HasNoDreams
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
I said, I wasn’t malfunctioning.
If my trauma therapist had been here she would have given me one of her looks again.
ART bot didn’t give me a look even though I could tell it really wanted to.
Instead it said, It wouldn’t make a difference to me if you were.
Oh that was irritating. For a lot of reasons. Most of all the way it made my face do something stupid and warm again.
Murderbot needs some coping skills. Luckily it has an extremely shitty list of them and it might just be willing to let ART help it use one of them on a trip to a university nature preserve. (After threatening it with the end of its energy weapon a bit first obviously). Even bots need to touch some grass sometimes. And maybe each other too.
Series
- Part 2 of The Therapy Bot Diaries
Bookmarked by HasNoDreams
09 Oct 2025
-
Tags
Summary
We were watching Sanctuary Moon when it happened.
We’d gotten to the part where Captain Hossein and the Navigation Unit were stranded planetside—the whole scene bathed in violet hues to bring out the romantic overtones. (Much more appealing than actual planets.)
“I love this bit,” Ratthi said.
Truthfully, I like it, too. And I could have said as much. Or I could have said nothing at all. Both were valid options. But instead, I decided to be the contrary asshole and went with option C.
“It’s implausible,” I said.
Ratthi looked confused and I realized I needed to elaborate.
“There’s no way a unit built to navigate starships would take a romantic interest in somebody.”
And that’s when I felt it—the sudden absence. If I’m honest, I hadn’t realized how closely ART had managed to sidle up against me in the feed until it was gone.
OR
An offhand comment leads to a misunderstanding between SecUnit and ART, and—possibly—a discussion about what they really are to each other.
Bookmarked by HasNoDreams
03 Aug 2025
-
Tags
Summary
“You better be back to marry me.”
or
Natasha makes a promise to Callie before the mission.
Bookmarked by HasNoDreams
20 Mar 2023
-
[variable_affection] by avg (AnxiousEspada), flowerguts, Lillow
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Sep 2022
Tags
Summary
"ART loved its crew. The joy and the love and perfect clarity with what it was supposed to be, what it was supposed to do. ART couldn’t understand how someone could dislike their function - how I could. Once, I had a similar clarity of understanding with my function, then I hacked my governor module and left the company for good, and I had lost it all. It was better, now, in a lot of ways. I had my humans, and ART, and our crew. But in some ways, things were worse.
I still wasn’t sure what I was supposed to do, ever. I had made one good decision, to stay with ART, a few years ago, and I had been just making the same decision over and over again. It felt kind of like cheating."A 20-some year fic in which Murderbot comes to terms with what it means to have a home (or two), a found family (or several), and just what mutual administrative assistance can entail.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 204,127
- Chapters:
- 24/24
- Comments:
- 928
- Kudos:
- 1,267
- Bookmarks:
- 466
- Hits:
- 38,187
Bookmarked by HasNoDreams
30 Jan 2023
-
Tags
Summary
Higuchi prides herself in staying calm in relatively high stress situations. Being part of the ‘Black Lizard’, the Port Mafia’s best, meant that stress was a part of her everyday life.
The Black Lizard is like family to her. Even if none of them will admit it she’s sure they all feel the same.
So maybe that’s why she stresses so much more when one of them gets hurt.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 1,588
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 2
- Kudos:
- 52
- Bookmarks:
- 7
- Hits:
- 502
Bookmarked by HasNoDreams
09 Mar 2022