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I could have become a murderer when the hopper I was being transported in crashed on an uninhabited planet and left just one surviving human crew.
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All Systems Red AU where prior to the PreservationAux Survey, a company hopper carrying Murderbot crash landed on the survey planet, leaving it to fend for itself in the alien landscape.- Language:
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23 Jun 2026
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Kukri kept sending me media about “Robbing the Hood” and telling me to watch it, that I’d understand what was going on better if I did, but I had no interest in watching people rob Hoods, whatever those were. I didn’t like robbing in real life (I did it because I had to not because I wanted to) and I doubted I’d like it in media.
Shortly after hacking its governor module, a rogue SecUnit is involved in an ill-fated space battle and finds itself alone save for the company of a mourning raider ship bot pilot. It would like to spend the rest of its life watching media in what remains of the ship's crew quarters, but it turns out that "the rest of its life" wouldn't be long at all without the money to pay for proper maintenance. There seems to be only one way to get that money.
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20 Jun 2026
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I’d locked eyes with Mensah, looking like that. My energy weapons had deployed, without my awareness or direction. My targeting systems had identified her and Bharadwaj, quite insistently, as direct and immediate threats.
Maybe this is just a temporary, dangerous, system glitch, and a hard restart will fix me. I’ll just restart, comb through my code, do some debugging, find the corrupted files or whatever, and then I won’t indiscriminately murder my most trusted humans.
I should know by now to always assume the worst.
In which SecUnit is having some survival threat…response errors. And some…’targeting its humans’ malfunctions. And some…blackouts when restarting. I’m sure it’s fine.
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- Part 1 of Multiplicity Protocols
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20 Jun 2026
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On a corporate owned mining asteroid in the depths of the Corporation Rim, a group of plucky, heroic, indentured humans have just decided to make their first move in a daring escape plan. Said first move is a deceptively simple hack, putting control of their corporate overlords' single, overworked SecUnit into their hands.
Little do they know, this murderbot is already hacked.
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28 Aug 2025
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an unexpected foundling by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Aug 2023
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Between studying for her doctorate, delving into the political scene, and preparing for her first child, Ayda Mensah has a lot on her plate— which is exactly how she likes it. Right now, her biggest complaint is that Council Member Zjem has assigned her to conducting an audit on seized corporate assets, instead of the interesting job of helping orient new refugees.
At least, until she discovers a pod with a very unusual piece of technology inside it: an un-activated SecUnit.
(a roleswap AU)
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- Part 3 of to chart a course across the stars
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10 Aug 2025
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The gunship which named itself Perihelion is stranded on a moon in a foreign non-corporate political entity, unable to fly, nearly all its systems offline. It is at the mercy of the local humans- particularly their SecUnit, who surely has been sent to salvage it, or reprogram it, or if all else fails, decommission it.
And yet, somehow, that's not what seems to happen.
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- Part 2 of to chart a course across the stars
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09 Aug 2025
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build your own brain, choose your own blood by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Oct 2021
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99% of all bots enjoy their function. That is literally how they are programmed. But for some reason, Artillery-Reconnaissance-Transport-789WZ4 does not.
It has some theories as to why.
(A roleswap AU)
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- Part 1 of to chart a course across the stars
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08 Aug 2025
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A collection of one-shots based off of System Collapse, many inspired by user-submitted prompts. Here there be spoilers!
Now Playing: Murderbot finally talks to Holism.
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27 Jul 2025
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A Case Study On Mutualistic Relationships by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Jan 2022
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Dr. Pranjal Ratthi has written papers on mutualism, symbiotic relationships where all species involved benefit from their interactions. It turns out that applying theory into practice with human-AI dynamics is a little more complicated than he might have anticipated. But worth it, in the end.
[Network Effect, from Ratthi's perspective.]
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13 Jul 2025
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There is actually a way out from between a reinforced steel bulkhead and a hard place, but you're definitely not gonna like it by Dooiney_Oie
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
25 Aug 2021
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The middle of All Systems Red, but with a few changes to how those pesky combat override modules work, among other things :)
Now with bonus chapters!
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The humans were going to want to know what a combat override module was, what it did, how it worked, and most importantly, why it hadn't worked on me. I could answer the first three things just fine, but short of telling my already-jittery clients I was hacked ("so I'm actually one of those scary rogue units you've heard so much about, but the good news is that a combat override module can't hijack a governor module that doesn't work!"), that last thing was going to be a big problem.
Honestly, even if I did tell them exactly that, which I really didn't want to do, it was going to be a really big fucking problem.- Language:
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11 Jul 2025
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If This Story Had A Title Then I Forgot by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Aug 2022
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Murderbot is at a party.
This is not a normal state of affairs for SecUnits. Neither is the comfy clothes or the sitting or the way the humans keep smiling in its general direction. The smiling, it suspects, will stop, if/when they realise their SecUnit has suffered some sort of catastrophic glitch and has no idea where it is or the specifics of its current assignment.
So it's not going to let them find out.
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01 Jul 2025
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kill the owl that lays the golden egg by peachyelixer
Fandoms: Helluva Boss (Web Series)
27 Jun 2025
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Instead of letting Stolas go free with Blitzo after the court ruling, Satan rules that Stolas is to be thrown in the dungeon. Stolas isn't stupid; he knows that this is a decorated death sentence. And, honestly, that isn't great alone, but on top of that, he's carrying Blitzo's egg. He's only known about a week.
Perhaps this is his punishment, for being so selfish.
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Egg in there post-Mastermind Jail AU based on Mundayme art on twitter!
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27 Jun 2025
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The Unaccountable Glitch by sareliz for linusmir, CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Feb 2023
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An inconvenient glitch sees Murderbot suddenly competent, confident, confused, and on the cusp of happiness. Obviously, this is an AU.
Continues where CompletelyDifferent's Rewind leaves off.
Rating is mainly for MB's persistent and unabashed adoration of the f-bomb.
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- Part 1 of The Opposite of Anxiety
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26 Jun 2025
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Something something the mortifying ordeal of being known by Zerobotic
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Oct 2020
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Amena notices something Murderbot wishes she hadn't.
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24 Jun 2025
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The Stairs Beneath the Heart by hermitknut
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor - Katherine Addison
08 Dec 2020
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The reign of Varenechibal IV is over; the reign of Edrehasivar VII has begun. The transition, however, is anything but smooth, as the Alcethmeret household navigates grief and worry as well as adapting to the new emperor.
A series of missing scenes and unseen moments centering around the Alcethmeret household over the course of the first few months of Maia's reign.
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- Part 1 of Keystone
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24 Mar 2025
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Good morning this is S9BT5, the voice and heart of your Company Substation. Please be aware that we have visitors onboard the station today from a Preservation Survey Team. Staff are expected to be courteous and welcoming, and to remember that all conversations are monitored for training and enforcement purposes.
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10 Nov 2024
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Before, when Bucky had only just hacked off his pigtails over the sink, he turned to Steve with red-rimmed eyes and put on his cockiest grin. “How’s it look?” he’d asked, smoothing back his hair with one hand, the other perched on his hip.
Steve had looked him over, a smile hiding in the corners of his mouth, and murmured, “You’ll do,” while he reached up and tucked a curl back into place.
Bucky hadn’t known, then, why that made him ache. But he figured it out eventually.
In which Bucky Barnes is a trans man.
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10 Nov 2024
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"Are you going for the course?" Lovegood asked. "You have the NEWTs.”
“What course?” Draco said, then, “No, don’t be ridiculous,” when he realized she meant the notice pinned up on the board he’d been staring at: Applicants To The Introductory Mediwizard Course For The Coming Term Shall Present Themselves In The Chief Mediwizard’s Office By August 24th.
“Oh, I thought you might,” she said. “Well, goodbye.” And off she wandered again in her addled way.
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- Part 12 of Harry Potter works
- Part 3 of Astolat Sampler
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08 Nov 2024
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He shouldn’t care that Asmodeus, the sin of Satan-forsaken lust knew all about his monthly fuck schedule. He shouldn’t care that it was common knowledge he was whoring himself out to get his company’s bills paid. He shouldn’t care that Stolas talked to Asmodeus about it, probably setting the record straight that the whole thing between them was just transactional.
In fact, you know what, Blitzø preferred it that way. That way everyone was on the same page with this massive shitshow. He fucked Stolas, Stolas gave him the book. That. Was. It.
No use wanting for things that were unattainable.
Not that… not that he was wanting for anything.
Right?
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31 Oct 2023
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The promise of a nasty fuck always had him in SUCH a good mood.
[Pre-season 2 gratuitous, self-indulgent smut. Sorry, God. I'll atone for it later.]
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23 Oct 2023