I feel like I’m starting to get into the vibe of the show as its own thing, but omg the shortness of eps!!
Ep 4 gets the award for the most chaotic evade-the-bad-guy sequence ever LOL. While Murderbot is over here singing the Sanctuary Moon theme song (🤣) everybody on the team is all I CAN HELP! And then they sort of help! But sort of fail! But no really it winds up helping! Mostly! I do love the absolute sincerity of the characters, even when they’re bad at something. Do it scared, do it stupid, but just do it.
The Murderbot show is shaping up to be a perfect example of: “Well, we can’t please everybody, but we can do our best to please the absolute hell out of somebody,” and I’m thanking every star above that I happen to be “somebody”
Good to know that the showrunners are being very deliberate in keeping Murderbot aroace, since I’ve been some people being worried they would ignore that part of the books.
Thinking about how ridiculous Murderbot TV episode 4 is from evil survey SecUnits perspective.
Because can you imagine, you know your clients are assholes. It’s not like you get to have an opinion about it or do anything about it because Governor Module. But you know that killing others to hide your own fuck up is bad. But you’re a SecUnit so you have to do what they say bla bla.
So you do your deed when this other survey group shows up with their shitty SpaceNokia SecUnit. And it is so stupid and pings the habitat and all so you know it is coming. And it’s so caught up in analyzing the DeltFall SecUnits that it doesn’t even hear you approaching. (fucking idiot.)
So you take your shot and then drag it into MedCenter(?) to install the CombatOverrideModule when suddenly that bitch(gender neutral) starts singing?? About a place beyond the wormholes?? And you are like “??? Querry = Can SecUnits sing?” because why the fuck would any SecUnit sing? And that’s when the fucker gets up and punches you.
But since it’s an ancient SpaceNokia SecUnit (how is it still working?) you have no problem to manhandle it and install the COM. And now it looks really stupid. Which is when you get imapled on a mining drill and- Catastrophic Faliure *windows shut off sound* (Embarrassing.)
When you come back online the human target and the SpaceNokia are gone, so you go after them. And you hear the SpaceNokia talk about abandoning ship (this is a planet habitat) and holding off raiders (you’re a SecUnit)?
Meanwhile a random other human target approaches the habitat and slams the “open door” button repeatedly when it’s clearly been locked. (Querry = stupid?)
Human Target 1 and the SpaceNokia SecUnit lock themselves into the Security Ready Room(?) and you have to blast the door, which is no problem, just annoying. And when you do the human shoots you. (Embarrassing!)
And when you follow them outside random other human is there too and the Stupid SecUnit just stand around while you headshot one of them (but can’t kill them because orders suck). And just when you’re about to get Human Target 1, you get pinged that something huge is approaching from above and- oh shit it looks like a hop- Catastrophic Faliure *windows shut off sound*
my favorite thing is when murderbot has too many things going on and replies to a question with a canned buffer phrase. its so funny to me. you stressed out this poor robot so much it had no choice but to go into customer service mode.
The beauty of Murderbot being such an unreliable narrator in the books is that it is actually 100% plausible MB was hallucinating a self-insert Sanctuary Moon fanfic the entire time it was being rescued and left those details out of its narrative because they were too embarrassing.
I imagine that for MB, realizing it accidentally called Mensah “captain” out loud to her face like some star-struck ensign is a humiliation on par with a high school student realizing they accidentally called their favorite teacher “mom.”
i am literally the only person in my history class who has been turning in work consistently all year and i just got an email from my professor saying that if i’m not feeling up to it i dont have to bother writing the 18 page final paper he assigned i just have to not tell anybody god is real
For a while i thought you meant that you had to not tell people that god was real.
The main consequence of the majority of autism research being led by allistic scientists is that none of the questions we actually want answered will get answered.
Why do so many of us have gastrointestinal issues and food allergies?
What do normal brains vs brains with sensory processing issues look like via brain scans?
Etc etc
But noooooo, instead we have 800 fucking dehumanizing studies about the “cause of autism” and “autistic people have emotions apparently????”
I’d also say that we need more autistic scientists, but that would also require my rant about how academia discourages and alienates autistic people and others who don’t fit into a certain metaphorical box, despite science being ABOUT THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX.
Physical media is really awesome but please don’t discount sites like Bandcamp where you can buy DRM-free digital media. Buying raw media files lets you:
- Store a collection of millions of songs on a single hard drive (or burn them to CDs yourself!)
- Directly support artists, even those without the time/clout/resources to sell physical media
- With 20 minutes of effort, share your media library with anyone, anywhere, as much as you want.
Giant publishing companies are trying *really hard* to convince everyone that digital media is synonymous with you-don’t-own-shit streaming services, eternal subscription fees, and locked-down snoopscope video players. But there’s a reason so many artists sell their works online without those catches. Go support them!
baby dragons whose scales are much more shiny and iridescent in order to hide in their parents’ hoards
absolutely excellent top-notch thought here, but now you’ve got me wondering what’s trying to eat them
you misunderstand, this isn’t ‘I look like the ground so predators walk right past me’ camouflage, this is 'I look like the savannah grass so I can pounce on unsuspecting prey’ camouflage
they’re hiding in the hoards to bite the hands of unsuspecting humans who sneak past mama
Perhaps the shininess also makes them more endearing to adult dragons, increasing the likelihood of adoption if something happens to mama.
maybe dragons collect hoards to camouflage their babies
Oh man I wanted to read your transfeminist theory but then you called me zippertits, theyfab, tboy, uncultured, cuntboy, tmra, transtrender, and degenerate so now I’m starting to think that maybe your opinion on what constitutes good theory is worthless to me.
Oh god, Zippertits? That sounds like a supervillain. These people are just bullies, end of
…but i think maybe I have a new art project
beware of Zippertits
he’ll zipper your tits
okay I’m lowkey obsessed with this? he would be such a good wrestling heel…
Wrestling heel was totally the vibe I was going for, so here’s a more dramatic pose.
an important thing to remember about colonialism is that places that were colonized were not perfect utopia but often full of their own horrors and abuses
the other important thing to remember about colonialism that the above does not justify colonialism
hi. if you’re a young person or teenager who happens to be following me: write it down! keep a secret diary, a notepad, a blog your parents don’t have access to. write it down. keep a record somehow.
when i was a little kid and both my dad & i were being actively abused by my mom, he was familiar enough w her gaslighting that he instructed me at elementary school age to write down all the horrible things she did/said to me. it would be useful in court when custody was being argued and it would be useful to ME, years later, when my mom would try and convince me none of it happened. i had the proof, often word for word, that it did–and there was no hope in convincing my mom but a lot of hope in convincing myself and holding my stance against her. it was pivotal to advocating for myself and my feelings and eventually leaving her in my dust!
write it down!!! it’s so frustrating to have to deal with this bullshit, whether your parents are outright abusive or just fucking toxic/dysfunctional assholes. but you can do something for yourself and your mental health and that something is writing it down.
Yeah bury it in a box in the woods and write in it once a month if you have to, but write that shit down. I wish to fuck I had.
Saved by the actual killer; let’s not forget that Luigi Mangione was almost certainly framed and is most likely not The Claims Adjuster. (I love that name. Robin Hoodie was good too, but The Claims Adjuster is perfect.)
I mean. Days after the killing, he is still carrying around the weapon and a handwritten manifesto in his backpack? A 3d printed weapon, which he could have melted down and destroyed, or thrown into the Hudson River, because the thing about 3d printed guns is that unlike standard manufactured guns, it’s really hard to identify who printed them? When his bag was searched out of anyone’s sight, hours after his arrest? By a notoriously corrupt police district under pressure to make an arrest?
We need to stop accepting reflexively the narrative the NYPD and the media have tried to sell us; it’s got way too many holes in it and it runs the risk that an innocent man will spend his life in jail or be executed for a crime he didn’t commit. The fact that we would all support him if he did commit it is irrelevant; the state will grind him through the gears of injustice if it can.
“Authors should not be ALLOWED to write about–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
“This book should be taken off of shelves for featuring–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
“Schools shouldn’t teach this book in class because–” you are an anti-intellectual and functionally a conservative
“Nobody actually likes or wants to read classics because they’re–” you are an anti-intellectual and an idiot
“I only read YA fantasy books because every classic novel or work of literary fiction is problematic and features–” you are an anti-intellectual and you are robbing yourself of the full richness of the human experience.
“you are functionally a conservative” is such a good and clarifying insult
Literally right after I saw this post, I saw another post in a discord chat for BOOK EDITORS in which an outspokenly liberal editor talked about how Nabokov should have never been published because he wrote about p*dophiles and described women’s bodies in ways that made her uncomfortable. She described his writing as “objectively terrible” and said she wanted to burn his books. And other editors were bringing up classics they didn’t like and talking about how they wanted to throw them in the trash. This wasn’t like a light “unpopular opinion!” conversation. This was actual book editors talking about how books should be destroyed and censored.
There is something so scary and toxic in global culture right now. The revival of fascism is influencing everyone’s mindset and approach to art, regardless of where they fall on the political spectrum.
I see far more books being censored today than when I was a kid. Librarians handed me The Catcher in the Rye, The Sexual Politics of Meat, and Animal Farm when I was literally 8-11. My mom would never have taken a book away from me. I read everything from the Tao Te Ching to the Qur'an to atheist texts under my desk at school. Teachers thought nothing of it or encouraged it. Books seemed universally acknowledged as sacrosanct to me.
Now I can’t find any adults who don’t hesitate or want to make exceptions when it comes to censorship. Even the most liberal social activist librarians I know go, “well except for book X…”
Functionally conservative. It’s so important to have the language to express that.
