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Hello, dear listeners...

So today I have been out with a wonderful group of cosplayers doing a Wolf-359 shoot around London, and what better to post on this day than shots from our Wolf-359 shoot at Megacon!

@ghostcat-cosplays as Dr Miranda Pryce

@confusion-doodle as HERA

@owenisamassivenerd as Daniel Jacobi

@delaneytalks-tostatues as Dr Alana Maxwell

@kiwi_cosplays_ as Doug Eiffel

@daiyaoowadaisntdead as Dr Alexander Hilbert

@kaiidth_cosplay as Renée Minkowski

@magpieclaws.cosplay as Rachel Young

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cannot get over how ART had one of the most iconic character introductions of all time. in the span of 100 pages and a few weeks, it was like hey. if you mess with me i'll squash you like a bug. check out how i'm 10,000 times more powerful than you. wanna watch tv together? ah FUCK my tv blorbo died. what do you mean you won't tell me all the secrets of your dark past. can i do some surgery on you? do you need me to blow anything up? let me hijack your brain for a couple seconds. ok that went great! here's my number in case you ever need it

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me too, buddy. me fucking too

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murderbot is peak queer rep because it’s about living as an inherently transgressive form of being, it’s about the complexity of passing, or the complexity of hiding, or the nuance of never fitting binaries and not wanting to even when fitting those binaries is seen as “better”, and it’s about making people uncomfortable just by existing, it’s about measuring forms of freedom and having to decide which you’ll save and which you’ll sacrifice. but most importantly it’s peak queer rep because murderbot is free for like five minutes and it immediately attracts the nearest supposedly-rare transgressive-illegal-superbot (ART) in a hundred light year radius to be its best friend, and what’s that if not your classic Queer On Queer Magnetism

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I think what I love about the Murderbot Diaries

(aside from, you know Murderbot who I love and cherish)

It that it’s a very grim-dark distopian corporate hellscape setting, told through the perspective of someone who has seen some of the worst that world has to offer, who’s existence is part of the worst that world has to offer, and yet-

And yet it’s so full of hope.

Everywhere you look, there’s underground shipping routes to get refugees out from contract labour, there’s universities forging documents to get abandoned colonies out from corporate ownership, there’s people buying a secunit so the company don’t realise it’s hacked itself and has free will. A Tlacy employee smuggles out copies of the files to give them back to their owners, a human officer on HaveRatton station opens the security barrier to let Ayda Mensah escape. There’s a planet that took the promise of somewhere safe to live, of food and medical care, and kept that promise for generations.

And for all it can’t even see the hope yet, can’t even really believe it might be there yet (because trauma will fuck you up), Secunit keeps being that hope for other people.

Not just the lives it saves, not just all the times it shows up out of nowhere like a social anxious guardian angel with energy weapons in it’s arms and several lifetimes worth of soap operas in it’s storage.

When it talks to Dr Volescu all the way up the side of the crater, to keep him moving. When it sticks with the scientists on RaviHyral. When Tapan sneaks onto it’s sleeping mat, because she’s scared, and it ups it’s body temperature to keep her warm. When it keeps Amena safe from a predatory partner, when it tells her to go rest. When it hacks the Comfort Unit’s governor module. When it-version-2.0 gives Three the codes to hack itself.

Imagine being on RaviHyral. Imagine meeting a security consultant who you shouldn’t be able to afford, who goes above and beyond and doesn’t even check the payment card at the end, who tells you that sometimes people do things to you that you can’t do anything about, that all you can do is learn to live with them, who’s clearly been through some shit but came out of it with so much compassion. Imagine the hope in that.

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not a human, not a machine / print

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some mostly-handmade murderbot merch i wanted to share! :] (designed them myself + embroidered the Peri hoodie by hand)

#BESTIE THAT EMBROIDERY IS INSANELY PERFECT IM #OBSESSED #this is how I want to dress forever and ever

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HEY! Go read Murderbot!

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murderbot casting is getting a little better (gurathin, arada, and mensah in particular look great) however the fact that they hired a nonbinary actor to play a cis woman and cast murderbot as a cis man is kind of. ouch. don't get me wrong i am SO excited for sabrina wu as pin-lee, but this proves they COULD and WOULD hire a genderqueer person for the role but. just didn't. and that's so disapointing.

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Please support Aya and her family by sharing and donating!

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lol “HRT slightly increases the risk of certain cancers” HRT could have caused me to guaranteed drop dead at 30 and it still would have gotten me eight more years than I would otherwise have had

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BOOB FACTS

Lopsided boobs are completely natural! in other words the left boob isn't always the same size as the right boob, this is completely normal and you are beautiful

that's actually the only boob fact I have so far I'm trans sorry I'm new to this

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Bee of the craft what is your wisdom?

world is hard and scary but dog will sleep in my lap like this so world must ultimately be okay, even when scary.

[image ID: my dog, morgan, a golden retriever, fast asleep on my lap. /end ID]

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as soon as i saw gem's thumbnail i fell in love i adore this build so much. here is my attempt at big glowy fish

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I set my Discord banner to random photos of deer being silly on trailcams resulting in multiple people asking about My Collection so here are some of the finest photos from my unreasonably sized gallery of goofy deer trailcam pictures I found

Did you know deer will sometimes just straight-up box/slapfight with each other which often involves standing on two legs and it looks really silly

Here's some kisses

Some weird chaotic ones. I call the first one of these four "girls night"

bonk (this is one of my most favorites)

This one's my halloween/autumn banner

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