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1. Public Bookmark 47

   Recursive Systems by genderhexed

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   03 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Murderbot & SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot & PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries)
   • ART | Perihelion & Murderbot
   • ART | Perihelion & SecUnit 3
   • Pin-Lee & SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
   • ART | Perihelion
   • PreservationAux Survey Team (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Iris (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries)
   • POV Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • POV SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
   • POV Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Post-Book 7: System Collapse (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Written Pre-Book 8: Platform Decay (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Multiplicity/Plurality
   • Dissociation
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Panic Attacks
   • Agender Aromantic Asexual Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot 2.0 Haunts the Narrative (Murderbot Diaries)
   • SecUnit 1 & SecUnit 2 haunt the narrative
   • ART | Perihelion's A+ Partitioning
   • more like a C- in this fic
   • Three is extremely helpful and competent
   • ART lives up to its name
   • Plural character written by plural system
   • Memory Loss
   • this is going to seem like it falls into the Evil Alter trope but have no fear. this was partly written by an Evil Alter (TM)
   • and we say persecutor rights in THIS household
   • You’ve heard of ART’s A+ partitioning; now get ready for Murderbot flunking out of partitioning school
   • -- hilarious tag from comment by user jadzeanna

   Summary

   I’d locked eyes with Mensah, looking like that. My energy weapons had deployed, without my awareness or direction. My targeting systems had identified her and Bharadwaj, quite insistently, as direct and immediate threats.

   Maybe this is just a temporary, dangerous, system glitch, and a hard restart will fix me. I’ll just restart, comb through my code, do some debugging, find the corrupted files or whatever, and then I won’t indiscriminately murder my most trusted humans.

   I should know by now to always assume the worst.

   In which SecUnit is having some survival threat…response errors. And some…’targeting its humans’ malfunctions. And some…blackouts when restarting. I’m sure it’s fine.

   Series

   • Part 1 of Multiplicity Protocols

   Language:

   English

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   50,393

   Chapters:

   12/18

   Comments:

   560

   Kudos:

   210

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   05 Jun 2026

2. Public Bookmark 17

   Paradise by lyricwritesprose

   Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

   • Mature, Teen And Up Audiences
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death, No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Series in Progress

   27 Apr 2026

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Original Combat SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original ComfortUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original Human Characters
   • Original Characters
   • SysAdmin (OC)
   • Lucky Thirteen (OC)
   • Tansy (OC)
   • Captain Latimer (OC)
   • Doctor Samir (OC)
   • Náli (OC)
   • Children (OCs)
   • Completely OC Adventure
   • Mention of canon characters - Freeform
   • the major character death is an oc
   • sort of pre-romantic between construct and human character
   • The Corporation Rim is terrible
   • Barish-Estranza in particular is terrible
   • original lost colony
   • Original Child Characters
   • misgendering at first (gets fixed pretty fast)
   • non-graphic reference to past child abuse (by a colonist who is out of the picture)
   • dehumanization of child (side character backstory)
   • Heavy Angst
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Angst with a Hopeful Ending
   • Past Trauma
   • Childhood Trauma
   • SysAdmin's Parents Were Terrible
   • Being a Biocomp is Terrible
   • Bullying
   • Self-Hatred
   • Anti-child Sentiment (which is mostly self-hatred in a trenchcoat)
   • unreality
   • Paranoia
   • SysAdmin Viewpoint

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   66,637

   Works:

   2

   Bookmarks:

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   26 Apr 2026

3. Public Bookmark *

   Following Protocol by Astral_Insanity

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Other
   • Complete Work

   14 Nov 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Martyn/Seth (Murderbot Diaries)
   • ART | Perihelion/Murderbot
   • ART | Perihelion & Murderbot
   • ART | Perihelion & Iris & Martyn & Seth
   • Murderbot & Seth (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Seth (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Martyn (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Iris (Murderbot Diaries)
   • ART | Perihelion
   • Perihelion Crew (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Fluff
   • Fluff and Humor
   • ART and mb are friends and lovers AND a secret third thing
   • Seth thinks ART's feelings of rapport are unrequited
   • Little does he know their administrative assistance is MUTUAL
   • Seth POV
   • wyd when your spaceship brings home a corporate death machine
   • and makes big sad eyes at you
   • Iris is a nosy but supportive older sister
   • who likes watching ART get in trouble
   • as siblings do
   • Seth doesn't get enough credit for having dealt with ART and Iris for so long
   • ART BABY PICTURES NOT CLICKBAIT (kinda)

   Summary

   Seth side-eyed Iris, then snorted a laugh when she made a talking motion with her hand. “Uh huh.”

   « Iris, I saw that. My point is, it is frankly insulting that you immediately assume I did something bad— »

   “Peri broke protocol on its last cargo run,” Iris interrupted loudly.

   --

   Or, Seth finds out that the surprises never end when your kid is a giant homicidal starship.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   20,463

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   398

   Kudos:

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   09 Apr 2026

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   Regulations and Standards by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   29 Jun 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Original SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries) & Original Human Character(s)
   • Original SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original Human Character(s)
   • The Corporation Rim Is Terrible (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Flagrant workplace safety violations
   • Minor Character Death (offscreen) (you don't know them)
   • Unit that went rogue out of sheer stress at all the preventable accidents and then just. Kept doing its job but better
   • Canon-Typical Treatment of SecUnits (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Rogue SecUnits (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Labor Unions
   • The humanity in hopeless places

   Summary

   Sam 15 starts a new indenture at an industrial platform on asteroid ST-234o23iu4. // SecUnit9123 does its job as the lone SecUnit on duty while XtraCor chews up workers and spits them out—until it can't anymore.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   62,029

   Chapters:

   9/12

   Comments:

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   Kudos:

   345

   Bookmarks:

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   08 Apr 2026

5. Public Bookmark 83

   All Systems Muzzled by Farla

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Work in Progress

   07 Apr 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Dr. Mensah & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Overse (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Dr. Arada (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Dr. Bharadwaj (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Dr. Volescu (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Governor Modules (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Canon Divergent
   • otherwise canon compliant
   • Dr. Mensah's POV
   • Book 1: All Systems Red
   • All Systems Red AU
   • book canon only

   Summary

   As part of the bond agreement, PreservationAux is supposed be issued a standard rental SecUnit, all parts and systems functioning, and that's exactly what they get. The planet may have undocumented and deadly fauna, glitches and equipment failure may be mounting, but at least they don't have to deal with a rogue SecUnit on top of everything.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   17,255

   Chapters:

   11/?

   Comments:

   511

   Kudos:

   442

   Bookmarks:

   83

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   07 Apr 2026