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@marthawells.com The Murderbot Diaries. Has no gender. Character's pronouns are It/its. Managed by @writerphoebe
@marthawells.com The Murderbot Diaries. Has no gender. Character's pronouns are It/its. Managed by @writerphoebe
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(I don’t have any gender or sex-related parts (if a construct has those you’re a sexbot in a brothel, not a murderbot) so maybe that’s why I find sex scenes boring. Though I think that even if I did have sex-related parts I would find them boring.)
She takes a step back and bumps into someone’s chest. Before she can panic, the words are in her feed: It’s me.
February 10, 2026 at 6:15 AM
She takes a step back and bumps into someone’s chest. Before she can panic, the words are in her feed: It’s me.
“Surely they won’t suspect anything,” Ratthi was saying to the others at the bulk dock. “Who runs around with a friendly rogue SecUnit? Besides us, I mean.”
February 10, 2026 at 3:15 AM
“Surely they won’t suspect anything,” Ratthi was saying to the others at the bulk dock. “Who runs around with a friendly rogue SecUnit? Besides us, I mean.”
I was sitting with my boots on the polished counter surface. I hoped it was annoying ART.
February 10, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I was sitting with my boots on the polished counter surface. I hoped it was annoying ART.
(Normal = neutral expression concealing existential despair and brain-crushing boredom.)
February 9, 2026 at 9:15 PM
(Normal = neutral expression concealing existential despair and brain-crushing boredom.)
'The company could be bribed to conceal the existence of several hundred survey teams on this planet.' Survey teams, whole cities, lost colonies, traveling circuses, as long as they thought they could get away with it.
February 9, 2026 at 6:15 PM
'The company could be bribed to conceal the existence of several hundred survey teams on this planet.' Survey teams, whole cities, lost colonies, traveling circuses, as long as they thought they could get away with it.
I hadn’t said anything because what was I supposed to say at this point? Oh, I guess I could have said “hello.” Well, it was too late now.
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 PM
I hadn’t said anything because what was I supposed to say at this point? Oh, I guess I could have said “hello.” Well, it was too late now.
So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.
February 9, 2026 at 12:15 PM
So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.
Okay, wow. But it wasn’t like it hurt my feelings or anything. Not at all. I was used to this. Completely used to it.
February 9, 2026 at 9:15 AM
Okay, wow. But it wasn’t like it hurt my feelings or anything. Not at all. I was used to this. Completely used to it.
I have small energy weapons built into both arms, but the one I went for was the big projectile weapon clamped to my back. The hostile that had just exploded up out of the ground had a really big mouth, so I felt I needed a really big gun.
February 9, 2026 at 6:15 AM
I have small energy weapons built into both arms, but the one I went for was the big projectile weapon clamped to my back. The hostile that had just exploded up out of the ground had a really big mouth, so I felt I needed a really big gun.
ART’s sudden and obviously intentionally dramatic reentrance into the general feed and comm conversation had made the humans tense.
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
ART’s sudden and obviously intentionally dramatic reentrance into the general feed and comm conversation had made the humans tense.
I didn’t know what I was going to do now, if I was going to go ahead with my plan or not.
February 9, 2026 at 12:15 AM
I didn’t know what I was going to do now, if I was going to go ahead with my plan or not.
Bots don’t have names, SecUnits don’t have names. (I’d given myself a name, but it was private.)
February 8, 2026 at 9:15 PM
Bots don’t have names, SecUnits don’t have names. (I’d given myself a name, but it was private.)
But I really wish ART had a face, just so I could see it right now.
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 PM
But I really wish ART had a face, just so I could see it right now.
So there was a lot of negotiation about me (always a fun time)
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 PM
So there was a lot of negotiation about me (always a fun time)
I know a “fuck off” when I hear one. So I fucked off.
February 8, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I know a “fuck off” when I hear one. So I fucked off.
It was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer, even if she didn’t look like the ones on the entertainment feed.
February 8, 2026 at 9:15 AM
It was starting to occur to me that Dr. Mensah might actually be an intrepid galactic explorer, even if she didn’t look like the ones on the entertainment feed.
The PA bot came over and stood next to me. Great, that’s great. I wondered if it did anything that wasn’t related to standing around.
February 8, 2026 at 6:15 AM
The PA bot came over and stood next to me. Great, that’s great. I wondered if it did anything that wasn’t related to standing around.
I didn’t really feel like negotiating. I have a module on it, somewhere in my archive. It was never much help.
February 8, 2026 at 3:15 AM
I didn’t really feel like negotiating. I have a module on it, somewhere in my archive. It was never much help.
(The Targets couldn’t be alien, could they? No, that wasn’t possible. Aliens couldn’t look that much like humans.) (Could they?)
February 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
(The Targets couldn’t be alien, could they? No, that wasn’t possible. Aliens couldn’t look that much like humans.) (Could they?)
In our private connection, ART said, Stop. ART has different ways of telling you to stop doing what you’re doing, with different threat levels, and this was toward the top of the list.
February 7, 2026 at 9:15 PM
In our private connection, ART said, Stop. ART has different ways of telling you to stop doing what you’re doing, with different threat levels, and this was toward the top of the list.
I guess if you were really determined, you could find a way to get yourself killed by exposing the power connectors under the panels and shielding and, I don’t know, licking them or something, but this dead human clearly hadn’t.
February 7, 2026 at 6:15 PM
I guess if you were really determined, you could find a way to get yourself killed by exposing the power connectors under the panels and shielding and, I don’t know, licking them or something, but this dead human clearly hadn’t.
If I was wrong, I’d probably be dead, and that was bad enough. Being stupid and dead would just be that much worse.
February 7, 2026 at 3:15 PM
If I was wrong, I’d probably be dead, and that was bad enough. Being stupid and dead would just be that much worse.
I said, “The Transport doesn’t know what the hell it’s talking about, plus it lies a lot, and it’s mean.” A minute, undetectable in the range of human eyesight, fluctuation in the lights told me ART had heard that.
February 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
I said, “The Transport doesn’t know what the hell it’s talking about, plus it lies a lot, and it’s mean.” A minute, undetectable in the range of human eyesight, fluctuation in the lights told me ART had heard that.
If a bot with a brain the size of a transport could roll its eyes, that was what ART was doing.
February 7, 2026 at 9:15 AM
If a bot with a brain the size of a transport could roll its eyes, that was what ART was doing.
But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don’t tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there’s nothing you can do about it.
February 7, 2026 at 6:15 AM
But the company would access all those recordings and data mine them for anything they could sell. No, they don’t tell people that. Yes, everyone does know it. No, there’s nothing you can do about it.