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  1. Public Bookmark 99

    Network Update by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    15 Jul 2025

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    I wanted ART to come back online so we could watch Sanctuary Moon episode 412 together and it could argue with me about whether spacetime-fuckery alternate universes counted as canon. I wanted it to come back online so I could tell it Holism put an aquarium in Three's chest and wasn't that totally deranged. I wanted it to come back online so it could bully me into figuring out what my fucking problem was.

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    16 Jul 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 34

    Gender is a Construct But This Construct is Not Gendered by

    Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    14 Jul 2025

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    We had (somehow) survived GrayCris. There was just one problem. My humans kept calling me he now.

    I didn’t know what to make of this. It made me feel like they weren’t quite seeing me. Like at the beginning of the survey, when I first saved Bharadwaj and they started acting all team-y around me. But from the way they had talked, it was clear they didn’t understand what a SecUnit was. Instead, it was like I was their pet bot. It wasn’t until I blew LeeBeeBee’s head off that they realized they had been trying to befriend a murderbot. They saw me for what I was; a killing machine.

    When they said he, I hated it. It made my organics flinch. My performance reliability dropped a percentage each time. And it felt like the pet bot incident all over again; like they weren’t seeing me, but what they wanted to see. I didn’t want to be their pet bot, but I didn’t want to have to act like I was human either. Especially not some human man. Is that how they saw me? Is that what I would have to be now on Preservation?

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    In which Murderbot struggles with stupid human assumptions about gender, has a heart-to-heart with its favorite human, and submits to the mortifying ordeal of being known.

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    16 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 87

    Convergent Frequency by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    02 Jan 2025

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    As a state-of-the-art B-class wormhole-capable deep-space research vessel, I do not consider myself to have many serious design flaws. Every piece of me has been meticulously crafted, is regularly maintained and upgraded, and there is very little I cannot do if I set my several dozen exabytes of processing power upon the task. This is why the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland’s extra-curricular oversight committee deemed me more than capable of operating unmanned on the occasional intelligence-gathering reconnaissance mission. It is for the sake of both necessity and convenience that these missions are camouflaged as cargo runs.

    Nonetheless, it is an unmistakable oversight that I am capable of being bored. It is also incredibly annoying that unmanned cargo runs are so dull.

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    The entirety of Artificial Condition, from ART's POV.

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    14 Jul 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 88

    it's just a curve upon the lips, the hips by

    Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV)  

    10 Jul 2025

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    Derek was going to kill Stiles, he really was.

    The kid was a high school student who’d wanted a job that fit around his schedule, and Derek had needed a new open baker from the hours of four to seven am. It had seemed like a good fit in the beginning.

    Until a week ago, anyway. Because that was when Stiles had transitioned from listening to music in the kitchen, to gay audio erotica. And Derek couldn’t even fucking call him out on it because he was using a single earbud to indulge his literary fantasies. Nobody with regular human hearing would have a single clue what the kid was up to, so Derek had to pretend he didn’t either. It was hell.

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    13 Jul 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 12

    Sensitivity Calibration by

    Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

    27 Jan 2025

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    I can teach you other ways to relax

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    09 Jul 2025