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crabs-brencil · 1 month

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doodling the preservation girlies while learning how crush damage works lmao

i imagine arada and bharadwaj to have major camp counselor vibes, and overse the vibes of a classical pianist lol. mensah often reminds me of my mum and pin-lee reminds me of my sister

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #tmbd sketch #tmbd fanart #tmbd art #preservation aux #ayda mensah #dr. mensah #tmbd bharadwaj #tmbd overse #tmbd arada #tmbd pin lee #krita

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jadefyre · 10 days

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An animatic I did for the fic Sample Retrieval by Trifoliate-Undergrowth

Also posted on AO3!

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #dr. arada #animatic #fan animation #Youtube

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chelshiart · 2 years

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just dropping off a couple more brain farts of that Murderbot and Mass Effect crossover I've been thinking about~~

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rjalker · 2 years

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“SecUnit, you need to get to Medical!” “What happened in Medical?” “You happened, you got shot.”

#ehe #Rjalker reads The Murderbot Diaries #TMBD #The Murderbot Diaries #Dr. Arada #Murderbot #SecUnit

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gamebird · 2 months

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A post about my Murderbot Diaries fanfics

A lot of my TMBD fanfiction links together. Someone called it the 'Gamebird Cinematic Universe'. So you'll see events referenced across fics, backstory fleshed out, and missing scenes filled in, with the information spread out across a lot of stories. I also ship Murderbot and Gurathin, but not within the canon timeline. Thus, there are a lot of fics where that hasn't happened yet, or where they are not both present.

I've put them all together in a single series for convenience, and broken out the ones that are separate AUs or unrelated one-shots.

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Gamebird Cinematic Universe stories in (mostly) chronological order:

After Hacking - This is pre-ASR, a series of stories that track Murderbot's growing personhood and abilities during the 4 years after it hacks its governor module to before the events of All Systems Red. Each installment is around 1,000 words and they are all designed as stand-alone stories.

It's Only a Cleaning Process - Murderbot enjoys a particularly thorough cleaning process that can definitely be interpreted sexually. Murderbot declines to interpret it that way.

Two Ships, Passing in the Night - ART shows off for another ship. Seth is not amused.

Ratthi's Proposition - At the start of the ASR survey, Ratthi propositions Gurathin. This is an event referred to in various other fics.

[ASR happens here]

Rogue Trends - This is a data analyst digging into the circumstances behind Murderbot going rogue, and what happened to the other SecUnits that were in Ganaka Pit. It was my first TMBD fic and is much acclaimed.

Gurathin's Side of the Story - A retelling of ASR, ES, and other portions from Gurathin's point of view, along with key elements of his backstory. There is a little MB/G in it (occasional badly-veiled one-sided yearning; Murderbot doesn't know or care, as per canon).

BATNA - This recounts Mensah's captivity in Exit Strategy.

Things SecUnit Will Never Know - Missing scene at the end of Exit Strategy, tells the story of how the group restored Murderbot's brain after the gunship collapse.

Trust Fall - Set in the flashback scene of Network Effect - Overse and Arada argue about being cut out of the need-to-know list regarding the assassination attempt on Dr. Mensah.

Resignation - This is an elaboration of this line from Network Effect: Since I'd decided to stay (temporarily) on Preservation Station, Dr. Mensah had asked me to go places with her seven times. Six of those times were just relatively short boring meetings on ships in orbit or in dock. The seventh was when she had asked me to go down to the local planet's surface with her., telling the story of Mensah's slow crumble after the events of BATNA.

The Skinny - Murderbot sends a letter to Bharadwaj about the ways SecUnits are misused on contract. This would be in Network Effect, after the festival and before the water planet survey. This was another of my very early TMBD fics.

A Funeral for Killware - At the end of Network Effect, before System Collapse, those in orbit over the Adamantine Colony have an observance for those who were lost.

Retrieval - Three retrieves one of its fallen fellows.

Tarrathi - Tarik and Ratthi get together in System Collapse, missing scene fic.

The Talk - Perihelion's crew talk to it about how it met Murderbot. Or try to.

[post System Collapse, nebulous undefined mission with ART; in other words: canon that hasn't been published yet]

Repeat Deletion Protocol - Back on Preservation, SecUnit confronts Ratthi about a suspicious situation with one of Ratthi's partners, only to discover this isn't the first time it's confronted Ratthi about this.

De-constructed Feelings - Ratthi realizes/discovers Gurathin's past with constructs, and his present feelings toward one construct in particular. Gurathin swears him to secrecy, because he intends to take this secret to his grave. After all, Murderbot has no interest in him whatsoever and that's fine.

Skulk - This consists of the origin story for a rogue Combat SecUnit named Skulk, and then an adventure with Murderbot, Ratthi, and Gurathin.

Murderathin - This follows immediately after the end of the Skulk series and is my attempt to separate the MB/Gurathin material from the non-MB/G stuff so those readers who want to avoid shippy stuff can do so. Upon leaving the planet Skulk was on, Murderbot confronts Gurathin about certain feelings it has unexpectedly detected from him. This is where Gurathin's Side of the Story is told, although the events of it (ASR, ES, etc.) happen earlier.

[Young Gurathin section not in chronological order]

What is Love? - A late-teens Gurathin explores his sexual interests with a standard ComfortUnit in the Corporation Rim. Even back then, he wonders if there is more behind those eyes, or if he's just seeing what he wishes was there.

To Like or Not to Like - This is Gurathin in his mid-20s (I headcanon him around 50 in ASR) with a ComfortUnit. Nothing sexual or romantic this time, just two beings trying to understand one another and themselves.

[Back to chronological order]

Depends on Viewpoint - Gurathin and Bharadwaj discuss differences between the Corporation Rim and Preservation.

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Other series:

Last Client Standing - ASR, but GrayCris attacks PresAux first instead of DeltFall. This is disastrous. Murderbot is only able to save Gurathin. They escape, eventually, returning to Preservation where there is grieving and therapy, with a hopeful ending.

TMBD Metas and Headcanons - What it says on the tin. Most of these are analyses of canon, but a few are my headcanons for ComfortUnits, Combat SecUnits, and Preservation.

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Other stuff (one-shots or nearly so):

Freeze Response - Murderbot tries to figure out where a little girl went. Few words, many kudos.

SexUnit - Two versions of the same outline, one with Murderbot, one with an OC SecUnit. Both are used for sex. This is rape.

Two Peas in a Pod - Murderbot and Gurathin work together to retrieve two gestational units that have been locked in cryofreeze pods. Although both MB and Gurathin are in this fic, it isn't shippy in any romantic way. Barely even platonic.

Imagine Dragons - Murderbot tries to guard Gurathin from hostile fauna. I don't think this is particularly shippy. I think Murderbot would act the same way with any of its clients.

Personalized Security Services - Murderbot and Mensah fuck. This is not rape.

If Hostile One Had Bit Ratthi Instead of Bharadwaj in ASR - Just what it says on the tin.

Just a Piece - A man and an obliging SecUnit fuck. This is not rape.

Preservation Alliance, Politics, and World-Building - This is included in the Meta series, but is important enough for me to call it out individually. It's the background for nearly everything I've written in TMBD that has a setting in Preservation. It tells about languages, planets, and cultures.

There are also some drabbles and a couple longer one-shots I didn't count. You can find them in my AO3 works list. I have participated in two collaborative writing events, one Counting Down (combined PresAux and Perihelion crew get contaminated by alien remnants while planetside and have to fight off a CR sanitation team) and the other is Enemies, Closer (MB/G/ART/Echo). The first is not shippy in the least; the second is all shipping all the time.

#the murderbot diaries #fanfiction #murderathin #lots of stuff that isn't murderathin but I'm tagging so people's filters work

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specialagentartemis · 8 months

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Having listened to the Graphic Audio full-cast audobook for All Systems Red, it was fun but I have some thoughts about the voice acting and direction. So now I’m just daydreaming about “if I had Billionaire Money I would buy the audio rights to TMBD and direct and produce another full cast audio version with voice actors handpicked and paid lavishly by Me.”

The cast being:

All Systems Red:

Murderbot: Kevin R. Free is the voice of Murderbot to a lot of people. I would think very hard about this but it would be a foundational return to form. However I feel like I want to reach out and find a non-binary VA because it's a niche that's been tragically underrepresented in Murderbot VAs. I joked before about Vico Ortiz playing live-action Murderbot but do they want to try their hand at voice acting?

Mensah: Cecilia Lynn-Jacobs. Voices Captain Lovelace on Wolf 359. Has incredible talent and range and does the Intrepid Galactic Explorer so well.

Pin-Lee: Emily Woo Zeller. An audiobook narrator I've consistently liked.

Ratthi: Stephen Dookie. He plays the part of Polites in Epic: The Musical and he's excellent in a very sweet, upbeat, friendly way.

Gurathin: Sungwon "ProZD" Cho. I'm picturing somewhere in the range of his Miles Edgeworth voice for this.

Arada: Michelle "Vixy" Dockrey. She's a singer not a VA but her voice sounds so nice.

Overse: Tanja Milojevic. Her range is incredible.

Bharadwaj: Rukhmani Desai (Captain Tripathi, The Strange Case of Starship Iris. She has that calm, reasonable, rational, desperately kind character voice she plays well in Starship Iris that I think would go well for Bharadwaj)

Volescu: Zach Valenti. The vibes are right.

Additional voices by Tanja Milojevic and Zach Valenti. Yes all of them.

Artificial Condition:

ART: Janelle Monáe and I mean it

Tapan: ItMe of InCo Podcast

The ComfortUnit: also ItMe because an important part of listening to faer acting is realizing in awe how fae voices so many characters at once and make them all sound distinct.

Tlacey: kinda thinking Ariela Rotenberg. she does smugly confidently evil very well. However we cannot discount casting ItMe for this role also

Additional voices by Tanja Milojevic and Zach Valenti.

Rogue Protocol:

Don Abene: Emma Sherr-Ziarko. She also deserves to be an intrepid space leader again.

Miki: ItMe again in InCo Season 2 Updated SAWA mode

Wilken: me. I want a part. I could totally be a badass evil space assassin

Gerth: does Gerth even have any lines.

Additional voices by Tanja Milojevic and Zach Valenti.

Exit Strategy:

Serrat: Zach Libresco. this casting + Janelle Monáe as ART were what drove me to make this post in the first place.

The Combat SecUnit: Ellen McLain in GLaDOS mode. All 2 lines it has.

Network Effect:

Amena: Ishani Kanetkar (The Strange Case of Starship Iris, The Godshead Incidental, excellent VA for a proud and curious but scared young person)

Iris: Jordan Cobb (Janus Descending, Primordial Deep, excellent VA for a gritted-teeth calm scientist in a strange and dangerous place)

Seth: Avery Brooks (I know it is not the 90s anymore. but. Captain Sisko. I can imagine <3 )

Martyn: Alexander Siddig / Siddig El-Fadil (Dr. Bashir). They're TV actors but! I want them as the Ship Captain Husbands

The rest of ART's crew: other podcast VAs I love who I haven't come up with a role for yet. Kristen DiMercurio, Beth Eyre, James Oliva.

Supervisor Leonide: Claudia Christian (Commander Ivanova on Babylon 5 <333 )

Eletra: Michaela Swee who is very busy working at An Actual Hospital but I have a billion dollars in this dream scenario so I can pay her to take a day and record like 4 lines

Ras: Zach Valenti. This is very important.

Three: Jackie Andrews who plays R. J. McCabe on Starship Iris and Elinor Lopez on The Pasithea Powder has the right Vibes For This

Zach Valenti as the Additional Voice of every goon and target who gets the shit scared out of them and/or dies.

Fugitive Telemetry:

Indah: Molly Olguin maybe. she could Be Indah. Absolutely means we need Jackie Hedeman to have a role in FT too.

Tifany: Michelle Agresti (Wolf 359, Arden)

Aylen: Tracey Sayed (also Arden)

Jollybaby, Tellus, Balin: I would open the floor to the delightful Murderbot fandom. Who wants to voice a Preservation bot

Additional voices by--well you know the drill.

#The Murderbot Diaries #fancast #ItMe InCo Creator I hope you're okay with me tagging you. I don't know your name #this is a sign for everyone to listen to Wolf 359; The Strange Case of Starship Iris; InCo; Arden; The Pasithea Powder; and Janus Descendin #whoof I put way too much time and effort into this

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rrainbowmagnet · 1 year

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TMBD character coffee preferences

Mensah: Milk but no sugar

Pin-Lee: Straight black coffee

Ratthi: Coffee full of 50 spices that no one likes but him

Gurathin: Regular coffee with syrup or sugar

Arada: Unicorn frappe

Overse: Coffee with limited spices

Bharadwaj: Coffee with cream

Amena: Juice

Murderbot: Hot chocolate

Three: Regular coffee with a sensible amount of sugar

ART: Uranium

#murderbot #the murderbot diaries #murderbot eats #the last time i drank coffee was as an infant so this may be inaccurate

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aspec-tmbd · 1 year

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Title: Love isn't Homemade Soup Author: Chyoatas Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Dr. Gurathin/Murderbot #Dr. Gurathin #Murderbot #Dr. Ratthi #Brief Arada Cameo #Brief Bharadwaj Cameo #Sickfic #Fluff #Comfort No Hurt #Aspec TMBD #Queerplatonic Relationships #Established Relationship #No Context Relationship #OTC Drugs Involved/Mentioned Bcus Gurathin is high off his ass on cold medicine /hj #he's very feverish and miserable #the mortifying ordeal of telling ur partner(?) that u dont love him (he knew already. ur not subtle) #allo/aro relationships are special to me in a personal way Words: 3,514 Chapters: 1/1

Sickly humans are gross, including augmented ones. Sitting next to them doesn’t make them less gross, but it does make it easier to monitor their health. Or, at least, that’s my current excuse.

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #aspec tmbd #fanworks #murderbot shipping

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combat-secunit · 2 years

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Arada’s sadface is 100% of Murderbot’s impulse control.

#the murderbot diaries #tmbd #arada #perihelion #asshole research transport

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dollygale · 3 years

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if they really do end up adapting the murderbot diaries for tv, they’d better cast janelle monae. she’s sang from the perspective of a gnc robot struggling under late stage capitalism before MB was even a twinkle in martha wells’s eye. she’s earned it. she would do it so much justice.

#tmbd #just remembered she’s going to be in knives out 2 and i’m so fucking excited #but MB would be the perfect role for her #OR!! arada she would make a great arada

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lexicals · 3 years

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I think one of my favourite things about tmbd is the way it handles touch aversion - like, secunit is obviously incredibly touch-averse (though it's not clear how much of that is trauma related and how much is just part of its personality just yet), and the way that the (sympathetic) humans in the series react to that is really refreshing. It's not really present in ASR seeing as none of the crew know that it doesn't like being touched yet, but after that just off the top of my head I can think of:

Maro asking if it's okay with being hugged, and hugging herself symbolically when it obviously isn't

Don abene offering for miki to help with its injuries instead after it flinches away from her touching it

Soooo many in exit strategy.....

Pin-lee telegraphing that she's going to touch it before she does it, and only doing so because she needs to make a point to an outside observer

Mensah immediately waving it off from helping her up because she knows it doesn't like touching people, and holding onto its jacket instead of its arm or hand. I'm actually pretty sure she lets it initiate almost all of the physical contact in ES, barring the infamous "no" incident

Ratthi stopping short when it's struggling to stand up because he wants to ask if it minds being helped (& therefore touched) first

Arada bouncing up and down in place instead of hugging it

In "Home" secunit gets its own chair while the others are sharing sofas, and mensah turns down its offer when it asks if she needs to be hugged because she knows it doesn't like it

I can't remember a whole lot from network effect or FT bc I haven't read them as much but I'm pretty sure amena also avoids touching it unless she has to & also warns others that it doesn't like it

& like that's not even getting into the accommodations they make about the eye contact / being looked at thing? I just feel like a lot of the time in media touch aversion is presented as being something a character needs to get over or deal with somehow, but tmbd doesn't do that at all, very much the opposite. There are some elements in the narration that suggest to me that secunit might at some point reach a stage where it might be comfortable with physical contact from a very select number of people in a very limited way, but equally I wouldn't be surprised if its stance didn't change at all, and none of the humans around it would consider that an issue - they've already learned to understand the other ways it expresses affection (mb voice: ew) & where its boundaries are & that's just a part of its personality that they remember & are considerate of the same as anything else

Wow this got longer than I expected but anyway once again: Murderbot My Beloved

#wastepaper basket #murderbot lb #It's the autistic coding and the way that people don't force it into situations it doesn't like for the sake of seeming 'normal'#murderbot spoilers #Whenever I write these I want to call it murderbot but I always think abt the line from home where like #Mensah goes to call it that & then corrects herself bc she was never given permission to use that name #& like I know it's fiction but it still feels weird to use its private name bc like..... the audience is never given permission either rly

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chelshiart · 2 years

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Part 1 of 2: Team Preservation!

(Click here for Team Peri!)

I've this thing for using references while drawing, so drew a line-up of the characters before anything else! Tried to design as faithful to the books as possible - save for Thiago, as I wanted it easy to visually distinguish his place in the Mensah clan.