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Three Sentence Ficathon 2026
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2026-01-22
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mechanical self-fashioning

Summary:

Who decides what to name a Jaeger?

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For the 2026 Three Sentence Ficathon: Pacific Rim, any, who decides what to name a jaeger. Originally posted here.

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Inside the Drift, all is in motion: memory and sensation, sentiment and fear, all sluice through a scrappy haze; pilots' psychological flotsam bumps and creaks in collision, joins briefly, then spins away.

A solitary tower rises out of the fog, still and slick, dark with certainty: this is my name, it says, call me this.