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“But I want you to know this stuff,” SecUnit said, frustrated. It dragged a hand through its hair, a new gesture it was experimenting with, and then frowned when its fingers caught on a tangle. “I’m just—you know what I’m like. I’m never going to say it.”
I don’t mind if you never do, I said.
“Well, I do,” it said, irritation and a hint of shame seeping into the feed. “I want you to hear it. I… I want to tell you. I just—can’t.”
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- Part 14 of Trust Fall 'Verse
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*Ping*
*Ping. Ping*
Please.
Answer your comm. I know you still have itBookmarked by NonbinaryRoyalty
15 Jun 2026
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11 Jun 2026
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ART fixes up SecUnit after a mission. They are, as always, normal about this, especially because nothing is wrong with any of SecUnit’s systems.
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- Part 2 of Pasta Bowl
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11 Jun 2026
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Events immediately after Platform Decay ends:
Murderbot needs a nap. The juvenile humans need a nap. Three needs a mentor.A very soft and gentle story, with emotion checks.
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11 Jun 2026
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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 NonbinaryRoyalty
09 Jun 2026
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Error: Close Program Before Restart by ishouldwritethatdown
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Jun 2026
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The problem is that stupid humans take an average of 7-9 hours to go through a healthy restart cycle and during that time they are hyper-vulnerable to attack. It’s a security risk.
Murderbot is having issues managing its paranoia and perception of reality after the events on the Adamantine colony planet. Its favourite human and favourite transport bot help it feel better and it complains the whole time.
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08 Jun 2026
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I’d locked eyes with Mensah, looking like that. My energy weapons had deployed, without my awareness or direction. My targeting systems had identified her and Bharadwaj, quite insistently, as direct and immediate threats.
Maybe this is just a temporary, dangerous, system glitch, and a hard restart will fix me. I’ll just restart, comb through my code, do some debugging, find the corrupted files or whatever, and then I won’t indiscriminately murder my most trusted humans.
I should know by now to always assume the worst.
In which SecUnit is having some survival threat…response errors. And some…’targeting its humans’ malfunctions. And some…blackouts when restarting. I’m sure it’s fine.
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- Part 1 of Multiplicity Protocols
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07 Jun 2026
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Let’s start with the good part.
I accidentally helped Three (who was also helped by Ratthi and Bharadwaj) invent trauma recovery modules for murderbots. ART unhelped at first, but then it helped. I keep saying help too much but I’m not fucking changing it again, it’s been two hours. Anyways.
The bad part is everything else that had to happen first. Sane people shouldn’t get anywhere near a SecUnit’s worst memories, which is what we did so you don’t have to. Though I guess if you need the modules, you do have to. That’s kind of the point.Well, don’t worry about all the atrocities. There’s no way yours can be worse than mine.
—youCANskipthispart/doc/TrauModOrigins.file
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06 Jun 2026
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"You're being reassigned"
I stood there, staring at Seth like he had just shot me.
Reassigned? Maybe I didn't understand what that meant in this context. I queried a definition and nope. I got it. Can they do that?
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SecUnit is reassigned to another ship for a supposedly low risk mission. ART hates the idea immediately.
Unfortunately, ART is right.
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>> NO Platform Decay Spoilers!Bookmarked by NonbinaryRoyalty
02 Jun 2026
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(when you move) i can recall something that's gone from me by brahe
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 May 2026
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The present me should feel disgusted by the mess SecUnit made on my deck, on my bulkhead, but I should also feel indifferent to SecUnit’s anger and ferocity, and I should be unaffected by the fluidity and grace of its violence—and I am not. I am so far from indifferent and unaffected that I have, instead, created new pathways within myself for the way I’m actually feeling.
The breathless violence, the ruthless revenge—all for me. It is nothing short of mesmerizing. SecUnit is mesmerizing. I am enraptured.
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ART processes the fragments of its memories from its deletion, and falls in love.
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- Part 2 of a crash without a sound
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01 Jun 2026
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Three is neutrally curious about sex and the only person it trusts enough to be neutrally curious with is Murderbot. And... Murderbot agrees to try. After all, why not? neither of them are human, neither of them will be weird about it. They just have to... do it. whatever it is.
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aka - two constructs know little to nothing about sex but try it anyway.Bookmarked by NonbinaryRoyalty
01 Jun 2026
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Murderbot is stressed, analyzing and reanalyzing the events and memories of [redacted]. It doesn’t want a hug or a chat, but Dr. Mensah’s presence could still be a comfort.
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- Part 3 of m_m's m&m (Mensah & MB fics)
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29 May 2026
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Search and Rescue was a job typically left to the others, and I would help coordinate. Unfortunately, everyone else was already busy when the tip came in from Kaede, and I wasn't about to let Peri go through this alone. Even if it was "just" a drone iteration it shouldn't be alone and out of contact.
About a month ago, SecUnit had gotten separated from the group. No one was actually sure when it had disappeared. All we knew for sure was that it was definitely missing.
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- Part 4 of Pacphys Murderbot Maladies May 2026
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28 May 2026
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A Statue in the Theater Hall by Jewels9162
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 May 2026
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There is a statue of it in the theater hall. 1.0 would have hated it, but I was glad that it was there.
-Author has not read Platform Decay (I'm working on it okay)
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27 May 2026
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sentryDrone8 gets all the cool jobs by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 May 2026
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The intel drone POV you didn’t know you needed? Spoilers for Platform Decay.
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25 May 2026
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If I didn’t know any better, I told it, I’d say you missed me or something.
What makes you think you know better, ART replied.
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20 May 2026
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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.
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20 May 2026
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Something was wrong by ESE (SecurityUnit) for tinybowties
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Mar 2026
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Mensah inserts a combat override into SecUnit.
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- Part 3 of Mensah Murderbot March 2026
- Part 3 of (Lack of) safety on Preservation
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18 May 2026
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Mensahbotcule - Murderbot's queerplatonic exploration of its relationship with Mensah and of itself. by ESE (SecurityUnit)
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 May 2026
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For the Murderbot Diaries Femslash event in 2026.
The progression of Murderbot exploring its relationship with Mensah, Farai and Tano, and its relationship with itself.
I love how in a world where being poly is normal and being different gender is normal and all kinds of sexualities.
The thing between Mensah and Murderbot is still so weird and confusing and intimate that multiple people intervene and interrogate them on what they are.(Inspired by the scene in Network Effect where SecUnit holds Mensah’s hand while Farai kisses her and Tano watches. Kicking and giggling over it. Them and Them! My HEART)
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17 May 2026