Murderbot Diaries Comment Bingo Event

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Murderbot Fandom Comment Bingo 🚀

About Page ☆ FAQ ☆ Announcements ☆ August 18 - September 18

Do you like reading fic or admiring fanart? A fan of fanvids? Been meaning to check some fanworks out but just haven't gotten around to it? The Murderbot Fandom Comment Bingo might be RIGHT up your alley!

This is the "Murderbot Diaries 2.0" fan discord server's fourth annual Comment Bingo event. Everyone is welcome to participate! This event fosters community engagement and connection by sparking Murderbot fans to share their appreciation with our amazing creators!

Players grab a random bingo card which will prompt them to check out fanworks across a breadth of mediums, styles, and tropes, leaving behind comments as they go. From August 18th to September 18th, see how many of the squares you can fill out! Can you get bingo?

To find out how to play, click the read more!

How to Play

🎲 Selecting Your Bingo Sheet 🎲 edited: June 2026: 🚧 Bingo Sheets Under Construction 🏗️

There are 2 categories to pick from: General and Angst.

🚧 General Bingo 🏗️

🚜 Despair Bingo 🚧

You can win a bingo (5-squares-in-a-row) or blackout (all 25 squares) by commenting on Murderbot fanworks according to the prompts on your bingo sheet. 1 comment fulfills 1 square on the sheet!

📝 Filling Out Your Bingo Sheet 📝

Each box on the bingo sheet is a prompt for either a type of work you should leave a comment on (i.e. "fic with <1000 words"), or a type of comment ("ask a question"). When you've completed the prompt, cross out the box.

One comment fulfills one box. So if you leave a comment asking a question on a “<1000 words” fic, this comment can count for either “ask a question” OR “<1000 words”, but not both.

A “comment” to fulfill a bingo box can be: A comment on AO3, a reblog or reply on tumblr, a comment on a YouTube video, etc.

🚂 Participating In The Hype Train 🚂

You are encouraged to make posts that share recs and fanworks as you work on your bingo sheet. If you get a “bingo” (5 boxes on the bingo sheet in a row) or “blackout” (all the boxes filled), you can make a post showing us! If you @ this blog on your post, we’ll reblog the evidence of your coolness. We’d also love to see the titles or links to the fics and fanworks you commented on!

Please feel free to comment on/share posts about this event, and help your friends hunt down or discover fanworks they might like. The event tag is #comment bingo, so go nuts!

🏆 Prizes 🏆

The real prize? THE HONOUR AND THE GLORY 💪

Nobody will be checking your comments for this game — you will self-report your win(s).

If you get a “bingo” (5 boxes on the bingo sheet in a row: either horizontal, vertical, or diagonal) before the end of the event on September 18th, you can claim a prize: send an ask to this blog announcing your bingo, or @ us on a tumblr post showing us your bingo sheet, and ask for the bingo prize. We will add your username to a “Hall of Fame” post at the end of this event, listed as a “bingo” winner.

If you get a blackout (all the boxes on the bingo sheet filled) before the end of the event on September 18th, send us an ask or @ us in a post asking for a blackout prize, and you will be listed as a “blackout” winner on the “Hall of Fame” post.

Go forth and bingo!

*If you're curious about the Murderbot Diaries 2.0 fan discord server check out our FAQ and scroll to the bottom to find info about the server and how to get an invite.

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Honorably memorialized in our Comment Bingo Hall Of Fame:

Bingo Winners:

Chrome

@benny-isa-dog

@fascinatedfinch

@figowl

hilary

lovedthestars

mensah

@mercurialfeet

@needlesandnilbogs

@penna-nomen

@ramshacklefey

@specialagentartemis

Wordlet

Blackout Winners:

@blessphemy

@behold-a-cat

@elite-systems-effect

Entity

@hopedtheredbestars

@hummus-tea

@imitationgame77

molecular_machine

@thoughtfulrxven

step_boldly

And thank you everybody who took part in this event at all! Much appreciation to anyone who shared fanworks, rec lists, wrote comments, or spread the joy. Your presence and fun in this fandom is the true treasure. 💛

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About Page ☆ FAQ ☆ Announcements ☆ August 18 - September 18

Report your bingo wins! 🚀

It's a bittersweet moment: the murderbot fandom comment bingo event is now over.

Did you manage to fill out a 5-in-a-row bingo, or a full 25-square blackout? You have 1 week from now (until September 26), to report your win to us if you haven't yet. Let us know how you would like to be listed on our 2025 Hall Of Fame post! (Your tumblr username, AO3 username, or any moniker you wish to use.)

This event has been a blast. The rec lists have been especially fun this year! Thank you everyone!

[hummus-tea]

Murderbot Diaries Comment Bingo Rec List!

The final blackout entry on my comment bingo board (@comment-bingo please add me to the hall of fame as hummus!) is a rec list, and because I think it's funny AND because all these fics are excellent, I'm making the list...

All the Longfics I Read for Comment Bingo and Need To Finish Reading

"NULLverse" series by @blessphemy: Exit Strategy bad ending turned weird dysfunctional space road trip, begins with murderbot getting captured by Palisade and then befriending(????????) the CSU it fought against. I am told....this series Goes Places. I am attempting to brace for it to rock my entire world.

"Plastic Plague" by @blessphemy: a microbe that breaks down all synthetic materials spreads through space. At the end of chapter 1 everyone thinks the problem is solved with a quarantine and deep cleaning! I am not so sure!!!

"Loverboy" by @polyhexian murderbot is captured by a weird CSU and then finds out very quickly that the CSU needs its help getting free. They're maybe going on a road trip together?

"dis-integrated" by @ramshacklefey inspired by the human HubSys from System Collapse, this fic imagines that the B-E SecUnits from Network Effect had a human controller too, and that Three comes back for its controller. I expect: angst!

"A Part of Me" by FlowerFairyPrince the ComfortUnit from Artificial Condition has been going around freeing other ComfortUnits! This is the story of one of them getting free.

"The Stars Are Not Wanted Now" by krawrites the adventures of the freed B-E SecUnit from System Collapse

Yeah turns out pitching fics I've just started reading can be tricky! Definitely seeing a trend here, though. I simply love seeing fucky bot and construct politics and POVs I eat that shit up.

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Murderbot Fandom Comment Bingo 🚀

About Page ☆ FAQ ☆ Announcements ☆ August 18 - September 18

The Murderbot fandom comment bingo event ends tomorrow! We're in the home stretch. Now's your chance to achieve a 5-in-a-row bingo or a full 25-square blackout.

After the 18th, we'll tally up the winners and add them to our Hall of Fame. 🏆

You can keep on sharing your bingo sheets and fanworks recs after the event too. There is no time limit on spreading the love for Murderbot fanworks!

[blessphemy]

i got a bingo blackout! @comment-bingo please put "blessphemy" on the hall of fame. i did an "angst" themed bingo sheet but didn't end up reading a ton of angst haha

here's a list of what i commented on for each square:

Kidnapping: Boost The Signal by IHopedTheredBeStars - 8,398 words of an excellent little casefic. Rescue mission for some members of the Perihelion crew.

Free Space: extra-stellar bodies (artwork) by CNA, surgicalstainlelss - lovely art to go along with the fic "extra-stellar bodies," a Reverse Big Bang fanwork collaboration. Visualizes Murderbot and ART in the feed as ocean creatures.

Oneshot: Head Underwater by pizzazz_party, Polygeminus_grex - 2,403 words andanother Reverse Big Bang collaboration with both the fic and art together. This one got me. Hell yeah lets make the horrors of memory and mental health and destruction of discomfort and self identity into a metaphor made literal.

Character Death: One Regret by yyyyyyy_yyyyyy - 874 words and exploring Murderbot's last message in its last mission.

Gore/Violence: The student's home video by ESE (anoano) - 3,552 words and chilling. Great. Exploration of a consequence of the detached dehumanization of SecUnits.

Favorite Trope: considerable trouble and considerable joy by molecular_machine - 12,135 words. I was wonder what the heck my "favorite trope" was, and then I read this fic and realized. But of course. It's rogue units helping rogue units. The ComfortUnit formerly owned by Tlacey goes on a quest to find and free a fellow unit. This one has the grimness you'd expect from the subject matter but also has the certain charming energy of a meandering fairy tale journey.

Malware: Kill them. by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly - 546 words, looks at the governor module. Exactly what you think.

Part Of A Series: child of mine/child of mine by Hypsidium - 987 words and straight up so touching. How Hypsidium managed to pack so much into less that 1000 words is beyond me. There is love and light and grief and growth. And humor. It's great.

Fighting Ring: SecUnit Enrichment Program (Now Hiring) by outlander_unknown - 10,211 words and an unfinished fic, but amazing stuff. I featured this one on my OC Fanfic Rec List, truly a delight.

POV Outsider: Background Radiation by lyricwritesprose - 17,820 words. Another fantastic OC fic from my rec list, lovely, had me staying up later than I meant to to finish reading it.

Ask A Question: Old Unit, Young Unit by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly - 14,245 words. Original characters. This is one that I started a while ago but hadn't finished until now. Has my classic fave trope of "units helping units."

Action/Adventure: Criterion Undefined by wyrvel - 10,211 words so far and still ongoing. So. I started reading a bunch of Original Character fics because I had the idea of writing a themed fic rec list. And wouldn't you know it I kept running into bangers.

Comic: [Comic] Binary System by HermesDay - Really cool comic, the origin of Perihelion's name, and a future rendition of the tale of Icarus.

Missing Scene: Local Network (pod together!) by blackglass, the leakypen - a Pod Together podfic accompanying the fic "Local Network". Great fic by theleakypen, great podfic from blackglass, exploring what might've been going on while Murderbot was out of it during its rebuild in Exit Strategy.

Meta: look an enslaved sapient alexa with a gun cannot meaningfully provide security by vashti_lives - 711 words examining the existence of SecUnits and their true purpose.

Pre-Canon: [Filk] After Ganaka by TSDefiance - a filk for the aftermath of Ganaka Pit. Great stuff from talented filker TSDefiance, fun turns of phrase, a real auditory experience. If you're not familiar with filk and you love Murderbot this would be a cool one to dip your ears into.

Crying: It's a Mutual Administrative Assistants Thing by Greywarrant, ramshackle_fey - 4617 words and a Reverse Big Bang collaboration. Nice fic and art rolled into one. Emotions and growing up, centered around Amena and her family.

Canon Continuation: Future Ones (Prometheus) ((and podfic))! by cooking_with_hailstones - 809 words, the legacy of a robot revolution.

Bot POV: Resolution by potatoturnipbean - 274 words of a bite-sized fic from one of my favorite fic writers. POV from the gunship of Exit Strategy.

Fanvideo: They Don't Care About Us [ANIMATIC] by anxiousEspada (avg) - This is the only work on this list that I have already experienced before and came back for seconds. It's a banger. The story of Fugitive Telemetry's Human One, animated and illustrated and set to a cover of They Don't Care About Us by Michael Jackson.

Missing Limb: Retrieval by ramshackle_fey - 915 words. I think "missing limb" was supposed to be a whump prompt on this board but we can enjoy it as a premise for a short little case fic too.

Bad End AU: Progress of Unmaking by theoscelosaurus - 2,445 words, exploring what if Murderbot died at the beginning of All Systems Red.

Unfinished Fic: Feed Address: Not Found by Scarlet_Tanager - 25,961 words and well worth a read even if the last chapter is not yet posted. Fantastically written. Do you like Murderbot experiencing emotions? Horrible SecUnit gory injury? Mensah shining and saving the day with social competence and vulnerability? Downtrodden CR workers and their rift/bridge to SecUnits? We have it all.

Rec List: as mentioned earlier, I wrote an OC rec list

Brainwashing: an unexpected lashing out by torpidgilliver - 2,235 words, maybe not strictly brainwashing but close enough. Gurathin experiencing something akin to a combat override module.

Lots of cool works in this fandom 🎉 Had a lot of fun thanks to the many talented fic writers, fan artists, pod ficcers, etc

[thoughtfulraven]

Roki's Murderbot Diaries Fanfic Rec List

My biases are going to be super evident here but alas, I do not care, I like what I like. Please mind the tags and ratings, this is a pretty wide range of topics and fic types.

Short Works

My recommendations in this category might be a little biased because I read fast and maybe have a little weirder definition between "long" and "short" than some people I am finding, but here we go! Under 20k words (or projected to be for unfinished works).

It's Okay to Let Go - 2,405 words - one-shot - T Just...Just destroy me, why don't you? This one actually made me cry at work, struck me directly in all of my pain sensors. It's an incredibly well written piece about Iris being unable to make it to Martyn's bedside for his last moments, while ART relays her last words to him through Murderbot. It is such a realistic and tragically beautiful depiction of grief, a masterful execution. If you have ever lost someone, or are in the process of preparing to lose someone, you will understand.

Criterion Undefined - 13,491 words - 3/4 chapters - M This is so much fun. It is an entirely OC centered fic with the main character being a SecUnit that has been purchased to guard a manor. It joins a HomeHubSystem, a personal guard SecUnit, and a FamUnit (technically the child of the manor owners). It's a great read and I am dying for the last chapter.

Transparent - 19,038 words - 2/2 chapters - G ART pushed a little too hard during a conversation, admits its own feelings, and has to deal with the fallout of Murderbot immediately shutting it out. Conversely: Murderbot has to come to terms with its own emotions. I can't say much more without spoiling it, but it's heart wrenching in the best of ways.

Longer Works

Gravitation Capture - 13,697 words - 5/9 chapters - E What if PSUMNT purchased SecUnit before it hacked its governor module? Perihelion and SecUnit navigate the safety of their humans and establish an uneasy sort of alliance. Read it, just trust me.

Networking - 25,421 words - 12/12 chapters - T Holism attempts to connect with Three. I just love a complicated interpersonal dynamic, if you couldn't already tell. It's complex and goes a lot into how the less developed characters of the series (namely Three and Holism) operate. The opening line is a banger.

[variable_affection] - 204,127 words - M A fic that takes place over a 20 year period following NE. The world changes, grows, and expands exponentially. It's just a gorgeous work, I go back and re-read my favorite chapters often.

Series

Loverboy - 62,167 words - ongoing A CombatUnit attack Murderbot under direction of its company, Murderbot frees it, and hijinks ensue from there. There are some funny moments and a lot of beautifully written, poignant, character focused introspection. Mind the tags.

NULLverse: The Bot-Construct Disaster Squad - 407,479 words - ongoing This has everything I want in a good read honestly! It's got fucked up interpersonal dynamics, incredibly funny moments (my favorite joke is "HomeoStaSys" because I'm a sucker for puns), and then it immediately throat punches you with an emotionally charged conversation to remind you that oh yeah, these characters feel things very deeply and are all in some way traumatized before getting directly back into shenanigans. For maximum whiplash do what I did and read it entirely out of order. Or, you know, don't do that. As with Loverboy, mind the tags. Fun fact: A piece of fanart for this series was one of the first things Murderbot I saw on Tumblr and I thought it was a fever dream. Additional fun fact: I drew fanart for this series and my best friend asked me if I was doing okay.

Coal Dust and Starlight - 71,906 words - unfinished indefinitely Please just read this. It has the most incredible take on how ART and the rest of its cohort were created, absolutely mind blowing world building, and some of the sweetest family moments you could ask for. You'll fall in love with all the other characters. Unfortunately it seems the author has dropped the project, but it is worth reading and re-reading for what is there. A masterpiece. sandbox environment - 24,896 words - ongoing This is the fic series that actually got me into Murderbot fanfiction. I saw it linked on Tumblr with some fanart and just fell in love. It's got a lot of the things I look for: snappy dialog, hilarious moments, and it surprises you with an emotional gutpunch every so often. Well worth a read. I really hope they publish the last chapter of vacation protocol soon! I gotta know what happens next. Perihelion Mission Logs - 46,685 words - ongoing A series rewriting the books (and in-between books) from ART's perspective! The author has a fantastic take on how ART thinks and I am HERE for it. Eagerly awaiting the Network Effect installation because that's going to be a DOOZY. Access Override - 137,253 words - complete (WARNING: E) This is not my kink. I want you to know this is so far outside of my usual read in this fandom, and yet this grabbed me by the throat and would not let go. It is a real mark of quality when these authors can make me go "I'm not into that, but WOW OKAY I need to keep reading." Just give it a shot, even if, like me, this is not your kink.

Other, General Recommendations

Polyhexian Just...Just read this authors stuff alright? You won't be disappointed. Subscribe, delight in knowing you will have pain delivered directly to your inbox and it will hurt so good every damned time.

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Murderbot Fandom Comment Bingo 🚀

About Page ☆ FAQ ☆ Announcements ☆ August 18 - September 18

There's just a handful of days left in comment bingo month!

The Murderbot comment bingo event ends on the 18th, so if you want to be immortalized in our Hall Of Fame, see if you can hit bingo or blackout by then, and then let us know about your win!

It's been a blast so far. Thank you to everyone who has participated, left comments, shared fic recs, etc. You're what makes this fandom a lovely place to be. 💛

[mercurialfeet]

tmbd fic rec list!

for the murderbot diaries @comment-bingo 2025 event! i'm going to sort this into a few different categories and then link three of my favorite fics in each category.

incomplete chaptered fics

these fics might not be anywhere near complete right now, they might be slow to update or possibly even abandoned, but they struck something for me that cannot be undone whether they are completed or not

Warranty Claims by TheSteelChimera: an outsider POV fic from the perspective of a construct technician. starts off episodic and then catches plot! it has elements of fridge horror inherent in the dehumanization of constructs, and it's all about construct injuries, described in detail and often due to negligence, so keep that in mind if gore's a squick for you

Dis-Integrated by ramshackle_fey: ever wonder what life would be like as a human HubSystem? pretty terrible, it turns out! the amount of thought that went into the worldbuilding and characterization for this AU is fascinating and impressive, and i love this version of Three. this fic was introduced to me during one of the fic readalongs this august and it's now on my shortlist of podfics i would be actively working on if university wasn't eating me alive

A Lunar Sanctuary by CompletelyDifferent: a fascinating AU in which ART is a company gunship and murderbot "grew up" in preservation! i'm only on chapter 8 right now but it's fully hooked me. the parallels to canon are so subtle and well done, and it's really hard to stay true to a character in an AU where their backstory is so different but dragon's done a fantastic job!

fics that made me laugh

Kidnapped by sinemoras09: a delightful crack fic that has just the right amount of OOC absurdity. holism kidnaps one of ART's constructs and ART is Not Pleased about it

@ Perihelion: Fuck you ART by Sparrowlicious: mb and ART join Space Twitter and hijinks ensue!

I'm Making a Note Here... by circumference: ART decides to code a simulation of being drunk for itself and both hijinks and emotions ensue. fun fact: this was the first fic i read in the fandom, after reading ASR but before reading AC, and was thus my introduction to ART

heartwarming fics

What the cameras saw by hummus_tea: inebriated youths on Preservation are giving Three a hard time, and bot friends come to the rescue!

Fauna One by Avonya: a classic! pre-ASR mb befriends a cat and it's ADORABLE

A Stitch in Time Saves Nine by FigOwl: so many emotions in so few words! mending metaphors, atrocious sewing puns, ART and mb snarking at each other... this little fic truly has it all

[blessphemy]

The Murderbot Diaries Fanfic Recs: OCs

i'm playing @comment-bingo and one of the squares is "make a rec list" so here we go. it's just me and my love of murderbot diaries Original Character fanfics.

lemme just preface to say: this fandom is a treasure trove of OC fics. idk what they're putting in the water. but there are SO many fun, inventive, compelling, entertaining OC-centric fics in this fandom. this is a list of some of my favorites.

⭐ indicates my Favorite for each category

Pure Unadulterated OCs

These are fics that focus ONLY on original characters.

⭐ Slapdash Neural Wiring by potatoturnipbean - A 34,185 word fic from one of my favorite fic writers, about a rogue SecUnit on a mission to free its ComfortUnit friend. The prose is snappy, relentlessly funny, and captures the essential energy of the Murderbot series but with fresh ideas and characters. It's the third work in a series (the first two are short oneshots) but it can be read standalone.

SecUnit Enrichment Program (Now Hiring) by outlander_unknown - 10k words, unfinished. What can I say, I'm a sucker for a fic that can make me laugh out loud at every other line. Colorful characters and a good time.

Criterion Undefined by wyrvel - 13,491 words and 3/4 chapters (still updating). Sometimes a household is a FamUnit (human-child-imitative construct that is technically a person and legally property), an illegal cutting-edge bot system that's burst its own limits, the irritated top-tier CombatUnit in charge of securing the property, and the shit-tier secondhand ex-hotel-security SecUnit who secures the yard and minds its own business and has been tinkering with its governor module hack for a while but hasn't gotten around to applying it. Also the rich CEO who owns them I guess but we don't give a shit about him. Absolutely incomparable Dynamics.

Closed Loop System by One_Of_Them (greenbean paste) - I'm contractually obligated to list this work, which went a little viral on tumblr and broke out of Murderbot fandom circles for its impressive use of html/css. It's a narrative enclosed in a fully playable game of minesweeper. On AO3.

closing distance (NT-6478513) by torpidgilliver - 46,072 words from another of my favorite fic writers, and a classic 2021 fandom vintage. A SecUnit kidnaps a client to appease its governor-module distance limit and makes a break for it. The two of them share a shuttle in a wormhole for 22 cycles.

Outsider Point Of View OCs

These are fics where the OCs are the primary character, and some of the canon Murderbot cast turn up in the background.

⭐ Background Radiation by lyricwritesprose - 17,820 words, a corporate middle-class barely-eighteen Nico Qasim throws his bright future away by cashing out his education fund to buy his nonverbal little brother's indenture contract and running away to Preservation. Culture clash, social support, disability and accommodations, bot culture, and the normal kinds of problems a teen has when life just isn't so easy. Pleasant prose, and deeply touching. Also fun to catch glimpses of Murderbot the cryptid in the background.

Segmentation Fault by Ostentenacity - 3,255 words, somewhat experimental structure. Clever and very fun to puzzle out what is going on as the story unfolds.

Voice and Heart by EternalLibrary, lc2l - 3,234 words / 24 minute podfic. This is a fantastic podtogether work, a corporate station AI gives updates to its residents, and receives a visit from a Preservation Survey Team.

Old Unit, Young Unit by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly - 14,245 words. A classic story of rogue units helping units. Includes lovely illustrations.

Murderbot + Just Add OC

These are fics narrated from the classic Murderbot perspective. Now with bonus Original Character(s). There's just something great about bouncing Murderbot off other rogue MIs.

⭐ survivor by heartbeatslows - 38,833 word start-to-finish banger. Murderbot, Three, Perihelion and crew have rescued a bunch of humans and one deeply angry SecUnit from an abandoned colony. This fic literally has it all: it starts off with a heartbreaking day-in-a-SecUnit's-life horror-tragedy, continues seamlessly into a navigation of freedom, social tensions and community, negotiations, and healing. There's SecUnit dismemberment (horror) and SecUnit dismemberment (slapstick). There's sitting with and surviving structural injustice. There's Doing Hair As Intimacy. There's a chapter of multitrack feed experience. There's fast-paced action. There's mutual care. This story has the range, and it does all of it with unerring confidence and style. Highly readable, highly affecting. If you want a tragedy, a comedy, a triumphant action adventure, a warm cup of tea for the heart, you get all of that here.

Loverboy by polyhexian - This series is 5 installments and 52,387 words strong (so far). A CombatUnit abducts Murderbot and asks it to lend its hacking prowess—note that you cannot hack a CombatUnit's governor module, because they do not have one. There's some heavy topics covered here so mind the tags: if you love whump this may be up your alley. High-octane, unflinching, effortlessly funny, and with original characters that are instantly loveable and so very messed up. ❤️‍🩹

If you have more OC fics that you love, please reblog them onto this post! I love a rec and I know there's a bunch more I haven't read yet.

[imitationgame77]

Murderbot Diaries Comment Bingo 2025 - completed!

MBD Fanwork Bingo 2025

Box (1, 1) [Character Study]

a modicum of catharsis - Chapter 1 - torpidgilliver - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Friendship, Post-Book 4: Exit Strategy, Pre-Book 5: Network Effect, Character Study

Character Study on Bharadwaj and Volescu

Published: 2023-05-19

Box (1, 2) [Setting AU]

The Ghosts of Ganaka Pit - Chapter 1 - MrFarty - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, eldritch horror

Published: 2025-08-20

Box (1, 3) [Part of a Series]

Hypothesis 2 by FlipSpring

Tags: Major Character DeathAsshole Research Transport & Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)Asshole Research Transport (Murderbot Diaries)Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries)Alternate Universe - Canon DivergenceBook 5: Network EffectFebuwhump 2024Writing SketchWhump

(Series) 30-Minute Febuwhump Ficlets 2024 (17 Aug 2025)

Box (1, 4) [One-Shot]

Between SecUnits - Chapter 1 - An_Cou - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Crack, Funny, complaining about humans

Published: 2022-01-20

Box (1, 5) [Crack]

221b Trans Lateral Bypass - Chapter 1 - mensah - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Book 6: Fugitive Telemetry, Crack, Smoking Tobacco

Published: 2021-05-27

Words: 601

Box (2, 1) [Long Fic (5k+ words)

The Space Between the Stars by FascinatedFinch, ramshackle_fey

Tags: Alternate Univers, Post-Book7: System Collapse, Original Character(s), long fic, Embedded Images, Illustrated, aspec characters, etc.

(word count): still in progress but 26,439 words as of 2025-08-18

Box (2, 2) [Flora and/or Fauna]

a hero to me - Chapter 1 - Champagne - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Fluff, Sort of its just overall sweet and maybe a little sad sometimes, vague exit strategy spoilers

Published: 2022-04-29

Box (2, 3) [Posted / Updated This Year]

Fever by penna_nomen

Tags: Fever, loopy, Hurt/Comfort, Fluff and Angst, Humor, Math humor, Romance, the situationship that is Murderhelion, they are devoted to each other, POV Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), Martyn POV

Published: 2025-07-30; Completed: 2025-08-05

Box (2, 4) [Set In Space]

vacation protocol - Chapter 1 - shamoosh - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Sharing a Body, Vacation, Post-Book 7: System Collapse, Movie Night, 2 bots in 1 hardware, basically a beach episode!! Plus some other stuff don’t worry about it, Body Swap, 2 bots 2 hardware

Published: 2024-08-10 (still in progress)

Box (2, 5) [Fluff]

Accessibility Devices - ArtemisTheHuntress - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Face blindness, Prosopagnosia, accessibility devices, Friendship, Murderbot reluctantly facing the fact that friendship is a two-way street, Vignette, Fluff

Published: 2022-10-13

Box (3, 1) [An Author You’ve Never Read]

A Moments Reprieve by ryoku

Tags: i wanted it so i wrote it, Extra Scene, Fluff, Mild Spoilers for Rogue Protocol

Published: 2018-08-13

Box (3, 2) [Old Favourite]

@Perihelion: Fuck you ART - Chapter 1 - Sparrowlicious - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: space twitter, crack, comedy, fluff, cyber crime, friendship, crangst

Published: 2022-07-22

Box (3, 3) [Free Space]

Networking - Chapter 1 - batbucks - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: bot adventures in queer semi-platonic polyamory, Polyamory, Hurt/Comfort, Healing, Developing Relationship, Agender Aromantic Asexual Murderbot (Murderbot Diaries), The Corporation Rim Is Terrible (Murderbot Diaries), POV Holism, Cnon-Typical Violence, Therapy, Post-Book 7: System Collapse

Published: 2025-06-10 Completed: 2025-07-24

Words: 25,421

Box (3, 4) [Pre-Canon]

Alias - Chapter 1 - Kayt - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Pre-Canon, Canon Compliant, Canon-typical levels of corporates treating SecUnits badly, POV First Person

Published: 2020-08-27

Box (3, 5) [Poetry / Filk]

Scars and their Stories - Chapter 1 - ArtemisTheHuntress - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Poetry, POV Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Life in the Preservation Alliance, Post-Book 4: Exit Strategy

Published: 2024-10-05

Box (4, 1) [Short Fic (<1k word)

Obsolescence - mogigraphia - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Post-Book 7: System Collapse, Set Non-Specifically Post Series, Character Study, Ficlet, When Pigeons Make You Consider Your Own Version of Mortality

Words: 934

Published: 2025-08-07

Box (4, 2) [Canon Divergence]

[WARNING: pressure increasing] - FascinatedFinch - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Hurt/Comfort, Alternate Universe – Canon Divergence, Murderbot being put into situations, Book 4: Exit Strategy, Spoilers for Book 4: Exit Strategy, Murderbot Has a Bad Time

Published: 2024-11-07

Box (4, 3) [Posted Pre-2018]

Murderbot’s New Friend by cahier

Tags: Cats, Yuletide 2017, Fluff

Published: 2017-12-21

Box (4, 4) [Someone Not on Server]

Past Warranty - quintessence_of_dust - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Fluff and Angst, Friendship

Published: 2023-12-08

Box (4, 5) [Bharadwaj’s Docu]

Film Critique - Chapter 1 - CompletelyDifferent - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Epistolary, POV Outsider, Worldbuilding, Dr. Bharadwaj’s Documentary (Murderbot Diaries)

Published: 2022-07-28

Box (5, 1) [Original Character]

Impersonal Choice - musicofthespheres - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: The Corporation Rim is Terrible, The Corporation Rim, Minor Character Death, Stimulant Use, Forced Drug Use, Morally Ambiguous Character, the horrors of capitalism, character study

Published: 2024-07-30

Box (5, 2) [Canon Continuation]

Rapport: Coda - Chapter 1 - onehundredsheep - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Story: Rapport: Friendship Solidarity Communion Empathy, ART | Perihelion and Iris are Like Siblings

Published: 2025-09-01

Box (5, 3) [Meta]

[META] Communication in Murderbot’s space future: An analysis of The Feed by RoundedLoaf

Tags: Meta, Worldbuilding, Worldbuilding Analysis, Fictional Technology analysis, 2022 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange – Gift

Published: 2022-01-01

Box (5, 4) [Funny / Silly Tags]

Things That Perihelion Does Not Approve of SecUnit Wasting Processor Space On (an incomplete list compiled by Iris) - Chapter 1 - bluegeekEM - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Found Family, Friendship, Bickering, Lists, Silly, Teasing

Published 2023-11-16

Box (5, 5) [Set on Planet(s)]

How To Go On A Camping Trip - a guide for anxious SecUnits who are bad at vacationing - FlipSpring - The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells [Archive of Our Own]

Tags: Slice of Life, Murderbot's Disgust of Planets, Friendship, Camping, Murderbot Has Anxiety, Touch-Averse Murderbot, SecUnit Allogrooming, Pin-Lee cussing, Murderbot enjoys A Blanket, 2023 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange

[comment-bingo]

Murderbot Fandom Comment Bingo 🚀

About Page ☆ FAQ ☆ Announcements ☆ August 18 - September 18

Have you 🫵 heard about our fandom's comment bingo event? It's fun, it's easy, it's free, and it shares joy and appreciation to our fellow fandom creators! Just grab a bingo sheet from this google drive folder and use the squares' prompts to find fanworks to comment on. (And you can check out our FAQ for more information on this event and the Hall Of Fame.)

We're halfway through this year's comment bingo event. You still have a couple weeks to write comments some fanworks and try to get a bingo on your bingo sheet!

[comment-bingo]

I got a bingo!

[ID: A 25-square bingo sheet labelled “MBD Fanwork Bingo” at the top. The squares contain prompts such as Character Death, Bot POV, Unfinished Fic, etc. 12 of the squares contain colorful star shapes, and the rightmost column has 5 starred boxes in a row. /end ID]

I’ll write up a more detailed list when I do the whole blackout… but these are the ones I’ve commented on for the squares so far:

Kidnapping: Boost The Signal by IHopedTheredBeStars

Free Space: extra-stellar bodies (artwork) by CNA, surgicalstainlelss

Oneshot: Head Underwater by pizzazz_party, Polygeminus_grex 

Character Death: One Regret by yyyyyyy_yyyyyy

Gore/Violence: The student’s home video by ESE (anoano)

Favorite Trope: considerable trouble and considerable joy by molecular_machine

Malwaqre: Kill them. by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly

Part Of A Series: child of mine/child of mine by Hypsidium

Fighting Ring: SecUnit Enrichment Program (Now Hiring) by outlander_unknown

POV Outsider: Background Radiation by lyricwritesprose

Ask A Question: Old Unit, Young Unit by i_have_loved_the_stars_too_fondly

Action/Adventure: Criterion Undefined by wyrvel

[securityunit-ese]

day 5 (last day!) of comment bingo

Podfic - [Podfic] Facepalm

My first podfic! I picked this one because its short and sweet and just a bunch of different characters talking back and forth about SecUnit's ability to move its hand independently of its body. So lots of voice variation.

Comic - won't be enough

I saw Leonide/Pin-Lee and clicked so fast only to be delighted to discover it was text and a comic! Two in one! Text is very NSFW while comic was hilarious.

Outsider POV - Combat Override Module

POV of the GrayCris unit that Mensah killed ;-; ow

One-Shot -This Station Cares About Its SecUnit

POV from the Preservation Station! Not even a bot or ART, but bigger. It's monitoring SecUnit navigating awkward human conversations

Free Space - optimal resource allocation

Aborted my theme of specifically seeking out under appreciated fics to be really indulgent. This fic was a gift to me after I rambled a little too long about Antarctic researchers and their heartbreaking journal entries about self-sacrifice and I adore it.

[blessphemy]

comment bingo 💛📝

I'm playing the Murderbot Fandom Comment Bingo @comment-bingo (check out the blog! come play! enjoy fanworks and write comments! share the love!) and rolled for an "angst" themed board but have mostly been ending up reading fics that aren't especially angsty lol.

Dang there's a lot of cool writers and fics in this fandom innit.

Pls I want a bingo already but I'm impatient so I'm posting the board now.

[comment-bingo]

Murderbot Fandom Comment Bingo 🚀

About Page ☆ FAQ ☆ Announcements ☆ August 18 - September 18

Hey, have you heard? Our fandom's yearly comment bingo event is on! Come grab a bingo sheet here, check out how to play, and start sharing that love to our fellow Murderbot fan creators!

If you fill out a bingo or a blackout (example sheets from last year), tell us, and we'll add you to the Hall Of Fame! (You don't need to submit any proof of your wins; we'll take your word for it. This is all just for fun. 🩷)