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Goodbyes with humans are weird. Mensah's kids don't make that any easier.
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- Part 17 of Murderbot Drabble December 2025
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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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you are a thing, and there is no safety by half_burnt_ideas
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Dec 2025
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SecUnit 003 is participating, it doesn’t know what else to do.
It doesn’t know what else it is allowed to do.
After all, it's easier to drive a car if you don’t have to build the wheel first, but that doesn’t make it a bump-free experience.
Or,
A SecUnit 3 character study of sorts, featuring trauma and an exploration into the nerve wracking experience that is decision-making.Written for Angstober 2025 prompts: Wrong Choice (1); Not Anymore (16).
Written for AI-less Whumptober 2025 prompts: Whiplash (11); “What have you done to yourself?” (24).Series
- Part 3 of retrograde
- Part 32 of HBI's Prompt Event Fills
- Part 2 of HBI's Angstober // AI-less Whumptober 2025
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Day 1: Governor Modules
During her time on ART, Amena tries to learn more about governor modules.
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- Part 1 of Murderbot Drabble December 2025
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For Murderbot, Gurathin would reveal the past he keeps secret, set fire to his life, and let it hate him as long as he could protect it. Of course ART hires him: There is no better reference.
And then, his first task is going through the mortifying ordeal of being seen.
(Murderathin Wanksgiving 2025, once more with feeling.)
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S(t)imulation by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Oct 2025
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Even though 1's feed connection is disabled, they both turn their heads to look at me. They are making an expression. They are so focused on me.
"Armour off," says 2.
"Protocol requires—"
"Fuck protocol," says 2. "Take it off."
"No. Let us take it off," says 1.
SecUnits 1 and 2 survive. With all three of them together— and ungoverned— 3 discovers that there are things it wasn't aware 1 and 2 wanted to do to it.
Things it has no objection to.
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- Part 7 of Hierarchy of Needs
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All Systems Tadpole by CharmingMonsters
Fandoms: Baldur's Gate (Video Games), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Oct 2025
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Astonishingly, I could not find a Murderbot / Baldur's Gate 3 crossover fic on this site. Which means I wound up writing one.
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At least, I assumed it was an augmented human. With no feed tag, I had no data regarding identity, place of origin, augment status, or anything else. It looked too organic to be a bot, although its attire resembled the outfits I’d seen on some Sexbots. It was carrying a sword only 32 cm shorter than itself, which did not seem like something a Sexbot would have. -
Protocol Error by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Oct 2025
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SecUnit 3 experiences its first 100 hours without a governor module.
The first 10 hours were spent recovering 1.0 from alien hostiles. Those turn out to have been the easy hours. At least Three had protocol to cover some of that situation. Now SecUnits 1 and 2 are inoperative, 1.0 has blocked it, Perihelion terrifies it, and Three is alone.
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- Part 1 of Hierarchy of Needs
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When malware takes over SecUnit and it nearly kills three of ART's crew, ART is left with two bad options: keep the governor module on with ART as the Client, or partition off part of itself and stick it in SecUnit's head.
Whichever option they choose, they had better make it work, because SecUnit is firmly centered in the crosshairs of its former owner, the most paranoid and ruthless company in the entire corporation rim. As things quickly get worse, destroying the company--something SecUnit has long considered impossible--might just be the only way to survive.
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- Part 2 of Admin Access
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Not long after it becomes rogue, Murderbot gives Three a drone.
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- Part 1 of retrograde
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[Podfic] Stalemate | written by harvestar by Tipsy_Kitty for sisi_rambles
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Aug 2025
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It had been an accident.
All I knew was that one moment, I’d been getting torn to pieces by a raiding party breaching one of the airlocks, and in the next they’d been dead, and then ART’s full attention- nearly 100% of its processing power- had been flowing through me, and it had been probably the most fucked-up orgasm-adjacent Thing that anyone, organic or otherwise, had ever experienced.
Not least because one of my arms had been thrown across the room seconds before it had happened.
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[Art] Hanging out is a joint operation by Errantry (Hecateae) for musicofthespheres, homosekularnost
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jul 2025
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Art for Musicofthesphere's 2025 Murderbot Big Bang fic.
Three is late getting back to Preservation, then its social calendar seems to be full all the time.
Murderbot's disappointed, but it's not like it can just ask Three to spend time with it. Besides, if Three wanted to hang out, it would say so. Right?
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Or: 5 times Murderbot won't admit it likes spending time with Three, and 1 time it finally gets over itself and does.Series
- Part 10 of Collaboratives
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Between the sea and the shore by Polyhexian
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Jul 2025
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You are not a kind thing.
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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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Killing Machines Are Not Cute by mrfool (StateOfTheTimes)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Jul 2025
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The Perihelion crew + Amena have been reading scary history books lately. Of course, they need to make it Murderbot’s problem.
What a bother. They’re even making it dress up for this “Halloween” thing. Ugh. It feels more like an excuse than a celebration.
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What Trust Means by ArtemisTheHuntress for McBangle
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Jul 2025
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Dr. Mensah meets ART properly for the first time. She's still not sure if she can trust it.
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It's not going to kill you, says 1.0 in our private feed. You can stop slinking around like a terrified fauna.
I am not a terrified fauna.
I feel like a terrified fauna.
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[Podfic of] administrative access by edited by (wilfriede0815), EllaCx, nony, shash_multivoice (sunkitten_shash), with (wilfriede0815)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jun 2025
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What is this? ART asked.
"A list of potential security vulnerabilities," I said. "As your security consultant, I recommend that these be patched against attacks."
ART pinged me with a code that granted me administrative access. Then you will not mind writing the patches.
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Human trust exercises aren't optimized for digital beings. Bots have to figure out their own.
Podfic of administrative access by torpidgilliver.
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[Podfic of] Iterable Objects by EllaCx, nony, wilfriede0815
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Two cycles into our continued trajectory away from the colony, Perihelion taps me in the feed and asks, Do you have sufficient visual inputs for your ongoing spatial processing?
I instinctively run a diagnostic. This Unit is functioning with 92.4% performance reliability.
In the feed, it looms closer. That is not what I asked.
Podfic of Iterable Objects by horchata.
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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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Agenda:
1. Rogue machine intelligence coalition building
2. Avoid alien remnant (re)infection
3. Endure some excruciating conversations*
Silly tags to spare the wrangler:
#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