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“More emotion, Iris.”
“I hardly have the steps down, Peri, give me a minute. And I don't think SecUnit wants me to make eyes at it.”
“Please don’t,” I said.
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Iris wants to surprise Amena with a dance at their wedding. She and ART enlist SecUnit to help. -
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ART and SecUnit get into a high speed police chase.
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SecUnit and ART learn about Can't Help Myself, the sisyphean blood robot by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, c. 2016.
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Murderbot gets sex parts, but it's not very good at relaxing enough to use them. Its friends help it figure out what all the fuss is about.
Nothing explicit until chapter 3 but preemptively rating it as such. Based on the album "I Got Heaven" by Mannequin Pussy.
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Open:File338_14.2 >Run by timidlyoptimistic
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Jan 2026
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Murderbot has been antsy recently and can't seem to figure out why. ART proposes some options for stress relief.
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Mutual Administrative Demolition by AideStar
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 May 2026
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ART slumped heavier on my shoulders. Honestly SecUnit, I’m just bored.
Huh. That was new. ART had never admitted to being bored before, though with all that processing power, I wasn’t exactly surprised.
I knew how miserable boredom was. I had spent the first 17,000~ hours of my (remembered) runtime staring at walls.
Can I help?
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Murderbot volunteers to help ART alleviate its dangerous levels of boredom by dismantling and reassembling one of its drones. Of course, this is a more kinky and intimate experience than either of them expected.
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01 May 2026
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Initiate Decision Tree Assembly by SandSunSiliceousOoze
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 Apr 2026
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Perihelion's presence bears down on me in the feed. I do not think that it can read my mind, but it feels like it is trying to. I am bleeding something into the feed, but I do not know what. I am being scrutinized, picked apart, ogled.
What?
All of my organics feel tense. I… want to watch the videos you gave me.
Do you require my permission to do so?
No.
Then watch them.
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Or: Three attempts independent research. It doesn't stay independent for long.
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- Part 2 of System Upgrade
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03 Apr 2026
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Public Feed (PubRefSys) & Glossary for Writers of Murderbot Fanfiction by disloyalscribe, HermesDay
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 Mar 2026
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A glossary and reference guide to the technical terminology found in The Murderbot Diaries.
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compatibility draw by Lurknlaff, the_moonmoth
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Feb 2025
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Given the peaceful nature of these clients, I didn't need to patrol inside the habitat during their rest periods as I would ordinarily need to do. It was a pleasant novelty to not have to protect my clients from each other, so I spent my free time in my ready room watching media.
Not tonight, though. Dr. Gurathin, the sole augmented human and unbonded omega, had unexpectedly gone into heat late last night.
---A pre-ASR omegaverse AU
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14 Mar 2026
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Murderbot rediscovers an old favorite piece of music. In more ways than one.
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14 Mar 2026