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The media isn't just a cute quirk of an entertainment addicted security robot, but instead an example of how watching visual media can change how you approach the world, other people, and develop empathy for everyone around you even if you disagree with them.

I love your take on Murderbot's media and agree completely. Media teaches us about other people! It's especially relevant for me as an autistic person — I was pretty overwhelmed by people when I was young, and a lot of what I know how people think and feel I learned from books and tv. I see a lot of that same needing-distance-but-being-interested-by-humans in Murderbot!

"Michigan Seems Like A Dream Now" made me cry, too. Whoah. Thank you for linking it. ♥ I have read a lot of post-Earth, living-among-the-stars fiction but never encountered a piece with quite this kind of unique wistfulness. I feel like it subtly translates the solastalgia that we feel now, in the 21st century, into a fictional form that we can look at from the outside.