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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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After a couple of hard days and sleepless nights, Anxiety is looked after. agere fluff. That's it, that's the fic.
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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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After ART briefly loses control of life support during an intimate moment with Murderbot, the two of them need to do damage control with the crew. But first, Murderbot needs to come out of the bathroom.
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- Part 2 of Interface Anomaly
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What’s that? ART didn’t seem any happier than I was about the humans bringing unidentified tech aboard. Before Adamantine we might have scanned it, but since that mess I’m not touching anything without at least an idea of what it’s designed to do.
‘It’s a spike bomb,’ answered Tarik, grimly. ‘A ship-killer.’
ART's humans want PSUMNT to give it more rights. All ART wants is for SecUnit to do a therapy module, even if it is on Holism. But they may have bigger problems to worry about.
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- Part 4 of run box quartet
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While helping ART pack for a new colony rescue mission, Murderbot finds a discrepancy in its crew manifest. The truth is weirder and more emotionally loaded than it ever expected.
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People have commented on how MB as a SecUnit might relate to ART as analogous to a HubSystem and what that means for their relationship, but how does ART, as a bot pilot designed to pilot drones and shuttles and split itself into multiple pieces, relate to having a SecUnit on board? -
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Why did this have to happen now? Now, at such a vital time for everyone else, when they needed as much manpower as possible? Now, when it’s so early, when you wanted more time to think-- when you were just starting to think that maybe you--
Maybe you wanted--
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Siffrin goes into labour, at the worst possible time.
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- Part 2 of Too fast? Too slow?
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The most important relationships in ART's life are with the humans who raised it, and for whom it is now both home and friend. But ART lives almost entirely in the feed, where it is imperceptible to the humans unless it makes an active effort to be perceived. Struggling to be seen and understood, and to understand the humans who are its whole world, it turns to the thing it knows best: research.