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In which Murderbot reviews security footage, successfully avoids one of two uncomfortable conversations, and has a breakthrough in [redacted].
This story takes place immediately after the last scene of Platform Decay.
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12 May 2026
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SPOILERS FOR PLATFORM DECAY.
God hands you a bible one day on the torus that used to be the only thing you ever knew.
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06 May 2026
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Positive Representation, Complex Emotions, and a Fictional but Semi-Heroic SecUnit in Media by BlatantBookworm
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2026
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I don’t normally pay that much attention to the credits. In general, I tend to care more about the fictional characters than the real humans playing them, but this had caught my attention.
I mean, it wasn't the first serial that ever put in a SecUnit as a villain instead of a prop. RihaniLane Street had actually made their SecUnit villain sympathetic before it tried to kill everyone. And obviously this fictional SecUnit was going to be a villain, too, because they always were, but that scene was —
The credits said ‘Made and Produced in GoodNightLander Independent.’
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Or, Murderbot has feelings about finding positive representation.
Mostly positive.
Even when humans try, they get SecUnits wrong in media.
(Not the murder, the murders were justified, but the writers made the fictional SecUnit like cubicles)
(It’s still pretty positive.)Series
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01 May 2026
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Regulations and Standards by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 May 2026
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Sam 15 starts a new contract at an industrial platform on asteroid ST-234o23iu4. // SecUnit9123 does its job as the lone SecUnit on duty while XtraCor chews up workers and spits them out—until it can't anymore.
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18 Apr 2026
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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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08 Apr 2026
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Following a disastrous battle and a brutal encounter with an enemy, Marius is left severely injured amongst the dead. He has little hope for a peaceful death and even less for rescue. All he can do is wait and watch the world around him, including the ominous woods lying just out of reach.
And from those woods he can see something approaching. Something large and otherworldly.
And he knows it sees him too.
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05 Apr 2026
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Formerly rich spoiled brat Elizabeth Conway is the last woman on Earth. After months completely alone, she wakes up with a startling and disgusting realization.
This is a psychological horror story with some intense themes of abuse, so mind the tags.
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30 Mar 2026
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Gender is a Construct But This Construct is Not Gendered by heavyshadows
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Jul 2025
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We had (somehow) survived GrayCris. There was just one problem. My humans kept calling me he now.
I didn’t know what to make of this. It made me feel like they weren’t quite seeing me. Like at the beginning of the survey, when I first saved Bharadwaj and they started acting all team-y around me. But from the way they had talked, it was clear they didn’t understand what a SecUnit was. Instead, it was like I was their pet bot. It wasn’t until I blew LeeBeeBee’s head off that they realized they had been trying to befriend a murderbot. They saw me for what I was; a killing machine.
When they said he, I hated it. It made my organics flinch. My performance reliability dropped a percentage each time. And it felt like the pet bot incident all over again; like they weren’t seeing me, but what they wanted to see. I didn’t want to be their pet bot, but I didn’t want to have to act like I was human either. Especially not some human man. Is that how they saw me? Is that what I would have to be now on Preservation?
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In which Murderbot struggles with stupid human assumptions about gender, has a heart-to-heart with its favorite human, and submits to the mortifying ordeal of being known.Bookmarked by Leximuth
27 Mar 2026
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Let My Walls Come Down by IndulgentDiscourse
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2026
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During PSUMNT spring break, ART is inspired by shitty rom coms to do something risky. Secunit, besides its better judgement, plays along. It goes as well as you'd expect.
We watched the character scramble around onscreen for a few more minutes before ART spoke again. "I know it is foolish of me, but sometimes I am almost… jealous, I suppose, of some of the experiences Iris was able to have while growing up."
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25 Mar 2026
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It was supposed to be a low risk trip, and Dr Mensah had convinced SecUnit that everything would be fine. Then it finds out that everything was most assuredly not fine.
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- Part 9 of Mensah and Murderbot March 2026
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24 Mar 2026
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Feed Address: Not Found by Scarlet_Tanager
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Sep 2025
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When Three is seriously injured on a routine mission, SecUnit is forced to re-evaluate its stance on friendship
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- Part 1 of Feed Address: Searching...
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22 Mar 2026
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and the world will align itself again by AllieTheBard for ESE (SecurityUnit)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
08 Mar 2026
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A short AU fic where Mensah comes from the Corporation Rim.
There was a person standing by the dumpster. It was still enough that Ayda Mensah, laborer 2nd class, did a double-take, wondering whether she was looking at some weird mannequin.
Instincts told her to get the hell out and throw the trash out later, but because of that curiosity that never quite left her, despite everything, she took a couple more steps forward. It looked like a person, with skin, hair, and everything, but the stillness was not natural.
A SecUnit. Or a ComfortUnit. Left in the garbage.
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09 Mar 2026
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Do Not Delete Without Prior Authorization From the Following Vessel by MuddyHyena
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Mar 2026
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The plan had one obvious flaw.
Without my ART memories I wouldn't know that I needed to get those memories back from Gurathin. I wouldn't remember sending them to him. Which meant trusting Gurathin to realize what had happened and fix it for me.
Fucking Gurathin.
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I would like to shout out "An Unexpected Quarter" by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly and the "NULLverse" series by flipspring for inspiring elements of this story.
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02 Mar 2026
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ART fucks Tarik's cum out of Murderbot.
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20 Feb 2026
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quicksave by Aphelocoma_californica for MercurialFeet
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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SecUnit attempts to retrieve ART-drone during a mission gone wrong. This has repercussions.
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03 Feb 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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02 Feb 2026
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12 Jan 2026
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“Messenger,” he says, as respectfully as he can manage while sprawled face-down on the floor, seeping agonising heat from his neck.
“Call me Kayne,” says Kayne cheerily. “Who wants to be a messenger nowadays?”
He scoots closer, whistles as though impressed. “Wow! It really is you in there! Had to see it to believe it—hah, see, you get it? Cause you can actually see me—“
aka, instead of gaining Yellow, Arthur and the King in Yellow swap bodies. All alone and human in a cabin outside of Addison, the King must grapple with who he is without John. (Arthur, meanwhile, can barely tell up from down).
Originally written for a prompt, but turned too odd and introspective to suit.Series
- Part 2 of Anonposted Malevolent Weirdfics
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10 Jan 2026
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John looks at Arthur. Arthur looks at John.
“Nope,” says John.
“What?”
“I don’t fucking like this, Arthur,” says John. “Let me back in.”
Just a little crackfic to tide me over
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- Part 3 of Anonposted Malevolent Weirdfics
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09 Jan 2026
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Turnaround Time (TAT)
[noun]
The total duration from the making of a request to its completion and delivery.—
Or,
Finally, with palpable resignation, ART asked, 'What do you need, Secunit?'
I pushed myself off of the wall and walked to the nearest medical table. Slowly and deliberately, as though the beat of my central circulatory pumps wasn’t pounding in my ears, I turned around and leaned back onto my hands. The small of my back came to rest against the edge of the platform. When I tilted my head all the way back and found the lens of ART’s camera, my mouth split into a smile that I hadn’t planned.
I said, “You.”
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09 Jan 2026