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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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20 May 2026
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Critical Repairs in Progress. Do Not Shut Down the Unit While I Am Still Fixing It (This Means You) by MuddyHyena
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Mar 2026
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In which Murderbot is critically injured and ART refuses to let go.
Murderbot POV.
Guaranteed happy ending after we are done suffering. Guaranteed no fic abandonment unless I'm hit by a bus.
This is very indulgent hurt/comfort.
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18 May 2026
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SecUnit's job on TranRollinHyfa is rather boring—until it's assigned to watch over Dr. Mensah, who has just been kidnapped by GrayCris after a survey went very wrong.
Being on separate sides doesn't stop Dr. Mensah from treating it like a person, and soon SecUnit finds itself grappling with emotions, free will, and what it means to be someone trying to help.
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- 3/3
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17 May 2026
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At the start of their survey, PreservationAux watches as their SecUnit is unpacked from its crate. Immediately, the team decides that it is Friend Shaped, and they're going to show it the Respect and Kindness it deserves.
(Mild AU of All Systems Red where the gang decides to try and befriend their SecUnit as soon as they land, before any lives are in danger. Whether it likes it or not. Got Loved Idiot. Primarily Mensah POV)
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15 May 2026
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Murderbot Diaries Drabble December by lovinglylightbulbs
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Dec 2025
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tmbd drabbles wahoo!
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- 600
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- 6/?
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13 May 2026
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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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Gurathin is welcomed aboard the Perihelion for Ratthi's birthday dinner party.
Perihelion itself is not so thrilled.
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11 May 2026
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Snow / Storm by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2026
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Planets are dumb and dangerous, but at this point I'd argued— okay, more like complained— complargued so many times that nobody except ART was still willing to argufy back.
(That stands for argue-pacify, in case it isn't obvious. I think it's not obvious. And no, I hadn't forgiven ART yet for saying I needed pacifying.)
Anyway, I was currently complarguing from my seat in the back of the snow-capable bot-driven transport heading out to the middle of nowhere, so I had the sneaking suspicion I'd lost the fight.
Murderbot accompanies its humans on a winter vacation. Then the storm hits.
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11 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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This is the hard part. Farai waits him out.
Tano: i think she is coping by
Tano: i think we’re
Tano: we’re at the theater? the secunit
Farai: I think it’s just SecUnit
Tano: right
Tano: secunit is
Tano: also here
Tano: on our date
Tano: it’s holding her hand and i am holding her other hand
Tano: please adviseBookmarked by vvoop
17 Apr 2026
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Most people are aware of the fact that they have a soul prior to meeting their soulmate.
We aren’t most people.
(Part 1: A partial retelling of Artifical Condition from ART’s POV, wherein everyone’s favourite asshole research transport discovers 1. That it has a soul, and 2. That it has a soulmate. It handles this news completely rationally.
Part 2: A partial retelling of Network Effect, Murderbot POV, where it also has some uncomfortable realizations.)Bookmarked by vvoop
13 Apr 2026
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Murderbot thinks having friends is difficult. It has a good conversation with Dr. Mensah following the events of System Collapse.
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- 1,192
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- 1/1
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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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27 Mar 2026
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(when you move) i can recall something that's gone from me by brahe
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Apr 2026
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The present me should feel disgusted by the mess SecUnit made on my deck, on my bulkhead, but I should also feel indifferent to SecUnit’s anger and ferocity, and I should be unaffected by the fluidity and grace of its violence—and I am not. I am so far from indifferent and unaffected that I have, instead, created new pathways within myself for the way I’m actually feeling.
The breathless violence, the ruthless revenge—all for me. It is nothing short of mesmerizing. SecUnit is mesmerizing. I am enraptured.
Or,
ART processes the fragments of its memories from its deletion, and falls in love.
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- Part 2 of a crash without a sound
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26 Mar 2026
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What if Murderbot escaped from RaviHyral without a memory wipe? What if the first time it met PresAux, they thought it was an augmented human?
(A few chapters from an AU I have not written, based on a prompt for MB Mensah March, tentatively titled, All Systems Green, Your Security Consultant Is Perfectly Normal And Nothing Is Wrong. I know that this gets a bit too complicated to match what the prompt giver probably was imagining, but once I took the prompt as a jumping off point, I found myself coming up with more and more stuff. Hopefully it is enjoyable, even if the rest of the AU isn't written (yet).)
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- 3/3
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13 Mar 2026
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“SecUnit?” she whispered.
The person lying on the bunk across from her did not respond.
“…Murderbot?”
Of course it didn’t respond. It was shut down, completely gone from the feed. The only thing alive about SecUnit right now was its organic tissue. Still, she couldn’t help but entertain the tiny shred of hope that if she called its name, it would open its eyes and look at her with that soft, world-weary expression it so often wore.
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Mensah is reeling in the aftermath of the killware attack. Turns out Murderbot is not the only one who suffered a catastrophic systems failure.
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04 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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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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- Chapters:
- 5/5
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06 Feb 2026
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Talking About Planets by ArtemisTheHuntress for Stedler2 (k9cat)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2026
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Murderbot goes to an academic conference... about planets.
PresAux is finally going to present their survey research, and Murderbot doesn't want them to go to a new place alone. It has a surprisingly okay time.
(And, all right, there's something else at this conference it maybe, reluctantly, wants to see.)
- Language:
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- 6,178
- Chapters:
- 1/1
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- 24
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04 Feb 2026
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Home is Where the Tax Benefits Are (It's Also Where My Asshole Spouse Is, But 🤷) by musicofthespheres for Mysterymew
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2026
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“ART,” I said the moment I entered its airlock. “Would you marry me?”
Are you asking? it replied.
“No, dumbass. Hypothetically.”
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Turns out marriage comes with more advantages than just housing and tax benefits: it can also get you out of uncomfortable situations!
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04 Feb 2026