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"You're exhibiting symptoms of exhaustion. You need to stop and take a rest period."
"What would you know about it?" she asks, as if it's not absolutely right.
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Pin-Lee gets a visitor while she's working late.
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raw audio (bharadwaj_doc_interviews.wav) by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Mar 2022
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"I'm a SecUnit."
"Let's assume that you're speaking to an audience who doesn't know what that means."
"It means I was built to kill humans."
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Leaked excerpts from an upcoming documentary. (Audio only.)
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Mutual Clients by mensah for AgenderAgenda
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Dec 2025
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Pin-Lee and Murderbot discuss the attorney-client relationship.
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"I can't be a client. I'm not stupid enough," it said.
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You're Probably F***ing Dying by Benny_IsA_Dog
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Dec 2024
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After surviving the survey planet, after weeks on TranRollinHypha, he would die here, so close to home, on the floor of a random hallway. His heart would stop, and there was nothing he could do about it. No one would be able to do anything.
He was going to die.
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Ratthi has a panic attack. Murderbot helps.
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A Pocketful of Stars by BoldlyNo for musicofthespheres
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 May 2024
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Preservation Station is a long way from the Mensah farm, but an assassination attempt tends to make anyone nervous regardless of the distance. Farai muses on safety, the kids catch fireflies, and Secunit does what it does best.
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Volescu attends a pre-survey farewell dinner, gets an award he wasn't expecting, and takes a walk with a friend he expected even less.
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House of Plangent Air by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Nov 2025
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Mensah is safe back home on Preservation, but that doesn't mean things are easy.
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overclocked [Podfic] by blackglass for Tipsy_Kitty
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Aug 2022
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A podfic of overclocked by torpidgilliver.
"You're exhibiting symptoms of exhaustion. You need to stop and take a rest period."
"What would you know about it?" she asks, as if it's not absolutely right.
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Pin-Lee gets a visitor while she's working late.
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Ratthi is impressed by how well SecUnit processes scientific data for PresAux's survey report.
Day 19: Statistics
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- Part 6 of Murderbot Drabble December 2025
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NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad by FlipSpring
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Dec 2025
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With Networks VOID/Networks VITAL, NULLverse is narratively Complete. But I keep writing anyway. Cuz it's fun.
Consider this series if you like: feral shit, disaster, continuity of identity+memory, societies of people with divergent needs/wants, chaos, robot creation ethics, violence vs security, suffering, healing, bad puns.
Canon Divergence AU:
- At the end of Exit Strategy, the Combat SecUnit succeeds at capturing Murderbot
- Murderbot is subjected to Palisade's construct research lab
- The Combat SecUnit is A (Problematic) Character
- Disaster ensuesSeries has its ups and downs regarding angst, dark comedy, and trauma recovery themes. Plus some whack worldbuilding speculation. We like to multi track drift here. It’s crack it’s angst it’s fluff? We have the RangeTM
Some installments are skippable if u so prefer. Reading order is suggested but not strictly necessary if u are a flexible type. Mix and match if you want. Go crazy. I know I am.
Hope you have fun!
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This is the hard part. Farai waits him out.
Tano: i think she is coping by
Tano: i think we’re
Tano: we’re at the theater? the secunit
Farai: I think it’s just SecUnit
Tano: right
Tano: secunit is
Tano: also here
Tano: on our date
Tano: it’s holding her hand and i am holding her other hand
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Forging a Familiar Face by mismatchedmuses
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Jul 2025
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Tapan and her family needed help to recover their research. The security consultant they hired, a shy but determined augmented human, saved not just their work, but their lives.
Months later, Tapan sees a familiar face on a documentary about constructs.
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Mensah was quiet for 2.7 seconds, then asked “How are you feeling after that meeting today?”
“Oh, just great! I can’t wait to be a Preservation pet robot!”
I was still looking at her through one of my drones and saw her wince minutely. That micro-expression would have slipped past most humans, but to me, it looked like a distress beacon.
Shit, that came out a little harsher than I meant it to. None of this was Mensah’s fault, but I was tired of monitoring my responses, and I still hadn’t gotten around to setting that one-second response delay. I wasn’t having a very good day, okay?
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Preservation isn't as welcoming to Murderbot as its humans imagined it would be. Murderbot is not surprised. Mensah, Pin-Lee and Murderbot have emotions about it.
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Nyasha really wants to get that ultra powerful, impossible to get monster in their favorite virtual game. Who better to ask for help than their second mom's new media-loving hacker friend?
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Nyasha turned their feed device around, the screen displaying a variety of colorful fauna. “Um, can you hack Eternatus in its Eternamax form onto my team? Like, forever, not just when it’s using Eternabeam. I’ll give you a recording of my school’s Rainbowland recital in return.”
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Neurofeedback by avg (AnxiousEspada), FigOwl
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Apr 2021
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"Constructs have coding so deep and fundamental, that I think it must be similar to what humans call instinct. And the company had gone in that deep when fucking me over, just to be thorough. I’ve spent months trying to unfuck my brain, in between everything else, and I’m beginning to think it’s just not possible."
This is another take on "Murderbot was rebuilt by the company as a ComfortUnit at the end of "All Systems Red" before being handed over to Dr. Mensah." This story takes place after "Exit Strategy" and before "Network Effect." (I reserve the right to fine-tune some details after "Fugitive Telemetry" comes out, but probably I won't.)
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Self-indulgent vampire AU. Why does Gurathin keep staring at Murderbot? And why does he look hungry?
Set generically on Preservation Station, no spoilers past Exit Strategy as far as I can tell.
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- Part 1 of A Flash of Fang (Vampire Gurathin AU)
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the comlink's open but there's no one tuned in on the other side by half_burnt_ideas
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Sep 2025
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For this to work, my governor module would be partially reactivated and I’d have to act as a governed Unit again for the next two cycles.
Yeah, this was going to suck. Even if I did get to keep my access to the feed and my media archives.
Written for 100 Prompts Challenge: Dull (56); Gamble (82).
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- Part 3 of HBI’s 100 Prompts [Redone]
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Mensah is accustomed to being watched...but not like this.
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- Part 1 of Murderbot Drabble December 2025
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A Flash of Fang (Vampire Gurathin AU) by spectralOasis
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Nov 2025
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Acts of Appreciation by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2023
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Murderbot's humans give it a present: a hand-made quilt to say "thank you" for everything it's done for them.
Murderbot has emotions in private.
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