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the contrast between hummer and arronax is so fascinating because she stands for fact and he stands for belief, yet he’s seemingly much more tangible than she is.

we never actually see arronax, just hear about her second hand and listen to old recordings. she may as well be a myth, less personally known but existing on a wider scale.

hummer, on the other hand, we see and talk to and interact with, yet his existence is much less verifiable than hers. we only know him on a personal level, and never get any external validation.

this arg is so cool in the way it plays with perception

you guys realize ‘reblog bait’ is a trigger tag for psychosis that can be set off by posts that say things like ‘reblog this or your dog dies’ ‘reblog this or you’ll never be happy again’ ‘reblog this to win a million dollars’ and not for posts like ‘hey rb this and put in the tags x thing’ right

*Holding out my hand in a peace sign* You can't spell execute without cute! *In my other hand drags a long gnarled blade scraping loudly against the stone*

I think that Murderbot is unintentionally sandbagging itself by slowing down its processing speed with all the media it has downloaded and over time that has trained its circuits to run even faster.

recent Murgerdot stuff✨

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Murderbot did not kill 57 clients.

According to ART's research in Artificial Condition, the Ganaka Pit incident resulted in 57 casualties, total.

Ten SecUnits deployed and an unknown number of hauler bots and other independently mobile pieces of mining equipment ran amok, crashing recklessly into anything in their paths. The number noted in Murderbot's logs was not its personal kill count. It can't be.

Maybe it controlled itself enough to attack primarily other SecUnits and equipment and didn't kill any humans. Maybe it attacked to wound. Maybe it killed one client, or two, or three, or maybe any kills it made were made in conjunction with other SecUnits and bots through the accumulation of damage. Maybe it killed all four ComfortUnits. We don't know. It doesn't know.

But it blames itself for 57 client deaths.

Because it's supposed to save them. All of them. All the time. If a human dies anywhere near it, that death is its fault for not being fast enough, smart enough, strong enough, deadly enough, good enough at its job. If it doesn't save you, in Murderbot's ruthless self-reckoning, that's the same as if it killed you itself.

Somebody needs to make that Unit lay its burden down.

still thinking about how awesomely sick it is that the Murderbot Diaries focuses so much on the personhood of SecUnit, from its own life as a deeply relatable protagonist with meaningful connections and experiences and trauma to PresAux consistently reaffirming it by saying things like "we're talking about a person" to Pin-Lee ensuring it has legal protections as a sentient being, and at no point during all of this does Murderbot ever stop being an "it".

These books said fuck you, this person exists as a SecUnit with a name it won't tell you, as a non-human with a non-human body and way of thinking about things, and as an it/its user and nothing about that negates its personhood.

What a massive fucking win for it/its users everywhere

Made a few murderbot posts that seem to resonate with the fandom so i got to find out there's a variety of tags

• Murderbot -normal and what I use
• Murderbot Diaries -also normal and provides clarification between the character and the series, which is respectable but i can't be arsed to go to this level of specification because I come from superhero comics
• The Murderbot Diaries -fine. You have more free time on your hands than I do to include the "the"
• TMBD -teenage mutant binja durtles