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1. Public Bookmark 9

   All Systems Are Green And Your Security Consultant Is Perfectly Normal by lyricwritesprose

   Fandom Murderbot (TV)

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Gen
   • Series in Progress

   15 Mar 2026

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Dr. Mensah & Murderbot
   • Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original SecUnit Character
   • PresAux team
   • Murderbot
   • Original SecUnit Character(s) (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Original Human Characters
   • PresAux
   • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
   • Murderbot Pretends To Be An Augmented Human
   • Different Meeting With PresAux
   • Murderbot's Memory Is Partially Intact
   • Murderbot Remembers Ganaka Pit
   • Possible Part Of A Much Longer Fic
   • major character presumed dead
   • Canon Typical Violence
   • canon typical injury
   • Reference to sexual abuse of ComfortUnits
   • Horror
   • Torture
   • psychological abuse
   • Whump
   • The Corporation Rim is terrible
   • SecUnits Go Through Hell
   • Look I Honestly Don't Know Which Major Warnings Fit This One
   • But There Should Be SO MANY Warnings You Guys
   • Brainwashing
   • Not Woo-Woo Sci-Fi Brainwashing But The Actual Brutal Thing Is Implied
   • Hopeful Ending
   • OC Point of View

   Words:

   10,315

   Works:

   2

   Bookmarks:

   9

   Bookmarked by HardenedTreeSap

   15 Mar 2026

2. Public Bookmark 32

   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

   15 Feb 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:

   13,650

   Chapters:

   8/?

   Comments:

   127

   Kudos:

   136

   Bookmarks:

   32

   Hits:

   1,176

   Bookmarked by HardenedTreeSap

   17 Dec 2025

3. Public Bookmark 98

   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:

   525

   Kudos:

   305

   Bookmarks:

   98

   Hits:

   4,338

   Bookmarked by HardenedTreeSap

   14 Dec 2025

4. 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

   11 Mar 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:

   113,372

   Chapters:

   8/10

   Comments:

   676

   Kudos:

   345

   Bookmarks:

   123

   Hits:

   7,223

   Bookmarked by HardenedTreeSap

   30 Nov 2025

5. Public Bookmark 14

   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:

   14

   Bookmarked by HardenedTreeSap

   28 Nov 2025