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Are you jealous of me? Why?
No, you little idiot. I’m jealous of the fucking HubSys.
Okay, Murderbot, don’t panic. So what if the bots and systems you’ve interacted with in the past find your methods to be (ugh) intimate in some way. That was fine. That didn’t change anything. Right?
Shit, it changed everything.
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Murderbot finds out it's been unintentionally flirting with other bots and systems. ART wishes it would penetrate its own systems the same way.
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18 Jun 2026
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"SecUnit, can you and Perihelion please just get a room!"
ART and Murderbot forget that other bots and constructs can perceive what they do on the feed.
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04 Jun 2026
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This is a systematic tutorial designed to help fan creators with no coding background learn how to use and create work skins, with an additional collection of examples.
In Part 1, I briefly introduce how work skins are used and explain some HTML and CSS code in detail, so you can read it and know how to modify work skin styles shared by other people.
In Part 2, I talk about how to write code in a proper code editor and apply it to your fanworks.
In Part 3, I will include some adapted code and some code I wrote myself, along with full HTML and CSS formats for anyone who wants to copy and modify them.
Clicking a link will take you directly to the relevant chapter. If there is no link, it means I have not written that chapter yet.
This article will never really be finished, because there is simply too much code out there. At least I have finished the main body of Part 1, and I hope it helps you explore work skins more confidently. I may rearrange the chapter order at any time.
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30 May 2026
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This is a tutorial/live example on how to create a "Choose Your Own Adventure" fic. While this has been explained before (see here), this particular tutorial shows you how to use a work skin to hide the next parts from the reader until they click through to get to them.
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- Part 16 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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27 May 2026
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Perihelion has been acting strangely ever since it came back from its last uncrewed cargo run. And now it has all this information - lightweight armor specs, intel drone schematics, and incredibly sophisticated hacking abilities - that Tarik is damn near certain could only have come from contact with a SecUnit. Which means that Perihelion, and possibly the entire mission of PSUMNT, has been compromised.
No one aside from Tarik seems to be taking this seriously.
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25 May 2026
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Home is Where the Tax Benefits Are (It's Also Where My Asshole Spouse Is, But 🤷) by musicofthespheres for Mysterymew
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2026
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“ART,” I said the moment I entered its airlock. “Would you marry me?”
Are you asking? it replied.
“No, dumbass. Hypothetically.”
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Turns out marriage comes with more advantages than just housing and tax benefits: it can also get you out of uncomfortable situations!
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15 May 2026
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I sent ART the edited file along with a snapshot of my recent haptic sensor logs, which mostly looked like [deleted] [deleted] [deleted].
ART took a moment to process that. Your difficulty with physical touch extends beyond merely touching or being touched by humans, it surmised.
I guess, yeah. I bristled at calling it a ‘difficulty’: it wasn't hard to touch things, I just didn't like doing it. But I had a system for dealing with that, so whatever, it wasn't an issue.
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Or, ART wants to make Murderbot comfortable. (And yes, it would like to feel that for itself, too.)
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28 Apr 2026
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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.
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An offhand comment leads to a misunderstanding between SecUnit and ART, and—possibly—a discussion about what they really are to each other.
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24 Apr 2026
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I guess the espionage thing explained part of why I had gouged chunks of my memory out to keep the company from finding it.
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05 Apr 2026
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Coming back (a little changed) by MalTheMaleficar
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Jul 2025
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When people leave, it is unavoidable they change, a little. It is what reunions are for, after all - to catch up on all the little changes.
Or, Dr Mensah observations of the little signs that SecUnit is comfortable travelling with Perihelion. There is joy in watching a friend grow - and a little sadness too, when they do so away from you.
(or, my little thought-experiment on how the process of getting more and more comfortable with itself would look like for Murderbot)
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12 Feb 2026
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an unexpected harvest by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
30 Jan 2023
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Dr. Ayda Mensah isn't sure what to expect on the other side of that wormhole. A hostage situation? An active battle ground? The corpses of her friends and family?
What she expects certainly isn't this.
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11 Feb 2026
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While engaging in some corporate espionage, Murderbot meets a ComfortUnit made from the same tissue as itself. Its clone. Sibling? Tissue-mate. It doesn't go great.
nothing explicit until chapter 2.
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30 Jan 2026
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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.
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Or, Seth finds out that the surprises never end when your kid is a giant homicidal starship.
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15 Jan 2026
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ART tries to kill itself -- completely out of nowhere and over something entirely innocuous. Or was it simply the last straw?
Pause. Roll back the tape. Let's see how we got here. And after that, let's figure out how to go on.
[surfactant: a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved. a measure of relief -- or a prevention of collapse]
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06 Jan 2026
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On an otherwise boring mission, Murderbot propositions ART's ops drone, and inadvertently stumbles into a bramble thicket of secrets that ART has been keeping from it.
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Of course I want to, ART-drone said with sudden vehemence, raw and almost despairing. You wanted me, not just Perihelion or the sex drone. How was I ever going to say no to that? But I’m just not built for this. I don’t have the resilience required. I don’t think there’s any point to discussing it further.
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- Part 4 of Trust Fall 'Verse
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18 Dec 2025
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I had been incredibly skeptical when Ratthi had sent me ‘Midnight Eclipse.’ I knew what fanfiction was, I had seen it in the more niche entertainment feeds before. Never specifically for Sanctuary Moon, but I'd assumed it existed. That didn't mean I had any actual interest in it, though. When I had first looked at them, I hadn't liked them. The quality varied too much and a lot of them weren't finished, or were really short, or really out of character. And I hated that. I really really hated that.
This one was different.
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28 Nov 2025
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It flinches as if you had shot it and its walls slam shut in front of you, thick enough that you know it isn't putting up a show of things. It really does want you out.
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28 Nov 2025
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An exploration of what canon sources say of Murderbot's appearance.
Written in collaboration with bruised_fruit.
Additions from eyeonthenightsky and limitedhorizons. (See Comments for other additions and discussion.)
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- Part 15 of TMBD Metas and Headcanons
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10 Nov 2025
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The Murderbot Diaries Timeline by Gamebird, mensah, ProfessorAerii
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Dec 2024
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10 Nov 2025
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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08 Nov 2025