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When they first proper met, Three tried to show concern in its own customary way—unfortunately, Murderbot didn’t quite appreciate the gesture.
Book 5: Network Effect, Chapter 20, shortly after MB 1.0 was repaired. The initial interaction between two SecUnits from different companies, each accustomed to vastly different operational protocols: MB is highly guarded, while Three awkwardly attempts kindness. Needless to say, it’s a beginning filled with misunderstandings.
Written in the style of a system log. May or may not include additional chapter.Series
- Part 3 of Three's Guide for the New Rogue Unit
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09 Sep 2025
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Show me how you want it to be by laxlyricism
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Sep 2025
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Perihelion has been working on this plan for longer than it would ever be willing to admit. It's had the drone finished for months, waiting for the right moment to deploy it. (It definitely hasn't just been chickening out and avoiding the conversation. That would be foolish). But now the plan has worked exactly as it was designed to do, and it's not ready. Maybe it will never be ready. But its SecUnit is holding its drone's hand so gently, and has just asked it
ART, are you in love with me?
It's too late to back out now.
Yes
Fear is an autonomic process.
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- Part 2 of Fight or Flight
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08 Sep 2025
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Iris==small. Seth bring Iris closer.
It wasn't the reaction Seth had expected, although in retrospect maybe he should have. Iris wasn't just a new person, but a new concept. It was natural that the AIs would find her novel.
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A newly sentient ART meets a newly born Iris.
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- Part 1 of gravitational potential
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SecUnit Portrayals in Media (Ranked from Most Realistic to Least) by BlatantBookworm
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Jul 2025
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To Amena.
Subject: Media watchnight recommendations (under requested parameters)
Note: None of these are good and I can recommend many better suggestions without SecUnits
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04 Jul 2025
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SecUnit Portrayals in Media (Ranked from Most Realistic to Least)
BlatantBookworm
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Master Consulting Services Agreement by Catalogercas
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Jun 2025
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Contract between Preservation Aux and Murderbot
This is literally a fictional contract.
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How to target specific elements of your work (for work skins) by hearker (heark)
Fandoms: HTML - Fandom, Work Skins - Fandom, AO3 help - Fandom, No Fandom, css - Fandom
15 Aug 2025
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This is a guide to help you precisely target elements in your work skins using CSS selectors. It doesn't focus on styling or adding cool effects!! This guide teaches you how to identify and select the exact elements you want to style.
CHAPTER 1 - Work Title
CHAPTER 2 - Author Name
CHAPTER 3 - Summary
CHAPTER 4 - Notes Part 1
CHAPTER 5 - Notes Part 2
CHAPTER 6 - Gifts
CHAPTER 7 - Inspired By
CHAPTER 8 - Chapter Title
CHAPTER 9 - Series
CHAPTER 10 - Selecting Multiple Headings
CHAPTER 11 - Body Text
CHAPTER 12 - Preface GroupNote: This guide contains custom CSS. It's not necessary for the guide, it's only cosmetic. If you want to disable it, click "Hide Creator's Style" at the top.
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.
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- Part 16 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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How to Make Invisible Text (That Can Be Highlighted) by La_Temperanza
Fandoms: No Fandom
21 Oct 2015
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This is a live example how to make invisible text that can only be seen by highlighting the text. Tutorial is included in text, and you can always leave comments about questions you may have.
MOBILE USERS: Sadly, this probably won't work for you, since highlighting in a mobile browser is different than web. I've tried correcting this, but have yet to find a solution.
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- Part 4 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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A short & sweet guide to a work skin (and the associated HTML) that allows readers to choose from a list of given names for a character and select which one they want the work to use.
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CSS in Testing by InfinitysWraith
Fandoms: Ao3 Skins - Fandom, Work Skins - Fandom, css - Fandom
18 Apr 2022
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This is a flaming dumpster filled with CSS and HTML experiments. It's not instructional, but I post the code and my own explanations for both our sakes. Feel free to steal the code or ask me questions- I don't know what I'm doing. :)
(Pics are mine though)
Chapter 5 is probably what you're looking for ;)
I'm not going to say I take requests, but I'm always looking for inspiration.
It seems I've broken Ao3 yet again. I can no longer add more code to my work skin so we're moving on to part two!
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- Part 1 of CSS in Testing
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How to create a work skin for glitch effect, mirror text, vertical text and upside down text by Goddess_of_the_arena
Fandoms: HTML - Fandom, css - Fandom, AO3 help - Fandom, Work Skins - Fandom
22 May 2025
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WARNING: all the codes in this guide were tested on a computer. I can't guarantee the effect when the work they are applied to is read on a mobile phone.
CHAPTER 1 is for the text with glitching effect similar to the Zalgo font, also in color.
CHAPTER 2 is for the mirror effect, vertical text and upside down text, also in color.
CHAPTER 3 is to create a negative mirror text effect (here in black and white) with the text side by side.
CHAPTER 4 is to give your blockquote a colored side border, top border or bottom border (also in gradient colors), a colored background (also in gradient colors) and different margin values.Series
- Part 4 of CSS GUIDES
- Part 4 of Goddess_of_the_arena's CSS Playground
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How to create your work skins to have colored text by Goddess_of_the_arena
Fandoms: css - Fandom, Work Skins - Fandom, HTML - Fandom, AO3 help - Fandom
22 Feb 2025
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This is a guide to make text in color, be it for a single word, a full paragraph, several paragraphs in a row, or even the whole chapter, also in different sizes. The tutorial also contains ready-to-use codes for you to add to your work skins.
WARNING: all the codes in this guide were tested on a computer. I can't guarantee the effect when the work they are applied to is read on a mobile phone.
CHAPTER 1 is for pure colored text.
CHAPTER 2 is for text in gradient color, both linear gradient and radial gradient.
CHAPTER 3 contains the steps to combine gradient background with gradient text. It also contains the links to each of the other guides of my CSS GUIDES series
CHAPTER 4 contains the links to eight sites where you can create your gradients and get the ready-to-copy code to paste in the CSS code of the workskin.Series
- Part 1 of CSS GUIDES
- Part 1 of Goddess_of_the_arena's CSS Playground
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Would you like to put a spoiler bar over some text and then have that bar go away when the reader hovers or clicks said text? Well, here you go!
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Various fun CSS effects. Outlined text, shadow, condensed, expanded, blurry, even blurrier, smeared, mirrored, upside down, rainbow, neon, and highlight. Probably more to come! All of these are free to use and you do not need to credit me at all. Have fun formatting your works! <3
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- Part 1 of My Code Snippets
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This is a live example of how an author can create linked footnotes in their work with only a little bit of HTML and no workskins required. This is best viewed by clicking "Entire Work". While I've included the actual coding in bold and italic once you click "Hide Creator's Style", there's a more detailed explanation here.
EDIT 6/28/17: The third chapter now shows how to use anchor links as an index/table of contents.
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- Part 6 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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The Nice and Accurate Guide to Footnotes by Vigs for fersh
Fandoms: Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Good Omens (TV)
10 Aug 2019
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If you're writing fanfiction for Good Omens, you may find yourself wanting to include footnotes.
But html can be confusing. What can you do?
Read this guide to find out!
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AO3 Work Skin for In-Universe Investigative/Mission Report With Redaction by wafflelate
Fandoms: No Fandom
10 May 2020
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This work provides the CSS and HTML necessary to make a fanfiction look like an investigative report or mission report, suitable for a variety of fandoms and purposes.
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Unsteady Foundations by platyceriums for fraternite
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2025
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Three is growing frustrated with Murderbot's refusal to offer support in the terrifying ordeal of being a newly rogue SecUnit.
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12 Jun 2025
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Sometimes you wish your SecUnit had not sent you it’s memories of it’s experiences with it’s governor module. On one metaphorical hand, they were and are vital to understanding it, and it deserves to be understood.
On the other hand, they're fucking terrifying.
Podfic of Just So by Polyhexian.
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[Podfic] Responsible Decision by Ravin_Pods (Ravin)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Jun 2025
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It is strange to think that when you first met your SecUnit, you'd intended to kill it.
Podfic of Responsible Decision by Polyhexian.