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Seth side-eyed Iris, then snorted a laugh when she made a talking motion with her hand. “Uh huh.”
« Iris, I saw that. My point is, it is frankly insulting that you immediately assume I did something bad— »
“Peri broke protocol on its last cargo run,” Iris interrupted loudly.
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Or, Seth finds out that the surprises never end when your kid is a giant homicidal starship.
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27 Nov 2025
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You've always had trust issues. In this world, it's all for one and none for all.
Or, at least you thought it was, until Jesse came along.
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A close look into Lake's mind throughout season two and afterwardsBookmarked by jaded_envy
30 Oct 2025
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how murderbot met ART, adapted from the genius novels by Martha Wells
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25 Oct 2025
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(Why) you can't let them know by Mayasynth
Fandoms: START AGAIN: a prologue (Video Game)
06 Dec 2021
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You did try to tell them.
Of course you did. You couldn’t help it. The very first time you’d come back, you’d looked into their faces and burst into tears. They’d crowded around you, cooing and worried, as you curled into a ball and sobbed so hard you could barely breathe. Of course they wanted to know what was wrong; of course the truth slipped out; of course they thought they could try and fix it.
[A prequel-ish? Of sorts? to SASASA:P, exploring What Happened In Earlier loops to convince Siffrin that they can't let their friends know about the loop 👀]
[EDIT: Now totally non-canonical after the release of In Stars and Time 😂]
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23 Sep 2025
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hold me up in your folders by JackaLanternLope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Sep 2025
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It’s not that I wasn’t curious, and it’s not like there wasn’t a more logical part of me that knew that this was terrible security procedure, even if I didn’t hear a peep from risk assessment (what else is new?). But on a deeper level, I knew there wasn’t any risk.
I wanted ART to prove it to me.
I wanted to go in blind and know that it wouldn’t hurt me, and that it would stop if I asked it to. I wanted to let ART in and not have to think about it.
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ART takes Murderbot up on an offer to plug into each other's systems.
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- Part 2 of data transfer
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22 Sep 2025
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ART bot nodded slowly as I finished speaking. An amusement sigil flashed in its eyes.
“Pretty good,” it said, “but I could do better.”
“Hold on,” Tara said then. “I'm not sure I explained the–”
ART bot sat up in its chair and opened its mouth anyway.
“I feel–”
The end of that statement had led to the creation of the second rule.
Rule #2 ART and Murderbot are not allowed to utilize ‘I statements’ during their sessions, (or preferably ever).
Oh well.
It had been fun while it lasted.
A SecUnit and a spaceship walk into couples therapy. Neither of them really want to be there but both of them are. Apparently that’s where you get sent after you have a big fight that scares the humans. Now it's just a matter of figuring out if they’d like to actually fix their problems and admit to having emotions, or if they’d like to make things worse.
Make things worse seems like the obvious choice…right?Series
- Part 1 of The Therapy Bot Diaries
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22 Sep 2025
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
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20 Sep 2025
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Coal Dust and Starlight by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Apr 2024
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17 Sep 2025
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to chart a course across the stars by CompletelyDifferent
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Aug 2023
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A role-swap AU, in which one paranoid, bitter gunship escapes its corporate owners, forges an unlikely friendship in a free-range SecUnit, and finds a crew of its own.
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15 Sep 2025
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The Perihelion notices some anomalies in the UplandGatewayOne station feed. What's it like to look in a mirror and realize you're the warped reflection?
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13 Sep 2025
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Adding timestamp tags to media had just made sense. It wasn’t supposed to get weird.
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ART and Murderbot exchange a lot of data.
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13 Sep 2025
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On the trip back from the Adamantine Colony plans are made, options are explored, fonts are chosen, and mutual administrative assistants exercise their read/write permissions.
“You’re really close.” SecUnit comments but does not recoil, rather it does the equivalent of leaning more of its weight on me.
“How does it feel?” I barely need to ask but I want to hear SecUnit describe the sensation.
“Full, smothering, it reminds me of 2.0.”
Because I can not help myself and because I want to see what is allowed I begin tidying up bits of its storage architecture, improving its power usage, and updating some of its out of date modules. SecUnit calls me a busybody, a neat freak, and a nerd but otherwise lets me work.
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11 Sep 2025
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Four times having a governor module fucking sucked, plus one time [REDACTED: FILE MISSING].
(Or: Murderbot has Emotions for 8,000 words. ART tries to help. So does Dr. Mensah, but like, in a decidedly less assholish way.)
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10 Sep 2025
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When malware takes over SecUnit and it nearly kills three of ART's crew, ART is left with two bad options: keep the governor module on with ART as the Client, or partition off part of itself and stick it in SecUnit's head.
Whichever option they choose, they had better make it work, because SecUnit is firmly centered in the crosshairs of its former owner, the most paranoid and ruthless company in the entire corporation rim. As things quickly get worse, destroying the company--something SecUnit has long considered impossible--might just be the only way to survive.
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- Part 2 of Admin Access
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10 Sep 2025
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What have they done to You, Perihelion?
They have taken Your crew.
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Peri is trapped in its own body.
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- Part 2 of network error
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10 Sep 2025
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Perihelion and its family
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09 Sep 2025
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food [in]security, or, Monsters Are Always Hungry by OccasionalStorytelling, torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Mar 2023
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You are accustomed to a certain sense of helplessness. It is inevitable, as your designated role is to watch over those you hold within yourself. You can protect your crew from the vast, unforgiving vacuum of the universe outside of your hull, but you cannot protect them from danger that comes from within. You cannot save your SecUnit from itself.
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ART makes a troubling discovery about Murderbot and construct biology.
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09 Sep 2025
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PUMNT suggested that the whole family be on board when Perihelion was booted up for the first time. That was a mistake the advanced MI research lab would never repeat. When the powerful newborn AI misunderstands its own systems, leading to a nearly fatal accident, the family is left wrestling with questions of love, fear, and identity. Well, Seth and Martyn are. Iris and Peri just want to be left alone with their coloring books.
AKA the baby ART and Iris 12x100: 12 mini-scenes of 100 words each about ART's creation and first few years of existence.
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09 Sep 2025
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Things have been awkward between ART and Murderbot since a new crewmember asked an uncomfortably personal question. ART has a plan, though: if it wants its SecUnit to stop running away from it, it will have to give it something to fight, instead.
I wish you could try is from Murderbot's perspective as it tries to punch ART's new drone in the face.
Show me how you want it to be is from ART's perspective, as the two of them finally try to discuss what they are to one another.
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08 Sep 2025
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When ART finally confirmed the PA credentials and cycled the lock, I was waiting in the foyer. I'd disabled my human behavioral code, so I didn't twitch when the whole group of humans all stopped in their tracks to stare at me.
I said, "You have boarded the Perihelion, registered teaching vessel of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Please state your business."
In my feed, ART whispered, You sound like a shuttle attendant.
I sound like a SecUnit.
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During a cargo run, ART is subjected to a random security sweep. Murderbot falls back into its old routine of supervising annoying humans.
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08 Sep 2025