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Ayda Mensah was in her office cubby, reviewing the last of the council dispatches, when she received an urgent assistance request from Secunit.
That... had never happened before.
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Murderbot has a close encounter of a 3-year-old kind. It is not impressed.
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29 Sep 2023
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An AU in which Gojyo and Hakkai don't meet until much, much later.
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23 Jun 2023
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A Strange Adventure with Mrs. Nakamura the Safety Consultant by shiplizard
Fandoms: Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi | Spirited Away
15 Oct 2010
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Haruki is a young administrative assistant at a large power management company. He's just been assigned to spy on (in his capacity of personal aide) the strange Nakamura Chihiro-- a sensibly dressed Safety Inspector with a sensible husband tucked somewhere in the country, and a sensible approach to her work...
...and a closer relationship with the Spirit World than she puts on her resume.
Kindly betaed by Gehayi and Bell Witch
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23 Jun 2023
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Volescu attends a pre-survey farewell dinner, gets an award he wasn't expecting, and takes a walk with a friend he expected even less.
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25 May 2023
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I could have become a murderer when the hopper I was being transported in crashed on an uninhabited planet and left just one surviving human crew.
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All Systems Red AU where prior to the PreservationAux Survey, a company hopper carrying Murderbot crash landed on the survey planet, leaving it to fend for itself in the alien landscape.- Language:
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25 Apr 2023
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All Creatures Wild & Tame by isoscele
Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies), The Avengers (Marvel) - All Media Types, Marvel Cinematic Universe, The Incredible Hulk (2008)
13 May 2022
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The Hulk is a superhero, beloved public figure, and savior of New York.
Bruce Banner is a seven-year-old boy with an imaginary friend.
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01 Mar 2023
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Dr. Gurathin knows he and SecUnit got off to a bad start when they first met. Although it's been a while and things have improved since then, SecUnit is still pretty rude to him pretty much all the time. And honestly? He's getting sick of that. Hypothesis: SecUnit hates him. Objective: Find out why.
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20 Jul 2022
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A Case Study On Mutualistic Relationships by CompletelyDifferent
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
06 Jan 2022
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Dr. Pranjal Ratthi has written papers on mutualism, symbiotic relationships where all species involved benefit from their interactions. It turns out that applying theory into practice with human-AI dynamics is a little more complicated than he might have anticipated. But worth it, in the end.
[Network Effect, from Ratthi's perspective.]
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18 Jul 2022
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mutually-assured discretion by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Aug 2023
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I didn’t look directly at Seth, because intimidation wasn’t the purpose of showing him my face. But I saw that moment that all of my clients had; the recognition that they’d signed their life over to an entity that intended to guard it with trained and shackled monsters.
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Perihelion's humans are embarking on a planetary survey, and are in need of security. With little choice in the matter, they contract with the company.
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18 Jul 2022
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gardens full of aching trees by galacticdrift (Ancalime)
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
19 Nov 2019
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Just...kicking around some ideas about how little Cad heals himself, mainly, and why that might be, and how Fjord might react upon finding out (spoilers: they kiss). I meant for this to get spicy with the Lay On Hands but Fjord really just had his heart set on yearning instead.
Title from Murder By Death's "Solitary One."
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06 Mar 2022
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Distance makes the heart grow fonder by Multifandom_damnation
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
24 Feb 2020
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Caduceus is gone just as fast as he arrived, and he leaves his siblings behind to bicker amongst themselves and think about everything he's been through in the ten years that they've been away.
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05 Mar 2022
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"Caduceus eyes Eadwulf as he places his hands on his hips, and raises his eyebrows yet again.
“I think you should get back to work, Mister Grieve,” he says, pulling his shovel free from the loose earth. “And stop kicking my plants. Have a little respect... They’ve been damaged enough already.”
Eadwulf huffs, almost a laugh. “Caught you on a bad day?” he asks. There’s a smirk on his face, and a spark beneath Caduceus’ ribs that doesn’t dissipate this time — instead it catches alight. And Caduceus slaps Eadwulf square across the face."
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in which caduceus gets to do a little violence, as a treat.
a fix-it/missing scene in a way, i suppose. mostly because in episode 141 when caduceus yelled at eadwulf i thought for just a second he was going to straight up attack him, and i think that wouldve slapped (haha) so.. i wrote a thing. but then it turned out angstier than i meant it to.. but who is surprised abt that?
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04 Mar 2022
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A city built to fight the gods, even buried beneath the snow, is still a danger to their servants. When one of the hidden dangers of Eiselcross makes itself known almost too late, Mighty Nein race against the clock to find the cure--or come to terms with the loss of one of their own.
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“Only a matter of life or death,” Beau said.
“Isn’t everything?”
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04 Mar 2022
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all the stars would shine a bloody red by InTheMidnightHour
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
24 Jan 2022
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“Time stopped meaning anything, and it was too quiet, and the Wildmother wasn’t speaking, and I was just… here… keeping home, and… waiting for a sign to leave.”
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The lonely seasons of the final Clay to leave the Blooming Grove.
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04 Mar 2022
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"You know what I did hear about, growing up," Beau continued, as if he hadn't spoken. "I heard about this family down the way that had these really beautiful lilies. They used to cut them and put them around the house. Until one of their house cats got curious and took a nibble. Want to hazard a guess what happened to it?"
"From your tone, I'm guessing it didn't have a prophetic vision."
"It died, Caduceus," she said. "It stopped eating, stopped drinking, and three days later it was dead."In which Caduceus is evasive, Beau refuses to be deflected, and the author processes thoughts and feelings after episode 130.
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04 Mar 2022
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Caduceus awakes to a splitting headache and all of his friends around him in a dark cavern, unconscious and bleeding out. In a desperate attempt to get everyone to safety, he neglects his own injuries. For once, his friends won't let him get away with it.
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04 Mar 2022
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They were sharing a pot of tea in the empty bar of the Lavish Chateau. Streams of morninglight caught the steam, made it ghostly as it curled around Caduceus’ features.
Not for the first time, Fjord had to fight down the impulse to seize him roughly by the collar and kiss him.(Fjord and Caduceus make out in the ocean. It's a lot for everyone involved).
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03 Mar 2022
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'till our compass stands still by steelneena for EzrasMoon
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
07 Oct 2020
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Caduceus can think of nothing sufficient to describe how acutely it will pain him to leave his heart behind when he finally is called home to the Blooming Grove. So he waits. And waits. Until he can wait no longer. All things come to an end sometime, and their paths are finally diverging. He can only hope that Fjord will understand when he finally gets up the courage to tell him goodbye.
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Caduceus is in love, Fjord is blind, and Jester is the wisest of them all.
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03 Mar 2022
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if all they told was turned to gold by aeternaliternovae
Fandoms: Critical Role (Web Series)
14 Oct 2020
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Caduceus Clay was everything a cleric was supposed to be; he was pious, forthright, and devoted. He obeyed the will of his Goddess, and followed the path that destiny commanded.
And he never, ever wanted.
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03 Mar 2022
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Jester clues in to how Caduceus has been looking out for her--and realizes that he could probably use some looking after as well.
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28 Feb 2022