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1. Public Bookmark 21

   Set the World on Fire by HeadingHomeAgain

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • No category
   • Work in Progress

   23 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • No Romantic Relationship(s)
   • Original SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original Human Character(s)
   • Found Family
   • Arson
   • Hacking
   • Canon-Typical Treatment of Constructs (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Emotionally neglected child
   • internalized ableism
   • Bullying (off-screen)
   • Panic Attacks
   • A SecUnit and Its Human (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Involuntary Gentle Parenting (extreme hard mode)
   • Ableism
   • Cw: parental emotional abuse and ableism against a child

   Summary

   A busy executive with a difficult child decides to indulge her interest in SecUnits by getting her one of her own.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   11,410

   Chapters:

   7/?

   Comments:

   85

   Kudos:

   99

   Bookmarks:

   21

   Hits:

   734

   Bookmarked by HardenedTreeSap

   18 Dec 2025

2. Public Bookmark 73

   Broken Piece of Paradise by lyricwritesprose

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • No category
   • Complete Work

   30 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Original Combat SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original ComfortUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original Human Characters
   • 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)

   Summary

   The terms Barish-Estranza gives the lost colony are simple. Unconditional surrender, sign indenture paperwork for every adult and child, or they will eliminate all dissidents on record using a Combat SecUnit, and the killing will continue until they get their way.

   The people of Esperia have no idea what that is. Barish-Estranza has technology that they have never seen. But they know they have to save the children. They pack the colony's children onto their one functioning ship, the Horizon, along with teachers and a barely adequate crew, and send them toward the wormhole that may lead back to the world that the Esperian colonists originally came from.

   Barish-Estranza doesn't want to admit it, but they're unexpectedly missing their best threat.

   And, onboard the Horizon, a child tells his teacher that there's a mysterious person in the machine closet…

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   56,297

   Chapters:

   21/21

   Comments:

   480

   Kudos:

   239

   Bookmarks:

   73

   Hits:

   3,751

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   14 Dec 2025

3. Public Bookmark *

   Bring Down Rain by gremble

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

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

   14 Jan 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Tarik (Murderbot Diaries)/Original Construct Character
   • background Tarik/Ratthi
   • Tarik (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Sex Slavery
   • world-building about ComfortUnits
   • Fridge Horror
   • Governor Modules (Murderbot Diaries)
   • and constructs exercising agency within them
   • brief domestic violence
   • Spies & Secret Agents
   • PSUMNT is sketchy
   • Tarik’s canon mysterious past
   • Tarik’s canon resting bitchface
   • The Corporation Rim is terrible
   • everyone here has trauma and a wobbly grasp on consent
   • Power Imbalance
   • Slow Burn
   • Unresolved Sexual Tension
   • Dubious Consent
   • in my favorite flavor
   • which is people trying to do the right thing when the situation itself is Dubious
   • PTSD
   • Disordered Eating
   • Stardew Valley - Freeform
   • teaching yourself to do surgery from watching a youtube video
   • Sparring as foreplay
   • toxic manosphere bullshit
   • constructs have no concept of privacy
   • Brief Self-Harm

   Summary

   While on an undercover mission deep in the Corporation Rim, Tarik buys steals rescues acquires a ComfortUnit. This is fine—it can hang out while he finishes the mission, he’ll be not-an-asshole to it, and then it can go on its liberated way and never have to see him again. This will definitely not get weird and messy.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   100,658

   Chapters:

   7/9

   Comments:

   545

   Kudos:

   276

   Bookmarks:

   101

   Hits:

   4,940

   Bookmarked by HardenedTreeSap

   30 Nov 2025

4. Public Bookmark 12

   Barycenter by Inkinhart

   Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

   • Teen And Up Audiences, General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Series in Progress

   27 Nov 2025

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Murderbot & Original Bot Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Iris & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Martyn & Murderbot
   • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original Bot Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Ráth the StationSecSys bot
   • Iris (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Martyn (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Matteo (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Enemies to colleagues
   • Client Retrieval
   • Threats of Violence (Perceived)
   • MB has a nice afternoon for once
   • seriously nothing bad happens

   Summary

   One-shots set in the Orbital Mechanics 'verse, from MB's perspective!

   Words:

   3,386

   Works:

   3

   Bookmarks:

   12

   Bookmarked by HardenedTreeSap

   27 Nov 2025

5. Public Bookmark 6

   Parameter Release by Sunruner

   Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Other
   • Series in Progress

   19 Nov 2025

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • SecUnit 3/OC
   • SecUnit 3/Original Construct Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • secunit 3
   • Original ComfortUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original Construct Characters (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Past Rape/Non-con
   • ComfortUnits (Murderbot Diaries)
   • PWP
   • Smut
   • First Kiss
   • First Time
   • construct sex
   • Three explores its sexuality
   • Post-Canon
   • Not Canon Compliant
   • Interrogating gender and sexuality
   • Friends With Benefits
   • The Corporation Rim Is Terrible (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Rogue Constructs
   • Yearning
   • Pining
   • Oral Sex
   • Penetrative Sex
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Friends With Benefits to Lovers

   Summary

   Stories that run within/adjacent to Procedural Learning, specifically Part 4 "Parameter Lock".

   One-shots, mini-adventures, and self-indulgent "now kith" adventures featuring (predominantly) Cassandra, Dolly, Dex, Trick, and possibly some humans.

   All parts are listed in chronological order. Parts that happen within Parameter Lock have chapters noted for where they "fit" in the larger story.

   Words:

   29,762

   Works:

   2

   Bookmarks:

   6

   Bookmarked by HardenedTreeSap

   19 Nov 2025