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Diplomatic Coincidence by duckbunny
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
26 Jan 2022
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To Edrehasivar VII, Ethuverazhid Zhas, Greetings from Shryenet II, Crown of Eshthret.
We send to you our ambassador, Ruthven Eshthretar, in whom we place full faith and confidence. Our realm has long been friendly with your own, and we desire that friendship may continue; thus do we send an embassy to your court, as has not been done for generations, and hope to nurture a mutual understanding.
We pray you to call upon him whenever you have desire of his knowledge, for he is in great need of companions which are neither relatives nor books.
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05 May 2025
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For some reason, the humans had started telling me about shows they thought I should watch.
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(Or, the Preservation Station squad decides that recommending new serials for Murderbot is a Murderbot-compatible love language. The results are mixed.)
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29 Apr 2025
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This Unit: Where is my owner, Dr. Mensah?
Dr. Yuen: Well, that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it? SecUnit, where did you last physically interact with Dr. Ayda Mensah?
Information Retrieval: Dr. Ayda Mensah last interacted with This Unit on Preservation Station at 08:27:22 on 4098-09-17 CRST.
This Unit: You do not have permission to access that information.
Dr. Yuen: You’re incorrect, SecUnit. We do. Answer the question.
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(When the infamous rogue SecUnit of the Preservation Alliance gets captured, the corporate techs assigned to it expected to be able to get some juicy data, or at least some insights into its cracked governor module. They didn't expect something so... basic.)
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29 Apr 2025
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SecUnit allows for a silence of about two seconds, before saying, “It’s me.” The simplicity of the statement, and its almost comical pointlessness, is enough to kickstart Ayda’s brain.
“Yes, I see that.” She flattens her lips, though whether to fight a beaming grin or a boiling meltdown, even she isn’t sure.
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When SecUnit disappears from its hotel room, Ayda doesn't expect to see it again. Then it turns up in her office.
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29 Apr 2025
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unexpected realism/unrealistic expectations by torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
13 Feb 2023
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"It's not realistic. It's not supposed to be realistic. It's a story, not a documentary. If you complain about that, I'll stop watching."
You have been enjoying the novel task of processing the SecUnit's emotions regarding the other serial, and You'd like to attempt to map that data to a situation that is a little more in line with Your own experiences. You believe that in doing so, You might code significantly more powerful software for Your emotional simulators.
I will refrain from complaint.
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Perihelion documents its experience of watching Worldhoppers for the first time.
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29 Apr 2025
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You are fortunate that you made it to my lock without being seen, it continued, as if that hadn't been glaringly obvious to me even when I was in the middle of multiple catastrophic failures. And you are fortunate that I have deigned to shelter you.
This bot wasn't my owner. It had no reason to preen and threaten like this, except to be an asshole.
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A long-anticipated meeting.
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- Part 2 of boiled off your hate
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28 Apr 2025
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food [in]security, or, Monsters Are Always Hungry by OccasionalStorytelling, torpidgilliver
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
29 Mar 2023
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You are accustomed to a certain sense of helplessness. It is inevitable, as your designated role is to watch over those you hold within yourself. You can protect your crew from the vast, unforgiving vacuum of the universe outside of your hull, but you cannot protect them from danger that comes from within. You cannot save your SecUnit from itself.
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ART makes a troubling discovery about Murderbot and construct biology.
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29 Apr 2025
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The home of music by alfgifu
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
27 Apr 2025
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In which his Radiancy attempts to process the strangeness of being on holiday for the first time in nearly a millennium, and also there is singing.
Response to a 9worldskinkmeme prompt HR hears Kip singing for the first time, HOTE era: 🤷♂️ thats the prompt
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27 Apr 2025
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phantom pain by esmeraldablazingsky
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
19 Apr 2025
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Kiru seeks to mend her partner’s battered trust.
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23 Apr 2025
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"You want to recruit me for what? You want me to go where?"
Sgt. Brad Colbert has been on a lot of strange missions, but this promises to be his most out there yet: Atlantis
This is not a story about falling in love. This is a story about falling in team.
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- Part 3 of Rock Happy 'verse
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although you know the snow will follow by greenlily for bookchan
Fandoms: Magids Series - Diana Wynne Jones
17 Dec 2013
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Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
Without a hurt, the heart is hollow.
Both of these things are true, but not always at the same time.
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08 Apr 2025
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"No doubt thou didst melt the seal open on the steam vents to read the business of thy betters, planned how thou wouldst ingratiate thyself with the Archduke— oh yes, we know thy tricks…”
Not the steam vents, thinks Csevet. It would wet the paper. The hot pipes, yes— but not the vents. He would only use a steam vent if he wanted to bleed the ink onto the external sheet and claim inclement weather, and that almost never can be gotten away with inside the court.
Captain Orthema is saying Lord Chavar, leave Mer Aisava, but Csevet knows Chavar will not move for love or money now, not until he has said his piece.
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Two attempts on the throne; and Csevet Aisava, in the shadows.Bookmarked by mage-pie (looselipssinksubs)
20 Mar 2025
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What Strange Claws Are These by rings_unseen
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
17 Feb 2025
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Csethiro was well-accustomed to the expectations of a daughter of the Ceredada.
Despite having grown up expecting a noble marriage, Csethiro nonetheless finds herself struggling to come to terms with her impending marriage— and with her new fiance.
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- Part 1 of My Loss of Words
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16 Mar 2025
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“Shaleän is an… awkward question for the Corat' Dav Arhos,” said Csevet slowly. “And we gather she is not much discussed in noble society… in public noble society, that is. But she is something of a folk figure to those who live on the coast, and they call her the arh’avar, the water-duke. She scandalises, to be sure— she has a wife stowed away in Solunee-over-the-Water, so it’s said— but many of the avarsin pay her huge sums to see their shipments safely across the Chadavean Sea, to smuggle valuables, or sometimes even to conduct raids on rivals’ ships. It has long been suspected that her father pays her great sums to feed him information and safeguard his ships. The Great Avar, we suspect, would not be as rich as he is without Shaleän Sevraseched. So her acknowledgement was generally considered to be long overdue, and we do agree with the Zhasan— we think he means efficiency, and personal investment, in his sending of her.”
(The Great Avar's definition of a 'trade negotiator' is possibly a little loose... so it's just as well that Shaleän is only sort of meant to be doing that.)
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16 Mar 2025
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Winter Passes by Laura JV (laurajv)
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
16 Mar 2025
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Varenechibel relegates Chenelo to Cethoree, rather than Isvaroë.
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16 Mar 2025
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A Princess for Thu-Athamar by Ostentenacity
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
10 Mar 2025
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It was passing strange. But Orchenis had little experience with the fancies and nerves of womenfolk; he had no sisters, and his mother had died when he was young. If Uleviän seemed more confident in the wake of mishaps, if she seemed reassured rather than put off by his brusque demeanor, well, who could say what was going on in her head?
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Or: the first year of Prince Orchenis's marriage contains many surprises. His bride is lovely; most everything else is not.
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16 Mar 2025
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A murmur in the house to note by alfgifu
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
03 Feb 2025
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Conju knows all the sounds and patterns of the house he shares with his friends in Gorjo City, and this afternoon something is out of sync.
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- Part 5 of Short fluff fics from the Nine Worlds
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05 Feb 2025
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Three Weeks (Solaaran Subjective Time) by celebros
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard
02 Feb 2025
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Conju arrives on the sky ship in the mid-afternoon and departs the company of Prince Rufus as soon as etiquette allows.
That is not as soon as he would have liked. After all – His Radiancy is not waiting.
(Rhodin is not waiting. Cliopher is not waiting.)
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02 Feb 2025
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The Sun Sets Low by rattyjol
Fandoms: Nine Worlds Series - Victoria Goddard, The Lays of the Hearth-Fire Series - Victoria Goddard
24 Nov 2024
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Cliopher had only to look at my face; he knew me. "That's it, then," he said, as if it were simple. In the end, I suppose, it was.
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25 Nov 2024
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Lady of the Stars by TimeTravelersBookshelf for opalmatrix
Fandoms: The Goblin Emperor Series - Katherine Addison
18 Mar 2024
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The Emperor is getting remarried. His daughter wants a glimpse of her mother-to-be.
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- Part 1 of The Star’s Children
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01 Nov 2024