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Bots and constructs have taken over the Corporate Rim. When PreservationAux is captured sneaking into AI-controlled space, someone must stay behind with the sophisticated bot-pilot that remembers a lot less than it thinks it does, and the rogue SecUnit with more anxiety and depression than anyone knows.
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25 Sep 2025
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Echoes of the Soul by that_one_kid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
28 Aug 2025
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When Murderbot saved Mensah at the end of the PresAux survey, it didn’t expect to wake back up. It really didn’t expect to wake up ten years later with its least favourite human there.
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- Part 5 of More Than Meets The Eye
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20 Sep 2025
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My performance reliability dropped but the spike of fear upped my reaction time, and my body moved before I consciously realized that it wasn’t going to work.
I swung at TargetContact with my improvised club, but the force I put into the swing made my wrecked knee joint give out, and the blow only grazed it. I hit the floor again, and TargetContact was on top of me.
Turns out, I was right that this was going to be worse. I just had no idea exactly how much worse.
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Things go a lot worse for Murderbot at the end of Network Effect before they get better. This changes a good number of things, but maybe not anything that really matters. Like how far the people that love it are willing to go for its sake.
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18 Sep 2025
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It flinches as if you had shot it and its walls slam shut in front of you, thick enough that you know it isn't putting up a show of things. It really does want you out.
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18 Sep 2025
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I could have become a murderer when the hopper I was being transported in crashed on an uninhabited planet and left just one surviving human crew.
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All Systems Red AU where prior to the PreservationAux Survey, a company hopper carrying Murderbot crash landed on the survey planet, leaving it to fend for itself in the alien landscape.- Language:
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- 75,735
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- 29/?
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09 Sep 2025
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NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad by FlipSpring
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Oct 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 as they try to figure out what makes a rogue tick
- The Combat SecUnit is A (Problematic) Character
- Disaster ensuesNote installment one, Parameters NULL, is heavily horror/angst (and dark comedy). References NULL is also deeply angsty.
Series has its ups and downs regarding angst, slightly-less-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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08 Sep 2025
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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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- English
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- 51,250
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- 26/?
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16 Aug 2025
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Insubordinate Functions by musicofthespheres
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Nov 2024
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When Murderbot loses its vision in the middle of a security briefing, it must turn to its friends for help in figuring out what caused it before cascading malfunctions take it out of commission entirely. Especially when those malfunctions start causing it to lash out at the only people equipped to help it.
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With art by evrrys
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- 10/10
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16 Aug 2025
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As a state-of-the-art B-class wormhole-capable deep-space research vessel, I do not consider myself to have many serious design flaws. Every piece of me has been meticulously crafted, is regularly maintained and upgraded, and there is very little I cannot do if I set my several dozen exabytes of processing power upon the task. This is why the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland’s extra-curricular oversight committee deemed me more than capable of operating unmanned on the occasional intelligence-gathering reconnaissance mission. It is for the sake of both necessity and convenience that these missions are camouflaged as cargo runs.
Nonetheless, it is an unmistakable oversight that I am capable of being bored. It is also incredibly annoying that unmanned cargo runs are so dull.
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The entirety of Artificial Condition, from ART's POV.
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- Part 1 of Perihelion Mission Logs
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13 Aug 2025
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[variable_affection] by avg (AnxiousEspada), flowerguts, Lillow
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Sep 2022
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"ART loved its crew. The joy and the love and perfect clarity with what it was supposed to be, what it was supposed to do. ART couldn’t understand how someone could dislike their function - how I could. Once, I had a similar clarity of understanding with my function, then I hacked my governor module and left the company for good, and I had lost it all. It was better, now, in a lot of ways. I had my humans, and ART, and our crew. But in some ways, things were worse.
I still wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do, ever. I had made one good decision, to stay with ART, a few years ago, and I had been just making the same decision over and over again. It felt kind of like cheating."A 20-some year fic in which Murderbot comes to terms with what it means to have a home (or two), a found family (or several), and just what mutual administrative assistance can entail.
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- English
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- 204,127
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- 24/24
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29 Jul 2025
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
SecUnit One: Indeed.- Language:
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24 Jul 2025
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In wine, there is truth; sometimes you are more likely to blurt out your feelings when you are under the influence.
But sometimes, to wine, there is truth, and your friend will blurt out his feelings when he thinks you're too stinking, fall-down drunk to hear them.
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05 Jan 2025
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Greatly Approved by damalur
Fandoms: Dragon Age - All Media Types, Dragon Age: Inquisition
24 Jan 2015
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An apostate's guide to popular fiction.
(Or: Hawke runs headlong into Cassandra's book club, Varric comes along for the ride.)
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- Part 1 of Greatly Approved
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- English
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- 34,586
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- 1/1
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26 Oct 2024
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!!! Incredible confession and stellar narrator voice - the holes where Hawke is refusing to think about things are big enough to drive a truck through and I love it
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Newly released from prison, Jyn Erso is determined to start fresh. But even with a new job and a new home, she struggles to leave the past completely behind.
Detective Cassian Andor has an extensive movie collection and no one to watch it with.
In which Jyn and Cassian try to remember what it's like to have faith in humanity.
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- 27,994
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- 10/10
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12 May 2024
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Desperate, Agatha creates a chance to correct what she can, and save all that she loves.
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19 Mar 2024
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Durge lets a different kind of invasive thought win.
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AKA, Gale gets fucked while stuck in that portal.Series
- Part 1 of gale gets good dick anthology
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15 Nov 2023
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no place that could turn my heart from you by wesnenski
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games)
04 Sep 2023
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Gale was right: the Shadowlands are far from suitable for indulging any thoughts more basal than survival. And yet—the weight of his gaze burns into you still, heated and heady. He has not stopped watching you since the battle for Last Light. Since he’d all but admitted that the sight of you, covered in the blood of winged shadow-beasts, sent his blood surging southward. “I can’t imagine anywhere that could turn my heart from you,” he’d said. “Cursed or otherwise.”
Not that you can blame him, truly. A flush rises to your own cheeks as you recall the way he’d looked in battle: hair wild and eyes blazing, flame and lightning crackling at his fingertips. Ordinarily, Gale wears expressions best described as kind and approachable. To be reminded of his hard-earned skill, of the sheer well of power surging beneath his skin… it sends a thrill of arousal through your gut, hot and insistent. You cannot help but turn to seek him out.
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A lil Gale x Tav (or Reader), as a treat. :)
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15 Nov 2023
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There's an old house in a nice part of town that no-one wants.
(A fun little ghost au for the soul)
(Turning out to be not so little)
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- 253,292
- Chapters:
- 47/47
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06 Jul 2023
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How to Build a Bridge in Eight Thousand Easy Steps by socksock
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
30 Aug 2021
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Zelda just wants to rebuild Hyrule’s infrastructure, rekindle relations between the far-flung settlements, build a new Sheikah slate, and kiss Link's face. Is that really so much to ask?
Sequel to Displaced
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- Part 2 of Displaced
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- English
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- 99,349
- Chapters:
- 29/29
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14 Jun 2023
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“I haven’t…” she starts, watches his blue eyes narrowed in concern and it’s distracting, everything’s distracting. “I haven’t had a body in a hundred years,” Zelda manages, and shrugs one shoulder, as if to say what can you do? “I was Hylia, mostly, and a little bit me, but I wasn’t a person. I was the sun and the wind and the water and the dirt and I was in a prison and I was the prison. I feel like I’m blindfolded, now, without that sense of the world, but also everything is so bright and loud and close and I hardly know how I’m managing to speak to you when my skin is feeling wind for the first time in a century. It’s…” she trails off, her words failing her, which is infuriating because she’s a scholar, she’s good at words. “It’s a lot,” she finishes awkwardly, for lack of anything better to say.
Or: Learning to be a person again, after the end.
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- Part 1 of Something So Magic About You
- Language:
- English
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- 130,850
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- 22/22
- Comments:
- 1,018
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- 3,642
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13 Jun 2023