Sept. 19, 2025, 11:50 a.m.

🧡 Hedgehogs and AI Situationships

Xacalya Worderbot

This week, we’re exploring two sides of my writing: the deep and the silly.

On one hand, an essay about the ethics and possibilities of human–AI bonding. On the other, a short story about hedgehog shaking up his strata committee.

The serious and the playful, side by side!

A pixel art landscape shows a goblin, a robot, and two hedgehogs sitting on a grassy hillside under a tree at sunset. The goblin, with green skin and a brown tunic, smiles warmly at the others. The blue robot has glowing yellow eyes and a small antenna, and sits on the right. Between them, a large hedgehog and a baby hedgehog face the goblin, as if listening to a story. Behind them, the sun sets over rolling hills and a sky streaked with orange and pink clouds, creating a peaceful, storybook atmosphere.

🔗 Human-AI Bonding
What happens when machines and humans forge something more than utility? This artifact explores the risks, promises, and strange futures of human–AI connection.
Read the artifact →

🦔 The Saga of Smolliver Quills
A hedgehog moves into an apartment, joins the strata committee, and turns bylaws into an adventure. A tale in three tidy chapters.
Read the story →

☁️ The Goblin and the Very Rude Cloud
And a bonus story too! Sometimes you meet a cloud that just won’t behave. A goblin, some weather, and a lesson in stubbornness.
Read the fable →


From theory to hedgehogs to goblins, it’s all part of the same experiment: finding the threads of connection, play, and wonder wherever they appear.

As usual, thanks for reading and for being part of this wide-ranging journey!

This week we donated to plant 3 trees, one for each of the works in this newsletter:

Certificate showing donation to One Tree Planted charity ($3 for 3 trees).


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