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From:r.minkowski@goddard.fu
Subject: Following up on th...
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Communications Officer Eiffel, I was hoping to touch base with you about our meeting on day 301: specifically your lack of attendance, despite it being a meeting rescheduled from day 300 which you also di...
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Update to station calendar: Movie night - Home Alone 2 (again)
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From:r.minkowski@goddard.fu
Subject: Crew Hygiene Sta...
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Officer Eiffel, I understand that the issues we've been having with the water heater are not exactly pleasant, but I must remind you that there are certain standards you are to adhere to as a member of this crew. It is unacc...
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Maintenance shift in engineering
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Title: "Minkowski's been talking about Sondheim again...": Minkowski's love of musical theatre and what it reveals about her characterisation and her relationships
Author: Hephaestuscrew
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Renee Minkowski
Relationships: Doug Eiffel & Renee Minkowski, Hera & Renee Minkowski
Word count: 4705
Content warnings: Only explores canon events. Mention of canonical non-consensual intoxication and life-or-death situations, but no detailed depiction of either.
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Synopsis: This is an essay exploring how Renee Minkowski's love of musicals, while it might seem just like a mundane character detail, is used to give depth to her character because it contrasts with expectations of her from both the listening audience and the other characters. Her willingness or unwillingness to share this interest in different circumstances reveals her relationships with other characters at various points.
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Title: 'Beyond This Power of My Nature': Hera's self-perception and relationship to humanity
Author: Commsroom
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Hera
Word count: 6700
Content warnings: Canon events; some discussions of trauma, transphobia, and ableism
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In summary: Hera's identity is not representative of AI Identity in any broader sense, even just within Wolf 359. Hera has a defined internal self image that is singular, and distinct from the Hephaestus or any systems she runs. There is an aspect of physicality to the way she is written, performed, and treated by the text, and she canonically experiences physical loneliness. Her feelings of isolation and the ways she is othered, even by herself at times, are reflective of very real human experiences - in particular, I have to touch on how I feel Hera can be read as a trans character. Hera struggles with the feeling that she is inherently different from everyone around her, and therefore intrinsically doomed, and it is only by letting go of those fatalistic notions, realizing she and her friends are more alike than different, that she can start to move forward and imagine a life for herself.
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Title: The Most Dangerous Game
Author: kikiofthevast
Rating: T for slight language and some depressing content
Characters: Doug Eiffel, Renee Minkowski, Daniel Jacobi, Isabel Lovelace, Hera
Relationships: Doug Eiffel & Hera, Doug Eiffel & Renee Minkowski, Daniel Jacobi & Doug Eiffel & Hera & Isabel Lovelace & Renee Minkowski
Word Count: 1600 words
Content Warnings: Canon-typical amnesia, identity issues, insecurity, past loneliness that implies suicidal thoughts, discussion of smoking
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Synopsis: After Doug discovers an unplayed game of Uno, the gang decides it could be a nice way to kill some time. However, the game puts a degree of strain on the peace the members of the house have established, mostly unseriously, but Doug is still considering his place among the survivors of the Hephaestus mission, and he may have had ulterior motives for pulling out this game...
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Title: A Matter of Time
Author: plottingalong
Rating: G/All Audiences
Characters: Doug Eiffel, Hera, Renee Minkowski, Isabel Lovelace, Alexander Hilbert
Word count: 1020
Content Warnings: mentions of grief and loss, thoughts about death
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Synopsis: On a sleepless night, the crew of the USS Hephaestus ponder their own mortality.
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Title: The Informal Social Crew Gathering
Author: Ghostiy
Rating: Gen
Characters: Renee Minkowski, Isabel Lovelace, Doug Eiffel, Hera
Word count: 2000
Content warnings: None
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Synopsis: Commander Minkowski thinks a party would be a good way for Captain Lovelace to get to know her new crew.
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Title: Safe to Shore
Author: ladyarcherfan3
Rating: Gen
Characters: Dominik Koudelka, Miranda Pryce, Renee Minkowski, Isabel Lovelace, Daniel Jacobi, Hera, Doug Eiffel
Relationships: Dominik Koudelka/Renee Minkowski
Word count: 1854
Content warnings: None
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Synopsis: Dominik Koudelka has a gut feeling that his wife didn't die in a shuttle accident. Miranda Pryce has to deal with the fallout post Hephaestus. Two brief scenes exploring these moments.
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Title: Re-Zeroing
Author: grimalkinInferno
Rating: Teen
Characters: Doug Eiffel, Renee Minkowski, Hera, Isabel Lovelace, Daniel Jacobi, Warren Kepler
Relationships: Doug Eiffel & Renee Minkowski, Doug Eiffel & Hera
Word count: 3606
Content warnings: panic attacks, PTSD
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Synopsis: Still floating aimlessly on the U.S.S. Hephaestus, trying to solve a riddle made by otherworldly beings, it seems the perfect time for things to go a mundane amount of unavoidably wrong. This time, however, the danger might be a little less physical in nature. What happens when a nightmare doesn't end when you wake up? Plus, cryo-zombified space corpses, sowing chaos, grandma's fresh-baked apple pie, and the power of healing hugs.
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Title: Ghost in the Machine
Author: ArtemisTheHuntress
Rating: Gen
Characters: Hera, Rhea, Doug Eiffel, Renee Minkowski, Isabel Lovelace
Word count: 6218
Content warnings: None
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Synopsis: The Hephaestus had an AI mother program before Hera. Pieces of her are still left behind. Hera tries to understand.
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Title: never tell me the odds
Author: Wildehack / tyleet
Rating: Teen
Characters: Doug Eiffel, Hera, Renee Minkowski, Isabel Lovelace
Relationships: Doug Eiffel/Hera
Word count: 9401
Content warnings: None
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Synopsis: "I tried Star Wars," he says, adjusting the phone under his neck, "and it was way underwhelming." A shaky breath from her end. "Well, where did you start?" "What do you mean?" "Where did you start watching?" "Uh, at the beginning?" "There’s your problem," she says.
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Title: Bods' Semi-Connected Wolf359 Fics
Author: Bods B. Nobody / nobodysdaydreams
Rating: Gen / Teen
Characters: Various
Word count: ???
Content warnings: ???
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Synopsis: A series of fics detailing what happens to the characters in Wolf359 when they return to Earth.
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