B12

Ok someone has to take this away from me before I drive myself insane attmepting to idk art better 🙈

POV you’re interrupting mbart media time. rude, honestly :/

stills:

(spoilers up to System Collapse)

Anti-capitalism! There are both subtle and very not subtle references to corporate slavery. And it is bad!!

Pronouns! Including ones that don’t exist! And it’s normalised!

Diverse relationships also normalised

Positive mental health message! Murderbot is told explicitly in text to get therapy for their trauma, refuses to, and consequently makes its own situation actively worse.

I am unironically shipping Murderbot and a spaceship (Asshole Research Transport. ART clearly tops). Why do they have so much chemistry together? How is the text actively supporting this ship (What do you mean they combined their coding to ‘birth’ a clone?? And then immediately sent it on a suicide mission that has had traumatic flow-on effects?? And are we getting a jealousy trope now too with Holism???)

“My humans”

Why are all the bots so damn cute??? (it’s because they speak in simple code, know nothing except their mission, and enjoy media entertainment)

But I've held that opinion for so long now that I can no longer imagine its absence well enough to explain it to other people.

re-re-reading in advance of platform decay coming out and am still noticing new things.

in this moment, secunit doesn’t tell us what the what the “actual emotion” is or what its expression looks like. but miki’s reaction makes it clear that it doesn’t look angry or annoyed… it looks scared. possibly even terrified. at the concept of a human touching it.