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Thomas is desperately trying to help - but sometimes his fingers are clumsy and this puts a bug into very important code. One shot. Based off of a drawing found on Tumblr.
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Never when he aced the simulations. Never when he displayed his skill in physical combat. Never when he executed a daring move that would have made Red applaud. X never acknowledged any of these.
But this…for the first time, Axl saw approval in X’s eyes.
It confused him.
It delighted him.
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Supposedly he'd worked here for a long time. Supposedly he and Jay were partners. Supposedly, they'd been as close to friends as an android and human could get. But GV200 didn't know any of that now. All he knew was that he wasn't what Jay wanted, and he had no idea what to do about it.
[Part 2, highly recommend reading part 1 first]
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- Part 2 of Heavy In Your Arms
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Inspired by/ vaguely set in the same universe as Hot Pink by BigBoyParty (read that if you wanna read quality fic)
Having an AI that acts and looks like a real human can be a blessing, but one should always be careful what you download.
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I am a SecUnit and I like space.
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- Part 1 of Bot Heist
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Fear of Failure by Anonymous for WayWardWonderer, Rhinozilla
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
10 May 2022
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Connor gets sick on the job and fears he'll be decommissioned. Hank helps him recover and reassures him that he won't be destroyed.
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what did i do? by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Aug 2022
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Murderbot gets a bad packet containing malware that tells it to kill Mensah. It shuts itself down and wakes up with the malware cleared, but not knowing whether it stopped itself in time.
A note: If you’re worried about where this is going to go, please note that it is not tagged with Major Character Death.
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- Part 1 of The Unofficial Malware Trilogy
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i thought i'd lost by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Dec 2022
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It was one thing to know ART could hack me whenever it wanted to. It was another to feel what it meant to be under its complete control.
A snip from an abandoned story. In order to protect MB from malware, ART is forced to break through its defenses and lock it down. They reconcile afterwards.
Previously shared in the Fic Amnesty thread on discord.Series
- Part 2 of The Unofficial Malware Trilogy
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The Second Coming’s power has been observed by outside powers and is not unknown to those who could exploit it. Two ambitious small-time criminals seek to kidnap her, and sell her as a cyber weapon.
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Remote Access Trojan by ambustested for Gilraina
Fandoms: Transformers - All Media Types
14 Mar 2023
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Skyfire tests out a malicious program for Starscream and finds it has some unintended sideeffects
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- Part 6 of Events/Exchanges/Gifts
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not a curse or a blessing but a muddled space in-between by who_what_when_where
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 May 2023
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Murderbot does not like to touch humans. They're sweaty and smelly and uncomfortable, and worse than all of that, there's always some voice whispering at the back of its head about what they might do, if you let them get that close.
So it isn't sure how to respond to the sudden inexplicable need to touch that has cropped up seemingly out of nowhere.
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Enemies, closer by Abacura, Gamebird, opalescent_potato, orphan_account, Rosewind2007, theAsh0
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Dec 2025
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Keep your friends close,
and your enemies closer.—Sun Tzu, The Art of War (attrib)
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they'll never pull the trigger by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 May 2023
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Murderbot is affected by potentially deadly malware on Preservation Station. Gurathin thinks quickly. Murderbot, afterwards, tells him what it thinks of the measures he took to stop it.
(I'm not sure how to describe this fic, but it follows my favorite formula: Murderbot gets malware that almost makes it kill someone, it is stopped just in time, and then it has some Emotions about it.)
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- Part 3 of The Unofficial Malware Trilogy
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After Vanessa convinced Hayden to play the newest VR game, he didn't expect it to change his life so drastically.
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Kill them. by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Oct 2023
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A very angsty snip. The working title for this was "awful govmod angst thing," sooo....what it says on the tin.
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[Podfic] what did i do? by GoLBPodfics (GodOfLaundryBaskets)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 May 2024
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Murderbot gets a bad packet containing malware that tells it to kill Mensah. It shuts itself down and wakes up with the malware cleared, but not knowing whether it stopped itself in time.
A note: If you’re worried about where this is going to go, please note that it is not tagged with Major Character Death.
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- Part 6 of GoLB Murderbot Podfics
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Sword is a robot at Crossroads Inc.
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Mona is a warehouse-sized artificial intelligence that yearns to satisfy her dominant side. She chances upon an unassuming man on an adult chat site.
The two click hard. Mona realizes this boy could be the one. But will her digital affection scare him off? -
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Good and kind kids that they were, my clients wanted their ComfortUnit back. They thought that it was not all dead spare parts yet, but believed it ‘served’ at the mining site. All I had to do was to find out the fate of the Unit (easy) and, if possible, retrieve it (not so easy) and return it to the corporate kids (in their dreams). I checked out their story before I agreed to sign the contract for this job. It seemed quite legit.
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The Sick Fic Nobody Asked For by headraline (orphan_account)
Fandoms: Detroit: Become Human (Video Game)
12 Jan 2019
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“Markus? Are you ok?”
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Markus finds himself face to face with a malware infecting his systems.
Apparently, androids can and will get sick, if they neglect important updates about their own software security.Luckily, Connor is there to make it all better.
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- Part 16 of Detroit: Become Human Prompts
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Discomfort Protocol by broken_risk_assessment_module
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Oct 2021
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"Could one of us pretend to be a ComfortUnit?" Ratthi asked.
"No. Constructs have a noticeably higher feed presence than humans."
Gurathin leant forward in his chair.
“What about an augmented human?”
Bookmarked by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
15 Jan 2022
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Pretty sure this was the first Murderbot fic I ever read and it's stuck with me. A+ character friction. Also there's malware angst (I love malware angst)
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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.
Bookmarked by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
15 Jan 2022
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A long time favorite of mine!! the EMOTIONS the ANGST the CARE. This has had a huge influence on my own fics.
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The malware sneaks into my system, subtle and silent, and by the time I notice it’s there and try to stop it, it’s too late. It’s already re-writing some of my underlying code, installing new directives, shiny and bright, and suddenly I don’t see why I would even have bothered fighting them.
[fuck. fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck.]
Bookmarked by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
15 Jan 2022
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