Creature_once_removed
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hide me in the burrow, your brow furrowed by many_a_mused_rhyme
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 Jun 2026
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“How the fuck was it not a weapon?” 1.0 demands angrily. “You’d have used it to cause harm.”
“Only to myself. That doesn’t count.”
1.0 stares at me as if I said something completely logically unsound. “Three,” it says with minimal vocal inflection. “What the fuck.”
I cannot determine an appropriate (safe?) response, so I do not respond.
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*banging pots and pans* THREE ANGST!! COME GET YOUR THREE ANGST!!! HOT OFF THE PRESS!!!!!
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- Part 2 of queerplatonic rogue4rogue fics 👍
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my golden circuits yearn for embrace by many_a_mused_rhyme
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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- Part 1 of queerplatonic rogue4rogue fics 👍
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23 Jun 2026
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The mission fails catastrophically. So does SecUnit. When it comes back online without any functional sensory inputs, it believes that it's still trapped on the surface of the cold, desolate planet, that its humans are all dead, and that nobody will ever find it. Luckily, it's wrong.
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24 Apr 2026
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heartbreaking and beautiful and so, so real
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We all know the old joke: a rogue SecUnit walks into a bar. The bartender, a rogue ComfortUnit in hiding who's been having one hell of a day, takes one look at it and has a bad idea.
Really. It's a terrible idea. Dragging a rogue SecUnit home for a one night stand is probably the most dangerous thing it's ever considered.
Luckily, the rogue SecUnit in question is Three. And if Three knows one thing about itself, it's that it wants to help.
Somewhere on Preservation, there's a tiny cabin on a big homestead, where stubborn purple flowers refuse to die. In the cabin, in the aftermath, a pair of equally stubborn constructs have an idea that, just maybe, isn't terrible at all.
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- Part 1 of The Strays
- Part 2 of The Fight or Flight Cinematic Universe
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08 May 2026
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Show me how you want it to be by laxlyricism
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Sep 2025
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Perihelion has been working on this plan for longer than it would ever be willing to admit. It's had the drone finished for months, waiting for the right moment to deploy it. (It definitely hasn't just been chickening out and avoiding the conversation. That would be foolish). But now the plan has worked exactly as it was designed to do, and it's not ready. Maybe it will never be ready. But its SecUnit is holding its drone's hand so gently, and has just asked it
ART, are you in love with me?
It's too late to back out now.
Yes
Fear is an autonomic process.
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- Part 2 of Fight or Flight
- Part 4 of The Fight or Flight Cinematic Universe
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08 May 2026