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    This series starts with Little Ugly Tree, which I think is one of my better efforts. (Unfortunately) it's also a story that's kinda stuck with me and I wrote more, despite knowing very well that LUT stands best alone and ended when it should have. For these reasons, I have added the extra shit I wrote as a sort of sequel instead of a second chapter. This way it's easier for you to skip the extra bits if you like LUT as is.

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    On a corporate owned mining asteroid in the depths of the Corporation Rim, a group of plucky, heroic, indentured humans have just decided to make their first move in a daring escape plan. Said first move is a deceptively simple hack, putting control of their corporate overlords' single, overworked SecUnit into their hands.

    Little do they know, this murderbot is already hacked.

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    30 Sep 2024

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    a public service announcement: the campus police would like to politely remind all students, well-wishers, and supporters of the university during this time of serial vandalism that painting on buildings without permission is still illegal. this has not changed no matter how 'cool' you think it is. vandalism has never been nor will it ever be 'radical', 'sick', or any version thereof.
    -supervisor lexa woods

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    08 Apr 2024

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    Gideon Nav, the greatest running back Milvian Bridge Academy has ever seen, has been prophesied by the Pope of the Eternal City to be a great warrior, destined for sainthood, in the Crusades.

    But after becoming haunted while scavenging the Old City for old hard drives, she finds herself trying to manage calculus and football, hiding the malevolent entity haunting her, and pulling at clues to her parents origin as they shed light on the collapse of civilization and the rise of a theocratic society in the ruins of New York City.

    This is a cyberpunk, climatepunk post-apocalyptic military dictatorship catholic high school football NYC machine politics hacker exorcism canon divergence love story AU taking place in a New York where Jod didn’t blow up the world, but it was ravaged by climate change, nuclear wars, and a necromantic uprising anyways. Just let it happen.

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    21 Mar 2024

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    @GideonNav (she/her): Hey I told a customer we have dark mode.
    @GideonNav (she/her): thats ur feature right?
    @GideonNav (she/her): I said next release, they wanna sign.

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    Tech Company AU in which a certain Sales bro with no filter decides to ruin Harrow's life (and feature roadmap) by initiating the cross-functional project from hell. At least, Gideon has the decency to work remotely, and Harrow's new office crush makes some pretty great coffee.

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    23 Dec 2023

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    “What’s with the sword theme?” She asks.
    “Aiglamene likes swords.” The walls of Scabbards are leaden with them, replicas of swords, pictures of swords, a suit of armor off in a corner holding–you guessed it–a sword.
    “So why not call the bar ‘Swords’?”
    “Well,” Gideon is only a little delighted that she’s asked this. “Imagine a sword is a dick, then a scabbard must be a–”
    “Ah.”
    “‘Pussys’ would be too on the nose for a lesbian bar, so Scabbards it is.” Gideon leans forward, hands on the counter and a conspiratorial tone in her voice. “You do know you’re in a lesbian bar, right?”
    “Yes, Griddle. I have eyes and critical thinking skills.” Harrow takes another too-big drink.
    “I didn’t know nuns went to lesbian bars.” Gideon says, to be a shit.

    Or: I was just gonna write a fun little thing about Gideon being a bartender and a drummer because I find both of those things attractive, and then 2k of tragic catholic guilt attached itself to Harrow like a revenant, so shit got angsty.
    There'll be porn in later chapters, I promise.

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    23 Oct 2023