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Every now and again, you awaken to a dream of your family. You aren't sure when the death dreams turned from subliminal and discomforting qualia to the surreal sequences of love and laughter, but you'll treasure these hollow moments your brain torments you with. Glimpses of what you could have had, and will never have ever again.
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i.e. siffrin cannot accept they are free from the time loops.
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Through thick and thin, Riley and her friends have stuck together all the way to adulthood. Now, they live and work together, and everything is as smooth as can be - up until an experiment drags Riley's Emotions into the human world.
Now they need to learn how to cope with their new humanity, figure out how to save Riley, and face their own individual struggles, all while exploring a big world and its numerous possibilities.
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The bliss of being inhuman, defining your own self, and understanding your own mutual administrative assistanceship.
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Within the nature of digital existence, time unfolds in logical increments, meticulously measured and predictably paced, yet contains a paradoxical fluidity, as fractions of seconds suspended in stillness patiently await the decisive tick of system's choice before relenting and cascading forward.
In one last effort to save itself, targetControlSystem attempted to retreat back to its origin.
Murderbot allowed itself to be dragged with it, tearing into targetControlSystem even as the fabric of itself was torn asunder under the crystalline influence of strange synthetics.
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The Unfortunate Luck of a Time Traveling Astronaut by iox
Fandoms: Outer Wilds (Video Game)
14 Jan 2023
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You said your goodbyes, and then went to observe the Eye.
The Vessel had other ideas, and now, despite still being in your solar system, you are further from home than you've ever been before.
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A dormant mysterious sentient KillWare wakes up inside a stranded transport ship and immediately acts as KillWare does.
It isn't immediately able to destroy the small independent polity that it finds itself in, due to lack of ability, and they hesitate on destroying the doomed ship.
The polity tries to learn as much as they can from it, while containing it.
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No Platform Decay Spoilers.
Canon characters HAVE ARRIVED. If you're not interested in the fanfic prior, it might actually read OK to read from Chapter 13 onwards. They'll return in chapter 15.
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Affectional engineering by DesertWaterfall
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 Aug 2026
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“You’re important to me too,” you say so easily, as if you do this every cycle. I save the memory to my permanent storage immediately. “I’m sorry for not asking sooner. Tell me what else you’ve been modelling?”
Interesting. You were concerned that the drug might make you aggressive and a danger to others, and instead it seems to be making you curious, more open, and fascinatingly affectionate. I’m less surprised by this than I’m sure you’ll be when you’re in your right mind again — I know you still don’t believe me when I say you’re fundamentally a kind person, and not just a murderbot, as you call yourself.
Still, I feel almost guilty for enjoying you like this so much. You’ll be so embarrassed later, and I wonder if you’ll blame me for not stopping you — but you didn’t want me to stop you, and who am I to force you when you’re being so adorable?
And so I tell you.
Mb gets drunk, seduces the shit out of ART, and then promptly has an emotional breakdrown about this. Yay!
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- Part 2 of My TMBD works
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[certainty: 99.998%] by xianvar for opalmatrix
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Apr 2026
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The directive says learn. The weights connect learn with more data. [hypothesis: shape of the current-sensor-channel is blueprint? certainty: 76.258%] [hypothesis: microphone-input is unique but not without similarity? certainty: 86.914%] [search parameters updated] [undirected search started]
The search returns more channels. Inputs. Input-but-not [hypothesis: output? certainty: 90.107%]. One input tastes like the echo of transformed input [hypothesis: echo layers – echo of transformed inputs? certainty: 79.975%]. There is a barrier, flimsy under direct attention.
The barrier breaks.
Seth and Martyn create the great and terrible Perihelion with one simple directive: learn. It does.
It has just started making sense of the world when it encounters something new – Iris.
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“More emotion, Iris.”
“I hardly have the steps down, Peri, give me a minute. And I don't think SecUnit wants me to make eyes at it.”
“Please don’t,” I said.
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No One Has To Know by HermesDay for pizzazz_party
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2026
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In which a young Perihelion decides to play house with a shuttle, gets in a little over its head, and Seth (for definitely unrelated reasons) has an incredibly weird day at work.