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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
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A newly freed ComfortUnit escapes from a corporate mining installation and ventures out into the world with only its wits, a hard currency card, and its emotional literacy module.
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- Part 1 of Dash
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The Space Between the Stars by FascinatedFinch, ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Sep 2025
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Murderbot and ART thought they knew most of what there was to know about the feed.
They did not.
Now they're in a parallel world with several of their humans, trying to find their way home through a world where code and magic are the same thing. But in order to do that, they have to break down the barrier that's been keeping this world, and its magic, out of their reality for the last thousand years.
As if all that weren't annoying enough, Murderbot is a dragon, ART's a shapeshifting blob, and their guide through fairyland is about the last person anyone would have expected.
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- Part 1 of Hold the Skies Together
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6.83 hours after the incident, it is quiet on the command deck. My drones have cleaned all traces of blood and fluid from the deck and MedSystem is set to high priority in the front of my feed. And SecUnit sits in the same chair it always does. It's sunken into the cushioning, so still it could be in a shutdown, but I can of course feel that it's awake. I haven't let it out of arm's reach since last night.
We are quiet for a long time.
We have to talk about this, I say eventually.
It takes 18 seconds to respond.
We do not, it says with finality.
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Preservation used to be safe by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Sep 2025
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Mensah gets shot and SecUnit has emotions about it
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- Part 1 of (Lack of) safety on Preservation
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Max Meets Murderbot by Delightfully_Diehard
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Max Steel (TV 2013)
06 Sep 2025
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We were coming back from another successful espionage mission when ART identified a person floating alone in the middle of f**king nowhere space and of course the crew insisted we help. But the drifter (literally) is stranger than we’d initially thought and so is his weird pet AI… thing. I’m certain nothing bad will happen. But when does anyone ever listen to me?
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Max and Steel get thrust through an accidentally interdimensional portal into the world of Murderbot Diaries and unfortunately brought along a few ultralinks too.
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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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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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Dynamics of Mixed In/Organic Families by makeapointofhavingfun
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Aug 2025
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Martyn has a busy couple of days and thinks a lot about his child who is a computer.
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Murderbot is stuck hitching a ride back to
ARTPSUMNT with Holism, who thinks it knows just what Murderbot needs.After all, how can Murderbot say it doesn't like something it's never tried?
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There are a lot of security cameras. Usually that means very bad things, especially for secret human spies and their murderbot accomplices. Was I an accomplice? I planned the whole thing. Maybe the mastermind would be better. I knew Gurathin would take issue with that—because that made him the accomplice to a terrifying murderbot, rather than the one in control, and I knew how much it annoyed Gurathin 1. not to be in control, and 2. admit that I was right.
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“You have seen all fictional media with SecUnits,” Three said in a smug voice. “This is from a documentary. It is a fictional recreation, but it is from media that you would have skipped.”
SecUnit didn't respond. Iris was politely looking away from it, but its silence felt intrigued.
“And,” said Three, “it's heroic.”
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First mission of SecUnit with ART and its crew.
Objective: find the colonists on a planet that doesn’t believe in functional weather before the corporates do, and gather the information needed to prevent the repossession of the planet. -
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“SecUnit, what’s your favorite smell?” Double ugh. How the fuck was I supposed to answer this without being rude?
“I like it when there isn’t a smell.” There, that was a positive spin on my negativity, I guess. Maybe I should have lied, though. Everyone in the shuttle was frowning to some degree. Way to bring down the mood, Murderbot.
“You don’t like any smells?” Iris asked.
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[podfic] Solar Smash II, by Polyhexian by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for Polyhexian
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2025
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The serial I was watching with ART abruptly cut out and the menu screen for a game I didn't recognize replaced it.
Libra Knights sucks, said 2.0, play this with me.
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- Part 35 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
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ART discovers April Fools by I_Dont_Write_Fics
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2025
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Peri, having just discovered something called April Fools: *chuckles maniacally*
AKA ART has a field day designing specialty clothing for its crew, much to Murderbot's utter dismay.
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Stellar Codex: Partnership by Pandorakun
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
27 Aug 2025
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“You could formalize your relationship if you wanted,” Seth had said once. “Peri, you know the University offers special permissions and access codes for systems on the same API.”
“SecUnit is not my tool,” ART shot back.or
During the mission from the University, ART and MB explore the limits of their new partnership.
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[Podfic] Guest Protocol by sisi_rambles for Flowerparrish
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2025
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Despite my curiosity, the concept of visiting humans is still strange to me. The only objectives I've been able to determine are:
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The one good thing about ART not being around was that I could ignore its instructions not to do anything stupid.
A bundle of thick cables ran from deeper within Three’s chest into what I knew were its power cells. I picked up the cable trailing out of my energy weapon, disconnected one of Three’s, and plugged mine in.
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Murderbot and ART follow a distress signal and find Three at the bottom of an abandoned mining installation.
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- Part 1 of data transfer