#artificial condition art

[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

[mechanicaldivine]

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

#ace.txt #murderbot diaries #murderbot #art (asshole research transport) #artificial condition

[grand-line-shenanigans]

You made a mistake, Murderbot, a really bad mistake. How the hell was I supposed to know there were transports sentient enough to be mean?

#the murderbot diaries #artificial condition #murderbot #secunit #asshole research transport #perihelion #my art #doodles #sketchy #id in alt #and then they watched media for hours and hours and hours on end. #comic!! #i love art and murderbot's first meeting. theyre so fucking ridiculous #art and its inability to tailor its reactions to fit a situation #day one of meeting new interesting friend: 'I Will Erase Your Brain'

[scificrows]

i made a few silly little ART phone backgrounds in the spirit of the inofficial fandom shenanigan renaissance! thank you so much for inspiring me to do this @the-yearning-astronaut!

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #asshole research transport #perihelion #cringe is dead and ART killed it #did i spent 1 hour deciding which flowers to use for ART's flower crown? yes #are they now so small that no one will be able to tell anyway? also yes #the ART art is from the latvian cover of artificial condition by andis reinbergs (i edited it a little because murderbot was in the way lol #this was so much fun!!! #there will probably be more #but first SLEEP #[if you need the alt text for the image description and it would be better if i repeat the description of the image that i gave -> #for the first image in the alt text of the other images too please let me know and i will change it and know for the future. #i figured it would be less redundant this way but i don't know what is preferable. thanks! :)] #𓄿

[sunlitsorrows]

why do you hesitate to allow me to perform major surgery on you while you are deactivated we have watched multiple soap operas together we are friends now

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #artificial condition #art #friendship #these two

[the-yearning-astronaut]

ART just came alive as a character, and it’s so cool when that happens, when you kind of have a character sort of buried in the story. When they actually come on stage it’s like, oh, this is going to be an important character. And the more I worked on [Artificial Condition], the relationship between them became central to that story, not necessarily Murderbot finding out about its past on this moon, but that relationship. So after [Artificial Condition] was done and I was starting to work on [Rogue Protocol], I was really thinking about Murderbot’s relationships with the other characters and thinking... it’s like I really feel like ART is probably the love of Murderbot’s life, even though that’s not how they see it. That this is central, it’s going to be a really important relationship, and in some ways it makes a lot more sense for Murderbot’s most important relationship – I mean, its most important relationship with a human is Dr. Mensah – that it would have a relationship with another being who is more like it than a human is – so yeah, people who see it that way are pretty correct. That was what I was thinking about when I was writing it.

~Martha Wells, in an interview with SmartBitchesTrashyBooks, regarding the writing of Artificial Condition and how Network Effect is an aroace agender romantic suspense novel.

[quote lightly edited by me for clarity]

#the murderbot diaries #Murderbot #a.r.t. #asshole research transport #art (asshole research transport) #perihelion #murderbot diaries #martha wells #mw interviews #interview #network effect #artificial condition #this interview lives in my head rent free #especially since it was talked about again in another q&a right after system collapse came out #☉ #SmartBitchesTrashyBooks #mb+a

[murderbot-fanimation-project]

SPOTLIGHT ON:

Murderbot Fanimation Project Backgrounds!

(Part 1 of 3) (Jump to parts [2] [3])

They may be the literal background of the finished product, but the backgrounds done for the Murderbot Diaries Fanimation Project deserve their time in the spotlight!

Part of what makes the Fanimation stand out as much as it does is the love, care, and attention to detail that the artists poured into the backgrounds. The team stuck closely to the source texts when designing the spaces, producing some beautiful pieces of art that deserve appreciation on their own.

You can watch the Murderbot Diaries Fanimation Project here.

(IDs are in alt text)

Scanners - Initial sketch and layout by Jude, finalised and coloured by @chimaerakitten

"I had to hack an ID-screening system and some weapon-scanning drones on the level above..."

ASR Pit - by Lue

"This assessment zone was a barren stretch of coastal island, with low, flat hills rising and falling and thick greenish-black grass up to my ankles [...] The coast was dotted with big bare craters, one of which Bharadwaj and Volescu were taking samples in. The planet had a ring, which from our current position dominated the horizon when you looked out to sea."

AC Food Court - by Vanessa

"The location for the meeting was a food service place in the main mall area. [...] There were multiple open levels inside, with tables and chairs, and it was 40 percent full of humans and augmented humans."

Deltfall - by @chimaerakitten with bodies by @theash0

"There were eleven messily dead humans in the hub, sprawled on the floor, in chairs, the monitoring stations and projection surfaces behind them showing impact damage from projectile and energy weapon fire."

ASR Hopper - by @broken-risk-assessment-module

"It was a series of rocky hills in a thick tropical jungle, heavily occupied by a large range of fauna."

PresAux Hub - by Cephei

"There were mugs and empty meal packets on some of the consoles. I’m not cleaning that up unless I’m given a direct order."

AC Hotel - Layout and lineart by Vanessa, colour by Cephei

"The lobby was built on various platforms overlooking a holo sculpture of an open chasm filled with a giant crystalline structure growing out of the walls. [...] My clients were on the same platform as the check-in area, near the railing around the sculpture’s artificial chasm, sitting on a round backless couch thing that looked more like a decorative object than furniture."

Medbay - by @sometimesihaveideas

"I opened my security feed and found a camera for Medical. I was lying on the procedure table, my armor gone, just wearing what was left of my suit skin, the humans gathered around."

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #mbfanimationproject #behind the scenes #murderbot fanart #all systems red #artificial condition #background art

[leguinning]

the thing about ART is that when we meet it in artificial condition, it's not even an asshole. it's blunt and tactless but once it realizes murderbot is not a threat, it's genuinely trying to help. murderbot is just not in an emotional place where it can take ART's bluntness and tactlessness in stride

#i didn't pick up on this the first time i read it #but i got it on this reread #murderbot #murderbot diaries #artificial condition #ART #asshole research transport #martha wells

[animusbell]

It said, Do not attempt to hack my systems, and for 0.00001 of a second it dropped its wall.

#the murderbot diaries #asshole research transport #murderbot #the perihelion #artificial condition #mine #my art #tmbd on the brain today huh!

[thirtheenprimes]

Started Artificial Condition while I was at work and I marked the pages I had notes on so I could make another reread thread.

"ART, who was apparently very interested in the job scenario,"

Yeah I bet ART is super invested in this job scenario. ART, who's night job is fucking over corporations that profit off screwing over innocent people. Who was 100% already on an information run to do something to fuck over some corporation when a rogue SecUnit asked to come on board. I bet that ART is very invested in helping these young scientists that just lost their very important research to someone who is going to try and kill them so they can abuse the remenent detection tech.

And, I bet, ART is very excited to have a construct that is such a good person and hates corporations too and obviously likes to protect humans to do this little side quest that it would otherwise bot be ale to help with.

#tmbd #mbd #murderbot diaries #Artificial Condition #Murderbot #SecUnit #ART #quote from page 66

[losing-dog-art]

I just drafted all of this then lost it I'm going through a wall

Finished murderbot concept!!!

With bonus version with clothes 🎉

I have been making a lot of art lately (this is because I am procrastinating other things 😶)

Explanations below the cut (there was going to be a video but tumblr decided to fuck that)

So I have this old post about some head cannons for MBs appearance, but doing this full body design involved more thinking

I find it interesting that MB really only ever describes it's appearance when it's relevant to the plot/fight/scene, so anything that isn't relevant is left to our imagination. That being said:

MB says all it's inorganic parts are covered by a long sleeve shirt with a collar, pants and shoes. This means no inorganic parts on its face or hands

MB says it has no organic parts on its feet.

Slightly deeper cuts but MB mentions that it has inorganic and organic parts around its knees (I believe in exit strategy) and that it has an accessible company under its ribs (artificial condition)

People are often surprised when they see MB out of armor -- people who aren't familiar with secunits don't expect it to look as human as it does

MBs skin is canonically clear af (network effect I think)

Based on those handful of canon details, you can imagine Mb a lot of different ways -- this is great! And I've said before I think Martha Wells does this very much intentionally. So, that being said, here is some of my thoughts in this interpretation:

Based on that last point, MB looks surprisingly human. For me, this means soft facial features, eyelashes, and more organic parts than you might expect. Also, the inorganic parts are also round and nice looking -- this is partly just me thinking in a fun sci-fi way but also secunits are designed to be comforting

I've seen some people give it mechanical legs that are kind of bird-like or resemble running prosthetics. I think this is super cool and it makes a lot of sense-- those legs are basically a better form of bipedalism and let you run faster etc. BUT they would significantly change your gait. And thus be something MB considers when it is trying to pass as human. So I gave it more human feet, with the important toes and everything

I'm no expert on robotics or anatomy, but I really tried to think a little bit functionally. How would a secunit fold? How would it bend over, squat down, etc? I tried to give the look of some kind of shock system in the ankles, and conical-axis based joints. the hip area is probably the weak point in my design in this areas, idk, imagine ball bearings or something

For clothes, it's pretty straightforward. MB describes this more than a few times, but I tried to give some slightly fun sci-fi decoration bits

I tried to think about how androgyny might be generated in a silhouette in an unintentional way -- androgyny that is the result of functional design decisions and not aesthetic ones.

Idk. I had a lot of fun with this. This took about 4 hours (I've been trying not to overwork stuff lately and let the process show through) I might try and post the speed-draw video later? As a reblog perhaps. Idk Tumblr didn't like it the first time

Also a girl on bumble mentioned reading all systems red and I had to act so normal

#you have to understand these posts are like journals for me #murderbot diaries #murderbot fanart #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #secunit #artificial condition #exit strategy #network effect #art #drawing #digital art #my art #fan art #digital sketch #losing dog art tag #art process

[ghostcashewart]

how many pings will it take for secunit to stop sulking?

#murderbot #murderbot art #murderbot fanart #the murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries art #the murderbot diaries fanart #tmbd #tmbd art #tmbd fanart #art #fanart #asshole research transport #secunit #murderbot secunit #artificial condition #system collapse #perihelion #murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries art #murderbot diaries fanart #image description in alt #martha wells

[homosekularnost]

I wasn't sure why it had such an impact on them. Maybe I sounded like I knew what I was talking about.

more murderbot lines of all time (artificial condition, chapter six)

#every time i do a reread i highlight more and more of the text and soon the entire file will be one unbroken note. its final form #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #artificial condition #my art

[qernna]

im re-reading my favorite book series :]

really, the only reason i haven’t drawn fanart for it before is because secunit’s face is impossible to imagine for me. it’s also one of those things that i love so much that it’s hard to draw

#qernna #my art #doodle #fanart #murderbot #murderbot diaries #the murderbot diaries #artificial condition #martha wells #secunit #art #perihelion #murderbot fanart #murderbot diaries fanart #the murderbot diaries fanart #artificial condition fanart #martha wells fanart #secunit fanart #art fanart #perihelion fanart #sci fi #scifi #sci fi art #robot #robots

[scificrows]

I am going over Murderbot's and ART's first interactions again and it's driving me crazy, so I really need to yell into the void about it.

Alright, so we have ART:

ART, a highly advanced deep space research vessel, who is very attached to its crew and seems to generally do what it's supposed to, especially when not doing so could endanger its mission - but ends up accepting a suspicious looking SecUnit that is lying about being a bot aboard itself. ART is evidently aware that it is directly breaking the rules in doing so. (Aside: How often does ART break the rules?) Why? All for that tempting media package that the SecUnit has to offer?

No.

It was sent off to do some work all alone and got bored and lonely. (I think there are different ways to intepret this, but looking at our super social raised-by-humans loving-its-crew never-shutting-up research vessel, I choose to think that is exactly what it was!)

Anyway, what does ART do now that it has this lying, potentially dangerous rogue SecUnit aboard? It

lets it know that it saw right through its lies and knows exactly what it is

intimidates and threatens it by showing off its own ridiculously extensive superiority (just to be on the safe side ofc)

gets bored after the SecUnit gets too scared to do anything interesting

asks the SecUnit to "stop sulking"

learns that the SecUnit has been through A Lot and seemingly understands how it made it feel and apologizes

gets bored again and starts lurking and harasses convinces the SecUnit to watch media about ships and their crews with it

[gets way too invested and agitated by the media, probably going through its first media-induced emotional crises (but gets through them with the support of the very patient SecUnit)]

tries to have a conversation with the SecUnit to get to know it better

gets offended that the SecUnit is not answering truthfully and won't share sensitive and very private information about itself

lets the SecUnit know it can see through its lies, calling it "inherently inferior" to itself and causing the SecUnit to sulkily shut down for four hours (lol)

immediately calls the SecUnit "unnecessarily childish" upon its awakening four hours later (referring to its own extensive experience with children to really get the point across)

And apparently all of this seemed to be a perfectly pleasant and normal interaction to ART, because:

That's how you make friends, isn't it?!

God, I love ART so so so much and this is SO funny to me! To be fair, I don't think anyone ever really prepared it for an interaction like this. (Probably because its crew did not expect it to pick up a stray rogue SecUnit and try to befriend it).

Bonus:

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #asshole research transport #𓄿 #artificial condition #listen #sometimes you just see a friendshaped SecUnit and you have to adopt it #even if its a little ferral because it was not raised with warmth and love the way you were #even if it bites #i just love them so so so much #sometimes ART seems so smart and wise and composed #that i forget that ART is really just very stupid too #and i say that very very lovingly #sorry for the long post i just have a lot of emotions #if anyone is up for screaming into the abyss about ART and murderbot together #please join me and let me know whether you think ART was all dutiful and rule-abiding before it got corrupted by murderbot #or whether it was already pushing the rules and potentially getting itself into trouble before this #because i can't decide which option is more fitting and i like both

[queerlyloud]

Honestly, all you need to know about my taste in fiction is that what completely hooked me on the Murderbot Diaries was the scene where Murderbot starts to panic in Artificial Condition and ART starts playing the Sanctuary Moon soundtrack to comfort it.

#mine #jo is reading #jo is talking #murderbot diaries #it's the devotion and finding your place and people for me #artificial condition #murderbot #murderbot and ART #ART (Asshole Research Transport) my beloved