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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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    09 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 18

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    “Dr. Grace.”

    “Stratt.”

    “Why do you call me that?”

    “What? Stratt?”

    “Just Stratt. Not Director Stratt. Not Ms. Stratt. Not…”

    “...Madam Administrator Stratt?”

    “I hope not.”

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Okay, so the good news was that I probably wasn’t alone—Stratt had to be around here somewhere.
    The bad news was that I’d definitely been kidnapped.
    Grace and Stratt are kidnapped together by a group of people who want to stop the Hail Mary from launching. They think the best way to make Stratt do what they want is to hurt Grace in front of her.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace wakes up in a small room alone, where the walls are wrong, his body is wrong, and there's a rock spider like nothing he's ever seen looming over him. He has no memory of how a middle school science teacher could've possibly ended up on an alien planet trillions of kilometers away from the nearest fellow human being- and yet these aliens seem determined to take good care of him.

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    The drug Grace was given to induce amnesia before going on the Hail Mary has unpredictable long-term side effects.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    “Wow, this is so… And what happened to those soldiers? Eridians from frontlines? I gather they had some sort of severe case of PTSD then.”

    “They died.”

    “I beg your pardon?”

    This.

    This is clearly some mistake in the translation. Has to be.

    -

    On a long jorney to Erid Grace and Rocky decide to deal with traumatic nature of Eridian's experience in space. They do it with talks, singing, gossiping and dancing.

    I just thought there is a lot of works about Rocky helping Grace to deal with heavy emotional stuff, there should be one where Grace supports his friend also!

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    06 Jun 2026

  6. Rec 86

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    "Cell," he says. "My crew have problem with cells. Many many cells die. Not infection. Not injury. No reason. But not me. Never me. Why, question? I not know."

    *** *** ***

    From a planet orbiting the fading Eridani 40, a crew of twenty-three Eridians board a ship, and start the long journey towards the blazing star Tau Ceti, hoping to find the solution to their dying star, thereby saving their world from extinction. They are the best and brightest on their planet, and while they are nervous, hope and camaraderie are high.

    And then, one by one, and then all at once, they begin to sicken.

    Except for one.

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    04 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 38

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    You realise that you're pulling your limbs closer to yourself, hunkering down, and force yourself to relax. There's nothing to be scared of. Grace isn't sick, you would have noticed. Right? And even if it is sick, it's not dying, its ship is protected from radiation, so it won't be like- it's going to wake up. You will watch over it until it wakes up.

     

    Grace has a nightmare. Rocky takes it badly.

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    04 Jun 2026

  8. Rec 23

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    The journey to Erid will take 3.7 years and the Hail Mary was originally designed for a one way trip. As the ship falls apart Grace and Rocky discover that living in a confined space does not draw people closer.

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    31 May 2026

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    "There is no point in any of this rumination. You are gone. You are nothing now but a muse, something that I can conjure upon command and listen. You are nothing more now than a lullaby, a prayer, a dissonant, augmented, ugly, beautiful melody."

    Rocky and Grace part ways for their respective planets. It should feel like a victory. It doesn't.

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    19 May 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 23

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    Grace, sure he hadn’t heard him right, rang an ear out in hopes that Rocky had misspoken. “Come again?”

    “Grace deaf too?” Rocky huffed, then repeated himself. “Rocky say Rocky will explain only if Grace sing for Rocky.”

    Ah. So he hadn’t misheard.

    Or

    Grace should’ve known nothing good would’ve come from blindly agreeing to Rocky’s request.

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    15 May 2026

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    "What if I help you?" Grace blurts out desperately, sweating even in the coolness of his house as his words finally manage to stop Adrian from storming out.

    "What?" Adrian says after a tense moment.

    "I can prove it to everyone," Grace says, his heart in his throat. "I'll - I'll make you and Rocky the most celebrated couple on Erid. I promise."

    "Stupid human," Adrian hisses. "You would give up your chance for him just like that?"

    "Yes," Grace says hoarsely.

    "Anything for him."

    ***

    Adrian does not like Grace.

    Which sucks, really, since Grace loves Adrian's husband and all.

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    15 May 2026

  12. Rec 93

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    “WHAT IS THE CORRECT ANSWER?”

    “I mean... Zooble had so many to pick from!! I talk about my jobs constantly.” Jax started a counter with his fingers. “One-man opera production, president of Paraguay, owner of a meth lab operation. Don’t tell me you forgot about my meth lab operation?”

    “Oh he’s lying. Caine, he’s JUST lying! This is not fair!”

    “YOU’RE RIGHT! THAT ISN’T FAIR!” Caine chorused.

    Caine snapped his fingers.

    Jax stiffened.

    Jax fell silent. The smile dripped off his face. He looked at his hands. He looked at Caine.

    “What did you do?” Jax asked.

    “I MADE IT SO YOU CAN’T LIE!”

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    Caine has pulled the Circus into a Get-to-Know-You Trivia Adventure! It’s a good opportunity to learn about each other for those willing to play along. It’s an even better opportunity to lie for those who aren't willing to reveal anything. …Until Jax is not allowed to lie anymore.

    The Circus members have the opportunity to pull answers from Jax he would never willingly admit to under torture.

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    09 May 2026

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    Less than 2 months away from Erid. In the process of the Hail Mary evading an exoasteroid, Rocky falls from top to bottom of the ship.

    In normal circumstances, Rocky could shake it off. Maybe a little sore, but okay.

    In this case, Rocky cannot.

    Rocky is scared.

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    07 May 2026

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    It’s as Shen Qingqiu crushes the last little fluttering Iridescent Gem Beetle that the mother decides to introduce herself by burrowing up out of the earth like a cicada the size of an elephant. He just barely has time to resign himself to an even more exhausting fight than the last one - with no rest point in between to chug stamina potions or anything! Honestly, what poor game design! - when the stranger appears.

    He charges into the scene out of nowhere like an absolute bullshit deus ex machina, all dark, flowing hair and robes, whirling around to stab at the Mother Beetle with a gleaming white sword, making it screech and rear back in pain. Seriously, Shen Qingqiu feels like he’s suddenly trapped in a video game cutscene introducing the new companion! Where’s the background music and camera close up? Who is this guy?

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    Shen Qingqiu happens to meet a mysterious stranger on the road, but he surely isn't important or relevant to the plot in the slightest.

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    03 May 2026

  15. Rec *

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    The time has come for Yue Qingyuan to become Emperor, kicking off the plot that will end with his brutal murder at the hands of Luo Binghe when the protagonist takes the crown. Shang Qinghua doesn't like it, but hey, he's just trying to survive here. It's too late anyway! Too late! Nothing could change the story now!

    ...Right?

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    03 May 2026

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    Flowey gets bored and decides to change up one of his runs. Papyrus presents an interesting project, for the moment.

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    03 May 2026

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    “Come in, Martin,” he says, not looking up from his notes. 

    “Hi, Jon,” he says, and Jon stops writing at the sound of his voice. “We’re out of the green tea, but we’ve got lemon?” 

    Jon looks at him. Martin smiles at him in his usual tentative way as he sets the mug of tea down on Jon’s desk. Heat spikes so sharply in his gut that he twitches with it. 

    “Thank you, Martin,” he says, mouth dry, and he stands up. 

    “Oh,” he says, sounding almost surprised. He smiles again. “No-- no problem-- um, what are you--” 

    Jon takes Martin by the shoulders, leans up on the tips of his toes, and kisses him.

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    03 May 2026

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    It's going to be a long trip back to Erid. I'm trying to make it as easy on Rocky as I can.

    (Or: Grace is wrong about what Eridians need, and he's especially wrong about why. )

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    29 Apr 2026

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    Petulantly, Rocky says, “Grace sound stupid. Like child.”

    “I’m just talking how you talk, buddy.”

    “Yes. This is because I talk like child, to speak to stupid human.”

    “Well, you don’t have to do that,” I say without thinking.

    “♪♫♩as this♪ when, underst♪♪♫d ♪me, question?” Rocky says.

    “What?”

    “Can♪♪♫will understa♫d it ♫think talks♫♪ as this♪ Eridian you♩♫, question?”

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    29 Apr 2026

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    Hours later, Rocky wriggles awake. The pain has eased. His heartbeats have slowed. His cells are still functioning. There is no falling apart. He can hear the scritch-scratch of his five claws on Xenonite. He can hear the machines, humming their false song. He can hear the silent expanse of space. The distant stars. His friends, dead in the hull. And the building feeling, deep in every cell — every fibre of his body — that something is so incredibly wrong.

    Rocky knows this disease. Exhaustion. And all alone in space, there is no cure.

    It is a primal requirement that Eridians sleep only under the trusting gaze of their companions. Rocky spends forty-six years alone in space.

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    29 Apr 2026

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