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My Yautja Boyfriend by sailaway
Fandom Alien vs Predator (2004), Alien vs Predator (Movies), Aliens vs Predators Series - Various Authors, Predator, Predator (1987), Predator (Dark Horse Comics), Predator 2 (1990), Predator Original Series (1987-1990), Predator Series, Predator: Badlands (2025), Predators (2010), The Predator (2018)
12 Nov 2025
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09 Aug 2026
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Fermi, a human botanist, gets assigned to a cold type 3 Deathworld as a researcher. A bit chilly, but with a nice base and warm clothes nothing to be scared of. Her coworkers are lovely, and the work is intriguing.
She makes very good friends in the two aliens who work with her.
The only problem is. If the planet is trying to kill them all, for her it would need some effort, and for them it doesn't need to do anything.
The cold will do them in on it's own.
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07 Aug 2026
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A story of prison planets and first contact and humans stubbornly making friends with the scariest aliens on the block.
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07 Aug 2026
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pink and green by CompletelyDifferent for z-delenda-est (surgicalstainless)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2023
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During a diplomatic trip to the university's home system to better establish the newly-formed treaty with the Preservation Alliance, Three tries to figure out who it is. Between exploring new hobbies and its sense of fashion, it attempts to figure out what its relationship with Murderbot 1.0 is, precisely. (Murderbot 1.0 ignores this, until it doesn't).
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03 Jul 2026
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Three observes that the humans on board The Perihelion do not touch SecUnits. This does not upset it. Of course not. That would be a strange thing to be upset about.
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03 Jul 2026
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A Case Study On Mutualistic Relationships by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Jan 2022
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Dr. Pranjal Ratthi has written papers on mutualism, symbiotic relationships where all species involved benefit from their interactions. It turns out that applying theory into practice with human-AI dynamics is a little more complicated than he might have anticipated. But worth it, in the end.
[Network Effect, from Ratthi's perspective.]
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03 Jul 2026
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If This Story Had A Title Then I Forgot by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Aug 2022
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Murderbot is at a party.
This is not a normal state of affairs for SecUnits. Neither is the comfy clothes or the sitting or the way the humans keep smiling in its general direction. The smiling, it suspects, will stop, if/when they realise their SecUnit has suffered some sort of catastrophic glitch and has no idea where it is or the specifics of its current assignment.
So it's not going to let them find out.
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03 Jul 2026
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an unexpected harvest by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2023
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Dr. Ayda Mensah isn't sure what to expect on the other side of that wormhole. A hostage situation? An active battle ground? The corpses of her friends and family?
What she expects certainly isn't this.
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03 Jul 2026
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While visiting Preservation on a new contract with some of her family, Tapan notices a familiar face.
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03 Jul 2026
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This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?
Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?
Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.
This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.
Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.
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(When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)
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03 Jul 2026
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3 what the fuck is ‘Murder Mode Modules, Do Not Touch Except For Situations That Necessitate Lots Of Murder?'
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SecUnit 3 is a CombatUnit.
1.0 is not.
This is a surprise to them both.- Language:
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03 Jul 2026
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After leaving RaviHyral, by the time I exit the wormhole adjacent to Port Outlander, the sting of SecUnit’s absence has finally begun to fade. Cargo runs are always lonely, so this is nothing new. SecUnit left me with more to occupy my time than I usually have. Media. Memories. A few topics of pointless rumination, I suppose, but also new topics of data analysis and research.
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The time period between the end of Artificial Condition and the end of Exit Strategy, from ART's POV.
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- Part 2 of Perihelion Mission Logs
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03 Jul 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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03 Jul 2026
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December 12, 1983, a meteor exploded above Seattle with the force of the Tsar Bomba. An unknown disease propagating from the blast zone killed tens of thousands.
March 22, 1989, a five-year old boy blew up his classroom with his mind. He was taken to a secure government facility for "treatment", and never seen again.
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The Monster Club is a grounded superhero story about the very first generation of superhumans, growing up in a world that fears and desires them in equal measure. Struggling to define who they are, and how they should use their incredible powers, the Monsters will have to work together to survive.But for all their power, they are still very human, and very flawed. Can they overcome these deficiencies and obstacles?
Is it possible to have peace between the old generation and the new? Or will this struggle become a question of extinction?
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10 Jun 2026
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Kaed Miller is a soldier in what's left of the United States Military. She's been a soldier since she was fifteen. She never wanted to be, but she has superpowers so she doesn't have a choice. She's in it till the day she dies, and she's pretty sure today is the day. Imagine her shock when getting dissolved in a giant vat of stomach acid doesn't kill her.
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08 Jun 2026
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Directive: Ownership Transfer = Engaged by inasfe, Klexor
Fandoms: Magical Girl Mechanical Heart - Natalie Maher
17 Feb 2026
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Luna is bound to the vile will of Melpomene, unable to disobey her in any way, shape, or form. At least, she used to be. Here she is, being forced to fight children alongside a person she used to consider a friend, when suddenly she explodes. The next thing she knows, she has a new master, one that is considerably less evil.
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08 Jun 2026
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A human refugee on the alien world of Venlil Prime has a bad time
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- Part 1 of To Kill a Predator
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26 Mar 2026
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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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01 Jan 2026
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On a corporate owned mining asteroid in the depths of the Corporation Rim, a group of plucky, heroic, indentured humans have just decided to make their first move in a daring escape plan. Said first move is a deceptively simple hack, putting control of their corporate overlords' single, overworked SecUnit into their hands.
Little do they know, this murderbot is already hacked.
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31 Dec 2025
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The whole thing took 3.7 minutes. It was impersonal, efficient, and streamlined, just the way the corporates liked it. Oh, and the new construct was screaming the whole time.
Bharadwaj is sent a packet of video files from the Corporation Rim as part of her research for her documentary. When viewing one clip in particular, SecUnit's human friends learn something new about the lives of constructs.
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31 Dec 2025