Mountains of Treatos

portrait of my beloved friend @broccoly-cowboy 's grounchy old lady

a T-rated fanfiction created by Anonymous for Mutual Rapport 2026

ART had stayed quiet the whole time. A quick peek at our private feed showed me that it had frozen, almost every bit of its enormous processing power at a dead standstill, nearly all of its attention pointing at me.  Fuck, fuck, fuck.  Ten seconds passed. Then twenty. I could feel ART hovering and didn’t trust myself to speak without yelling, so I gritted my teeth and forced myself to speak over the feed: Fuck you.  ART didn’t respond for a full five seconds.

happy in his blankeyy

With just 10 days to go until the Mutual Rapport AO3 collection is revealed, we wanted to give you all a heads-up on how things will be tagged on AO3 and on tumblr.

On AO3, all works in the collection will be tagged with:

the fandom tag: The Murderbot Diaries – Martha Wells

the relationship tag(s): either ART | Perihelion & Murderbot or ART | Perihelion/Murderbot, or both

the relationship dynamic tag(s): one or more of the tags Ambiguous Relationships, Platonic Relationships, Queerplatonic Relationships, or Romantic Relationships, according to the creator's intention

the event tag: Murderbot Diaries Mutual Rapport 2026

These are the minimum required tags for works in the collection; individual creators will also tag for the contents of their works according to their own discretion.

On tumblr, as part of our guessing game and in order to promote the fanworks created for the event, this blog will publish individual fanwork spotlights for each work in the collection.

The spotlights will be posted, over a 36-hour period starting at 12am UTC on July 10, to the following main fandom tags: #the murderbot diaries, #murderbot diaries, #tmbd, #murderbot, and #perihelion tmbd

Each spotlight post will also be tagged with the following, as applicable:

the rating tag: #rating: g, #rating: t, #rating: m, #rating: e

the relationship tag(s): #relationship: ART & Murderbot, #relationship: ART/Murderbot

the relationship dynamic tag(s): #ambiguous relationships, #platonic relationships, #queerplatonic relationships, #romantic relationships

the type of fanwork: #fanart, #fanfiction, #podfic

Every spotlight post will also be tagged with the event tag #mutual rapport and the blog organization tags #guessing game and #fanwork spotlight.

We'll also be posting teasers for some of our creators' works in the coming days, using most of the same tags, with the exception of the blog organization tags (instead we'll use #fanwork teaser). All teasers will be safe for work but will indicate the rating of the work they come from.

Case in point: Tsun Zu's rival defended a city with 10 men against Tsun's army of hundreds by disarming his own soldiers, dressing them in plain clothes, INVITING Tsun's army to come in, and it only worked because Tsun knew the guy was an ambush master and thought "if we attack the city he's inviting us into, we will die." and left without even trying ON THE BASIS OF HIS RIVAL'S REPUTATION AND NOTHING MORE

Another example: Tsun Zu, on being told his soliders were out of arrows during a battle against a city across a river from them, had his men craft scarecrows, put them on a boat, send it out on a line, leave it there for half an hour, then pull it back in and used the arrows the enemy had fired at the boat to restock their own ammunition. It only worked because it was foggy and the enemy couldn't tell the difference between the scarecrows and actual soldiers.

Crowley: "Uuuh..."

YOU CAN'T SERPENT, IT'S NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN ALCHEMIZE THROUGH DESTRUCTION OR THAT SHE CAN WEAVE FROM STARDUST, ITS SOMETHING YOU MAKE TRUE BECAUSE PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT IT IS. YOU USED TO BE SO CLEVER CROWLEY.

Crowley: "Ack, ngk, well...I've just been having a rough time lately..."

Unbury Your Gays: A Dead Gay Detectives Server Pride Zine 💀🌈

The DGD Server is excited to announce the release of our labor of love, Unbury Your Gays: A Dead Gay Detectives Server Pride Zine!

The zine features the exclusive work of 20 talented creators, including 30+ pieces of art and writing that celebrate Dead Boy Detectives and the theme "colors of pride". With content spanning a variety of characters, ships, and ratings, we hope that there is something for all DBDA fans to enjoy this pride month!

You can download the free digital DBDA fan zine (available in sfw and nsfw versions) as a PDF here 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜