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An Hour From the Kitchen Cupboard by noctiphobia
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
18 Sep 2025
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Dr. Gurathin has quietly come to the conclusion they prefer neutral gender identifiers. Murderbot feels indifferent about this. Still, this change somehow sets them on a path to forming a strong, strangely close bond. They end up talking about gender and feelings and learn a lot about each other. It's all very complicated and weird.
"I’d sat down 32.6 centimeters closer to Gurathin. My body had subconsciously chosen to sit in the middle of the couch, when previously we’d been at the two furthest ends from each other. Worse still, in the moment I somehow hadn’t even registered this change. I ran a full retroactive systems diagnostic, but everything came back operational and untampered. Upon seeing this complete report my performance reliability dropped by 2%. What was happening to me?"
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Maybe you want to fully understand what it means to be human.
I don’t, I responded quickly. And besides, I will never be human.
No. But you can get close. Closer than you are now, at least. Can’t you?
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There are a lot of security cameras. Usually that means very bad things, especially for secret human spies and their murderbot accomplices. Was I an accomplice? I planned the whole thing. Maybe the mastermind would be better. I knew Gurathin would take issue with that—because that made him the accomplice to a terrifying murderbot, rather than the one in control, and I knew how much it annoyed Gurathin 1. not to be in control, and 2. admit that I was right.
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Or: Murderbot, Gurathin, a heist, and some
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She takes a steadying breath and reads the words waiting for her in her feed: Don’t panic, I don’t need a lot of air. You will have 1 hour and 6 minutes before you become at risk of suffocation.
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[podfic] Took Me Over Like a Fever, by sweatervest by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for sweatervest
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV)
18 Aug 2025
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When you saw Gurathin again, it only confirmed something that made your organic tissue itch: you don’t know everything that you want, but you know that you want him.
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- Part 33 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
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[podfic] Security Blanket, by Abacura by speccygeekgrrl, speccygeekgrrl_reads (speccygeekgrrl) for Abacura
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
16 Aug 2025
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I strode across the common area to pick up the blanket, unfolding it to look at it in its entirety. I noticed two things right away.
One, it was incredibly soft.
Two, it was me.
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- Part 31 of speccygeekgrrl's podfic
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I looked around and took in the remains of the habitat I was in. It was a research habitat, with very familiar Preservation logos on destroyed sample boxes. There was dust and smoke in the air and it had a flavour to it that my database couldn’t label.
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Safety is the state of being protected from harm or other danger by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
10 Aug 2025
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One nanosecond I was standing behind Mensah, the next my weight transferred forward as my legs started to move me towards the cargo pod. I was so surprised I didn’t feel any emotions and all my thought processes ground to a halt as I watched myself move away from her.
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Emotionally hostile refrigerator by ESE (anoano)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Aug 2025
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I have internal temperature controls and my protective survey clothes (not armour) covered my organic skin from harmful UV rays. I am also able to adjust my eye filters to reduce the intensity of the rays and maintain my position monitoring.
The humans had not fared as well as me. -
Forging a Familiar Face by mismatchedmuses
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
27 Jul 2025
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Tapan and her family needed help to recover their research. The security consultant they hired, a shy but determined augmented human, saved not just their work, but their lives.
Months later, Tapan sees a familiar face on a documentary about constructs.
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When you saw Gurathin again, it only confirmed something that made your organic tissue itch: you don’t know everything that you want, but you know that you want him.
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Little vignettes of Murderbot's life post-Exit Strategy.
Tags will update as additional ficlets are added. Each chapter will be stand-alone but within the same 'continuity.'
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1: Cat Tree (literal fluff) • 2: River (injury) • 3: Decor (this is where it becomes curtainfic) • 4: Speed-Based Games (playing tag with Mensah’s kids) • 5: Media Night (the whole PresAux survey team piles into mb's apartment to watch movies)
6: Recreational Explosives (a drabble) • 7: Immobilized (more literal fluff) • 8: Bag (nobody better touch Murderbot's stranger's stuff) • 9: Prickly (Pin-Lee gets Murderbot a gift)
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- Part 1 of Slivers of Existence
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[Podfic of] raw audio (bharadwaj_doc_interviews.wav) by nony, wilfriede0815
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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"I'm a SecUnit."
"Let's assume that you're speaking to an audience who doesn't know what that means."
"It means I was built to kill humans."
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Leaked excerpts from an upcoming documentary. (Audio only.)
Podfic of raw audio (bharadwaj_doc_interviews.wav) by torpidgilliver.
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tano a mano [Podfic] by blackglass, bluegeekEM, with (DevilWithABirdDress)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Mar 2025
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A podfic of tano a mano by shamoosh.
"This is the hard part. Farai waits him out.
Tano: i think she is coping by
Tano: i think we’re
Tano: we’re at the theater? the secunit
Farai: I think it’s just SecUnit
Tano: right
Tano: secunit is
Tano: also here
Tano: on our date
Tano: it’s holding her hand and i am holding her other hand
Tano: please advise" -
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This is the hard part. Farai waits him out.
Tano: i think she is coping by
Tano: i think we’re
Tano: we’re at the theater? the secunit
Farai: I think it’s just SecUnit
Tano: right
Tano: secunit is
Tano: also here
Tano: on our date
Tano: it’s holding her hand and i am holding her other hand
Tano: please advise -
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Ratthi demonstrates his own 'unfair and weird ability' to get Murderbot to talk. This is set in the very early days after Exit Strategy, while Murderbot is still settling in.
This was written for a New Tideland writing workshop.
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- Part 44 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
- Part 6 of New Tideland Writing Workshop
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Farai and Tano want their spouse back, but even though she's returned to Preservation, the Mensah they knew might be gone.
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- Part 43 of Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD
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You're Probably F***ing Dying by Benny_IsA_Dog
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Dec 2024
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After surviving the survey planet, after weeks on TranRollinHypha, he would die here, so close to home, on the floor of a random hallway. His heart would stop, and there was nothing he could do about it. No one would be able to do anything.
He was going to die.
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Ratthi has a panic attack. Murderbot helps.
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Scars and their Stories by ArtemisTheHuntress
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
05 Oct 2024
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A tracing of each of Dr. Mensah's scars, and where they came from.
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"They’re all still idling in the uncomfortable limbo of recovery. And none of them—with the possible exception of Farai—are handling it well."
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- Part 13 of Murderbot September 2024