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    When Ed wakes, something's very wrong.

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    30 Sep 2024

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    Stede is not used to being touched. Ed insists touching is good for the body, and decides to help Stede, you know, for the health benefits.

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    17 Aug 2022

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    Best Fics hand down

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    Ed is an engineer aboard the Revenge, an interplanetary research vessel on a multi-year mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. An accident requires that Ed awaken from cryostasis over six months early, and finds his only companion to be Stede, the ship's onboard AI. They develop an unconventional friendship, but is it possible to have more?

    This is classic mutual pining with a sci-fi twist, inspired by all of my favorite stories about the nature of personhood.
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    “You–” Ed was struggling to parse what Stede was saying. “You’re playing your version of this song for me, right now? Like, in real time?”

    “Yes, Edward, that’s correct,” said Stede softly.

    Ed’s brain momentarily seized up. He supposed it made sense that Stede was capable of learning a set of rules to do something like arrange and play a piece of music. There was something unnerving about this song, though. It felt, well–it felt organic . Reactive. Almost collaborative in a way. Ed was lost in the push and pull of it, until the last notes softly petered out.

    “So, what did you think?” asked Stede. It sounded nervous again. Why the hell would someone program an anxiety response into a bot?

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    18 Mar 2023

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    Fabulously heartbreaking heartwarming

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    Stede wonders what the man looks like. He doesn’t sound young like the first profile. Maybe a man in his late thirties? Or forties, perhaps? “Yes, of course, but I—” He shifts on the sofa, feeling embarrassed. “I’m rather new to this, I’m afraid.”

    The man hums, and another shiver runs down Stede’s spine. “To phone sex?” he asks. “Paying for it? To talking to a man?”

    “All of the above,” Stede sighs. “I mean, I’ve talked to men before, obviously, but…”

    “Not for sex.”

    Stede figures that the safest way to figure out if he's actually attracted to men is by calling a phone sex line.

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    18 Mar 2023

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    Best Fics hands down