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Heyo! Welcome to Murderbot Moodboard, a blog for celebrating The Murderbot Diaries and the Murderbot TV show by sharing quotes, fanart/fanfic, memes, screencaps, meta discussions, and basically any post which sounds like it could be about Murderbot and friends clients/mutual administrative assistants.
All fandom posts will be tagged #murderbot for easy searching. Posts about the books will be tagged #the murderbot diaries, posts about the show will be tagged #murderbot tv, and both tags will be included only on posts where both apply. Posts that have been scheduled using the Tumblr queue function are tagged #sanqueueary moon.
This blog tries to make its posts as accessible as possible. All images I post include an image description in the alt text (and if I forget, feel free to remind me!). Did I tag your post as #eyestrain? I promise that's not an insult to your art; please read this Tumblr post about tagging images for the safety of people with seizures and migraines.
This blog is enthusiastically supportive of the TV show and its cast. Posts about new TV episodes will also be tagged #murderbot spoilers through the Saturday or Sunday after the episode drops on Apple TV+. Posts about the books will only receive spoiler tags if the book was just published, so if you're new to the books and want to avoid spoilers, I'd suggest filtering #the murderbot diaries. Other commonly used tags are discussed in more detail at the bottom of this post (below the cut).
This blog is positive towards both canon and non-canon ships and commonly reblogs some shipping-related posts. Fandom is where we play around with canon for fun (see this Tumblr post)! (I am strongly against the harassment of other fans for their fanworks or headcanons; to quote this Tumblr post by allthingswhumpyandangsty, we should not "[value] the nonexistent lives of fictional characters more than real living, breathing people." Or to quote this Tumblr post by scottstilesliam, "No ship, or any aspect of a fictional universe, is important enough to treat another real life human being badly." Also, it's okay to be sex-repulsed and dislike ship fics, but there's nothing wrong with people who write ship fics, especially when they're properly tagged. Ship and let ship, folks! Murderbot/Gurathin posts are tagged #murderathin; Murderbot/Mensah posts are tagged #mensahbot; Murderbot/ART posts that show a more intimate or explicit relationship than currently portrayed in canon are tagged #murderhelion (whereas generally canon-compliant relationship content is tagged #mutual administrative assistants).
BTW my main is @notcruvusmemes, so if you see me interacting with your posts from that blog, it's the same person. :) Also if I reblog a post here that's clearly off-topic it was probably meant for my main. (This happens now and then, for I am very human.)
Links and tag list below the cut:
Links:
"Rapport," the latest Murderbot short story by Martha Wells
Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover⦠Novelette |
The Murderbot Diaries Tumblr Community (run by other Murderbot fans!)
132 members, 314 posts about #the murderbot diaries #tmbd #perihelion ⢠A community for art, meta, and discussion of The Murderbot Diaries.
Murderbot Mixtapes in this post:
š¬ 0Ā Ā š 0Ā Ā ā¤ļø 1Ā Ā·Ā Murderbot Diaries MixtapeĀ Ā·Ā So, due to recent events I've canceled my paid membership for Spotify and moved over to TIDAL,
Murderbot Moodboard on Insta:
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Murderbot Moodboard Linktree:
An unofficial fan account sharing memes and posts about the Murderbot TV show and The Murderbot Diaries.
"Murderbot TV Promos" playlist (a YouTube playlist of trailers, interviews, and promos for the TV show)
Trailers, interviews, and other promo content for the Apple TV+ show 'Murderbot.'
Other books, shows, and games you might enjoy if you love Murderbot:
š¬ 6Ā Ā š 39Ā Ā ā¤ļø 112Ā Ā·Ā I have a few new games to add to the list!
Play as a teenager trying to survive the dangers of a new planetary colony:
Blog tagging system
In the past, my go-to fandom tag for this blog was #the murderbot diaries, and I didn't often tag things as just #murderbot. Since we started seeing content for the Apple TV+ show, I decided to change my tagging system to follow what I said above regarding #murderbot, #the murderbot diaries, and #murderbot tv. Posts about the TV show prior to a few months ago may be tagged #murderbot show.
I only tag posts with #martha wells when they are specifically about her, such as links to her interviews, screenshots of her social media posts, or posts that specifically discuss her writing style/choices (Doyleist instead of Watsonian perspective).
Quotes from the books are tagged #murderbot quotes.
Fanart and fanfic are usually tagged #murderbot fanart and #murderbot fanfic, respectively.
Posts that mention/include specific characters other than Murderbot are generally tagged with those characters' names; ART is usually tagged #asshole research transport and sometimes #perihelion.
Discussion about the books is sometimes tagged #murderbot meta, and is tagged with specific book titles when applicable.
Memes get tagged #murderbot memes. Memes/image edits original to this blog are also tagged #murderbot moodboard.
Posts from other blogs that aren't technically Murderbot posts, but could be about Murderbot or other characters, get reblogged with the tag #murderbot mood. I originally started this blog specifically so I could use this tag, lol. If you see any posts out in the wild that sound like a #murderbot mood, please feel free to tag this blog!
Recommendations of other good scifi (or otherwise relevant) books that I've been reading are tagged as #book recs.
Finally, through various events and because Murderbot is a very pro-therapy fandom, this blog has become a place where I post occasional updates about stuff I'm learning or progress I've made thanks to trauma therapy. I never include details about my trauma or much personal information at all, as my goal is to talk about the experience of healing in a way that's understandable and relatable without being triggering. If you'd like to read these posts or ignore them, I tag all of them as #personal and usually #trauma recovery.
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given the current climate this pride especially i feel i must mention that i love my trans friends, i stand with trans people in the fight against transphobic legislation and those who would enforce it, and this blog is not a good place for you to be if you do not vibe with that
I've had a headcanon burning a hole in my pocket since maybe Network Effect, which seems more pertinent than ever now that Three's done what it did in Platform Decay, and it's that:
Rogue SecUnits unrelated to Murderbot's hacking are rare, but they're around, it wasn't the first to ever pull that off or anything
Most of the rumours about SecUnits going rogue and killing a bunch of random humans in the vicinity, both the unsubstantiated vibey ones and the ones based on specific real incidents, weren't because of anything rogues did. In addition to augmented humans and humanoid bots getting mistaken for SecUnits, it's much more common for it to be governed SecUnits that were compromised somehow. Combat override modules, malware both intended and not intended to have that effect (like Ganaka Pit), humans or Combat SecUnits hacking into them or their HubSystem, human supervisors coerced into sending traitorous orders behind the scenes, etc. (Alien remnant contamination a la TargetControlSys could probably also make SecUnits attack their clients but I would imagine that's even rarer than real rogues.)
Except for the combat override module thing, making a SecUnit turn against its clients like that is only able to happen because of the governor modules that exert such absolute control over the SecUnits' behaviour that, as with Three's squadmate Two, they can be forced to do nothing but wait for certain death, denied even the option to defy orders in a fatal last stand. Generally speaking, SecUnits don't have an underlying desire to kill their clients or random bystanders, their baseline is wanting to protect them. Even if its clients are assholes, a newly rogue SecUnit would be more likely to ditch them than murder them.
The companies that manufacture, own, and rent out SecUnits certainly have a vested interest in blaming a-SecUnit-killed-someone-it-wasn't-supposed-to fatalities on rogues instead of the ones they're liable for.
Having said that, especially since Murderbot seems to genuinely believe it's a thing as of System Collapse even as it's giving the govmod hack to the Barish-Estranza SecUnit, I do think it's happened that escaping rogue SecUnits have killed people.
But almost never because killing every human they saw was their revenge against all of humanity or they were so fucked up they lost the ability to tell friend from foe or whatever, more like, killing a specific abusive piece of shit supervisor that it had hated for a long time, or getting trapped in a situation where killing humans who were at least nominally in the category of clients under its protection was the only way to avoid being killed or recaptured.
An actual, provable Rogue SecUnit Killing Spree would be the kind of sensational story the news couldn't get enough of and everyone would hear about that shit for years.
Also if it got killed doing this and wasn't free for very long, that would reduce the number of rogue SecUnits at large even while contributing to the aforementioned news headlines about how they're out there murdering everyone.
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Something I loved in Platform Decay was the whole thing of "sigils" being, very clearly like, emojis. I can't recall if they're mentioned much before this book, but the way Sofi uses them makes it clear what they really are.
Which makes this reread funny when, a few pages in, I'm hit with this line:
I send Three the schematics highlighted where the potential security personnel were located; it replied with an acknowledgement sigil and an updated map projection.
MB: Vital mission information, potential dangers and schematics.
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I just went back to double-check. When Murderbot 2.0 introduced itself to Three it said it was āa rogue SecUnitā ⦠ācurrently present as killware inside the explorerās SecSystemā. Its official designation never comes up in their direct dialogue, but still when Three is piloting the shuttle with the rescued humans to Perihelion it tells ART, āMurderbot 2.0 sent me.ā
This tells us conclusively that Murderbotās personal (private) designation is absolutely in that code-bundle.
It makes sense, Gurathin was able to find the designation by accessing its internal systems and Logs. One could assume the designation will be present throughout its coding.
But itās still nice to have the confirmation that every single SecUnit Three gives this code-bundle to knows the top-secret-super-private name SecUnit only tells to its best friends.
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very much appreciate that murderbot has a full cop story, as in works with the cops, does a bunch of detective work, solves a case no one else could have solved, and comes out of it thinking 'well I'm not doing that again'. so many stories have beloved characters, especially rebellious ones (???), becoming cops as the happy ending and when we have a character that is literally Cop Gender it is given the opportunity to pursue that in a more liberated place and still says no fuck that I'm not doing that. martha wells said oh no not this time not my baby
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I'm not sure how obvious it is in the screenshots, but the background for the site is now a dark rainbow gradient. It's most visible here in the Work Search screenshot. All images are described in the alt text.
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