Cpt Hawk’s Reviews > Network Effect > Status Update

ART would love Gayle Waters-Waters confirmed

Are ART & Murderbot platonic or romantic? Frankly a useless question I'm not sure if it makes a difference. But regardless of what type of relationship they have, the fact that everyone and their mother is asking MB if its going to stay forever like at the end of the first Mulan movie ... I didn't know I could be so indulged. Is this??????? Emotional fulfillment??? Narrative catharsis????? I'm going insane.

Murderbot: I was a tool. Just an object. A weapon. Not even a person. *Nobody* thought I was a person.

ART, sweetly and with all the menace of a giant university transport ship with one thousand guns and enough intellect to actually destroy planets: And are any of the humans who thought you weren't a person in the room with us right now? Asking for a friend. <3

Network Effect is actually just a romance novel about ART and Murderbot, and not only am I right, I'll also never shut up about this. Shout out to the fans who write fanfic of ART & MB fucking, but honestly that would be WAY less devoted and intimate and loving than what they've got going on here.

Points to Ratthi for being the best wingman ever. He really knew ART was too cowardly to score itself a date but uhhhh skill issue, not same for Ratthi. That man dove for his chance to tell Murderbot that ART was going to blow up a planet to get Murderbot back. And ART, fucking clown, tried to laugh it off??? ART you owe Ratthi your goddamn life, SPILL the TEA when Ratthi says GO! HE IS GIVING YOU A CUE!!!!

I paused on finishing this book I guess because I found the prospect of ART coming to rescue its wife (Murderbot) so scream-worthy I simply could not proceed. Well. You won't believe what I've been doing. (It's screaming, I've been screaming.) Oh my god I'm having SO much fun. Kicking my feet and giggling. Twirling my nonexistent hair. Screeching because I'm watching the invention of love & devotion!

Murderbot 2.0 I love you SO unspeakably much

Ah, so ART and Murderbot are inventing love, I see. This is fine, this is normal, I am normal about this. (read: ahem. I AM NOT NORMAL ABOUT THIS.)

Oh my beloved Murderbot you have so many fwiends <3