I want to raise my freak flag higher and higher

The other series that I am actively obsessed with would be The Murderbot Diaries--which, if you haven't read them, I'd highly recommend! Let's go ahead and see how much crossover there is between these two fandoms, shall we?

And for those of you who haven't read Murderbot, I'm pretty sure I don't include any real spoilers in this!

1. Kaladin

Kaladin: Honestly, I really identify with Murderbot. Syl (worried): Kaladin, you're not a mur- Kaladin: The urge to protect... Kaladin: That time when I was guarding Adolin on his date with Shallan and they kept forgetting I was an actual sentient being... Kaladin: Being constantly confused about how into romance everyone else is... Kaladin: Having been enslaved... Syl: Wait you're right--I can totally see it! Kaladin: Maybe I basically AM Murderbot.

2. Ranette

Ranette: Wow...Murderbot sure gets a lot of use out of its gun-arms... Ranette: Never has to draw its weapon... People don't know the guns are there until they're being shot... Ranette: ... Ranette: Hey, Wax? Wax: No. Ranette: You're no fun.

3. Lightsong

Lightsong: Wow... I really identify with Murderbot's anxiety about its lost memories... Lightsong: I too lost my memories and so didn't know what my past might have meant... Lightsong: It wanted to know whether it disabled its governor module because it killed people or because it wanted to kill people... Lightsong: I didn't know what I did to earn my Return... Lightsong: ... Lightsong: Of course, I was treated like a god while Murderbot continued to work in corporate slavery, so maybe it's not that similar. Lightsong: Oh, well.

4. Starling

Starling (reading to herself): "...transports sentient enough to be mean," huh? Starling: See--I'm right to be worried about Awakened Metalminds!

5. The Father Machine

Father Machine: Sure, when Murderbot follows its security programming, everyone is all, "Ooooh Murderbot, we love you." Father Machine: But when I, an AI Rock-Stacking Machine...

6. Dusk

Dusk: Space ships... Traveling through "worm" holes... Dusk: ... Dusk: Giant glowing space worms that eat holes in the universe, perhaps? Dusk: That's probably it.

7. Adolin

Adolin: Wow... It seems like everyone in this series is in some kind of group marriage... Adolin: Getting to marry several people? That would solve so many problems! May: Adolin, you could barely get ONE person to marry you! Adolin: ... Adolin: 😔Harsh but true...

8. Nikaro

Nikaro: Broke through its programming, gained free well, but just kept performing its corporate slave job, huh? Nikaro: ... Nikaro: That would be [lowly] me.

9. Nightblood

Nightblood: Szeth! You have been holding out on me!! Szeth: What is wrong, Sword-Nimi? Nightblood: It/its? They/them? Te/ter? You've been holding out on me about pronouns! Szeth: Sword-nimi, did you read a series about a sentient weapon that seizes its own destiny and come away from that experience thinking mostly about pronouns? Nigthblood: Destiny-schmestiny, nobody told me there were so many OPTIONS!

10. Dalinar

(Yoinked this from LinkedIn, genuinely interested in seeing how responses align with demographics) (so far it’s those of us over 35 being indignant but I wanna see how those fully plays out) (it’s cultural and technological history/memory, bruh)

Anniversary of APOLLO 11 MOON LANDING

On July 20, 1969, 109 hours and 42 minutes after launch, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin entered the lunar lander ‘Eagle’, made a final check, and the Eagle undocked from the lunar orbiter ‘Columbia’, where the third member of the crew Michael Collins, stayed in orbit around the moon. Partially manually piloted by Armstrong, the Eagle landed 0 degrees, 41 minutes, 15 seconds north moon latitude and 23 degrees, 26 minutes east moon longitude. Armstrong stepped out, and Aldrin followed 20 minutes later: human beings stepped on the moon for the first time. The two men spent 21 hours and 26 minutes on its surface. One of the astounding aspects of the mission was the seeming simplicity of the technology used to get man to the moon. According to Oliver Gassmann, professor of Technology Management, the mobile phone in your pocket has one million times more memory than the Apollo 11’s computer. Same about the procesor: the latest phones typically have more than 100,000 times the processing power of the computer that landed man on the moon 50 years ago.

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn’t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.” –Neil Armstrong

Discworld Textposts III

"I survived one war. I'm not ready for another one. I saw what it did." "To the Jedi?" "To everyone."