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    Already standing in his customary position above the captain’s chair, legs wide, arms clasped behind his back, chief of security Nicolò di Genova doesn’t even flinch when Joe walks in. He probably gets up at six on the dot to comb all his hair precisely into place and iron his mustard-yellow uniform.

    “We’re not actually military, you know that, right?” Joe mutters to him for the second time this week as he slides into his bridge position, which is a sort of casual lean against the first officer’s chair.

    “I see you’ve forgotten your comm,” di Genova responds, just like he did yesterday. “Again.”

    Same old di Genova, reliably a shit.

    In which The Guard, one of Starfleet’s flagships flying under the unorthodox command of Captain Andromache Scythian, keeps reliving the same Tuesday.

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    22 May 2026

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    Ashur Vesperian—Altus, magister, Divine—returns to his family’s snowy country castle for its annual Winter Solstice Gala only to learn that Castellum Visci is on the brink of disaster. Determined to save it, he reaches out to the estate’s steward, a gruff, no-nonsense man who has been quietly trying to keep it afloat for years and has no patience for a privileged heir who only visits for the Gala.

    Forced to work together, Ashur and Tarquin begin to bond over their shared goal. Slowly, they discover they share the same fierce love for the place—and maybe something deeper, too. As deadlines loom and disaster hits, can they bring new life to Castellum Visci… and to each other?

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    06 May 2026

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    Tarquin gets stuck in a timeloop. As he analyses every detail of this seemingly random Thursday for clues, he must also confront his feelings for Ashur.

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    06 May 2026

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    Kakashi avoided relationships. He didn't want to put others in danger. So he couldn't understand why there was a face staring back at him, as a sub-entry to his own, in this Bingo Book. Umino Iruka (lover) the caption read. It didn't matter that it wasn't true. The Book was fact, and to Kakashi's enemies, Iruka had just become a weakness they could exploit.

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    19 Mar 2026

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    Ed is an engineer aboard the Revenge, an interplanetary research vessel on a multi-year mission to study Jupiter's moon Europa. An accident requires that Ed awaken from cryostasis over six months early, and finds his only companion to be Stede, the ship's onboard AI. They develop an unconventional friendship, but is it possible to have more?

    This is classic mutual pining with a sci-fi twist, inspired by all of my favorite stories about the nature of personhood.
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    “You–” Ed was struggling to parse what Stede was saying. “You’re playing your version of this song for me, right now? Like, in real time?”

    “Yes, Edward, that’s correct,” said Stede softly.

    Ed’s brain momentarily seized up. He supposed it made sense that Stede was capable of learning a set of rules to do something like arrange and play a piece of music. There was something unnerving about this song, though. It felt, well–it felt organic . Reactive. Almost collaborative in a way. Ed was lost in the push and pull of it, until the last notes softly petered out.

    “So, what did you think?” asked Stede. It sounded nervous again. Why the hell would someone program an anxiety response into a bot?

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    02 Feb 2026