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Manual Reset by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Oct 2025
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It is dusk, during the mild early nights of the fallow season, and we— 1.0 and I— are playing Keep Away with the Mensah children when 1.0 abruptly utters, "This unit's critical components have reached their designated life expectancy," and drops like a stone.
Then it says, "WHAT THE FUCK."
Three has to hit the reset switch on a forced-obsolescence process. The switch is in an extremely inconvenient place inside Murderbot. Like, wrist-deep.
Three is feeling so normal about this. It is. It is.
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- Part 6 of Hierarchy of Needs
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17 Jun 2026
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Here Are Some Useful Facts About Grief by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Oct 2025
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SecUnit Three has been free for a very short time and is not doing well. As it tries to navigate the first personal request of its life, it makes lists. The request is more emotionally catastrophic than it realized, and there is probably a very, very good reason why Murderbot initially said no…
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17 Jun 2026
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Most of the code I write is code that I can evolve on the fly. My code to delete me out of security footage, for instance, was something I'd built up over months, adjusting it to different proprietary SecSystems as I encountered them. But this was different: my comm and feed protections were what kept me from falling under anyone else's control, and I couldn't afford to have them be anything but perfect, which was why I was here. If I wanted to fix this vulnerability properly, and I did, there were things that I needed to do that I couldn't do without help.
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In the aftermath of getting hacked, Murderbot asks ART to help it make sure it can't be hacked the same way again. As it turns out, applying and testing a security patch is a little more challenging than usual when the vulnerable system is, you know, your own brain.
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17 Jun 2026
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It's only when they're gone that Amena says, to the empty air of ART's hallway, "Why tell me to stay safe? They're the ones going off to do something dangerous."
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Missing scene from Network Effect. Amena and ART wait for everyone to get into position for Murderbot's retrieval.
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17 Jun 2026
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"Transport, what happened here?"
I consider saying that I wish I fucking knew. I discard that potential response as unproductive.
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An annotated excerpt from ART's personal memory files. After being reinitialized, ART repairs its systems, eavesdrops on its inhabitants, and tries to figure out what exactly happened while it was deleted.
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17 Jun 2026
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Peri says, Iris, do you recall the time on XavFlet when I abruptly departed to go pick up Karime, and Seth told me that I was required to give the crew a fifteen-minute advance warning of unexpected departures?
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17 Jun 2026
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ART, you’re not supposed to connect to me on the feed, you dumbass!
ART sounded dismissive and not, you know, concerned about alien remnant contamination at all or anything when it said, I hooked you up to the isolation box while you were out. You do know what an isolation box does, don’t you?
That data felt slippery and I wasn’t sure I had it in my short-term storage. I said, Fuck off, obviously I know what an isolation box does.
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Murderbot gets repaired. Missing scene from Network Effect.
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17 Jun 2026
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Aelwyn walks.
It's tedious—and rather insulting—that her newfound captors appear to be under the impression that she needs to be exercised like a fucking hamster. She may be a wizard but she isn't that kind of wizard, poised to blow over in a stiff breeze. Really, the whole thing is absurd, she can't believe her parents haven't gotten her out of here by now. How upset can they be about missing Solesian girls in Fallinel?
(or: Aelwyn Abernant & The Orb)
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- Part 7 of najio's whumptober 2025
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16 Jun 2026
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Something is wrong. Korra can feel it from the moment she wakes up. It's not that she can't move her legs, or speak without slurring her words. It's the way every conversation feels rehearsed—like they all know what she's going to say before she says it, and she's the only one who never got to practice.
(Or: Author looks up mercury poisoning, realizes the venom of the Red Lotus is the most horrifying thing ever depicted on Nickelodeon.)
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16 Jun 2026
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How many burials at sea had she witnessed on this deck? How many children had she watched dissolve into that same dark smear across the sky? How was it that each time, it was as though every one of them had died all over again, as though she stood at all of their funerals at once?
Or: The Bad Kids never make it out of the cafeteria on day one.
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- Part 17 of najio's whumptober 2025
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16 Jun 2026
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Too Little, Too Late // Something, Anything by Stellar_Eclipse
Fandoms: Mouthwashing (Video Game)
21 Apr 2026
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The last time she spoke to her daughter, Anya's mother said the worst thing she possibly could have.
Twenty years later, the wreck of the Tulpar is found. The bodies are identified. The story is told of a tragic accident, and a heroic sacrifice. It's a bullshit lie, of course, but nobody seems to care. What would she know? She wasn't there.
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16 Jun 2026
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You have a lot of time, after the crash, and nothing to do with it besides think. Nobody to confess to, except yourself. So you do a lot of confessing. You think you finally understand why, now.
You just wish it still mattered.
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16 Jun 2026
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A bot pilot sends a distress signal to an unknown vessel, and gets a lot more help than it bargained for.
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- Part 8 of najio's whumptober 2025
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16 Jun 2026
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"So, this..." he began. Then he reached up to rub at his temples, as if to smooth away a headache. "This is supposed to convince us not to kill all your clients?"
(A ComfortUnit tells a story. It's not a horror story, because horror implies abnormal circumstances—it's just the story of one bad day.)
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16 Jun 2026
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“Okay, maybe we shouldn’t have told him his dad would still love him if he was a nudist,” Fennec says, looking down at the abandoned potato sack garment in the middle of the palace hangar bay floor.
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14 Jun 2026
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Our Guard (a docu-holo sponsored by the Coruscant Communications Bureau) by FortinbrasFTW
Fandoms: Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types, Star Wars - All Media Types
26 Oct 2021
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Nonstop civilian protest duty for over a month, the senate's latest hobby seems to be getting abducted for kicks, and now he had to deal with a camdroid shaped pain-in-the-ass following his every move. The powers that be seemed to think that putting him and the rest of the Guard in some holo was the best way to work up some civilian sympathy. Well, at least there was no way his day could get any worse...
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13 Jun 2026
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Force is a Verb by pagination
Fandoms: Star Wars Legends: Jedi Apprentice Series - Jude Watson & Dave Wolverton, Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
24 Nov 2024
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Twinky is a Great Explorer. The greatest! And even if the Grabbing Thing is being rude and grabbed her in the middle of her Great Explorings to take her to a dirty place with lots of moons and a different sky, Twinky knows what is important and what is not.
A little wizard and childrens being hurt by big no-majs is bad bad bad. Well. Twinky knows just what to do about that.
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- Part 4 of Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better
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13 Jun 2026
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The Way of Conquest by pagination
Fandoms: Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Prequel Trilogy, The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) - All Media Types
26 Jun 2025
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All Din wanted to do was find the Child a sorcerer teacher, pick up a job or two, and follow his Creed.
Three out of three is good, right? Right?
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- Part 1 of The Way of Conquest
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12 Jun 2026
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Coulson's Eleven by copperbadge
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel, Marvel Cinematic Universe
02 Nov 2013
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After Vanko destroyed the Stark Expo, SHIELD instituted a Superhuman Detention program, designed to capture and hold dangerous people -- dangerous people like Tony Stark, Steve Rogers, and others who made themselves noticeable. The superhumans SHIELD has imprisoned -- and some SHIELD agents themselves -- have other ideas about what constitutes 'dangerous'...
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El-ahrairah and the Velveteen Rabbit by isabeau for Tanaqui
Fandoms: Watership Down - Richard Adams, Velveteen Rabbit - Margery Williams
18 Sep 2013
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The only thing faster than a rabbit is rumor, including the rumor of a rabbit that was not quite a rabbit.
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18 Feb 2026