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The last option involves closing down as many programs as I can get away with without shutting down, including the really important ones. It sounds terrifying, and it is. (Was.) (...Actually, who am I kidding, it’s still terrifying)
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25 May 2026
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Izumi Curtis is not the Elric boys' mother. She's not the mother of the three children from Xing, either. But when the dust clears after the Promised Day and there are five parentless children in desperate need of varying levels of medical attention, she's the closest thing to a mother any of them have.
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25 May 2026
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Are you jealous of me? Why?
No, you little idiot. I’m jealous of the fucking HubSys.
Okay, Murderbot, don’t panic. So what if the bots and systems you’ve interacted with in the past find your methods to be (ugh) intimate in some way. That was fine. That didn’t change anything. Right?
Shit, it changed everything.
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Murderbot finds out it's been unintentionally flirting with other bots and systems. ART wishes it would penetrate its own systems the same way.
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24 May 2026
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(when you move) i can recall something that's gone from me by brahe
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
24 Apr 2026
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The present me should feel disgusted by the mess SecUnit made on my deck, on my bulkhead, but I should also feel indifferent to SecUnit’s anger and ferocity, and I should be unaffected by the fluidity and grace of its violence—and I am not. I am so far from indifferent and unaffected that I have, instead, created new pathways within myself for the way I’m actually feeling.
The breathless violence, the ruthless revenge—all for me. It is nothing short of mesmerizing. SecUnit is mesmerizing. I am enraptured.
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ART processes the fragments of its memories from its deletion, and falls in love.
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- Part 2 of a crash without a sound
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24 May 2026
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i'm the machine and you're the ghost by brahe
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Oct 2025
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I skim the instruction document and pull the complex code file into the station’s processing space. I don’t think I’ve ever been this anxious for something to work, for something to happen. I know I’ve never been this desperate. Please—
The lights flicker, shutting off for hardly even a second before they turn back on, and maybe it’s just me and my faulty-ass organic parts and the emotional breakdown I’m maybe probably definitely having, but it feels like the air is different. It feels like—
Or,
A coda/minor rewrite for (mostly) ch. 7–8 in Network Effect.
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- Part 1 of a crash without a sound
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24 May 2026