stellarators (Cantharellus)
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Grace Under Pressure: A Guide to the Care and Keeping of Your Chronically Ill Cyborg Supersoldier from the Future by stellarators (Cantharellus)
Fandoms: Terminator (Movies), Terminator - All Media Types
28 Apr 2020
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Grace Harper's body has undergone both mechanical and chemical augmentation to help her fight Terminators, but these enhancements come with some serious drawbacks. Because of how her body has been altered to optimize her for brief, intense battles, she experiences severe physiological consequences and requires medication and cooling to survive the resulting post-combat “crash” -- which makes for some really interesting fanfiction.
This piece of meta is intended as a reference guide for Terminator: Dark Fate fic writers who don't want to comb through a bunch of medical literature or figure out how to theoretically metal-plate a human skeleton just to finish their stories. In this write-up, we’ll take a look at what happens to Grace’s body during a crash, the medications she requires and what each is used for, and what kind of ongoing care she’s likely to need both immediately post-combat and in day-to-day life for managing the complications that might come with having a heavily medicalized body that is both enhanced and disabled. Additional chapters will include notes on how each of her augmentations might function and affect her combat ability along with her day-to-day life, particularly her power source.
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Blood is Compulsory by ostreatus, stellarators (Cantharellus)
Fandoms: Terminator (Movies), Terminator - All Media Types, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Stoppard, Terminator: Dark Fate
07 Dec 2019
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“Don’t you get it? You’re always staying. And always leaving. You’re always saving me, and I’m always just in time — except the times never match—!”
Dani, Grace, and Sarah - much like the Machines - gain some self-awareness, and realize the nature of the narrative that they're in. It just takes several iterations before they start getting the story right.
(With apologies to Tom Stoppard.)
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Lampshades on Fire by ostreatus, stellarators (Cantharellus)
Fandoms: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
03 Nov 2019
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Or, How Dr. Olivia Octavius Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Morally Unambiguous Nature of her Violent Actions.
A review of the scientist-to-supervillian pipeline, based on a longitudinal case study.