#conditioning systems

[kaibascorpse]

some of you people are so obsessed with having an acceptable group to ‘punch up’ at that you would rather pretend a marginalized group are Basically The Oppressors™ than listen to their valid criticisms about the fact that ‘punching up’ very rarely hits the intended target, and the majority of the actual damage of that act is suffered by fellow marginalized people in your own community. there is a significant difference between venting frustrations about privileged groups and just outright attacking anyone who (you assume) experiences that axis of privilege regardless of - and in many cases outright denying - their actual lived experiences. it goes far beyond just ‘venting frustrations’ when what you’re really doing is trying to find a moral justification to bully people you don’t like, and when your own desire for catharsis and moral superiority leads to ignoring the voices of the vulnerable people you hurt. you’re not ‘punching up’ - you just like punching people for the sake of punching.

#in writing this im primarily thinking about #transandrophobia #but i kept the language vague bc really its much more widespread than this one issue #this post is about all the queer groups that get ostracized for not being oppressed enough or having ‘too much privilege’ #getting lumped in w the oppressors bc we are assumed to have the same privilege and power as them even when we quite literally do not #gaining conditional privileges for not being visibly/openly queer is not the same as having systemic privilege. #at best it’s a defense mechanism that comes with the constant threat of having that privilege revoked should anyone realize you’re queer #if being ‘privileged’ requires hiding or not acknowledging part of your identity then it’s not really a privilege. #my posts

[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

[l3viathanss]

Thai editions of All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy

#the Murderbot diaries #tmbd #all systems red #artificial condition #rogue protocol #exit strategy

[a-study-in-bullshit]

is it not a shame my native tongue is not mine?

#web weaving #webweaving #the human condition #a-study-in-bullshit #gaeilge #it upsets me #that i can barely speak any irish #a failure on both my part and the education systems but wtvr #it makes me sad #tá brón orm mar nìl mé abailta ag caint gaeilge nios fearr #idk if thats correct

[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

[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

[hellofriendhawke]

Me and my mutually administration assistance

#they mean so much to me #perihelion #asshole research transport #murderbot #the murderbot diaries #artifical condition #exit strategy #system collapse #tmbd #dupree #art #digital art #artists on tumblr #murderbot diaries

[mockingnerd]

Obsessed with these Latvian Murderbot covers by Andis Reinbergs

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #all systems red #artificial condition #perihelion #asshole research transport

[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

[thattheater-kid]

You know what’s wild about being a fictive? Missing your old life even though it was shitty because it’s a shittiness you were used to. The life you’re living now is a new kind of shitty that feels unpleasant in a different way.

#maybe it’s stupid to miss the life I had #it sucked #so much #I hated it actually #I prayed every night that I wouldn’t wake up the next morning and cried when I did #I’m still doing that tbh #this is a different kind of suck though #I want my old life back #those people were shitty but they were MY shitty people #maybe I just got used to the horrible conditions I was living in #and now I miss it even though it was horrible #just because it’s familiar to me #maybe it’s the difference between the physical discomfort I felt in my old life #vs the emotional discomfort I feel now #maybe I should talk to my therapist #or go to bed #did system #plural #plurality #actually plural #actually did #plural system #system things #dissociative system #fictive #fictives #fictive culture #system culture #plural culture

[thesora]

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #system collapse #perihelion #asshole research transport #just finished rereading artificial condition because #more murderbot soooooooon #murderbot diaries

[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

[l3viathanss]

Korean editions of All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, and Exit Strategy

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #all systems red #artificial condition #rogue protocol #exit strategy

[longearedhare]

More media I would introduce Murderbot to:

•Video Essays on YouTube: there might be some false starts but I think if I showed it some video essays about a show it liked this would be a hit

•House MD: A lot of the humans on this are actually smart, and I don’t think MB would mind terribly that it’s medically inaccurate.

•Star Trek: this is obvious right

•VIDEO GAMES: Tell me MB wouldn’t have a damn fantastic time playing Stardew Valley or Rune Factory 4 while performing its other tasks with absolute minimum input

•Warrior Cats: This might be a long shot but I would try anyway

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #martha wells #tmd #rogue protocol #all systems red #artificial condition

[space-manatees]

them: how many times have you read Murderbot Diaries this year

me: yes

#murderbot #murderbot diaries #martha wells #all systems red #artificial condition #rogue protocol #exit strategy #network effect #fugitive telemetry #system collapse

[murderbot-fanimation-project]

COMING SOON: The Murderbot Diaries Fanimation Project

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?"

Now, two years of teamwork later, the Murderbot Diaries Fanimation Project is the culmination of 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.

A lot of love and thought went into this project that we can't wait to share with our fellow fans. We are expecting to upload to YouTube by the end of July, so keep an eye on this space. As we near completion, we'd like to give you some sneak peeks of what's in store, and invite you to come talk to us and share the hype for Murderbot. Follow us on social media for updates and behind-the-scenes:

Ask the animators on Tumblr | Instagram | YouTube

#mbfanimationproject #the Murderbot Diaries #Murderbot #Martha Wells #All Systems Red #Artificial Condition #Rogue Protocol #Exit Strategy #animation #Murderbot fanart #gifset