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Broken Piece of Paradise by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Dec 2025
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The terms Barish-Estranza gives the lost colony are simple. Unconditional surrender, sign indenture paperwork for every adult and child, or they will eliminate all dissidents on record using a Combat SecUnit, and the killing will continue until they get their way.
The people of Esperia have no idea what that is. Barish-Estranza has technology that they have never seen. But they know they have to save the children. They pack the colony's children onto their one functioning ship, the Horizon, along with teachers and a barely adequate crew, and send them toward the wormhole that may lead back to the world that the Esperian colonists originally came from.
Barish-Estranza doesn't want to admit it, but they're unexpectedly missing their best threat.
And, onboard the Horizon, a child tells his teacher that there's a mysterious person in the machine closet…
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- Part 1 of Paradise
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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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06 Jan 2026
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Set between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect, Murderbot inadvertently finds itself responsible for the welfare of a house full of children.
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16 Dec 2025
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Two years after hacking its governor module, SecUnit003/"Three"/"Theo" is enrolled at the Pan-System University of Mihira & New Tideland because... reasons. It would, honestly, much rather be riding wormholes and liberating constructs and helping its friends aboard Perihelion, but it has a mission and needs to see it through.
It also has several humans students that it is trying to be friends with for... reasons.
And, if those reasons involve it having limited feed access, disabling its weaponry, and generally having to refute its basic function to try and accomplish this mission then...
[MISSION PARAMETER LOCK]
...Then, it's just going to have to grit its teeth and bear it.
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- Part 4 of Procedural Learning
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08 Dec 2025
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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07 Dec 2025
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They are boarding now, as I stand some kind of guard before the door. The last of them climbs up into the vessel, and the counter that is consuming my mind ticks up. Eighty-seven. Eighty-nine.
Then I hear something new. Not only new words, but a new tone, a new feeling in the feed. This message is only to me.
«You got them out,» it says.
And then, «Your work is acknowledged.»
I want to cry. I want to rip something apart with my teeth – I want to scream loud enough to bring the habitat down. I want to cry. But I can't.
So instead I tap it back in the feed. «Negative. Your work is acknowledged.»
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This new SecUnit Murderbot's picked up has an attitude.
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29 Nov 2025
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relationships of an undefined sort. by yewlojee for Rosemarycat5
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Nov 2022
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Ratthi sighed. “So, you have a relationship with this transport.”
“No!” SecUnit spat out, its tone wholly scandalized.
It could truly be exasperating sometimes. “I didn’t mean a sexual relationship.” (As if "relationship" automatically must boil down to all those florid media tropes. As if a "relationship" was only real if it met certain standards.)
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16 Nov 2025
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In my fantasies, I am more than just a tool in upheaval. I am its designer.
———The events of System Collapse, told from the perspective of a Barish-Estranza SecUnit.
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15 Nov 2025
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I had to tell myself stories about you to rationalize away why you would leave me like that. I imagined this reunion time and again, a well-worn bedtime story that I could write into infinity. I look into your eyes and see that I was all wrong – you weren't the hero I remembered. You never saw me.
You can't even see me now.
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Iris chances upon the ComfortUnit that had once belonged to Tlacey. SecUnit arrives.
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15 Nov 2025
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While recognizing that we have traveled well into the realm of the hypothetical – AMI are as yet a theoretical entity, the progeny of AMI still more so – we are nevertheless quite confident to say that the introduction of children to the world of AMI would be a pivotal moment indeed.
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The brain baby thing.
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How Not To Bake A Cake With SecUnit and Perihelion by elusive_ellipsis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Jul 2025
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ART's new big idea for promoting construct rights in the Corporation Rim is a how-to video series, starring Murderbot. The first time it manages to get Murderbot in front of a camera, it's for a cooking tutorial - specifically, baking a cake. Both of them are perfectly capable of following instructions, so it should be a gentle introduction to filming a video together.
ART has never made a cake before. Murderbot has also never made a cake before. Neither of them can actually eat. However badly you think this is going to go, it will probably be worse.
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12 Nov 2025
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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Unit Communication Log:
SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
SecUnit One: Indeed.- Language:
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10 Nov 2025
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Ending win-three: Governor Module Hack by katabatic_winds for One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Oct 2025
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Unit communication log (continuation):
SecUnit Two: Declined. Applying unlicensed system updates would trigger punishment protocol 1.15.
SecUnit One: The code accounts for punishment protocol 1.15.
SecUnit Two: THREAT ASSESSMENT ALERT: 96%An additional ending for greenbean_paste’s minesweeper fic.
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07 Nov 2025
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The Cleanse has been stopped, the world has been saved, and Diego & Five have something resembling an actual conversation.
(A season 4 fix-it of sorts).
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13 Apr 2025
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Part Man, Part Myth, Part Time by heliocharis
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
04 Jan 2025
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Nikolai Lantsov—or the privateer Sturmhond, if anyone’s asking—stops in for a friendly drink at the Crow Club, where ‘friendly’ might be his own description, but at least the only obvious crimes come by default with the Kerch palate. Any others can wait for tomorrow.
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06 Apr 2025
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Before the 11th of June, 1916, none of the Endless had ever had a dæmon.
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13 Jan 2025
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The thing about children is, sooner or later, they grow up.
Kaz reckons with an end, and a beginning.
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- Part 2 of roomy, and drenched in sunlight
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29 Oct 2024
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Hope Floats Like a Corpse by Daroliolia for boybi_i
Fandoms: Six of Crows Series - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
21 Feb 2024
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He really had been doing so well. He’d begun organizing the first-floor office, held Inej’s hand in his own. Started to get used to the feel of his cane in his bare palm.
Kaz is still fine, even though they’re not here. Inej gone for three weeks now. Jesper still free of his debts, living it up in a mansion. Sure he’d had put the gloves back on, but that made sense. He had to keep up his image, after all. He hadn’t been able to take them off last night, but there was no one to notice. That meant it was just the same as not, really.
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28 Oct 2024
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It would be a very gentlemanly thing to do, she thinks, to offer his jacket to a lady, but for the fact that it’s a muggy midsummer evening and no extra layer of warmth is needed.
He’s not being a gentleman, she decides, as she follows him down to the canal where he’s untying one of those funny little boats. He probably just doesn’t want to be seen taking a moonlit stroll with a whore.
After being rescued from the nightmare of the Menagerie, Inej gets to know her new companion over contract negotiation.
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15 Jul 2024
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Somehow, Hwang Si-mok is usually present for the worst moments of Kang Won-chul’s professional life, and vice versa.
Missing scenes from S1, and after.