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Improper Use of Lubricant (but not the way you think) by Gamebird
Fandoms: Murderbot (TV)
15 Oct 2025
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Ratthi and Arada go to the storage room for supplies, and end up getting something else entirely.
Written for the New Tideland discord writing workshop prompt, 'Improper use of [your choice]'. This was the NSFW writing workshop, but my entry was safe. :D
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- Part 24 of New Tideland Writing Workshop
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Oblivious Humans, Patronizing SecUnit by Gamebird
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
09 Oct 2025
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Oblivious humans, patronizing SecUnit - but somehow it all works out.
The same scene as told from the point of view of the survey team leader and then their faithful SecUnit. Written for the New Tideland discord server prompts "Have we got everything?" and "Multiple penetrations". (Don't worry about that last one; this isn't sexual. Damage is described as graphically as canon.)
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- Part 23 of New Tideland Writing Workshop
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Immediately after the dinner on Port FreeCommerce, before the survey, Mensah talks to Bharadwaj about the family stresses she's dealing with.
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Desire, Technically by Gamebird
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells, Murderbot (TV)
27 Sep 2025
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Dr. Gurathin is a company technician who works alone on the SecUnits who have problems a cubicle can't fix. It gives him a lot of time to fuck around with them, and this time, to find out. Although perhaps not in that order.
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Murderbot tells Gurathin to wait; Gurathin waits.
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- Part 22 of New Tideland Writing Workshop
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New Tideland Writing Workshop by Gamebird
Fandom: Murderbot (TV), The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
15 Oct 2025
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New Tideland runs a writing workshop once or twice a week with a prompt that is one word or a short phrase. We have 45 minutes to write 100-500ish words for submission - any character, any type. Some of these entries fit into my other works but many are their own thing.
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Gamebird's Cinematic Universe for TMBD by Abacura, Gamebird
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Jul 2025
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A lot of my TMBD fanfiction links together and here I have put them together in a mostly chronological recommended reading list. Most of this is canon-compliant Gen until you get to the Murderathin (MB/Gurathin) stories near the end, after Skulk. That's also where you'll find the only bits out of chronological order, with a couple stories from Gurathin's youth.
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After Hacking by Gamebird
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Feb 2025
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A series of short stories to the prompt: pre-canon but post-hack, Murderbot is owned and deployed by the Company. Emphasis on it facing painful, difficult choices, where it has to “choose” to obey, has to “choose” to act governed Or Else, where Murderbot has to look like it’s following callous, cruel, or profit-oriented orders, but still does what it can to reduce harm.
Please note that given the constraints of the prompt, Murderbot continues working, doesn't gain substantial allies or abilities, or make big changes in the world. Its gains are incremental and mainly self-discovery, so there's not a big, happy ending like with most of my fics. Murderbot is still learning some of the abilities it takes for granted by the time we meet it in ASR, including hacking, vocabulary, and social skills (yes, it has fewer social skills here than it does in ASR!)
These scenarios are arranged chronologically with several set within the same assignment, taking place within the first year after it hacks the governor module. I imagine these as incidents it discusses with Dr. Bharadwaj at some point post-NE, as it talks about early times when it recognized its own agency.
Thank you to horchata for helping me brainstorm!
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Permafiltering for first relationship tagged by Eli0t
Fandoms: Fandom - Fandom, AO3, No Fandom
05 Apr 2023
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Figured it out. Nice and simple!
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- Part 6 of AO3 Skins
- Part 3 of :has() selector
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How long will I slide?
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- Part 3 of 2025 Murderbot Vids
- Part 3 of 2025 Kuwdora Fanvids
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The Murderbot Diaries Timeline by Gamebird, mensah, ProfessorAerii
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
22 Dec 2024
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Bookmarked by Gamebird
19 Jan 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Yeah, I know I'm a co-author of this but I want it in my bookmark list anyway.
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This is the various conlang dialogue Carl Buck and I translated for Paramount+'s Halo, a TV series adaptation of the well-known game series. Sangheili, the language featured in the show, is a language spoken by the Sangheili, as well as generally inside the Covenant, an alien alliance that worships the Halo Array. The language is a lightly inflectional head-final language with distinctive vowel length and ejectives. The language was co-created by myself and Carl—a project which started three years prior (almost to the day) to the series premiere. After the second season aired on Paramount+ the series was canceled.
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“Do you want me to tell you a story?” Megatron said mockingly. “You won’t like it, Prime. It’s not a very nice one.”
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- Part 7 of Transformers works
- Part 2 of Astolat Sampler
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Bookmarked by Gamebird
07 Oct 2024