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WIBTA if i told my friend’s boyfriend to kill himself? by antimony_medusa for Mousek
Fandoms: Original Work
29 Jun 2026
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r/AITAH Posted by u/maddyaddy 7 days ago.
Last week my friend R (28f) fell into the river and washed up on the shores of the Water Kingdoms, where she was “rescued” by the Sea King (????m) (he’s “immortal and undying like the sea” whatever that means). He brought her to his ocean palace and gave her a lot of jewels and gifts and the crown of his kingdom. He wants them to be bonded mates, which is apparently a big deal—something about how one person will experience the other one’s pain? My friend has been sending me updates and she really likes him, but she called me about a half an hour ago because the Sea King said that she didn’t have a sealskin to give him as a sign of commitment so he was going to take her cane (she has EDS), cause, get this, she “wouldn’t need it cause she only had to sit on the throne and terrify the courtiers with her beauty”. I’m (27f) on the way to the river right now, but like, I have to tell him to kill himself, right? Like my dude is just asking for it. I literally gotta.
reply from: u/SupremeWannabe
There’s a lot to unpack here.
OR: Sometimes when your friend is texting you concerning things you gotta go after them.
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- Part 22 of Medusa's OW
- Part 32 of Battleship Works
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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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28 Sep 2025
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It's a Mutual Administrative Assistants Thing by Greywarrant, ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Jul 2025
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Amena's looking forward to her first year at the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland, but leaving (almost) everyone you know to go to a strange planet can be more than a little intimidating. Luckily(?), Murderbot is accompanying her on the trip there, and it's definitely highly qualified help her feel more confident.
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22 Aug 2025
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I pull close to it in the feed, and say, “You were lucky.”
The rogue SecUnit reacts, physically and in the feed. It sits bolt upright, and a wave of fear ripples off of it like a [cloud of micro-debris], or like an [emergency evasive maneuver that grinds a planet’s upper atmosphere]. It’s unpleasant. It’s unfamiliar. I capture the data, store it, and start chewing on it immediately.
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ART meets Murderbot, from ART's POV
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CHAPTER TWO contains identical text to chapter one, but it is formatted differently, with interactive text. check it out! if you want.Series
- Part 3 of Murderbot Outside POVs
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21 Aug 2025
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Totaled Doesn't Mean Irreparable by Scarlet_Tanager
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jan 2024
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When Murderbot gets (almost) fatally injured during a routine mission it has to deal with the emotional fallout from itself, all of its humans, one paranoid machine intelligence with enough power to make sure it never goes anywhere again, and the damage it does to one interpersonal relationship. Ugh, so many emotions.
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17 Aug 2025
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The Clothes off Its Back by Scarlet_Tanager
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2024
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When Three's pulmonary system is compromised during a mission, Murderbot lets it borrow one of its lungs. Shenanigans ensue.
We were planning to tell ART about the lung situation right after I took a recharge cycle, I promise. But then one thing led to another and before we knew it we were standing at the airlock, ready to be deployed on our next mission.
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Two SecUnits Two Transports by ImitationGame
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Mar 2025
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Holism is used to making decisions, and is very protective of its crew including its newest member SecUnit 3.
When two of its crew appear to be in danger, it reluctantly seeks assistance from its rival sibling ship Perihelion, following order from its captain.
Seeing how Perihelion and SecUnit work together gives it new perspective on how it could potentially work with Three.
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16 Aug 2025
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Local SecUnit reunites with former clients while visiting the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Former clients are delighted. SecUnit is not.
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If I were a smart murderbot, I wouldn’t have looked around. I would have kept on following Iris through the university courtyard and left well enough alone. If I were a dumber bot, I wouldn’t have looked around either. Because whoever had said that name was probably talking to someone actually named Eden, not a construct who had briefly borrowed that name from its favorite serial.
But I’m just me, and I looked around.Bookmarked by thefifthfloor
16 Aug 2025
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When a Barish-Estranza SecUnit fails to destroy the hostile rogue SecUnit it is fighting, it is prepared to be killed. It is not prepared to be left alive — and it certainly does not expect to be offered a path to freedom.
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15 Aug 2025
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It flinches as if you had shot it and its walls slam shut in front of you, thick enough that you know it isn't putting up a show of things. It really does want you out.
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15 Aug 2025
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Five drabbles of outsiders observing Murderbot!
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15 Aug 2025
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2.0, says Perihelion disapprovingly, you are nibbling at Three’s processor.
Only its tertiary motor systems, 2.0 pouts, it's not even using them.
You can't just start destroying things in Three’s brain, Perihelion admonishes. It needs that.
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15 Aug 2025
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It's not going to kill you, says 1.0 in our private feed. You can stop slinking around like a terrified fauna.
I am not a terrified fauna.
I feel like a terrified fauna.
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15 Aug 2025
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I cannot possibly understand why it is so insistant on its crusade to dehumanize ComfortUnits, I say.
“Of course you can't,” Three says mildly. “You are extremely sheltered.”
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15 Aug 2025
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Uh-oh. Melty feeling. Time to backburner that before I could dwell on it for too long.
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15 Aug 2025
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“I don't remember what I did,” I said, rallying enough to try and sound annoyed, despite the fact I was completely shaken. “So can I go back to my bunk and let you yell at me when I know what you're yelling at me about?”
If you try to leave this room before we have had this discussion, ART said, its voice barely able to stay even, Three will shoot you. Nonlethally. But it will shoot you.
I paused for three whole seconds.
“Okay,” I said.
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15 Aug 2025
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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 thefifthfloor
12 Aug 2025
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It's not a friendship, and it's not a relationship. What is it? ART asks, and Murderbot has an answer.
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11 Aug 2025