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When Carl's attempt to aid some fellow crawlers doesn't quite go to plan, he's forced to accept the AI's offer to save him.
Unfortunately, he and the AI have very different definitions of the word "save."
Set during The Butcher's Masquerade.
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When Dawn Breaks Again We'll Say Our Farewells by oldandnewfirm
Fandoms: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
28 Jul 2023
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The ghosts don't stay in Yokohama. One follows Mori and Thaniel back to London.
Set after The Lost Future of Pepperharrow.
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The Winner Takes it All by oldandnewfirm
Fandoms: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
12 Jul 2023
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My take on a Watchmaker of Filigree Street classic: the wedding night fic.
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Around the Cottages by oldandnewfirm
Fandoms: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street - Natasha Pulley
07 Jul 2023
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Thaniel thinks the first time he met Mori is when he stumbled dazed and bleeding into his workshop the night of the Yard bomb. Unknown to him, that's not quite true.
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To answer the question of "why is Scrooge 2022's Marley Like That," I wrote a profile of Jacob Marley's life from birth to death. Each chapter represents a time period indicated by the chapter title.
Feel free to use as inspiration/reference for art/fics/whatever if you so desire. Enjoy!
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A Malfunction in Emergency Airlock 5 by HermesDay
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Oct 2025
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Murderbot cycles itself out of ART's hull. ART deals with the consequences, and tries to understand why.
Blood Poisoning| Hypoxia | "What were you thinking?"Series
- Part 10 of HermesDay's AI-Less Whumptober 2025
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10 Oct 2025
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Experimental Data by Aylwyyn228
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Oct 2025
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Humans on Preservation stood approximately eighteen centimetres closer to each other when engaging in conversation than humans on the Rim.
They also sat closer when in friendly settings, often within range of physical contact. Obviously that varied depending on the person. Bharadwaj in particular, seemed to habitually invade the personal space of anyone she considered a friend.
She hadn't tried to sit on my lap yet, but surely it was only a matter of time. Even the thought of it made my performance reliability drop by 3%.
Or, Murderbot wants to experiment with getting to its humans touching it. It ropes Gurathin in to its experiments.
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09 Oct 2025
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A bot pilot sends a distress signal to an unknown vessel, and gets a lot more help than it bargained for.
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- Part 8 of najio's whumptober 2025
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08 Oct 2025
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Here Are Some Useful Facts About Grief by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Oct 2025
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SecUnit Three has been free for a very short time and is not doing well. As it tries to navigate the first personal request of its life, it makes lists. The request is more emotionally catastrophic than it realized, and there is probably a very, very good reason why Murderbot initially said no…
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08 Oct 2025
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There's a Monster in the Feed by HermesDay
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Oct 2025
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Murderbot, along with two of Karime's kids, is kidnapped by a hostile machine intelligence. Unable to escape while the ship is in transit, Murderbot does everything it can to keep the MI's attention focused on itself and away from its young clients.
Restraints| Obsession |"Aren't you feisty?"
Self-Inflicted Injury | Rocky Recovery | "If I tell you what they made me do, you won't be able to look at me the same."Series
- Part 6 of HermesDay's AI-Less Whumptober 2025
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06 Oct 2025