19 Bookmarks by timidlyoptimistic
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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
11 Jun 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
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Murderbot the Spy by calamityjo, lawfulchaotic (cerebel)
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Mar 2026
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Murderbot, after hacking its governor module, is assigned to a long-term job protecting one of the company's assets: Gurathin, an augmented spy. This would normally be fine. There's a catch, though: the company changed it to pass as human. Including giving it sex parts.
Gurathin/his handler, Gurathin/various targets, Gurathin/Murderbot. Details on warnings in notes.
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10 Mar 2026
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“What are we looking at, time-wise?” I ask.
Three hours until full collapse, maybe two and a half before irreversible abstraction, and— For a moment, it pauses, but not as if it's nervous. It pauses in a way that punctuates its next statement. Two before you need to terminate my kernel.
Lightning shoots up my spine. “I'm not doing that.”
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- Part 2 of 2<3
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“ART,” I managed, voice pitched up just a little. “What are you doing?”
Part of the touch on my chest slid up to cup my jaw. It was— warm. Gentle? It was weird and unexpected and I scooted away until my lower back hit the couch’s armrest, which obviously did nothing. `My beautiful SecUnit,' ART said, and my breath hitched oddly. It’s the malware, Murderbot, it’s the fucking malware. Keep it together. 'You still haven’t realized what’s happening? You still don’t understand what I’m going to do to you?'
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Or,Oh shit, sex has consequences?
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- Part 1 of Pasta Bowl
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06 Mar 2026
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Without a cubicle to reset its endocrine system, Murderbot goes into heat. Gurathin would normally be the last person it would turn to for the kind of help it now needs, but he smells so good.
With him, at least I wasn't at risk of anything emotionally complicated.
MIND THE TAGS <3
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- Part 1 of If Statements 'verse
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03 Mar 2026
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I arranged myself coquettishly, stretched out on my front, head resting on one hand, one foot tucked over the other. Like this, I was visible from the door, and Murderbot saw me, stepped inside, and let the hatch slide shut again.
Hi, I said, and stuck out my tongue.
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- Part 14 of Trust Fall 'Verse
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03 Mar 2026
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Communications Malfunction by all-systems-dead (kaos_academic)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
21 Sep 2025
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Murderbot malfunctions and needs repairs. Gurathin is the only one who knows how to fix it.
Sequel to Privacy Breach.
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- Part 2 of Discrete Phenomena
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24 Feb 2026
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Face the Strange by HonorH
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
21 Jan 2026
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Gurathin goes to PSUMNT for an overhaul of his augments and to deliver a series of guest lectures. He has no idea just how many changes he's in for.
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- Part 2 of To Be You
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23 Feb 2026
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Such Breathtaking Ignorance by TacticalAscot
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 May 2026
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In copying SecUnit’s kernel to save its crew, Perihelion ends up mated for life due to behavioral commands built deep into its code. Knowing SecUnit would hate it, Perihelion resolves to just… not mention it. What could go wrong?
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17 Feb 2026
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Murderbot hasn't endured weapons maintenance since before it met its crew. (It hadn't really planned on re-living the pain of weapons maintenance ever again, if it was being honest.)
But when ART notices an issue with one of Murderbot's energy weapons, it offers its services. You know, mutual administrative assistant things.
ART's approach is a little different than the company's.
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17 Feb 2026
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ART fucks Tarik's cum out of Murderbot.
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17 Feb 2026
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eddie and venom discover tentacle hentai by thesnapwasbrutal for blurple
Fandoms: Venom (Marvel Movies), Venom (Marvel Comics), Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel (Comics)
22 May 2025
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The impulse came quick. Automatic. Muscle memory with heat behind it.
Ctrl + Shift + T.
The tab blinked back into existence like it had never left.
And Eddie—
Eddie pressed play.
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- Part 1 of eddie and venom discover...
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15 Feb 2026
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Thermal Shock by hzll (hazelel), krawrites
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Feb 2025
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The latest diplomatic mission requires Murderbot to pass for human on a primitive planet where nude saunas are a cherished tradition. ART and Murderbot explore new configurations, new experiences, new vulnerabilities, and new closeness. (These are all thin excuses to write ART/MB smut.)
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18 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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17 Jan 2026
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ART said, more cautiously than I was used to from it, This is more akin to physical touch than what you usually find tolerable.
I knew that, but I didn’t like thinking about it. It was fine.
ART took me at my word for it, and having it squish me became part of the things we did when I was anxious or plagued by stress toxins in my system. Sometimes I asked it to do it even when I was feeling okay. It was a nice feeling. At the time I thought of it as comfortable and relaxing. Without someone physically present touching me, it registered more like the pressure of being underwater, and that just didn’t repulse me like touching skin did.
It’s true that it was relaxing, but the reason I liked it so much was secretly that it felt good. I hadn’t even admitted it to myself at the time, but I kept asking ART to squeeze me, and eventually things escalated.
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17 Jan 2026