Tumblring intensifies.

sources say there are muscles in the back of my neck. and they want to kill me

I’m not sure this will make sense to anyone else, but Miki was a client. Arguably, Miki is THE client in Rogue Protocol. It’s Miki that essentially hires Murderbot, not the humans. It’s Miki that asks for assistance, not the humans. (Granted this is because MB implies it’s there as extra security, but still, the person turning to MB for help is Miki not the assessment team). But the fact that Miki is a bot obscures that fact from both MB and the audience. MB helps humans, protects and saves humans, so it doesn’t fully understand where the guilt it feels comes from. It’s not just that Miki wanted to be its friend; it’s that Miki was a client who died. In fact, it’s the only client in the series who does die. And worse, Miki died trying to help. Given that so much of MB’s identity is wrapped up in being able to protect and save its clients, no wonder it’s so messed up about what happened to Miki.

Murderbot really said “I’m not gonna be an asshole and yell at Three. ART can totally do it for me though.”

hey. don’t cry. murderbot telling jokes to mensah on the feed at the exact same time it’s still wishing everyone else thought it was a robot, ok?

ooh I got pliny of elder

tagging/content warning systems for media are often mocked outside of fanfic which is kind of too bad because i do think it'd be a really interesting vector of literary analysis to examine what the author or publisher thinks they should be informing their audience about vs. the actual content of the media in question

tagging my work devoid of any explicit sexual content as "dubcon" and sitting back to watch people fight over what i could have meant by this like i'm a roman emperor watching gladiators being devoured by lions in the coliseum

your strengths are harder to see than your weaknesses because the problems you're good at solving don't appear as problems, because you're so good at handling them before they become problems... unlike the relatively rare problem that becomes a crisis, which demands undue attention. it's sort of like a reverse survivorship bias. the problems that become noticed as problems, the moments where you notice your capacity has a gap, are only the ones that aren't cut off at the pass by your strength and capability, before they become problems. so if all you focus on is problems then all you'll see is your weaknesses. which isn't accurate