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  1. Public Bookmark 29

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    Very soon, it is as if he had never existed outside of his capacity orbiting her.

    It is here that the trouble arises.

    Eva and Grace in the year before launch.

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    25 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 13

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    "You…" Rocky's voice is uncharacteristically hesitant. It honestly throws me off. "You not like other Rocky's Grace."

    I flick my eyes to him. "What?"

    "I say, you not like other Rocky's Grace."

    "No, I heard you," I go back to playing solitaire in want of something better to do, but I can barely focus on the screen. "Why do you say that?"

    "…Other Rocky show Rocky earth media," he starts, and alright, I'm already worried.

    OR: So, you meet alternate versions of yourself. Big deal. At least they aren't having nightmares in the same room as you, or anything.

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    25 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 14

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    Project Hail Mary, as written by thirteen different authors- Edward Lear, Terry Goodkind, Geoffrey Willans, James Tiptree Jr, HP Lovecraft, Nancy Atherton, Susanna Clarke, PG Wodehouse, John Ringo, AG Swinburne, Sei Shonagon, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Charlotte Brontë.

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    21 Jul 2026

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    incredible

  4. Public Bookmark 72

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    It's the same word as before, clear as day.

    “But… But I can’t.” Grace says blankly. Rocky knows that. Nevermind the xenonite between them, keeping one or both of them from withering in indescribable pain then a swift death, both of their species were wildly incompatible. Trying to merge their biology would be less successful than mixing oil and water.

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    20 Jul 2026

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    Ryland Grace never considered himself to be the best guy to ask about gender. Sure, he lived in San Francisco, and he was the cool teacher, always priding himself in being understanding and making his class safe space for all of his students, including the queer kids who needed it. He’s better versed on the topic than the average cisgender man, probably, but he’s not claiming to be an expert.

    Even so, he was hoping that’d translate into being more knowledgeable about it than an alien with no concept of gender sixteen light years away from Earth was, but there were a lot of things Adrian one-upped him on.

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    20 Jul 2026

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    “But you said you didn’t have a word for – for forcing someone into reproduction?”

    No. Is different, but equivalent violation. Means, to force to sleep.

    Or, Dr. Ryland Grace has yet to confront the choices taken from him. Eridian norms, ironically enough, force the issue.

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    19 Jul 2026

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    FLAWLESS AND WITHOUT BLEMISH

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    “Hey, you’re the one who loves hearing my heartbeat.” Wait, nope, shouldn’t’ve said that. That definitely seems like too much, somehow. I feel my cheeks heating up.

    Rocky’s claws fidget against the xenonite. “Yes. I do. Is good sound,” he insists, more quietly than I’d expected. “Means you still alive."

    “Yeah.” I’m so alive right now that I can feel the pulse jumping in my throat. “That’s, um. That’s good.”

    In the back of my mind, a very cool and rational part of myself is telling me: hey, since you’re on the subject of internal organs, why not take this opportunity to ask Rocky to feel you up so he can check on your appendix/gallbladder situation? Unfortunately, the rest of my mind just heard ask Rocky to feel you up and had the psychic equivalent of a seizure.

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    19 Jul 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 29

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    A cover letter from Eva Stratt included in a probe sent from Earth to Erid bearing supplies for Dr. Grace.

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    18 Jul 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 15

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    Rocky and Grace talk about Grace's first day at his new job on Erid.

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    18 Jul 2026

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    In the middle of an argument, Rocky accidentally ruptures Grace's eardrums as they head to Tau Ceti E.

    Can be read as slash or not.

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    18 Jul 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 36

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    While researching human needs Rocky learns about touch starvation and the importance of touching for humans. Worried for Grace's well-being, Rocky plans several different ways to provide Grace with the touching intimacy he needs to be healthy. Rocky expects to be praised for his initiative and ingenuity, but instead Grace's reaction is…concerning.


    I realize that as I’ve been trying to imagine a nice, pleasant hug, I’ve actually stressed myself out a little. I can’t help but frown and slightly grimace at the thought. This can’t be normal. Humans enjoy touching! Imagining a hug should be comforting. It should reduce stress.

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    16 Jul 2026

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    ohhhhhh the singing, the singing.

  12. Public Bookmark 57

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    Grace has a migraine. Rocky isn't clear on what, exactly, that means.

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    16 Jul 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 45

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    Anyway, there isn’t a therapist on Erid who could work on me without a seminar. And even after a curriculum, a thesis, and a defense, it’d still be impossible to explain why I feel so goshdarn weird about the wheelchair.

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    16 Jul 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 42

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    "I'm trying to be culturally sensitive, so don't take this the wrong way," Grace says. "Is it just me or...is Erid fascist?"

    Finally, words have been put to my persistent fear and I can no longer deny what I have been thinking for the last several days. "Yeah. Erid's fascist."

    Rocky and Grace return to Erid to find the planet struggling under the climatic impacts of astrophage. Rocky goes down to Erid alone with the singular goal of creating food for Grace, who is dying of malnutrition. However, Rocky finds that Erid isn't the same as he left it; the new government is reconfiguring life around an ethos that is focused on strengthening Erid, limiting knowledge-creation, and being hostile to outsiders--like Grace. Now Rocky must find a way to not only save Grace from starvation on his own, but do so before the fascist hive mind can realize what's going on, as its eye slowly trains on eradicating the alien lifeform.

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    14 Jul 2026

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    Grace needs to look at this logically. It's a video in the logs folder, dated to when the ship took off, and perfectly introductory log length at a few minutes long.

    Of course it's a log.

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    While fighting boredom on the trip back to Earth, Grace finds a video log from Ilyukhina and Yao.

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    13 Jul 2026

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    Adrian knows that everything is solvable if you break it down into the right sequence of steps.

    The abrupt return of their long-dead partner in an alien spaceship has brought with it a series of absurd, worrying and even dangerous problems, but they're confident they can see the solution even if nobody else can.

    They just need to make the alien fall in love with Rocky.

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    13 Jul 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 31

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    Teacher Grace cried some more. Engineer Music-Suggesting-Foundations-of-Home was quite used to it doing this, and waited patiently for it to stop.

    “It is Earth culture,” it confessed, even damper than before. “Males are not permitted to remove their own sperms. Only female humans may do that, and only to the males they own. I have never belonged to a female, so it is always painful for me.” Fluids gushed from its nose and mouth in a pitiful fashion.
    -Extract from “Untitled StarShipping Fill 2”, Secretive-Pornographer (a pseudonym), Speculative Xenobiology [zine]. 15762.
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    Someone tries to copyright a trope found in RPF about Grace. Meanwhile, Erid is sending a cultural exchange vessel to Earth.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    “Earth spider animals are so beautiful and intelligent,” Teacher Grace said compassionately to Combustion-Fighter. A thrum of spider animals was going by on the street as it said this. “I wish there was a way I could talk to them and teach them about magnetism.”
    That was called ‘foreshadowing.’

    Three Eridian kids try and write a romance novel about their teacher.

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    12 Jul 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 79

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    nsfw art from my blog 25-984microns.tumblr.com

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    12 Jul 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 56

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    There is not enough coma slurry onboard to feed Grace once he makes it to Rocky's home planet, and Erid's scientists will only be able to invent human-safe vitamins so fast. But Rocky has been doing Capital R Research on his portable earth thinking machine. Extra calories can be stored as energy in the form of fat cells in humans, and Rocky has tons upon tons of extra calories in his fuel tanks. While it won't do much for the nutrient deficiencies, why not overconsume on purpose to store energy for later?

    His human friend is hesitant to agree, but the logic is sound. Gaining some extra weight now isn't going to hurt once the starvation eventually starts.

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    11 Jul 2026

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