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  1. Rec 23

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    On the trip back to Erid Rocky is excited to spend quality time with their favorite human, but Grace is acting…strangely. They are unbearably quiet. The longer it goes on the more certain Rocky is that there is something very wrong.


    “I trust you with my sad experiences. I tell you about crew deaths and how it make me feel. Rocky trust Grace. Now Grace trust Rocky.”

    “What— what if I wasn’t a good person like you? What if I was actually a coward and a liar? Would you still trust me?”

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    16 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 29

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    Rocky emerges, and his body language alone is enough to get me going. I struggle around my laugh, clamping my hand over my mouth. He waits patiently for me to gather myself.

    “Eridians are gay,” he declares. “I escape closet for all of them.”

    I fail. I tuck my glasses into the collar of my shirt so I can put my head in my hands, wiping tears as they come.

    “Rocky,” I say between giggles, “Rocky, I don’t think—I don’t think you can apply human sexuality to Eridians.”

    Something in him shifts, then. He perks to attention from his relaxed state, and though he has no eyes or facial features, I swear I can feel his gaze narrow on me.

    “I also read about gay rights,” he says slowly, warily. “Read that gay humans are hated some places. Bad.” He comes closer, looking up at me with all the accusation his flat face can muster. “You hate gay, question?”

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    Or: Rocky learns about another human custom, and as always, he makes it Grace's problem.

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    16 Jun 2026

  3. Rec 11

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    Rocky comes home with a strange alien and a promise to save the world.

    Adrian waited years for this, alongside the other loved ones of the science team. Waited with hope, then doubt, then sorrow. And now, their wait is over. Their mate has come home.

    They are happy, of course.

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  4. Rec 71

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    I think if I’d woken up alone on a spaceship with amnesia and two dead bodies, I might’ve gone crazy right there and then. But the good thing about being alive is that you’re never alone.

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    A Project Hail Mary daemon AU.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    "It comes naturally to you. In Eridanese, we are typically very literal. Figurative speech is reserved for art or profanity, so it doesn't come naturally to most of us."

    Huh. That's interesting. Rocky never had much trouble understanding me. Maybe he has a poetic soul. Or maybe he swears like a sailor. Probably the latter.

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