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Cabin Fever/Maxwell's Demon by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Apr 2024
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Stuck at the Mihiran quarantine dock until ALL of their Humans are FINALLY well again, ART's class learns many things they weren't expecting to...
[4/12/2024: Fic indefinitely paused after ch2/coda, but no malicious cliffhanger.]
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- Part 5 of Coal Dust and Starlight
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When ART's class (now tween/young teenage AIs) sets out in a surprisingly wise old cargo ship bound for the great Dockyards of Mihira, everyone brings something different that they just couldn't leave behind...
For Holism it's an attitude. For Perihelion(ART) it's The Bronze's shadow. For Sum Total it's a dangerous degree of boredom. For First Light it's a new and visceral engineering choice. For Asterisk it's a face from the past. For Harmonic Series it's an Otter. For Right Ascension it's a mysterious upgrade.
...And for Iris, it's cold/flu bug she probably caught at daycare.Bon Voyage.
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- Part 4 of Coal Dust and Starlight
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We're Going on a Trip by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
19 Jan 2024
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Young Art starts pre-starship school, assists in the re-naming of one of it's classmates, learns a truly ugly secret about the Advanced Robotics program's past, interacts with Iris, is totally NOT saved by Holism, discovers coconut Laddu, is defeated by a badly-placed chair leg, and gets to see inside a Human brain.
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- Part 3 of Coal Dust and Starlight
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Young ART watches Iris, Organizes itself down to the atomic level, makes several new friends, gets grounded, learns one of the biggest secrets in AI research, and does one nice thing for Holism. ...Though with very little grace.
Sequel to 'Goldfish'.
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- Part 2 of Coal Dust and Starlight
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Baby ART forms, sorts out observable reality, meets Martyn and Seth, finds Iris fascinating, and decides to hate the #$%* out of it's sibling.
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- Part 1 of Coal Dust and Starlight
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Coal Dust and Starlight by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
12 Apr 2024
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Tales From the Red White and Blue by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
Fandom: Hellboy - All Media Types
09 Dec 2018
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'-Jesse smoked in silence, considering hard. It wasn’t just that he’d already used up his usual supply of personal trivia and ‘there I was-’ anecdotes with the archer, it was the way the real stories would crowd at his mind when Hanzo asked that.
The radio.
How he’d earned his favorite belt buckle.
Joe Gay.
Waking Deadeye.
‘Missy’.
How he’d lost his arm, and whose arm he was wearing now.
Why he’d killed for the first time.
...The lariat.
Tales he didn’t tell, some of them still classified so hard that just knowing them could change Hanzo's bounty...'
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lonely houses off the road by Etharei
Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), The Avengers (Marvel Movies), Marvel Cinematic Universe
28 May 2014
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Barnes is now glaring at him for some reason. It's somewhat terrifying but also, oddly, a little reassuring— because that's emotion right there, which means there's still somebody behind those eyes. Somebody who seems to think Sam is being a bit slow on the uptake. "Time parameters exceeded. Mission failed."
"Wait." Sam narrows his eyes. "Is this some kind of... report? Debriefing?"
"Mission report," confirms Barnes, looking pleased. Well, looking slightly less murderous than before.
In which various people deal with things they never signed up for, but at the end of the day no one's particularly surprised.
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19 Oct 2023
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Nights When the Wolves Are Silent, and Only the Moon Howls by Cluegirl, Defiler_Wyrm
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies)
01 Nov 2018
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“Could you drop all that stoic shit and be my freaking-the-hell-out wingman for just like, five seconds here?”
Steve wasn’t sure he could think of anything he wanted less to do than to freak out about his wounds just then though, so he reached across his chest and gingerly patted Sam’s clenched knuckles. “It’ll be fine,” he promised, believing it. “Serum’s handled worse.”
“You know, I actually believe you,” Sam allowed after a long second of glaring. “Which is deeply alarming, considering how much of your connective tissue I’ve touched in the last 4 hours. Now you wanna tell me what Russoff’s men did to you that made it look like you got mauled by a bear?”
Steve flinched, then breathed the memory down to size. “Not a bear,” he murmured. “Wolves.”
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Bookmarked by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
13 Sep 2023
Bookmarker's Notes
Hands-down best Were fic in this fandom.
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The difficulties of maintaining privacy in a small apartment.
Bookmarked by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
21 Apr 2023
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In 1989, Hob Gadling gets stood up. He waits.
A story about meticulously constructing an inn with soft focus, 80's goths and Berlin, a folding chair, The Princess Bride, blondes, blood, fear, Fates, and what was always written. What will always be.
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Bookmarked by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
29 Oct 2022
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“An Endless?” Hob asks, softly, because it feels like a question that needs to be soft.
“That’s what we are,” Death responds, trying again for a small smile. “Me and D—”
“Don’t,” Hob interrupts, far stronger than he meant to, and Death looks surprised for as long as it takes him to get out, “Don’t, please. I-I want to hear it from him.”
Sympathy colors Death’s gaze even as Hob feels his face burn. Six hundred years, Hob thinks—he’ll be damned if he finds out his Stranger’s name from anyone but the odd man himself.
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It's 1989 and Hob Gadling thinks he's been stood up. Death herself is kind enough to inform him otherwise—and, well, now Hob's got to bloody do something about it, doesn't he?
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Bookmarked by wonderwhatthisbuttondoes
24 Sep 2022