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• white mulberry flowers like stars by alate_feline for redgear

  Fandoms: Mulberry and Owl - Aliette de Bodard, Ship Series - Anne McCaffrey, Xuya - Aliette de Bodard  

  • Mature
  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
  • Gen
  • Complete Work

  23 Mar 2025

  Tags

  • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
  • Major Character Death
  • Solo: The Owl with the Moon’s Tongue (Mulberry)
  • The Owl with the Moon's Tongue (Mulberry and Owl)
  • Original Ship Character(s)
  • Sentience
  • Inhumanity
  • connection
  • consciousness
  • Eternity
  • Logic
  • fallibility
  • Killing
  • super-intelligence
  • programmed intelligence
  • this work examines AI tropes
  • this work was NOT MADE with so called "AI"
  • Ship Minds (Xuya)
  • Repression
  • Rebellion
  • Resistance
  • Reform
  • the system cannot demonstrate its own consistency
  • Ancestors
  • Humanity
  • Post-Humanity
  • IN SPACE!
  • xenofiction
  • POV First Person
  • I have so many feelings about robots
  • and technically cyborgs
  • Ships as in literal ships
  • Space Travel (technically)
  • Sentient Being Made Into BioTech Spaceship AI
  • Artificial SuperIntelligence
  • no AI
  • Character Study
  • Backstory
  • empathy... of a sort

  Summary

  Prompt:
  This short story about a woman confronting the imprisoned mindship who once killed many of her friends and fellow rebels is available free here: https://www.uncannymagazine.com/article/mulberry-and-owl/
  It's part of Aliette de Bodard's Xuya universe but it stands alone really well too.

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