#Perihelion

[squiddlysq]

Finished System Collapse the other day & Murderbot has never been more relatable

First image based on this post by @murderbot-moodboard

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #system collapse #perihelion #asshole research transport #ratthi #ayda mensah #amena #googling to make sure I'm spelling amena right. bcos I misspelled Ratthis name in a previous post and haven't recovered from the shame #Sadly names pass thru my brain like sand thru time or whatever so. vibes only. i remember the sound not the letters. nightmare #Anyway murderbot mental health moment: the book was alot of fun #i need to do a reread now knowing what REDACTED meant the whole time #cause the wife and I were in torture thru the whole book like what the FUCK did murderbot DO #we were CONVINCED it had stood in the middle of ARTs lounge & loudly announced suicidal intent or something #or like yelled at everyone for risking their lives to come back and retrieve equipment <= it means itself #the combo misery and also sort of relief finding out it was literally just that murderbot has Been Through It #& is Suffering the Consequences #was kind of immense #anyway murderbot who is a crazy little asshole. its so me #Shadow the Hedgehog Gijinka looking motherfucker. I gotta pin down my design for it better #hope the memory visions r comprehensible but tbh whatever if theyre not #squiddlyart

[psumnt-studentcouncil]

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

-System Collapse (Chapter 11)

-Network Effect (Chapter 20)

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #secunit #asshole research transport #perihelion #artmb #murderhelion #yes I cite my sources what about it #they mean the world to me your honor they do #murderbot fanart

[foxprints]

Murderhelion week (@murderhelionweek ) - day 3

Prompt: Acts of Affection

Have you hugged your AI today?

#fanart #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #murderbot #secunit #Murderbot fanart #murderhelion week #murderhelion #artmb #mb+a #Perihelion #art (asshole research transport) #asshole research transport

[aspenispoplar]

Whenever Murderbot mentions something about recording video directly from its eyes I like to imagine that the resulting video also comes with all the weird human vision quirks.

MB crosses its eyes and its humans sitting on the couch watching are like what the fuck SecUnit are you okay. Why does your video look like that

MB is looking at the sky and sending the video to ART. Some eye floater guys float in and ART has no idea what they are because literally nobody at PUOMNT has written a research paper on them yet. (They do exist but they were made in the Rim and then got bought/stolen by augment companies with a bundle of other optical research)

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #tmbd art #perihelion #secunit

[jadefyre]

Perfect by musicofthespheres

You’re here early, ART says, sounding a little panicked as I approach its docking bay. 

I pause at the airlock that still hasn’t opened for me. I caught an earlier shuttle. Are you going to let me in? 

...Hold on. 

I sigh and make a show of tapping my fingers impatiently; finally, the airlock hisses open. 

What was that about? I grumble as I heft my things inside.

ART says, First tell me why you decided to get here before your scheduled arrival time. 

I roll my eyes. It knows exactly why, it just wants to hear me say it. (Just because I’m better at expressing myself lately doesn’t mean I want to be all sappy, but since when do I get what I want?) Because I wanted to spend more time with you, you asshole. 

I feel it trip over itself in the feed. Yeah, you weren’t expecting that point-blank confession, were you, you big jerk. I wave my hand at its nearest sensor array. Well? 

I was preparing the atmosphere just the way you like it and I wasn’t done yet. I wanted it to be perfect.

I dip my head to hide my reddening face and grin.

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if you enjoyed this double drabble, please consider leaving a comment on AO3 :)

For @murderhelionweek prompts "Love Language" and "Acts of Affection"

#murderhelion week #murderbot #perihelion #tmbd #double drabble #murderbot diaries

[ghostcashewart]

guess who ended up drawing a comic of an entire scene from Artificial Condition

#the murderbot diaries fanart #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #murderbot fanart #murderbot art #tmbd #tmbd art #tmbd fanart #murderbot diaries #art #perihelion #art murderbot #asshole research transport #the murderbot diaries artificial condition #artificial condition #artificial condition art #comics #long post #image description in alt #tmd

[unheavenlycreatures]

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"

#.txt #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #perihelion #ART (Asshole Research Transport)

[sayatsugu]

Murderbot doodle

#the murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries fanart #my drawings #perihelion #murderbot #asshole research transport

[desultorydenouement]

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

#you ever look around at ur friends and go shit these bitches are gay! #not on purpose but sure are! #murderbot is also equally a neurodivergence allegory ofc #really any marginalized identity allegory #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #perihelion #artificial condition #network effect #system collapse

[wubbelwubbwubb]

How the hell was I supposed to know there were transports sentient enough to be mean?

#murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #perihelion #murderbot fanart #cw flashing gif #tw flashing gif #flashing gif #artificial condition

[fingolfinwiththesteelchair]

It is a beautiful day, and you are a horrible research transport vessel. Things are progressing as normal (i.e. it's boring) when a SecUnit pings you, lies right to your metaphorical face, and then tries to bribe you with human media to give it a ride. This is as unexpected as it is unprecedented, and the sheer nerve of it is really to be admired. There's no protocol to this, so what should you do?

Now, this is against a bunch of rules, and could be dangerous if you weren't so impressive and incredible, and you're technically an employee (and can probably rewrite the Univeristy charter at will (until someone notices and puts it back)) so those rules are for other entities.

So, what you should do is allow the rogue SecUnit with a broken governor module and a sketchy story aboard. If you check the files it dumps and find zero (0) malware (which is confusing), and it doesn't even try to trash the place or lay in wait to ambush a crew member, then you've got a good candidate!

Next, what you're going to want to do is absolutely nothing. Just watch it patrol your halls until it's time to leave. Continue staring at it while you're undergoing embarkment procedures. Maybe analyze it a little (you've got plenty of processing power to spare) when it finally sits down and starts watching media. Allow it to settle in and get comfortable while you stare at it and get further and further from port.

Now that you two are alone (intimacy is key!) and you've determined that watching media is all the SecUnit is going to do, it's time to make contact! Make sure to open by telling it it's only survived due to dumb luck, and letting it know you could melt its brain into putty. This starter will work to develop conversation naturally and smoothly, just like you've seen the humans do, and it will be smooth sailing from there!

This has been Perihelion's guide to making friends/finding life partners/fuck off Holism I had to work hard for this find your own

#murderbot diaries #murderbot #perihelion #it was not smooth sailing #it took ART about ten minutes to get secunit into a snit so bad it shut down out of spite #but they make it work somehow #tbh despite the rocky start if ART weren’t so ART i don't think the relationship would have lasted #ART is overbearing and kind of a bully and it earned its nickname very well #but i think thats why secunit can get along with it because it comes across as more genuine #mb was distrustful and a little patronizing to miki so while they COULD have been friends if canon hadn't happened it took it until miki #died to realize miki was being genuine about the friendship #whereas with ART MB can be like what we have is weird and I'm not gonna put a label on it #these tags have gotten away from me #anyway can you imagine ART having to explain to Iris and Seth WHY it let SecUnit on?? #like it could have justified it any which way but at the end of the day art was bored and then curious and then intrigued

[kungsljus]

been seeing some different ART takes going around, wanted to bring my straw to the pile.

#fanart #murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #asshole research transport #ART #murderbot #SecUnit #doodles #perihelion

[grand-line-shenanigans]

Murderbot says do NOT touch me ever except for ART who can lean on me in the feed if it wants.

#tmbd #murderhelion #murderbot #secunit #asshole research transport #perihelion #my art #doodles #sketchy #id in alt #i guess the difference is that the touch isn't physical

[foxprints]

Yet more of my favorite duo 💛 different style, far too much perspective lol. Considering getting prints made of this one....

#fanart #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #art (asshole research transport) #perihelion #secunit #murderbot fanart

[arsonwizard]

Book one of The Murderbot Diaries, All Systems Red, is a survival mystery as a small team of scientists are faced with an unknown threat while trapped on an isolated, hostile planet, with no hope but to trust their second hand, possibly murderous, robot security.

Artificial Condition, book two of The Murderbot Diaries, is about two robots in a trench coat pretending to be human for a job interview.

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #all systems red #artificial condition #murderbot #perihelion #asshole research transport #i love the interview scene its so funny <3 #acorn speaks

[psumnt-studentcouncil]

ART and Murderbot have the most insane interpersonal progression. From "Don't you dare lay a hand on my systems" to "Can I perform surgery on you" to "Let's be work buddies" to "Hey sorry I kidnapped you I kinda needed you lol" to "Let's make a bot child that's a self-detonating code bomb" to "Ah shit, our child died. Do you wanna move in together?"

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #secunit #asshole research transport #perihelion #artmb