Hey folks, tagging suggestion for us to consider: Why don't we use the tag #mutual administrative assistants for any content of Murderbot and ART interacting, and save #murderhelion for shipping Murderbot and ART? A lot of people like Murderbot & ART's canon dynamic and relationship, or queerplatonic content in general, and still blacklist shipping tags because they do not want to see romantic or sexual content of these characters.

Especially with romantic non-sexual content, there isn't a way to block romantic content of these relationships except by blocking ship tags. In addition to using ship tags as appropriate on posts discussing a romantic/sexual relationship, leaving those tags off of posts depicting a platonic relationship helps our fellow fans who would like to be able to engage with posts about the characters' relationship while avoiding romantic or sexual shipping.

Anyway, personally, I've always preferred the portmanteau #ARTbot- that's the one I use for platonic/queerplatonic pairing content.

my favorite thing about john gaius is that i often need to be reminded that he's evil. like i'll be trucking along engaging with him as a normal guy who's just a bit of a dick. i don't like him much, he makes some bad choices, says some insensitive things, but he's just john. he's just john who's a bit of a dick. he could be your manager at any retail job, a teacher with an annoying grading policy, a relative you don't like visiting. sometimes illogical, sometimes insensitive, sometimes failing to read the room, as people sometimes do. and then something happens. he says something, does something, and the john normalguy facade slips for just an instant, just a moment, and i go "ohhhh right he's an evil wizard who wiped out all life on earth and then crowned himself god-emperor of a warmongering necromancer space empire and he's currently wearing a crown made from the bones of human babies. i had. forgotten."

can i hear it for odd and unusual women

Fanfiction exists for TWO reasons:

• Dealing with complex thoughts and emotions I can't work through in therapy, like grief, despair, a complicated relationship with pain and addiction
• Seeing the same characters fuck over amd over again

MATTHEW LILLARD as Cereal
HACKERS (1995)

Matthew Lillard and Angelina Jolie in Hackers (1995)

Hackers (1995)