But I am participating anyway.

Another Murderbot/Gurathin hand-holding drawing to go with my first one. Based loosely off Enemies, closer by a bunch of lovely people.

Pose reference (x)

oh so perfect…

Murderbot & Gurathin

IT’S HALLOWEEN TIME TO GET SPOOKY

I T S T H E M I D D L E O F J U N E

I T I S H A L L O W E E N T I M E T O G E T S P O O K Y

ok who the fuck got this on my dash it’s still june

get spooky

how does this appear every june

happy halloween :)

J U N E

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN

💀🎃💀🎃💀🎃💀

Given some recent discourse I would like to point out that not only am I a prolific author of:

fics on AO3, I am also the author of two of the three fics (the other fic has been made into a podfic in case you check and think I’m exaggerating here!) on AO3 tagged:

Takes a bow:

What can I say except, “You’re welcome!”

Ooh, no one asked BUT this is my first tagged as “shippy” fic!

Where I explicitly ship Murderbot and Gurathin (well, shipping occurs but there is nothing explicit on camera as it were)

It’s really sweet:

I love that the Murderbot books have this serialized episodic structure so they make Murderbot exactly what it wanted to see in the shows it watches. A hero SecUnit.

guys i got an advanced reader copy of system collapse and murderbot and art kiss at least once per chapter

I was even more surprised about the bit with Guarthin…

Chapter 4

There's finally a pronoun for BOT and it's "it".

Also wow a lot happened this chapter. They reach the other site and as BOT suspected every human there is dead, killed by their own murderbots. BOT fights them off but is captured. Thankfully it's saved by its humans, However not before being forced to download whatever order to kill all the humans. Before this order can take effect BOT shoot itself to stop this from happening.

So first of all I like that the humans care about BOT as much as BOT care about them, despite it is insistant that it's only for work. The humans also show that they are worthy of said attachment, even though BOT doesn't know how to interact with said attachment/care. It's wholesome.

Then it's the matter regarding the sabotage. It could be a case of the corporate overlords deciding this operation wasn't worth it and instead killing everyone involved. Or it could be someone in the group who's trying to get everyone killed. If it's one in the group my suspiciouns are on Gurathin who was fiddling with something right before the satelite went down. Gurathin is also the only augmented human so if the murderbots were given an order to kill all humans but the augmented one he would be able to survive. This is all speculation and I'm fully open to being wrong.

Lastly, in the last chapter BOT mentioned having gotten some "required update" it put away in its database-storage, since BOT has a "malfunction" of free will it's able to do that. I'm pretty sure that's the order for killing the humans (BOT didn't look at it at the time). And if the humans look into this will they learn that the reason BOT didn't go on a murderspree because of the malfunction? I don't think these humans will harm BOT, but will it give BOT other consequenses?

Hehehehhehe!

I am loving this!

where is that renaissance painting with those two fellers and a giant fucking random skull on the floor that looks like it was accidentally stretched out in photoshop

THANK YOU

somebody please explain

Someone once told me it’s like that because it was designed to be hung in a stairwell so the skull pops out as you walk past.

…I guess it works but you have to be at a pretty sharp angle

There was a whole trend at one point where artists would include something in their paintings (usually a skull, for whatever reason) that’s super distorted in just the right way so that it looks normal if you hold the painting up to a convex/concave mirror. I have absolutely no idea why. But I think that’s what’s going on here.

In case anyone’s curious, here’s what it looks like when you walk past it irl:

It does have a 3D effect to it! It’s pretty neat, guess it would be even more impressive to people from the 14th century.

honestly, people just looking at the skull are missing the real deal here

You can read any implied text you see in this thing, even the book, that’s how detailed it is. Look at the painting on those letters!

jesus christ you’re just showing off now, Hans!

HANS OH MY GOD

anyway, the skull apparently had some meaning about the transcendence of death, you can only see it clearly when you can’t see the world clearly and vice versa, but man, I’m all about the detail in this guy’s shit

No, I think you’re missing the real deal here

as an art historian, i think this is the best post on tumblr

From an idea that @rj-abacura gave me: Gurathin at 18, trying to escape his Corporate Rim contract and arrested by a certain SecUnit; then Gurathin 30 years later, a free man and member of PreservationAux, meeting that same SecUnit again.

Really liked playing with the same pose reference (x) and same person and color palette. What would change, what would stay the same...

Oh Gurathin!

Very Sonnet 73

That time of year thou mayst in me behold

When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang

Upon those boughs which shake against the cold,

Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang.

In me thou see'st the twilight of such day

As after sunset fadeth in the west,

Which by and by black night doth take away,

Death's second self, that seals up all in rest.

In me thou see'st the glowing of such fire

That on the ashes of his youth doth lie,

As the death-bed whereon it must expire,

Consum'd with that which it was nourish'd by.

[PS: This thou perceiv'st, which makes thy love more strong,

To love that well which thou must leave ere long.]

If you see this you’re legally obligated to reblog and tag with the book you’re currently reading

A flash fic! 1,000 words:

With the release of Bharadwaj’s documentary, a certain Survey Academic has been receiving hate mail—

By the way, the expression I imagine Murderbot pulling at the start is something like a this cat: