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“More emotion, Iris.”
“I hardly have the steps down, Peri, give me a minute. And I don't think SecUnit wants me to make eyes at it.”
“Please don’t,” I said.
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Iris wants to surprise Amena with a dance at their wedding. She and ART enlist SecUnit to help. -
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ART and SecUnit get into a high speed police chase.
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SecUnit and ART learn about Can't Help Myself, the sisyphean blood robot by Sun Yuan & Peng Yu, c. 2016.
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Murderbot gets sex parts, but it's not very good at relaxing enough to use them. Its friends help it figure out what all the fuss is about.
Nothing explicit until chapter 3 but preemptively rating it as such. Based on the album "I Got Heaven" by Mannequin Pussy.
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Open:File338_14.2 >Run by timidlyoptimistic
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
23 Jan 2026
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Murderbot has been antsy recently and can't seem to figure out why. ART proposes some options for stress relief.
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Bruce and Clark work together, make use of x-ray vision, maintain an unexpectedly necessary pretense, get the better of magic, get the better of "science", buddy-breathe—and then, finally, kiss.
Or: six times Bruce and Clark kissed for ~reasons, plus the first time they did it just because they wanted to. (Written for Superbat Week 2020.)
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07 Jul 2026
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Gonna reread chapter 4 until my heart explodes
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Bruce is poisoned at yet another gala and he calls for the only person he can trust enough to get him to safety, secret identities be damned. So why is he being taken away by some stranger and where is Superman?
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Bruce frowns and tries to focus his swimming vision. Something isn’t right. This isn’t the bright blue and red he’s been mentally preparing for. The material is all wrong and it feels scratchy brushing against his skin. Superman’s suit isn’t scratchy. It’s smooth and comforting to touch; whatever he’s touching isn’t. This isn’t Superman, this is that stranger and his weird suit. It’s- it is-
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07 Jul 2026
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moving in stereo by TheResurrectionist
Fandoms: Batman - All Media Types, Superman - All Media Types
19 Apr 2023
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Clark closed his eyes, wincing. “Your children have some…guests.”
“Tell me something I don’t know.” Bruce muttered, setting aside the tablet.
“No, I mean…I think all of them, um. Have a guest, tonight.”
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06 Jul 2026
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In a TV interview, Superman slips up and reveals that he thinks Batman is the most attractive member of the Justice League. Bruce’s kids find this hilarious. Bruce finds it intriguing.
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06 Jul 2026
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Mutual Administrative Demolition by AideStar
Fandoms: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
01 May 2026
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ART slumped heavier on my shoulders. Honestly SecUnit, I’m just bored.
Huh. That was new. ART had never admitted to being bored before, though with all that processing power, I wasn’t exactly surprised.
I knew how miserable boredom was. I had spent the first 17,000~ hours of my (remembered) runtime staring at walls.
Can I help?
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Murderbot volunteers to help ART alleviate its dangerous levels of boredom by dismantling and reassembling one of its drones. Of course, this is a more kinky and intimate experience than either of them expected.
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01 May 2026