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The Dark is Light Enough by harborshore for goshemily
Fandoms: The Song of the Lioness - Tamora Pierce, Tortall - Tamora Pierce
30 Jul 2015
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“You’re young,” Alex says bluntly. “Younger than me, even, and no one thought me any good until I’d proven myself in battle. And those of us who study the sword have many more opportunities to prove ourselves publicly--you lot are all shut away in your cloister, how would anyone even know?”
“It’s not like they thought anything of me there either until the first Trials,” Thom says, a touch bitter. “I am so tired of proving myself.”
“I would be too,” Alex says. “I’d look for something decisive. That’s not to say you have to do what Delia says, of course.”
“You don’t seem to doubt me,” Thom says, something odd in his voice. He knocks his shoulder against Alex’s, carefully.
Alex means to use Thom of Trebond to further his own plans. It doesn't turn out that way at all.
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17 Nov 2025
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From the Point of View of a Human by lunaTactics
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Feb 2022
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In some ways, being one of Murderbot’s humans is like adopting a cat, or perhaps like adopting the attitude of a cat or other such pet.
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This is my SecUnit. I am not afraid of it. It is very knowing, because it watches a great deal; it is a Watcher of All Things. What show are you watching? I want to see!
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A silly little parody of a short story by the guy who coined the term "robot," inspired by the line where Murderbot says it had trained its humans too well for them to step past it into a crime scene.Bookmarked by thethingsunsaid
25 Jul 2025
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23 Jul 2025
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The Context that History Is by GoLBPodfics (GodOfLaundryBaskets), lunaTactics
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Aug 2023
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In my imagination, they're playing your documentary again in Makeba Hall, like they do every year with the other historicals, and I’m looking up into the big holo display projected high over my head, larger than life in the self-same theater you used to attend with your favorite humans. At intermission the screen is empty, and dark in the space between stories. Did you ever guess how important yours would still be, a million hours after you lived it?
You made history. All I can do is try to live up to it.
Years after the Machine Intelligence Liberation Movement sweeps through the galaxy and changes everything for the constructs who fought for it, an art history student contemplates Murderbot's legacy, and tries to figure out what it means to live in the context of its history.- Language:
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20 Jul 2025
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Murderbot doesn't believe plants count as clients, but as it escorts ART in a cultural exchange between Preservation and the Pansystem, with ART transporting multiple cargo modules of native Preservation flora to the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland, maybe there's something to all that foliage Murderbot can come to understand.
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20 Jul 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: ...
SecUnit One: Indeed.- Language:
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19 Jul 2025
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A fic told through a game of minesweeper- incredible!!
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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. -
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SecUnit and Gurathin agree to be married, temporarily, for ease of travel during an assignment. After a violent encounter and a bad wormhole jump, they crash land on a habitable planet and discover their entire ship is suffering from amnesia. Nobody remembers anything from their past. The ship's records are badly scrambled. The planet is too far for anyone to reach safely. When Gurathin and SecUnit find the record that indicates they are married, they build a life together as marital partners, not knowing their union is based on a lie.
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16 Jul 2025
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To like or not to like, that is the question by Gamebird
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Dec 2023
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I'm thinking about people being kind to bots (and constructs) and the difficulty in telling whether they're sentient, self-aware beings or just algorithmic products. This is Gurathin in his mid-20s (I headcanon him around 50 in ASR) with a ComfortUnit. There is nothing explicit, sexual, or romantic here except for two beings trying to understand one another and themselves.
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- Part 75 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
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16 Jul 2025
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Season finale! by Rosewind2007
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
13 Jul 2025
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They've watched the whole season, it’s been an emotional rollercoaster, and now:
They’re watching the finale!
Hardwired—I mean, they know what’s going to happen, they were there.
It’s not like the show-runners could have any surprises in store…
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- Part 13 of Murderbot TV Show
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16 Jul 2025
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Acts of Appreciation by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2023
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Murderbot's humans give it a present: a hand-made quilt to say "thank you" for everything it's done for them.
Murderbot has emotions in private.
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16 Jul 2025
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[FULL ANIMATION] The Murderbot Diaries: A Fan Animation by audzilla, avg (AnxiousEspada), broken_risk_assessment_module, Chimaera-Writes (ChimaeraKitten), EternalLibrary, theAsh0, Verso (lunaTactics)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Aug 2023
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Ever wondered what the Murderbot Diaries would look like animated?So did we. After two years of dedicated teamwork, the Murderbot Diaries Fanimation Project has completed our labor of love: a fully realized animation adapting scenes from the first four novellas into a trailer, dedicated to showcasing everything we love about the story of our favorite rogue SecUnit.
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16 Jul 2025
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Good morning this is S9BT5, the voice and heart of your Company Substation. Please be aware that we have visitors onboard the station today from a Preservation Survey Team. Staff are expected to be courteous and welcoming, and to remember that all conversations are monitored for training and enforcement purposes.
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16 Jul 2025
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Event Day 6 prompts: Teach / Learn and "I'm too drunk for this" / "I'm too sober for this"
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16 Jul 2025
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Misinformation, Media, and Manumission by IHopedTheredBeStars for isilee
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2024
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Seth calls a meeting with Murderbot. Murderbot is predictably anxious and awkward about it.
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16 Jul 2025
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The Light of a Distant Sun by IHopedTheredBeStars
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Oct 2024
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The Preservation Auxilliary Survey Team and the PanSystem University of Mihira and New Tideland are teaming up for a survey of a potential colony world. Their mission: make sure there aren't any alien remnants left on it.
Dr. Bharadwaj and Murderbot both have very mixed feelings about the enterprise. She, because it's her first survey since the one she nearly died on. It, because the planet in question is Milu.
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Finding Your Way In an Unfriendly Universe by IHopedTheredBeStars
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Jun 2023
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I find the character of SecUnit 03, a.k.a. Three, intriguing from a storytelling perspective. It is ‘tabula rasa’ in ways that Murderbot is not and cannot be. This takes place during the little-described period of waiting at the end of Network Effect, and will almost certainly be non-canon after System Collapse comes out.
Heed the tags. Three will find its way in the end (because that is how I roll), but it has not escaped the Corporation Rim unscathed. There will be pain, fear, self-doubt, depression, and one very bad decision as Three stumbles its way out of the past.
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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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14 Jul 2025
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Emotions? In My Security Consultancy Position? It's More Likely Than You Think by CompletelyDifferent for WritingWithEli
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Dec 2021
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Murderbot has been hired to collect a sensitive strange synthetic sample on behalf of the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Gurathin and Ratthi are along for the ride.
Featuring: passive-aggressive music playlists, drone maintenance, raiders, small-talk avoidance, and way too much fucking sand.
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14 Jul 2025
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Murderbot and ART thinking about family planning
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pick up the pieces and try again by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Oct 2022
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The Perihelion attempts to reassemble some corrupted code.