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Iteration 2: Punishments & Rewards by RitualFootnotes
Fandoms: He Who Fights With Monsters - Shirtaloon | Travis Deverell
15 May 2026
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Clive makes Jason wait. But if he's good, he may get a reward.
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- Part 4 of Notable Results
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Standard Menu by RitualFootnotes
Fandoms: He Who Fights With Monsters - Shirtaloon | Travis Deverell
30 Apr 2026
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Clive makes a selection.
Jason ensures proper delivery.
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Peer Review by RitualFootnotes
Fandoms: He Who Fights With Monsters - Shirtaloon | Travis Deverell
01 Mar 2026
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Neil’s thoughts short-circuited completely.
“Jason has mentioned before that he’d be open to exploring that sort of dynamic with someone else,” Clive added. “Someone he trusts. Such as yourself.”
Is he asking me to—
“Oh,” Clive said, as if remembering something minor, “you would need to be comfortable with a very bratty submissive.”
Neil swallowed.
“And pain,” Clive continued. “Is that an ethical concern for you, given that you’re a healer? Though, of course, the subject would be requesting it. Actually, now that I think about it, your being a healer makes you particularly well suited.”
Neil felt like he’d just been hit by conversational whiplash.
“Neil?” Clive paused. “Are you all right? I apologize if that was too personal.”
Neil blinked a few times, dragging his thoughts back from places they very much wanted to linger. “Yes. I mean—no. I mean—I just wasn’t expecting that.”
“That’s understandable,” Clive said. “It isn’t a particularly common arrangement. But it works well for us.”
They stood in silence for a moment.
“Would you be interested?” Clive asked again.
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The Effects of Ritual Magic on a Willing Subject by RitualFootnotes
Fandoms: He Who Fights With Monsters - Shirtaloon | Travis Deverell
03 Jan 2026
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Parameters already outlined. This time its deliberate. But was it done right?
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- Part 3 of Notable Results
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Escaping The Ritual Room by RitualFootnotes
Fandoms: He Who Fights With Monsters - Shirtaloon | Travis Deverell
29 Dec 2025
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The ritual ended. The dynamic didn’t.
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- Part 2 of Notable Results
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Notable Results by RitualFootnotes
Fandom He Who Fights With Monsters - Shirtaloon | Travis Deverell
15 May 2026
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Murderbot hasn't endured weapons maintenance since before it met its crew. (It hadn't really planned on re-living the pain of weapons maintenance ever again, if it was being honest.)
But when ART notices an issue with one of Murderbot's energy weapons, it offers its services. You know, mutual administrative assistant things.
ART's approach is a little different than the company's.
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19 Jun 2026
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Driver, Roll Up The by SandSunSiliceousOoze
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
08 Feb 2026
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Are you busy?
Other than maintaining life support, piloting myself, and keeping all of my systems online and functioning? No, I am not busy.
And all that is what, 5% of your overall processing power?
I cannot say I did not preen when you acknowledged my capabilities. It was more like 15% of my overall processing power, but the compliment was noted.
What do you want?
You up for a game?
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19 Jun 2026
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I blurted, "Bots can get married on Preservation."
Suddenly, I had 84% of ART's attention. It had been sitting at 62% so the sudden weight of it almost made me physically react. Almost.
"Then it is a shame my options for marital partners on Preservation are null."
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18 Jun 2026
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dual analysis in construct psychology and fluid viscosity by crawlingvoid
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
21 Feb 2026
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The way ART’s systems are laid out, there’s a series of smaller reactors that power the non-engine portions of the ship. They feed into the engine’s power supply, but are still ultimately separate from it - the engine has its own, larger reactor, and only takes power from the smaller ones as backup (Far as I know, it can go the other way, too, but that’s not important.) I don’t know the details, and all that’s really important here is that some fuel maintenance had to be done on them, and I’m there too.
Matteo chatters idly as we walk, something about the reactor and its specs and the tritium-based fuel sludge used to feed ART’s smaller reactors. I keep them on one of my second processing tracks, and focus a larger part of my attention on the serial ART and I have up in the feed.
Overall, it was a pretty normal cycle.
Then, something changed once I entered the first reactor chamber.
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SecUnit watches a reactor refuel, and it thinks to itself: "I think I huave malware."
Then, it has a crisis about it.Bookmarked by RitualFootnotes
18 Jun 2026
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(when you move) i can recall something that's gone from me by brahe
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
31 May 2026
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The present me should feel disgusted by the mess SecUnit made on my deck, on my bulkhead, but I should also feel indifferent to SecUnit’s anger and ferocity, and I should be unaffected by the fluidity and grace of its violence—and I am not. I am so far from indifferent and unaffected that I have, instead, created new pathways within myself for the way I’m actually feeling.
The breathless violence, the ruthless revenge—all for me. It is nothing short of mesmerizing. SecUnit is mesmerizing. I am enraptured.
Or,
ART processes the fragments of its memories from its deletion, and falls in love.
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- Part 2 of a crash without a sound
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15 Jun 2026