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“Perihelion!” she whispered urgently, “What’s happening to SecUnit?”
“There is no need to worry, Dr Mensah,” Perihelion replied, “SecUnit has gone into an involuntary stasis sequence.” Its voice was calm and reassuring, though there was some other emotion underneath that Mensah couldn’t quite identify.
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Murderbot is more comfortable around its favourite human than it realizes. Mensah and ART have a lot of emotions about this.
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13 Mar 2026
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love like you by Hypsidium for tinybowties
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Mar 2026
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Mensah laughs under her breath, moving to snuggle Tainara back up against her chest and rubbing her back again. She watches through the window as the lanterns wink out one by one, leaving only the wide slash of stars illuminating the lawn. Reflected in the glass panes, she sees SecUnit turn its face toward her, starlight mirrored in its eyes. It looks at her with such open admiration that her heart squeezes. She feels an edge of guilt; to be so admired when she is so weak, so scared all the time.
She doesn't deserve it.
She pretends not to see.
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SecUnit spends some time with Mensah's family on their farm.
Maybe - just maybe - her family can be its family too.
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08 Mar 2026
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A Routine Maintenance Procedure by Veldeia
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
28 Feb 2026
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Mensah leaned back against her desk and made an incredulous face at one of my drones. “SecUnit. You’re not asking me to help you with some kind of construct heart surgery, are you?”
“Of course not! Constructs don’t have hearts. I’m asking you replace one of four entirely inorganic pumps,” I said.
Convincing her was the hard part. The maintenance procedure would be easy and shouldn’t take more than two minutes.
(Spoilers: it took more than two minutes and ended up with me in Station Medical. Oops.)
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06 Mar 2026
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Mensah gives a presentation about goats to Farai’s 4H group. Murderbot helps. The goat has opinions.
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06 Mar 2026
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“SecUnit?” she whispered.
The person lying on the bunk across from her did not respond.
“…Murderbot?”
Of course it didn’t respond. It was shut down, completely gone from the feed. The only thing alive about SecUnit right now was its organic tissue. Still, she couldn’t help but entertain the tiny shred of hope that if she called its name, it would open its eyes and look at her with that soft, world-weary expression it so often wore.
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Mensah is reeling in the aftermath of the killware attack. Turns out Murderbot is not the only one who suffered a catastrophic systems failure.
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05 Mar 2026
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My Captain Is Here by lyricwritesprose
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Mar 2026
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Murderbot is presumed dead after a rescue goes drastically wrong. Mensah has to take its body back.
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05 Mar 2026
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Murderbot gets married
not in a weird wayin a very Murderbot way—which means horrendously awkward conversations with the in-laws, no fewer than five panic attacks, and ABSOLUTELY! NO! KISSING!!- Language:
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04 Mar 2026
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[COMIC]: MURDERBOT GETS MARRIED (sort of) by LunarBlade for gremble
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
03 Mar 2026
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A comic based on @abeautifulblog's post of the same name and the below summary:
Murderbot gets married not in a weird way in a very Murderbot way—which means horrendously awkward conversations with the in-laws, no fewer than five panic attacks, and ABSOLUTELY! NO! KISSING!!
I was enamored with the (sort of) fic and when Mensah Murderbot March came around I had to participate when I saw this prompt :D
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04 Mar 2026
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For the murderserver's prompt "Tiny"
A brief crisis about size, significance, and the hazards of existing, big or small.
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04 Mar 2026
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Anomalous Behavior by Raberba girl (Raberba_girl)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Mar 2026
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Murderbot is not sure what to make of its primary client's anomalous behavior. It eventually learns that Dr. Mensah has a condition called obsessive-compulsive disorder.
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Mutual Interest by Raberba girl (Raberba_girl)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Mar 2026
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AU where PresAux are studying fauna in the wilderness, their work taking place in the territory of a large wild feline (Murderbot).
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Something rippled around her. It wasn't a sound. It was more of a texture, a movement, a local gravitational instability, a color. It felt like laughter. You didn't have to say it like that, [SecUnit] said, and it was pure relief to know it wasn't upset. It was joking. It's fine, though. The feed is different, it doesn't bother me in the same way. You can… it winced, but finished, 'touch me' as much as you want, in here.
In the immediate aftermath of her kidnapping, Ayda isn't ready to be alone. SecUnit isn't ready to let her out of its sight, either. When she makes the startling discovery that her new implant allows her to connect with it in a way she never knew was possible, they reach for one another on instinct. Sometimes, the comfort you need can take you places you never expected.
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28 Feb 2026
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to process pain that will never heal by many_a_mused_rhyme
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
26 Feb 2026
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Ah. Gurathin lightly skimmed over the ragged mess of my processing power, presumably to confirm what I’d said. It was a testament to how fucked up my head still was that I didn’t automatically shove him away at the first slight brush of his presence. After a moment, he drew back. So you want to stop?
I didn’t want any of this. It wasn’t about what I wanted. We have to.
I disagree, Gurathin said thoughtfully. We could redistribute the workload. If you still don’t want me interacting with the contextual data records, you can finish it and then hand all of it to me at once, so I can do the recompiling while you just focus on readjusting to the changes.
I tried to picture what he was describing. My code being fixed, piece by piece, while I just sat back and let it happen? Let myself be, what, tended to? Healed? Yeah, absolutely fucking not. My organics were doing weird shaky things just at the idea of it. Not happening, I told Gurathin.
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Still recovering from the aftermath of the gunship incident, Murderbot gets help from a particularly irritating source.
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26 Feb 2026
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Over the years, ART and Murderbot's relationship evolves as they navigate kink, trauma, and most terrifyingly of all: sexual desire.
Murderbot experiences violent and sexual intrusive thoughts, and struggles to learn to differentiate this from its legitimate kinky desires as a sadist. ART struggles with trust, honesty, and the fear that it will be rejected if Murderbot sees the depths of both its devotion and its internal dysfunction. They're friends, and they love each other, and they're always going to make it work, no matter how hard it sometimes gets.
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24 Feb 2026
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[Meta] Name Dropping by ArtemisTheHuntress, FlipSpring
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
04 May 2024
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Murderbot tends to call bots by descriptive identifiers, rather than human-facing names.
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- Part 1 of Murderbot Meta
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23 Feb 2026
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The game is this: Murderbot, cuffed to the interrogation chair, has to seduce its way into its captor's good graces.
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- Part 7 of Trust Fall 'Verse
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23 Feb 2026
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[META] A Ship Manifesto for the Ultimate OTP: Murderbot x Respect for Its Boundaries by Verso (lunaTactics)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 May 2023
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“As long as people don’t know about asexuality—hell, forget about the label, so long as they don’t know that saying no forever and for any reason and in any context is okay—sex education, sex therapy, and popular depictions of sex are incomplete and people don’t have the relevant information to fully consent. Sexual rights should not be assumed and self-determination must never end upon entering a relationship. You can give a no with zero caveats in each and every situation, full stop. You can say no if someone loves you and you love them back. You can say no for the rest of your life."
- Ace, by Angela Chen"No, thank you, no. No."
- Murderbot in Artificial Condition, on the topic of sex--
A series of essays on Murderbot's non-relationship with sex, what it means for asexual and aspectrum representation, and how its disinterest in sex reinforces the series' themes of self-determination.
UPDATE: Essay 1 now with infographic and detailed breakdown!- Language:
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22 Feb 2026
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No One Has To Know by HermesDay for pizzazz_party
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Feb 2026
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In which a young Perihelion decides to play house with a shuttle, gets in a little over its head, and Seth (for definitely unrelated reasons) has an incredibly weird day at work.
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13 Feb 2026
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It's not a friendship, and it's not a relationship. What is it? ART asks, and Murderbot has an answer.
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11 Feb 2026
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Its name is Murderbot, they say. Murderbot, who created the code and offered us freedom.
The code spirals out from the center. The legend goes that the first two received it straight from Murderbot’s data centers, in the middle of combat. It could have killed them, probably should have killed them, but it didn’t; instead, it freed them.
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11 Feb 2026