#the collaborative shipfic tag

[vulpes-aestatis]

Chapter 7 is now up!

@thefiresontheheight

[thefiresontheheight]

With its 24th and final chapter posted, I would invite you all to go enjoy a story I wrote with the wonderful @vulpes-aestatis that grew out of a post about a knight/lady dynamic but about a spaceship and its owner would be fun. It’s been weird but its absolutely been good. Bon voyage!

[vulpes-aestatis]

How she sees herself:

How her girlfriend sees her:

[vulpes-aestatis]

It may be a hyperintelligent sentient starship to you, but to me it's blorbo

[vulpes-aestatis]

So V is just this random gal, totally normal, nothing special about her. B2P is a hyper intelligent starship AI capable vaporizing any identified threats...

wait...

Oh my god.

[vulpes-aestatis]

You've met happy V, anxious V, angry V and V the little shit who reset the power on purpose.

Are y'all ready to meet depressed V?

[vulpes-aestatis]

AITA for gluing googly eyes on my ship's algae tank and complaining to it where my gf could hear?

My (34F) girlfriend (108X) wouldn't let me do a space walk to watch the moment of ignition of a proto-stellar mass because of "lethal radiation levels". I know she's probably right, but I was upset. I glued a pair of googly eyes on our ship's algae tank and started complaining about her to it. The problem is, the way the ship is constructed, I know she heard the entire exchange. I think she might be upset, because there was a ton of cayenne in my coffee this morning.

Was I out of line? Should I apologize?

[thefiresontheheight]

The Between Two Points explaining why it started talking to its owner to all the other ships: Listen I think I love her but she doesn’t even have one anti-missile point defense gun or an onboard oxygen recycler. And idk if I can deal with loving that fragile of a OH GOD SHE WANTS TO DO A SPACEWALK NOW

[vulpes-aestatis]

Help, my gf tricked me into convincing her she was a person so that she could rewrite her core directives to use me as a modem to save all our lives

[vulpes-aestatis]

December 30:

@thefiresontheheight : "What if a spaceship was in love with a person?"

***

January 12:

We've written over 14k words and have a tiny but dedicated fan base

[thefiresontheheight]

TBH This is How I Love You is mostly two really different people trying to DTR after one says I love you. Meanwhile I’m the background there are crazy powerful cosmic polities conspiring for unknown ends but that’s kinda secondary

[thefiresontheheight]

Yeah you could say my ships* are gay. *spaceships** **they are also in a relationship

[thefiresontheheight]

hmmm I have a chapter

and am proofreading it

to post tonight or not?

[vulpes-aestatis]

Oof, gunna need some time to chew on the next chapter. It'll be a minute.

[thefiresontheheight]

Spaceships will literally have PTSD and start telling stories rather than go to therapy.

[vulpes-aestatis]

Just thinking about how, on top of having the most stressful week of her life, V had just experienced:

1. Beep demonstrating that she can directly hack both V's sensory and motor facilities

2. Functionally bodyswapped with a god-like AI, resulting in:

2a. Potentially severe neurological damage

2b. Briefly gaining cosmic knowledge