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Murderbot grapples with being caught in a small explosion. ART grapples with its mutual administrative assistant finding its way into emergency surgery for the nth time.
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Alien grooms roommate like a cat? Not clickbait?? by crawlingvoid
Fandoms: Fire and Stone (Comics), Life and Death (Dark Horse Comics), Aliens vs Predators Series - Various Authors
14 Apr 2024
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In which Ahab attempts grooming his loved ones like a cat.
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not unscathed by crawlingvoid
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types, The Transformers (IDW Generation One)
06 Feb 2024
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“Oh, to the pits with it.” Drift finds himself pushed back onto the berth with no small amount of surprise; Not that he was complaining, however.
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i'm the machine and you're the ghost by brahe
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Oct 2025
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I skim the instruction document and pull the complex code file into the station’s processing space. I don’t think I’ve ever been this anxious for something to work, for something to happen. I know I’ve never been this desperate. Please—
The lights flicker, shutting off for hardly even a second before they turn back on, and maybe it’s just me and my faulty-ass organic parts and the emotional breakdown I’m maybe probably definitely having, but it feels like the air is different. It feels like—
Or,
A coda/minor rewrite for (mostly) ch. 7–8 in Network Effect.
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22 Oct 2025
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Hierarchy of Needs by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Oct 2025
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considerable trouble and considerable joy by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Aug 2025
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“Can I come? Please?” Huck asked.
I hesitated. There was so much trust in that question, but it felt bittersweet, since I’d done so little to earn it. I’d wanted to do more, but with every act of affection or fierce protection curtailed by the governor module, I’d been little more than a reassuring presence.
As Huck looked up at me, his chin dripping tears, I realized how much I valued that trust. I had an answer to a question I’d never been free to ask: What did I want?
After its governor module is hacked, Nova risks its new freedom by returning to the mining installations of RaviHyral to search for Astra, Tlacey’s other ComfortUnit.
Along the way, Nova will encounter an abandoned SecUnit, an illicit troupe of performers dramatizing the injustice of the Corporation Rim, and Tlacey’s son, Huck, a child who is also in need of a chance at freedom from the cruelty of Rim life.
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19 Oct 2025
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ART and Murderbot discuss the existential quandaries of being a transport.
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17 Oct 2025
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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16 Oct 2025