Gilded_Pleasure



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    They say you have to love yourself before you can love anyone else, but they are full of shit. Sometimes loving someone else with all your might helps you learn how to love yourself.
    Turns out sometimes it helps even more when that someone else is also, in a way weirder than most, you.

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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    For the murderserver's prompt "Tiny"

    A brief crisis about size, significance, and the hazards of existing, big or small.

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    Sam 15 starts a new contract at an industrial platform on asteroid ST-234o23iu4. // SecUnit9123 does its job as the lone SecUnit on duty while XtraCor chews up workers and spits them out— until it can't anymore.

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    02 Mar 2026

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    Something rippled around her. It wasn't a sound. It was more of a texture, a movement, a local gravitational instability, a color. It felt like laughter. You didn't have to say it like that, [SecUnit] said, and it was pure relief to know it wasn't upset. It was joking. It's fine, though. The feed is different, it doesn't bother me in the same way. You can… it winced, but finished, 'touch me' as much as you want, in here.

    In the immediate aftermath of her kidnapping, Ayda isn't ready to be alone. SecUnit isn't ready to let her out of its sight, either. When she makes the startling discovery that her new implant allows her to connect with it in a way she never knew was possible, they reach for one another on instinct. Sometimes, the comfort you need can take you places you never expected.

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  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    In order of ascending priority, I am returning to the alien-remnant-contaminated planet with Murderbot 1.0 for the following reasons:

    1. I have nothing else useful to do.

    2. 1.0 continues to experience malfunctions that may compromise whatever mission it is assigned. (Or assigns itself.) (It refuses to explain the nature of these malfunctions.)

    3. The colonists have sent word of an agricultural bot displaying erratic, threatening behavior near their largest settlement.

    4. I disabled my governor module so I would not have to stand around while others died.

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    27 Feb 2026

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    I believe you and I could interface as you did with the afflicted gunship. Without overwhelming either of our processing capacity, it added. If you were interested.

    I might be, I said. // Murderbot and ART integrate their systems. It's definitely not sex. They'd both definitely know if it was sex, and it's not.

    (Post-Systems Collapse)

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    25 Feb 2026

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    body sharing for the amelioration of my MAA’s mental illness is the ultimate gateway drug for increased intimacy between us in whatever form that takes