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let the dirt hang heavy in your chest (or: i'm their perfect little cosmic canine) by one_billion_marbles
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
04 Jun 2026
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Simon focused on the view. So many stars. They were beautiful, and he was happy they'd be the last thing he'd see.
"I'm ready." Simon whispered into the still air. The combing stopped, and Simon mourned the loss immediately.
"You can kill me now."
AKA: What if Simon misinterpreted why Grace was showing him the Greenhouse? Our bodies become the soil, after all.Bookmarked by nerdqueenenterprise
05 Jul 2026
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Murderbot hasn't endured weapons maintenance since before it met its crew. (It hadn't really planned on re-living the pain of weapons maintenance ever again, if it was being honest.)
But when ART notices an issue with one of Murderbot's energy weapons, it offers its services. You know, mutual administrative assistant things.
ART's approach is a little different than the company's.
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25 Jun 2026
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It's not like it'll kill you or anything.... by ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jul 2025
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ART's been doing a lot of research on construct physiology lately, and it's developed a single-minded obsession with a "new procedure" it wants to inflict on Murderbot... whether Murderbot wants it or not.
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25 Jun 2026
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How Not To Bake A Cake With SecUnit and Perihelion by elusive_ellipsis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Jul 2025
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ART's new big idea for promoting construct rights in the Corporation Rim is a how-to video series, starring Murderbot. The first time it manages to get Murderbot in front of a camera, it's for a cooking tutorial - specifically, baking a cake. Both of them are perfectly capable of following instructions, so it should be a gentle introduction to filming a video together.
ART has never made a cake before. Murderbot has also never made a cake before. Neither of them can actually eat. However badly you think this is going to go, it will probably be worse.
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25 Jun 2026
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Monopoly and Competition by pineapplesquid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Nov 2023
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Or, five times ART was jealous and one time it was obvious enough that even SecUnit noticed.
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24 Jun 2026
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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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16 Jun 2026
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Murderbot Makes It WeirdTM Undefeated Championship 6k Speedrun to Flawless Victory: Space Bath Edition
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07 Jun 2026
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At the start of their survey, PreservationAux watches as their SecUnit is unpacked from its crate. Immediately, the team decides that it is Friend Shaped, and they're going to show it the Respect and Kindness it deserves.
(Mild AU of All Systems Red where the gang decides to try and befriend their SecUnit as soon as they land, before any lives are in danger. Whether it likes it or not. Got Loved Idiot. Primarily Mensah POV)
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07 Jun 2026
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Murderbot talks to a to a bot pilot. It does this all the time, so why is ART being so weird about it?
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07 Jun 2026
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Murderbot has new armor. There’s just one problem.
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06 Jun 2026
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Forging a Familiar Face by mismatchedmuses
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Jul 2025
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Tapan and her family needed help to recover their research. The security consultant they hired, a shy but determined augmented human, saved not just their work, but their lives.
Months later, Tapan sees a familiar face on a documentary about constructs.
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04 Jun 2026
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Three learns something about 1.0 that might explain a lot. Or it might not explain anything at all. Three definitely learns something about itself, and it has to decide what to do with this information.
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01 Jun 2026
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hold me up in your folders by JackaLanternLope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Sep 2025
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It’s not that I wasn’t curious, and it’s not like there wasn’t a more logical part of me that knew that this was terrible security procedure, even if I didn’t hear a peep from risk assessment (what else is new?). But on a deeper level, I knew there wasn’t any risk.
I wanted ART to prove it to me.
I wanted to go in blind and know that it wouldn’t hurt me, and that it would stop if I asked it to. I wanted to let ART in and not have to think about it.
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ART takes Murderbot up on an offer to plug into each other's systems.
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- Part 2 of data transfer
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31 May 2026
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all systems read by CompletelyDifferent for horchata
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Feb 2023
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The survey team from the Preservation Alliance was in the middle of a completely unremarkable scientific survey when they got caught up in a string of corporate conspiracies, nearly all died, had their assess saved by the company-mandated SecUnit, and oh, right, discovered that SecUnit a) was sapient, b) rogue the entire time.
And that rogue SecUnit sent them its own recounting of the whole thing.
... Obviously, they have to read said recount as a group.
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27 May 2026
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ART said, more cautiously than I was used to from it, This is more akin to physical touch than what you usually find tolerable.
I knew that, but I didn’t like thinking about it. It was fine.
ART took me at my word for it, and having it squish me became part of the things we did when I was anxious or plagued by stress toxins in my system. Sometimes I asked it to do it even when I was feeling okay. It was a nice feeling. At the time I thought of it as comfortable and relaxing. Without someone physically present touching me, it registered more like the pressure of being underwater, and that just didn’t repulse me like touching skin did.
It’s true that it was relaxing, but the reason I liked it so much was secretly that it felt good. I hadn’t even admitted it to myself at the time, but I kept asking ART to squeeze me, and eventually things escalated.
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28 May 2026
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This is one of those moments where I think it was a mistake letting ART watch all those serials with me (I have lots of those moments). Someone saying ‘we should talk’ is never a good sign. It always means an emotional conversation is going to happen, and I hate having those.
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ART and Murderbot hash out some of the dumb stuff they did during Network Effect. Love language=arguing. Blanket=given. Media=watched.
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27 May 2026
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SecUnit and ART watch a musical theatre performance involving two human-form bots that fall in love. SecUnit thinks romance is dumb, but it's cool to see media where bots can be such good friends, the way that it and ART are good friends.
ART quietly has a panic attack.
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Heavily inspired by the musical Maybe Happy Ending
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27 May 2026
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“SecUnit, what’s your favorite smell?” Double ugh. How the fuck was I supposed to answer this without being rude?
“I like it when there isn’t a smell.” There, that was a positive spin on my negativity, I guess. Maybe I should have lied, though. Everyone in the shuttle was frowning to some degree. Way to bring down the mood, Murderbot.
“You don’t like any smells?” Iris asked.
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27 May 2026
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After a long day of dealing with humans in close quarters, the last thing Murderbot wants to do is spend more time with humans in close quarters. But Arada would definitely make a sad face if it told her and the others that it wasn’t going to Ratthi’s viewing party for the new season of a serial they were all watching.
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For everyone that wanted to give Murderbot a nice blanket.Bookmarked by nerdqueenenterprise
21 May 2026
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In a shockingly accurate imitation of the voice ART uses to talk to humans, Iris intoned, “The vacation protocol is now in effect.”
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- Part 3 of sandbox environment
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21 May 2026