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While on an undercover mission deep in the Corporation Rim, Tarik
buysstealsrescuesacquires a ComfortUnit. This is fine—it can hang out while he finishes the mission, he’ll be not-an-asshole to it, and then it can go on its liberated way and never have to see him again. This will definitely not get weird and messy. -
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood by gremble
Fandoms: Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator
07 Jun 2023
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It takes Robert one evening to fall for the New Guy, and the better part of two years to figure out... everything else.
(For people who find themselves tempted by this fic, but aren't familiar with the game -- might I offer you a ddads primer that will give you all the background you need for it.)
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Sense: Awareness, Perception, Recognition by jottingprosaist (jane_potter)
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
17 Nov 2025
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"I am curious to know if you smell good," Three had said, interrupting Perihelion's much snottier explanation of the same thing. "Or. If the way you smell is good to me."
It was different, coming from Three. It reminded Tarik a little of the way he himself had first approached life on New Tideland: the overwhelmed envy, the stunned wonder, the stifled little voice always going, Is that as nice as it looks?
"Okay," he'd said, nonplussed, and handed over his sweaty shirt, only to belatedly ask, "Is this a sex thing?"
Three and ART have a strange request, for experimental reasons. Tarik thinks why not, it can't get much weirder than that.
Then it gets a lot weirder. Tarik has about fifteen reactions to that, several of them horny.
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- Part 1 of Sensory Experimentation
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The Walls are Bleeding by Polygeminus_grex
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
07 Mar 2025
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"It was more like a SecUnit than a bot, so much so I wondered if it was a construct, if there was cloned organic brain tissue buried in its systems somewhere."
-Chapter Two of Artificial Condition by Martha Wells.Bookmarked by gremble
16 Nov 2025
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It's hard to think for yourself when you've never had to think before. It's worse when your problem-solving is all limited by modules worth less than the load they take in your processing.
Unfortunately, flawed knowledge modules are better than no modules at all, which is what SecUnit003 aka "an idiot" now has to think of a way to get around without alerting either of the smarter, meaner, and cagier MIs that keep pinging it.
I am an idiot and I have made a terrible mistake. Now I have to fix it before Murderbot, y'know, murders me.
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- Part 1 of Procedural Learning
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10 Oct 2025
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This is bullshit. Daniel has spent two years persistently dialling Armand’s mental phone number in the vampire psychic network, and after two years of getting the equivalent of ‘the number you’re trying to reach no longer exists,’ he bumps into his maker in a dinky little repair shop. In Canada. Smelling like—this is where Daniel must be going crazy, because Armand smelled like a human in there. An unremarkable, blood-filled, regular human, with notes of stale sweat and artificial lemon detergent.
Which part of the vampiric telenovela that makes up Daniel’s life is this again?
(OR, the fic where Armand shows up again as a human, but Daniel's still a vampire, and then they do role-reversal Devil's Minion nonsense)
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Bookmarked by gremble
05 Aug 2025
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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30 Jul 2025