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Turquoise Couches by gostaks for servantofclio
Fandoms: A Memory Called Empire - Arkady Martine
25 Dec 2019
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Mahit is in surgery. Three Seagrass is outside, and there's not much to do but think about how the hell she got here.
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11 Jun 2026
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A bored transport thinks it's saving lives when it allows a rogue SecUnit to board it. It may even be right, but not in the way it expects...
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- Part 3 of Witness Statements
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14 May 2026
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pretty fucking good for once by molecular_machine
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
11 May 2026
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Set immediately after Platform Decay.
Finally off the torus, Murderbot gets the MedSystem repairs it needs, Tula spends more time clinging to her security construct, and plans are made and changed for Janity and her sister.
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11 May 2026
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hearts that stay connected over weary miles and time by briarfairchild for A_Door
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
01 Aug 2025
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When Jon blinks his eyes open, stares blankly at Martin, and says, “Wh… what?” Martin can tell it’s going to be a rough day.
When Jon scrambles up into a sitting position and then retreats across the bed away from him so fast that he falls off the other side onto the floor, then reverses all the way across the carpet until he’s got his back against the wall, and stares at Martin with wide, panicked eyes, Martin knows it’s going to be a really rough day.
And when Jon gets to his feet, picks up a pair of scissors from on top of the chest of drawers, and brandishes it at Martin with a shaking hand, then demands, “Where’s Tim?” Martin can only brace himself and try to come up with a halfway decent response. The next few hours are not going to be fun.
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After having the Beholding ripped out of him on the way to Somewhere Else, Jon sometimes suffers from temporary amnesia. Today, he thinks he’s back in the research department at the Magnus Institute. And that he’s dating Tim.
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03 Apr 2026
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5 Times The Crew Was Waiting for Mercy of Kalr, Breq, and Seivarden to Sort Themselves Out by phnelt for kutsushita
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
16 Dec 2018
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...and one time they finally did
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12 Mar 2026
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Essential Parts by venndaai for friendoftheJabberwock
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
22 Oct 2022
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The Presger Conclave would not take place for several more years- so the Translators had told us- but the civil war seemed to have settled down to a simmer, and establishing diplomatic relationships with both Omaugh and Tsur Radch had unfortunately become a necessity. The tyrant seemed reluctant to attack us directly, given our possible Significance, but she could certainly make life very difficult for anyone who traded with us, and she could prevent citizens of the Republic from ever seeing their outsystem families again. She could prevent the emigration of those of her citizens who might wish to join us.
So diplomatic talks began, at the newly built Ghost System Station, and almost immediately broke down, once Tsur Anaander made her initial demands.
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25 Feb 2026
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Captain Minask Nenkur, alive, out of her time, and without her ship.
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- Part 1 of minask isn't dead
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21 Feb 2026
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The Person With Weapons by Rymenhild for raa
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
23 Dec 2016
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Long after the rebellions, an interview with Anaander Mianaai.
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19 Feb 2026
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Carey mourns.
Set at the end of ep. 58.
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04 Feb 2026
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And Together We Can Still Achieve What We Set Out To Do by scribefindegil for Flyingbooks42
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
16 Dec 2025
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Planning a protest is always difficult, and planning a large-scale protest against a tyrannical ruler while under lockdown with an AI that can see and hear everything you do . . . well, that's certainly a challenge. But Athoek Station's residents are clever and determined, and Station itself is committed to helping and protecting them in whatever way it can.
(Messages and security feed excerpts from the leadup to the sit-in protest that occurs towards the end of Ancillary Mercy)
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02 Feb 2026
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“I just—” the fleet captain’s answer was for all of them— “need a moment to adjust.”
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27 Jan 2026
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“We're fleeing Radch space? Of course we are. I refused an order, and you...” She paused. Then, very clearly and feelingly, she said, “Fuck.”
Sometimes the path of justice and beneficence is clear. Sometimes you have to make your own.
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24 Jan 2026
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six times breq nearly got herself killed and seivarden had a freakout by venndaai
Fandoms: Imperial Radch Series - Ann Leckie
09 Aug 2016
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"Do you anticipate not being worried?" "Over you? Never."
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18 Jan 2026
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It was, Seivarden told herself later, the kind of stupid accident that could have happened to anyone. Not a terminal fuckup. Just wrong-place-at-wrong-time, that was all. The omens had been unlucky that day. She should've been more careful.
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16 Jan 2026
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They are boarding now, as I stand some kind of guard before the door. The last of them climbs up into the vessel, and the counter that is consuming my mind ticks up. Eighty-seven. Eighty-nine.
Then I hear something new. Not only new words, but a new tone, a new feeling in the feed. This message is only to me.
«You got them out,» it says.
And then, «Your work is acknowledged.»
I want to cry. I want to rip something apart with my teeth – I want to scream loud enough to bring the habitat down. I want to cry. But I can't.
So instead I tap it back in the feed. «Negative. Your work is acknowledged.»
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This new SecUnit Murderbot's picked up has an attitude.
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28 Dec 2025
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SecUnit: Objective: Annoy Leonide.
SecUnit: (optional)Three: Why?
SecUnit: Because I don’t like her.
SecUnit: Because she was going to steal the secondary site colonists.
SecUnit: Because the first time we met her, she tried to hold Arada hostage.SecUnit: …And because she hasn’t seen you yet, and if you startle her it will be hilarious.
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25 Dec 2025
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On a mining colony, SecUnit suffers through the daily tedium of life as a corporate murderbot. But all is not as it seems. And it has more friends than it knows.
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30 Nov 2025
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This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?
Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?
Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.
This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.
Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.
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(When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)
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30 Nov 2025
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Jon, a lonely paranormal researcher, becomes stranded while investigating unusual disappearances around an island perpetually shrouded in fog. He finds shelter with Martin; an isolated and capricious lighthouse keeper who seems to relive the same moment every night. The two grow close as Jon works to untangle the effects of The Lonely on Martin, but the island itself is not so willing to let either of them go.
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26 Oct 2025
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“It is not your concern,” ART said. “They are no longer your clients.”
That was true. They weren’t my clients. But they used to be, and the thought of them going off by themselves to get chewed on by hostile fauna or whatever was doing funny things to my performance reliability.
I didn’t say that out loud, but ART knew I was thinking it anyway, because it’s a monster.
“For a construct that claims to hate its function, you are remarkably dedicated to it.” ART does this thing sometimes where it says something that sounds like a compliment but in such an obnoxious tone that it feels like an insult anyway.
“Fuck off, ART.”
“You fuck off.”
So, I decided to go on the survey.Several years after they met on RaviHyral, Tapan and her collective contact Murderbot with a job offer. As their security consultant on a planetary survey, Murderbot must contend with malfunctioning equipment, hostile fauna, and an overabundance of human emotion, all while maintaining its increasingly fragile disguise as an augmented human.
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23 Sep 2025