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soph ([personal profile] sophia_sol) wrote2016-12-25 01:49 pm

my yuletide gift!

My yuletide gift this year is just SO GOOD!!! I am utterly thrilled. My author wrote me a fic about the album Splendor & Misery in the style of the album and it is EVERYTHING I COULD HAVE WANTED, gosh. Highly recommended!

there’ll be no here when you wake up

(3625 words) by Anonymous

Fandom: Splendor & Misery - clipping. (Album)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: The Computer & Cargo 2331
Characters: Cargo 2331, The Computer (Splendor & Misery
Additional Tags: Loneliness, Artificial Intelligence, Finding Selfhood, What Makes for a Non-Human?, POV Second Person, Formatted to be Read Aloud, Impossible to Tag

Summary:
you have learned love but not self-consciousness, because love does not beget self. there’s no need for heart and body to love; no need for mind or soul though you have both, programmed for one and grew the other like a struggling sprout in a crack on the pavement, just for him, just like him.

The Passenger and the Computer, in the midst of the all black everything. Time once more has meaning, and humanity must be redefined.