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There's just one and a half weeks left of Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2025. Submissions to our AO3 collection will close at the end of April!

If you work fast, you could still contribute a fanwork to the collection! Check out our prompts list for ideas, or freewheel an idea of your own.

And of course enjoying these fanworks is eternal. 🥳

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More prompts that were submitted to the Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2025 event, pasted onto the Estonian Artificial Condition edition cover. (These have been shortened to fit the poster—for full text and even more prompts check out our collection here!)

Iris has always been worried about what might happen to her relationship with Peri if she got into a romantic relationship with someone

Murderbot and Three go on an undercover mission where they have to pretend to be humans dating each other

Amena is having a lot of trouble and anxiety about being aroace, so she goes to her Third Mom for advice and solidarity

Murderbot seems to see allosexuality as a universal human condition. I'd like MB to connect with an asexual human or augmented human and realize it isn't alone in how it feels

Right, but how DOES your relationship with your new SecUnit fit in with your relationships with your marital partners?

Going to college at the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland, Amena is surprised by the cultural differences from Preservation. (In norms of dating, marriage, family structures, friendship expectations, displays of physical affection, the role of bots, or something else you have ideas about)

Take a look at the fanworks that have already been created for some of these prompts, or maybe one of these inspire you to create something yourself!

There's only a week and a half left for event submissions, so now's your chance.

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En Route - ArtemisTheHuntress - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: En Route Author: ArtemisTheHuntress Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Pin-Lee #Dr. Ratthi #Dr. Gurathin #Book 4: Exit Strategy #Drabble #Angst #Tension #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries Words: 100 Chapters: 1/1

Pin-Lee, Ratthi, and Gurathin on the interminable trip from Port FreeCommerce to TranRollinHyfa.

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Song and Dance to Say ... - ImitationGame - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: Song and Dance to Say ... Author: ImitationGame Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #ART | Perihelion & Murderbot #Murderbot & Perihelion Crew #Murderbot #ART | Perihelion Matteo #Iris #Friendship #Showing care without physical contact #Fluff #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries Words: 1,394 Chapters: 1/1

Murderbot risks itself to save a human (again). There is not much they can do to show their appreciation. They can't hug it as it's touch-repulsed. It gets awkward with conversation. They come up with something different.

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string theory - Aphelocoma_californica - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: string theory Author: Aphelocoma_californica Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply !Dr. Ratthi #Drabble #Post-Book 7: System Collapse #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries #the presaux shipping chart #Aromantic Words: 100 Chapters: 1/1

Ratthi reflects on his relationships with a few of his favorite people.

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Loveless - ArtemisTheHuntress - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: Loveless Author: ArtemisTheHuntress Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Murderbot #Dr. Mensah's Child(ren) #Loveless Aromanticism #Post-Canon #Murderbot has been to therapy lol #Agender Aromantic Asexual Murderbot #Preservation Alliance Culture & Customs #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries Words: 889 Chapters: 1/1

One of the Mini-Mensahs pesters Murderbot about whether or not it feels love. For the A-Spec Event, inspired by the prompt: “Murderbot who does not experience love in any capacity […] It feels a disconnect and rejection for love in all forms, whether platonic, romantic, etc. It does not find the concept of ‘love’ personally relevant.”

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Summoning Spell - ramshackle_fey - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: Summoning Spell Author: ramshackle_fey Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Dr. Gurathin & Dr. Ratthi #Dr. Ratthi #Dr. Arada #Murderbot #Drabble #Fluff #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries #Preservation Legal System #Aromantic Dr. Gurathin #Quoiromantic Dr. Ratthi #platonic marriage Words: 100 Chapters: 1/1

Prompt: "He came later" Gurathin: is he ex-CR? From another part of the Preservation Alliance? Another non-corporate polity? Maybe questioning the CR enough to leave means he's unusually aware of Preservation's policies and procedures and is willing to continue his stick-it-to-the-man track of social change. Perhaps he simply has a fresh perspective being from another non-corporate polity. Maybe he had his own Fugitive Telemetry-esque experience obtaining Preservation citizenship. In any case, Gurathin platonically marries a possibly absurd number of people to help them get full citizenship on Preservation. Bonus points if SecUnit finds out. It did, after all, delete that survey information to make room for media (idea courtesy of the Murderbot Diaries Discord server, prompt courtesy of Kiri!)."

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There's only two and a half weeks left in our fanworks submissions window for Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2025! Remember our AO3 collection will close submissions at the end of April.

If you've been working on a fanwork, now is your chance to bring it in for the home run. Or perhaps if you can draw/write/sing(?)/create quickly, and couple weeks is the perfect amount of time to pick up a prompt and try making something!

Don't miss out on joining in on the fun: come read, admire, and comment on the many lovely fanworks we've got so far 💜

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More prompts that were submitted to the Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2025 event, pasted onto the Danish All Systems Red edition cover. (These have been shortened to fit the poster—for full text and even more prompts check out our collection here!)

Newly rogue B-E SecUnit has a connection to one of the human-HubSystems.

Explore a relationship between two or more characters that starts as ~Just Friends~ and then ends up as ~So Much More… like an academic advisor and grad student, like becoming SecUnit and Client, like adopted siblings, like two or more assholes who committed murder and had to hide the body together.

Murderbot learns some humans are also touch-repulsed. ART and Murderbot try to figure out ways "translate" feed expression into something humans can process.

The PresAux team get their hands on Murderbot's shipping diagram from ASR and have a fantastic time finding all the mistakes it made because it didn't realize humans could be aspec.

Murderbot is so good at not noticing human romantic stuff that it fails to realize it has fan club among ART's students. The rest of the crew resort to increasingly ridiculous measures to keep it from finding out.

Arada and Overse are marital partners and Ratthi is their best friend. He's like a third partner, but he's aroace and has no desire to be "officially" married. They're getting tired of people not understanding how important he is to them and treating him as an afterthought to Arada and Overse's relationship.

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Three.file - Greywarrant - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Three.file

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My armor is your armor - molecular_machine - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: My armor is your armor Author: molecular_machine Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #SecUnit 3 #Murderbot #ART | Perihelion #Overse #Turi $POV SecUnit 3 #Communicating is Hard Words: 102 Chapters: 1/1

Three has trouble articulating its offer to Murderbot (Yes, it had taken 2.3 minutes of questioning by both me and ART and Overse and Turi to figure out what it was trying to tell us.) -from System Collapse

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This Is All I Know - molecular_machine - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: This Is All I Know Author: molecular_machine Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Murderbot #"Hostile One" Palisade Combat SecUnit #Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence NULLverse Lab Hell #Memory Alteration #Angst #Hope #Repair #Touch Aversion #Construct Maintenance #Dismemberment #(temporary) #Friendship #(fraught) #standalone fic Words: 1,328 Chapters: 1/1

With Murderbot’s cubicle broken, the Combat SecUnit is called upon to repair the damage from their latest test match. A construct mutual maintenance interlude from Lab Hell. Intended to be readable without prior NULLverse experience.

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Cut One And The Other Bleeds - FlipSpring - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: Cut One And The Other Bleeds Author: FlipSpring Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #Dr. Mensah & Murderbot #Murderbot & PreservationAux Survey Team #Murderbot #Dr. Mensah #PreservationAux Survey Team #Soulbonds #Pain Sharing #Book 4: Exit Strategy #Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2025 Words: 1,805 Chapters: 1/1

Soulbond plots were rarely interesting in media, and I was even less interested in understanding their touchy-feely relationship ramifications in real life humans. So I didn’t give a shit. Until suddenly I was forced to give a lot of shits.

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You Take the High Road, and I'll Take the Low - ramshackle_fey - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: You Take the High Road, and I'll Take the Low Author: ramshackle_fey Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Tags: #Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings #Dr. Gurathin & Pin-Lee & Dr. Ratthi #Dr. Gurathin #Dr. Ratthi #Pin-Lee #Dr. Mensah #Overse #Dr. Arada #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries #TRH Trio #Missing Scene #Book 4: Exit Strategy #Canon-Typical Violence #Implied/Referenced Sexual Assault #Canon Compliant #In the "never says it didn't happen this way" sense #Past Addiction #Harm to Children #Angst with a Happy Ending #almost all the really dark tags there are in a single section Words: 13,761 Chapters: 3/3

Stuck on the company gunship for an entire wormhole trip, Gurathin, Pin-Lee, and Ratthi are struggling to keep each other afloat and keep Murderbot and a traumatized Mensah safe from the company's predatory offers of "help." When Gurathin puts himself into a coma diving too deep into the feed to protect Murderbot from the possibility of feed attacks, it's up to Ratthi and Pin-Lee to get everyone home safe.

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We are now more than halfway through our fanworks submission window for Aspec Murderbot diaries! Note our AO3 collection will close to submissions at the end of April.

If you're interested in seeing what fanworks have already been submitted, come check out our blog or our event collection. We also have a whole bunch of prompts you can look at, claim, and create for if you so desire.

Time marches relentlessly on... why not come enjoy some aspec Murderbot fanworks while it does?

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(Forgive me for how crunchy this looks. I don't know what tumblr is doing to my beautiful pngs 😩)

And here are more prompts that were submitted to the Aspec Murderbot Diaries 2025 event, pasted onto Artificial Condition Thai edition's cover. (Some of these have been shortened to fit the poster—for full text and even more prompts check out our collection here!)

SecUnit Three and platonic crushes

People are shipping an aro/ace character from one of Murderbot's shows

Showing affection through drones

ART creates a huge shipping chart of real people

Aspec Leonide and an exploration of CR transactional relationships, attractiveness, and related expectations

Aro character rejects a love confession

An aspec character (A) explains relationship anarchy to a friend (B) who's just going through a relationship shift with their own friend and is scared about ruining the friendship.

Amena enrolls at PSUMNT and starts making friends. Murderbot is Suspicious.

Matteo is aromantic allosexual. Ratthi is quoiromantic asexual. Tarik is... working it out. Maybe. Anyway, none of this would have been an issue if Tarik didn't have all the emotional intelligence and communication skills of your average Murderbot.

Perhaps one (or more) of these prompts might inspire you to create something! Or perhaps you're interested in fanworks that have already been made to fit these prompts... come check out our collection and see!

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When Your Sibling Finds A Significant Person - ImitationGame - The Murderbot Diaries (Martha Wells) [Archive Of Our Own]

Title: When Your Sibling Finds A Significant Person Author: ImitationGame Rating: General Audiences Tags: #No Archive Warnings Apply #ART | Perihelion & Murderbot #ART | Perihelion & Iris #Murderbot #ART | Perihelion #Iris #Lina (OC) #Evolving Relationship #Sibling #comedy (in part) #2025 Aspec Murderbot Diaries Words: 2,440 Chapters: 1/1

Iris had always considered herself to be the best confidant to Perihelion. Then she saw how Perihelion and Murderbot understood each other implicitly. She started to wonder if it was time for her relationship to her sibling to change.