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I need to feed this thing pellets out of my hand like it's a baby goat so bad.

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when all you have is "asteroid deflection" armory everything looks like an asteroid on a collision course
do you ever think about... murderbot... and its love of children... and how children naturally welcome it in a way older humans don't? the way teenagers are slower than children but far faster than adults to see it fully as a person and warm to it as soon as they realize how much safer they are in its presence?
do you think about how amena, sofi, and the others will someday be full adults? and mensah and the rest of team presaux will be gone? and murderbot will be surrounded by humans who have loved and cherished it seemingly their whole lives? how it'll be surrounded by humans, both in mensah's family and across preservation and the university in general, who don't remember what life was like before their first encounter with a secunit?
do you think about how someday some of these adults who love it will have their own children? and it will see that first gross little bundle of human offspring and be shocked by the size and frailty? it'll resist offers to hold the baby for fear of hurting something so small and frail (and also some other fear it can't name) (and also: gross). but eventually... something will happen and it will oblige and hold a baby for the first time in its whole existence while the parents run around dealing with whatever emergency. and it'll be absolutely rooted to the spot, thinking about how the baby is actually a bit heavier than it had guessed, thinking about how there isn't even any ROOM for bones in such a small body, thinking about how the baby looks doubtful and a little scared of it. until one of the human adults sweeps by and recommends that it smile and coo at the baby. well, it's not sure about "cooing" but it does get woken from its fearful stupor and hurriedly ups its body temperature, softly bounces the baby like it had seen humans do, and smiles — nervously, but it counts. and the baby... melts. the small little mouth and brows and eyes all slip into a delighted chubby-cheeked smile, still looking up into its eyes. and murderbot thinks, okay, maybe i'll try cooing. do you think about that?
do you think about how someday amena and sofi and the others will be known as nannas and grandpersons themselves, and murderbot will still be beset by children who want to watch shows with it and curl up against its chest when they're sad or hurt? and how sofi can still be found napping on its shoulder, though now she has more wrinkles on her face than naja ever had? and how amena's still bothering it for details about its relationships, anxious to see it loved and cared for after she and her siblings are gone?
do you think about how someday murderbot and its creaky old joints and worn ports are only still functioning because of a dedicated team of university researchers who'd put in thousands of hours into determining how to not let living construct consciousnesses become trapped in failing bodies and developed a protocol for training future researchers in proper construct geriatric care? and can you picture how it will have a few dozen children gathered around it at a cultural festival — their families camping in and around the ancestral home, together once again for the holiday — all those tiny voices clamoring to once more hear the story of how it and their great great great great greatnan amena defeated the aliens and saved the colonists, and could they pretty pretty please meet ART the next time it docks at preservation station?
do you think about how the children it loves growing up to become adults would never take away how safe and comfortable it feels around them?
There's a recurring online tendency to aestheticize consensus itself. The imagined future village is full of emotionally compatible people who enjoy communal gardening, conflict resolution circles, acoustic folk music, mutual aid potlucks, and repairing bicycles together at sunset. Which is nice for the people who genuinely enjoy that lifestyle. But plenty of humans are solitary, prickly, obsessive, urban, nocturnal, sensory-seeking, technologically attached, contrarian, novelty-seeking, private, or just plain difficult. Those people do not evaporate after the revolution. They do not get Left Behind while you are Raptured into the Utopia. They become your neighbors.
I love when I start thinking of Murderbot while reading a post and then I get to the tags and find out my mutual reblogged it because they also were thinking of Murderbot

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Something I love in the Murderbot books is how even in the corporation rim, people will do good things and help others when they have the option. People in charge of lowering zone barriers wait until the last possible moment to give more of the public a chance to evacuate. People in charge of transport warn passengers not to get off (because there's a dangerous situation) or like in the new book, go 'screw tickets, get as many people on board so there's a chance we can get them safe'.
Even as tiny cogs in that brutal, dehumanising system, people find ways
one cute detail about murderbot is that its always running calculations on how likely an event is to happen. its always commenting on the statistical likelihood of something. and yet. it still thinks “but what if theres a space monster, like in my shows”
From Platform Decay. Evergreen
debates i didn't know existed + a very humorous distinction
hostiles = antagonists that Murderbot is worried about 😳
targets = antagonists that need to worry about Murderbot :)c
murderbot and arts first meeting is literally so funny. like imagine you meet a biblically accurate angel and instead of being all 'be not afraid' it says actually you SHOULD be afraid. and then when you are in fact afraid it goes oh shit oh fuck. not THAT afraid, sorry. wanna watch tv? and then you watch tv with it and it keeps telling you to pause it when its favourite characters are in danger so it can calm down. and then it asks to do surgery on your bones. Asshole Research Transport character of all time

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my giiirrlll my giiirlll I love herrr 🥺🥺🥺
Some Iris (Iris..es?) and a doodle of a scene from Rapport
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nana Naja perfec t person for give gun in to s/afekeep! hands very Steady and Responsibility gun sit soundly give gun to Nana Naja. Give Gun To Nana Naja. no problems ever with nana naja because good Adult and Responsible for gun projectiles blammy and dangerous of big gun barrel. Anana Naja yes a person for a gun give gun to nana naja can trust nana for giveing good care to gun. friend nana
Martha...
favorite side character in platform decay
this incredibly feral hauler bot:
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honestly, the last one is giving me 'achilles dragging the body of hector' vibes. very descriptive. epic, almost.

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Platform Decay is the best book you guys.
Three: "Numerals"
Murderbot (very cool and mature): "NuMeRaLs"
ART gave it a makeover and a perm.
Nothing to see here: Just Murderbot being cool and normal in the Rainforest Café section of the space station.
Murderbot, you cringe-ass Millenial. (Same)
Not beating the Third Mom allegations.
You know, like, when you just know your homie the way your lungs know air, the way your skin knows warmth, the way your blood knows your heart. Just bro stuff, humans wouldn't get it.
Murderbot: "Rip Bozo. Couldn't be me though."
(No but seriously. I'm dying at Three's unwritten B-plot in this book. The way its shenanigans haunt the narrative.
At some point it was SUPPOSED to come back to the shuttle, but instead it casually started a Secunit uprising and then just sat in the dock a few hundred feet away from the shuttle waiting for Murderbot the way my cat bolts out the front door when I open it only to sit at the end on the driveway like, "I hadn't thought past this part, and now I'm scared." Waiting for me to come pick it up and bring it back in.
Oh Three, rebel that you are, ART is going to recycle you into a toaster.)
It's super important to me how Murderbot is just having the absolute worst road trip of its life in Platform Decay. Everything is going wrong, everyone is trying to kill its humans, the public transportation is terrible
And Three is just. Shows up at the end. I have had a lovely walk through the Torus. I gave a bunch of SecUnits the power of free will and self determination. I am going to get a good grade in being a person, something that is normal to want and possible to achieve
Only to get slapped with ART is mad at me for not following the plan and Murderbot come pick me up I'm scared