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In which Dean Winchester cannot rest in peace, Jack gets familiar with existential loneliness, Amara gets front row seats to Jack's favorite ship, old friends help hack Heaven, and Castiel still awaits his Paradise. And Sam? He gives everyone his long-suffering blessing.
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In which John plays fast and loose with the definition of the word "facts;" Or how Sherlock Holmes makes a statement. (Edited: 09/14/11)
As the morphine drip drags him under, John concludes that Moriarty never stood a chance. He’s glad that at least he remembers his primary school stuff, because when it comes to Sherlock and himself, it’s not fate. It's...
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Ayda stops and blinks. That isn’t SecUnit. Why in the world had she thought it was? That’s an average-height human in a smart green suit, looking well-fed and well-rested and well-coiffed. They even have an elegant wedding tattoo on their neck, in the Delune tradition. They look, in short, nothing like SecUnit, apart from the –
Well, apart from the face.
‘Sorry,’ says Ayda, staring. ‘I mistook you for someone else.’-
Mensah accidentally makes a complicated discovery. Murderbot would rather she didn't.
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04 Sep 2025
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Local SecUnit reunites with former clients while visiting the Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland. Former clients are delighted. SecUnit is not.
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If I were a smart murderbot, I wouldn’t have looked around. I would have kept on following Iris through the university courtyard and left well enough alone. If I were a dumber bot, I wouldn’t have looked around either. Because whoever had said that name was probably talking to someone actually named Eden, not a construct who had briefly borrowed that name from its favorite serial.
But I’m just me, and I looked around.Bookmarked by obviouslysubtle
23 Aug 2025
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It seems like there should be a very neat line, at least for humans, between dead and not dead, but I’ve seen enough messy half-alive humans to know that there is no such clear distinction. I’ve seen bodies that were still breathing despite missing part of their heads, bodies that weren’t breathing despite their owners being fully conscious. I wouldn’t call either option alive. I wouldn’t call either option dead, either.
For a machine intelligence, the border is even blurrier. It's hard to say which side of it I will stand on when they're through with me.
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22 Aug 2025
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You can’t be this stupid, ART said, which was insulting but also relieving, because it never talked to me that way during the trauma treatment. Maybe this wouldn’t turn into a BARF after all. Turn off your governor module, you idiot. It’s giving you brain worms.
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- Part 2 of sandbox environment
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21 Aug 2025
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Sharing a body and working through fear of the self
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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?Bookmarked by obviouslysubtle
21 Aug 2025