Creature_once_removed

a black and white lineart of a mouth with blood coming out



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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    I glance at Three using my actual eyes, and I see that it's trying to maintain a good impression of SecUnit neutral, but there's something in its eyes that's pretty close to longing.

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    30 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 21

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    “How the fuck was it not a weapon?” 1.0 demands angrily. “You’d have used it to cause harm.”

    “Only to myself. That doesn’t count.”

    1.0 stares at me as if I said something completely logically unsound. “Three,” it says with minimal vocal inflection. “What the fuck.”

    I cannot determine an appropriate (safe?) response, so I do not respond.

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    *banging pots and pans* THREE ANGST!! COME GET YOUR THREE ANGST!!! HOT OFF THE PRESS!!!!!

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    23 Jun 2026

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    beautiful <333

  3. Public Bookmark 59

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    Environment=secure & hostile presence=null, Three reminded me. You are safe. Then it brought up the situational improvement parameters it’d sent. Query: enact?

    I hesitated. Three waited. The thing was, these “improvements” weren’t necessary for the maintenance process. In fact, they were probably going to emotionally compromise one or both of us and make everything harder than it had to be. The smart, logical, reasonable thing to do would be to answer a negative and proceed with maintenance in a more standard/efficient way. Weirdly, though, that idea dropped my performance reliability by a whole percentage.

    So maybe I wasn’t feeling very smart/logical/reasonable. I told Three Confirm before I could talk myself out of it.

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    nothing to see here, just two deeply traumatized living weapons inventing new forms of weird physical intimacy in order to inflict tenderness on each other

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    23 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    The mission fails catastrophically. So does SecUnit. When it comes back online without any functional sensory inputs, it believes that it's still trapped on the surface of the cold, desolate planet, that its humans are all dead, and that nobody will ever find it. Luckily, it's wrong.

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    24 Apr 2026

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    heartbreaking and beautiful and so, so real

  5. Public Bookmark 60

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    We all know the old joke: a rogue SecUnit walks into a bar. The bartender, a rogue ComfortUnit in hiding who's been having one hell of a day, takes one look at it and has a bad idea.

    Really. It's a terrible idea. Dragging a rogue SecUnit home for a one night stand is probably the most dangerous thing it's ever considered.

    Luckily, the rogue SecUnit in question is Three. And if Three knows one thing about itself, it's that it wants to help.

    Somewhere on Preservation, there's a tiny cabin on a big homestead, where stubborn purple flowers refuse to die. In the cabin, in the aftermath, a pair of equally stubborn constructs have an idea that, just maybe, isn't terrible at all.

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    08 May 2026