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This Machine Will Not Communicate by siriuspiggyback
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Aug 2025
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I woke up in a cubicle.
This was normal, I knew.
I couldn't remember the last time I had been in one, or the first time, or any of the times in between. This, I suspected, was deeply ab-fucking-normal. My head was aching. The organic parts of me felt like they had been scraped over with wire wool. I couldn't remember anything.
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10 Sep 2025
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After a mission goes horrifically wrong, Murderbot finds its governor module reactivated and Three moments away from a catastrophic shutdown.
(Three-centric whump fic narrated by Murderbot. Murderbot & Three, mentioned background aspec Murderbot/ART, platonic aspec ART/Three. Gen, angst, hurt/comfort, whump. Spoilers up through Book 7: System Collapse. Complete.)
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- Part 1 of Barish-Estranza Human HubSystem
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- English
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10 Sep 2025
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[variable_affection] by avg (AnxiousEspada), flowerguts, Lillow
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Sep 2022
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"ART loved its crew. The joy and the love and perfect clarity with what it was supposed to be, what it was supposed to do. ART couldn’t understand how someone could dislike their function - how I could. Once, I had a similar clarity of understanding with my function, then I hacked my governor module and left the company for good, and I had lost it all. It was better, now, in a lot of ways. I had my humans, and ART, and our crew. But in some ways, things were worse.
I still wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do, ever. I had made one good decision, to stay with ART, a few years ago, and I had been just making the same decision over and over again. It felt kind of like cheating."A 20-some year fic in which Murderbot comes to terms with what it means to have a home (or two), a found family (or several), and just what mutual administrative assistance can entail.
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02 Sep 2025
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While helping ART pack for a new colony rescue mission, Murderbot finds a discrepancy in its crew manifest. The truth is weirder and more emotionally loaded than it ever expected.
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People have commented on how MB as a SecUnit might relate to ART as analogous to a HubSystem and what that means for their relationship, but how does ART, as a bot pilot designed to pilot drones and shuttles and split itself into multiple pieces, relate to having a SecUnit on board?Bookmarked by RiippleEffect
31 Aug 2025
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On a mining colony, SecUnit suffers through the daily tedium of life as a corporate murderbot. But all is not as it seems. And it has more friends than it knows.
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30 Aug 2025