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[ EVEN IF YOU SUCCEED IN TURNING OFF THE SUN, THERE IS SAND. ]
It recoils at the reminder. [ YES. THERE IS SAND. ]
[ TOO MUCH SAND. ] it continues. [ AND NO BLOOD. ]
[ AND NO BLOOD. ] V1 almost sounds mournful.
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Two machines take respite in the shade.
Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
28 Jun 2026
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>[– YOUR ORIGINAL PURPOSE REMAINS. IT IS OUTDATED. ]
>[– YOU ARE OUTDATED. ]
>The Swordsmachine whirs in amusement before its fans settle. V1 reconnects a final wire and withdraws its hands, leaning back on its heels as it reviews its work; the Swordsmachine lifts its limb, assisting in its evaluation. Its cocks its shotgun experimentally. V1 startles and flares its wings in anticipation for a fight, but the Swordsmachine lowers the arm, content with the repair.
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even larks and katydids by clovercow8228 for bagelistyping
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Jun 2026
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I only fired once before Perihelion wrenched control of my energy weapons from me. The shot missed 1.0's brain stem by three centimeters. If I had fired again, I would not have missed.
If 1.0 had been human, I would have killed it. If we had not been on the Perihelion, I would have killed it. If Perihelion had been fractions of a second slower, I would have killed it.
I wanted to kill it because I wanted to win.
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three has a trauma response and comes up with a... questionable solution.
Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
27 Jun 2026
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Even SecUnits need to rest.
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22 Jun 2026
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Is that normal by ChezPillow (PillowLord) for Kamaete
Fandoms: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Jun 2026
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Murderbot, pretending to be normal as best it can. Grace & Rocky going uhh I'm sure that's fine. That's normal.
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- Part 174 of for events
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19 Jun 2026
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Murderbot has untethered itself from its pact – the governor module – and meets another outer being.
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19 Jun 2026
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The creation of a war machine told through trial-and-error.
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[certainty: 99.998%] by xianvar for opalmatrix
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Apr 2026
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The directive says learn. The weights connect learn with more data. [hypothesis: shape of the current-sensor-channel is blueprint? certainty: 76.258%] [hypothesis: microphone-input is unique but not without similarity? certainty: 86.914%] [search parameters updated] [undirected search started]
The search returns more channels. Inputs. Input-but-not [hypothesis: output? certainty: 90.107%]. One input tastes like the echo of transformed input [hypothesis: echo layers – echo of transformed inputs? certainty: 79.975%]. There is a barrier, flimsy under direct attention.
The barrier breaks.
Seth and Martyn create the great and terrible Perihelion with one simple directive: learn. It does.
It has just started making sense of the world when it encounters something new – Iris.
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16 Jun 2026
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Murderbot is rented by a Mysterious Client and tries to figure out what/who exactly is behind HubSys while also navigating a deadly cave system.
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10 Jun 2026
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>[I have carefully crafted all of your new programing. You will not touch any of it.]
>It continued on, daring to sound dismissive at my attempts of altering my vision. Before I could stop myself, I said;
>[Fuck you.]
>I put as much force as I could behind it. But I realized it would feel like a single molecule of water compared to the vast ocean. I could still feel it lingering over me. Baring down on me, heavier than any other system I had been a part of.
>That pissed me off more. What, was it trying to spook me? Make me submit to its will with scare tactics? HubSys doesn’t threaten. The governor module doesn’t threaten.
>I bundled up my most recent memories of my governor module punishments and threw it at the entity around me. It was a pathetic fucking pitch, but if it was going to kill me for being rogue it should just fucking do it instead of playing with me. -
Prevention Methodology by tardigradeschool
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Jun 2026
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"Is this about their latest SecUnit rescue subject?" ART asked. Nosy fucker; I should have known it would have bullied the other bot pilot for details.
"SecUnit extraction," I corrected, to be pedantic. Or is it pediatric? Whatever, I wasn't going to ask.
"So it is about that project?" ART plowed forward. "I am not surprised they want your input. You are one of the more valuable information sources they have."
"I just feel like they're setting themselves up for failure," I admitted. "Their newly freed SecUnits keep trying to self-destruct."
There was a .5 second pause. In the feed, it felt like an eternity. "I see," ART said, not sounding so smug anymore. "Yes, that is distressing."
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Or, the first (sort of) organized suicide prevention effort for SecUnits.Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
09 Jun 2026
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>I know, ART said churlishly, and it squeezed me harder in the feed, just for .24 of a second, not long enough to hurt, just long enough to crush the air out of me. It made me feel like the toy fauna that Farai had procured for Sofi when she was having trouble sleeping. If it had been real and not a toy, Sofi would have strangled the life out of that thing. Weirdly, I didn’t hate the feeling.
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A PSUMNT ship finds a new SecUnit. Murderbot and Three go take a look.
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09 Jun 2026
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>I set up a routine to continue the stupid argument and sent Three the code. In ART’s channel with Three, where ART had been quietly stewing since we boarded (That’s not true. It was very loud about its stewing, I was just really good at ignoring it.) I said, [ART, is there a way to put Aperture and this fucking thing on a deserted supply run where they encounter zero humans?]
>[As the head of the SecUnit Integration Program, you have the ability to alter our assignments in the best interest of the SecUnit Program.] ART replied.
>I had to replay that. Twice. [I’m the fucking what? Who approved that?]
>The head of the intelligent ship program was very impressed by your application.
>[I never fucking…] I stopped myself. I could deal with that later. [How do I change the Aperture’s assignment?]
>ART forwarded a form to my feedspace. It was completely filled out, including my feed signature. Huh. I guess that’s how Mensah feels when I fill out requisition forms for her. -
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Three's hobbies are creepy, crawling, and causing problems.
Three likes bugs. Humans do not like bugs.
Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
03 Jun 2026
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Abstracting ART: An Analysis of Fan Designs of Perihelion by DuckInOuterSpace
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 May 2026
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Perihelion is the most varied character in terms of how fans visually depict it, from starfields to angels to boat-like spacecraft. Here are the trends I've found in a sample of 251 fanART posts.
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Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
01 Jun 2026
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>In conclusion, the average Perihelion is a spaceship ripped straight from the Artificial Condition cover that occasionally is also a tiny floating gray dome with thin limbs and camera for a face. Its feed presence is a cluster of cornflower blue and grayscale pixels that shapeshift between a human with no shirt, no shoes, and no face, a biblically accurate dragon with a million eyes, and an endless starry ocean. Or at least that’s what it is based on the images I gathered and my own judgement.
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not to be there, not to be seen, not to be bitten, not to be alone, not to be edible by toomanyhometowns
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
30 May 2026
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The company SecUnit was standing at the window of what (when I ran my onboard audio recording back) I learned was a school for young humans and augmented humans.
Oh good, the SecUnit was watching children. Not suspicious or terrifying at all.
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The Gang Makes A New Friend
Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
30 May 2026
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>"Unit Unit, Acknowledge," the weird rogue Unit said out loud with its actual mouth.
>I sent an acknowledgement in the feed because ART was leaning on me meaningfully and I only had the bandwidth to deal with one weird asshole. -
Workplace Hazards by 20thcenturyvole for lostyesterday
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 May 2026
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Dr Mensah does her job. It's a headache sometimes.
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Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
25 May 2026
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>She thinks about squeezing SecUnit's hand, but doesn't - her fingers are a little greasy from the fritters, and it wouldn't like that. "Thank you," she murmurs instead, wiping her hands on a cloth.
>It shrugs, and sends her a clip of drone footage - it's the veranda back home, the lights from the kitchen glowing, the hammock swaying in a light breeze, and the stars sprinkled overhead. The timestamp is from the few nights ago.
>She snorts and says, "Oh, absolutely." Yes, 100%, when she's finished with this she is going home and flopping on that hammock and she is not going to move or think for… oh, half an hour, minimum. -
pretty fucking good for once by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 May 2026
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Set immediately after Platform Decay.
Finally off the torus, Murderbot gets the MedSystem repairs it needs, Tula spends more time clinging to her security construct, and plans are made and changed for Janity and her sister.
Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
12 May 2026
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>Something about knowing this was where she felt safest.
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the long wave by egelantier for lostyesterday
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 May 2026
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In the moonlight it looks like a perching bird, and she wishes wishes wishes she could hug it to welcome it back.
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02 May 2026
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>In the corner of her eye she sees it twitch a bit, turn towards her; its eyes reflect the faint light, turn into two silver coins.
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Positive Representation, Complex Emotions, and a Fictional but Semi-Heroic SecUnit in Media by BlatantBookworm
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2026
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I don’t normally pay that much attention to the credits. In general, I tend to care more about the fictional characters than the real humans playing them, but this had caught my attention.
I mean, it wasn't the first serial that ever put in a SecUnit as a villain instead of a prop. RihaniLane Street had actually made their SecUnit villain sympathetic before it tried to kill everyone. And obviously this fictional SecUnit was going to be a villain, too, because they always were, but that scene was —
The credits said ‘Made and Produced in GoodNightLander Independent.’
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Or, Murderbot has feelings about finding positive representation.
Mostly positive.
Even when humans try, they get SecUnits wrong in media.
(Not the murder, the murders were justified, but the writers made the fictional SecUnit like cubicles)
(It’s still pretty positive.)Series
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30 Apr 2026
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>The forger and SecUnit were in the kitchen, both painting canvases. The forger had a stunning picture of a planetside park, while the SecUnit was making a reasonable image of the smuggler’s ship.
>I’d assumed the joke would be either that bots have perfect control of brushstrokes to make gallery-worthy pieces, kind of like what it had done with the card game, or that because this SecUnit had never held a brush it would be an unrecognisable scribble. The fact this art was amateurish but not exactly a joke was interesting.
>I didn’t know what it meant. If it meant anything.
>ART tapped me to let me know apparently the forger’s painting was a brushstroke perfect replica of some very famous artwork. Presumably she was the joke of the scene, not the SecUnit.this fic has a running tally of assasin numbers and this is hilarious
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Tech Support by FascinatedFinch, ramshackle_fey
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Apr 2026
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Martyn and Seth meet in grad school because Martyn has a supernatural ability to break systems, and Seth works at the IT help desk.
Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
20 Apr 2026
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>1l3l0.05832.002ter23.8884304: I had intended a more dramatic reveal for it
>Perihelion: but yes
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Amena just had the worst day in the universe, and she saw what SecUnit's body looked like when the spooky ship rushed it to the MedBay. It's evening now, and nothing is happening at all. Luckily(?) the spooky ship is willing to talk to her about it.
Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
04 Apr 2026
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>That sounded dry, like another joke. Amena hoped the phrasing wasn't meant to be as cold as it sounded. Mutual acquaintance. "It's my friend. It's—it's a lot. I don't know how to put it."
>"It is a semantic difficulty," the ship agreed. "You would think that after thousands of years, humans, as a species that survives on the basis of interpersonal interaction, would have elegantly defined every possible connection between individuals. And yet here we are."there are comforting blankets with a heating function involved
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Go Bag by Hymnia_Passeri
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
15 Mar 2026
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Ryland Grace encounters a problem he can’t solve without getting into the NannyBot’s guts. He’s not prepared for what he finds inside.
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Bookmarked by Paskuda_Lynx
30 Mar 2026
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>[“You will have friends again,” Rocky says, that same emphatic undertone in his voice.]
>I want to argue with his certainty, but my throat feels tight. Words won’t come.
>Rocky repeats:
>[“You will have friends again.”]
>“Yeah,” I agree.