hi just wanted to say I love rust so much they're the blorbos in my head also now that was such a fun read very excited if/when you write more for it!!! genuinely was not expecting it to be so good when I clicked on it but it's one of the coziest and best executions of a robot becoming more "human" that I've ever read. Usually I struggle to fully buy into that so I've never found a story that did it right but yours absolutely did!

HI hello I sat on this ask for like a whole day because I kept returning to it and wiggling delightedly upon rereading it like a very very happy snake!! This means so much to me and I'm always genuinely so excited and overjoyed whenever someone who's not in my immediate sphere of mutuals finds Rust because it's always like.....SO rare an original work kind of finds an audience so it is genuinely like a little treat every time!! And I'm totally with you, I'm very very picky about my robot/human relationships and how exactly a robot could or couldn't experience things analogous to what humans do and it's incredibly important to me that the robot doesn't "become human" so much as what makes it unhuman is brought into a light that can be cherished and appreciated and loved just as it is. I'm really glad to have done it in a way that felt right and read well!

And as a side note, I do absolutely intend on writing more-- I actually have a nearly-done fic to add on to the Rust series on Ao3, so if you can I super recommend subscribing to it since my writing schedule is all over the place. If not, though, I will always try to upload a post to Tumblr with a link to any new writing I put up under my 'rust tag', so you can definitely track it there too!!