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  1. Public Bookmark 13

    Ship + Unit: Departure by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    25 Sep 2026

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    ART and SecUnit don't like the way machine intelligences and SecUnits are portrayed in media, so they decide to write their own. Their show is called Ship + Unit, so it's a bit of an AU, but not exactly. It's very meta.

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    26 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 45

    Campus Legend by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    14 Dec 2025

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    Secunit has a bit of a reputation at PSUMNT.

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    24 Sep 2026

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    Background Radiation by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    22 Jul 2025

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    A (formerly) promising young man named Nico Qasim rescues his brother from exploitation, mistreatment, and possible death. So far, so good, but…what the hell does he do NOW?

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    15 Sep 2026

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    God Hands You A Bible by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    05 May 2026

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    SPOILERS FOR PLATFORM DECAY.

    God hands you a bible one day on the torus that used to be the only thing you ever knew.

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    05 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 96

    Positive Representation, Complex Emotions, and a Fictional but Semi-Heroic SecUnit in Media by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    30 Apr 2026

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    I don’t normally pay that much attention to the credits. In general, I tend to care more about the fictional characters than the real humans playing them, but this had caught my attention.
    I mean, it wasn't the first serial that ever put in a SecUnit as a villain instead of a prop. RihaniLane Street had actually made their SecUnit villain sympathetic before it tried to kill everyone. And obviously this fictional SecUnit was going to be a villain, too, because they always were, but that scene was —
    The credits said ‘Made and Produced in GoodNightLander Independent.’
    Oh.

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    Or, Murderbot has feelings about finding positive representation.
    Mostly positive.
    Even when humans try, they get SecUnits wrong in media.
    (Not the murder, the murders were justified, but the writers made the fictional SecUnit like cubicles)
    (It’s still pretty positive.)

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    30 Apr 2026