every time murderbot has to go on a mission with anyone other than the presaux crew it's always like "this fucking sucks, these people keep arguing with me and never do what i say. I miss my well-trained humans. Ratthi or pin-lee would follow my orders without hesitation. (Gurathin can go choke) #myhumans"

I do find Three to be such a fascinating addition to the Murderbot world because as soon as you have 2 datapoints instead of 1 you’re like “oh SecUnits have personalities. And ours is just an asshole.”

Rereading all systems red and the first 2 chapters are strong contenders of funniest intro to a book series. Jumping straight to action, and mb is giving us absolutely no info about anything. Who are those people? Some weird hippies it's not important. Why are they here? Mb does not give a shit. What is this planet? Fuck if it knows. Here is a small paragraph that fucking states everyone's relationship status like a wiki article that we are never gonna get back to. Ugh there are hostiles that keep us away from our media #our media.

murderbot queueing up a bunch of kid shows and art is like ????? where is my world hoppers?? and murderbot just really quietly says "tula was sad i didnt know who Glibby Glob was and it dropped my performance reliability by eight percent" and art's like well can't have that i guess. hit play

I feel classifying ART and Murderbot relationship as platonic or romantic is a doomed endeavor. They are so important to each other that that importance goes beyond labels. They have built a beautiful house on top of the blurry line between friendship and romance. Maybe I'm just projecting my difficulties in defining these terms in any absolutes. But I think it's beautiful that to them the difference doesn't matter. Love is there, and it doesn't care how it is named.

murderbot and arts first meeting is literally so funny. like imagine you meet a biblically accurate angel and instead of being all 'be not afraid' it says actually you SHOULD be afraid. and then when you are in fact afraid it goes oh shit oh fuck. not THAT afraid, sorry. wanna watch tv? and then you watch tv with it and it keeps telling you to pause it when its favourite characters are in danger so it can calm down. and then it asks to do surgery on your bones. Asshole Research Transport character of all time