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Do automata dream of electric spaghetti? by Mere_Mortifer
Fandoms: IT - Stephen King, IT (Movies - Muschietti)
02 Aug 2020
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“Oh fuck,” Richie moans. “Please don’t let it be a dead body, I will so vomit.”
But now that he can see it better, the stripe of skin that's peeking out of a sock is too smooth to be human, it reminds more of a—
"Doll."
The word leaves his lips with a not small dose of relief. He hooks a finger under the sheet that covers it and, keeping as far away from it as possible, he lifts it up and away.
There's a boy underneath. Well, it's a doll, Richie wasn't wrong about that, but it looks like a boy, roughly Richie's age. The Uncanny Valley effect is difficult to ignore: the face of the doll is alarmingly realistic, and so are the brown locks of its hair and the proportions of the body. He keeps waiting for it to blink its eyes open.Richie waits. It doesn't blink.
Until one day, it does.
(Or: Richie is lonely, Eddie is an automaton rotting away in Neibolt House, and the Turtle decides to play matchmaker in a very unorthodox way.)
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One Week by JaneTurenne
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
17 Nov 2009
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An average week in the life of Our Heroes becomes a battle of wills when the boys make a wager.
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“We do not take even our own observations quite seriously, or accept them as scientific observations, until we have repeated and tested them. Only by such repetitions can we convince ourselves that we are not dealing with a mere isolated ‘coincidence,’ but with events which, on account of their regularity and reproducibility, are in principle inter-subjectively testable.”
Popper, K. (1959). The Logic of Scientific Discovery. Harper & Row.
Or: Michael can still love, it turns out.
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either love is a shrine (or else, a scar) by jamesevanwilson (suhossineun)
Fandoms: House M.D.
22 Feb 2024
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House has a brilliant plan, and he needs Wilson's help. Wilson is a chronic enabler.
Getting married for the fourth time should be relatively easy.
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21 Aug 2025
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A Clexian fairy tale. It's the journey, not the destination.
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