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1. Public Bookmark 24

   The One Percent by Evil Overwench (Thornwitch)

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   31 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Preservation Alliance Culture & Customs (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Preservation Station (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Bot Culture (Murderbot Diaries)
   • The Corporation Rim (Murderbot Diaries)
   • The hippies have some very scary friends
   • deterrence
   • POV Outsider

   Summary

   A corporate agent explains to his boss why muscling in on Preservation might not be the best idea ever. The hippies have adopted some very, very, scary friends. Set some indeterminate time many years after the books.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,665

   Chapters:

   1/1

   Comments:

   37

   Kudos:

   168

   Bookmarks:

   24

   Hits:

   556

   Bookmarked by Swiral

   24 Mar 2026

2. Public Bookmark 97

   Chance of a Successful Retrieval by Brushtail

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • Teen And Up Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   26 Dec 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • ART | Perihelion/Murderbot
   • Dr. Ratthi (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Rami (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • SecUnit 3 (Murderbot Diaries)
   • ART | Perihelion
   • Seth (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Tarik (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Kaede (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Tapan (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Maro (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Everyone is having a bad time except for Three
   • Seriously sitting around thinking you are going to die is very stressful
   • Post-Book 7: System Collapse
   • Deadly Storms
   • Suicide mention
   • OD mention
   • Verbal Abuse
   • Added some human OCs in the 2nd chapter to fill outthe polycule

   Summary

   When a terraforming inspection team from The Divarti Cluster is cut off from rescue by a deadly storm, they think the one team member from Preservation is foolish to expect a rescue. Dr. Ratthi knows that his friends will come get them no matter how bad the odds seem.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   11,536

   Chapters:

   2/2

   Comments:

   104

   Kudos:

   537

   Bookmarks:

   97

   Hits:

   2,691

   Bookmarked by Swiral

   20 Mar 2026

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

   09 Apr 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:

   130,164

   Chapters:

   9/10

   Comments:

   776

   Kudos:

   403

   Bookmarks:

   143

   Hits:

   8,798

   Bookmarked by Swiral

   15 Mar 2026

4. Public Bookmark 36

   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

   13 Apr 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:

   15,272

   Chapters:

   9/?

   Comments:

   143

   Kudos:

   155

   Bookmarks:

   36

   Hits:

   1,520

   Bookmarked by Swiral

   18 Feb 2026

5. Public Bookmark *

   Background Radiation by lyricwritesprose

   Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells  

   • General Audiences
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Gen
   • Complete Work

   23 Jul 2025

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Original Characters
   • Original nonverbal character
   • Amena (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)
   • Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries)
   • The Corporation Rim Is Terrible (Murderbot Diaries)
   • cw ableism
   • cw parental trauma
   • cw trauma from streaming
   • POV Outsider
   • really primarily about original characters
   • and the setting
   • sort of an issue-fic about ableism to be honest
   • and what happens to your soul when the only thing is the hustle
   • infuriating parade of tiktok-style euphemisms

   Summary

   A (formerly) promising young man named Nico Qasim rescues his brother from exploitation, mistreatment, and possible death. So far, so good, but…what the hell does he do NOW?

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   17,820

   Chapters:

   10/10

   Comments:

   304

   Kudos:

   328

   Bookmarks:

   100

   Hits:

   2,067

   Bookmarked by Swiral

   15 Feb 2026