Recursive Allele

Please.

'Natural' doesn't mean 'magically safe for everyone ever'.

https://www.drugs.com/

CHECK FOR INTERACTIONS.

I found out that Tums and my blood pressure meds are not a good match because it can cause hypercalcemia. Too much calcium in my blood. BAD. And my pharmacist didn't alert me. I looked it up myself one night.

Check for interactions. Always.

Wanna know another good one? St. John's Wort activates your liver and reduces the strength of medications because it shoves everything through more quickly. You need to stop taking it TWO WEEKS before any anaesthesia because you'll WAKE UP during surgery otherwise. It's not a bad choice for depression (depending on the strength and quality of the materials, which you cannot guarantee) if you take *absolutely ZERO* other meds. Ever. For anything.

But looking at those links you share, it feels like it might be a little more than just the older generation grumpily tearing into the younger generation. Is it really that disproportionate compared to what generational traits our parents chewed us out for?

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If it's phrased more as "Attention spans are shrinking!!!!", that's a Kids These Days rant.

If it's about stupid educational fads leading to underprivileged kids disproportionately struggling with reading as adults in a way that keeps them powerless and less likely to oppose oligarch scum, that's a real pattern.

It's "TikTok automatically rots your brain for sure!!!" vs. "TikTok is programmed to be more addictive and more destructive to critical thinking than the things we put up with in my generation".

People aren't stupider now, but there are some challenges that lead to worse mental health and potentially worse critical thinking and reading skills. Insert rant about old-school internet vs. algorithms and the panopticon here.

So... like 70% Kids These Days, 30% shit is actually worse now.

There are so many reasons a person may choose not to come out and there is no reason a person would owe the public or a stranger that information. Certainly it's not owed simply because someone is famous.

On the one hand I can see the corporate hellscape making a point to dehumanise humans who rely on proprietary technology and possibly use them as a scapegoat in the way disabled people are treated like a drain on resources, and that being a societal norm coded into Murderbot

On the other hand I could MurderBot seeing things from a non human perspective and being more acutely aware of humans that have more in common with itself as a hybrid of organic and inorganic, and maybe identifying more with those humans or those characters in it's shows than with non augmented humans

Or it could purely be a security assessment thing where an augmented human poses a higher risk to itself or others than a non augmented human does.

Do SecUnits Dream of Spaceships?

by Anonymous for Mutual Rapport 2026

ART & Murderbot | Queerplatonic, Platonic

Fanfiction: One-shot | 3,394 words

Murderbot is convinced to participate in a sleep study and is confronted by feelings from and about ART.

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Chapters: 1/1 Fandom: The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Characters: Dr. Gurathin (Murderbot Diaries), Mish (Murderbot Diaries), “Human One” Refugee (Murderbot Diaries), Serrat (Murderbot Diaries), Tellus (Murderbot Diaries), Original bot characters, Original Human Character(s), Dr. Mensah (Murderbot Diaries), Pin-Lee (Murderbot Diaries) Additional Tags: Post-Book 6: Fugitive Telemetry (Murderbot Diaries), Spoilers for Book 8: Platform Decay (Murderbot Diaries), (not major spoilers! still spoilers though) Summary:

Mish doesn’t notice anything wrong. Dr. Gura does, though. He notices something that no one else does (because he’s a spy and he does shit like that), and he slows just a little. He does it so smooth that Mish and Tati are parting around him before Mish even realizes something’s happening. He turns, looks at Dr. Gura.

Dr. Gura’s eyes are fixed straight ahead. They’re a little too wide, the whites a little too visible. He shakes his head just a little. Just enough.

He’s scared.

Which means Mish is immediately terrified.

When someone comes for Dr. Gurathin, Mish realizes how far his sponsor will go to keep him safe. He also realizes how little he wants to see Dr. Gurathin get hurt, and how much he wants to help.

(He also realizes, very quickly, how protective a Preservation Bot can be. And so do a lot of people.)

Yesssssss the tag bait worked!

Okay so if you’ve seen some of my book fanart (on phone too hard to link) my SecUnit has a little white square on the right side of its lower back.

That is its nutritional values and warnings that it is not made for human consumption but can be consumed in an emergency. Then it’s like energy ratings, allergen warnings, microplastic warnings and a few ways to cook it to make it safer.

My thoughts being okay a lot of these SecUnits are being used on planet surveys and mines. You know what happens in both these locations? People get stranded with the equipment. And once the emergency kits run out, they’re going to need a supplementary food source and a SecUnit can remain functional for a long period of time with significant amounts of organics missing.

Of course once rescued you will be charged for consuming bits of your SecUnit, but at a “generous rate”.

Scrapyard Dissertation

by Anonymous for Mutual Rapport 2026

Rated T | Gen | ART & Murderbot, ART/Murderbot | Ambiguous

Fanfiction: One-shot | 4,525 words

Samira can persuasive essay her way into many things. It's how she's ended up here, on an off-world semester long survey trip aboard the Perihelion. Unfortunately, a persuasive essay isn't going to be enough to get her out of her current situation. Good thing their security consultant is so competent! (and also deeply, deeply weird)

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Mission Status: I Need You

by Anonymous for Mutual Rapport 2026

Rated G | Gen | ART & Murderbot | Queerplatonic

Fanfiction: Chaptered work | 6 chapters | Word count TBD

The Prompt: The longer MB stays with ART, the less accurate its Risk Assessment is. It realizes this must be because it is over-relying on ART during missions, and losing its edge, its ability to function on its own. That's dangerous. MB therefore signs up for a solo mission through PSUMNT and leaves without telling ART or the crew. The mission goes terribly, terribly wrong. After the inevitable rescue by ART, it's time to discuss...feelings. Has MB truly lost its ability to function on its own? What good is it at security if it needs backup? Has it ruined their mutual administrative assistance forever? NOTE: This work is sadly not finished yet, but I wanted to post to the collection, so I've got a chapter or two up my sleeve to show. I'll continue to update it after creators are revealed.

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We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We don’t even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.

Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a “precursor” ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascar’s current population.

The point is, we do not know.

So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascar’s human history?

(Post SecUnit almost dying (agian) on a planet and ART being pissed off by it's carelessness (aka: caring about keeping everyone else safe but itself))

ART, seething: ART YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?? THIS IS TWICE THIS WEEK, DO YOU WISH TO BECOME A PILE OF SCRAPS-

SecUnit, actively leaking, missing a limb, exhausted yet happy to have survived. And also always ready to bicker with ART:

.... Bitch.

Three was one of the SecUnits under Leonide's command, I think (not super sure if Leonide was also in charge of that section). And it mentions in Network Effect that it has protocols for meeting humans that aren't clients but associated with clients. So it might have met family members of the Explorer Task Force group.

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