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This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?
Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?
Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.
This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.
Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.
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(When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)
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21 Sep 2025
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Dislocated Proximity: theories and analysis on The Locked Tomb series by Crane_Carlisle
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
22 Aug 2025
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Making a home for the Locked Tomb theories I've written about elsewhere! Mostly focused on the Third and Sixth Houses
Including:
The Nona-to-Corona Connection: how Nona's entire household might have been our queer-affirming foil to the Third
How Gideon Maybe, Personally, Totally Ruined Everything for the Third, and Other Notes on Tern and the Tridentarii
The Harrow and Naberius Friendship Power Hour (A completely serious proposal concerning Dante's Inferno)
The Matthias Nonius Fan Convention Needs Cosplayers and Naberius Tern’s Body is Ready (continuously updated, too many implications to deal with)
unhinged theory about the Hot Sauce Gang and their art (massive series spoilers)
Immaculate vibes: Close reading of the Third's first scene in GtN (Babs gives Corona the silent treatment?)Just added: Civil Unrest and Fan Culture in the Third House (Naberius Tern, accidental people's hero?)
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13 Aug 2025
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Where the Tendon Meets the Bone by Crane_Carlisle
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
23 Sep 2025
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Following their battle with the Resurrection Beast in the River, Ortus Nigenad and his merry band of warriors explore Hell and revive an old connection between the Third and the Ninth.
Or, Marta tries her hand at storytelling.
Chapter 6: Marta and Nonius bicker about whether or not one's heroes are allowed to indulge in sexual innuendo
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13 Aug 2025
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The car whines when Astarion accelerates, a thumping under his feet and center console. The dashboard rattles, teeth in a skeleton, even the steering wheel keening like a death knell. Every time he brakes, something screams. He can't smell smoke, but he can feel heat pouring from the vents, sweating through his nightclothes. There's a dial from hot to cold—he spins it and feels nothing change.
When he presses its gas, the car goes forward. When he brakes, it stops.
He keeps driving.
Astarion escapes Cazador with the clothes on his back, a wad of stolen cash, and a car that's sat abandoned in a garage for thirty years.
There's a metaphor in that, perhaps.
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12 Aug 2025
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Closed Loop System by One_of_Them (greenbean_paste)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Jun 2025
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SecUnit Two: Atmospheric conditions optimal.
SecUnit One: ...
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