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hold me up in your folders by JackaLanternLope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Sep 2025
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It’s not that I wasn’t curious, and it’s not like there wasn’t a more logical part of me that knew that this was terrible security procedure, even if I didn’t hear a peep from risk assessment (what else is new?). But on a deeper level, I knew there wasn’t any risk.
I wanted ART to prove it to me.
I wanted to go in blind and know that it wouldn’t hurt me, and that it would stop if I asked it to. I wanted to let ART in and not have to think about it.
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ART takes Murderbot up on an offer to plug into each other's systems.
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- Part 2 of data transfer
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01 Jul 2026
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The one good thing about ART not being around was that I could ignore its instructions not to do anything stupid.
A bundle of thick cables ran from deeper within Three’s chest into what I knew were its power cells. I picked up the cable trailing out of my energy weapon, disconnected one of Three’s, and plugged mine in.
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Murderbot and ART follow a distress signal and find Three at the bottom of an abandoned mining installation.
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- Part 1 of data transfer
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30 Jun 2026
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i'm the machine and you're the ghost by brahe
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Oct 2025
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I skim the instruction document and pull the complex code file into the station’s processing space. I don’t think I’ve ever been this anxious for something to work, for something to happen. I know I’ve never been this desperate. Please—
The lights flicker, shutting off for hardly even a second before they turn back on, and maybe it’s just me and my faulty-ass organic parts and the emotional breakdown I’m maybe probably definitely having, but it feels like the air is different. It feels like—
Or,
A coda/minor rewrite for (mostly) ch. 7–8 in Network Effect.
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- Part 1 of a crash without a sound
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30 Jun 2026
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ART makes a mistake in the process of correcting issues left behind by the company. They work through it.
For the prompt: the first touch.
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- Part 1 of high on a hotwired symphony
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30 Jun 2026
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"Dammit. I’m sorry to say this, Peri," Seth sighed. "But I’m afraid you might have to try the— seduction."
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SecUnit comes home sex-pollened and has to be, ah, tempted over to the MedBay for treatment.
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29 Jun 2026
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to process pain that will never heal by many_a_mused_rhyme
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Feb 2026
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Ah. Gurathin lightly skimmed over the ragged mess of my processing power, presumably to confirm what I’d said. It was a testament to how fucked up my head still was that I didn’t automatically shove him away at the first slight brush of his presence. After a moment, he drew back. So you want to stop?
I didn’t want any of this. It wasn’t about what I wanted. We have to.
I disagree, Gurathin said thoughtfully. We could redistribute the workload. If you still don’t want me interacting with the contextual data records, you can finish it and then hand all of it to me at once, so I can do the recompiling while you just focus on readjusting to the changes.
I tried to picture what he was describing. My code being fixed, piece by piece, while I just sat back and let it happen? Let myself be, what, tended to? Healed? Yeah, absolutely fucking not. My organics were doing weird shaky things just at the idea of it. Not happening, I told Gurathin.
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Still recovering from the aftermath of the gunship incident, Murderbot gets help from a particularly irritating source.
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30 Jun 2026
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hide me in the burrow, your brow furrowed by many_a_mused_rhyme
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 Jun 2026
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“How the fuck was it not a weapon?” 1.0 demands angrily. “You’d have used it to cause harm.”
“Only to myself. That doesn’t count.”
1.0 stares at me as if I said something completely logically unsound. “Three,” it says with minimal vocal inflection. “What the fuck.”
I cannot determine an appropriate (safe?) response, so I do not respond.
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*banging pots and pans* THREE ANGST!! COME GET YOUR THREE ANGST!!! HOT OFF THE PRESS!!!!!
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- Part 2 of queerplatonic rogue4rogue fics 👍
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29 Jun 2026
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my golden circuits yearn for embrace by many_a_mused_rhyme
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 May 2026
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Environment=secure & hostile presence=null, Three reminded me. You are safe. Then it brought up the situational improvement parameters it’d sent. Query: enact?
I hesitated. Three waited. The thing was, these “improvements” weren’t necessary for the maintenance process. In fact, they were probably going to emotionally compromise one or both of us and make everything harder than it had to be. The smart, logical, reasonable thing to do would be to answer a negative and proceed with maintenance in a more standard/efficient way. Weirdly, though, that idea dropped my performance reliability by a whole percentage.
So maybe I wasn’t feeling very smart/logical/reasonable. I told Three Confirm before I could talk myself out of it.
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nothing to see here, just two deeply traumatized living weapons inventing new forms of weird physical intimacy in order to inflict tenderness on each other
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- Part 1 of queerplatonic rogue4rogue fics 👍
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29 Jun 2026
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June of doom day 25 -This is all my fault/confession/pushed away by taylor_tut
Fandoms: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
27 Jun 2026
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Adrian asks Grace to give Rocky space to live his life, and he complies, though it hurts. But when Grace gets very sick, he has no choice but to call for help. The three of them work things out.
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28 Jun 2026
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Confirm System Upgrade-y/n? by SandSunSiliceousOoze
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Feb 2026
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Perihelion had offered me a file detailing every surgical procedure and alteration it was authorized and certified to carry out. It had also offered me an encrypted file detailing the procedures and alterations it was in no way certified to carry out, but retained 98% confidence that it could do so with minimal risk to me.
In case you change your mind, it had said.
Thank you, I replied.
I did not open the files.
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Or: Three makes some choices.
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- Part 1 of System Upgrade
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27 Jun 2026
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ART and Murderbot explore each other’s bodies. Only one of them has a body where someone could do a backflip, but that’s cool ‘cause only one of them can do a backflip anyway.
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- Part 3 of Testing, Testing, Mic Check 123
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23 Jun 2026
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I believe you and I could interface as you did with the afflicted gunship. Without overwhelming either of our processing capacity, it added. If you were interested.
I might be, I said. // Murderbot and ART integrate their systems. It's definitely not sex. They'd both definitely know if it was sex, and it's not.
(Post-Systems Collapse)
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- Part 1 of Testing, Testing, Mic Check 123
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23 Jun 2026
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processes (not things) by monsterquill for ExCaelis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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In order of ascending priority, I am returning to the alien-remnant-contaminated planet with Murderbot 1.0 for the following reasons:
1. I have nothing else useful to do.
2. 1.0 continues to experience malfunctions that may compromise whatever mission it is assigned. (Or assigns itself.) (It refuses to explain the nature of these malfunctions.)
3. The colonists have sent word of an agricultural bot displaying erratic, threatening behavior near their largest settlement.
4. I disabled my governor module so I would not have to stand around while others died.
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22 Jun 2026
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For the murderserver's prompt "Tiny"
A brief crisis about size, significance, and the hazards of existing, big or small.
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22 Jun 2026
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The last option involves closing down as many programs as I can get away with without shutting down, including the really important ones. It sounds terrifying, and it is. (Was.) (...Actually, who am I kidding, it’s still terrifying)
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22 Jun 2026
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Okay, I'm stopping.
Three exhales until the smell of burning flesh dissipates. The room smells again like Perihelion’s MedBay, sterile and sanitized, every inch of the walls and floor meticulously cleaned. Pain still sears around its back, crackling like flame around its hip and up its spine. It suppresses a shudder.
Query: Is it over?
No, I've barely started. You sound like you're dying.
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During a procedure to remove a logo in Three's organics, Perihelion stumbles onto an issue with Three's pain sensors.
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21 Jun 2026
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Seth side-eyed Iris, then snorted a laugh when she made a talking motion with her hand. “Uh huh.”
« Iris, I saw that. My point is, it is frankly insulting that you immediately assume I did something bad— »
“Peri broke protocol on its last cargo run,” Iris interrupted loudly.
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Or, Seth finds out that the surprises never end when your kid is a giant homicidal starship.
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21 Jun 2026
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Convergent Faults by Veldeia for AllieTheBard, ESE (SecurityUnit)
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV)
20 Mar 2026
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Tasked with evaluating the environmental impacts of a GrayCris mining operation, Dr. Mensah and her Preservation Alliance team face a series of suspicious incidents that culminate in a cave-in deep underground. The situation looks dire for her and the security guard whose legs are pinned under rocks, but she will do whatever it takes to get herself and SecUnit back to safety.
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21 Jun 2026
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“SecUnit?” she whispered.
The person lying on the bunk across from her did not respond.
“…Murderbot?”
Of course it didn’t respond. It was shut down, completely gone from the feed. The only thing alive about SecUnit right now was its organic tissue. Still, she couldn’t help but entertain the tiny shred of hope that if she called its name, it would open its eyes and look at her with that soft, world-weary expression it so often wore.
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Mensah is reeling in the aftermath of the killware attack. Turns out Murderbot is not the only one who suffered a catastrophic systems failure.
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21 Jun 2026
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“Perihelion!” she whispered urgently, “What’s happening to SecUnit?”
“There is no need to worry, Dr Mensah,” Perihelion replied, “SecUnit has gone into an involuntary stasis sequence.” Its voice was calm and reassuring, though there was some other emotion underneath that Mensah couldn’t quite identify.
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Murderbot is more comfortable around its favourite human than it realizes. Mensah and ART have a lot of emotions about this.
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20 Jun 2026