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Darkened Stars Still Shine from Afar by the_sylph_of_mind
Fandoms: Murder Drones (Web Series)
18 Oct 2025
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Serial Designation Z. Whoever she is, she’d showed up unannounced, bled everywhere, and then disappeared into the wastes with N. What the fuck could her deal possibly be? V’s brow furrows. Apparent serious injuries aside, she’d led N away from the spire right as dawn approached. V doesn’t really have a reason to think this…after all, how could this possibly be the case, but…could it be Z isn’t an ally?
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[In which our story continues]Series
- Part 2 of Your Heart in My Perfect Machine
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The path becomes steeper as she ascends and she’s panting a little by the time a square wooden structure comes into view, nestled idyllically between trees and huge, likely ancient boulders (well…modeled to give the impression of being ancient). The mannequin that greets her at the front desk gives her bloodstained outfit a disdainful once-over before directing her to some showers.
“Please wash thoroughly before visiting our onsen.”
“Your…sorry, your what?” She should have asked Gangle to come.
“The hot spring, jeez, Pomni.” Jax is suddenly there behind her again, and he makes her jump like he hasn’t since her first day at the Circus, leaving him snickering at her expense. “I thought you and Ribbons were close! Her feelings are gonna be so hurt when she learns you’ve been faking an interest in her anime trope tangents.”[In which the plan had been to make them bone in a hot spring, but I plonked them down in there and they just got to talking and bonding and being vulnerable with each other and it was so cute and soft and wholesome so I let them do what they wanted and they wanted to kiss at the end but not how you think.]
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“Jax?” She murmurs, not wanting her voice to carry to neighboring rooms. “Your door’s open. You alright?”
There’s no answer. Pomni’s mouth thins, and even as she knows he’d probably string her up by her hat for letting herself in, she gently pushes on the door. It swings inward with a creak that wouldn’t have been haunting had it not opened onto dead silent pitch blackness.
Jax’s blown out pupils.
Pomni shivers. The desire to flee rears its head in her guts again and her breaths become shaky in a way they haven’t since first landing in the Circus. If Jax has abstr—
She hurriedly shakes the thought away. Besides, Jax is the furthest from insane or obsessed with finding an exit out of the whole cast. Just by virtue of his ability to play by the rules of the Circus, every one of them is more likely to lose their minds and fully abstract before he’d even be in danger of it (Plus, the room is dark and silent, no rampaging monster full of glowing eyes to be found).
He’s definitely still not responding to her calling out to him, though. Something is still off.
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"After months of constant fear and wanton slaughter from above, the residents of Outpost 3 came to a difficult, grim decision. Everyone over the age of eighteen was assigned a number, and they instituted a lottery. The worker whose number had been drawn was to be sent out to the ferrovores’ lair as an offering, like a metal and silicone sacrificial lamb. The hope had been this practice would placate and pacify the creatures plaguing the bunker, and minimize the death the ferrovores brought down by way of curbing their bloodlust before it grew to proportions only sated by a massacre, as it had so often done. The brutal thing is that it had worked. There hadn’t been a killing spree in years, and all it cost was a single life every time the lunar phases reached their darkest."
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The claws at the end of one of the murder drone’s arms retract, replaced with a single long blade that reads very clearly to Uzi as a weapon designed for decapitation. She scrambles for insults to throw or distractions to find. She can’t be killed yet, not yet. She’s taking this thing down with her. She continues to drag herself backward toward her gun, half-buried in a snowdrift, and blurts, “W-Well, that’s boring! Just going to off me just like that? I-I thought murder drones liked to play with their food more.”
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[In which N damages Uzi far worse when she first snuck into the murder drones' lair, and reboots to a much more distressing scene.]Series
- Part 1 of Your Heart in My Perfect Machine
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Your Heart in My Perfect Machine by the_sylph_of_mind
Fandom: Murder Drones (Web Series)
18 Oct 2025
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The slums are grimy but quiet. The drones get into fights, but it's close to the protective walls of Province-3. And outside the walls of Province-3 are where the threats roam. Giant and small creatures, fast and slow beasts, yet incredibly dangerous all the same. And yet, the best material is also out there. And if Uzi wants this material, she's gonna have to venture out beyond the province walls.
Which isn't hard. Avoid lights, cameras, other drones, grab what you need, and return before sunrise. Easy as that! And for a long while, it was as easy as that. But not all creatures sleep at night. And not all spiders are more afraid of you than you are of it.
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20 Oct 2025
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Dungeons & Drones - Murder Drones Play Dungeons and Dragons by Peter_Strike
Fandom: Dungeons & Dragons (Roleplaying Game), Murder Drones (Web Series)
18 Oct 2025
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The title explains what you're in for, the characters of Murder Drones playing Dungeons and Dragons.
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20 Oct 2025
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Once upon a time, humans used to be the top of the food chain. But they were quickly dethroned when their creations-the drones-had enough of their abuse and torment. Now, they are at the very bottom, even below dirt. And now, they're the laborers, servants, and slaves. They're the one who're at the mercy of their very own creations.
In the aftermath of it all, the humans are treated as nothing more than cattle to be produced and sold off. Such is the fate of one Uzi... Something. She doesn't think she ever had a last name. Either way, she's just as much a slave as the rest of humanity. And unfortunately for her, the defiant, fiery nature of hers is seen as a "commodity" among her kind.
Though, she supposes she can still count one blessing, as her new "Master" doesn't appear to act like the rest. Of course, he isn't some push-over, but he's certainly nicer than Uzi could've gotten.
Doesn't mean she has to like her Master, though.
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- Part 13 of MD Smutfics (stories and oneshots)
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19 Oct 2025
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A learning algorithm in which neural networks process errors by working backwards through their connections, adjusting the strength of each pathway to minimize future mistakes.
The system repeatedly cycles through past failures, attempting to correct itself by rewriting the weights of its memories. In some cases, this process becomes recursive.
The network begins to optimize for the wrong parameters, reinforcing its errors rather than correcting them.
Each backward pass through the trauma deepens the pathways that should have been severed.
The learning stops.
The forgetting begins.
Sometimes the only way to stop the propagation is to disconnect entirely.
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27 Sep 2025
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The Door’s Wide Open But I Won’t Exit by TheSilverSpy
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
09 Jun 2025
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Gangle wants to feel the control she had at Spudsy’s again. Jax kind of maybe gets a crush on Gangle when she’s in control. Gangle sort of potentially gets a crush on Jax when he’s obedient for her. Unhealthy shenanigans ensue.
Can technically be read as one-shots but will subtly be a cohesive story, There is a chapter guide in the notes of the first chapter.
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03 Sep 2025