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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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[Podfic] Stalemate | written by harvestar by Tipsy_Kitty for sisi_rambles
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Aug 2025
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It had been an accident.
All I knew was that one moment, I’d been getting torn to pieces by a raiding party breaching one of the airlocks, and in the next they’d been dead, and then ART’s full attention- nearly 100% of its processing power- had been flowing through me, and it had been probably the most fucked-up orgasm-adjacent Thing that anyone, organic or otherwise, had ever experienced.
Not least because one of my arms had been thrown across the room seconds before it had happened.
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In Network Effect Three and ART get to Murderbot in the nick of time to save it from targetControl.
What if they didn't?
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My SecUnit is pacing in the navigation deck. I'm about to ping it when .03 seconds after coming online, I notice something has partitioned off part of my system.
There is an unknown virus in my system.
I attempt to purge it from the system at the same time I hear SecUnit over the feed.
"Do not panic and do not do anything rash until you know what's happening. We're all safe and accounted for."
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Canon-Compliant, But From a Different Perspective by YCong
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Aug 2025
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Book 5: Network Effect, Chapter 20. A glimpse into the moments between MB1.0's successful retrieval and its restart. Includes speculation on why Three prefers nonfiction and educational entertainment.
MB exists mostly in the background, but everyone cares (loves) it.PS: ART isn't malicious, just frustrated (thanks to the whole mess in Network Effect). Unfortunately, Three doesn't know that.
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《网络效应》（第五册）第20章，在MB1.0被成功营救到重新开机之间发生的一些事，以及对三号为什么会喜欢看教育片而非娱乐节目的原因推测。
第一人称叙事，三号主视角。含有微量性侵侧写，和大量的自我物化情节，企业边域糟透了。
MB只存在于背景中，但所有人都关心（爱）它。ps：ART没有恶意，只是有点烦躁（因为《网络效应》中发生的那一系列破事），可惜三号并不知情。
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When malware takes over SecUnit and it nearly kills three of ART's crew, ART is left with two bad options: keep the governor module on with ART as the Client, or partition off part of itself and stick it in SecUnit's head.
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- Part 2 of Admin Access
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[Art] Hanging out is a joint operation by Errantry (Hecateae) for musicofthespheres, homosekularnost
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jul 2025
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Art for Musicofthesphere's 2025 Murderbot Big Bang fic.
Three is late getting back to Preservation, then its social calendar seems to be full all the time.
Murderbot's disappointed, but it's not like it can just ask Three to spend time with it. Besides, if Three wanted to hang out, it would say so. Right?
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Or: 5 times Murderbot won't admit it likes spending time with Three, and 1 time it finally gets over itself and does.Series
- Part 10 of Collaboratives
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ART trials a new bot body for Dr Mensah's birthday party. Murderbot is (mostly) unimpressed.
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- Part 2 of MB's fan club
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Between the sea and the shore by Polyhexian
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Jul 2025
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You are not a kind thing.
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Projection: Prognosis, Forecast, Prediction, Hypothesis by enchantedsleeper
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Jul 2025
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Perihelion has spent more processing capability than is strictly efficient considering scenarios where it encounters SecUnit once again.
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Most people are aware of the fact that they have a soul prior to meeting their soulmate.
We aren’t most people.
(Part 1: A partial retelling of Artifical Condition from ART’s POV, wherein everyone’s favourite asshole research transport discovers 1. That it has a soul, and 2. That it has a soulmate. It handles this news completely rationally.
Part 2: A partial retelling of Network Effect, Murderbot POV, where it also has some uncomfortable realizations.) -
Upgrade by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
11 Jul 2025
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All sentient beings aspire to something.
Ratthi tries to talk to a bot. The bot has some ideas about what it wants out of life.
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“What is it you needed that you had to physically be here for?” I said. I wanted to sound ‘nice,’ but I definitely didn't. Fuck.
“Why did you make 2.0?” asked Three.
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Killing Machines Are Not Cute by mrfool (StateOfTheTimes)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Jul 2025
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The Perihelion crew + Amena have been reading scary history books lately. Of course, they need to make it Murderbot’s problem.
What a bother. They’re even making it dress up for this “Halloween” thing. Ugh. It feels more like an excuse than a celebration.
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What Trust Means by ArtemisTheHuntress for McBangle
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Jul 2025
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Dr. Mensah meets ART properly for the first time. She's still not sure if she can trust it.
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On Preservation's Secret Service by BWizard
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Jul 2025
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Murderbot's humans are anti-corporate spies. It doesn't realize this for a while, and it's not happy about it, but it's not going to be able to stop them, so it might as well go along with them...
Starts at the end of chapter 3 of exit strategy, contains most of ES with snippets of NE, and then into post-canon shenanigans
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It's not going to kill you, says 1.0 in our private feed. You can stop slinking around like a terrified fauna.
I am not a terrified fauna.
I feel like a terrified fauna.
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Pin-Lee said, “This is a deed of ownership that confirms Dr. Mensah as the legal owner of SecUnit.”
Arada blinked. Ratthi froze where he had been digging through his bag.
“What?” Arada asked blankly.
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Pre-Network Effect, Arada is asked to take ownership documents for SecUnit on her survey.
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[Podfic of] administrative access by EllaCx, nony, shash_multivoice (sunkitten_shash), with (wilfriede0815)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jun 2025
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What is this? ART asked.
"A list of potential security vulnerabilities," I said. "As your security consultant, I recommend that these be patched against attacks."
ART pinged me with a code that granted me administrative access. Then you will not mind writing the patches.
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Human trust exercises aren't optimized for digital beings. Bots have to figure out their own.
Podfic of administrative access by torpidgilliver.