molecular_machine

a molecular machine



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  1. Summary

    Stories of varying length and tone with one thing in common: Mensah. There's a focus on Mensah as a strong and capable person, and Mensah's important platonic connection to Murderbot. Fics are standalone and may be read in any order.

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  2. Summary

    A series of unrelated fics in which a SecUnit (usually Murderbot) is on company inventory and dealing with its governor module, or hiding its hack of its governor module.

    The fics are arranged semi-chronologically relative to Murderbot's timeline, but they can be read independently and in any order. All are a balance of angst with hope, except for everything, this, me especially which is more of a mix of fluff, angst and humor.

    Stories by molecular_machine, with art and podfic by DoomNightAt12 and Kitsunebaba in The Junkyard Society of Discarded Robots.

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  3. Summary

    Murderbot drabbles that are unrelated to each other except by length, so check the tags and ratings on each work.

    Written by molecular_machine, with art by FascinatedFinch in Face to Face.

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  4. Summary

    A collection of unrelated post-canon short stories about ART and Murderbot sticking together during difficult times. All are sad, none are hopeless. Arranged in order from least to most sad (individual results may vary), with only the first fic being pretty gentle. Their relationship is portrayed as somewhere on the friendship/ partnership/ queerplatonic type spectrums.

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  5. Summary

    Short works set in FlipSpring's NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad canon divergence series. Tone and content varies, so check individual tags and warnings. Context is provided in each fic, if you want to read these as standalones, although reading NULLverse is recommended because it is awesome. The fics in this series are all "NULLverse canon compliant" bonus scenes that are arranged in order of the corresponding inspired-by work.

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  1. Public Bookmark 63

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    While traveling together post-NE, ART and Murderbot stumble across concerning traces of an old familiar enemy. Murderbot sets off to investigate and finds itself trapped, held hostage by a mysterious augmented human with no idea where it is, why, and how it's going to get out of this. To make things worse, it's supposed to deal with having emotions about things on top of all this? Real things, not just Sanctuary Moon? Ugh.

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    26 May 2026

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    Bookmarker's Notes

    Longfic to hopefully read

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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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.)

    Podfic of Emotional Context by Clare_Hope

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    3/3
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    3
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    07 Oct 2025

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  3. Public Bookmark 3

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    Murderbot accompanies Ratthi, Pin-Lee, and Amena on a trip to the set of Sanctuary Moon. What should have been an easy contract turns into a broken set SecUnit, a murder mystery, and a little bit of trauma, but Murderbot doesn't have to do this all on its own.

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    1/1
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    23 Mar 2026

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  4. Public Bookmark 22

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    As Planetary Admin, Dr. Mensah occasionally has to take part in maintaining inter-local political relationships - one of those being with Preservation’s educational establishments. Also, she wouldn't exactly wish her youngest on an unwitting chaperone.

    Or: Dr. Mensah, a few assorted adult humans, 28 juvenile humans, and a Murderbot go on a field trip.

    (It's like no one even CARES that Murderbot hates planets!)

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    Chapters:
    9/9
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    Comments:
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    23 Mar 2026

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  5. Public Bookmark 90

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    Murderbot finds out about some new options to solve the logo problem. There may be some consequences and ART isn't on board with the idea.

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    Comments:
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    90
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    18 Mar 2026

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