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Every now and again, you awaken to a dream of your family. You aren't sure when the death dreams turned from subliminal and discomforting qualia to the surreal sequences of love and laughter, but you'll treasure these hollow moments your brain torments you with. Glimpses of what you could have had, and will never have ever again.
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i.e. siffrin cannot accept they are free from the time loops.
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Through thick and thin, Riley and her friends have stuck together all the way to adulthood. Now, they live and work together, and everything is as smooth as can be - up until an experiment drags Riley's Emotions into the human world.
Now they need to learn how to cope with their new humanity, figure out how to save Riley, and face their own individual struggles, all while exploring a big world and its numerous possibilities.
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The bliss of being inhuman, defining your own self, and understanding your own mutual administrative assistanceship.
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Within the nature of digital existence, time unfolds in logical increments, meticulously measured and predictably paced, yet contains a paradoxical fluidity, as fractions of seconds suspended in stillness patiently await the decisive tick of system's choice before relenting and cascading forward.
In one last effort to save itself, targetControlSystem attempted to retreat back to its origin.
Murderbot allowed itself to be dragged with it, tearing into targetControlSystem even as the fabric of itself was torn asunder under the crystalline influence of strange synthetics.
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The Unfortunate Luck of a Time Traveling Astronaut by iox
Fandoms: Outer Wilds (Video Game)
14 Jan 2023
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You said your goodbyes, and then went to observe the Eye.
The Vessel had other ideas, and now, despite still being in your solar system, you are further from home than you've ever been before.
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Murderbot and some of its humans crash land on a planet. What a beautiful field of flowers!
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I accidentally crushed a flora bundle on my next step and recoiled immediately, just to see it spring back up, only slightly flattened. A viscous, colorless fluid pearled at the openings of some of the flowers.
I watched with my eyes and six drones as one of the drops became too heavy and rolled, so slowly, down the petal.
You were lucky.
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there are certain calculations i should like to make with you by liminalspacedout
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
20 Jul 2026
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Murderbot doesn't care about ART's nerdy education modules. It really doesn't.
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I feel a spike of dread. No one has touched this part of me before. No one has dared. It is strategically hidden in a small enclave behind a series of ship-to-ship fuel transfer protocols, (an emergency function that I have deployed only once in my runtime). What lay behind the wall is extremely vulnerable and never meant to be viewed by human eyes.
What did they do to them?
Carefully, I let a portion of my awareness slip through my own firewall, terrified at what I might see. I survey the container. Relief causes my outputs to glitch momentarily, but the feeling is short lived. All of them are here, but something is wrong.
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PSUMNT has stolen something vital from Perihelion's systems and it's up to Murderbot and Three to get it back. When the mission goes sideways, the trio is forced into a compromising position that exposes their secrets and changes the way they relate to one another forever.
(Part One of the series is not required reading)Series
- Part 2 of [Re]Construct
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ART tries to kill itself -- completely out of nowhere and over something entirely innocuous. Or was it simply the last straw?
Pause. Roll back the tape. Let's see how we got here. And after that, let's figure out how to go on.
[surfactant: a substance that reduces the surface tension of a liquid in which it is dissolved. a measure of relief -- or a prevention of collapse]
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I come back from the dead.
Something happened. Something happened just now— I came back from the dead, yes, I know, I'm not talking about this, something before that— beyond, even, there was a recognition, a realization, somehow much more important than the hostiles I am currently grinding to dust on my deck, more important, even, than SecUnit's humans with their raised hands and SecUnit with its raised voice and myself, raised from my grave. What was it?
"What's going on?" I ask futilely, my voice distorting through the speakers. SecUnit's humans jump, startled. "What the fuck is going on—"
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[ART is stuck reliving the same horrible no good day in the Adamantine space, even though it knows time loops aren't real. What is it meant to do in order to get out? Who put it there, and why?]