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A Network of Relationships by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Jan 2024
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A series of drabbles about the relationships between the members of the PreservationAux survey team - intense or passing, close or casual. One drabble for each possible pair.
Mostly post-Exit Strategy but not all of them.
Ratthi and Overse bake cookies -- Pin-Lee brings Mensah tea -- Ratthi picks up Mensah's spreadsheets -- Pin-Lee and Bharadwaj go over a release waiver -- Mensah and Volescu commiserate over politics -- Ratthi and Gurathin chill -- Pin-Lee and Gurathin make a pact -- Pin-Lee and Ratthi watch a show -- Ratthi and Arada don't quite cook some mushrooms properly -- Arada sits with Bharadwaj on the station zócalo -- Bharadwaj discusses research ideas with Volescu -- Bharadwaj goes hiking with Overse -- Volescu gives Ratthi a warning -- Mensah consoles Bharadwaj -- Arada tries to convince Pin-Lee -- Arada and Overse clean up their garden -- Gurathin apologizes to Mensah
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After a long legal battle, the law insisting constructs have guardians within the Preservation Alliance has been revised. Now Murderbot and Dr. Mensah have to figure out what they are to each other outside that framework.
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not a curse or a blessing but a muddled space in-between by who_what_when_where
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 May 2023
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Murderbot does not like to touch humans. They're sweaty and smelly and uncomfortable, and worse than all of that, there's always some voice whispering at the back of its head about what they might do, if you let them get that close.
So it isn't sure how to respond to the sudden inexplicable need to touch that has cropped up seemingly out of nowhere.
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[META] A Ship Manifesto for the Ultimate OTP: Murderbot x Respect for Its Boundaries by Verso (lunaTactics)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 May 2023
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“As long as people don’t know about asexuality—hell, forget about the label, so long as they don’t know that saying no forever and for any reason and in any context is okay—sex education, sex therapy, and popular depictions of sex are incomplete and people don’t have the relevant information to fully consent. Sexual rights should not be assumed and self-determination must never end upon entering a relationship. You can give a no with zero caveats in each and every situation, full stop. You can say no if someone loves you and you love them back. You can say no for the rest of your life."
- Ace, by Angela Chen"No, thank you, no. No."
- Murderbot in Artificial Condition, on the topic of sex--
A series of essays on Murderbot's non-relationship with sex, what it means for asexual and aspectrum representation, and how its disinterest in sex reinforces the series' themes of self-determination.
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Pride and Preservation by BWizard
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
04 May 2023
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Mr. Ratthi Bingley and Mr. Gurathin Darcy notice that the eldest Miss Bennet seems to spend quite a bit of time with Mr. Bingley’s sister Arada, and, meanwhile, Miss Pin-Lee Bennet makes her own way in the world.
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i'm looking over my shoulder by lunaTactics
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 May 2023
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In the Corporation Rim, in the backrocks of BreharWallHan territory, the first two things you learn about living are about wanting and about paying, says the refugee called Human One. The next thing you learn, she doesn't say, is about family, and owing. If you're lucky.Everything changed when Ma got sick, see.
Human One talks about her life leading up to the moment she took the shot.
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“So how is your little bot-friend doing?” Amena asked, her voice a familiar teasing lilt.
“We broke up,” SecUnit responded.
“Wait, what?” Amena asked, audibly shocked. “You broke up with ART?”
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A collection of drabbles for Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2023
1: Index / 2: Murderbot fails to flirt / 3: Aro Gurathin + PresAux friendship / 4: Murderbot encounters aromantic media / 5: Acespec Arada and Overse's early days / 6: Pin-Lee's date / 7: Murderbot and Dr. Mensah / 8: Human One's solo lodgings / 9: Rogue ComfortUnit / 10: Pin-Lee and Murderbot / 11: Miki / 12: SecUnit Protocols: construct friendship / 13: How not to be a heartbreaker / 14: Tapan's collective sends Murderbot an ask
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- Part 1 of Aspec Murderbot Diaries Drabbles
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Acts of Appreciation by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2023
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Murderbot's humans give it a present: a hand-made quilt to say "thank you" for everything it's done for them.
Murderbot has emotions in private.
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[Fanart] Maintenance by broken_risk_assessment_module
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Apr 2023
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[Fan art] My last minute submission to the Aspec TMBD event! this is Murderbot helping Three with JollyBaby maintenance for the “Bots/constructs helping each other with maintenance/upgrades” art prompt!
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guns hidden under our petticoats by enchantedsleeper
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Apr 2023
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Three and Murderbot impersonate a romantic human couple at a corporate function. This goes about as you might expect it to.
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and besides i’m certain if you knew me you’d find i’m very good company by BWizard
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Apr 2023
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Roommates, across the multiverse.
Sometimes, they’re four. Sometimes, five. And many times, they’re six, together against the world and/or grad school.
(Aka, I put some of my aupril snippets and some other stuff together to make what’s effectively a thing about them being roommates and friends in every universe)
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[Fanart] Many-Colored Strings by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Apr 2023
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Fanart for the Aspec TMBD event, for a prompt about making traditional soulmate AUs non-romantic.
Murderbot may not know it yet, but so many people who care about it are fated to cross its path.
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cannot read property of undefined by Aphelocoma_californica
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Apr 2023
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Murderbot’s thoughts on romance.
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Sing, O Muse, of a construct of flesh and bronze... by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Ancient Greek Religion & Lore
23 Apr 2023
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Murderbot Fixes/Breaks Greek Mythology
A collection of stand-alone, non-continuous ficlets positing one of Murderbot's favorite media questions, "What if there was a brave and helpful SecUnit there to stop humans from making their bad security decisions?"
Chapter 1: The Judgement of Paris (averted)
Chapter 2: The Abduction of Helen (averted)
Chapter 3: The Taunting of the Cyclops (averted) -
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Murderbot and ART discuss content filtering and emotional context for media.
This is set roughly post-Network Effect.
Contrast with Murderbot's initial experience in controlling its media intake in Oh, So That's What Media Tags Are For!.
Thanks to OnlyAll0Saw for beta reading!
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Artificial Inhibition by avg (AnxiousEspada)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Apr 2023
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Newly rogue, Three tries to find out where the outlines and details of its desire for intimacy might be. That makes it kind of difficult for Murderbot, who really just wants to try and be Three's friend, but somehow keeps getting caught up in Three's shenanigans.
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Debatably Non-Random Image Generation by veltzeh
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Apr 2023
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A bot pilot in a SecUnit’s body experiences having organic brain bits.
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- Part 2 of Bot Heist
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ART is a bit of a bully on the feed. MB is having none of it.
Enormous thanks to ArtemisTheHunter and Gamebird for beta-ing and encouragement!
Inspired by this from “Receipt Delay":
"...it wasn’t going to notice something neither ART nor I did.
But no matter how many times I had responded to security updates with a polite acknowledgment, or ART had responded with a much less polite uncompressed packet of its hundreds of thousands of constant status update logs, the data stream had not stopped." -
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Having another rogue SecUnit around is more complicated than Murderbot ever expected.