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On an otherwise tedious survey, Murderbot meets a cat.
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30 Apr 2025
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Acceptable Mission Cost by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Nov 2022
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The planetary leader of Preservation is taken hostage by a corporation and held for interrogation. Lonely and homesick, she starts talking to the SecUnit assigned to guard her cell. When it's ordered to kill her, it can't bring itself to follow through.
An AU idea that's been floating around the discord! A bit like the end of Exit Strategy if it was at the start of the series. This version will get into some alternate Artificial Condition vibes eventually too.
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30 Apr 2025
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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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30 Apr 2025
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The idea of greater good itself is unclear – Jaewon believes that when someone mentions something for greater good, the actions are not based on the interest of the disadvantages, but more on to feed their personal ego.
However, it does not matter what Jaewon thinks now, since the world has never been ideal to begin with. He is to be married with Baek Kanghyuk. For greater good.
(Kangjae arranged marriage, omegaverse AU. Rate and tags will be updated accordingly)
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- Part 1 of from eden (Kangjae AU)
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30 Apr 2025
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mutually-assured discretion by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Aug 2023
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I didn’t look directly at Seth, because intimidation wasn’t the purpose of showing him my face. But I saw that moment that all of my clients had; the recognition that they’d signed their life over to an entity that intended to guard it with trained and shackled monsters.
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Perihelion's humans are embarking on a planetary survey, and are in need of security. With little choice in the matter, they contract with the company.
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30 Apr 2025
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Most of the code I write is code that I can evolve on the fly. My code to delete me out of security footage, for instance, was something I'd built up over months, adjusting it to different proprietary SecSystems as I encountered them. But this was different: my comm and feed protections were what kept me from falling under anyone else's control, and I couldn't afford to have them be anything but perfect, which was why I was here. If I wanted to fix this vulnerability properly, and I did, there were things that I needed to do that I couldn't do without help.
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In the aftermath of getting hacked, Murderbot asks ART to help it make sure it can't be hacked the same way again. As it turns out, applying and testing a security patch is a little more challenging than usual when the vulnerable system is, you know, your own brain.
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30 Apr 2025
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ART and Murderbot wanted to spend more time together, so they do. They spend it watching media in ways humans and augmented humans don't understand, and aren't capable of.
Having real feelings about fake things together is one thing.
Having real feelings about real things (like each other) and being expected to talk about them (with each other) is something very else.Bookmarked by goldentimes (thaitea)
30 Apr 2025
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feedlog 007634-003821-14 by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Feb 2021
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BE003821: System System: Unit acknowledge
TC007634: Acknowledged
BE003821: Unusual activity detected in Sector 6. Request input
TC007634: Report
BE003821: [24-06-74-15.img]
TC007634: Processing
TC007634: Three.
TC007634: that's a still image of the view out the sector 6 porthole.
BE003821: Confirm, request input
TC007634: are you asking my opinion of the picture?-
SecUnit 3 makes an attempt to establish a team rapport.
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29 Apr 2025
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“I’m sorry, did you say eleven years old?” Ratthi asked, because humans can’t play back bits of conversations that they didn’t hear and are always asking each other to repeat things, much to the annoyance of any contracted SecUnits being forced to listen in and record everything they say to be sold for advertising data.
“Yes,” Gurathin confirmed, and then everyone was staring at me and looking all shocked and sad and whatever.
“Constructs don’t age the same way humans do,” I reminded them, before anyone could start thinking anything stupid like oh no, Murderbot is just a little kid and little kids shouldn’t be doing security and eleven year olds shouldn’t have guns in their arms. "Eleven is old for a SecUnit. Most of my inorganics are already past warranty.”
Except, because I’m an idiot, that didn’t make it better. It actually made it worse, because now even Dr. Mensah was making a concerned face at me.Bookmarked by goldentimes (thaitea)
29 Apr 2025
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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.
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29 Apr 2025
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Murderbot's buffer is becoming a problem.
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29 Apr 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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29 Apr 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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29 Apr 2025
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find me (found me) from the beginning by inkstained_pages
Fandoms: 永夜星河 | Love Game in Eastern Fantasy (TV)
13 Dec 2024
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The beginning, Ziqi had said, surrounded by stardust and void. Let's go back to the very beginning.
She’d nodded, something deep within her loosening and tension she’d been carrying for so long lightening, the promise of him beside her the whole way a balm against her weary soul, and then-
Light.~ ~ ~
Ling Miaomiao wakes in a wedding dress.
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29 Apr 2025
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You Carry the Burdens and I Will Clear the Way by orphan_account, Sanguine_Melody
Fandoms: 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Manga), 呪術廻戦 | Jujutsu Kaisen (Anime)
19 Oct 2025
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“You know, everyone’s trying to make me scared of you. I’ve never been scared of anything, and I don’t think I know how to be,” Yuji admitted. He wasn’t sure why. It just felt like the thing to say.
“Only the weak know fear,” Sukuna replied simply.
“Are you saying I’m strong?” Yuji grinned around the coke bottle before he took another drink. It was funny in a bizarre way to be having such a casual conversation.
Sukuna scoffed, “No. You’re just stupid.”
It took Yuji a while. Mostly because he’d never known anyone like Sukuna, but eventually he understood. Whenever Sukuna called him stupid, he really meant ‘I love you.’
Alternate Title: Old Man Claims Squatter’s Rights in Reincarnated Twin Brother’s Body. More at Eleven.
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- Part 1 of The Curse of Small Desires
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28 Apr 2025
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A boring, routine job leads Murderbot directly to someone it did not know it had forgotten, and maybe it's about to finally get that closure it didn't find on RaviHyral.
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Memory ghost. I must have met it at some point before my last wipe.
It’s a company ComfortUnit, ART noted.
I know it’s a company ComfortUnit. I’m not fucking blind.
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- Part 2 of IV
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28 Apr 2025
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There are two things that Hanbin knows, looking at his face so closely. The first is that he loves Zhang Hao. That he wants every part of him, wholly and desperately. The second is that there is something wrong with him.
“You’re not who I think you are, are you,” Hanbin states, his lips brushing against Zhang Hao’s as he speaks.
Zhang Hao’s lip quirks up. “Speak clearly, Hanbin,” he chides, neither denying the accusation or questioning him. Hanbin’s entire body crushes under the weight of the question he knows he must ask, and he has to take a gasping breath to continue.
“You’re not human, are you?"
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22 Apr 2025
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“And where will I be?” Hanbin asks, softly.
Zhang Hao looks back at him with his eyes containing entire constellations. “You will be next to me, of course.”
or: When Hanbin accepted an offer to be a dance mentor on a trainee survival show, there were a lot of things he had accounted for: cut-throat competition, dubious editing, and spending his blood, sweat, and tears to push the hopeful trainees to do their best on the show. What he hadn’t accounted for: Zhang Hao, the leader of famous boy group STARCATCH, Korea’s fifth gen it-boy, and perhaps most importantly, Hanbin’s ex.
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22 Apr 2025
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Sung Hanbin has known since the tender age of four-and-a-half that he is not magical and has made peace with his average life. But getting trapped at the magical university his father worked at after said father's untimely death changes everything.
Zhang Hao, being the heir to one of the strongest families of the magical world, has lived, breathed, and loved magic ever since he could walk. He is in his final year of university and is determined to ensure that the arrival of the strange, non-magical boy at the school will change nothing.
or: Amidst the tall, whispering walls of a magical university, an unsolved murder, and the wax and wane of the moon, two unlikely boys find that they cannot stop bumping into each other.
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22 Apr 2025
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The Purest Shades of Grace by Grandapplewit
Fandoms: 陈情令 | The Untamed (TV), 魔道祖师 - 墨香铜臭 | Módào Zǔshī - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
07 May 2025
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Lan Wangji dies after the twenty-eighth strike. Thirteen years later, she wakes up.
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- Part 1 of Wherever Burn my Fantasies
Bookmarked by goldentimes (thaitea)
21 Apr 2025