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three's company, by surgicalstainless

It sends, Objective: Annoy Leonide.

Then it adds, (optional).

[NOTE: I cannot find a pull quote that does this story justice. I want to put the whole fic in there. I read it FOUR TIMES yesterday. It is SO FUNNY.]

I've just decided this: I think every fandom (more fandoms? at least more) should have a Steve&Robin relationship.

KEY FEATURES LIST THAT I'VE JUST MADE UP:
*ride or die? YES
*do they love each other? YES
*is it romantic? NO
*is it sexual? NO
*do they hold hands? YES

It probably helps that in Stranger Things fandom, they have to explain this a lot. Yes, they're listed as each other's emergency contact on every form. No, they're not dating. Yes, they date other people. No, that doesn't seem weird to them.

WHY IS THIS SO GREAT?
*please can we have a million more examples in popular media of the vast multitudes of human relationships?

privilege escalation, by ariex09

You know, sometimes I miss the days when ART was just a dictatorial asshole, instead of a dictatorial asshole who was overly invested in my wellbeing and choices.

Yesterday a department director (not mine) sent me a message asking how many times a certain thing happened last year. And I was like: ...

Meanwhile, my brain was all:

*how would I know that?

*what is a tactful way to say 'that thing is managed by your team, so shouldn't they be the ones keeping records on it?'

*I might be able to search my way back through emails and give an estimate?

*but all the emails would have come from your team! you could ask them!

*what in the world do you even need that information for?

Finally I gave as careful an answer as I could, and offered up a [measurable, replicable] search filter for documents (my actual job, lol). I layered it with caveats of low accuracy and non-inclusiveness.

The director: That's exactly what I'm looking for, but only do it if it will take less than ten minutes.

[NOTE: It had already taken considerably more than ten minutes, which could not have been more obvious from the time stamps of the messages we were exchanging.]

In conclusion: I sent the data anyway.

I was thinking about the Murderbot tv show (as one does), and I thought 'I wonder why Mensah decided to tell SecUnit all about her kids?'

And I was like... humanize the hostages? (Like, if you just found out that the dangerous killing machine absolutely could start killing you if it wanted to, you'd want to give it reasons not to? Like putting baby pictures in your wallet, I guess?)

But that didn't seem super likely. Neither did 'setting up a REALLY funny joke for a future season,' even if SecUnit remembering all that stuff when it met the kids later would, indeed, be REALLY funny. To me, personally.

And I thought maybe Mensah was too nervous to be willing to sit in silence, and figured talking about her kids would keep herself from panicking and also not distract SecUnit from anything important it was doing, which kind of made sense, until I realized...

SecUnit ASKED ARADA ABOUT HER KIDS. The first time they all saw it interact with one of them unprompted, it asked about children. It makes perfect sense to think that it would be willing to hear about them. Mensah galaxy-brained a topic of conversation she genuinely had reason to believe would be acceptable. SECUNIT, YOU BROUGHT THIS ON YOURSELF.

So, technically I finished listening on Friday, but I definitely fell asleep during the last bit and had no idea what happened. So on Saturday I went back and actually awake-finished!

In conclusion: AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

(Great book!)

So, this is basically The Murderbot Diaries series so far:

BOOK 1: Murderbot makes some friends

BOOK 2: Murderbot makes some friends

BOOK 3: Murderbot makes some friends

BOOK 4: Murderbot rescues its friends from BOOK 1

BOOK 6 (the internet was definitely right about reading this one after 4): Murderbot thinks its BOOK 1 friends may need more rescuing, so it hangs around (and makes some friends)

BOOK 5: Murderbot rescues one of its BOOK 2 friends, and makes some friends, and gets rescued itself (it's the longest book; a lot happens!)

BOOK 7: ???????

(Note: I LOVE THIS. THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT TO READ ABOUT. YES, PLEASE.)

GET Request, by ariex09

If they didn't want a transport able to autonomously decide where the most important place to be was, they shouldn't have built me, Peri says coolly.