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Murderbot + Onion Headlines [1/?]

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we share a warriors bond (we were both in the same fandom at the same time and now neither of us are in that fandom anymore but we’re still beloved mutuals)

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pulled directly from rogue protocol:

“I don’t know what bond companies charge clients when we get killed, but it’s probably a lot.”

so murderbot has no idea how much it's worth, monetarily. which means it can refer to itself as a "cheap piece of garbage"/"too expensive to just get rid of" at will. unreliable narrator my beloathed. you have no idea what you're worth. on any axis.

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https://archiveofourown.org/works/66992527

Y'ALL THIS IS THE COOLEST FANFIC I'VE EVER SEEN.

It is a complete narrative about SecUnits on a Planetary Survey trying to communicate and keep their clients safe while dealing with the restrictions of their govmod.

IT IS ALSO A FULLY INTERACTIVE GAME OF MINESWEEPER.

The story is told BY PLAYING MINESWEEPER.

This fic is criminally underrated go look at it!!!

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Murderbot + Onion Headlines [2/?]

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"Listening to the SecSystem's audio, I heard a crew member in the corridor say,"I've never seen one out of armor. They really do look human." I made a gesture in that direction that I had only seen in the shows that were rated high on the obscenity scale. Gurathin saw me and made a choking noise."

No thoughts. Only Murdybot.

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can't think about anything but murderbot rn. song by ben thornewill

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Murderbot S01E10: The Perimeter

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not Murderbot in a 24 hour period going from "my best friend is dead" to "my best friend is alive and we are NO LONGER friends" to "I forgive you" to "let me get you pregnant"

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more mb doodles!

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part of mb's problem is that all it's friends are academics and doctors with multiple PhDs who have around ten millions hobbies each / super smart above university level AI ships. meanwhile its hobby is binge watching TV shows / consuming other forms of media but mostly TV shows. and it's still doing the same job its always done but as a relatively free agent now bc trying new things is scary. being The Only One in your friend group WITHOUT critically acclaimed research paper. it would've broken many of us.

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secunit (doesn't even care about money all that much) (just feels better if it is getting paid like on real job and not like before) (also very unwolsome and petty person): if you ain't paying I ain't doing it

gurathin, on a verge of a deadline: I literally saw you analyse a bunch of data for ratthi last week for free

secunit: that was ratthi. you said it yourself I like hard currency. also the price just doubled

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One of my favorite parts of Network Effect is how above anything else, Three was having a deeply weird day. Sure, it was life-threatening, and the first day of freedom for it, and likely its first experience with people that cared for it (even as little as "if I let you get killed I am going to disappoint my friend), but above all else it was just... Bizarre? That poor SecUnit did not have a damn clue what was happening the entire time, it was just rolling with it all "this might as well happen"

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Congrats! SecUnit considers you a Trusted Ally!

SecUnit will now Die For You.

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Really funny to see the trajectory of fanworks over the course of tmbd being released because every time there's a new installation with ART and MB people kind of fan out in how they're extrapolating on their interactions, and not only is it consistently the people who are exaggerating and going in a more extreme, intimate, fucking weird direction who end up being closest to the next installation of canon but canon tends to be even weirder and more intense than they imagine.

Like, I've read a few fics from pre-system collapse that involve ART having to interrupt MB to ask it to come save some member of its crew or whoever and therefore speculate on how ART would feel asking for help and how it would approach the situation, and literally none of them came close to what ART actually said in canon when it had to interrupt murderbot to have it come save some humans, which was "I need you"

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Murderbot (2025 - ) I 1.09

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The car is parked