Just Finished Catching Up On Dungeon Meshi. What Am I Gonna Do With Myself Now While I Wait For The Next

Murderbot, when interacting with anything: thinks in a string of biting asides and sardonic observations in between pondering death, mayhem and carnage. Also Murderbot, when confronted with an even more sarcastic transport ship's snark: You SNARK Miette? You SNARK MIETTE LIKE I'M A VULNERABLE EMOTIONAL BEING THAT WANTS TO FEEL SAFE? Oh OH! Jail for giant hyperintelligent transport ship! etc.

CHILCHUCK TIMS SAYS WORKERS RIGHTS!!

Inspirational words for freelancers, hourly paid workers and salarymen alike

(There will be stickers, watch this space :,,)

anyone else ever wish they could lie down harder? Like, I'm already horizonal, but I need more horizonal. I need to be absorbed by the floor. I think that would fix me

Spectrum of overwhelm, now in triangle form due to popular demand

I hope I'm not just a mutual to you, but someone you want to bring up in irl conversation so you have to awkwardly and cryptically say "my friend..." and refuse to elaborate on my origins or the origins of our friendships

I would like to manifest more of this in my life

𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔠𝔬𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔢 + 𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔣𝔩𝔬𝔴𝔢𝔯𝔰 + 𝔣𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔥 𝔞𝔦𝔯

I’ve seen a lot of videos going around of urban-dwelling critters coming to humans for help with various problems, ranging from boxes stuck on their heads to young trapped down a storm drain, and it’s gotten me to thinking:

On the one hand, it’s kind of fascinating that they know to do that.

On the other hand, setting any questions of how this sort of behaviour must have arisen aside for the nonce, does it ever strike you how weird it is that we’ve got a whole collection of prey species whose basic problem-solving script ends with the step “if all else fails, go bother one of the local apex predators and maybe they’ll fix the problem for no reason”?

Yes! The lateral violence! I see this so much irl as a lower class American so the parallels are paralleling! I'm screaming about it from the rooftops.

something I found very interesting throughout the series was all the lateral violence

sure eventually SecUnit starts to ever so slightly reduce the violence it does to other SecUnits but it still doesn’t fully recognise its own bias against SecUnits.

anyway here’s some SecUnit on SecUnit violence ft System Collapse

It’s battle style kept giving me over-dramatic wrestler-grappler vibes, lots of up close grappling and desperate scrambling, and i also like doing figure studies soooooo

I really liked in the last two books especially network effect it had more introspective thoughts

it’s constant running thoughts and internalised hatred about how awful secunits are

that it admitted to itself that its angry all the time in one brief line then never went into it deeper

how willing and eager it is to tear other sec units apart but hesitated on killing people (admittedly took a few books for that to happen) and starts disabling instead

doesn’t quite make that connection between the constant anger, the safety it feels in being violent to other secunits and the anxiety and fear it still feels about humans in power over it.

but the others are not so violent against secunits and it starts to secondguess its responses (but not quite its internal thoughts)

then starts to disable (some) secunits where possible and even voluntarily giving some govmod hacks

perhaps it’s starting to recognise other secunits are people too? may or may not branch out to combatunits when?

secunit gets trauma therapy when

one of the most challenging skills i've had to learn as an adult is the art of figuring out whether i'm proportionally annoyed with someone or just tired and overstimulated and looking for reasons to be pissed off