The one who drives

So all of the critiques that we could be making about capitalism about how necessities are withheld from people? That goes out the fucking window, because the main character doesn't actually need any of these fucking things, and doesn't even want them, and all of the other people it hangs out with are disgustingly rich and never need money for anything because they literally live in a place that's also run on slave labor but Martha Wells tells us that we should see it as a Utopia.

Literally there are no fucking poor people in this series whatsoever. We never see people who are forced to go hungry, we never see people who are left out in the elements, we never see people struggling with horrible jobs just to survive, none of that.

She's not actually criticizing capitalism in any fucking way, she literally purposely threw away 90% of her opportunities to criticize capitalism, and with the remaining opportunities, she takes every chance she can to instead shill for corporations while pretending that she's somehow criticizing them.

The murder bought diaries isn't actually anti-capitalist or anti-corporation, it's not only pro-slavery propaganda, it's literal fucking pro-capitalist propaganda, because every time she could be actually criticizing it, she instead does propaganda for it, like saying as fact that is never ever ever ever ever ever ever refuted, and is in fact held up as true, that you should definitely let corporations investigate themselves, because they want to get to the truth and they will expend every resource necessary to find out who hurt you, because they want to protect you.

And that is genuine. That's not sarcastic, she literally wants us to think that corporations should be trusted to investigate themselves. Because they will do the right thing.

Even though that's like, anti-capitalism 101 basic fucking corruption. But she wants us to think that it's totally fine and awesome and corporations will always try to get to the truth, And then heroically reveal that truth to the public.

Sure, every now and then one of the disgustingly rich characters from the slave labor run " " utopia will be like "gee wilickers, that other slave labor run place really sucks!" And the protagonist will sarcastically go "wow, are you only figuring that out now?" And then that's literally the end of the fucking conversation!

And then the next scene we'll have Murderbot, the fucking protagonist were supposed to love and adore, saying that it's mean and cruel to graffiti over corporate logos, because that means... Wait for it... you're dehumanizing the corporation, just like people dehumanize Murderbot, and you don't want to be like the people who are ~mean~ to Murderbot, do you?

(There will be zero discussion of the fact that Murderbot as a Black physically disabled person is constantly being dehumanized not only by all of its slave owners, but *also by the author herself*. Istead, we are just focusing on the fact that Martha Wells hates graffiti and thinks it's inherently bad and evil, and this was even before she wrote Rapport, where despite claiming to enjoy archeology, she claims that graffiti is bad and therefore the beautiful Ancient Aliens bullshit mural that the dogistingly rich genocide spectators came to see is definitely magically totally separate from the rest of the graffiti!!)

literally I'm not joking, she wrote an entire scene where she equates putting graffiti over corporate logos to dehumanizing slaves, a thing she doesn't actually want us to think is bad, or she wouldn't have written this series the way she had and is, but she still says it in this 5 seconds where she tells us not to graffiti over corporate logos.

Because she really fucking hates graffiti and thought claiming it's the same as dehumanizing enslaved people would be a good excuse to demonize it.

you can't make this shit up. Martha Wells is such an antiback classist piece of shit she decided to equate graffitiating over corporate logos to *dehumanizing enslaved people*. And she's 100% serious.

but yeah. She literally made it so that the story where she's supposed to be criticizing capitalism fundamentally cannot and will not actually criticize capitalism in any fucking way, because she doesn't actually want to, so she's writing the story so that she doesn't ever have to. We will never fucking see the most basic aspects of inequality that capitalism relies upon, because our protagonist literally does not need anything to survive except a bare minimum level of oxygen, and this isn't even a fucking world where everybody is forced to walk around with their personalized subscription based oxygen tanks!

You can write a story criticizing capitalism when you're protagonist is a fucking immortal literally doesn't need to eat, need water, need shelter, need clothes, and barely needs to breathe, but why the fuck would you want to do that, and furthermore *Martha Wells doesn't even want to do that*, and she sure as hell is *not* doing that.

This isn't a story about an immortal person (And again, notice how the white woman from Texas has made the literal enslaved people superheroes who are super powered? And literally don't require any of the normal things to survive? Yeah this is a fucking pattern) Who has to watch helplessly as they're mortal friends are forced to suffer the effects of capitalism while not being able to do anything to help because as a slave of the state, they don't get paid so they can't even fucking contribute to the goddamn food and shelter fund.

That's not even what this is. Because every single person murderbot has ever met are disgustingly rich people in an isolationist fucking quote-unquote utopia that's also literally right on slave labor.

The series isn't criticizing capitalism or corporations. Martha Wells doesn't even actually want to do any of those things. More than half the time, she's doing propaganda for them instead!

If you listened to the murderbot diaries and Martha Wells, you would think it's a fantastic fucking idea for oil corporations to investigate themselves for the cause of the oil spells, because according to Martha Wells in the murderbot Diaries, corporations will always put every resource they have into finding the truth and revealing that truth to everyone and you should trust them implicitly because they will always tell the truth!!

Stop lying to people and telling them that the series is progressive or even remotely anti-capitalist. It's fucking not. And this is even before we get to the ridiculous fucking prices of these things that don't even add up to a fourth of a goddamn actual book, and the fact that the first four of them are blatantly one really shallow book that was chopped into four so that Martha Wells and the corporation she's publishing through could justify selling 25% of a really shallow shitty book for the same price as an actual well written full length novel.

Rapport should have been the last fucking straw for most of you motherfuckers, but you are also racist you don't even care that she literally has disgustingly rich academics that we are meant to adore casually and happily welting past a genocide without even thinking about wanting to help. You are already racist if you accept that without question, and you are actively becoming more racist every time you continue to praise these books and double down on defending Martha Wells's slavery apologism and genocide apologism and so much more. These books are actively training you to become a slavery apologist, and most of you are just 100% happy for that to happen because you are already a slavery apologist before you even started reading these.

If those statements piss you off, because you don't think of yourself as a slavery apologist or a racist, congratulations, this is one of your literal endless opportunities to stop fucking defending this shit and start actually using critical thinking skills.

I promise you, you can go and read other books. Including literally for free.

You want the bare minimum recommendation? Go and read the Imperial Radch Series, The thing Martha Wells explicitly cites as her direct inspiration for writing all systems red, Go look at the actual writing and actual anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist critique that she read, and then completely fucking bastardized and purposefully misinterpreted to continue upholding her racist slavery apologist, and so much more worldview.

There are literal public domain books written before segregation was officially outlawed in the United States that care more about enslaved people than Martha Wells does in 2026.

Go fucking read The Velvet glove by Harry Harrison. It is a literal short story and it accomplishes everything in in a short fucking story that Martha Wells will never ever fucking accomplish in anything she writes, because she doesn't actually think that slavery is bad at the end of the day.

That's why it's 2026, and the newest fucking book still has the protagonist demonizing other slaves and still prioritizes disgustingly rich people over poor people and enslaved people at every opportunity. To the point there's literally not any single fucking named characters who are poor. They literally don't exist in Martha Wells's worldview because the only people that matter to Martha Wells are rich people who are literally all slave owners.

The fact that this fandom tries to argue with me that the preservation ox team are not slave owners because they're nice to murder-bot when that's literally a not fucking true they are disgustingly and horrifically abusive to murderbot even before we get to the part where owning a slave is inherently abusive, literally their entire fucking planet is run on slave labor. Even if they hadn't gone solar systems out of their way to enslave murderbot, they are all slave owners because their entire goddamn economy is run on slave labor and they all profit from it and they are happy to do so.

#MY SIBLING IN CHRIST

Did you fucking know that meme came from Christians stealing phrases from Black people but removing the N word to pretend they own it?

Also, I'm not a fucking Christian, do not fucking associate me with your bullshit.

#book two#(2)#(the second one)#starts with murderbot being on a transport with a bunch of humans who unknowingly signed themselfes into indentered servitude#and are only now realising what shit they got into

Yes, person who thinks simply stating actions without admitting how they're framed is the same thing as providng evidence the story isn't racist and classist, and how does the narrative treat those people who were sold into slavery?

Hm? How does the narrative treat those people who were sold into slavery?

It demonizes them to hell and back and presents them as the worst people imaginable. Murderbot doesn't even think about trying to help them, because we're not supposed to care about them. If we were, the narrative would have done something other than victim blame and demonize them.

#the corporations using slave labour is a frequently mentioned topic ffs

Wow. Did you know that simply mentioning that slavery exists is not the same thing as actually condemning it?

You wanna explain to the class how every slave that's not Murderbot or ART gets treated in this series?

You wanna explain to the class why all of the characters we're supposed to like are all disgustingly rich slave owners, or exactly two (2) slaves who are One Of The Good Ones?

Miki was killed off as soon as Martha Wells could, to show that it's One Of The Good Ones, because it kills itself to protect its slave owners.

Three? Immediately gets demonized and retconned to be Scarily Mentally Ill and didn't actually have friends among the othse slaves, don't be ridiculous!!! It just *hallucinated caring about other people* and cannot be trusted around Murderbot's precious adorable slave owners, because, like all slaves that's not One Of The Good Ones, it might snap at any time and go on a rampage "for no reason".

You wanna explain to the class how many slaves have been murdered and tortured to death by the protagonists, who are only ever rewarded for doing so? And how none of the protagonist we're meant to see as good people ever even THINK about how upsetting this is?

No? You're just gonna ignore, and now blatantly lie about that?

Yeah. Typical fandom racist behavior, shocking to literally no one.

#also the presaux crew#and it's clients in book two are fucking BROKE

Lookie! Racist media stans straight up lying in the most blatant ways possible.

Imagine claiming that the Preservaton Aux team are poor people. Motherfucker, Mensah is literally the president of AN ENTIRE FUCKING PLANET RUN ON SLAVE LABOR. She owns a massive house and a farm and did I mention is the president of the entire planet?

Stop lying if you're going to claim to be doing media analysis.

"but the people in book 2 were poor!!!" no they literally were not. They're also rich academics who literally got paid to do whatever they wanted, and do their own separate research on another company's time. They're not poor just because Martha Wells tells you to feel bad for them because they're not *purposefully* renting a slave to use as a human shield for them.

They are literally rich academics who literally got paid to goof off on company time and do whatever they wanted, and didn't struggle to pay for a single thing the entire story, or even talk about struggling with money in the off-screen imaginary backstory land that means nothing.

Try the fuck agaim.

#i mean the literal reason the plot of the books eaven happened is because the presaux team got the cheapest secunit they could get

You mean the rich motherfuckers from a planet run on slave labor went solar systems out of their way to rent out a slave to use as a human shield and for manual labor because paying for an actual team of people they admit are people would be more expensive?

Wow!!!! IT's almost like slavery is an economic system!!! It's almost like slave labor is chaper than labor you actually pay someone for for a reason!!!

Also, no, you're flat out lying again. They didn't get "the cheapest secunit they could get". You're thinking of the fucking TV show, which has nothing to do with the books, exept further condemning Martha Wells as a happy white supremacist for cheering on her Black nonbinary protagonist being whitewashed by a cis white man whose family has just fucking *decicated* itself to whitewashing non-white characters!

#and before you say anything their other stuff is said to be cheap too

Again. "But it was cheaper for them to use slave labor!!!!!" isn't the defense of fucking slavery you think it is.

#same with it's clients in book two

Literally not true. You are literally fucking lying right now. Try again.

#three is kinda ambigous

Three is ambigous about what? Being demonized like every other fucking slave in the series that's not ART, Murderbot, or Miki, who killed itself to protect its slave owners?

the only one that can be considered “rich” is ART & co

Martha Wells' slavery apologism and classism is working so well these people are convicing themselves that disgustingly rich academics whose entire planet is run on slave labor, who are literally the fucking president of said entire planet, are magically not rich people, they're totally poor people, just like us!!! That's why they have free and unending access to food, medical care, and own acres and acres of land, along with all the slaves that work on that land!!!!

Give ma fucking break

Also, no, ART isn't rich. ART is a fucking slave. The colonizing university that owns it is rich, as are the rest of its slave owners. But ART is not. The fact that you don't even grasp that ART is just as much a slave as Murderbot or Miki or any of the other namesless slaves who get demonzed and tortured to death by the protagonists is literally proving how well the slavery apologism in this series is working.

#also what are you talking about utopia being run by slaves? you mean presaux?

The fact that you're pretending not to know this is literally making you look worse, you understand that, right?

they littelary don't do that?

Why do you think lying about basic facts of the series will make you look good? You literally are just making a fool of yourself. This is just pathetic.

Preservation Aux is literally run on robot slave labor. The robot slaves are literally owned by their employeers. Also known as, blatant fucking slavery. Just because Martha Wells wants you to think this is okay and fine doesn't mean you get to lie and pretend it's not slavery or that you don't know what's going on when book 1 spelled it out explicitly in one of the few things this dumpster fire of slavery apologism ever did right, before of course, throwing that out the window as the rest of the series wants you to forget those surface level criticisms of "nice slavery" and just accept that nice slavery is totally different from slavery!!!

#also you describing secunits as superpower weapons that are dangerous to all those around them shows that you didn't pay much attention when#reading

Again. Lying.

Martha Wells literally went out of her way to make the slaves in this story literally super strong, super fast, immortal, never run out of energy, don't need to eat, don't need to sleep, don't need to use the bathroom, barely need to breathe, are completely unbothered by extreme temperatures, and can magically hack anything they want at any time, oh, and also literally have guns in their arms that never missfire, never run out of ammo, have no range limit, never jam, and never fail ever, at all.

But this fucking coward wants to lie and claim they're totallyy not super powered oppressed or anything, or that the narrative isn't constantly literally telling us point blank that slaves who aren't One Of The Good Ones just need to stay enslaved, because they're too dangerous to let have free will. Think of the poor innocent slave owners who've never done anything wrong in their lives!!!!!

#sorry hun but it just seems you're making a bad faith interpretation of a book for#woke points

And more antiblackness on top of the slavery apologism you've already decided to defend, like the cowardly racist peice of shit you are.

Good job, showing everyone how The Murderbot Diaries fandom literally cannot defend it without completely fucking making shit up, and spewing more slavery apologism and antiblackness.

The attempt at being condescending while literally keeping this shit in the tags liek a coward is fucking hilarious.

Thank you for once again proving to everyone that everything I say about this series and the fandom is true. You people will just pull the most blatant lies out of your asses when you're not repeating back the exact same slavery apologism as though it makes it fine when you say it.

Somehow, Murderbot comes across and decides it needs to be on the Hail Mary. It does the usual “offer all my media” thing, but Mary’s all “Oh, no thank you. I have pretty much everything ever on board already ❤️.”

Murderbot decides it DEFINITELY needs on this ship now.

So all of the critiques that we could be making about capitalism about how necessities are withheld from people? That goes out the fucking window, because the main character doesn't actually need any of these fucking things, and doesn't even want them, and all of the other people it hangs out with are disgustingly rich and never need money for anything because they literally live in a place that's also run on slave labor but Martha Wells tells us that we should see it as a Utopia.

Literally there are no fucking poor people in this series whatsoever. We never see people who are forced to go hungry, we never see people who are left out in the elements, we never see people struggling with horrible jobs just to survive, none of that.

She's not actually criticizing capitalism in any fucking way, she literally purposely threw away 90% of her opportunities to criticize capitalism, and with the remaining opportunities, she takes every chance she can to instead shill for corporations while pretending that she's somehow criticizing them.

The murder bought diaries isn't actually anti-capitalist or anti-corporation, it's not only pro-slavery propaganda, it's literal fucking pro-capitalist propaganda, because every time she could be actually criticizing it, she instead does propaganda for it, like saying as fact that is never ever ever ever ever ever ever refuted, and is in fact held up as true, that you should definitely let corporations investigate themselves, because they want to get to the truth and they will expend every resource necessary to find out who hurt you, because they want to protect you.

And that is genuine. That's not sarcastic, she literally wants us to think that corporations should be trusted to investigate themselves. Because they will do the right thing.

Even though that's like, anti-capitalism 101 basic fucking corruption. But she wants us to think that it's totally fine and awesome and corporations will always try to get to the truth, And then heroically reveal that truth to the public.

Sure, every now and then one of the disgustingly rich characters from the slave labor run " " utopia will be like "gee wilickers, that other slave labor run place really sucks!" And the protagonist will sarcastically go "wow, are you only figuring that out now?" And then that's literally the end of the fucking conversation!

And then the next scene we'll have Murderbot, the fucking protagonist were supposed to love and adore, saying that it's mean and cruel to graffiti over corporate logos, because that means... Wait for it... you're dehumanizing the corporation, just like people dehumanize Murderbot, and you don't want to be like the people who are ~mean~ to Murderbot, do you?

(There will be zero discussion of the fact that Murderbot as a Black physically disabled person is constantly being dehumanized not only by all of its slave owners, but *also by the author herself*. Istead, we are just focusing on the fact that Martha Wells hates graffiti and thinks it's inherently bad and evil, and this was even before she wrote Rapport, where despite claiming to enjoy archeology, she claims that graffiti is bad and therefore the beautiful Ancient Aliens bullshit mural that the dogistingly rich genocide spectators came to see is definitely magically totally separate from the rest of the graffiti!!)

literally I'm not joking, she wrote an entire scene where she equates putting graffiti over corporate logos to dehumanizing slaves, a thing she doesn't actually want us to think is bad, or she wouldn't have written this series the way she had and is, but she still says it in this 5 seconds where she tells us not to graffiti over corporate logos.

Because she really fucking hates graffiti and thought claiming it's the same as dehumanizing enslaved people would be a good excuse to demonize it.

you can't make this shit up. Martha Wells is such an antiback classist piece of shit she decided to equate graffitiating over corporate logos to *dehumanizing enslaved people*. And she's 100% serious.

but yeah. She literally made it so that the story where she's supposed to be criticizing capitalism fundamentally cannot and will not actually criticize capitalism in any fucking way, because she doesn't actually want to, so she's writing the story so that she doesn't ever have to. We will never fucking see the most basic aspects of inequality that capitalism relies upon, because our protagonist literally does not need anything to survive except a bare minimum level of oxygen, and this isn't even a fucking world where everybody is forced to walk around with their personalized subscription based oxygen tanks!

You can write a story criticizing capitalism when you're protagonist is a fucking immortal literally doesn't need to eat, need water, need shelter, need clothes, and barely needs to breathe, but why the fuck would you want to do that, and furthermore *Martha Wells doesn't even want to do that*, and she sure as hell is *not* doing that.

This isn't a story about an immortal person (And again, notice how the white woman from Texas has made the literal enslaved people superheroes who are super powered? And literally don't require any of the normal things to survive? Yeah this is a fucking pattern) Who has to watch helplessly as they're mortal friends are forced to suffer the effects of capitalism while not being able to do anything to help because as a slave of the state, they don't get paid so they can't even fucking contribute to the goddamn food and shelter fund.

That's not even what this is. Because every single person murderbot has ever met are disgustingly rich people in an isolationist fucking quote-unquote utopia that's also literally right on slave labor.

The series isn't criticizing capitalism or corporations. Martha Wells doesn't even actually want to do any of those things. More than half the time, she's doing propaganda for them instead!

If you listened to the murderbot diaries and Martha Wells, you would think it's a fantastic fucking idea for oil corporations to investigate themselves for the cause of the oil spells, because according to Martha Wells in the murderbot Diaries, corporations will always put every resource they have into finding the truth and revealing that truth to everyone and you should trust them implicitly because they will always tell the truth!!

Stop lying to people and telling them that the series is progressive or even remotely anti-capitalist. It's fucking not. And this is even before we get to the ridiculous fucking prices of these things that don't even add up to a fourth of a goddamn actual book, and the fact that the first four of them are blatantly one really shallow book that was chopped into four so that Martha Wells and the corporation she's publishing through could justify selling 25% of a really shallow shitty book for the same price as an actual well written full length novel.

Rapport should have been the last fucking straw for most of you motherfuckers, but you are also racist you don't even care that she literally has disgustingly rich academics that we are meant to adore casually and happily welting past a genocide without even thinking about wanting to help. You are already racist if you accept that without question, and you are actively becoming more racist every time you continue to praise these books and double down on defending Martha Wells's slavery apologism and genocide apologism and so much more. These books are actively training you to become a slavery apologist, and most of you are just 100% happy for that to happen because you are already a slavery apologist before you even started reading these.

If those statements piss you off, because you don't think of yourself as a slavery apologist or a racist, congratulations, this is one of your literal endless opportunities to stop fucking defending this shit and start actually using critical thinking skills.

I promise you, you can go and read other books. Including literally for free.

You want the bare minimum recommendation? Go and read the Imperial Radch Series, The thing Martha Wells explicitly cites as her direct inspiration for writing all systems red, Go look at the actual writing and actual anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist critique that she read, and then completely fucking bastardized and purposefully misinterpreted to continue upholding her racist slavery apologist, and so much more worldview.

There are literal public domain books written before segregation was officially outlawed in the United States that care more about enslaved people than Martha Wells does in 2026.

Go fucking read The Velvet glove by Harry Harrison. It is a literal short story and it accomplishes everything in in a short fucking story that Martha Wells will never ever fucking accomplish in anything she writes, because she doesn't actually think that slavery is bad at the end of the day.

That's why it's 2026, and the newest fucking book still has the protagonist demonizing other slaves and still prioritizes disgustingly rich people over poor people and enslaved people at every opportunity. To the point there's literally not any single fucking named characters who are poor. They literally don't exist in Martha Wells's worldview because the only people that matter to Martha Wells are rich people who are literally all slave owners.

The fact that this fandom tries to argue with me that the preservation ox team are not slave owners because they're nice to murder-bot when that's literally a not fucking true they are disgustingly and horrifically abusive to murderbot even before we get to the part where owning a slave is inherently abusive, literally their entire fucking planet is run on slave labor. Even if they hadn't gone solar systems out of their way to enslave murderbot, they are all slave owners because their entire goddamn economy is run on slave labor and they all profit from it and they are happy to do so.

hi

finally sat down and designed the icons for narinder's weapons in chimes of bone, given the Crown crusader forms shift to match their bearers, and he decided it had to be DETAILED and PRETTY despite them being ICONS-

he still gets the scythe and the spear in place of the hammer and the blunderbuss (heavy weapon and ranged), and also i gave him the flail instead of the shield (still love you shield, hope they use you in-game someday)