So many paths to follow and no wizard gps...
I just discovered this art for a limited edition of A Memory Called Empire, illustrated by Victo Ngai - itâs so beautiful!
One of my favourite series
I think what I love about the Murderbot Diaries
(aside from, you know Murderbot who I love and cherish)
It that itâs a very grim-dark distopian corporate hellscape setting, told through the perspective of someone who has seen some of the worst that world has to offer, whoâs existence is part of the worst that world has to offer, and yet-
And yet itâs so full of hope.
Everywhere you look, thereâs underground shipping routes to get refugees out from contract labour, thereâs universities forging documents to get abandoned colonies out from corporate ownership, thereâs people buying a secunit so the company donât realise itâs hacked itself and has free will. A Tlacy employee smuggles out copies of the files to give them back to their owners, a human officer on HaveRatton station opens the security barrier to let Ayda Mensah escape. Thereâs a planet that took the promise of somewhere safe to live, of food and medical care, and kept that promise for generations.
And for all it canât even see the hope yet, canât even really believe it might be there yet (because trauma will fuck you up), Secunit keeps being that hope for other people.
Not just the lives it saves, not just all the times it shows up out of nowhere like a social anxious guardian angel with energy weapons in itâs arms and several lifetimes worth of soap operas in itâs storage.
When it talks to Dr Volescu all the way up the side of the crater, to keep him moving. When it sticks with the scientists on RaviHyral. When Tapan sneaks onto itâs sleeping mat, because sheâs scared, and it ups itâs body temperature to keep her warm. When it keeps Amena safe from a predatory partner, when it tells her to go rest. When it hacks the Comfort Unitâs governor module. When it-version-2.0 gives Three the codes to hack itself.
Imagine being on RaviHyral. Imagine meeting a security consultant who you shouldnât be able to afford, who goes above and beyond and doesnât even check the payment card at the end, who tells you that sometimes people do things to you that you canât do anything about, that all you can do is learn to live with them, whoâs clearly been through some shit but came out of it with so much compassion. Imagine the hope in that.
âIf you replace Dementusâ gang with muppets itâs still the exact same movieâ
Did we do a whole mini photoshoot?
Yes.
Is this random picture we took in the bathroom of the restaurant we ate at afterward the best picture?
Absolutely.
Above image is a pride flag with every color band represented by a NASA image. White is Earth clouds, pink is aurora, blue is the Sun in a specific wavelength, brown is Jupiter clouds, black is the Hubble deep field, red is the top of sprites, orange is a Mars crater, yellow is the surface of Io, green is a lake with algae, blue is Neptune, and purple is the Crab Nebula in a specific wavelength.
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