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  1. Public Bookmark 99

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    Two survivors wake up aboard Hail Mary with no memory of how they got there: Dr Ryland Grace, and an engineer called Simon Fleischer. As they navigate their unique situation and the discoveries awaiting them at Tau Ceti, they uncover truths about themselves that would have, perhaps, been better left forgotten.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Every screen in the room blazed with the same breaking news feed. An alien voice had just asked for him by name on live television.

    “Mr. Grace?” little Jamal whispered from the front row, eyes huge behind his glasses. “Is that really you they’re talking about? Like, you you?”

    Ryland’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. His heart slammed against his ribs like it wanted to escape and hide under the desk with the class hamster. He was just Mr. Grace. The guy who drew cartoon planets on the board, who stayed late helping kids glue together messy dioramas of the solar system, who once spent an entire lunch period comforting a sobbing girl because her goldfish had “gone to the great fishbowl in the sky.” He graded spelling tests on vocabulary words like photosynthesis and asteroid. Aliens did not know his name. Aliens did not ask for science teachers.

    The marker slipped from his fingers and clattered to the floor.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    7:
    Grace is def totally completely calm but knows all the things now, about to talk to NASA again via suit

    Rocky Puppet Show, NASA is shitting themselves because Grace was like dis suit hot imma take it off

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Mindy Park is rapidly realising that the first intelligent extraterrestrial to make contact with the human race thinks they’re fucking stupid. She’s pretty sure that Dr Grace isn’t accurately translating half the things Rocky is saying, but most of what he is telling her is that Rocky has a better way of doing what NASA wants them to do, and honestly, it seems like Rocky is mostly right. She probably doesn’t want to know what the other half of what Grace’s new alien friend is saying, if the things that are making it through what she’s calling the “middle school teacher filter” are “why would you do something the dumb way when you could do it the right way”.

    or,

    Mindy has a headache, Grace has trauma, Mark is confused and Rocky is wondering how humans made it in to space when they're all so, so dumb.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    Mark Watney has survived 118 sols on Mars, and he wouldn’t exactly say it’s been a cakewalk, but he only has about three more years of listening to disco to go (ugh) before Ares IV picks him up and take him home. But when something crashes on the Martian surface only a few kilometers from the Hab, NASA wants him to leave the safety of his little home on the Martian prairie to go investigate…what could possibly go wrong?

    Ryland Grace has survived a long time in space and almost a decade on Erid, but the anxiety of not knowing if the beetles made it to Earth finally drives him to try the dangerous journey back home, and Rocky and Adrian come with him. Everything was actually going pretty good…until a horrible accident leaves them hurtling through space (and time) with no choice but to crash land on the wrong planet.

    How is Watney going to deal with the unexpected company (and their weird secretiveness over why they were in space)? Is Grace going to be able to adjust to being around another human being again? And how are Rocky and Adrian going to handle the uncertainty of a reception to an Earth that’s never heard of aliens before?

    More importantly…how the fuck is NASA going to get them all home alive?

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    02 Jun 2026

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    Finished 2: soooo we accidentally blasted ourselves faster than the speed of light and came out just in time to see mars approaching very very fast

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    “I’m not an actor.” Colt chokes out.

    “I know you’re not.” She says gently. Colt wished he was anywhere else but here.

    “But you have plenty of experience in front of a camera already, and… Colt, you’re his twin. You knew him in a way no one else ever could."

    or

    Colt is asked to star as legendary astronaut Ryland Grace in a biopic about him.

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    01 Jun 2026

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    Finished 6: the cat outta bag, Stratt invites visit

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    Between processing the unhealed grief of losing his wife, trying to keep from drinking himself into a coma, and struggling with his freshly grown feelings for his business partner, accepting a new case is probably not the smartest thing March has ever done.

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    30 May 2026

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    Angst! Drama!

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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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    27 May 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 44

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    “I made you ‘Love for All Seasons’ stew,” Xie Lian says.

    Hua Cheng makes an odd sort of choking noise that the sound department either will or will not be generous enough to edit out during post-production. “It’s beautiful.”

    Lan Wangji regards the stew. “This looks like it was regurgitated.”

    OR: an mdzs/tgcf crossover au of worst cooks in america.

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    26 May 2026

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    It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.

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    22 May 2026

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    21 May 2026

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    Xie Lian found something in himself that he thought was gone—worn away with every mistake he had made.

    Faith.

    His arms opened, and the child was hesitant—but eventually, he fell into them, his body trembling with silent sobs.

    "I remember you," he whispered again, voice breaking as Hong-er clung to him.

    I remember you.

    I remember you.

    I will always, for as long as I live, remember you.

    (A re-telling of TGCF where Xie Lian has his cursed shackle placed in his eyes, blinding him. And yet, through all of his struggles; there is always someone watching over him.)

    (MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS AVAILABLE)

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    19 May 2026

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    Blind XL

    25: HC eliminates the 33

  13. Public Bookmark 71

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    “My ministers have nothing better to do all day than write these pathetic, trifling manifestos about how the king is being coerced by the wiles of an evil concubine.”

    Xie Lian blinked a few times. “Who?”

    Hua Cheng’s smirk grew wider. “Why, you, of course. Who else? These idiots of the court are threatening to smash their heads into the pillars and die if I don’t wrench myself out of your web of enchantment.”

    Xie Lian suddenly felt quite speechless. Who was the one enchanting who, exactly? Clearly it was the king who wouldn’t stop summoning him every minute of the day!

    OR: transmigrator!hua cheng becomes a king inside in his least favorite novel, and he has his sights set on a particular concubine

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    06 May 2026

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    Finished…

    2: HC has unlocked SQX as a friend (by thinly veiled care of XL) and defeated his first quest platonically, much to the system’s shagrin. Quest 2 is establishing an heir.
    1: In which HC and XLs first date is testing food for poison

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    Shen Yuan transmigrates during the previous generation of Cang Qiong, and despite being totally mediocre (or so he thinks) he ends up becoming the Head Disciple of Qing Jing Peak. Shen Yuan decides to try and live his life to the best of his ability, avoid the scum villain when he makes his inevitable appearance, and grow stronger so he can stay alive long enough to be able to see his favourite protagonist in the flesh - and then escape so he's not killed when Luo Binghe takes over the world.

    But, of course, the plot has got to plot, and nothing ever goes according to plan.

     

    ~My version of a Shen Yuan disciple fic, where Shen Yuan and Shen Jiu become martial siblings, and the world conspires against them~

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    24 Apr 2026

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    ITS GOOD
    I LIVE FOR SHEN YUAN AND SHEN JIU BROS
    AAAAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHGG

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    “If the body can’t warm up, then things get uh, b-bad?”

     

    Mobei-jun cuts him a look that’s made for slaughter. “What does that mean?”

     

    “A-ah, it’s called hypothermia, my king.”

     

    “And you die once it happens.”

     

    Again, not a question. “You can.” When Mobei-jun makes an absolutely terrifying face, Shang Qinghua hastens to add, “But not instantly! Y-you can actually recover from it, if the hypothermia doesn’t progress too far.”

     

    “How far?” Mobei-jun growls.

     

    “There are f-f-f-five stages,” Shang Qinghua shivers out, lips numb. “The fifth stage is death.”

     

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    Shang Qinghua and Mobei-jun have their spiritual powers sealed before getting dumped in a white-out snowstorm. Mobei-jun quickly learns that humans are far more susceptible to the cold than he thought.

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    22 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Yessssss slow degrading via hypothermia my BELOVED

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    Shen Yuan wakes up in the middle of nowhere as a sword due to a system error.

    What the hell is he supposed to do with himself now?

    No knowledge of ‘I was reincarnated as a sword’ required to read.

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    15 Apr 2026

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    Hiatus?

  17. Public Bookmark 61

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    Original story summary:
    There is a boy digging a hole.

    There should be nothing special about him. He is one of many children digging holes, each and every one eager to get a spot on Cang Qiong Mountain. At a distance, there was black hair and shabby clothes.

    Yue Qingyuan could not look away from him.

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    In a world where they are the same age, Shen Yuan is going to try his very best to become the best friend of his favorite protagonist and prevent the blackening of Luo Binghe! Only, there is a problem.

    Shen Yuan looks way too much like the scum villain himself, Shen Qingqiu.

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    14 Apr 2026

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    Becoming emperor of the cultivation world will start with a first step as small and basic as becoming Head Disciple of Huan Hua Palace. For that, he must steal the position away from the current Head Disciple. Luo Binghe will sabotage, upstage, and completely and utterly best him.

    The road to destroying everything and everyone who has ever wronged him, to becoming the highest ruler so that no one will ever have the right to control him ever again - it will start as simply as ruining Gongyi Xiao’s life.

    Compared to everything else he’s already done, this should be easy.

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    Luo Binghe brings all his skills of cunning and brutality to bear on Gongyi Xiao, Head Disciple of Huan Hua Palace Sect. It… doesn’t go too well for him.

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    12 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Very good

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    There is a boy digging a hole.

    There should be nothing special about him. He is one of many children digging holes, each and every one eager to get a spot on Cang Qiong Mountain. At a distance, there was black hair and shabby clothes.

    Yue Qingyuan could not look away from him.

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    In a world where they are the same age, Shen Yuan is going to try his very best to become the best friend of his favorite protagonist and prevent the blackening of Luo Binghe! Only, there is a problem.

    Shen Yuan looks way too much like the scum villain himself, Shen Qingqiu.

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    11 Apr 2026

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    60: about to start the Immortal Alliance Conference!!!! LB and SY separated at the start, SY hasn’t been sleeping well, qi deviations, paranoid rat bastard Shen Jiu my beloved, mutual pinning and thinking the other will never be interested (LB has to be straight he’s the protagonist / SY says he doesn’t want to kiss anyone ever), SY is favorite nephew and crushed on by every gay disciple, LB and NYY also crushed on by all the straights, SY finally realizes he’s gay but thinks he’s prob fated to be the dead gay best friend rippp

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    Transmigrating into the stallion novel he hates most is bad enough, but why did it have to be into the body of one of the protagonist's wives? Shen Yuan spends exactly two months dealing with harem intrigues, sullen maids and his husband utterly ignoring him before he decides to go on an extended holiday. Very extended. Surely no one will care if he just forgets about being married and becomes a cultivator, right?

    (In which Luo Binghe goes on a quest to bring his errant husband home and Shen Yuan takes him on an adventure instead.)

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    Fully illustrated by @_sunshine_dies_

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    02 Apr 2026

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