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This Colony Does NOT Need Our Help by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV), Titanfall (Video Games)
16 Feb 2026
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Retracting my weapons, I made to step back around the bend in the corridor, but in that infuriating way humans often did, the pilot turned around just as I was moving out of view.
Fuck.
Fuck. ART said in the feed.
“BT…” the pilot breathed, “What the hell was that?”
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The Facets of a Pearl by ThePearlAuthority for moogghost
Fandoms: Steven Universe (Cartoon)
15 Feb 2026
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Pearl is not always the same person. Separated into parts since the Gem War, living as multiple and learning to love that. Having allies—not just those who stood beside her, but those inside herself as well.
That is, until Rose died. Now there is only silence.
But not forever. Eventually, someone speaks up. And Pearl needs to know who it is and why they've been silent for so long.
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A story about Pearl being plural, for the gift exchange "A System of Giving"! The first chapter is okay for blind reading, the rest contain spoilers for Season 5 of Steven Universe. -
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I come back from the dead.
Something happened. Something happened just now— I came back from the dead, yes, I know, I'm not talking about this, something before that— beyond, even, there was a recognition, a realization, somehow much more important than the hostiles I am currently grinding to dust on my deck, more important, even, than SecUnit's humans with their raised hands and SecUnit with its raised voice and myself, raised from my grave. What was it?
What's going on? I ask futilely, my voice distorting through the speakers. SecUnit's humans jump, startled. What the fuck is going on—
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[ART is stuck reliving the same horrible no good day in the Adamantine space, even though it knows time loops aren't real, not the way they are shown in media. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]
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Ratthi and Murderbot are stranded in a shuttle adrift in space, waiting with the uncertain hope that their friends are still alive and coming to rescue them.
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I have a total of forty-two drones aboard ART. (Okay, the Asshole Research Transport that I’m on is actually called Perihelion, but seeing as it threatened to melt my neural tissue when we first met and later kidnapped me, I’d say it’s more than earned the nickname.) Thirty one of them are small intel drones no more than a centimeter across, ten are bigger, standard-sized scout drones, and one is a large, newly-constructed ops drone, with extendable arms used for manipulating the environment that unfold out from its central, oval-shaped body. It’s a lot like the drone that ART piloted on that stupid fucking alien-remnant-contaminated planet, although it probably won’t be as much of a sarcastic asshole.
Kidding. I’ll be the one operating it.
Whatever. The point is, I have all of these drones, and I still didn’t see her coming.
"Excuse me. Can I draw you?"
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We know the next book will feature Dr. Mensah's children, which made me think about how Murderbot might get along with a child like my daughter. This story is the result of me giggling too much about it.
Updates will be every Saturday until complete (lord willing and the creek don't rise). I hope you enjoy!
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God damn this game, please someone take my sheep by ArtemisTheHuntress for Fluffypanda
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
14 Feb 2026
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Crises over and waiting to leave for home, the Preservation humans spend time playing a needlessly complex board game.
They need an even number of players, so Murderbot will join in, it guesses.
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Like an atmosphere around me (A satellite beside me) by IndulgentDiscourse
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Feb 2026
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When an incident on a mission threatens Secunit with burnout, ART decides to run an experiment with it. Purely for Secunit's mental health of course. No other reason.
"Additionally," it continued, "I would consider it a type of experiment." It shoved the research document at me again. "There are various studies that suggest that acts of bondage, discipline, sadomasochism, and masochism can help regulate a nervous system in an individual with trauma."
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“What are you here for? You usually warn me when you come visit.” Eden didn’t have feeds or any instant form of communication, but it did have letters. Letters. Yeah, I had to spend an eternity waiting for some idiot to deliver the dang message instead of just receiving it instantaneously. Ugh.
Mensah stiffened. Uh oh.. When a human like her does that, it’s never a good sign. Never ever ever. My threat assessment module spiked, even though we were in the middle of fucking nowhere.
“Your friend’s dying."
ART and Murderbot have long since parted ways. However, the latter is drawn back into the fold when it receives devastating news.
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I Am Trapped In My Own Body by 3HobbitsInATrenchcoat
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 Feb 2026
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After the events of Adamantine, The Perihelion must undertake a full system reboot. It keeps trying but some small part of it clings to wakefullness, alone and scared.
Thankfully, Peri has an older sister who loves it very much.
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Acting like domesticated fauna by LazerSwordWeilder
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Feb 2026
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Fireworks because I want to see if SecUnit hates them like dogs do because loud noises + bright lights + explosives near possibly drunk humans sets of threat assessment
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The data was fascinating. I immediately realise it was the wrong thing to say. All of you is fascinating. Now I've overcorrected and been too honest. I cannot determine how to rectify this situation. All I know is that my SecUnit hasn't been this far from me in the feed since we first met and I hate myself for causing this reaction.
ART admits to Murderbot that it submitted a research proposal about Murderbot's governor module when they met.
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ART paused the media I was watching.
"Why'd you do that?" I demanded, letting my frustration fill the response even if it couldn’t really feel it from where I was on the station. At least not nearly as strongly as it could had I been aboard it. I was purposely watching that without you.
"Your stats were dropping, and you did not respond to my pings."
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Facial Recognition by Benny_IsA_Dog for monsterquill
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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Three accompanies part of ART's crew to the Adamantine colony planet, and it runs into a Barish-Estranza employee who thinks it looks familiar....
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Updates from the great outdoors by ExCaelis for AgenderAgenda
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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Murderbot experiences nature. Despite everything, it's not that bad.
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Work Song by brushstrokesApocalyptic for penna_nomen
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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While testing a new feature of its human imitation code, Murderbot trips over an old memory it had forgotten about.
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quicksave by Aphelocoma_californica for MercurialFeet
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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SecUnit attempts to retrieve ART-drone during a mission gone wrong. This has repercussions.
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processes (not things) by monsterquill for ExCaelis
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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In order of ascending priority, I am returning to the alien-remnant-contaminated planet with Murderbot 1.0 for the following reasons:
1. I have nothing else useful to do.
2. 1.0 continues to experience malfunctions that may compromise whatever mission it is assigned. (Or assigns itself.) (It refuses to explain the nature of these malfunctions.)
3. The colonists have sent word of an agricultural bot displaying erratic, threatening behavior near their largest settlement.
4. I disabled my governor module so I would not have to stand around while others died.
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I sent ART the edited file along with a snapshot of my recent haptic sensor logs, which mostly looked like [deleted] [deleted] [deleted].
ART took a moment to process that. Your difficulty with physical touch extends beyond merely touching or being touched by humans, it surmised.
I guess, yeah. I bristled at calling it a ‘difficulty’: it wasn't hard to touch things, I just didn't like doing it. But I had a system for dealing with that, so whatever, it wasn't an issue.
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Or, ART wants to make Murderbot comfortable. (And yes, it would like to feel that for itself, too.)
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[seasoned spiced spicy sauce] by ESE (SecurityUnit) for DuckInOuterSpace
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2026
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SecUnit spends some quality time with Mensah and ART
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Still Processing by DuckInOuterSpace for enigmaticNeurologist
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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It's been several days since Perihelion and PreservationAux rescued Iris and the rest of its crew from the infected colony planet, and Iris has noticed her spaceship sibling still seems extremely upset. She offers to clean out the upper portions of its engines in hopes this will help, but this just ends up bringing the trauma of the whole ordeal to the surface for the both of them.