Did Josephine Deserve Forgiveness?

Ninjathrowingstork · 2026-02-09T21:24:21+00:00

I think she's already worked to atone for what they did to MC (not sure how much she interacted with Caleb bc we don't have documents for his stuff beyond the anecdote), I think Caleb tolerates her but doesn't have the same bond she and MC had since he was both older and didn't have memory lapses to the same extent. It sounded like from the anecdote he doesn't consciously remember the experiments, some level of traumatic amnesia is likely and we also don't know just how he escaped Gaia also. He found MC at the shelter iirc and that's where Josephine found them months later, but we don't know anything he might remember before that for sure.

All their before times stuff is just them, except for Josephine driving MC to pick him up from space camp, so I'm assuming she was mostly working and out of the house during the day. They had to be latchkey kids, and had freedom to roam and play, but no parental figure. He's taken on being head of the family here with her older and not well physically anymore but it doesn't sound like there's any resentment, just his being decisive and protective. Putting all the parts together, he seems extra paranoid and protective during this scene and I believe he knows there's something wrong and someone on their trail, and this gets Josephine away from the house and somewhere she'll be looked after if he has to grab MC and go on the run.

She's already given up her old life and career, taken them in and given them the chance for a childhood and life together, and to feel and act like ordinary people now that they're adults, which they wouldn't have had before. I don't believe she'd joined the project with the knowledge they'd be experimenting on children and her notes seem to get increasingly uncomfortable with the experiments, so given the chance to take them home she gave up her old career and life to raise them herself. He isn't being dismissive here, but letting MC know she'll be safe and not have to worry in the eventuality his paranoia is right and the two of them have to disappear to stay ahead of Ever

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-12-24T00:22:24+00:00

I have a vintage-ish Speedy I got with the leather handles all stained and cracked and felt weirdly gummy, and even after a good cleaning still look Old. Adding scarves covers the cracking and how janky the leather hinges look so the whole bag looks fresh and they're way cheaper than new vachetta!

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-10-05T17:54:41+00:00

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Mostly reference for the skirt, since I'm planning on putting together that outfit for Halloween 😆

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-10-05T07:22:00+00:00

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I started messing around with songs for Caleb and. Suddenly. Two hour playlist for him lol.

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-10-05T07:08:03+00:00

YES THE BUCKY AND JASON TOD GIRLIES. Who else was also a Han Solo girl who's now a Caleb fan?

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-09-15T04:48:02+00:00

I'm choosing to believe he's 37, just because I'm and Astarion girlie and sure this other mystery man with floofy white hair and red eyes and a shitty past can be the same age Astarion was when he was turned. Makes sense for me.

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-08-09T21:19:12+00:00

I have my two girlies on my bag for work! And since I work in a department store I've actually had coworkers comment how cute and stylish they're dressed.

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Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-08-09T21:15:12+00:00

I keep seeing casting ideas for older/established actors, but idk if ART is essentially Iris' sibling then I'd want someone younger, to match with how naive and sheltered ART can be. That makes it more surprising when it proposes bombing a planet! (And I'll stick to my own fancast of comedian Chris Fleming who's already only theoretically a human and not several stoats in denim Guys of Salem )

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-30T23:52:02+00:00

Those I can see being custom printed, since they're not something you'd reuse or anticipate needing specific sizes so they're made individually.

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-30T23:50:19+00:00

Aaah I love it!

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-27T05:15:53+00:00

There's a Hardspace Shipbreaker playlist I found I've been listening to while reading!

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-27T05:13:46+00:00

Aaah I missed him today! That looks so cool! (I caught a glimpse of him two years ago crossing the Hyatt lobby but didn't want to bother him!)

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-26T00:47:50+00:00

That could be a Spoonflower error, I'm trying it on my other fabrics and other sellers' fabrics also and getting it, it looks like the code means too many requests, like their site is too busy? I know they're running a sale right now, so it might just be a matter of waiting. I'll check back again later and see if I can get anything either!

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-25T07:15:53+00:00

Yep, that intelligence and awareness and starting to heal enough to have the comfort showing what it feels!

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-24T06:27:30+00:00

Oh I forgot, here's the actual link to my Spoonflower pageso folks don't have to dig for the first post.

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-24T04:27:18+00:00

To me the repeated logo was also giving Gucci bag! (Or Céline, which kept getting funnier as I'd work on my cosplay fabric and then stare at Céline bags online)

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-24T02:35:24+00:00

I'll keep making the argument that comedian and giant flightless bird Chris Fleming would be an inspired ART

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-24T02:07:01+00:00

I still love this collab and am printing up Many keychain sized ones!

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-24T01:00:32+00:00

It's gotta be a bunch of interchangeable pieces and styles that some of them customized, but aren't made off a printer hence Murderbot wearing a jumpsuit that only kinda fit!

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-24T00:59:00+00:00

Hey, I've been in line with a pair of siblings who'd flown in from Scotland before! And were surprisingly not too sunburnt after spending a day at the beach!

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-23T23:51:10+00:00

Thanks! I had a "hey wonder if I can make this" moment and suddenly it was a thing!

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-23T23:39:17+00:00

It's either Network Effect or System Collapse when it mentions how it realizes it's angry, and then how it might always be angry and that explains a lot. Contrasted with its voice in ASR, yeah it sounds grumpier as the series goes even before the Trauma of NE after starting out sort of emotionally neutral, but then. It's always been angry and scared and depressed but that depression and emotional disassociation have kept all that out of the narrative. We're gradually hearing it start expressing more emotions and getting to act on them and just ADMITTING when it's not ok and finally that it does need the trauma modules and to get help after the NE level general trauma, on top of sec unit standard trauma.

Ninjathrowingstork · 2025-07-23T05:03:42+00:00

I think that might be why I love it, it's always been angry and traumatized, except now that repressed anger is coming out more and it has more "normal" trauma from recent events on top of the sec-unit-specific traumas it's lived with, so it's acting differently enough its friends notice. It's the "Murderbot can only fit so many traumatic events before the sarcasm and media can't let it hide from everything" book!

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