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Unsteady Foundations by platyceriums for fraternite
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2025
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Three is growing frustrated with Murderbot's refusal to offer support in the terrifying ordeal of being a newly rogue SecUnit.
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Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
08 Feb 2026
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SecUnit complains often about how self-determination is hard, but the alternative is worse.
What if there was a safe little compromise?Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
03 Feb 2026
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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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Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
31 Jan 2026
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Excerpted Report Logs 0909XXXX-0910XXXX by SandSunSiliceousOoze
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2026
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Report logs excerpted from B-E SecUnit003's patrol of B-E living quarters A between 2300 on 0909XXXX and 0130 on 0910XXXX.
Filed under: Three has a bad time at work.
Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
31 Jan 2026
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Murderbot got sold shortly after hacking its governor module. Working at a manufacturing facility is depressing.
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Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
28 Jan 2026
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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.
Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
14 Jan 2026
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The thing about humans is that they can pack bond with anything. Various fauna, humanoid bots, even a toaster. It would be funny if it wasn't so fucking depressing.
Or: A client gets attached to her SecUnit, with deadly consequences.
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- Part 19 of najio's whumptober 2025
Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
11 Jan 2026
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pink and green by CompletelyDifferent for z-delenda-est (surgicalstainless)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2023
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During a diplomatic trip to the university's home system to better establish the newly-formed treaty with the Preservation Alliance, Three tries to figure out who it is. Between exploring new hobbies and its sense of fashion, it attempts to figure out what its relationship with Murderbot 1.0 is, precisely. (Murderbot 1.0 ignores this, until it doesn't).
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Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
05 Jan 2026
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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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Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
04 Jan 2026
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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.- Language:
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Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
04 Jan 2026
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While on an undercover mission deep in the Corporation Rim, Tarik
buysstealsrescuesacquires a ComfortUnit. This is fine—it can hang out while he finishes the mission, he’ll be not-an-asshole to it, and then it can go on its liberated way and never have to see him again. This will definitely not get weird and messy.Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
01 Jan 2026
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friendship 101 for antisocial secunits by platyceriums
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Apr 2024
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In the months since it gained its freedom, Three has become something of a social butterfly. Murderbot worries about what its own inability to socialize the same way means for its relationships with its clients.
Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
27 Dec 2025
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This Thread Has Been Locked! by basaltic_wasteland
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 May 2025
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Termitis849 Commented;
Okay, I can’t tell if this is two equally neurotic Lacey stans, or one guy roleplaying his dissertation defense in a half-dead Medcenter Argala forum.
edit; did NOT realize the MCA fandom was still active, my bad.
edit edit; I GET IT. THE SHOW IS POPULAR. PLEASE STOP COMMENTING ON MY POSTS.Or; Murderbot and ART have a minor disagreement over some media.
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- Part 1 of MB fics by Basalt
Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
23 Dec 2025
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It's Only A Cleaning Process by Gamebird for avg (AnxiousEspada)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Feb 2023
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Between assignments, SecUnits receive refurbishment and deep cleaning by specialized station cubicles that are more extensive than those provided by the standard rented cubicles. Murderbot would absolutely deny this was anything sexual. It's just a routine cleaning process. That's all.
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- Part 29 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
17 Dec 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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Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
02 Dec 2025
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Gurathin loans Murderbot his genitals during a medical emergency. It's...not as bad as it could be.
Noncon warning is for the inherent nature of the trope - these two are being as respectful of each other as they can manage (so, not VERY).
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Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
03 Dec 2025
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An Analysis of the Canonical Buffer Statements by Gamebird, Rosewind2007
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Jun 2023
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I put this together so as to create a list of exactly what has been said as a buffer statement, the conditions under which they were used, and anything else that's been said in canon about them.
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- Part 6 of TMBD Metas and Headcanons
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The thing was I knew it was stupid. All of it, all of the parts. Especially the part where I was even considering it. But ART didn’t have to ask.
And I didn’t have to let it in, so I did.
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- Part 1 of sandbox environment
Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
16 Oct 2025
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A company data analyst is assigned to find someone to blame for Murderbot going rogue. Doing so requires the company making connections between data points it had not previously made.
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- Part 36 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
18 Sep 2025
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People get attached to things, their clothes, their vehicles, that funny stone they found on the beach as a child. Sometimes even their SecUnits. To the SecUnit in question this is an unsettling new process.
[OCs stuck in one of those shitty mining facilities we keep hearing about]
[Murderbot doesn't show up until chapter 30. It's all OCs before then.]
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- Part 1 of Twenty-two and Mariss
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Bookmarked by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
17 Sep 2025