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three's company by Goldmonger
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
17 Apr 2026
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“Rocky,” I say sharply. The irritation feels unpleasant inside me, foreign like a toxin.
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03 May 2026
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Mutual Administrative Demolition by AideStar
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 May 2026
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ART slumped heavier on my shoulders. Honestly SecUnit, I’m just bored.
Huh. That was new. ART had never admitted to being bored before, though with all that processing power, I wasn’t exactly surprised.
I knew how miserable boredom was. I had spent the first 17,000~ hours of my (remembered) runtime staring at walls.
Can I help?
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Murderbot volunteers to help ART alleviate its dangerous levels of boredom by dismantling and reassembling one of its drones. Of course, this is a more kinky and intimate experience than either of them expected.
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02 May 2026
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SecUnit has been acting oddly around Mensah when she is with Farai and Tano.
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- Part 1 of Mensahbotcule - Murderbot's queerplatonic exploration of its relationship with Mensah and of itself.
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27 Apr 2026
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Known Exploited Vulnerability by laxlyricism for glitterary
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 May 2026
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A Known Exploited Vulnerability, or KEV, is a documented security flaw in software, hardware, or firmware that has been exploited in real-world attacks.
ART and Murderbot have faced the horror of talking about their emotions and come out the other side. Maybe they glossed over the sex stuff a little, but that's not important; sex isn't part of their relationship. Anyway, there are certain things ART would prefer to keep private, and Murderbot would prefer not to know. But when Murderbot comes back aboard acting strangely, the cracks in their fragile arrangement start to show.
Note: If you prefer to avoid sexual content in your TMBD fics, you can consider "Show Me How You Want It To Be" the proper end of the series and skip this one.
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- Part 3 of Fight or Flight
- Part 6 of The Fight or Flight Cinematic Universe
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11 Apr 2026
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ART?
SecUnit. Stand and return casualties to the shuttle.
It sends me a map of directions, marking the bodies around its corridors.
ART, say something. Call me an idiot, please.
SecUnit. Apply a 5% correction.
This can’t be happening. I shouldn’t have done this, we should have fought to the death instead. I’ve made a terrible mistake.
They installed a governor module on it.
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On a routine cargo run, Barish-Estranza captures and installs a governor module on ART. Can Murderbot find a way to save ART and itself?
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04 Apr 2026
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I come back from the dead.
Something happened. Something happened just now— I came back from the dead, yes, I know, I'm not talking about this, something before that— beyond, even, there was a recognition, a realization, somehow much more important than the hostiles I am currently grinding to dust on my deck, more important, even, than SecUnit's humans with their raised hands and SecUnit with its raised voice and myself, raised from my grave. What was it?
"What's going on?" I ask futilely, my voice distorting through the speakers. SecUnit's humans jump, startled. "What the fuck is going on—"
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[ART is stuck reliving the same horrible no good day in the Adamantine space, even though it knows time loops aren't real. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]
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22 Mar 2026
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This is a reference document for SecSysLang, my fanon conlang for SecUnits, SecSystems, HubSystems, etc. to use when talking to each other.
This also contains some amount of meta from the actual canon; SecSysLang assumes that all the SecUnits and SecSystems in canon actually use SecSysLang, and Murderbot just translates it into words for us.Feel free to use/adapt/take inspiration from/modify etc. SecSysLang in your own fanworks!
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19 Mar 2026
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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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05 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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05 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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05 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