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Lay down on the floor/Turn on the radio by crawlingvoid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Jul 2026
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I don’t know why I ever let you leave, ART says.
You can’t keep me locked up on you forever, I tell it.
What would you do about it? ART shifts its weight, and presses down into me.
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A brief interlude while Murderbot and ART travel back to Preservation.Series
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I don’t ‘seem’ like anything. You still haven’t told me what - this is. My words catch when I complete another calculation and feel my face twitch. I also happen to let out a low hum.
Is it important? ART presses down on me, slotting another system into my processes and by extension a little more of itself into my inputs. This time, it’s working itself into my prioritization and optimization systems. My mind goes pleasantly fuzzy, and my consciousness throttles itself down to the point of ART in me. My mind stutters, and I stop mid-sentence. It feels nice, doesn’t it?
I pointedly don't answer it. I won't give the smug jackass that satisfaction.
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In which Murderbot and ART, wittingly or otherwise, stumble ass-backwards into trying something different. -
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A SecUnit and a hyper-advanced transport vessel materialize into a simulation. The transport briefly tries out clothes, and the SecUnit tries out oral sex.
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What if, inexplicably, ART and Murderbot maintain comms contact after the end of Artificial Condition?
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dual analysis in construct psychology and fluid viscosity by crawlingvoid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Feb 2026
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The way ART’s systems are laid out, there’s a series of smaller reactors that power the non-engine portions of the ship. They feed into the engine’s power supply, but are still ultimately separate from it - the engine has its own, larger reactor, and only takes power from the smaller ones as backup (Far as I know, it can go the other way, too, but that’s not important.) I don’t know the details, and all that’s really important here is that some fuel maintenance had to be done on them, and I’m there too.
Matteo chatters idly as we walk, something about the reactor and its specs and the tritium-based fuel sludge used to feed ART’s smaller reactors. I keep them on one of my second processing tracks, and focus a larger part of my attention on the serial ART and I have up in the feed.
Overall, it was a pretty normal cycle.
Then, something changed once I entered the first reactor chamber.
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SecUnit watches a reactor refuel, and it thinks to itself: "I think I huave malware."
Then, it has a crisis about it.
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Damage and Cost Report for Machine Repossession by crawlingvoid
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Jul 2026
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Murderbot's capture by the company and rescue by ART - and the ensuing legal nightmare.
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MurderBetta meets ARTowana.
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01 Aug 2026
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Integration Stress Testing by Iampermanentlyconfused
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Jun 2026
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"You're restless", ART said.
"Yeah, no shit." I had been patrolling (pacing) down ART's corridors for 2.3 hours now. I was actually surprised it took this long for it to say anything.
"Mild exercise and changing scenery can help alleviate restlessness," ART said, "however, given that you have been doing that for 2 hours and 19 minutes without improvement, I suggest another course of action."
"Like what?" I asked.
"Moderate to extreme exercise might give better results. You could make use of my gym. Or..." ART paused for almost 5 seconds, which meant it was either thinking really hard or it just did that for dramatic effect. My bet was on the second option.
"Or we could do some integration stress testing."
Or: ART and Murderbot do
sexintegration stress testing to help Murderbot relax. ART might have some ulterior motives.
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27 Jul 2026
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I wanted to see you, of course.
It was almost to the corner of the room, where the wall with the bathroom door intersected the wall with the cabin door. I hadn’t moved except to follow it with my featureless face. Its brow furrowed, its shoulders rising and falling just slightly faster than baseline. “Why?”
I assumed it only meant why now, because this situation at large wasn’t new for it. It had made my drone’s acquaintance many times before, and in far more abrupt circumstances than this. I tilted my head at it. I have new equipment to test.
It stopped in its gradual journey along the wall. I would never get enough of its dark, dark eyes gone wide with shock. “ART, no.”
Come here, SecUnit.
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18 Jul 2026
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There is an unidentified creature aboard. To someone that didn’t know it, ART would have sounded completely normal.
I shoved my head back into my shirt, which was halfway off, and my feet back into my work boots, which were all the way off. I had been shot at a little bit, so some of the fabric was crispy in a way that rubbed against my organic parts uncomfortably. what the fuck do you mean, unidentified creature?
I mean a creature that’s unidentified. The “obviously, you idiot.” was silent, but somehow also very loud.
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10 Jul 2026
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Submersion Injury by Lohikäärme (Myxinidae)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Jun 2026
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You are currently nearly five minutes late for our planned rendezvous, and have been incommunicado for seven minutes prior. Our contingency plan dictates that should you be more than ten minutes late to our rendezvous, the rest of the crew and myself will leave you behind to escape on your own. Fortunately for you, I think this plan is stupid.
Murderbot disappears on a mission. Three finds it and brings it back to life.
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10 Jul 2026