Team Angst: Sci-Fi

[rodlox]

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sorry about that; my bad.
.please know that if you have already rated the other fic I wrote for this ficathon, could you please re-take the poll to rate this one instead? thank you.

Title: Gears and Martyrs. (& at my lj)
Author: Keenir.
Pairing/Characters: Liz Warner, Amita Ramanujan, Marshall Penfield. past Liz Warner/Marshall Penfield

Comments

[spikedluv]

Wow, I was not expecting that ending. Loved Amita as a computer, and the differences between her and Charlie explained as computer vs numericist.

I think you may have left something out here:

They rarely do that, Liz thought to herself. Decapitate or eat. And she
Liz didn't want to leave, didn't want to move. Not now, anyways.

(Also, could you edit this post, as well as the post at your journal, to let people know that if they already rated the other fic, they will need to re-take the poll to rate this one instead. I'm going to make a post stating that same thing and explaining how to do it for those who are unaware. Thanks.)

[rodlox]

>Wow,
thank you.

> I was not expecting that ending.
my Liz muse told me that it was needed, to make it angst.

> Loved Amita as a computer, and the differences between her and Charlie explained as computer vs numericist.
I think their differences would be pronounced in a setting where the claim of "everything is/needs numbers" was not true.

at one point, Charlie called Amita "my super-computer"...and I said "if you're going to make bad puns, you're not going in the story."

thank you for your fb.

[munchkinofdoom]

Lovely ending, and I adore the idea of the Windings.

[rodlox]

thank you very much.

>Lovely ending,
many thanks - Liz fell on her sword there.

> and I adore the idea of the Windings.
I had fun making them.

the eating, though, was a last-second insert.

[rodlox]

>The Windings creeped me out.
sorry about that.

one tiny question - did they creep you out before or after one appeared onstage in the fic?

>Well done.
thank you.

[rodlox]

thank you.

[jelsemium]

Excellent story and creepy, the way humans seemed to have just given up on fighting for their rights. I really like the whole "computer" vs "numericist" bit.

And, okay, I'm a little sick but I was amused at how Marshall getting his head bitten off was literal rather than just a figure of speech.

[rodlox]

>Excellent story and creepy,
thank you very much.

> the way humans seemed to have just given up on fighting for their rights.
in all the drafts, it had nothing to do with rights, and everything to do with using math...then I realized I was under the minimum word count.

> I really like the whole "computer" vs "numericist" bit.
thank you.

>And, okay, I'm a little sick
sorry.

[jelsemium]

Um, I didn't mean that the story made me a little sick, I meant that I have a rather sick sense of humor and I found it darkly amusing that "bite his head off" was literal rather than figurative.

By the way, thanks for the kind comments on my first Biography story. You may have noticed that it was disqualified for not being AU. If you voted, you'll have to recast your vote or it won't be counted.