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Things have been awkward between ART and Murderbot since a new crewmember asked an uncomfortably personal question. ART has a plan, though: if it wants its SecUnit to stop running away from it, it will have to give it something to fight, instead.
I wish you could try is from Murderbot's perspective as it tries to punch ART's new drone in the face.
Show me how you want it to be is from ART's perspective, as the two of them finally try to discuss what they are to one another.
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19 Jun 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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18 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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16 Jun 2026
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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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12 Jun 2026
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I could have become a murderer when the hopper I was being transported in crashed on an uninhabited planet and left just one surviving human crew.
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All Systems Red AU where prior to the PreservationAux Survey, a company hopper carrying Murderbot crash landed on the survey planet, leaving it to fend for itself in the alien landscape.- Language:
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31 May 2026