Tumgik
#murderbot
mechanicaldivine · 3 days
Text
come into my cargo hold, i totally believe you’re a free robot trying to return home. i could melt your brain btw. you’re lucky to be alive. can i watch your tv
528 notes · View notes
stolenoc · 2 days
Text
Thinking about the way Murderbot refers to itself and SecUnits in general as murderbots (derogatory) and then ComfortUnits as sexbots (derogatory)
Like yes. It definitely had some issues with ComfortUnits as a concept that it needed to work through but it's also funny to think that maybe it'd just be like that for any given "unit," regardless of function.
CulinaryUnit: Oh if you need a weapon there's knives in the kitchen, if you want to stop by.
Murderbot: (Disdainfully) I don't need to take advice from a chefbot.
Murderbot: (Internally) Yes, I did stop by the kitchen, and I did get the fucking knives. Whatever.
168 notes · View notes
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
this system sure is collapsing, am i right?
anyway meet procedure module <3 it has like..... chill older brother energy. its design is not creative lmao
Tumblr media
166 notes · View notes
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Murderhelion Week - Acts of Affection / Vulnerability / Watching Media Together
Murderbot watching World Hoppers with a drifting, badly damaged ART-drone, and ART watching Timestream Defenders Orion while cleaning out Murderbot’s alien infected code. @murderhelionweek
Tumblr media
-System Collapse (Chapter 11)
Tumblr media
-Network Effect (Chapter 20)
122 notes · View notes
squiddlysq · 2 days
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media
Finished System Collapse the other day & Murderbot has never been more relatable
First image based on this post by @murderbot-moodboard
86 notes · View notes
leguinning · 3 days
Text
Fugitive Telemetry or, as I like to call it, Murdermysterybot
100 notes · View notes
homosekularnost · 1 day
Text
the end of network effect / art meeting the inlaws
(+ inspo)
28 notes · View notes
Text
Watching people post about reading tmbd for the first time be like
Tumblr media
44 notes · View notes
rosewind2007 · 8 hours
Text
Bharadwaj:
Tumblr media
23 notes · View notes
jadefyre · 2 days
Text
Failure to Disclose by musicofthespheres
I don’t understand why you’re still upset, ART said. It wrapped itself around me in the feed, but I was too exhausted after everything to push it away. You never asked about my origins or my crew. 
Would you have told me the truth if I had? 
Its subsequent pause was damning. A version of it, it conceded. 
I believe they call that ‘lying by omission.’ 
You lied to me when we first met. I knew you were lying, and I still let you on board. 
So? I didn’t know you or what you were. What does that have to do with anything?
It poked me in the feed, then wrapped itself around me even tighter. I’m just saying. Everything turned out okay back then, and I thought everything turned out okay here, too.
It’s the principle of the thing, I said, even though I knew I’d been losing this conversation for a while now.
After about 30 seconds, it added, I wish you didn’t consider this a betrayal of your trust. 
I frowned. ‘Betrayal’ was kind of a strong word. It hadn’t owed me the truth back then; I guess I was just upset because if I’d known what it really was, what it did on a regular basis, I’d have... what, had more context to being kidnapped? Understood more quickly what was wrong, spent less time so disastrously emotionally compromised? Been more okay with the fact that it had endangered my humans? (Okay, maybe, aside from that last thing, but it was too late to change that.) 
I leaned into it in the feed and sighed. I don’t, I said. I wasn’t sure if that was a lie or not. I didn’t want it to be a lie. 
I wasn’t sure if ART believed me, but for once it didn’t say so. What it did say was, I promise I will always tell you as much of the truth as possible from now on. 
I suspected it thought it had always done that, but felt it important to come out and say it anyway. 
Okay, I said. Good.
---
for @murderhelionweek prompts "Intimacy," "Truths/Lies," and "Trust/Betrayal"
if you enjoyed this ficlet, please consider leaving a comment on AO3 :)
16 notes · View notes
coloredcompulsion · 1 year
Text
Tumblr media
173K notes · View notes
ilovedthestars · 2 months
Text
there really are few emotions i find more compelling in a story than "you should be afraid of me. please don't be afraid of me"
5K notes · View notes
ploppythespaceship · 4 months
Text
I've just finished the first Murderbot book and it's very funny coming from Star Trek to this. In Star Trek you have androids and such actively campaigning for themselves to be considered full people with rights that deserve the same considerations as anyone else. Meanwhile in Murderbot all the humans are telling this guy that it's a person with rights and it's their friend and they like it and its response is basically
Tumblr media
5K notes · View notes
ghostcashewart · 3 months
Text
Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media Tumblr media
guess who ended up drawing a comic of an entire scene from Artificial Condition
3K notes · View notes
devongeorgeart · 3 months
Text
Tumblr media
HEY! Go read Murderbot!
5K notes · View notes
Text
one of the reasons i love the murderbot diaries is how it doesnt flinch in trying to grapple with some of the Big Questions, such as "why is it that Humanity™ is the goal to strive towards for artificial intelligence if it wants to be acknowledged as a person?" and "What does it look like when someone is both undeniably a person but also unapologetically nonhuman?" and "what if the magic school bus had a gun"
11K notes · View notes