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    Ryland Grace does not enjoy keeping secrets, and now he doesn't have to- yay! He's sharing his feelings and bonding with his team; the Mental Health Thrum will be so proud of how well he's following their advice. He misses home but he's actually having a pretty good time while they prepare for launch.

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    Ryland Grace was weird when he was (badly) trying to keep his time travel a secret. Surely he'll be more normal now that he doesn't have to dance around the truth? Oh fuck, he's WEIRDER?

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    14 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace is not going to be one of those *crazy* time travellers. He has more sense than that. He can totally fix things and get back home and nobody will ever be the wiser. The Acting thrum would be so proud of how well he is pulling this off right now.

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    Ryland Grace is a time traveller. He's also the world's smartest idiot. The rest of the team on the Vat is totally gonna let him fix things, but honestly, how stupid does he think they are?

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    14 Jun 2026

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    “Adrian will understand,” Rocky says confidently. “Will be excited to meet alien. Will be excited to meet person who brought me home.”

    “Yeah, and I'm excited to meet them too, but after that!” Is this a translation error? A cultural miscommunication? How is Rocky not getting it? “You're partners. They're not going to want some alien around while you're, like… going on dates and all that.”

    “Does not mean no time for Grace.” Rocky’s starting to sound frustrated. Part of me feels bad, but the rest is just as frustrated. “Why think this, question? On Earth, just abandon friends when have mate, question?”

    It's so clearly a rhetorical question, to which the answer is obviously supposed to be no, of course not. I freeze up anyway.

    or: rocky HATE amatonormativity

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    Okay, sure. So, there was a word for people who didn’t find other people sexy. Great. A normal word. A well-known word. And not a medical condition.

    But surely whoever wrote this understood that it was an anomaly. There weren’t enough people like this to warrant a label. After all, what was the point of a human who didn’t want sex?

    (What was the point of me? — I’d asked a hundred times before.)

    Or: A heteronormative movie adaptation, a very weird BuzzFeed article, and an internet rabbit hole lead Grace to the discovery of a label sixty years in the making.

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    Rocky trilled, like that wasn’t the answer he wanted. “Other rituals, question? Romance rituals, mate bonding, for humans. Eridians love romance rituals. Give gifts, wear special garments, spend life together. Hundreds of years.”

    “That sounds nice,” I said, once again overwhelmed at just how long Rocky has lived. “You do all that with Adrian?”

    “Grace avoiding question.” Rocky tapped against his Xenonite casing. “Annoying.”

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    Ryland Grace is in denial about some important things about himself. Rocky being nosy doesn't help, except when it does.

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