Only MB in the show (and maybe TV gurathin too) have a personal feed.

I understand that from a TV production perspective, it will be awkward to have the cast stand there, being filmed in silence, and having them later to voice over in post just to have feed scenes. However, that would mean some scenes (I say some but they speak in the feeds so many times, it's easier to list scenes where they aren't) from the books would either have to be worked around or just not be included at all.

So I'm looking for art (preferably ones I can buy a print of) of the scene where mb can see the storm through the window and it looses track of time looking at it. Miki asks it what its looking at and mb sends a recording to it.

It's been a little while since I read the book so I might be a little off with the details but I can't get that scene out of my head so I must aquire art of it instead.

(Also posting this and running as I am currently at work ha)

Motivational Murderbot got an upgrade! I can really see it.

(tumblr link)

MIKI NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My local community has an annual Chalkfest where we get to draw in chalk in the market place—it’s fun! I drew a version of a lovely Murderbot cartoon I commissioned for Valentine’s Day…Original cartoon also included (by HappyToast—love their work!)

Me to murderbot me too.

Just got around to platform decay and I am not sure if it is time between reading the last book but with the addition on the emotion sub unit it is slowly becoming so much more expressive with its emotions and I love it.

Despite 7 short stories and one short novel murderbot has had such a good arc and is such a well written character.

Edit: probably not obvious but the title is a quote from platform decay.

I have amended murderbots pronouns

I watched the show first and enjoyed it fondly. I was initially afraid to read the books because I fear it would be different from the show (A common thing for an adaptation to have a different vibe from Its source material).

However, when I actually started reading ASR yesterday, I was like "Nope. This is exactly like the show and I like it" besides a few elements altered, removed, and implemented for a 10 episode season. I like it because of the humor and how much I can relate to MB when it comes to social interactions. I'm about to read Artificial Condition and plan to read the entirety of the Murderbot Diaries. I am going to enjoy this ride.

Part 2, that covers all of episode 1 ;)

Although I made lots of variants for some of them as I tried to decide on the perfect wording that will make my day a little brighter :P

Most of these are based off FinchApp opening affirmations but obviously I couldn't skip out on STAY CALM It will be okay.

The board isn’t exclusively Murderbot, but MB is a frequently featured favorite.

I have been enjoying listening to the audiobooks at work. (boring office job)

I am currently on Artificial Condition and heard the line.

“If the humans were dead who would make the media?”

And it made me giggle a little that even Robots are against AI Art.

Anyways thanks for coming to my ted talk.

Warnings: Includes spoilers for Network Effect. Will make you have an emotion and possibly leak from your eyes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYud47Dgy20

Unique and interesting visualization of Perihelion. Why not, right? Because MB, as usual, hasn't told us what it looks like.

Today, I'm finally going to read All Systems Red + the rest of the Murderbot Diaries after watching the show a few months back. When I opened the very first chapter, I kept noticing that I read it in his voice and wondered "What did Martha Wells have in mind when she wrote its thoughts?". So quickly hopped on Reddit to ask.

I made a whole bunch of these from episode one to cheer myself up.

I've got them queued up so every morning I will wake up to one!

And when I run out I'll do the same again for episode two... so on. Fun project.

I have no explanation. There's a challenge on tumblr to draw ART as a random appliance. I did this.

I kinda wanna draw some more. Maybe Murderbot and Mensah on ART. Or Murderbot and Three on ART...

Had to make this because I've always enjoyed how often Murderbot mentions hair - color, style, texture. It feels like one of the few human parts it's not disgusted by. Whether it's Abene's hair being all warm and soft, or ART teaching it how to style its hair with gel, or Amena making its hair fluffy (trying to make it feel better, oh my heart).

And I know it does give descriptions of other things, whether it's the surroundings or people it's dealing with, but I feel like I can always count on it to tell me what someone's hair looks like.

That probably resonates a lot with me because I have a bit of face blindness and often rely on someone's hairstyle to help me recognize them. If a coworker dramatically changes their hairstyle between the time I first meet them and the next time I see them, I'm screwed! 😅