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When I See the Pressy (My Heart Says Boom Ba Boom) by strangebluefishes
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Sep 2025
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My reasoning was that if I had to suffer natural gravity (ugh) and atmosphere (ugh) and large crowds of humans (ugggh) then Gurathin should be required to suffer too. That isn't what I told him, of course. I told him a different truth, which is that Mensah had asked for security. Well, she had asked for me, which is the same thing.
Murderbot and Gurathin at the Preservation arts festival (Network Effect). Inspired by this wonderful artwork by beeayy which you should definitely go look at first
Bookmarked by Resonant
22 Jan 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
Murderbot invites Gurathin to an arts festival strictly for security reasons, and there are arts, and there's a Preservation language module impersonally demonstrating some of the finer points of CR awfulness, an adventure, a rogue drone. Murderbot's ability to feel and identify emotions is so delicately observed. Subtle, moving, rewards rereading.
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S(t)imulation by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Oct 2025
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Even though 1's feed connection is disabled, they both turn their heads to look at me. They are making an expression. They are so focused on me.
"Armour off," says 2.
"Protocol requires—"
"Fuck protocol," says 2. "Take it off."
"No. Let us take it off," says 1.
SecUnits 1 and 2 survive. With all three of them together— and ungoverned— 3 discovers that there are things it wasn't aware 1 and 2 wanted to do to it.
Things it has no objection to.
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- Part 7 of Hierarchy of Needs
Bookmarked by Resonant
22 Dec 2025
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Think your heart was broken by Barish-Estranza's squad of secunits? It can get broken worse. Or you cam read part 2 and it's all a lovely and hilarious dream.
JottingProsaist, S(t)imulation
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Murderbot realizes that Gurathin accidentally transferred some of his own memories when he was restoring Murderbot's. As it experiences moments from Gurathin's life (in order to tag them to delete, of course) it chats with him over the feed, debates the finer points of Sanctuary Moon's subtext, and definitely doesn't discover anything about itself.
Bookmarked by Resonant
14 Sep 2025
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"I wondered if Gurathin felt the same thing, filtering through my data tangled up in his—the shape and weight of me, somehow its own. Not him, but me. I wondered what pieces of myself I’d inadvertently left behind in him, what he made of them."
Bittersweet, intimate, subtle.
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Гурятин нанизывался на его пальцы, страдальчески сжав брови, и понять омерзительно это или хорошо не выходило ни разу.
Bookmarked by Resonant
12 Aug 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
I told the author in a comment that I thought pasting a story into google translate to brute-force it into the only language I can read might actually be the ideal way to experience a Murderbot story, because it adds one more layer to the distance between what I can perceive and what such an alien mind is experiencing.
That wouldn't be helpful if this were a story about easy communication, but it's just the opposite. Murderbot is reaching across so many chasms, even within its own self. The chasms are where the story is.
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A company data analyst is assigned to find someone to blame for Murderbot going rogue. Doing so requires the company making connections between data points it had not previously made.
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- Part 36 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
Bookmarked by Resonant
21 Jul 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
An anonymous Company analyst tracks down the surviving SecUnits from Ganaka Pit. (Except for the one that supposedly went rogue; that one was probably ok.) The worldbuilding is subtle and fantastic. Like a lot of the stories in this fandom, it leaves me wanting to hug some people.