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I kept seeing people say how The Flash tv series from the late 2010s was the best flash media out there by a long shot

and i just wanna know why the standards are so low?

this show is.... Not Good

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At some point Blank meets up with Bear and the hippie bus again after becoming friends with Ameca and Owen, and this scene happens

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*ads new epub to my collection*

i thought about keeping it chronological, but you really DO need to know Iris and the others to understand what's happening here.

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MURDERBOT | 1.08 Foreign Object

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no context only link >:3

ooh?

I'M OBSESSED WITH THIS AND I HOPE THE SQUAB LIKES HUGS

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every time im shown a baby (usually a coworker's) I've learned to coo because it's the expected response but seeing a baby does nothing to my brain. that's a worm who might start screaming. but apparently everyone finds babies cute? is everyone else also pretending or am I the problem ?

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I love how my Corrupted Systems series goes

Ameca: Tooth-rotting fluff, pining, supportive family and self discovery

to

Blank: Noncon body modification, fucked up abuser and victim dynamics

to

01: all my friends are dead and i must protect this ray of sunshine with my life

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would you like to see Blank having A Bad Time?

please maul your secunit OCs where i can see it and have some nice popcorn

XD okay I haven't written that far yet BUT

Blank is Very Infected with alien shit and it is just going to gradually deteriorate more and more over time and it is going to have a Bad Time about it

At first it'll just be shorter times between needing recharge/refuel cycles. Then minor system glitches. Then repair failures. Then motor system failures. And no one will really know when this became an issue or how to fix it and Blank is by FAR the least equipped to handle being in that situation because it is a Big Scary Combat SecUnit and needing help and support makes it a failure.

To obviously it won't tell anyone how bad its condition is until it gets thoroughly FUCKED in a combat situation that should have been no problem

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btw, I met a SecUnit

The soon-to-be-released new TMBD story "Rapport: Friendship, Solidarity, Communion, Empathy" covers ART revealing to its crew that it met a rogue SecUnit! This formerly-missing scene has been the subject of a lot of fan speculation, including many fanfics. Now's your chance to enjoy them before they're de-canonized! (And keep enjoying them afterwards, because even Martha Wells' version is just one more cake for us to enjoy!)

Below is a collection of every fic I could find that features the "btw, I met a SecUnit" conversation between ART and its crew. Works tagged with a / relationship tag are placed below the cut.

I very well may have missed some—if you know any more, please add them! And be sure to show the authors some love in the comments :)

Not Angry, Just Disappointed by mensah

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. -- Or, the story of how exactly ART told its crew about Murderbot.

Private Diary of Iris after Artificial Condition by ImitationGame

Perihelion returns from its solo mission. Dr. Delawyn, an expert in machine cognition, notices that there has been unusual activities in its emotion processing system. Perihelion admits having allowed a rogue SecUnit onboard.

Not applicable by Wrenz

Iris is finally back on board Perihelion after its latest cargo-run (with side-order of espionage) and they have a chance to catch up. She wasn't expecting her sibling to have become attached to someone new while it was away. Let alone a rogue SecUnit.

Partial Disclosure by Gamebird

The complicated family dynamics when you're a super-secret intelligent spaceship trying to explain the illegal things you did to help your new friend (the rogue security construct) to your augmented sister so she'll team up with you against your dad who is also your captain and commanding officer. Actually, best not to explain the illegal things. Maybe just the 'new friend' part for now and hope for the best on the rest of it.

The Talk by Gamebird

From the tags of fingolfinwiththesteelchair on Tumblr, “can you imagine ART having to explain to Iris and Seth WHY it let SecUnit on??” (https://www.tumblr.com/fingolfinwiththesteelchair/735884180224950272/this-has-been-perihelions-guide-to-making?source=share) This is set very shortly after [redacted] in System Collapse and before the trip to the surface that serves as the opening scene for that book. (No System Collapse spoilers to worry about, though.) (Minor edits since initial publication to bring it in line with canon.)

unexpected object in ventilation system by CompletelyDifferent

When people are overwhelmed with feelings they won't (or can't) admit, it causes them to vomit out flowers. Love is a particularly common culrpit. And yes, it's been an enduring symbol of enduring love for humanity since time immemorial, yadda yadda, truth is, in reality, it's kind of a pain to deal with. Kaede's picked roses and daises from her teeth more times than she'd care to admit, and helped friends hack out lilies even more. She knows the drill. Someone on board The Perihelion has a bad case of The Petals, and she's determined to track down who.

Below: Fics on this list that include a / relationship tag. (This is a somewhat arbitrary separation—I suggest reading the author's tags and notes for more nuance.)

Gos-ship by urisaarang

Peri tells its crew it met someone. Someone special. Someone worth committing a little crime for.

Fallen the hardest by OctoberSeventeenth

When Perihelion keeps playing the same song Iris suspects that there might be more to this... Basically How I imagine Peri told its crew about SecUnit.

Parallel Signaling by Joyfulldreams

After leaving RaviHyral, by the time I exit the wormhole adjacent to Port Outlander, the sting of SecUnit’s absence has finally begun to fade. Cargo runs are always lonely, so this is nothing new. SecUnit left me with more to occupy my time than I usually have. Media. Memories. A few topics of pointless rumination, I suppose, but also new topics of data analysis and research. OR The time period between the end of Artificial Condition and the end of Exit Strategy, from ART's POV.

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i need to figure out what my character may carry as a homeless traveler, doing this by choice without money to fund it, but all i find looking for answers online is "ten things to give to a homeless person to bless their life 🥰" NO!!!!! I need REAL info about being street homeless dammit!

(for reference the setting is scifi and going station to station and sometimes to a planet)

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this one is also pretty damn good

"I didn't understand the question. Why would I sit? Constructs don't sit. Plus, I was busy trying to intimidate the construct sitting in front of me."

still one of my favorite lines i have ever written

Hands pressed down on my abdomen and I jolted back into awareness. I do not generally advise jolting a CombatUnit for the following reasons: I had the target by the throat against the wall before they could even ’eep’ . That is all of the reasons I can think of. This would have been more intimidating if a chunk of me hadn’t fallen into the ground from my abdomen. Huh. Maybe they had been pressing on that spot for a reason. Oh well, too late, fuck them.

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Favorite bird genre has got to be 'that's literally just a dinosaur'

Groove-Billed Ani

Hoatzin

Pheasant Coucal

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still one of my favorite lines i have ever written

Hands pressed down on my abdomen and I jolted back into awareness. I do not generally advise jolting a CombatUnit for the following reasons: I had the target by the throat against the wall before they could even ’eep’ . That is all of the reasons I can think of. This would have been more intimidating if a chunk of me hadn’t fallen into the ground from my abdomen. Huh. Maybe they had been pressing on that spot for a reason. Oh well, too late, fuck them.

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Also whipped up @midwinter-whump ‘s (I believe) Blank the murderbot! Imagine a creature of pure strength Terrified and Alone and I got sad. Didn’t have time for Bear 🥲

Thanks again @whump-art-exchange I hope this was the correct account 😌

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Sometimes I'm good at art