#network systems

[beescake]

ik ur the sollux and karkat blog but would you ever draws a nepeta ? if not thats perfectly fine :)) (also!!! ur probably in my top ten favorite artists ever. you just . do em so good!!!!!)

🫴 a nepeta

#👋 thanks mate i recognize u in my notes i rlly appreciate it :} #ask #cautionszz #homestuck #nepeta leijon #2024 #vioart #babbling no no nep listen its the fault of the system.. the infrastructure.... the society...... #overreliance of network and electricity for everyday life..... expensive fees for adult playgrounds..... loss of third places etcetc.......

[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

[torpublishinggroup]

Murderbot is MurderBACK in the next installment of Martha Wells’s NYT bestselling Murderbot Diaries series System Collapse 🤖🚀

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Following the events of Network Effect, our favorite lethally cybernetic television fiend has done the previously unthinkable: agreed to accompany the sentient spaceship Perihelion (dubbed ART by Murderbot, short for Asshole Research Transport) and crew on its next mission. 

Unfortunately, they’re not going to get too far. 

Having failed to harvest dangerous artifacts from their target planet by way of Murderbot misadventure, the Barish-Estranza corporation is much angered and determined to recoup their considerable losses. And when you’re a lethally opportunistic space corp, blood and muscle are valuable currency. 

Murderbot, ART’s crew, and the Preservation humans have planetside work to do as Barish-Estranza seeks to claim the planet’s beleaguered colony as a conscripted workforce. 

But for Murderbot, the challenge is as internal as it is external. Something is deeply, deeply wrong with it. Normal operational parameters are unmet, but with the corp’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams en route, Murderbot needs to resolve its issues, and fast!

#martha wells #system collapse #murderbot #murderbot diaries #murderbot spoilers #network effect spoilers #new books #science fiction #as a heartless killing machine i was a complete failure #booklr #tbr #robots

[grand-line-shenanigans]

For those of us who cannot comprehend big numbers (me) I have done the math. FOUR FUCKING YEARS. SECUNIT WHAT THE FUCK.

#the murderbot diaries #all systems red #murderbot #secunit #words #math #yes i write in my books. sometimes. when i love them a lot #on a totally unrelated note (totally)- if i doodled pictures of the characters based on their descriptions in the library copy of #Network Effect (in pencil only) would that be an asshole move or would it be a charming little treat for the next reader to find? #i almost certainly will not do it because i like the public library and do not want to offend them #but. in pencil. and only little doodles in the margins. #only like. one or two. #id be so charmed if i found somethig like that in a library book??? is that just me am i alone in this????? #thoughts please

[wubbelwubbwubb]

2.0 whispered, That’s targetControlSystem.

#the murderbot diaries fanart #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #murderbot #murderbot fanart #sec unit #secunit #target control system #network effect #murderbot 2.0

[hellofriendhawke]

My favorite part of Network Effect was at the end when Mensah was about to board the Perihelion and ART was frantically cleaning better than Murderbot had ever seen it clean before and making sure all it's humans picked up after themselves. And when ART greeted Mensah, it was the most sincere sounding Murderbot had ever heard it be. Like, ART wanted to impress Mensah, it wanted to make a good first impression to Mensah because it knows how important Mensah is to Murderbot. ART respects Mensah because it trusts Murderbot's opinions of people. It trusted Murderbot with Iris, it's best human friend.

#I finished system collapse and everyone who knows me has to hear about it #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #tmbd #network effect #perihelion #asshole research transport #murderbot #secunit #dr mensah #ayda mensah #dupree

[elexuscal]

Murderbot Before MB 2.0 Was Made: It's just going to be a mindless virus. A very sophisticated one, sure, but not like a baby or anything.

Murderbot While MB 2.0 Is Alive: oh fuck it's in my systems oh fuck it's going to eat my brain SHIT FUCK

Murderbot After MB 2.0 Is Dead: Murderbot 2.0 was so smart and cool. things would be okay if it were still here : (

#murderbot diaries #mbd spoilers #system collapse #system collapse spoilers #network effect #I'M DYING SQUIRTLE

[eriochromatic]

We never played bitey?

tomshiv stocks r rising yall!!!!!!!!

#succession #tomshiv #tom wambsgans #shiv roy #siobhan roy #PLEASE I JUST WANT TO TALK WHO WROTE THIS SCRIPT??? #absolutely unhinged that they would do this at a public networking event???? #this scene made me go feral I had to get this out of my system #failmarriage becoming faildivorce frfr #erio art #erio stuff

[heading-home-again]

Murderbot's buffer and autism coding

Various and sundry spoilers

One thing I absolutely love in this series is Murderbot's buffer. When it's too busy and distracted, Murderbot's programming takes over and it delivers canned phrases that may or may not communicate what it wants to communicate, and this is so fucking relatable

(Personal autism paragraph) I've actually used this series to explain to my wife what happens when I try to answer a complex-for-me question in conversational "real time", and why I get frustrated about things that I've cheerfully agreed to. (I don't know wtf is going on and I need to answer in NT time frame! Quick, be super agreeable!) (Currently trying to learn the new buffer phrases "let me think about that" and "give me a minute")

Back to Murderbot God I love this detail so much. It's partly just for comedy, but it's also dead serious, like so much of this series. It's about being programmed and how that programming takes over. "This unit is at minimal functionality and it is recommended that you discard it." Murderbot has been treated like a thing and that's so ingrained in its systems by now that sometimes it's just going to come out its mouth, like it doesn't want to be abandoned, but that's how it's lived for so long. ARGH

Also I love love love in Network Effect where Overse knows about the buffer and what it means and interprets it for Thiago. She knows what that tone of voice is (it's a canned response) she knows why it happens (it's from when Murderbot was enslaved) and she knows what it means ("it's too busy to talk"). I love Murderbot's friends so much I totally understand why it keeps risking horrible fates for them.

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #all systems red #network effect

[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

[cin-nic]

I was reading the latest Murderbot book, System Collapse, and came across:

Which is very funny.

But maybe this is a new thing? No one ever mentioned Murderbot drones getting all in their faces before, right?

So, then I go back to reread Network Effect and…

Lol, no, those drones have been super obvious all along.

Murderbot is like a cat: its personal space is important, yours not so much

#murderbot #system collapse #network effect

[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

[torpublishinggroup]

Murderbot is MurderBACK in the next installment of Martha Wells’s NYT bestselling Murderbot Diaries series System Collapse 🤖🚀

WHAT’S IT ABOUT

Following the events of Network Effect, our favorite lethally cybernetic television fiend has done the previously unthinkable: agreed to accompany the sentient spaceship Perihelion (dubbed ART by Murderbot, short for Asshole Research Transport) and crew on its next mission. 

Unfortunately, they’re not going to get too far. 

Having failed to harvest dangerous artifacts from their target planet by way of Murderbot misadventure, the Barish-Estranza corporation is much angered and determined to recoup their considerable losses. And when you’re a lethally opportunistic space corp, blood and muscle are valuable currency. 

Murderbot, ART’s crew, and the Preservation humans have planetside work to do as Barish-Estranza seeks to claim the planet’s beleaguered colony as a conscripted workforce. 

But for Murderbot, the challenge is as internal as it is external. Something is deeply, deeply wrong with it. Normal operational parameters are unmet, but with the corp’s SecUnit-heavy persuasion teams en route, Murderbot needs to resolve its issues, and fast!

#martha wells #science fiction #system collapse #murderbot #murderbot diaries #network effect spoilers #murderbot spoilers #booklr #new books #tbr

[charlie-artlie]

>>SYSTEM COLLAPSE

photos taken moments before disaster, AdaCol1 is not having a good time!

#the murderbot diaries #murderbot #AdaCol1 #tmd network effect #tw eyestrain #i reference system collapse but this would have taken place before network effect…. #in case anyone confused its the moment AdaCol1 is being taken over by the alien remnant #i know it’s kinda boring but in my head when i picture systems or non-umnt bot pilots #i always just picture a featureless generic human silhouette thing #i might come back and make a more fun design in the future #arts #system collapse spoilers #EDIT: i’m an idiot i forgot that system’s NAME is a spoiler #sowwy

[laomelettedufromage]

ART after any inconvenience: My resolution? Airstrikes. Bomb them. Bomb them, keep bombing them, bomb them again and again

#has this been done yet? #with current events whenever I get this audio on like tiktok or wherever it’s a bit😬 #but also that… is almost verbatim what ART wanted to do in Network Effect soooo ahskansksksks #I haven’t read system collapse yet but ART really said BOMB THEM man idk #also loved when ART was like ‘agree to a meeting RIGHT NOW or I will start blowing things up’ and then it DID #we love a trigger happy transport with no minimum level response to its friends and people being in distress #murderbot #murderbot diaries #network effect #the murderbot diaries #by yours truly the omelette of cheese

[rosewind2007]

I loved Sherlock Holmes in the original books, which I first read in the 1970s

My Doctor (in my heart) will always truly be Tom Baker

Loki was one of my favourite (not technically a god) gods some three decades before the Marvel Cinematic Universe was even a thing

I argued as a child about whether Darth Vader could have a redemption arc

I read and re-read my 1990s copy of Good Omens until it fell apart

I am OLD, and damnit—if they do make Murderbot into a TV series I will welcome newcomers to the fandom with arms wide open: because they’ll have very bit as much right to be in it as anyone else

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #secunit #martha wells #all systems red #tv adaptation #exit strategy #rogue protocol #artificial condition #fugitive telemetry #network effect