20 Bookmarks by HalcyonHal
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Ayda Mensah wanted to go on a simple planetary survey mission. Things have not gone according to plan.
First, she aborted the mission months early. Second, she purchased a SecUnit with all of her (as well as her family's) life savings. Third, she’s been sued about six or seven different times. (She might have to ask Pin-Lee to come up with an itemized list.)
Oh, and fourth: She’s already lost SecUnit a day after taking custody of it.
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Or: Dr. Mensah's perspective from Chapter 8 of All Systems Red through Exit Strategy.
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- Part 5 of No Easy Distance
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- English
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- 90,607
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- 15/15
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Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
24 Sep 2025
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“I’m sorry, did you say eleven years old?” Ratthi asked, because humans can’t play back bits of conversations that they didn’t hear and are always asking each other to repeat things, much to the annoyance of any contracted SecUnits being forced to listen in and record everything they say to be sold for advertising data.
“Yes,” Gurathin confirmed, and then everyone was staring at me and looking all shocked and sad and whatever.
“Constructs don’t age the same way humans do,” I reminded them, before anyone could start thinking anything stupid like oh no, Murderbot is just a little kid and little kids shouldn’t be doing security and eleven year olds shouldn’t have guns in their arms. "Eleven is old for a SecUnit. Most of my inorganics are already past warranty.”
Except, because I’m an idiot, that didn’t make it better. It actually made it worse, because now even Dr. Mensah was making a concerned face at me.Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
23 Sep 2025
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i too am experiencing an emotion reading this
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While visiting Preservation on a new contract with some of her family, Tapan notices a familiar face.
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For some reason, the humans had started telling me about shows they thought I should watch.
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(Or, the Preservation Station squad decides that recommending new serials for Murderbot is a Murderbot-compatible love language. The results are mixed.)
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At the start of their senior year, Ransom is dating March and Holster is okay. Of course he is.
Except when he's not.(A Holsom fic originally posted to tumblr that has a happy ending. Promise.)
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- Part 4 of Check Please Tumblr Fics
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- English
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- 17,736
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- 4/4
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Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
22 Apr 2025
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I was talking about this fic to someone the other day and remembered how good it was and I'm so glad it's still here for me to reread! Drilling down into the angsty nuance of comedy relief side characters my beloved <3
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Aubrey has anxieties. Duck has insecurities. Ned doesn't know when to stop stirring up trouble. But before they can deal with their interpersonal issues, the Pine Guard need to deal with whatever's been causing all these forest fires...
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Hunter reopened the door, greeted once again by the darkness that yawned back at him, silent and indifferent to the horror that was quickly dawning on the three teenagers.
Willow had no time to let that harsh reality sink in, no time to consider how her bile sac twinged painfully from its abrupt severance from her home - not when she heard Gus sniffling immediately to her right.
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A small but catastrophic shift causes the portal to implode early on the Day of Unity and strands Willow, Gus, and Hunter in the Human Realm by themselves. The three of them maneuver Gravesfield, struggling to build a portal and return home to their friends and family.
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“I know - I get I was probably overwhelming you, so I’m sorry,” Willow says. “But you know what friends do actually do?”
The mask tilts slightly.
“Um,” Caleb says eloquently. “I don’t know. Different sports teams? More sports?”
“No,” Willow says, cutting him off before he can keep on saying something depressingly out of touch. “They help each other. I’m a plant witch! And I need a bit of lungflower too, so… we can work together to find it!”
“Why would you help me?” he asks. He sounds just as cutting as ever, but… confused.
“I mean,” Willow shrugs. “You’re my friend, aren’t you?”-
Willow has had a lot of friendships go sour over the years, and there's no reason for her not to think that her somewhat complicated feelings about the newest member of her flyer derby team won't end up the same way. A mission to retrieve a rare flower with said newest member might be just what she needs to figure out if staying friends with the Emperor's right-hand man is a good idea.
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Atlas of The Boiling Isles: A Compendium by MarztheIncredible
Fandoms: The Owl House (Cartoon)
01 Oct 2023
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The thick tome cracks and threatens to fall apart as you open it. The smell of old, water-stained parchment hits your sense of smell. You spy still legible text on the corner of a page.
'Atlas of the Boiling Isles: Right Humerus'
You read.
You learn.
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- Part 2 of Titan's Blessing Universe
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wizz for coading! by marnanel
Fandoms: Molesworth - Geoffrey Willans (ill. Ronald Searle)
16 Oct 2025
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in which i, nigel molesworth, the masked coader hem hem, explane computer sience
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get in loser we're assassinating the emperor by elliptical
Fandom The Owl House (Cartoon)
18 Nov 2024
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Luz Noceda wandered into the Demon Realm as a very young child, whereupon she was rescued and raised by a super benevolent Emperor.
Nobody says a word when the super benevolent Emperor dies under mysterious circumstances.
A mostly-horror series about Luz and Hunter being raised together in the castle, navigating Holy Shit levels of traumatic codependency, and being very worried about each other. Much to the chagrin of literally everyone who cares about them.
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Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
31 Aug 2023
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Fics that have seared themselves irrevocably onto my consciousness
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The #ImmortalHusbands Conspiracy by Amiril, phoenixacid
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
20 Aug 2020
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@kathryyn2ys
Okay you know how most of the statues on buildings in New York are all the same lady?? Well. I have found her Renaissance counterpart. Behold: whoever this guy was. He c l e a r l y got around@amberjunnie
bro one of those is by Michelangelo and the other is by Caravaggio, if it's the same dude then he didn't age at ALL in like 30-40 years.@sewingoatmeal
Reblog to support an immortal model, his muslim boyfriend, his asian girlfriend and her girlfriend.(A Social Media Project)
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- Part 1 of Phoenixacid's The Old Guard Fanarts
- Part 17 of Amiril Fic (Not Cover Art)
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- English
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- 3,333
- Chapters:
- 3/3
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- 728
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Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
15 May 2023
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So so creative and funny and immersive!!! Amazing use of CSS in a transformative work setting 👏
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Beholding the GDPR: How the Magnus Institute Updated Its Privacy Policy for the Twenty-First Century And Only Caused One Nervous Breakdown In The Process by shinyopals
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
18 May 2020
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I'm sure given your position you already know about the advent of the General Data Protection Regulation next year, wrote Peter Lukas, to Elias Bouchard. However, the Lukas family wishes to be crystal clear that our continued investment is contingent upon the Institute taking its responsibilities with regards to privacy and confidentiality seriously.
The Magnus Institute hires a Data Protection Officer. He sets about diligently booking in meetings, writing policy documents, and training all the staff in the importance of confidentiality. Now if only he could get hold of the Head Archivist, who seems to have vanished again...
(Jon is only trying to save the world, but apparently some people think he should still be doing his day job.)
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- Language:
- English
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- 8,821
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- 1/1
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Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
15 May 2023
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Turns out the real monsters were the GDPR violations we made along the way <3
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Mid-Season-One Zuko is held for ransom by Chief Hakoda. Ozai's replies to the Water Tribe's demands are A+ Parenting. Hakoda is… deeply concerned, for this son that isn't his, and who might be safer among enemies than with his own father.
Podfic and translations in Dutch, German, Hungarian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian now available! See chapter one author notes for links.
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you are any way the wind blows by suzukiblu for MirandaTam
Fandoms: Avatar: The Last Airbender
24 Jun 2020
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Air feeds fire, but nobody in the Fire Nation talks about that. Ty Lee heard it somewhere, though.
But that was a long time ago.
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"Goncharov" redirects here. This article is about the 1973 film. For the shoe manufacturer, see Goncharov (Brand).
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From the time he's young, any injury that Hunter receives is halved at the moment he's struck. From the time she's young, Willow has a curse that no one knows how to cure.
Despite their differences—and their similarities—they come together to break the spell that binds them.
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The view from the staircase is, well, not stunning, that’s definitely not the word. It’s just that “view” is supposed to be accompanied by “stunning,” and Luz can feel her brain coming to a screeching halt and refusing to process what they’re seeing.
It's skeletons. Come on, they both knew it was going to be skeletons. The entire Isles know at this point.(Or: despite what the stories would have you believe, in the aftermath, there are things to deal with. Those things include ruined infrastructure, electing new leaders, and prosecuting those responsible for the old regime. And apparently, also Grimwalker mass graves.)
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- Part 10 of Bad but sad fics
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- English
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- 44,290
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- 11/11
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Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
19 Jan 2023
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Everything you ever wondered about how the Boiling Isles political system actually works but were too afraid to ask
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The days trapped in the human world are good — Camila Noceda is kind. She patches Hunter's wounds, makes him breakfast for no price more than the dishes he insists on doing, lets him tag along to her job at the veterinary clinic.
But in the night, something scratches at his skin. It wants out. Hunter knows he cannot let it out.
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How do you take care of a Trojan horse?
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- English
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- 13,977
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- 5/5
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Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
16 Jan 2023
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Hexside's brand new flyer derby team are a little worried about their new friend. Okay, actually a lot worried. Between his total lack of knowledge re: normal teenager things and the worrying comments he keeps making in their group chat, it's pretty clear his life sucks big time. But what can any of them do for somebody stuck in the Emperor's Coven -- even if that person is someone they care about?
Something about the latest news from the castle doesn't track though, which means it's time to prove the Penstagram is mightier than the sword, and that even Belos himself is no match for a bunch of teens armed with timestamps.
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- English
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- 36,873
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- 5/5
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Bookmarked by HalcyonHal
14 Nov 2022
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Forever sad we never got more than one episode of this Emerald Entrails teamwork dynamic in canon 😢 I love the way this author writes Skara!