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I've been going down a real rabbit hole with Murderbot fan fiction recently and wanted to share some of my favorites. Here they are, loosely organized by primary relationship:

MB and its humans

Tells by Polyhexian

“It’s reading a book right now, I don't want to bother it,” Ratthi dismissed. “I'm what?” burst SecUnit.

(Third) Dorm Mom by BoldlyNo

"The one drawback to listing Secunit as one of the emergency contacts on her PSUMNT admissions paperwork is the possibility that someone might actually contact it for an emergency someday."  Amena's—and Secunit's—collegiate careers in twelve snippets.

Child Instance by IDisNull

Set between Fugitive Telemetry and Network Effect, Murderbot inadvertently finds itself responsible for the welfare of a house full of children.

MB and ART

Sensory Data by polyhexian

I asked, What are you feeling so good about? I was expecting it to suddenly be aware that it wasn’t being snarky, and start being snarky. Instead, it just said, That feels nice.

Digital Storage and File Sharing by RJam9

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vacation protocol by shamoosh

In a shockingly accurate imitation of the voice ART uses to talk to humans, Iris intoned, “The vacation protocol is now in effect.”

I wish you could try by laxlyricism

ART wants me to punch it in the face? It made itself an entire human-form drone so I can punch it in the face? Why? You want me to punch you in the face. I don’t say it as a question, but it’s a question. No, you want to punch me in the face. It sounds… happy? Proud of itself? Risk assessment spikes a little higher. I’m just offering you a chance to try. That is, if you think you can manage it.

I Wish I Could Punch You In The Typeface by glitterary

‘I’m not illiterate,' I said, defensively. ‘I can read.’ I know you can read, said ART. We read One Hundred Light-Years of Solitude together last week and your analysis was very insightful. It paused. It just did not occur to me that you might be unable to generate written messages in hardspace. It's Iris' birthday, and everyone really wants SecUnit to sign her card. There's just one small problem with that.

ART and its humans

cognitive development by torpidgilliver

Iris==small. Seth bring Iris closer. It wasn't the reaction Seth had expected, although in retrospect maybe he should have. Iris wasn't just a new person, but a new concept. It was natural that the AIs would find her novel. A newly sentient ART meets a newly born Iris.

MB and Three

feedlog 007634-003821-14 by torpidgilliver

BE003821: System System: Unit acknowledge TC007634: Acknowledged BE003821: Unusual activity detected in Sector 6. Request input TC007634: Report BE003821: [24-06-74-15.img] TC007634: Processing TC007634: Three. TC007634: that's a still image of the view out the sector 6 porthole. BE003821: Confirm, request input TC007634: are you asking my opinion of the picture? SecUnit 3 makes an attempt to establish a team rapport.

Unacceptable Topics of Conversation by mensah

Murderbot gives SecUnit 3 a haircut. They discuss the governor module.

Unsteady Foundations by platyceriums

cr4 memes part 5: I need 10 million hour episodes every second actually

the best part of c4e19 was when he said its schemin time and them schemed all over those guys

more nor-exclusively-schemers

some of these are from @buggystardust

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Our legendary Darktow Live Show was absolutely mind-blowing, and the backdrop of Edinburgh couldn't have been more magical for our evening in Exandria!

From the bottom of our hearts, thank you one and all to our incredible crew, the staff at Edinburgh Castle, and Critters like you who traveled far and wide to join us for a night for the ages! ❤️

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[Costumes by Jenny Newman

I don't think Kattigan losing Marienna and Esme within a year of Reaper's Day is a coincidence. Especially since they lived in Emeri, which is associated with House Royce in some way (there's also that "Have you killed a fairy?" moment, as well as the parallels between Kattigan's ranger spells and Aranessa's brand of sorcery)

Thimble was implicated in The Cloak's latest attempt at the ritual (she helped steal the Stone of Nightsong,) so who's to say she wasn't implicated in the catastrophic one? That Thjazi didn't tell Thimble is pretty fucked up considering they made their pact of secrecy after the doors closed ("It won't be fun keeping secrets from each other, but it'll be a little fun." BRO.) Thimble deserved an informed choice to trust The Cloak...

...because Reaper's Day helped nobody but Tachonis and Halovar, and it helped them both quite a bit. It set Halovar up to escalate the Creed's persecution of faeries—the population in Aramán was reduced, disempowered both magically and diplomatically, and cut off from its means of escape. Meanwhile, Tachonis got a whole weakened noble house prime for slaughter, enabling the plan to sacrifice Occtis

Episode 14 revealed the magic of Teor's emblem as fey in nature, and before he died he was set up to head to the Orchard with Thimble. Brennan probably had something in store for him there, and the other Seekers could end up discovering it in his stead and learning if Reaper's Day disempowered him as well. Any number of things might have gone better for the Pridesire brothers if they'd been stronger

When Helen was of age to be married, all the Lords of Greece came to seek her hand. This was an issue for her stepfather the King of Sparta who could only pick one husband and then would have to deal with the far greater number of angry rejected suitors.

One suitor was Odysseus, then a younger man. He quickly ascertained that he had no chance of marrying Helen. Ithaca was too poor for him to even bring any proper gifts, let alone a dowry. But he did catch the eye of the King's niece, one Penelope.

Now Penelope was still a bit out of Odysseus' league, but not so much as Helen was. So he makes a deal with the King of Sparta. Support my bid to marry Penelope, and I'll give you a solution to this suitors problem. The King agrees, so Odysseus suggests all the suitors swear an oath to defend Helen's marriage from anyone who might strike against it. They all, including Odysseus, so swear, and Helen is married to Menelaus. The King proves as good as his word, and Penelope is wed to Odysseus.

Of course this means that Odysseus has now bound himself to fight for Helen and Menelaus. After an attempt to feign madness he is forced to fulfill his duty.