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i don't want to spend forever with you and then die in a shuttle crash together by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Feb 2026
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I’ve never understood people’s fears about “dying alone” meaning they didn’t want to die single. Almost no humans I know of perished at the exact same time as their romantic partners unless they were both caught in the same catastrophic shuttle crash or something.
As for me, I never wanted to “die alone” meaning I got abandoned on an alien planet by my clients because it was too much of a pain to load the broken leaking SecUnit into the cargo hold. So, yunno. Perspective.
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I could have become a murderer when the hopper I was being transported in crashed on an uninhabited planet and left just one surviving human crew.
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All Systems Red AU where prior to the PreservationAux Survey, a company hopper carrying Murderbot crash landed on the survey planet, leaving it to fend for itself in the alien landscape. -
When Professionals Run Into Problems With FREE WILL, MENTAL HEALTH, And DODGE BALL, This Is What They Do by FlipSpring for Sorrosh
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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“I’m due to perform another cargo run once we complete the handoff to Holism,” ART said. “It will be my usual route, including a stop at RaviHyral.”
I stared up at the ceiling, and the letter from the ComfortUnit. Having free will is a pain in the ass sometimes.
Three messaged me over the feed. “The ComfortUnit needs help.”
My human-imitation code cued me to blink. Three’s drone was creeping closer to my face. Three hadn’t initiated many conversations yet, so this was notable.
I responded to its channel, “Yeah, but I don’t know if I’m the right one to help.”
3.03 seconds passed. Then Three said, “I can help. I’ll go.”
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I was hunted for sport at GlobeCon and all I got was this lousy T-shirt by FlipSpring for pavlovs_axolotl
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2026
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Murderbot is on a critical mission: investigate and infiltrate the media conglomerate WarFlix, the organizer for the annual GlobeCon Event.
The fact that the head show-runner for The Rise And Fall Of Sanctuary Moon is a guest of honor at this year’s GlobeCon is a total coincidence.
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ART said, “This is only a hypothesis, based on the pattern of metabolic activation in your organic parts.” It showed me a bunch of charts and stuff that I didn’t understand, with stuff like estimated caloric burn, hormone profiles, and a bunch of chemicals and medical words I didn’t know. “I’ve seen similar physiological activation in some of my students shortly before they chrysalized. Your body may be in the beginning stages metamorphosis.”
This was so gob smackingly absurd that I was speechless for an entire 10 seconds.
I said, “My body already reached its imago form.”
ART said, “Yes.”
I said, “Nobody pods after their adult imago form.”
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whacky freeform tags here to spare the tag-wrangler:
#just trust me. #welcome to my wholesome friendly vivisection fic! #wait no come back why are you walking away #MB's fine probably #don't worry about it #anyways #THE weirdest invasive platonic physical intimacy you've seen in this fandom or your money back #tfw your friend melts into goo so you just start crazy panic emergency experimental surgery #with the TV on #stick your fingers and scalpels in there ART i'm sure it's fine.Series
- Part 2 of Pod AU
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No Class: I Know What You Did Last Hot Bot Summer by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Dec 2025
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Shilllax: machine melee season is on
Shillax: we missed the first show but the second one is down in starside next tenday
Shillax: yall in or what we can see it live together
FuckSlayer: FUCK YEAH!
flesh-nugget: oh no. we are not doing this.
FuckSlayer: Why not? Looks like actual REAL fun.
flesh-nugget: ok flay please don’t take this the wrong way but we haven’t known you that long. for all we know you could be a crazy murderer. this is terrible feed safety
FuckSlayer: But I AM a crazy murderer!
Shillax: lol word*
(tfw you convince your gamer friends to bet money on you in illegal robot death matches. they don't know it's you.)
Throwback to Hot Bot Summer, all CSU all the time edition, feat: where those suspicious stacks of cash came from.
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Chapter 10: If I comp your tickets to my death match tonight will you come? 🥺
Chapter 11: Joyriding the ConsequencesSeries
- Part 19 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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From The Sky To The Sea, And All That Lies Between by FlipSpring, musicofthespheres, wilfriede0815
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Jul 2025
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Three came around the side of the house and stomped up to me on the porch.
It said, with its mouth, “SecUnit, will you go to the Great Makeba Wilderness Preservation Area with me?”
Needless to say, this was when my vacation took a horrible turn.
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Statements NULL: Fall Out Bot by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Jun 2025
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It was only now that I’ve started to look back at some of my logs from… let’s call it when the Shit Hit The Fan. It’s pretty painful to look back on the logs of that clusterfuck, because 1. I'd been a gigantic asshole and 2. I'd had a very public physical and emotional meltdown.
I said, trying to sound lighthearted and not really succeeding, “I’d like medical clearance to go join the ground team?”
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1. Rogue machine intelligence coalition building
2. Avoid alien remnant (re)infection
3. Endure some excruciating conversations*
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#i <3 NULLverse AU my legitimately fucked up weirdo darling child #my other honor student is a hacked agriculture bot #buying a used car but the used car is your shared custody killer offspring uploaded into expensive critical infrastructure contaminated with mysterious alien protocols #while you reluctantly relationships-counsel each other in the wake of mutual murder attempts #and your new neighbors are watching all this unfold with professional interest #get treasured IDIOTSSeries
- Part 18 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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There was something wrong with Blondie.
(For the record, I’m calling him Blondie because 1. He’s blond, 2. His DeltFall employee feed profile is just the bare-bones kind of thing that all debt-buried indentured workers get. You know, an advertisement for his employer running front and center, a numerical feed address, default gender, etc. 3. He introduced himself to my humans with a name that I have reason to suspect is a false cover.)
And I’m not just saying that there was something wrong with Blondie because I found him personally unpleasant. It wasn’t just the way he would just say stupid shit out loud that had even my humans making weird disturbed facial expressions (“Do you think it has a pee-pee? it could go in any sort of direction like a big worm...”). Or do stupid shit that no indentured corporate in their right mind would do, like bounce up to a SecUnit and plant a kiss on its chin.
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I would’ve happily gone off to live with a bunch of naked cannibals if it meant leaving my whole bleak life behind, but the idea of escape was too good to be true. The disappointment might kill me.
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A collection of drabbles for Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2025
1: Index / 2: Oversight / 3: Balin Owns Itself / 4: Leonide's Transactions / 5: Barish-Estranza Units / 6: A ComfortUnit's Inhumanity / 7: Gurathin Hits Unsubscribe / 8: Sex Surveillance / 9: Human Words
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- Part 2 of Aspec Murderbot Diaries Drabbles
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It’s not every day you survive the bloody massacre of your workplace by being the one who was sent out of the habitat to go check out why the emergency beacon sent a shutdown alert and then became unresponsive to all diagnostic commands.
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Cut One And The Other Bleeds by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Apr 2025
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Soulbond plots were rarely interesting in media, and I was even less interested in understanding their touchy-feely relationship ramifications in real life humans. So I didn’t give a shit.
Until suddenly I was forced to give a lot of shits.
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plastic plague bonus content by every_eye_evermore, FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Nov 2024
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Just some notes about the "Plastic Plague" fic.
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- Part 2 of Plastic Plague
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I actually wanted to do a good job for once on this planetary survey, so I did a ton of preparation for every possible contingency. (And to cover for my various glitches.) But my extensive preparation was a total waste of effort.
Because the exact moment I actually went wrong was several hundred cycles ago when I became accursedly acquainted with one overpowered Asshole Research Transport and one bloodthirsty Chaotic Shit Unit.
This mess was inevitable.
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The NULLverse series is a comedy. Of errors.
This is a null!AU version of Network Effect. There is more divergence from canon than initially meets the eye.
Updates weekly.
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Now with: bonus epilogueSeries
- Part 17 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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“We need to get married,” ART declared. “Just sign these documents.”
It shoved a stack of feed documents at me obnoxiously, with multiple parts of the document highlighted and asking for my feed signature.
“ART, quit distracting me when I’m busy."
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[Meta] Name Dropping by ArtemisTheHuntress, FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 May 2024
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Murderbot tends to call bots by descriptive identifiers, rather than human-facing names.
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- Part 1 of Murderbot Meta
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Most indoor venues and homes on the station expect visitors to remove their footwear upon entry. This poses a conundrum for a SecUnit with unusual feet.
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- Part 1 of Body Humor
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I actually wanted to do a good job for once on this planetary survey, so I did a ton of preparation for every possible contingency. (And to cover for my various glitches.) But my extensive preparation was a total waste of effort.
Because the exact moment I actually went wrong was several hundred cycles ago when I became accursedly acquainted with one overpowered Asshole Research Transport and one bloodthirsty Chaotic Shit Unit.
This mess was inevitable.
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The NULLverse series is a comedy. Of errors.
This is a null!AU version of Network Effect. There is more divergence from canon than initially meets the eye.
Updates weekly.Series
- Part 16 of NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad
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The reason you want a SecUnit overseeing a cohort of pupae is that about one in thirty human instars is liable to hatch into a carnivorous wasp, and you don’t want those suckers to turn and start cannibalizing all the other pods. You can have a serious loss of worker capital on your hands.
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- Part 1 of Pod AU