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Preserving the Mines: Primary Sources from the Preservation Mining Camp, 1852-1854. Edited by Dr. Lillian A. Volescu, PhD., compiler/editor, and Ascensión Martínez y de las Plantas, translator/consulting linguist.
Sacramento is undeniably a mining town. Yet many miners’ stories are unknown. This book attempts to present the story of nine of those miners, the occupants of a small camp called Preservation, featuring primary sources written by the Preservation Miners over the course of two years.
{A completely fictional “academic book” of in-universe documents detailing The Murderbot Diaries, if it was set in California, 1854.}
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Cut One And The Other Bleeds by FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Apr 2025
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Soulbond plots were rarely interesting in media, and I was even less interested in understanding their touchy-feely relationship ramifications in real life humans. So I didn’t give a shit.
Until suddenly I was forced to give a lot of shits.
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Image of the dead by Skeletalcat for pinstripedJackalope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Jan 2024
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Becoming a rouge secunit was harrowing enough - but now Three had to deal with the soulmarks One and Two left it with, and the pain they cause it. Murderbot thinks of its own relationship with its marks.
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embraced by the current by MechanicalMermaids for FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 May 2025
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Soulmate marks are for humans only. Allegedly.
The claim I didn't fulfill on time to make it into collection for FlipSpring's prompt:
"Soulmate AU (soul marks, red string of fate, see colors only upon meeting soulmate, etc) but make it platonic and/or delve into the fridge weirdness that is the premise of a soulmate AU."-
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What Makes a Soulmate by AgenderAgenda for FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Apr 2025
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1.) Humans are born with a series of soulmarks. Each is a symbol, representative of one of their soulmates.
2.) Anyone can have any number of soulmates.
3.) Soulmarks begin white. However, when someone’s soulmate dies, that soulmark becomes black. When someone meets their soulmate, that soulmark becomes colourful. Soulmarks can be any colour once two soulmates have met.
4.) Many people never meet their soulmates. Approximately 73% of people can expect to meet at least one soulmate in their lifetimes.
OR:
In which ART considers soulmates
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SecUnits don't have soul marks by ESE (SecurityUnit)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Aug 2025
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Humans have barely visible designs on their skin. I have to switch electromagnetic filters to see them, but they are there.
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All Spell Slots Red by cordelianoir, FascinatedFinch, LordSmeldingtonTheThird
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Jul 2025
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I admit I was distracted when the bottom of the crater where Volescu and Bharadwaj were working exploded. To be fair, I don’t think any of us expected a fully fledged dragon to pop out of the ground and take a bite out of one of the humans.
Exploring a Fantasy AU for Muderbot for the events at the start of Book One: All Systems Red.
Created for the Murderbot Reverse Big Bang and including a story, two pieces of art, and a podfic!
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Something About Odd Friendships by PunsBulletsAndPointyThings for the_dragongirl
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Temeraire - Naomi Novik
14 Oct 2023
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“Oh no,” Ratthi said, raising a hand to his mouth to cover a laugh, “They’re at it again.”
A Temeraire Au.
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Three moments of magical cuteness; Arada and Overse going on a hike, making a proposal, and eating dinner together
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The five superheroes of the Preservation Alliance — Black Swan, Fairy, Firebird, the Hammer, and Kraken — work together to protect the city. In this collection are their first three adventures and a brief interlude:
Introduction: Following an odd fight with the formidable villain Corporate, each hero goes about her routine.
The Secret: When recurring foes Madame Magic and Troublemaker kidnap two civilians and four superheroes, a surprising secret is revealed.
A Genetic Problem: Dr. Arada's lab at the university contains some of the world's foremost research on superhuman biology, and our brave heroes must stop new villain Ultrasonic from stealing it for an unknown purpose.
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- Part 7 of AUpril
- Part 1 of Alliance (superhero alternate universe)
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“Rise and shine,” ART said. “We’ll be approaching the port soon enough.”
I wasn’t looking forward to it. In the endless ocean, I could pretend like the matrix of pledges sewn into my skin didn’t matter. On shore, I was horrifically aware of them at every moment. Many humans had some promises etched into their skin, but I wasn’t human, and almost every inch of my skin was covered with glyphs of binding, preservation, and power.
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Cats of the Clans (and the Lab, and the Magical Science Research Team) by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Warriors - Erin Hunter
05 May 2023
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Murdercat, an escaped military-cyborg-cat lab experiment, takes a job as security to guide eight wizard cats into the Clan forests where they want to do some interdimensional life-magic-experiments. The Clans are less than happy.
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A Murderbot/Warrior Cats/Young Wizards crossover.
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and besides i’m certain if you knew me you’d find i’m very good company by BWizard
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Apr 2023
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Roommates, across the multiverse.
Sometimes, they’re four. Sometimes, five. And many times, they’re six, together against the world and/or grad school.
(Aka, I put some of my aupril snippets and some other stuff together to make what’s effectively a thing about them being roommates and friends in every universe)
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AUpril by BWizard
Fandom Enchanted Forest Chronicles - Patricia Wrede, Miraculous Ladybug, Percy Jackson and the Olympians - Rick Riordan, The Little Mermaid (2023), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Apr 2026
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as-yet untitled subnautica fusions by torpidgilliver
Fandom Subnautica (Video Game), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Apr 2023
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subnautica fusions, written more for vibes than actual stories
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What makes a person a person? Simple: if they have a daemon.
That's a very convenient rubric, considering that bots don't have daemons. And neither do constructs, of course.
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First words are important – they might appear on the skin of people who will be very important in your life, after all.
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The SecUnit’s soulmark changed when it hacked its governor module.
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Throw The Chupacabra In Here Too by BWizard for ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Mar 2023
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All they wanted was one quiet date night, but here they are. Aka, all of my (published on ao3) alternate universe versions of Arada and Overse end up in the HSAU. At once.
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