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  1. Public Bookmark 5

    the hype won't get you through by

    Fandoms: Control (Video Game)  

    11 Jul 2026

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    < Oh! This tragedy / Why can't we seem to keep it together? > In the wake of the New York AWE, it's the same House with new faces and new problems. Simon Arish does his best to navigate them, especially the one named "Dylan."

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    02 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 2

    Lost in Transit, Please Resend by

    Fandoms: Control (Video Game), FBC: Firebreak (Video Game)  

    14 Aug 2026

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    NOTICE FROM DEAD LETTERS
    The Dead Letters archives are closed until further notice due to the sticky note infestation. Please leave any relevant or interesting material at our temporary office. We are currently out, attempting to locate our missing letters, find out who intruded in the archives, and keep the Oldest House in one piece.
    (We'll see how that goes.)

    Sequel to Letters from the Dead.

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    02 Sep 2026

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    No Easy Distance by

    Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

    06 Aug 2023

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    The Murderbot Diaries, re-told from Dr. Mensah's POV. Features rewrites of scenes from the books, my interpretations of missing scenes from the books, and takes on what Dr. Mensah was doing off-screen.

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    Demo & Inspection: Pre-ASR one-shot exploring the missing scene mentioned in ASR and AC where Dr. Mensah sees Murderbot's face for the first time when PresAux tries to get out of renting a SecUnit.
    Hard Edges: Two-shot covering the events of ASR chapters 1 and 2.
    Unit Offline: Two-shot covering the events of ASR chapters 4 and 5. Dr. Mensah is jacked.
    Left Behind: One-shot covering the events at the end of ASR chapter 7.
    Extended Disconnection: Longform fic covering the events of ASR chapter 8 through the end of ES from Mensah's POV, including what Mensah was doing off-screen in AC and RP.
    Public Figures: One-shot exploring the missing scene mentioned in FT when the news that Murderbot is present on Preservation Station is published.

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    28 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 24

    Essential, Not Urgent by

    Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

    13 Apr 2025

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    The Palisade Combat SecUnit, known once by Murderbot as “Hostile One”, is sold to another company, and while there it gets a hold of an interesting file, with a useful bit of code.

    Freed from its governor module, the CSU has to decide what it wants to do.

    It doesn’t take long to decide.

    It’s a pretty violent idea. But that’s a Combat SecUnit for you.

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    21 Aug 2026

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    Via Solitude by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    16 Aug 2026

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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.

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    19 Aug 2026