#martha wells

[do-you-know-this-queer-character]

Do you know this queer character?

Murderbot is Agender, Aromantic, and Asexual and uses it/its pronouns!

#The labels are technically not stated but based on what I've read about it its expression lines up best with those #also as someone who's never heard of this before does the bot go around committing murder is that the plot because if so good for it #it was submitted 8 times so people sure like it #murderbot #murderbot diaries #tmbd #martha wells #tumblr polls #fandom polls #poll #agender #aromantic #asexual #aroace #it/its #books #lgbtqia #do you know this queer character

[rosewind2007]

…the only loner, but he seemed to like being with the others. He had a small, quiet smile, and they all seemed to like him…

IYKYK

#murderbot tv show #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #gurathin #martha wells #gurathin my beloved #david dastmalchian #Dastmalchian

[haveyoureadthisscifibook]

vote yes if you have finished the entire book.

vote no if you have not finished the entire book.

(faq · submit a book)

#scifi #books #Network Effect #Martha Wells #The Murderbot Diaries #poll #l: English

[fox-bright]

Here's something I really appreciate about being here, versus being on other social media; who the fuck here doesn't get this already? It's right in the goddamn books.

#murderbot #martha wells #why are people LIKE this #we all know Murderbot's gender is 'ugh'

[moggettt]

"If I wanted to take over the station's systems and kill everybody, I'd have done it by now."

#murderbot #murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #murderbot fanart #martha wells #this series speaks to me in a major way #reading it is oddly cathartic to my anxious angry autistic aroace self #also idk if I need to say it but #this is not a dude #it's also not a human so it's a bit of a moot point #but I just thought I'd throw it out there #my scribbles

[bi4bihankking]

The Locked Tomb Series Summary:

The “Lesbian Necromancers in Space” book series

The Murderbot Diaries Summary:

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern. On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.” Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.

#the locked tomb #tlt #gideon the ninth #locked tomb series #tamsyn muir #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #murderbot #martha wells #lgbt books #lgbt literature #queer books #queer literature #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbtqia #poll #bookblr #booklr #books #literature #queer lit

[torpublishinggroup]

Murderbot is MurderBACK in the next installment of Martha Wells’s NYT bestselling Murderbot Diaries series System Collapse 🤖🚀

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Following the events of Network Effect, our favorite lethally cybernetic television fiend has done the previously unthinkable: agreed to accompany the sentient spaceship Perihelion (dubbed ART by Murderbot, short for Asshole Research Transport) and crew on its next mission. 

Unfortunately, they’re not going to get too far. 

Having failed to harvest dangerous artifacts from their target planet by way of Murderbot misadventure, the Barish-Estranza corporation is much angered and determined to recoup their considerable losses. And when you’re a lethally opportunistic space corp, blood and muscle are valuable currency. 

Murderbot, ART’s crew, and the Preservation humans have planetside work to do as Barish-Estranza seeks to claim the planet’s beleaguered colony as a conscripted workforce. 

But for Murderbot, the challenge is as internal as it is external. Something is deeply, deeply wrong with it. Normal operational parameters are unmet, but with the corp’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams en route, Murderbot needs to resolve its issues, and fast!

#martha wells #system collapse #murderbot #murderbot diaries #murderbot spoilers #network effect spoilers #new books #science fiction #as a heartless killing machine i was a complete failure #booklr #tbr #robots

[artificial-condition]

Me watching tv: it’s what murderbot would have wanted

#my thoughts #murderbot #tmbd #the murderbot diaries #Martha wells #rewatching the queens gambit #good show based on an excellent novel #highly highly recommend the book #one of my favorites #beautifully written

[murderbot-fanimation-project]

THE MURDERBOT DIARIES: A Fan Animation

Subtitles in English, Spanish, French, and German.

In early 2021, as talk of a Murderbot Diaries adaptation was underway, fans of the series started asking each other questions like, "What would we want to see from an adaptation of our favorite book series?" and "Wouldn't it be cool if this or that scene was animated?" and "Hey, don't YOU know some things about animation?" and "What if a bunch of fans got together to make a Murderbot fan animation?"

Two years of teamwork later, the Murderbot Diaries Fanimation Project presents our labor of love: a fully realized animation adapting scenes from the first four novellas into a trailer, dedicated to showcasing everything we love about the story of our favorite rogue SecUnit.

Make sure to leave a like and share the video if you enjoyed our animation! And tell us what you liked about the video on our social media:

Ask the team on Tumblr | Instagram | YouTube

CREDITS

TheSteelChimera @thesteelchimera - Voice of Murderbot, Production Coordination, Script

Alex from Mars @imaginariumgeographica - Voice of ART Kebi/SpiralofDragon @spiralofdragon - Voice of Mensah, Character Design

Verso - Voice of Ratthi, Social Media

Kes @kesbeacon - Voice of Gurathin

brokenRAmodule @broken-risk-assessment-module @contakaidigon - Production Coordination, Backgrounds, Animation, Script, Storyboard, Character Design, Editing, 3D, Sounds & Music

theash0 @theash0 - Production Coordination, Animation, Editing, 3D, Graphics & Effects

Cephei - Backgrounds

ChimaeraKitten @chimaerakitten - Backgrounds, Graphics & Effects

Jude - Backgrounds

Livyatan @groovyleviathan - Backgrounds, Character Design Lue - Backgrounds, Animation

Nirelaz @nirelaz - Backgrounds, Animation, Lighting, Sounds & Music

sometimesihaveideas @sometimesihaveideas - Backgrounds, 3D, Sounds & Music

TechnicalToad - Backgrounds

Vanessa - Backgrounds, 3D

Alex van Gore @alex-van-gore - Animation, Storyboard, Lighting, Sounds & Music

audzilla - Animation, Lighting, Graphics & Effects

Mar @souldagger - Character Design

Sound & Music References

#mbfanimationproject #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #martha wells #murderbot diaries #animatic #animation #all systems red #artificial condition #rogue protocol #exit strategy #Youtube

[ghostcashewart]

another murderbot comic- this time, one of my favorite bits with Three! it's truly out here doing its best.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #tmbd #murderbot art #murderbot fanart #the murderbot diaries art #the murderbot diaries fanart #tmbd art #tmbd fanart #murderbot three #secunit #secunit three #asshole research transport #system collapse #martha wells #murderbot diaries fanart #murderbot diaries art #art #fanart #comics #image description in alt #murderbot overse #murderbot turi

[mostlyghostie]

New commission!

I had started this in good time, then impulsively peeled off my screen protector because it got too dirty, not realising that I’m now so used to drawing with one on that I was incapable of continuing without ordering another, so I just got finished in time to retain my coveted Etsy perfect shipping record. Stressful!

Which of these have you read?

#the goblin emperor #gideon the ninth #martha wells #murderbot #naomi novik #my art #artists on tumblr #books #booklr #illustration #bookstack #paperbacks #fantasy books

[functionalasfuck]

I love how system collapse solidified the idea that while Mensah is Murderbot’s favorite human and ART is its favorite bot, Ratthi is its best friend

#ratthi is the most ride or die for Murderbot without having an extremely intense relationship #they’re just besties #and I love that for them #murderbot #murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #martha wells

[vashti-lives]

The new Martha Wells book-- Witch King-- is fucking delightful if you like slightly complex fantasy that doesn't hold your hand. This is a book that never ever commits the sin of explaining stuff to a character that should already know about it for the sake of the audience. Exposition only happens in ways that are natural and logical, which sometimes means stuff just isn't explained.

It's not as obviously accessible as The Murderbot Dairies is-- it's plot is a little more opaque, there's more moving pieces, it's less directly comedic-- but man I like it and Kai is in someways a similar protagonist to Murderbot. Powerful but vulnerable and often just a little out of his element. Lonely in the face of a lot of people who are afraid of him.

Its very much a found family story. Like, literally. The book goes back and forth between the past and the present. The parts of the narrative that are set in the past are about Kai meeting the people who become his family, and the parts of the narrative set in the present are about him going to find members of that family that have gone missing. Family is a theme that's always there.

In spite of the swap in narratives there was never a moment where I was listening to one half of these stories wishing I could get back to the other one-- they were woven together very well and I found them equally compelling.

Anyway I am very certain there are people who saw there was a new Martha Wells book, then saw it wasn't Murderbot and decided to peace out. Some people probably won't but I think it's worth trying. Tor released enough excerpts that you can get a feel for what it's like and decide if you'll like it or not. The mystery is fascinating and, like Murderbot, it's casually queer in a really good way. Martha Wells clearly loves her a lesbian power couple.

#i listened to the audibook and the narrator is also very good #martha wells #witch king by martha wells #witch king #god i hope this is the first in a trilogy #reviewing partially because i saw someone be shitty this isn't a murderbot book and this offended me #writers can and SHOULD do new things #deal with it

[rosewind2007]

(Last night Gurathin had said this was a weak point, that this was where the plan would fall apart. It was irritating that he was right.)

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #gurathin #secunit #martha wells #gurathin my beloved #all systems red

[bobbiesquares]

i love that after 5 books and explicitly admitting that it has trauma and needs counseling for said trauma, murderbot still goes “huh, i always feel better after talking to dr. bharadwaj, i wonder why” LIKE…..

#local construct so deep in denial about needing therapy that even when it admits it needs therapy #it still refuses to see that it’s been GETTING therapy #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #system collapse #martha wells #text post #original content #100 #200 #300 #500

[fluister]

Just a little Murderbot being not-great with eye contact and preferring to look at people through the cameras.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #dr mensah #ayda mensah #comic #flu art #murderbot fanart #martha wells #aaaaah system collapse is almost out and im so looking forward to it!!