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    “What? You’re not wanting to actually do this soap opera appearance, are you?” Rocky asked.

    Grace’s ears pulsed with blood flow and he gave a twitch of a shrug.

    “I mean…kinda?” he said. “I love As Erid Turns.”

    Rocky turned to Adrian.

    “Well?”

    “Well, what? I think he should do it,” Adrian said placidly.

    “Adrian! Grace is not some—cheap floozy of an entertainer! He’s a respected interstellar scientist!”

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    OR: Dr. Ryland Grace, unlikely Eridian soap opera star.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    A mini comic series of Grace, Rocky, and Adrian's relationship.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    At some point between arriving on Erid, emaciated and delirious, and starting up his classroom, Dr Captain Ryland Grace had become a global sensation.
    His actions, unbeknownst to him, triggered cultural waves that, to the humour of Saviour-Rocky, and the glee of the management team at the Centre For Human-Eridian Friendship, introduced trends with unprecedented efficiency and reach.

     

    Or: Grace is unwittingly a cultural icon, baby he’s bigger than Madonna.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    Popular tales in Eridian folklore include a long, lanky creature that cracks the carapaces of those who enter the ocean.
    So when Erid’s saviour returns in a small, foreign spaceship, missing 23 crewmates, and presenting a creature with an uncanny resemblance to their cautionary tales, Erid is, understandably, horrified.

    Yet at some point, somehow, the creature had found its way into the hearts of Eridians, and the grotesque alien from the unknown of space became a beloved teacher of their most vulnerable.

    Or: Erid learns to love Grace.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    After the Taumoeba leak, after I decided to die after all and turned my ship around to save Rocky, after Rocky's frantic calculations about food supplies, Taumoeba multiplication rates, and human caloric intake needs, after we realized that with some rationing and luck I would make it, but that we were headed toward the unknown territory of trying to rapid-prototype me a life support system and synthetic food supply on an inhospitable planet: after all of that, after everything, I shouldn't have been surprised that it only took a few months on board the Hail Mary for things to get weird.

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    Edit: I made some minor continuity and grammar edits on 6/20, this is the final version!

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    06 Jun 2026