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chelshiart · 5 months

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In which Tali's drone takes pretty sweet selfies!

(timelapse under the read more) (edit: cw flashing colors!)

#mass effect #garrus vakarian #liara t'soni #tali'zorah nar rayya #tali'zorah vas normandy #urdnot wrex #ashley williams #kaidan alenko #illustration #art process #timelapse #part of a bunch of new prints that I'm cramming for an upcoming art convention!#tis reason that i haven't been able to catch up with the new mb book HUHUHUHU #that will be my reward for surviving convention season that's whats keeping me going

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crabs-brencil · 2 months

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mb-art interactions featuring ratthi (with a surprise appearance of the electrical gloves lol)

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #tmbd fanart #tmbd sketch #murderbot #tmbd mb #asshole research transport #perihelion #tmbd art #ratthi #tmbd ratthi #krita #honestly it's been so long since ive actually interacted with any canon tmbd stuff and i don't really remember what happened in the books #(yay short term memory go brr (not))#so like 90% of the shit i draw is just headcanons #but that sketch at the top is totally what happened after art was like “i don't want to lose you too”

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chandajaan · 9 months

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#beautiful beautiful girls #chandatalks #mb #books #dark academia if I even dare?

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sophieswundergarten · 4 months

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Found my MBS bookmark in my copy of TPD today!!

#I keep forgetting where I put it #Although the answer is usually 'In an MBS Book'#mbs

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happyheidi · 1 year

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#a random lil mb <3 #cottagecore #light academia aesthetic #dark academia aesthetic #statues #books #dark aesthetic #classic academia #brown aesthetic #coffee academia #study aesthetic #alternative academia #alternative aesthetic #chaotic aesthetic #chaotic academia #museum date

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scificrows · 8 months

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which non-human entity from the murderbot diaries are you?

i had so much fun with this uquiz by @homosekularnost that i created my own :) [art: cover art from the estonian edition of AC (illustrated by liis roden)]

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #uquiz #how many questions do you put on a uquiz i hope this isn't too much #i spent way too much time thinking about the characterization of characters that appear on like 5 pages throughout the books lol #i also created little icons for every answer dghsdfgsdfh #used mb cover art for some #but had to get a little creative with freepik art for others lol #anyway!!!!!!!#have fun #very curious what everyone will get!! :))#murderbot diaries #𓄿

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lostgirlhood · 2 years

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DEATH SEASON

#moodboard #winter #gothic #snow #mb #ghost tag #a haunted house with a picket fence #forever winter #creations #hannibalcore #someone write this book!!!!!!!

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souldagger · 8 months

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so normal about the gender fuckery of the Polish murderbot translation (lie i am on the verge of tears)

#it uses verb inflections that imply it/otherwise non-binary pronouns in first person #and it looks like in third person the translator went with #she pronouns when using security unit (bc the word unit is gendered female in polish)#and he pronouns when using Murderbot (bc the word robot is gendered male)#which... isn't ideal #but in a language this excessively gendered it was always going to be messy #and it's the first person verb endings that matter most bc you're reminded that mb's opinion on gender is No Thanks EVERY SENTENCE. !!!!!!!#the fact that the translator went with that instead of the easy route of he pronouns #(which are unfortunately kind of implied in the name Murderbot/Mordbot in polish since like i said robot/bot is gendered male)#is so so so important to me #(and ofc half the reviews for this translation include complaints about 'woke' verb endings 🙄 whatever)#.txt #books #murderbot

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sainamoonshine · 10 days

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My unpopular opinion is that in languages with grammatical gender like french, it does make sense for Murderbot to be referred to by whatever pronoun is usually used for robots or constructs. (In french, therefore, grammatical masculine.) Because there are no traditional « it » pronouns in these languages for objects, and while there are neo-pronouns, they are things one must choose for themselves. Do you honestly think MB actually spent time thinking about its pronouns?! No it didn’t. On forms it picks « non-applicable ». When people ask it what pronouns they should use, its honest opinion is « why do you even need to talk about me. Just don’t fucking do that. Don’t think about me either. Just fucking stop perceiving me altogether! »

Thinking about what pronouns to use probably makes it way more uncomfortable than letting people call it what they’ve already been calling it. Making a conscious choice about its identity? And telling other people about it??? No thanks bye, it’s just gonna walk into the ocean now, see you never.

Lbr it probably thinks the only bots that get fancy pronouns are comfort units, and the pronouns are probably shoved into them by humans same as everything else. MB would meet a bot using a neopronoun and it would wish it could barf. Because in a language like french, he/him and she/her, when applied to objects, ARE fulfilling the function of the english « it ». Nobody is saying the table is a woman or related to feminity in any way outside of stand-up comedy; when it comes to objects grammatical gender really has fuckall to do with human gender even if we use the same words. Even animal species names have grammatical gender and everyone gets that there are male and female turtles even if the word « turtle » is a female word, it’s not that confusing.

(I know this is strange when your language has different pronouns for people and for objects, but understand that english uses the same word to indicate if I’m addressing one or many people, and that is confusing to me.)

TL;DR; stop harassing international fans for not getting the correct MB pronoun in english right off the bat. Yes in english calling it « he » or « her » or « them » is upsetting because it’s projecting an identity unto it. But same goes for trying to get a foreign language translation to use a pronoun intended to express or showcase an identity (or even a lack of one!). Murderbot has not thought about it this hard, refuses to think about it this hard -> and that is its only canon accurate gender identity.

#the murderbot diaries #taking a bat to an hornet’s nest there but I said what I said #I go by she/her because that’s the default people use for me even tho my own gender identity is also #ugh I would sincerely prefer not to have to deal with this think about it or even be perceived #and I would be hella pissed if a book of my life came out and people got into fights about my pronouns #trying to assign me the most politically accurate agender pronoun possible #when my own choice has always been specifically to let people call me the default because idc #and I don’t want to be identified by any identifier that might indicate I do care #and using a different pronoun even if its a gender neutral one is a CHOICE!#it does indicate a preference! and caring about it enough to pick a word and tell people about it!!!#Murderbot didn’t pick IT that is specifically the point!#it was used for it and MB just kept going with that #I mean imagine it if wrote down a different pronoun on its ID form one day and someone actually called it that #it would set itself on fire #its discomfort at having made a personal choice and the personal choice being respected would be off the charts #maybe it a later book after hella character development but I just don’t see it happening tbh #respect the agenders who just don’t want to get involved and use the pronoun equivalent of the default avatar that came with the account #PLEASE #that is all

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iamblubaby · 5 months

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coquelicoq · 5 months

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i can't stress enough that outside of this one moment in rogue protocol when murderbot wants to kill a human for betraying its sort-of clients but settles for the next best thing of menacingly hovering a drone in her face for 26 seconds while she's frozen in place by her armor, for the rest of the first four books mb is really only using drones for security purposes and doesn't have the time or inclination to be performing close-range facial analysis:

in ASR it doesn't seem to be all that familiar with drones outside of maybe using them to set a perimeter. it exhibits several other uses of drones as events escalate, but they're all related to protecting itself and its humans and getting intel on EvilSurvey. at no point does it mention watching a human with a drone; it's all "using drones to draw fire" this and "sending drones flying off in the wrong direction as a diversion tactic" that. et cetera.

it has no access to drones whatsoever in AC from what i can tell.

in RP it uses Ship's drones to record conversations between wilken and gerth, but it's not a participant in those conversations and it doesn't even watch them in real time. it also forgoes getting a good look at their weapons via drone because it thinks they would notice. later it takes control of a station drone to watch (from afar) their first meeting with don abene & co., but miki notices the drone and almost catches mb because of it, which freaks it out. then it hacks the combatbots' drones, but other than the aforementioned 26-second intimidation of wilken, it's too busy doing actual security work to use them to look at people.

in ES it accesses drones many times, including to observe its humans, but it only seems to actually control a drone to look at something one time, and only in order to zoom in on a suit logo. so at no point could it conceivably be directing a drone to get up in somebody's face, since it's just piggybacking on drones as they go about their normal business.

it does use cameras to watch people in the first four books, but in a much less obvious way: either it's using fixed cameras that are built into habitats/hoppers/whatever, or it's accessing mobile cameras (suit cams, station drones) but not controlling where those cameras go or what they're pointing at.

it's interesting, because while drones can be startling or intrusive, on the flip side, cameras that don't move don't draw attention to themselves and thus may make it easier to forget you're being watched (plus you have no way of knowing if that particular camera is being monitored at that moment or if it's just recording for later analysis). so in a way, having a drone in your face actively signals to you that mb is paying attention to you. it's making mb's gaze visible in a way it might not otherwise be. this changes the dynamic from "passive surveillance for datamining and threat assessment purposes" to "person actively choosing to pay attention to you in real time". one of these is covert and the other isn't; one of these holds the possibility of interaction and exchange and the other doesn't. maybe it puts a drone in your face to show you it cares.

#theoretically. if it is in fact putting them in people's faces those times when it doesn't specify #rather than just sort of hovering them several feet away pointed somewhat subtly in the person's direction or whatever #also it probably is not putting a drone in tarik's face to show him it cares. but it *is* showing tarik it's paying attention #whether or not it's doing that consciously or on purpose in order to send that message #(it just wants to study tarik and that's how it can do that. especially in the restricted space of the shuttle)#but the point could hold for people other than tarik. and wilken lol #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #mb gaze #mb asr #mb ac #mb rp #mb es #mb sc #system collapse spoilers #system collapse #i guess?? by implication lol #my posts #f #disclaimer that i don't actually have a searchable version of these books so i'm relying on my notes and could be missing something #but i'm fairly confident about those bullet points

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poseidonsarmoury · 1 year

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dysphoresque · 1 month

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“You mean I have a home to go to, as long as I don't go there?”

— James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

#james baldwin #giovannis room #moodboard #mbs #dark academia #classic academia #classic literature #lit #literature #words #book recs #everyone should read this book at least once in their lifetime #i am devastated

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thyme-in-a-bubble · 10 months

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happyheidi · 1 year

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#cottagecore #it’s a cozy lil mb <3 #nature #naturecore #flowers #flowercore #warmcore #paint #painting #interior #books

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erosedits · 10 months

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“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. [...] and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”

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