Murderbot Quarantine Zone

Obsessed with how Murderbot and Perihelion were literally made to be together. Secunits were designed to interface with multiple larger systems like hub and med systems and to be part of a much larger network of bots and programs. ART is, essentially, a hub system that can react and interact with the other pieces of its systems in ways most hub systems can’t. It has the capacity to feel emotions but lacks the experience and inputs to be able to fully understand some of them until it uses Murderbots systems. Murderbot doesn’t have a deep understanding of humans and how to pass as one which ART gladly provides. ART cares deeply about its crew but can’t follow them into dangerous situations but Murderbot can. “Mutual administrative assistance” takes on a much deeper and more intimate meaning when it’s taken with the context of a software programs and its hardware counterpart.

My boss also reads murderbot and when we talk abt it she will refer to it with he/him pronouns bc “the person that does the audiobooks is a man” and idk maybe I’m just #transgalaxybrained but I’m like “yeah but the voice is p gender neutral and also it is only ever uses and is referred to by it/it’s” like you’re literally changing the story which seems HARDER to me. wtf. Anyway–

How common does she think it/its audiobook performers are? Would she be calling it 'they' if the performer used they/them pronouns?? What if Kevin R Free transitioned?? What does she think an it/its voice sounds like???

Former living weapon absolutely dominating at laser tag

7 minutes in heaven in the criterion closet

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

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?????)