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Moonfire 57
“What are you doing here?” Donna chuckled at the young-looking researcher whose office she’d just appeared in. “We see our reputation precedes us.” “Yeah! I saw that video a month ago, of everyone changing... You can do anything, so why here? Why me?” “I’m here to help.” He blinked at Donna uncertainly. “Sorry?” “Would it make it any better to say ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help’?” That got a chuckle. “No. Make that hell no. We’re just some guys with a wild idea that might possibly turn into a viable fusion power plant. You could just snap your fingers and...” Donna shook their head. “The laws of magic got rewritten to forbid direct interaction with high energy physics in general. For the best, antimatter weapons are...” “Scary as fuck, I get it. But that doesn’t answer my question.” “The most pressing need of the world right now is power. We had a nice chat with the President earlier, and while the oil crisis has been resolved for now, there’s a lot
Moonstone
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The Button
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Literature
Trust Machines - New Year's Revolution
Imagine a world where there are transformation booths in malls in place of the old photo kiosks. Two people step in, and each selects a change for the other. Welcome to that world... the world of the Trust Machines – known colloquially as Venn Machines due to their interlocked-rings logo. Note: The Trust Machines setting was inspired in part by Elrod W’s MAU stories. *** *** *** “Come on, you two. Everyone else at the party has agreed to get venned.” Gary glared at his friend. “Peer pressure isn’t going to get me into one of those crazy machines.” “Oh come on, it’s New Years! Time to try new things. The Venn Machines are perfectly safe. Nobody’s ever gotten hurt. Since you two haven’t tried them before, we’ll let you off with a one month change. But the rest of us are doing the full year as someone else.” Gary shook his head. “How on earth do you figure that will work? Are you just going to walk up to your job and say ‘Hi, I’m still Tassie’?” Tassie nodded zir head.
Trust Machines
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El Goonish Shive Fanfic
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Raveled
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Literature
Entanglements 6
Entanglements 6
As she’d expected when Phil was deep in a technical puzzle, Aggie didn’t see much of him unless she visited the lab. The main exception was when she arrived home from her university classes, he would always be there at the door, waiting for her and looking worried.
On Friday, the Phil that met her looked excited instead. The first thing he said after hugging her was, “I did it!”
Aggie danced a victory jig with him, laughing as she did. When they stopped, she asked, “You managed to get diamond-boosted entangles to go further?”
“Oh, yeah, that too,” said Phil dismissively.
Entanglements
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Need
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Xevozz
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DME
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In Too Deep 5 - Cooperation
“What do you mean, you’re Barry’s pet?” asked Steve as he scrambled to his feet.
Kelly jumped up as well, and grabbed Steve’s arm. “Careful. Once you move away from the portal, reality rewrites you to something that fits. At this size, something like a mouse.”
Steve rubbed his chin as he digested that, then his eyes lit up. “Oh! So that’s where the rabbit came from. And why you still have fur and floppy ears.”
“Yep. Still cute?” Kelly wiggled her nose at him.
“Very much so, yes.” To emphasize his point, Steve kissed Kelly on that cute mostly-human
In Too Deep
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Til
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Marketplace Magic
95 deviations
Literature
Blackboxing 8
Alex grinned at my crestfallen expression. “Expecting someone else?” “I met Angela at that shop you sent me to. Was that all some kind of setup?” Alex grinned and nodded, then looked puzzled by my hurt expression. “What? I could tell you two were made for each other. You’re both crazy about being something else.” My anger faded and I shook my head ruefully. “Oh, that kind of setup, not a prank. Angela told me she wanted to apologize for the catgirl incident. If you wait, you could do it in person.” Alex’s grin grew bigger. “She’s coming here? Good for you, I knew you could close the deal.” My expression must have revealed my inner conflicts. He punched me on the shoulder, just hard enough to shake me out of my spiralling thoughts. “What was that for?” I asked, rubbing my shoulder. “Angela’s amazing. Don’t do... whatever it was you were doing there. Yes, I had sex with her. Once. As a catgirl. That fact is still screwing with my head. I’m not cut out for the kind
Technicon
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Literature
Dusted
“Hey Lizzie whatcha doin?” Lizzie looked up from the row of little origami figures on the glass tabletop of their shared living room. “Practicing for my new job.” Sarah watched Lizze dust one of the figures with a feather duster. “Oooh, you made it all sparkly. How?” “Magic! They let me take it home to practice with it, but I had to practically sign my life away. No messing with it.” “Aww, but I wanna try.” Sarah made a grab for the duster, and got her hand batted by it for her troubles. “No! It is not a toy.” Lizze went back to carefully dusting a paper crane, adding an extra flick to make it slightly translucent. “Um, Liz?” Liz rolled her eyes but didn’t look up. “What?” “I can’t move my hand.” That got Lizzie’s attention. She turned to her roommate. “You can’t? Why not?” “The duster, doofus.” Lizzie brandished the brush at Sarah. “I am not a doofus! I didn’t know it worked on people! I mean, we were told to be careful, but not why... I guess I see why we
One Shots
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