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Dating: Closeness, Affection, Endearment, Devotion by Abacura, AllieTheBard, aros_66, CurlyWench, Degenerate_Symmetry, ForestDivinity, HonorH, leafwhistle, nomadriver, opalescent_potato, perplexedegg, ReformedTsundere, spectralOasis, The_panophobic, TheRosetteThief, zeugmatador
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
20 May 2026
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Gurathin goes dating, SecUnit involves itself more than anticipated, antics ensue
This fic is finished, just needs editing!Thank you to the New Tideland server for being so receptive to noodling, special shoutout to Mari and all-systems-dead for cheerleading!
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Unexpected by opalescent_potato
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Feb 2026
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When his friends come back post-network strategy, Gurathin is forced to confront something he's been trying to ignore
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Enemies, closer by Abacura, Gamebird, opalescent_potato, orphan_account, Rosewind2007, theAsh0
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Dec 2025
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Keep your friends close,
and your enemies closer.—Sun Tzu, The Art of War (attrib)
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Murderbot and Gurathin try something new together.
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- Part 2 of Changes AU
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Murderbot and Gurathin have to pretend to be married for a mission. It's not going well.
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Murderbot huffed a laugh. "Shame it’s attached to you. Does it only work for someone with absolutely no interest in it? Or are you so insecure that it’s unthinkable anyone would accept you as part of a package deal?"
Gurathin has a big, pretty sex part and never gets to use it. ART facilitates an anniversary present.
(For New Tideland's Murderathin Wanksgiving)
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20 Jul 2026
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Talking to refugees is not Gurathin’s job, nor was it his idea. If Aylen sends him in and something goes wrong, it’s going to look terrible. And Pin-Lee will absolutely do something about it. But also, this whole situation has been a clusterfuck of people not knowing that a situation or a person or a bot was dangerous until things went terribly wrong, and for all I know the refugees have been waiting for someone like Gurathin to come along so they could hold him hostage.
And that wouldn’t be as bad as GrayCris taking Mensah hostage again, or even as bad as Ratthi or Pin-Lee or Arada or Overse or Bharadwaj or even Volescu being taken hostage by literally anyone. But I still don’t want that to happen. It would look terrible, for one thing, and also Gurathin is one of my humans. I’m done letting people take my humans hostage.
I’m coming with you.
Or: When Aylen struggles to get the BreharWallHan refugees settled, she reaches out to the nearest former refugee (who isn't SecUnit) to get an expert opinion. It goes better than it has a right to, apart from all the crying. (It's fine. Gurathin can deal with the crying.)
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21 Jul 2026
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Two Peas in a Pod by Gamebird for Rosewind2007
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 Jan 2024
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SecUnit’s assistance is needed in transporting precious cargo to Preservation. Along the way, it has to confront its inherent suspicion of Gurathin’s motives.
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30 Jun 2026
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"It was during one of my missions that I said I wouldn’t feel too upset if Supervisor Leonide died in front of me. Then she actually did die in front of me, and it turns out I got a little upset."
Janity's father appears to be hunting her down. Murderbot doesn't feel responsible for her, and is helping for completely unrelated reasons.
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- Part 1 of FEMININOMENON
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23 Jun 2026
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Construct Research Department Verse (Previously StationUnit Stories) by transcendentcreature
Fandom The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
02 Apr 2026
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Deployment Center SecUnits touch a lot of lives, even if [the company] won’t even acknowledge them as sentient.
This series follows my Deployment Center Unit OCs from Port FreeCommerce to a new home at PSUMNT through the Construct Research Department where they find new ways to connect and help other Units like them.
*not limited to OC POV; there are some Murderbot and some Three-centric stories here.
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18 Jun 2026