StarsAboveSkyBelow



Recent works

Recent bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 46

    Words:
    71,906
    Works:
    5
    Bookmarks:
    46

    13 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 37

    Tags
    Summary

    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.

    ---------------------------------

    Barish-Estranza captures and installs a governor module on ART. Can Murderbot find a way to save the both of them?

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    33,888
    Chapters:
    13/20
    Comments:
    183
    Kudos:
    155
    Bookmarks:
    37
    Hits:
    2,713

    13 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 68

    Words:
    221,260
    Works:
    4
    Bookmarks:
    68

    08 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    On the trip back from the Adamantine Colony plans are made, options are explored, fonts are chosen, and mutual administrative assistants exercise their read/write permissions.

    “You’re really close.” SecUnit comments but does not recoil, rather it does the equivalent of leaning more of its weight on me.

    “How does it feel?” I barely need to ask but I want to hear SecUnit describe the sensation.

    “Full, smothering, it reminds me of 2.0.”

    Because I can not help myself and because I want to see what is allowed I begin tidying up bits of its storage architecture, improving its power usage, and updating some of its out of date modules. SecUnit calls me a busybody, a neat freak, and a nerd but otherwise lets me work.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    10,710
    Chapters:
    2/2
    Comments:
    131
    Kudos:
    614
    Bookmarks:
    152
    Hits:
    3,132

    04 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 23

    Tags
    Summary

    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—

    ---

    [ART is stuck reliving the same horrible no good day in the Adamantine space, even though it knows time loops aren't real, not the way they are shown in media. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    22,124
    Chapters:
    5/?
    Comments:
    173
    Kudos:
    102
    Bookmarks:
    23
    Hits:
    1,249

    03 Feb 2026