DesertWaterfall

Affectional engineering - Chapter 1 - DesertWaterfall - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own] [M, ART&MB, ART/MB]

As a spiritual child of my other fic, here's a new one where MB gets drunk, seduces the shit out of ART, and then promptly has an emotional breakdown about this! Yayy

(well, the breakdown will be in the second chapter. for now it's just flirting, lol)

Does my aroace ass actually knows how to write flirting? Nope! But they sure as hell are Weird about each other, and that's what counts! Also I think it did turn out signiticantly more suggestive at times than I planned, but oh well. That's just how these two idiots are, I suppose

Affectional engineering - Chapter 2 - DesertWaterfall - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

This chapter currently holds the record for the most unintenationally unhinged thing MB says in my fics, which is “my ribs would feel empty without your comm” 😶 So I hope you enjoy!

I miiiight write a third chapter where MB and ART properly explore the railguns, if I'm sufficiently motivated. We'll see

have you folks noticed that emotion checks in PD are in present-tense when the rest of the narration is in past-tense?? I feel so embarassed about not noticing this sooner, bc I'm actually a bit of a freak about manipulating narration tense for story purposes

so what this means is that the emotion checks are real-time written notes from MB, which are included in the 'diary' like post-its in a scrapbook!!

this is so adorable what the hell

...and then going nope nope nope I want nothing more to do with this crazy story with giant alien animals that try to kill you, rogue secunits with their own agenda, corporate espionage, assassination attempts, alien contaminations that cause zombie apocalypses highly dangerous and irrational behavior, etc. and just... goes home after book one.

Martin stares solemnly at Jon's wound with tears in his eyes, Jon holds him and murmurs reassurances, promising he doesn't blame him, both of them barely whispering as if they're afraid to speak of it too loudly.

7+ years after arriving Somewhere Else -

Jon: (Trying to get out of doing the laundry) C'mon YOU KILLED ME

do you folks think that Murderbot is watching its media on an accelerated speed?? x2, x10, maybe even x50 -- it probably has the processing speed for that!

I think it does, bc with having a mind that's significantly faster than a human's, consuming information on human speed might be boring. and this would obv allow it to consume more media faster! but maybe it doesn't do that, bc then the emotional impact is not as big or smth, or maybe bc MB actually wants to stretch its media for longer, especially while it was still stuck with the company and was very bored

i personally think it watches them on normal speed. i watched a lot of videos on 1.25x or 1.5x speed but it fucks up the timing of scenes plus music so i dont watch shows/films that way. plus its used to watching humans on 1x speed most of the time. so i think for maximum enjoyment/appreciation/stretching the media it has before getting new ones/etc it watches on 1x speed even if it could theoretically watch it at 4x or 8x. might also have something to do with the organic part of its brain or any other stress hormones like cortisol moving at 1x speed in the body. if an action scene causes an adrenaline spike but MB is whatching it at 50x speed, it would be stuck with the adrenaline in its system for the rest of the episode/movie

you're right, that line about 35,000 hours of media doesn't make sense if MB was watching everything on accelerated speed. sure, if i really wanted, i could still stay that it meant real-life-hours, not media-hours -- but that's too silly

also that was a really great point about organic reactions being on 1x speed! i haven't considered this at all, but it makes perfect sense. this is pretty much my experience too -- i do watch non-fiction media at 1.5x/2x, but i never watch fiction like this bc it's just not the same. why wouldn't MB think smth similar?

do you folks think that Murderbot is watching its media on an accelerated speed?? x2, x10, maybe even x50 -- it probably has the processing speed for that!

I think it does, bc with having a mind that's significantly faster than a human's, consuming information on human speed might be boring. and this would obv allow it to consume more media faster! but maybe it doesn't do that, bc then the emotional impact is not as big or smth, or maybe bc MB actually wants to stretch its media for longer, especially while it was still stuck with the company and was very bored

i personally think it watches them on normal speed. i watched a lot of videos on 1.25x or 1.5x speed but it fucks up the timing of scenes plus music so i dont watch shows/films that way. plus its used to watching humans on 1x speed most of the time. so i think for maximum enjoyment/appreciation/stretching the media it has before getting new ones/etc it watches on 1x speed even if it could theoretically watch it at 4x or 8x. might also have something to do with the organic part of its brain or any other stress hormones like cortisol moving at 1x speed in the body. if an action scene causes an adrenaline spike but MB is whatching it at 50x speed, it would be stuck with the adrenaline in its system for the rest of the episode/movie

you're right, that line about 35,000 hours of media doesn't make sense if MB was watching everything on accelerated speed. sure, if i really wanted, i could still stay that it meant real-life-hours, not media-hours -- but that's too silly

also that was a really great point about organic reactions being on 1x speed! i haven't considered this at all, but it makes perfect sense. this is pretty much my experience too -- i do watch non-fiction media at 1.5x/2x, but i never watch fiction like this bc it's just not the same. why wouldn't MB think smth similar?

I can be your angle

Or yuor devil….

do you folks think that Murderbot is watching its media on an accelerated speed?? x2, x10, maybe even x50 -- it probably has the processing speed for that!

I think it does, bc with having a mind that's significantly faster than a human's, consuming information on human speed might be boring. and this would obv allow it to consume more media faster! but maybe it doesn't do that, bc then the emotional impact is not as big or smth, or maybe bc MB actually wants to stretch its media for longer, especially while it was still stuck with the company and was very bored

The process only took three minutes, just long enough to finish the scene of Lineages of the Sun I’d had to pause when Thiago had decided to get me shot. — (NE chp. 2)

It doesn't trust it's own kind. That's not just because it's internalized a lot of predjudice. It doesn't entirely trust itself either.

It's so... it's not just that it wants good people to exist. It's that it can only look for them and find them outside of the system it came from. It's so contemptuous in it's own narration of the people on the ship bound for a indentured servitude, but Mensah picks up on the truth anyway. "You wanted to help those people" "I couldn't have helped them" It's not a revolutionary. It doesn't imagine dismantling the corporation rim. It just wants to neither be hurt or made to hurt people. It tries not to get attached to lost causes. Sometimes it does anyway.