Strange Occurrences

The Murderbot Diaries are a power fantasy about being aromantic and still developing extremely important dedicated emotionally intimate partnerships where you are a top priority in a person's life, equal to their other family or romantic attachments despite your own emotional difficulties. And having guns in your arms

And accurate portrayal of the purpose of comfort shows.

crazy how you can get used to working around problems that have very easy fixes. for like 6 months we used a hand towel to jam a kitchen cabinet closed because the hinges were broken and it turns out fixing it took me like $5 and 20 minutes. bedroom door has been squeaky for years and all it needed was a lil wd40. im sure this can apply to mental health too but i wouldnt know about all that.

why is the human body composed of such capricious tubes

I'm sure a post to this effect has been made before but, as someone who does love a good tantalizing food description/image in the stories I enjoy, I also love very much the way Murderbot describes food its humans eat in the same way it describes other things it doesn't care that much about- like "crunchy things out of bags" (chips? popcorn? pretzels? chex mix??) or "hot liquids" (tea or coffee? cocoa? warm milk?) or "a bag of raw plant product" (baby carrots? cucumber slices? just plain lettuce???) or, my favorite, "fried protein in the shape of water fauna and flora" (RaviHyral's version of dino nuggies?????)