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[Feedback on APC202ESSAY-DRAFT2-DAEMONS??? By Iris B; comments by PSUMNT Research AI PE92967 “Perihelion”]
[3] Incorrect. It is true that human/bot constructs do not present external daemons, but they do have robust Rusakov signatures, enough that without interference they should be able to form an animus construct
>Peri, what were you just saying about making claims with no sufficient literature? I can’t find ANYTHING on this subject. Obviously constructs are intelligent enough to be sentient, but there’s no published sources on their dust signatures. It’s all proprietary bullshit and paywalls [Amusement_sigil_frown]
>Apologies. I was extrapolating from an unpublished dataset. It would be better to remove this section entirely.
>??? Peri where did you even find data on secunit dust signatures??
>Peri where did you get the data.Or; what it means to have a soul as a horrifying murderbot, even if it's really really inconvenient.
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- Part 3 of MB fics by Basalt
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29 Jan 2026
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Benoit Blanc, Jud knew, was a celebrity. He had been on The View. If the details of Wicks’s murder weren’t gruesome enough, if three subsequent deaths hadn’t occurred during the course of the investigation, if Wicks hadn’t seemingly risen from the dead in a miracle that was immediately plastered all over the internet by a failed right-wing grifter, the case still would have gotten media attention merely from Blanc’s presence. But all those other details didn’t help.
or: the aftermath.
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20 Jan 2026
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from: [email protected]
to: [email protected]
subject: Re: what the heck spell checkCoach Lasso,
I can assure you that my transfer has nothing to do with your club's relegation, nor is there anything that Richmond has done in error. Rather, I have spoken with my editors and we’ve agreed that this is the most appropriate course of action.
I wish you all the best in the season.
-Trent Crimm
+44 3032 723956
[email protected]
The Independent
Northcliffe House
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W8 5TT
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20 Aug 2025
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Seth said sternly, “Perihelion, you need to tell us the truth. We can’t leave the home system until we find out what happened. If you’re hiding something—”
Peri cut him off. I am not hiding anything.
Peri might be able to lie astonishingly well to a corporate representative, even impersonate a human over the feed, but it couldn’t lie to Iris. “Yes, you are,” she said.
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Or, the story of how exactly ART told its crew about Murderbot.
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16 Jun 2025
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Four times having a governor module fucking sucked, plus one time [REDACTED: FILE MISSING].
(Or: Murderbot has Emotions for 8,000 words. ART tries to help. So does Dr. Mensah, but like, in a decidedly less assholish way.)
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15 Jun 2025
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Leafkit is born with kudzu around her throat.
It is, of course, her daemon, her heart-plant, the other half of her soul. It is a gift given to her by the very stars above, a blessing from Starclan, and it wraps tightly around her paws, and blooms across her back, and digs its roots in deeper, as she grows and loves and loses, again and again and again.
She's never been good at wanting only what Starclan wished for her.
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07 May 2025
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eddie's not entirely sure he believes in getting help, at least not for himself. there's only so much healing to be had for a body torn apart by bullets, for a mind that's only half there, for a man who's been leaving pieces of himself behind all his life with nothing to take their place.
except, as it turns out, falling apart happens in increments, and healing does, too: it happens when you gnaw a hole in your lip trying to keep quiet only to have the words escape; when you realize that the ghost you've been seeing out of the corner of your eye is yourself; when your best friend smiles, and you allow it to take your breath away.
it happens through the smallest of things: bird feeders, and cacti, and pasta shapes.
meanwhile, the world goes on.
(or: the entity often affectionately referred to as the unrepression fic.)
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- Part 1 of tell me about despair
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07 May 2025
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Buck develops a relationship with the ocean, avoids talking about the day Eddie was shot, realizes he might be in love, and drives.
Order may vary.
(a fic for the "Buck is going to break all the way down in season 6" truthers)
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25 Apr 2025
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Eddie can’t move. Like this, Buck is illuminated by the sunlight streaming through the window; dust motes shimmering around his head, his hair haloed in gold. Beautiful, Eddie thinks. And to his surprise, he doesn’t feel any sort of guilt about doing so.
Except — he should. Because Buck is dating Tommy, and he’s happy, and Eddie would rather go to his grave repressed and miserable than ever take away from Buck’s happiness.
Or: Eddie starts to untangle his complicated feelings about himself, and Buck. Mainly Buck.
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25 Apr 2025
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He completely pulls the charger from the wall as he fumbles to put in his passcode. He doesn’t know who to call first. Everyone is busy, carrying on with their lives and Buck is stuck here in the loft with the terrifying ghost of his childhood like an omen. Out of the corner of his eye he catches the Crooked Smiled Man now standing in the dark entrance way to his bathroom. He swallows around the taste of blood in his mouth, hands shaking, useless as his list of contacts blur beneath the burn of tears.
Eddie Eddie Eddie
He doesn’t know where the feeling comes from, but it’s sudden and sharp and excruciating. Eddie is the first name at the top of his list, his most recent calls and texts, and he doesn’t hesitate to hit the call button.
[or buck can see ghosts au]
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20 Apr 2025
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Missing Chris is less of an emotion these days and more of a physical entity. He’s sure everyone can see that he’s slowly hollowing himself out, that he can’t do much of anything else.
But when Jee laughs at him trying to get his tongue to touch his nose, and Mara loops one of her arms through his to keep him from tossing the rest of his cup in the garbage, Eddie feels solid again.
Maybe he likes yellow birthday cake ice cream after all.
(or, gerrard messes with the team's schedules and eddie 'i just drove my son to flee the state' diaz is the only option to watch mara and jee-yun after school on tuesdays, which, shouldn't be a problem at all, right?)
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21 Mar 2025
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Eddie mans the LAFD Twitter account. Buck tries to be supportive.
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19 Mar 2025
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Eddie listens to the voicemail later. Buck sounds like he’s at a grocery store, absentmindedly talking into the phone. “Oh, I guess you’re with your sisters. Sorry to miss you. I just wanted to tell you about this call we had last night, but I gotta hear your reactions, so, later. Okay, uh, I guess I’ll just call back. Or text.”
It ends abruptly, without a goodbye. Eddie replays it a second time, closes his eyes as he sits in the truck. For a moment, he can pretend Buck is sitting in the passenger seat next to him. For a moment, Eddie is back in Los Angeles and his best friend is dragging him through the grocery store.
The voicemail ends, Eddie opens his eyes, and the fantasy breaks. Eddie is still in El Paso, parked in front of the house he’s renting, and there’s no one in the passenger seat with him.
Eddie moves to Texas. Buck moves into his house. There's a love story somewhere in here.
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18 Mar 2025
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Buck doesn’t think that if he were to say, “I’m in a bad place”, that anyone would turn him away. Really, he doesn’t. The 118 has too many good, kind people for that.
But every time he wants to open his mouth, to say something, to reach out to Eddie or Bobby or Hen or Chim, he hears Eddie yelling, “you’re exhausting.”
—you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting, you’re exhausting—
So each day he does his job and he laughs and he jokes and he pretends he’s the care-free goofball he’s always been. And each day he packs away his bruises and his worries, takes them home to his empty loft with its quiet rooms, and licks his wounds in silence.
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13 Mar 2025
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from the bulrushes by tardigradeschool for AlfAlfAlfAlfAlf
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
06 Nov 2023
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“What an incredible creature you will be,” he said quietly, “and what a boon for England.” An old hurt panged in his chest; bringing the egg up from the shore was likely the greatest thing he would ever do for his country, and it had only been dumb luck that brought him such a chance. For a moment, he thought of the ships sailing past down the channel, towards Gibraltar or Africa or India, and had to swallow that long-held longing. The chance for such a path was passed, and not only passed, but passed by twenty years. He ought to have released such foolish childhood dreams by now, and yet even a pastor must be allowed an occasional harmless indulgence, he hoped.
“You will go very many exciting places, I expect,” he told the egg. “I hope you do not mind the sea, after the tumble it has given you.” He patted the egg and, to his astonishment, it made an audible gurgling sound beneath his hand, as if in answer.
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19 Nov 2023
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The physician shakes his head; one part sympathy, one part disapproval. It is a disease of poets and concubines. It is obvious what he thinks of a spy who would let himself die from something as ridiculous as unrequited love.
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22 Aug 2023
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In What an Amiable Light by 20thcenturyvole for smaragdbird
Fandoms: Temeraire - Naomi Novik
23 Dec 2022
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Tharkay tracks a wayward sheep, and Laurence contemplates estate management.
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13 Aug 2023
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Prince William, Duke of Avondale, third son of the Prince of Wales, fourth in the line of succession for the British Crown, has always known how he was meant to lead his life; surrounded by protocol, hounded by media, coddled by the state. And, recently, protected by one Tenzing Tharkay.
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01 Aug 2023
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Dean is captured by the FBI just as his time runs out. Sam is determined his brother won't go to hell. He has a plan and the colt, but no more magic bullets.
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- Part 1 of Defect triology
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05 Jun 2023
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Working a case, Dean and Sam run into a problem, and they make the worse decision possible: they kidnap two members of the BAU. Between Fed-sitting and hunting a killer collecting siblings, the boys aren't having their best day ever.
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13 May 2023