mars

the thing about fitz is that i genuinely turn into a concerned grandmother whenever he’s on page. maybe part of that is being introduced to him 4.8 seconds after he gained childhood sentience but even when he’s a 60+ year old haggard man with a double (triple?) digit kill count and grown children of his own, anytime he makes a questionable choice i just wanna sit him down at a round kitchen table beneath some tomato-printed curtains, offer him an oatmeal raisin cookie, and ask him “baby, tell meemaw what’s really on your mind.”

Rip FitzChivalry Farseer, you would have hated answering emails

Chade... You immortal, you're already 100+ years old. The last man standing fr

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

Fugitive Telemetry is technically a murder mystery but 70% of it is actually just Murderbot being in baffled and somewhat-skeptical awe of Communist Paradise after spending 40 years under dystopian hypercapitalistic rule and going "damn bitch you live like this????" every other chapter except the "like this" is a steadily growing list for things like "having human rights"

Amena is on the survey because her education requires an internship in almost getting killed, I guess.