Where Am I

And at the same time, Company SecUnits are treated much worse than Three by virtue of being rentals. Many--if not most--of Murderbot's clients didn't want to have any SecUnits, but were required to take them per Company rental agreements for other equipment. Even the ones who specifically did want SecUnits didn't have any investment in what happened to them. They were the equivalents of the U-haul you'd rent to move your couch across town. They just needed to do a job briefly and hopefully be in good enough shape to get their deposit back at the end, but if not, eh. No big deal. Murderbot has never had the same clients for very long, and it's never had to work with the same SecUnits for very long. Every contract changes. Nothing lasts.

I can’t do that without negative consequences

I can’t do that unless I have support for it

I can’t do that

You see the vision!

the terf in my inbox was yelling at me about how the shower menstruation scene is integral, but nobody thinks about the horror trans girls deal with on a daily basis just trying to use regular public facilities.

Highlights include:

For your first two years (when you were small) you lived in a foster home with people who raised you into a very polite young man. Two is like you plus me, that's what two is.

Some people adopted you before me and they called you Timmy (which is a stupid name) and they returned your ass almost immediately because you were so annoying at that age.

Like think about how annoying you are right now at seven years old, but way worse.

I'm better than them though, I don't call you Timmy and I wore earplugs to bed for three years because you love to scream at bedtime. Earplugs are like when I roll over and go back to sleep even when you are yelling so so so loud.

I got you at a time in my life when I was really sick (being sick is like when I'm up late because I'm throwing up and you are a very handsome good boy who sits with me) and they had to put me asleep for a procedure. A procedure is like what happened to you when they put you asleep and took your balls away.

It is no coincidence, however, that once someone has “collected them all” from a specific set of personal commitments — paranoia about seed oils; rejection of vaccines; a belief that biohacking or “data” or artificial intelligence can make humans physically immortal; a nostalgia for “traditional” foods or gender relations — we can pretty much predict which political forms they will favor. [...] Couched in the boosterish language of the online wellness guru, their projects link perfecting the physical self to building a better future for white men and those who love them. The “robust energy and biological resilience” of Liver King’s “ancestral lifestyle” is fueled by patriarchal values as much as by raw liver.

So what was it like for the people who lived in these “wildernesses,” what happened to them, and what evidence is left of their lives?

mutual-1: had eggs for breakfast today

mutual-2: this post contains blocked tags

one-smeemble-figure-a-day: Smeeble with Strawberry, Happy Fun Company, 1997

fandom-mutual: does anyone ever think about blorbo’s oedipius complex

fantasy-nouveau: the most gorgeous illustration you’ve ever seen from some book published in 1903

retching-ribcages: a bunch of pictures of a sculpture collection depicting various household objects as meat

mutual-3: i hate this show i hate this show i hate all of you this place sucks

birds-are-cool: Splendid Fairywren (Malurus splendens), Native to Australia

blog-you’re-trying-to-impress: snorkum does NOT give good head hes gonna bite your shit and then start crying

fandom-polls: Who gives better head? (blorbo) (snorkum)

pretty-colors: #857ef4