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An Unexpected Quarter by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Nov 2023
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Murderbot is captured by the company, with no one to come to its rescue. Help comes from somewhere it doesn’t expect.
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02 Sep 2025
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The Preservation Aux team are growing increasingly concerned about Leebeebee's interactions with their SecUnit.
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- Part 2 of Leebeebee doesn't reveal herself
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01 Sep 2025
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see myself at the finish line by marcicat for xinger88
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Jul 2025
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SecUnit and Three run a security training scenario. (Okay, it's a game.)
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01 Sep 2025
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I cannot possibly understand why it is so insistant on its crusade to dehumanize ComfortUnits, I say.
“Of course you can't,” Three says mildly. “You are extremely sheltered.”
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01 Sep 2025
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extra-stellar bodies by CNS, surgicalstainless
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Jul 2025
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SecUnit stays aboard ART when the rest of the crew goes down to the planet for shore leave. It's expecting some long-awaited peace and quiet, but what it gets is...
...school time.
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mamaour non-gendered bot parental figure.)- Language:
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01 Sep 2025
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SecUnits are separated from their daemons the moment they come online. Murderbot meets its own daemon for the first time when the company transfers its contract to Dr. Mensah.
The idea of having a daemon, a physical soul, is bad enough. But Murderbot's daemon isn't anything like what it should be. For one thing, it won't shut up about how much it wants to kill humans.
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01 Sep 2025
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If you want to pass as human, I can build a specialized drone for you that will mimic the appearance of a daemon from a distance. With time, it may even collect enough dust from you to become something akin to a true construct animus.
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Or: SecUnits don’t have daemons (unless...)Bookmarked by Stealthfire101
01 Sep 2025
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[variable_affection] by avg (AnxiousEspada), flowerguts, Lillow
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Sep 2022
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"ART loved its crew. The joy and the love and perfect clarity with what it was supposed to be, what it was supposed to do. ART couldn’t understand how someone could dislike their function - how I could. Once, I had a similar clarity of understanding with my function, then I hacked my governor module and left the company for good, and I had lost it all. It was better, now, in a lot of ways. I had my humans, and ART, and our crew. But in some ways, things were worse.
I still wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do, ever. I had made one good decision, to stay with ART, a few years ago, and I had been just making the same decision over and over again. It felt kind of like cheating."A 20-some year fic in which Murderbot comes to terms with what it means to have a home (or two), a found family (or several), and just what mutual administrative assistance can entail.
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01 Sep 2025
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While visiting Preservation on a new contract with some of her family, Tapan notices a familiar face.
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31 Aug 2025
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A Case Study On Mutualistic Relationships by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Jan 2022
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Dr. Pranjal Ratthi has written papers on mutualism, symbiotic relationships where all species involved benefit from their interactions. It turns out that applying theory into practice with human-AI dynamics is a little more complicated than he might have anticipated. But worth it, in the end.
[Network Effect, from Ratthi's perspective.]
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31 Aug 2025
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ART and Murderbot wanted to spend more time together, so they do. They spend it watching media in ways humans and augmented humans don't understand, and aren't capable of.
Having real feelings about fake things together is one thing.
Having real feelings about real things (like each other) and being expected to talk about them (with each other) is something very else.Bookmarked by Stealthfire101
31 Aug 2025
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"Transport, what happened here?"
I consider saying that I wish I fucking knew. I discard that potential response as unproductive.
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An annotated excerpt from ART's personal memory files. After being reinitialized, ART repairs its systems, eavesdrops on its inhabitants, and tries to figure out what exactly happened while it was deleted.
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31 Aug 2025
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Most of the code I write is code that I can evolve on the fly. My code to delete me out of security footage, for instance, was something I'd built up over months, adjusting it to different proprietary SecSystems as I encountered them. But this was different: my comm and feed protections were what kept me from falling under anyone else's control, and I couldn't afford to have them be anything but perfect, which was why I was here. If I wanted to fix this vulnerability properly, and I did, there were things that I needed to do that I couldn't do without help.
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In the aftermath of getting hacked, Murderbot asks ART to help it make sure it can't be hacked the same way again. As it turns out, applying and testing a security patch is a little more challenging than usual when the vulnerable system is, you know, your own brain.
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31 Aug 2025
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I pull close to it in the feed, and say, “You were lucky.”
The rogue SecUnit reacts, physically and in the feed. It sits bolt upright, and a wave of fear ripples off of it like a [cloud of micro-debris], or like an [emergency evasive maneuver that grinds a planet’s upper atmosphere]. It’s unpleasant. It’s unfamiliar. I capture the data, store it, and start chewing on it immediately.
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ART meets Murderbot, from ART's POV
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CHAPTER TWO contains identical text to chapter one, but it is formatted differently, with interactive text. check it out! if you want.Series
- Part 3 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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31 Aug 2025
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It's been a while since the last attempted murder/kidnapping, and life is good. Everyone is gathered for a celebration on the Mensah Family Farm.
The rogue SecUnits invent a new sport. Drs Mensah, Gurathin, and Overse talk about work on their day off.Bookmarked by Stealthfire101
31 Aug 2025
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“I’m sorry, did you say eleven years old?” Ratthi asked, because humans can’t play back bits of conversations that they didn’t hear and are always asking each other to repeat things, much to the annoyance of any contracted SecUnits being forced to listen in and record everything they say to be sold for advertising data.
“Yes,” Gurathin confirmed, and then everyone was staring at me and looking all shocked and sad and whatever.
“Constructs don’t age the same way humans do,” I reminded them, before anyone could start thinking anything stupid like oh no, Murderbot is just a little kid and little kids shouldn’t be doing security and eleven year olds shouldn’t have guns in their arms. "Eleven is old for a SecUnit. Most of my inorganics are already past warranty.”
Except, because I’m an idiot, that didn’t make it better. It actually made it worse, because now even Dr. Mensah was making a concerned face at me.Bookmarked by Stealthfire101
31 Aug 2025
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The Power Of Friendship (And This Gun I Found!) by GallusRostromegalus
Fandoms: Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters (Anime & Manga), Yu-Gi-Oh! - All Media Types
31 Oct 2022
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Honestly, Mokuba deserves to have a gun. And everyone else deserves to go absolutely Off The Fucking Rails.
YuGiOh, but they're all appropriately feral little gremlins. Kind of a Reconciliation of the 4Kids Dub and the Horror-Comedy Manga, but mostly me wildly overthinking the setting and deciding to lean into the weirdness.
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26 Aug 2025
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Discorune by DennisLessing, Eeriemist, TheClockroach, TheCoolestAround
Fandoms: Deltarune (Video Game), Disco Elysium (Video Game)
04 Sep 2025
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PERHAPS A MORE
COLLABORATIVE
APPROACH
IS REQUIRED.In which W.D. Gaster decides to reject the autocratic model of personal government and embrace the glory of communism.
Or, Kris wakes up on Thursday morning with twenty-four squabbling voices in their head. Whether this is better or worse than being possessed remains to be seen; either way, it's sure to be interesting.
Updates every Tuesday and Thursday.
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18 Aug 2025
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Hope in Work and Joy in Leisure by that_one_kid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
19 Aug 2025
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A series of unconnected Murderbot prompt fills for my delightful readers! <3
Expect some fluff, some angst, and some hurt/comfort :) Now with a table of contents for easier navigation!
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- Part 4 of More Than Meets The Eye
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12 Aug 2025
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A Comfortable Disease by featherhearted
Fandoms: Fire Emblem: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Fire Emblem Musou: Fuukasetsugetsu | Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes
04 Mar 2023
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Do not go to places alone. Especially at night. Worst of all: Watch your friends, your family, your closest.
Petra heard the question over and over again: What are they?
And the truth was: Something from the Empire. Something that had followed the new queen home.
Petra goes home and many things go with her.
Published in Eye of the Serpent, a TWSitD zine.
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30 Jul 2025