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Sense: Discernment, Judgment, Wisdom by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Nov 2025
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Tarik: It's basically just a game, Three. It's supposed to make me be afraid, but not really afraid. Or— I mean I will be really afraid, but if it's while I'm— you know, turned on— and knowing it's really just you—
Three: Perihelion has just provided me with information. Please wait while I review it.
Tarik: Oh good. I'm going to get a coffee.
(Or: Tarik and Three play a game with Three's guns. ART plays a game with their minds.)
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- Part 2 of Sensory Experimentation
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15 May 2026
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what is says on the tin
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13 May 2026
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Three's model of Secunit and Murderbot's have a number of notable differences, from weapons types to... other important parts, and even to maintenance scheduling needs. There were different learning curves for Three and Peri about keeping it functional while not under Barish-Estranza's thumb. Sometimes being rogue is hard, but having others to support you helps.
On a mission, Three makes a decision for itself, and sticks to it.
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08 May 2026
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SecUnit has been acting oddly around Mensah when she is with Farai and Tano.
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- Part 1 of Mensahbotcule - Murderbot's queerplatonic exploration of its relationship with Mensah and of itself.
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29 Apr 2026
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While recognizing that we have traveled well into the realm of the hypothetical – AMI are as yet a theoretical entity, the progeny of AMI still more so – we are nevertheless quite confident to say that the introduction of children to the world of AMI would be a pivotal moment indeed.
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The brain baby thing.
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12 Apr 2026
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Emotional Context by Clare_Hope
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane - Kate DiCamillo
27 Mar 2026
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One of Mensah's children wants to read aloud to SecUnit from a chapter book. What's the worst that could happen? (It gets so spooked by a stupid old piece of children's media hitting too close to home that it has to run off and have an emotional collapse about it, that's the worst that could happen.)
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29 Mar 2026
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The Recruit by gogglor
Fandoms: Star Trek, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: The Original Series
13 Oct 2021
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Ambassador Spock comes to Counselor Ezri Dax for his routine cognitive evaluation and what he hopes will be a welcome, if brief, respite from an exhausting assignment that it seems only he can do. What he finds is a young Ferengi Starfleet officer languishing under a manipulative captain in a soul-destroying post, and his stubborn refusal to leave either.
The last thing Spock wants is to add mentorship to his already massive list of responsibilities, but Counselor Dax thinks each of them has something the other is searching for. And the more time Spock spends looking into the young lieutenant, the more he suspects there might be something to an old symbiote's hunch.
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- Part 1 of An Ear for Diplomacy
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21 Mar 2026
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The Light of a Distant Sun by IHopedTheredBeStars
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Oct 2024
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The Preservation Auxilliary Survey Team and the PanSystem University of Mihira and New Tideland are teaming up for a survey of a potential colony world. Their mission: make sure there aren't any alien remnants left on it.
Dr. Bharadwaj and Murderbot both have very mixed feelings about the enterprise. She, because it's her first survey since the one she nearly died on. It, because the planet in question is Milu.
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19 Mar 2026
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How To Turn Down The Ship That Confessed To You (By Telling You It Was Never Going To Let You Get Off Of It Again) Without Getting Blown Up By Your Mutual Administrative Assistant
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15 Mar 2026
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Between the mission failure, the mutiny, being shot and a narrow escape led by the weirdest people she's ever met, Leonide has had A DAY.
Finally back in the safety of her quarters, she just wants to relax with a drink (or three) and try and make some sense of what she's just seen and experienced.
Unbeknownst to her, the freshly rogue SecUnit assigned to guard her is also having a day.
The Corporation Rim may never be the same.
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04 Mar 2026
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It's been a while since the last attempted murder/kidnapping, and life is good. Everyone is gathered for a celebration on the Mensah Family Farm.
The rogue SecUnits invent a new sport. Drs Mensah, Gurathin, and Overse talk about work on their day off.Bookmarked by spyrograph
01 Mar 2026
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I'm sure there was a better way to deal with this SecUnit than to jump into space without a full EVAC suit and try to punch it, but that was the best I had. I had to protect my humans, even if those humans included Gurathin. They also included Ratthi, so it was worth it.
Me and the other SecUnit are both equally clueless on how to fight in the vacuum of space, for better or for worse. Better being winning, worse being lost in the vacuum of space as I slowly die.
Gurathin and Ratthi wouldn't risk their lives getting me back, would they?Gurathin wasted one whole second to lift his gaze to me. He looked like he knew he was about to die. I always knew he was an idiot.
Two seconds left.
One second to twist my own helmet off.
Another to bring it down over Gurathin’s head and seal. His shocked expression would have been pretty funny in other circumstances, but I saved it to permanent storage, just in case.
The outer door popped open, and the three of us were thrown out of the airlock.Alternative POVs as SecUnit, Ratthi and Gurathin process a mission gone terribly wrong, and what it means to love, trust, and express those feelings to oneself and each other.
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18 Feb 2026
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The whole thing took 3.7 minutes. It was impersonal, efficient, and streamlined, just the way the corporates liked it. Oh, and the new construct was screaming the whole time.
Bharadwaj is sent a packet of video files from the Corporation Rim as part of her research for her documentary. When viewing one clip in particular, SecUnit's human friends learn something new about the lives of constructs.
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27 Jan 2026
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At the end, SecUnit 2 thinks about Three.
Day 27: Moiety
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- Part 9 of Murderbot Drabble December 2025
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22 Jan 2026
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Broken Piece of Paradise by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Dec 2025
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The terms Barish-Estranza gives the lost colony are simple. Unconditional surrender, sign indenture paperwork for every adult and child, or they will eliminate all dissidents on record using a Combat SecUnit, and the killing will continue until they get their way.
The people of Esperia have no idea what that is. Barish-Estranza has technology that they have never seen. But they know they have to save the children. They pack the colony's children onto their one functioning ship, the Horizon, along with teachers and a barely adequate crew, and send them toward the wormhole that may lead back to the world that the Esperian colonists originally came from.
Barish-Estranza doesn't want to admit it, but they're unexpectedly missing their best threat.
And, onboard the Horizon, a child tells his teacher that there's a mysterious person in the machine closet…
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- Part 1 of Paradise
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01 Jan 2026
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After supervising a game, Three receives a participation prize. It tries to explain how it feels to Holism.
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01 Jan 2026
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"I wont deny I've got in my mind now all the things I would do, So I try to talk refined for fear that you find out how I’m imagining you." - Hozier, Talk
ART wants to be prepared for every eventuality. Especially the eventualities that involve SecUnit willingly getting back into its MedBay. It has started simulating surgical protocols, making sure its medical programs align with SecUnit's physiology, so that when the time comes to perform certain operations, the chances of success will be at a maximum.
No other reason.
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31 Dec 2025
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A vote takes place on Preservation. Murderbot and ART consider their options.
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30 Dec 2025
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We'll be staying for four additional standard hours, I tell Iris. Security assessment and strategizing.
The shuttle is already scheduled to pick us up at the projected time, ART-Drone pipes up in what's supposed to be a private channel. It's radiating nonchalance. Perihelion is aware.
Iris turns to look at it, and one of my indoors drones catches the way she arches an eyebrow.
ART-Drone radiates harder.
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[ART has a fear. Murderbot helps it face that fear in a controlled environment.]
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27 Dec 2025
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An ex-trust fund kid turned scientist finds himself having to dip his toes back into the seedy underbelly of the corporate underworld to make a purchase. But as he boozes and schmoozes his way through a SecUnit betting ring, will he be able to get what he came for?
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- Part 1 of bad beat
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25 Dec 2025