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Diagram of the Human Mind by Willdoodleforcoffee
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Oct 2025
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They missed something.
Ok, that was a start. “How do you know?”
I do not. But do you really trust humans to take care of their own security?
Of course I didn’t, and ART knew that, but I wouldn’t be giving it the satisfaction of agreeing out loud.
…Amena Mensah has begun a course at this planetary site as of 37 cycles ago.
My performance reliability dropped 3 percent.
“ART, you could have led with that.”
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Entwined Processes by AnOcelotOfSmut, Fox (Foxen)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Oct 2025
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"It's wrong to think of a construct as half bot, half human. It makes it sound like the halves are discrete, like the bot half should want to obey orders and do its job and the human half should want to protect itself and get the hell out of here. As opposed to the reality, which was that I was one whole confused entity, with no idea what I wanted to do."
Six months into its new life aboard the Perihelion, Murderbot has settled into a comfortably aloof routine with its mutual administrative assistant, ART. Then a new crew member arrives and a survey mission goes catastrophically wrong, uncovering a corporate conspiracy that hits closer to home than anyone expected. As events spiral out of control, a harrowing mystery, the indifferent cruelty of the Corporation Rim and (ugh) its own inconvenient emotions all conspire to force Murderbot to reevaluate what it really wants from the universe and what it means to live in a world of bots and humans when you're neither.
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Hey Hot Stuff, Why Don't I Come Over Some Time and Explain Infrastructure to You? by dandelionqueen
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Oct 2025
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A human au rewrite of that one scene in System Collapse
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On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module. Among the equipment failures and attempts on their lives, there is one man who knows suspiciously too much about what is going on. SecUnit has to do what it has to do - protect its clients.
With GrayCris finally fallen apart for good (hopefully), the researches of PreservationAux and Pansystem University of Mihara and New Tideland conduct on-site research into the alien remnants that GrayCris was so interested in. Murderbot hates this planet, the one on which its humans all almost died before becoming its humans in the first place. But this might be fine, there are only Hostile megafauna and- Nevermind, Gurathin has just lost his memory and has no idea who or what Murderbot is. Just great.
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Murderbot returns to Preservation Station for a visit with its humans. It's expecting to have a nice, relaxing time watching media and catching up. It doesn't expect to be living opposite Gurathin of all people. It doesn't want to spend more time with that asshole. It knows exactly where their situationship stands and absolutely nothing needs to change. Unless...
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Amena has only just started laying out her tools, trying not to show how anxious she is. Iris is pacing back and forth, not even trying to hide her nervousness. The two feed messages, one sent privately to each of them, arrive within milliseconds of each other:
Perihelion → Iris: What are you two up to? And why aren't you using the medbay?SecUnit → Amena: What are you doing? It looks unsafe! Stop!Or, Amena and Iris try needleplay for the first time.
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[podfic] Emotional Context by The Voice Of The Radish (I_D_Clare) for Clare_Hope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
07 Oct 2025
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One of Mensah's children wants to read aloud to SecUnit from a chapter book. What's the worst that could happen? (It gets so spooked by a stupid old piece of children's media hitting too close to home that it has to run off and have an emotional collapse about it, that's the worst that could happen.)
Podfic of Emotional Context by Clare_Hope
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Systems restart
Suddenly it was coming back online. And it was somewhere else. Not where they were supposed to be.
Murderbot disappears.
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Murderbot owns a tattoo parlor. Gurathin is a florist. Ratthi runs a coffee shop.
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This was supposed to be a simple extraction mission- and for once, it actually turned out to be. We were only a couple dozen yards from ARTs shuttle and my threat assessment was calming down because it wasn't likely we were going to run into any more hostiles. I was actually pretty relieved.
And then suddenly there was a hole in my abdomen.
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Diagnostic Sequence by Sir_Bear for Chrome
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Tea Master and the Detective - Aliette de Bodard, Of Monsters and Mainframes - Barbara Truelove
03 Oct 2025
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The Pansystem University of Mihara and New Tideland offer one of their docks as a repair station for damaged spacecraft. The price is strategically calculated to be cheap enough that they might lure in corporate ships with intel, while not being so low as to raise suspicions.
At present there are two badly damaged ships in the facility. Both have highly advanced bot-pilots, more on par with Perihelion itself than the typical ship's mind. "The Shadow's Child" and "Demeter". Perihelion communicates with them, and learns some of the hardships they have faced. -
More Aggressive Measures by 3HobbitsInATrenchcoat
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Oct 2025
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After a high-stress mission, Murderbot ends up having to take drastic measures to bring down its excessively high cortisol levels. While hesitant at first, it finds that the more extreme methods bear little resemblance to their human counterparts and are a useful tool for routine hormonal maintenance.
And then ART finds out.
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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.
Whichever option they choose, they had better make it work, because SecUnit is firmly centered in the crosshairs of its former owner, the most paranoid and ruthless company in the entire corporation rim. As things quickly get worse, destroying the company--something SecUnit has long considered impossible--might just be the only way to survive.
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- Part 2 of Admin Access
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The mission fails catastrophically. So does SecUnit. When it comes back online without any functional sensory inputs, it believes that it's still trapped on the surface of the cold, desolate planet, that its humans are all dead, and that nobody will ever find it. Luckily, it's wrong.
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SecUnit and the PSUMNT crew help another abandoned colony reclaim its rights on the planet and gain a new ally who joins them in the mission.
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Dr. Mensah and Captain Seth have a (only mildly gossipy) heart to heart about their children and their machine intelligence loved ones. For Seth, the two categories overlap, often in confusing ways. Especially when said MI child is also his coworker.
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It will get long and tangled again by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Sep 2025
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So I didn’t really have a choice but to ask Mensah if she could help me.
This had turned out to be quite difficult and instead of asking her, I stood in a corner of her office without speaking for over 4 hours while she worked on a selection of boring administrative tasks.
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A SecUnit's Guide to Academic Conferences by marcicat
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Sep 2025
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One spaceship, two constructs, three humans, and two augmented humans attend an academic conference. What could possibly go wrong?
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Emotional Context by Clare_Hope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
28 Sep 2025
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One of Mensah's children wants to read aloud to SecUnit from a chapter book. What's the worst that could happen? (It gets so spooked by a stupid old piece of children's media hitting too close to home that it has to run off and have an emotional collapse about it, that's the worst that could happen.)
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Preservation is meant to be safe by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Sep 2025
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SecUnit gets electrocuted and Mensah has emotions about it.
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- Part 2 of (Lack of) safety on Preservation