Murderbot Meta Month
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Recent works
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Murderbot TV: An analysis of the romantic tropes in episode 6's surgery scene by ESE (SecurityUnit), SecurityUnit02
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV)
07 Jun 2026
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Murderbot TV is often compared to a fanfiction by its creators. This is part of my meta series examining it in the context of fanfiction tropes.
This contains 30 screenshots from the show, including spine surgery screenshots, and diagrams.
Series
- Part 2 of Murderbot TV as a fanfiction
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Scrapbooking with tropes as a way to work through a meta-analysis of the TV show and the tropes within.
Series
- Part 1 of Murderbot TV as a fanfiction
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What We See in the Relationship Between Murderbot and ART by ImitationGame
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 Jun 2026
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This meta explores why readers interpret Murderbot and ART’s canon relationship in different ways. It does not argue for or against any interpretation. All readings discussed here are treated as valid fan responses; the goal is to understand why they arise.
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Abstracting ART: An Analysis of Fan Designs of Perihelion by DuckInOuterSpace
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 May 2026
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Perihelion is the most varied character in terms of how fans visually depict it, from starfields to angels to boat-like spacecraft. Here are the trends I've found in a sample of 251 fanART posts.
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archiving my tumblr meta musings over here because as we all know it's only so long before that old dead horse of a site fully decomposes
ch1: tarik
ch2: thiago
ch2: Function Gender Non Conforming