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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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19 Apr 2025
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Chilling and tragic and perfect. And the title's poem elevates it even further
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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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Bookmarked by isilee
09 Dec 2023
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I am obsessed with this fic... such a fascinating concept and an amazing execution.
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An ex-trust fund kid turned scientist finds himself having to dip his toes back into the seedy underbelly of the corporate underworld to make a purchase. But as he boozes and schmoozes his way through a SecUnit betting ring, will he be able to get what he came for?
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- Part 1 of bad beat
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13 May 2023
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17 Mar 2023
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I have been going insane over this heart-rending series for the past 3 days
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After Hacking by Gamebird
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Feb 2025
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A series of short stories to the prompt: pre-canon but post-hack, Murderbot is owned and deployed by the Company. Emphasis on it facing painful, difficult choices, where it has to “choose” to obey, has to “choose” to act governed Or Else, where Murderbot has to look like it’s following callous, cruel, or profit-oriented orders, but still does what it can to reduce harm.
Please note that given the constraints of the prompt, Murderbot continues working, doesn't gain substantial allies or abilities, or make big changes in the world. Its gains are incremental and mainly self-discovery, so there's not a big, happy ending like with most of my fics. Murderbot is still learning some of the abilities it takes for granted by the time we meet it in ASR, including hacking, vocabulary, and social skills (yes, it has fewer social skills here than it does in ASR!)
These scenarios are arranged chronologically with several set within the same assignment, taking place within the first year after it hacks the governor module. I imagine these as incidents it discusses with Dr. Bharadwaj at some point post-NE, as it talks about early times when it recognized its own agency.
Thank you to horchata for helping me brainstorm!
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04 Feb 2023
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Quite dark in some places and yet there is this sense of cautious hope in others that made me very emotional. Also very very perfect characterization and character voice
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Leadership Priority by lunaTactics for isilee
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2023
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Ayda Mensah's friends, brother-in-law, daughter, and SecUnit have been kidnapped by an unknown hostile ship. Despite lingering trauma and every voice of reason, despite her growing doubts in her leadership abilities, she leaps into action to bring them back.Network Effect, from Mensah's point of view. Or, what kind of strength and poise it must have taken to put together a rescue mission within hours of the kidnapping of her daughter and SecUnit and other friends.
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Five Golden Rings by HerenorThereNearnorFar
Fandoms: The Silmarillion and other histories of Middle-Earth - J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings - J. R. R. Tolkien
17 Aug 2019
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Barad-dûr has fallen. Celebrimbor does some light metalworking for the sake of sentiment (and maybe something more).
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18 Aug 2019
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What would Game of Thrones have been like with a strong, empowered Sansa?
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28 May 2019
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06 Apr 2019
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For I Mean to Conquer Troy by twelve_pastels
Fandoms: X-Men: First Class (2011) - Fandom
07 Dec 2011
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Set one year post movie, Charles overloads himself in Cerebro, and his mind goes walkabout; wherever he is (and he’s around), it’s not in his body. Erik temporarily takes over the school in his absence, and finds that there’s little time for resentment or hatred when he’s busy organizing assigned reading for English lit, keeping the youngest children out of trouble, and trying to talk Raven into wearing clothing for the boys’ sake. Somewhere in between taking responsibility for the students and dreaming Charles’ dreams every night, he manages to remember that he’s something rather more than a weapon. In other words: A Love Story between two Gentlemen, told in Prose, Epistles, and Nonsense Rhymes.
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28 Feb 2019
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forging heat by shinealightonme for BeccaStareyes
Fandoms: Circle of Magic - Tamora Pierce
29 Apr 2013
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Three things Daja made for her siblings, and one she made for herself.
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04 Jan 2018
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faith, hope, all that bullshit by shinealightonme
Fandoms: Raven Cycle - Maggie Stiefvater
30 Jul 2017
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Ronan never actually proposes. Adam doesn't technically say yes. If they wind up married Adam is going to count it as a freaking miracle.
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Bookmarked by isilee
04 Jan 2018
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This fic is the best thing to happen to me all week, I love it.
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Proof of Humanity by journeycat
Fandoms: Protector of the Small - Tamora Pierce, Tortall - Tamora Pierce, PIERCE Tamora - Works
10 Jul 2011
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One careless remark by Neal changes the course of Tobe's life and finds a tentative hold in his impressionable young mind.
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02 Jan 2018
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found families by Flora_Obsidian
Fandom: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (2015), Star Wars Sequel Trilogy
01 Apr 2018
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Family is a concept that extends well beyond the ties of blood.
Alternatively: Star Wars is painful, I am determined to make it less painful, and everybody finds their family in the end.
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03 Oct 2017
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wonderful characterization, growth. Rey is awesome in this fic.
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Missing scene from Blood of Tyrants wherein nothing actually happens
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02 Oct 2017
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Wonderful, emotive storytelling. A beautiful piece of work on two complex, layered characters.
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The founding of a wizarding nation in a world of dragons.
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- Part 1 of Island of Fire
- Part 7 of Garden fics
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Bookmarked by isilee
02 Oct 2017
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i love this universe. i always have a soft spot for "created" worlds, and esama's worldbuilding is, as always, gorgeous. And it's in two of my most favorite fandoms!
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Katsuki sits cross-legged, clearly in no hurry to go anywhere. “What’s your name? I’m –”
“I know who you are,” he cuts him off, then blushes, then hates himself for both those things. Katsuki looks surprised, and Yuri can’t think as to why. He’s a nationally ranked figure skater. He’s Yuri’s favorite figure skater.
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Yuuri and Yuri become friends and Viktor develops a crush.
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Bookmarked by isilee
10 Sep 2017
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yuuri's and yuri's friendship is great. pining victor is great. EVERYTHING IS GREAT.
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Tharkay is the only one on the Reliant who is not already tied to a position, and so he is the one chosen to harness the dragonet when it hatches.
(Or: the one where Tharkay is a reluctant aviator, and Laurence is an outcast wanderer.)
Bookmarked by isilee
10 Sep 2017
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this will forever be my favorite of ALL THE TEMERAIRE FICS. the idea is good to begin with, but then!!!! consumptive_sphinx wrote it, and made it BETTER.
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Harry has reached a very bitter and jaded thirty. His efforts to reform the Ministry haven’t lessened the corruption or pure-blood bigotry one bit. That’s when he finds out that he’s apparently a part of a pure-blood nobility he’s never heard of before; he’s Lord Potter and Lord Black. Unfortunately, that revelation’s come too late for him to be a reformer. All Harry wants to do is tear the system down and salt the earth. And with a double Lordship, he just might have the power to do that.
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Bookmarked by isilee
10 Sep 2017
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Fics about overturning corrupt people in power are my JAM.
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Harry Potter's fifteenth birthday starts off just like all the others...for the first few seconds, at least. The gift he receives changes his entire life.
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- Part 3 of Of a Linear Circle
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Bookmarked by isilee
10 Sep 2017
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So satisfying to see Hogwarts Founders!era fleshed out in such detail! Seeing Harry thrive with his adopted family and learn new things is very gratifying as well.