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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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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.”