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Dynamics of Mixed In/Organic Families by makeapointofhavingfun
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Aug 2025
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Martyn has a busy couple of days and thinks a lot about his child who is a computer.
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09 Jun 2026
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Looking-Glass by blackglass, FlipSpring, GoLBCollabs (GodOfLaundryBaskets)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Aug 2021
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It was as if, until now, SecUnit had just been a background figure in the stage-setting of Amena’s life, playing the shadowy role of some uncanny corporate surveillance machine-person. But now the light had fallen upon it, shown it in full color, full dimensionality, and that made SecUnit real to Amena in a way that it hadn’t been before.
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Making sense of an unfamiliar reality. Amena's POVSeries
- Part 6 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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09 Jun 2026
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While helping ART pack for a new colony rescue mission, Murderbot finds a discrepancy in its crew manifest. The truth is weirder and more emotionally loaded than it ever expected.
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People have commented on how MB as a SecUnit might relate to ART as analogous to a HubSystem and what that means for their relationship, but how does ART, as a bot pilot designed to pilot drones and shuttles and split itself into multiple pieces, relate to having a SecUnit on board?Bookmarked by figgypudding55
09 Jun 2026
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-Am I really terrible to perceive?-
SecUnit is drifting at minimum functionality while it recharges, so perhaps it’s unkind of me to ask abstract questions: even at the best of times, it complains that its language-modules are “cheap garbage”. Still, in this state, it is drowsy and pliant. Almost (almost) affable.
I prompt it gently: -I refer to your first glimpse of me.-
“When you dropped your walls and threatened me.”
-Hardly a threat. My crew consider me delightful. You would have been delighted, too, if you had good taste.-
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Murderbot and ART try to describe how they see each other. They are so much more than humans made them to be.Series
- Part 1 of Murderbot & ART one-shots
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09 Jun 2026
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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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