NoirRosaleen



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    Gifts for other ficcers, whose works I adore. These are all set a 'verse or three over from an existing work.

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    These are all from a request challenge I did involving putting together a list of 15 characters and having people prompt questions like, "If 2 and 13 ran into each other at a club, how would that meeting go?" Cross-fandom and hilarity ensued.

    ...also, I may be amenable to more such prompts, if anybody throws some my way. Pretty sure I still have that list lying around here somewhere, and ficlets are WAY easier to write than full-on fics with a baby commando-crawling around the house!

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    I am 22 meters away from your medical suite, I told ART. I'll be fine. I closed our feed connection.

    ART immediately reopened the connection. 22.668, it corrected me haughtily. Since you hacked my crew intake system to force the medical forms to list your emergency sexual partner as “null,” you still need to make a plan.

    I sighed. I’ve had a lot of practice, so it was a really good sigh. You didn’t stop me, I pointed out.

    Yes. I am regretting that now, it replied, dry.

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    18 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 19

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    noun: perihelion

    1. the point at which an orbiting body is closest to the sun.

    A ship designed to cherish and protect. A SecUnit built to throw its life away. In retrospect, it was inevitable: ART and its SecUnit experimented with a new form of intimacy, and took the experiment too far.

    Now, Murderbot is adrift without its body in the ocean of ART's mind. ART, frantic, tears through its own mind, searching. A small piece of it stays behind to keep its SecUnit's brain from falling apart in its hands, but it may already be too late.

    You would never crush me, ART. You would never hurt me. Still, I am drowning in you.

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    06 Dec 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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    20 Nov 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 14

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    A study of the metric 'performance reliability' as used in canon.

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  5. Public Bookmark 53

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    Murderbot malfunctions and needs repairs. Gurathin is the only one who knows how to fix it.

    Sequel to Privacy Breach.

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    02 Nov 2025