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"Passingly, I think that this might always have been inevitable, that perhaps she had always known it but had wanted to hold on for me, for as long as she could."

Breathe With Me

by Anonymous for Mutual Rapport 2026

Rated T | Gen | ART & Murderbot, ART/Murderbot | Ambiguous

Fanfiction: Chaptered work | 5 chapters | 4,476 words

During a mission gone wrong, Murderbot is stabbed through its lungs. ART and the team must rush to do all they can to keep it alive.

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...and then going nope nope nope I want nothing more to do with this crazy story with giant alien animals that try to kill you, rogue secunits with their own agenda, corporate espionage, assassination attempts, alien contaminations that cause zombie apocalypses highly dangerous and irrational behavior, etc. and just... goes home after book one.

BISEXUALS GROW FROM THE GROUND

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.

They don’t want me. (Hey, I don’t want me, either, but I’m stuck with me.)