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  1. Public Bookmark 67

    Positive Representation, Complex Emotions, and a Fictional but Semi-Heroic SecUnit in Media by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    30 Apr 2026

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    I don’t normally pay that much attention to the credits. In general, I tend to care more about the fictional characters than the real humans playing them, but this had caught my attention.
    I mean, it wasn't the first serial that ever put in a SecUnit as a villain instead of a prop. RihaniLane Street had actually made their SecUnit villain sympathetic before it tried to kill everyone. And obviously this fictional SecUnit was going to be a villain, too, because they always were, but that scene was —
    The credits said ‘Made and Produced in GoodNightLander Independent.’
    Oh.

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    Or, Murderbot has feelings about finding positive representation.
    Mostly positive.
    Even when humans try, they get SecUnits wrong in media.
    (Not the murder, the murders were justified, but the writers made the fictional SecUnit like cubicles)
    (It’s still pretty positive.)

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    11 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 57

    my golden circuits yearn for embrace by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    01 May 2026

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    Environment=secure & hostile presence=null, Three reminded me. You are safe. Then it brought up the situational improvement parameters it’d sent. Query: enact?

    I hesitated. Three waited. The thing was, these “improvements” weren’t necessary for the maintenance process. In fact, they were probably going to emotionally compromise one or both of us and make everything harder than it had to be. The smart, logical, reasonable thing to do would be to answer a negative and proceed with maintenance in a more standard/efficient way. Weirdly, though, that idea dropped my performance reliability by a whole percentage.

    So maybe I wasn’t feeling very smart/logical/reasonable. I told Three Confirm before I could talk myself out of it.

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    nothing to see here, just two deeply traumatized living weapons inventing new forms of weird physical intimacy in order to inflict tenderness on each other

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    11 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 57

    the revolution will be broadcast on the feed by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    18 Jun 2025

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    What happens when Murderbot's file spreads among the B-E SecUnits and beyond? Surely nothing that will embarrass it in the future.

    Outsider POV of Murderbot, its influence, and ART, from a SecUnit who has joined the glorious HelpMe.file revolution.

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    20 Jun 2025

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    Unknown System, or, New Peoples by

    Fandoms: Discworld - Terry Pratchett, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    01 Oct 2023

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    I saw a post on tumblr suggesting a crossover where Murderbot meets Sam Vimes, and I couldn't not write it. Behold:

    Murderbot, randomly pulled into the metropolis of Ankh-Morpork, must figure out how it got here, how to get home, and what the fuck is going on in general. Meanwhile, Sam Vimes of the city guard is hot on the trail of a suspicious-looking case at Unseen University—or at least he would be if he didn't have the baby at home to worry about...

     

    I love TMB and Discworld so much, so I tried to make this as newbie-friendly as possible. If you're coming for the Discworld, the Murderbot stuff is supposed to be as understandable as possible, and if you don't know Discworld at all but love Murderbot, hopefully it still makes sense.

    This is set after Exit Strategy but vaguely before Fugitive Telemetry; on the Discworld side, it's somewhere in between Night Watch and Going Postal.

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    09 Jun 2025

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    Murder Mode Modules by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    08 Jan 2022

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    3 what the fuck is ‘Murder Mode Modules, Do Not Touch Except For Situations That Necessitate Lots Of Murder?'
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    SecUnit 3 is a CombatUnit.
    1.0 is not.
    This is a surprise to them both.

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    02 Jun 2025