12 Bookmarks by Reading_Fast_Writing_Slow
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I come back from the dead.
Something happened. Something happened just now— I came back from the dead, yes, I know, I'm not talking about this, something before that— beyond, even, there was a recognition, a realization, somehow much more important than the hostiles I am currently grinding to dust on my deck, more important, even, than SecUnit's humans with their raised hands and SecUnit with its raised voice and myself, raised from my grave. What was it?
"What's going on?" I ask futilely, my voice distorting through the speakers. SecUnit's humans jump, startled. "What the fuck is going on—"
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[ART is stuck reliving the same horrible no good day in the Adamantine space, even though it knows time loops aren't real. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]
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22 Feb 2026
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Don't usually read MB/ but this sounds really good!
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Murderbot is captured by the company. How lucky of them to get such a well-performing unit back to use in a new, experimental program. After all, after a few security updates and upgrades, it's just as good as new. Better, even!
(mainly going to be dealing with the fallout of this I think, my favorite part!)AKA: I decided to write the most self-indulgent thing I could possibly think of (while still having the courage to maybe post it eventually).
Mind the tags! I like when my hurt and comforts hurts very badly before it comforts :3c The characters/tags will probably change as I get a better idea of where I'm going with this lol.Bookmarked by Reading_Fast_Writing_Slow
22 Feb 2026
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Wait for completion. I can't be left hanging for the comfort.
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ART?
SecUnit. Stand and return casualties to the shuttle.
It sends me a map of directions, marking the bodies around its corridors.
ART, say something. Call me an idiot, please.
SecUnit. Apply a 5% correction.
This can’t be happening. I shouldn’t have done this, we should have fought to the death instead. I’ve made a terrible mistake.
They installed a governor module on it.
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On a routine cargo run, Barish-Estranza captures and installs a governor module on ART. Can Murderbot find a way to save ART and itself?
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I found the room in the facility easily enough. It was one of many. Identical little cells with a bed pushed against one wall and hygiene equipment against the other.
There was no one else being held here. I made sure. Leaving some poor fuck here to die of starvation or run out of power was not something I intended to do. It could hold maybe twenty-five in total, but it honestly looked like it was on its way to being decommissioned.
That was probably why they'd stashed Gurathin here. They didn't think that Preservation Alliance would even know where to look.
Luckily, Preservation Alliance had me.
Written in response to the mention in Network Effect of drugged augmented humans, and subsequent discussions in New Tideland.
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22 Feb 2026
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I have a total of forty-two drones aboard ART. (Okay, the Asshole Research Transport that I’m on is actually called Perihelion, but seeing as it threatened to melt my neural tissue when we first met and later kidnapped me, I’d say it’s more than earned the nickname.) Thirty one of them are small intel drones no more than a centimeter across, ten are bigger, standard-sized scout drones, and one is a large, newly-constructed ops drone, with extendable arms used for manipulating the environment that unfold out from its central, oval-shaped body. It’s a lot like the drone that ART piloted on that stupid fucking alien-remnant-contaminated planet, although it probably won’t be as much of a sarcastic asshole.
Kidding. I’ll still be the one operating it.
Whatever. The point is, I have all of these drones, and I still didn’t see her coming.
"Excuse me. Can I draw you?"
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We know the next book will feature Dr. Mensah's children, which made me think about how Murderbot might get along with a child like my daughter. This story is the result of me giggling too much about it.
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Harry Potter, except everyone is trans and JK Rowling can die by my blade by FromTheMouthofKings
Fandoms: Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling
10 Feb 2023
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Harry had always known that he was different.
Ron's mother had always wanted a girl.
Hermione got a letter addressed with her real name.“It is very brave,” McGonagall said softly, “to be true to who you are, even when other people tell you you’re wrong.”
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- Part 1 of To Welcome You Home
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05 Jul 2025
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404: ERROR NOT FOUND (A MurderBot Diaries AU) by vividaway
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
28 Jun 2025
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Designation: N.E.X.
Classification: Null Entity - eXcommunicated
Status: Irregular. Unaccounted for. Do not engage.She was never an error. Just unreadable. That's what they said. Error. Corrupted. Misaligned neural net, incomplete behavioral heuristics, failure to comply with baseline interaction protocols, blah blah blah. I've seen actual errors. I've been one, according to their standards.
She wasn't an error. She was something the system didn't know how to read. That's different.
Humans do this thing where if a person doesn't behave the way they expect, it must be broken. Dangerous, even. Because obviously they're the standard.
(Spoiler: they're not.)
(This fanfic is a mix of all 7 TDOMB novellas/novels, and the Apple TV show combined.)
((ON HIATUS))
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08 Jun 2025
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I don't hate Three.
Seriously. I don't. It would be fucking stupid to hate Three.
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“Attention,” said ART over the speakers, “apparently we are introducing you all to the terrifying rogue CombatUnit that ripped SecUnit's arm off. Please report to the crew lounge for what I am certain will not be incredibly awkward for everyone involved.”
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- Part 1 of Loverboy
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Hypothermia by thecommodore_squid (orphan_account), Wolviecat
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
26 May 2017
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"He's a veteran."
"You've talked to him?"
Sam shook his head. "I can tell," he said firmly, tone booking no room for argument.
Natasha's gaze was critical and clouded with a vaguely ominous shadow. "You have to be careful."
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A Canon-Divergent AU in which Steve becomes homeless, and nothing is as it should be.- Language:
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20 Apr 2025
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[OPENING: fade from black into a slow drone sweep over an alien planetary landscape. The music is dramatic, swelling. We see stretches of ocean, then beaches--]
VOICEOVER: [SIGH.]
[--plains, mountains, jungle--]
VOICEOVER (MUTTERED): Come on. This isn't a nature documentary, no-one cares about the stupid planet.
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Five Times the White Rat Was Able to Help, and One Time It Couldn't by opalmatrix for egelantier
Fandoms: The Saint of Steel - T. Kingfisher
07 Feb 2022
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Caring for the Paladins of the Saint of Steel took many hands and many hearts.