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Carey mourns.
Set at the end of ep. 58.
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04 Feb 2026
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And Together We Can Still Achieve What We Set Out To Do by scribefindegil for Flyingbooks42
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
16 Dec 2025
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Planning a protest is always difficult, and planning a large-scale protest against a tyrannical ruler while under lockdown with an AI that can see and hear everything you do . . . well, that's certainly a challenge. But Athoek Station's residents are clever and determined, and Station itself is committed to helping and protecting them in whatever way it can.
(Messages and security feed excerpts from the leadup to the sit-in protest that occurs towards the end of Ancillary Mercy)
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02 Feb 2026
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“I just—” the fleet captain’s answer was for all of them— “need a moment to adjust.”
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27 Jan 2026
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“We're fleeing Radch space? Of course we are. I refused an order, and you...” She paused. Then, very clearly and feelingly, she said, “Fuck.”
Sometimes the path of justice and beneficence is clear. Sometimes you have to make your own.
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24 Jan 2026
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six times breq nearly got herself killed and seivarden had a freakout by venndaai
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
09 Aug 2016
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"Do you anticipate not being worried?" "Over you? Never."
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17 Jan 2026
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It was, Seivarden told herself later, the kind of stupid accident that could have happened to anyone. Not a terminal fuckup. Just wrong-place-at-wrong-time, that was all. The omens had been unlucky that day. She should've been more careful.
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16 Jan 2026
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They are boarding now, as I stand some kind of guard before the door. The last of them climbs up into the vessel, and the counter that is consuming my mind ticks up. Eighty-seven. Eighty-nine.
Then I hear something new. Not only new words, but a new tone, a new feeling in the feed. This message is only to me.
«You got them out,» it says.
And then, «Your work is acknowledged.»
I want to cry. I want to rip something apart with my teeth – I want to scream loud enough to bring the habitat down. I want to cry. But I can't.
So instead I tap it back in the feed. «Negative. Your work is acknowledged.»
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This new SecUnit Murderbot's picked up has an attitude.
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28 Dec 2025
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SecUnit: Objective: Annoy Leonide.
SecUnit: (optional)Three: Why?
SecUnit: Because I don’t like her.
SecUnit: Because she was going to steal the secondary site colonists.
SecUnit: Because the first time we met her, she tried to hold Arada hostage.SecUnit: …And because she hasn’t seen you yet, and if you startle her it will be hilarious.
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25 Dec 2025
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On a mining colony, SecUnit suffers through the daily tedium of life as a corporate murderbot. But all is not as it seems. And it has more friends than it knows.
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30 Nov 2025
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This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?
Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?
Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.
This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.
Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.
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(When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)
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30 Nov 2025
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Jon, a lonely paranormal researcher, becomes stranded while investigating unusual disappearances around an island perpetually shrouded in fog. He finds shelter with Martin; an isolated and capricious lighthouse keeper who seems to relive the same moment every night. The two grow close as Jon works to untangle the effects of The Lonely on Martin, but the island itself is not so willing to let either of them go.
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26 Oct 2025
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“It is not your concern,” ART said. “They are no longer your clients.”
That was true. They weren’t my clients. But they used to be, and the thought of them going off by themselves to get chewed on by hostile fauna or whatever was doing funny things to my performance reliability.
I didn’t say that out loud, but ART knew I was thinking it anyway, because it’s a monster.
“For a construct that claims to hate its function, you are remarkably dedicated to it.” ART does this thing sometimes where it says something that sounds like a compliment but in such an obnoxious tone that it feels like an insult anyway.
“Fuck off, ART.”
“You fuck off.”
So, I decided to go on the survey.Several years after they met on RaviHyral, Tapan and her collective contact Murderbot with a job offer. As their security consultant on a planetary survey, Murderbot must contend with malfunctioning equipment, hostile fauna, and an overabundance of human emotion, all while maintaining its increasingly fragile disguise as an augmented human.
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23 Sep 2025
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The mission fails catastrophically. So does SecUnit. When it comes back online without any functional sensory inputs, it believes that it's still trapped on the surface of the cold, desolate planet, that its humans are all dead, and that nobody will ever find it. Luckily, it's wrong.
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22 Sep 2025
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crack your bones with veins of gold by tardigradeschool
Fandoms: The Adventure Zone (Podcast)
20 Aug 2017
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In a hundred years, one tends to see their friends die a lot. It doesn't get easier, except it kind of does.
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07 Sep 2025
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Random Access Memories by fraternite for lunaTactics
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2024
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An accident reactivates Muderbot’s governor module. ART fixes it. Nobody has a good time.
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07 Sep 2025
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Binary Fracture by fraternite for VoidlingRemnata
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2025
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An unexpectedly complicated espionage operation leaves Three stranded in a corporate waste processing facility with a dwindling power supply. Murderbot is forced to resort to extreme measures to keep Three safe.
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07 Sep 2025
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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.
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05 Sep 2025
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The pings were all from Overse’s interface and routed from a transit ring called Trans-All, the kind of ping that was just are you in range – are you in range – are you in range. It was a call for help and it fucking terrified me, because I was answering it way, way too late.
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Ratthi goes missing. Pin-Lee isn't used to losing. Murderbot isn't used to having anything to lose.
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04 Sep 2025
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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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02 Sep 2025
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"They won, and the world survived it, and now it’s night and the stars that hold no terrors are spread out in a wash of brilliance overhead, and they’ve built the biggest bonfire Neverwinter’s ever seen. People have dragged logs and furniture and blankets out to spread around and there’s drinking and dancing and laughing and crying and it’s all a lot, for a guy who’s been mostly all by himself in a cave or in the wilderness for most of the past ten years. Barry’s exhausted and overwhelmed, and so he’s found a crate set back some from the most of the commotion and he’s sitting slumped back against it, just sort of letting things wash over him."
In the immediate aftermath of Story and Song, Barry Bluejeans could really use a hug.
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02 Sep 2025