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on the shaky ground (bharadwaj/volescu, 18+)

She nodded, unsure how to respond. Her stomach twisted. Because of me, she didn’t say. Because of what witnessing that did to you.

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meme i made based on the super sweet fic warm by jão :3

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doodle from urgent care waiting room

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cleanse (mensah/pin-lee, 18+)

Obviously, it was capable of anything they feared and probably much more. But whatever it wanted to do didn’t involve endangering anyone. That had been Pin-Lee's point, Mensah had delicately explained, deescalating. In the aftermath, she’d shot Pin-Lee a calm, pointed look. She was disappointed, maybe angry.

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like first aid...

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doodles

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but you can skyrocket away from me and never come back if you find another galaxy far from here with more room to fly just leave me your stardust to remember you by

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i feel like fandom would really benefit from adopting the idea of readings, as in interpretations. anyone can interpret canon as saying anything on even the most tenuous of justifications. if you interpret a detail or moment in a particular way, great! but if someone interprets that thing in another way, even in a way which directly contradicts your interpretation, that’s also okay. multiple readings can exist at once without invalidating any of them

a lot of fandom drama seems to arise from people acting as if their interpretations are True or Factual in some way, when really all anyone can do is speak to their own interpretations & experiences. which is natural! and good! many voices with many interpretations and approaches is healthy and good. the trouble is depicting a reading, which is a very personal thing, as universally true, and then getting frustrated that others don’t interpret events the same way. & i get it, that can be annoying, especially if you think those other interpretations are misunderstanding the canon. but so much of the time it’s just a different reading, taking into account details you might not have noticed or maybe just viewing them in a different light, informed by different life experiences & values & everything else that goes into a personal interpretation of a creative work

by trying to depict One Single Reading of a text as Correct, fandom loses all the nuance of interpretation & also just turns everyone into a bunch of rabid raccoons fighting over different ways to look through the same kaleidoscope

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let me stay there awhile (18+)

She must have wanted it badly. A flogger on her skin, and me, the one hitting her. Me, the one seeing her partially undressed, unresisting, and on all fours in her station quarters.

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anticipation (18+, bharadwaj/pin-lee with background mensah/pin-lee)

Bharadwaj pressed a kiss to Pin-Lee’s cheek. “Trust me.” Pin-Lee made a grumpy noise, but she didn’t pull away. “You’re biased.”

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you’ve got something extra going on (bharadwaj/pin-lee, onesided ratthi/pin-lee)

“So they’re going to be recording us the whole time?” Arada asked. “Yeah,” Pin-Lee said, rolling her eyes. “Those fucking corporates would shove cameras up our asses if there was anything interesting in there.” I snorted, Arada laughed sharply, and Overse took a long sip of her cocktail. I let myself look at Pin-Lee, who had a small, lopsided smile. I think she liked how her joke landed. 

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are you on fire from the years? what would you give for your kid fears? what would replace the rent with the stars above? replace the need with love? replace the anger with the tide?

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deferential ownership (18+)

“Good,” she said aloud this time, her voice a whisper. “What a good little—” She stumbled, not knowing what word to use. Little bot felt so wrong, and its fantasy wasn’t to be some kind of animal, she knew that much. She knew how it thought of itself, how it thought humans thought of it.

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wait fuck i missed this part completely:

Then Amena said, "Do you love my second mother? Thiago thinks so."

I should have known this was going to turn into an interrogation. I said, "Not the way he thinks."

Network Effect, p. 182

translation: yes, i L-word your second mom. not romantically. but it's still L-word

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grumpy murderbot

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we as a fandom don't talk enough about dr. mensah almost making a "whole-assing" joke