#the rise and fall of sanctuary moon

[ghostcashew]

go read the murderbot diaries

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #murderbot memes #murderbot art #murderbot fanart #the rise and fall of sanctuary moon #the murderbot diaries fanart #martha wells #secunit #the murderbot diaries secunit #tmbd secunit

[staysaneathome]

I feel like if they make an All Systems Red movie, the opening scenes need to build up to it.

It should make you think it’s going to be a regular gritty sci-fi movie, with tracking shots of Preservation AUX moving around their harshly lit habitat and doing things in drab crew uniforms as they prep for Volescu and Bharadwaj going out to survey the surface…

And in the background of every shot, so unobtrusive as to be almost unnoticeable in the mass of activity, stands Murderbot. Unmoving. Armored. Faceless. Looming.

As it boards the cargo hold, we zoom in on its opaque helmet.

And then the voiceover tells us that rather than murdering everyone when it hacked its governor module, it decided to consume 35,000 hours of media instead.

Instant cut to The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon.

#the murderbot diaries #all systems red #murderbot #it is very important to me that #the rise and fall of sanctuary moon #is staged just like an og Star Trek/Doctor Who episode #bright technicolor #handmade set pieces #ham acting #the works #just to drive home the visual contrast

[rosewind2007]

Sorry everyone BUT:

Sanctuary Moon (Murderbot’s comfort series) is the space future version of

HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER

and (having watched nearly all of season one and I can only imagine it gets less and less hinged) I don’t think we talk about this enough

Speaking as a forensic scientist, I mean—what were they even thinking?

Speaking as a…human, honestly MB: not all relationships are like that! If they were, I’d be completely locking myself in the bathroom too

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #secunit #martha wells #how to get away with murder #sanctuary moon #the rise and fall of sanctuary moon #TMBD

[pucket]

aight, i'mma start writing a fanfiction adaptation of the rise and fall of sanctuary moon. i'll see you fuckers in 3 months. someone come check on me in a bit to make sure i haven't rotted outlining a plot

#the rise and fall of sanctuary moon #i love filling in the blanks #murderbot

[thereadingmoon]

if you didn’t think corporation rim could get any worse, 6-7 episode-long seasons still exist and they’re THRIVING

#but i appreciate that Murderbot implies every episode is still written by humans #… as far as it knows #I love how this universe isn’t one where AI takes over all writing jobs after all #Still. that grammy thing? maybe we’re going to become the corporation rim after all #murderbot diaries #Murderbot #the rise and fall of sanctuary moon

[deweydecimalchickens]

These are my books, show me yours.

We're talking about books for the neurodivergent group at work because, well, we all work in a library. One of the books on the suggested list is one I have on loan, so I'm bringing it in.

Then I got the bright idea to bring in a bunch of my books that soothe/explain/rabbithole my mind.

I have never felt so naked in my life. (And I used to model for art classes.)

#Murderbot #Is in there #The books that saved your life #The rise and fall of sanctuary moon #Hello please judge my soul

[thumbcoffee]

Re-listening to the Murderbot Diaries audiobooks again like they're episodes of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon and I'm a SecUnit on a boring contract.

#murderbot #The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon #SecUnit

[sleep-tight-pupper]

Did anybody else catch this Murderbot reference in Teenage Excolonist?

#i was a teenage exocolonist #the murderbot diaries #murderbot #the rise and fall of sanctuary moon #marzipan #my girl really does have excellent taste

[asexual-spock]

IT'S AN IN-UNIVERSE SHOW SORT OF BASED ON 'HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER', BUT IN SPACE, ON A COLONY, WITH ALL DIFFERENT CHARACTERS AND HUNDREDS MORE EPISODES. AND RATTHI MENTIONS THE ONE EPISODE WHERE THE COLONY SOLICITOR KILLED THE TERRAFORMING SUPERVISOR WHO WAS THE SECONDARY DONOR FOR HER IMPLANTED BABY, WHICH LEADS TO

#the murderbot diaries #the rise and fall of sanctuary moon

[ub-sessed]

Every time Murderbot mentions Time Stream Defenders Orion, I picture some future version of Doctor Who.

What show do you imagine when it talks about The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon?

#Murderbot #Time Stream Defenders Orion #The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon

[rjalker]

[ID: Two images.

The first is the nonbinary flag, with the colors lightened and desaturated, so that the stripes are, from top to bottom: desaturated gold, off-white, very pale, desaturated purple, and off-black.

Next to this is a picture in the same colors, showing a purple sideways diamond, with "The rise and fall of Sanctuary Moon" written on it, with the shape of the S in Sanctuary made up of a spiral like the trail from a spaceship wrapping around a black crescent moon. Small white stars fill the background.

End ID.]

Fake logo for a fake soap opera, because I think Murderbot would want a nonbinary flag color-picked from its favorite show.

#Rjalker does art #described images #The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon #Murderbot #Rjalker reads The Murderbot Diaries

[lootpuppy]

Happy Sanctuary Moon Saturday

The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon Season One

i'm trying to practice different stuff, figured this would be fun :3

#pup draws #my draws #my drawings #my art #practice art #sketch #murderbot diaries #Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon #murderbot #secunit #fanart #Sanctuary Moon

[homosekularnost]

murderbot helps ratthi with boy troubles

#(its a how to get away with murder reference. yknow. or as i like to call it) #(the rise and fall of sanctuary moon but with less seasons on and on earth) #the murderbot diaries #murderbot diaries #murderbot #ratthi #my art #mb

[platypusisnotonfire]

I am already planning a murderbot cosplay for a hypothetical comiccon I will never go to

#I already have motorcycle armor #and hockey gear #and i think between the two and a rise and fall of sanctuary moon t-shirt #i could make it work #with little modifications #I would have to keep my motorcycle armor functioning as armor #because I use it #sonminifocations would have to be minimal or removavle

[animusrox]

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[grison-in-space]

Listening to Artificial Condition again, it strikes me how much Murderbot uses empathy reflexively as a survival skill. Look at this bit.

Upon meeting it, ART allows it on board and then announces that it knows that Murderbot is rogue. Then ART threatens to destroy it if it hacks ART's own systems. Murderbot is immediately terrified and shuts down all inputs, gives serious thought to spending the entire three month journey unconscious, and then considers the potential avenues of damage from ART's drones. ART, not realizing why Murderbot had suddenly gone silent, tells it to quit sulking, which understandably pisses off the still-terrified Murderbot. It dumps a bunch of memories of coercive treatment into ART's feed, and ART goes silent.

Then this happens:

Then it said, I’m sorry I frightened you. Okay, well. If you think I trusted that apology, you don’t know Murderbot. Most likely it was playing a game with me. I said, “I don’t want anything from you. I just want to ride to your next destination.” I’d explained that earlier, before it opened the hatch for me, but it was worth repeating. I felt it withdraw back behind its wall. I waited, and let my circulatory system purge the fear-generated chemicals. More time crawled by, and I started to get bored. Sitting here like this was too much like waiting in a cubicle after I’d been activated, waiting for the new clients to take delivery, for the next boring contract. If it was going to destroy me, at least I could get some media in before that happened. I started the new show again, but I was still too upset to enjoy it, so I stopped it and started rewatching an old episode of Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon. After three episodes, I was calmer and reluctantly beginning to see the transport’s perspective. A SecUnit could cause it a lot of internal damage if it wasn’t careful, and rogue SecUnits were not exactly known for lying low and avoiding trouble. I hadn’t hurt the last transport I had taken a ride on, but it didn’t know that. I didn’t understand why it had let me aboard, if it really didn’t want to hurt me. I wouldn’t have trusted me, if I was a transport. Maybe it was like me, and it had taken an opportunity because it was there, not because it knew what it wanted.

The thing about Murderbot's survival is that it clearly involves quite a bit of negotiating with other constructs and bots. That's how it talks its way onto cargo hauler bots in the first place. It uses empathy--envisioning the emotional and cognitive context of the individuals it encounters--to work out what different kinds of people want, so that it can offer them fair trades. It also uses empathy to consider what humans might be looking for, so it can practice blending in and hide.

Murderbot would never have survived so long if it wasn't capable of assessing the individual desires of the people--human, bot, and construct--around it. It thinks about ART's probable fears and motivations so that it can consider whether ART is inherently an ongoing threat or a potential ally.

When your survival depends on evading detection, you get really good at assessing perceptual biases so that you can shape yourself to fit into them. People talk about murderbot being radically empathetic as a choice it makes, or as a feature of its personality that makes it a good person. But I think murderbot would be the the first person to tell you that this empathy is part of its threat assessment suite, a skill that was developed out of necessity in order to allow you to survive.

It is also a trait that makes murderbot a good person, of course: it chooses very carefully to try to survive by doing as little harm as possible and by offering things, like media, that buy it access to things it needs. But it started as a survival skill. It's part of hypervigilance.

I think one of the strengths of this series is that so many of the things we love about SecUnit are traits developed for survival in an inherently threatening world. The shape of its mind and heart have been changed by the trauma of its origin--but they don't make murderbot less good for being altered, even if that skill was developed in a traumatic context.

I like that.

#murderbot #empathy as a tool #note that this is not necessarily natural empathy #it's cognitive and only happens when the adrenaline eases off #going to work my way though the existing published series before I dig into my brand new copy of the new one