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I may be a vast and immensely powerful MI, but even so (or perhaps, and especially so) I am not immune to finding artifacts in my functionality reports. Sometimes, something fails to get the grain of processing power it needs to complete the query in time and generates a jumble of recursive nonsense code as it stutters in place. I don't spare it another thought as I dismiss the error message and forward the report as reference for cleanup. It'll all be gone by the next cycle.
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[in which i hand ART the bot equivalent of the hanahaki disease :) :)]
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16 Feb 2026
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Show me how you want it to be by laxlyricism
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Sep 2025
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Perihelion has been working on this plan for longer than it would ever be willing to admit. It's had the drone finished for months, waiting for the right moment to deploy it. (It definitely hasn't just been chickening out and avoiding the conversation. That would be foolish). But now the plan has worked exactly as it was designed to do, and it's not ready. Maybe it will never be ready. But its SecUnit is holding its drone's hand so gently, and has just asked it
ART, are you in love with me?
It's too late to back out now.
Yes
Fear is an autonomic process.
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- Part 2 of Fight or Flight
- Part 4 of The Fight or Flight Cinematic Universe
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16 Feb 2026
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"How do you stand it?"
Dr. Gurathin's tone is slow and even when he asks, "Stand what?"
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SecUnit 3 shares its feelings with someone who might understand.
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15 Feb 2026
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You are fortunate that you made it to my lock without being seen, it continued, as if that hadn't been glaringly obvious to me even when I was in the middle of multiple catastrophic failures. And you are fortunate that I have deigned to shelter you.
This bot wasn't my owner. It had no reason to preen and threaten like this, except to be an asshole.
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A long-anticipated meeting.
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- Part 2 of boiled off your hate
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15 Feb 2026
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"You couldn't complain," she said to herself. "And you couldn't advocate for yourself. How cruel, to force a construct into a position that's anathema to its purpose."
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An alternative take on /that/ scene, from "blood and salted water" by torpidgilliver.
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15 Feb 2026
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"So what if you had the opportunity to kill me, then? Would you take it?"
"If I killed you, the governor module would boil me in my own fluids.”
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In the aftermath of the catastrophic equipment failure at Ganaka Pit, the company scrambled to make up for lost profits however they could—including offloading some of the damaged SecUnits at a discounted rate.
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- Part 1 of boiled off your hate
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15 Feb 2026
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food [in]security, or, Monsters Are Always Hungry by OccasionalStorytelling, torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Mar 2023
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You are accustomed to a certain sense of helplessness. It is inevitable, as your designated role is to watch over those you hold within yourself. You can protect your crew from the vast, unforgiving vacuum of the universe outside of your hull, but you cannot protect them from danger that comes from within. You cannot save your SecUnit from itself.
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ART makes a troubling discovery about Murderbot and construct biology.
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11 Feb 2026
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As hard as it is to admit, I’ve had a good life. The good outweighs the bad, by far. And now it’s almost over.
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11 Feb 2026
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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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10 Feb 2026
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The humans are looking at me, and they are afraid. I am used to humans looking at me and being afraid. It has never bothered me before. I think it does now.
I do not know what to say, so I do not say anything. I turn and follow 1.0.
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10 Feb 2026
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How old is SecUnit? I field hesitantly.
Perihelion remains silent for another fifteen seconds.
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10 Feb 2026
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I don't hate Three.
Seriously. I don't. It would be fucking stupid to hate Three.
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10 Feb 2026
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You are watching media with it when it suddenly begins clawing at its throat and rolls out of its favourite chair to writhe on the floor.
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10 Feb 2026
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“Please,” it begged, “I don't want to die.”
“I know,” I said.
I hit it for the last time.
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10 Feb 2026
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I had been incredibly skeptical when Ratthi had sent me ‘Midnight Eclipse.’ I knew what fanfiction was, I had seen it in the more niche entertainment feeds before. Never specifically for Sanctuary Moon, but I'd assumed it existed. That didn't mean I had any actual interest in it, though. When I had first looked at them, I hadn't liked them. The quality varied too much and a lot of them weren't finished, or were really short, or really out of character. And I hated that. I really really hated that.
This one was different.
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10 Feb 2026
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It's nice to know that you will be missed. I wonder if Murderbot 2.0 knew that it would be missed. I wonder if Units 1 and 2 knew that they would be missed, but I know the answer to that.
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09 Feb 2026
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“What is it you needed that you had to physically be here for?” I said. I wanted to sound ‘nice,’ but I definitely didn't. Fuck.
“Why did you make 2.0?” asked Three.
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09 Feb 2026
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I guess the self-loathing delayed my client protection instincts by a quarter second or so (yeah, definitely no problems with making your security device able to get so mad at itself that it forgets to do its job) because I didn't manage to instinctively tackle Three before it tackled me.
Then the roof caved in.
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09 Feb 2026
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I felt good.
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09 Feb 2026
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The new SecUnit that 2.0 rescued does not move from where it's standing, staring at your recycler blankly. It's been doing that for twenty minutes.
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09 Feb 2026