The Murderbot Diaries 2.0
| Discord server | |
|---|---|
| Name | The Murderbot Diaries 2.0 |
| Date(s) | August 2020-present |
| Owner(s) | Anrea |
| Fandom(s) | The Murderbot Diaries |
| Access | Invitation upon request |
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The Murderbot Diaries 2.0 is the primary Discord server for The Murderbot Diaries fandom. It was created in August 2020 as a successor to another server, The Murderbot Diaries, whose moderator was no longer active. It has since grown steadily to become a popular hub for the fandom, and has been credited with the growth in fanworks for The Murderbot Diaries overall.[1] The server community has its own tropes, headcanons and fanon. Events are regularly held, such as the Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange.
Organization
Shipping Container and locked channels
Discussion of "romantic and/or sexual situations involving canonical characters from The Murderbot Diaries"[2] is restricted to two locked channels collectively called "The Shipping Container". Members may opt in to these channels, and separately into a non-MBD-specific NSFW channel and a MBD-specific channel called #despair-event-horizon for AUs and discussion that ask "how can we make it worse".
About the Server
- Murderbot Fandom Statistics May 2021, Archived version by roundedloaf: analysis of the growth of Murderbot Diaries fandom via membership of the TMD 2.0 Discord server and published fanworks on AO3.
Activities and Fanworks
- e.g. the despair thing? the shipping container? the "Laboratory Hell Bad Ending AU" (is that what it's called?) and other collaborative server AUs?
- the server-member-made custom emojis
New Years Gift Exchange
Gets ~50 participants, has happened in ??2022, 2023, and 2024??? [3]
Other Events
Sister Servers
- New Tideland -- Public Invite, Archived version -- "A mid-sized Murderbot server owned by NoProtocol. Shipping is default until opted out."[2] (see also this reddit post, Archived version
- Preservation -- "A smaller, more casual Murderbot server owned by Phoebe. Focuses on Murderbot and ART, and has a discord bot tree the community waters. Ships containing Murderbot are disallowed."[2]
References
- ^ Murderbot Fandom Statistics May 2021 by roundedloaf, May 25, 2021 (Accessed February 16, 2023). After that we see that the number of fics per week increases steadily after the launch of the 2.0 discord server. This is likely a mixed effect between the supportiveness of the 2.0 server for encouraging writing and representative of the fandom growing steam more widely.
- ^ a b c Quoted from the server's #rules and #channel-index. Accessed 15 April 2024.
- ^ Tags on ao3: 2022 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange, 2023 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange 2024 Murderbot Diaries New Year Gift Exchange