TacticalAscot
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Such Breathtaking Ignorance by TacticalAscot
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Jun 2026
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In copying SecUnit’s kernel to save its crew, Perihelion ends up mated for life due to behavioral commands built deep into its code. Knowing SecUnit would hate it, Perihelion resolves to just… not mention it. What could go wrong?
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Dark earthy AU where Preservation Alliance is a long-established, multi-planetary cult. Post-Platform Decay, Mensah, Farai, and Tano navigate wanting to add SecUnit into their group marriage.
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5 Times Iris was a Very Supportive Sibling and 1 Time She Meddled by TacticalAscot
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jan 2026
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Just what it says on the tin: five times Iris was honestly the most supportive sibling ever (despite all the longing and the pining)... and one time she had enough, and finally decided to meddle in Peri's business.
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5 Times Ratthi Worried About SecUnit and 1 Time He Didn’t by TacticalAscot
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Jan 2026
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Just what it says on the tin: five times Ratthi worried deeply about his friend, SecUnit, for one reason or another... and one time he was not worried at all.
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I shouldn't take it personally that everyone loved Three. It was just better than me. At everything: Kicking my ass, not being a pile of anxiety, getting along with humans... just, everything.
It was fine. It was fine, right?
So if it was fine, the problem wasn't with being a SecUnit, the problem was with me. I didn't like that and I definitely didn't want to talk about it.A short story about SecUnit seeing how well Three is doing, and what that must mean about itself. Get cared for, idiot.
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06 Jun 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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04 Jun 2026
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01 Jun 2026
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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24 May 2026
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I had been incredibly skeptical when Ratthi had sent me ‘Midnight Eclipse.’ I knew what fanfiction was, I had seen it in the more niche entertainment feeds before. Never specifically for Sanctuary Moon, but I'd assumed it existed. That didn't mean I had any actual interest in it, though. When I had first looked at them, I hadn't liked them. The quality varied too much and a lot of them weren't finished, or were really short, or really out of character. And I hated that. I really really hated that.
This one was different.
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22 May 2026