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  1. Public Bookmark 68

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    You always deserve love. Always.

    “But-”

    No ‘but’,” Mom cut in. “You always deserve to be loved. Repeat it, please.

    “I-” Something still didn’t fit together, but Mom Grace had to know what they were talking about, so, “I always deserve to be loved.”


    Prism learns what a healthy relationship with a parent looks like.

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    04 Jul 2026

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    No, please, don’t do it, I can’t do it, please.”

    Rocky knew exactly what was going on, and hated hated hated that it had to happen on what had supposed to have been a nice, calm, fun day for both Grace and the kids.


    Grace has a flashback. Luckily he has a wonderful family to help him through it.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    Grace has a hard time dealing with the absolute darkness on Erid. Rocky fix.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    There their hearts went again, clenching so hard it made them want to cry out.

    Because why did Mom never say this to them? Why did it have to be someone who could never be more important to them than a teacher?

    Why couldn’t Grace be their mom?


    A rendition of sharkfiinn's character Prism getting adopted by Grace.

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    01 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 40

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    Before the launch of the Hail Mary, Ryland Grace had a totally normal reaction to being asked to participate in a threesome. He didn't freak out at all. He was super cool and dignified about it, actually.

    Years later, on the journey to Erid, remembering this event leads to some interesting discussions with Rocky.

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    27 Jun 2026

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    One week ago, Ryland Grace passed away.

    Today, the first crewed diplomatic mission arrives on Erid.

    Rocky, as the leading expert on human culture, has a job to do.

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    27 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 31

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    Ryland prepares to spend another Christmas on Erid alone, while Rocky prepares a good ol' fashioned Christmas party, Eridian style!

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    22 Jun 2026

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    The first time he feels the terror, he doesn't understand why. As he barely hangs onto consciousness, the soft silicon presses against his face, enveloping his nose and mouth. The spark of terror catches fire in his chest and quickly spreads across his body. It ignites a screaming inferno within his skull. He forces his eyes open. Everything is red. There's shapes above him. Pure oxygen fills his airways, stale and clinical and familiar and wrong.
    Grace's memories of his unwilling medical sedation and forced sacrifice return, vivid and violent. Later, on the journey back to save Rocky, he has night terrors. The thin lines between consciousness, unconsciousness, memory, and nightmare blur.

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    20 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 33

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    When I wake up, the phantom stench of burning flesh follows me out of the dreamland and stays for a few minutes. For that short, blessed period of time, I am at peace. I am warm and sated.

    Of course, it fades eventually. Then the shivering starts all over again.

    Or: Grace starves in more ways than one.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    “Dr. Grace, I will be frank. The frequency is behaving in a steady manner, not guided by any gravitational pull towards any other planet…except Earth. It is too far away to catch a quality satellite images, but we think this may be–”

    “–a vessel using astrophage as fuel.” Grace finished quietly. He studied the image, an infrared camera’s picture, a red streak in a sea of darkness that ended abruptly. He zoomed in on the image, as far as it would go and then some, fingers braced on the glass to keep the image enhanced, but it was too dark to see anything at the tail of the red streak. “You think it’s an alien ship.”

    Grace swiped his finger across the screen and physically recoiled at the image, the desk chair wheeling back with him almost a foot. “Eridian. That’s an Eridian ship, I’m sure of it.”
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    Grace with no video logs, with no xenonite failure, who comes back to Earth as Rocky comes back to Erid, heart full but missing a very distinct piece. there's a deepset something in his eyes that has nothing to do with Stratt's actions being revealed or the press or adjusting to earth again. (@not-equippedforthis on Tumblr)

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    09 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 97

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    On the journey to Erid, Grace and Rocky discuss their respective alien biologies and Rocky learns that a lot of humans don't make it to the average 80 year life expectancy.

    Years later, it looks like Rocky is going to learn that lesson again in a more personal way, but not if he has anything to say about it.

    Feat: Grace being susceptible to medical misconceptions aka being a little dumb about human medical science (he’s not that kind of doctor, okay?), old man Grace ignoring pain and injury because he’s used to it, worried Rocky, and a peek at daily life on Erid

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Grace and Rocky finding solace in each other, over and over again.

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    29 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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    25 May 2026

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    Three years after the probes carrying Taumoeba and Dr. Ryland Grace's final message arrive on Earth, humanity launches an interstellar spaceship with a brand new mission. Thirty-six crew members (including two graduates of a certain San Franciscan junior high school) travel to the star 40-Eridani to make friendly contact with the Eridians and bring them the alien life form from Tau Ceti-E that can save their star if Dr. Grace's sacrifice failed.

    Grace, now fifty-seven years old, is just trying to balance his life as a teacher while no longer being the only human on the planet anymore. It's a big adjustment, but Rocky and the Terra's Grace crew are going to make sure he's well taken care of.

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    16 May 2026

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    Ryland has a tattoo. So does Rocky. It's not the same thing, but it also really is.

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    10 May 2026

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    Ryland Grace slams face first into the realization that he will never be touched by another living being again. Rocky does his best to help.

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    07 May 2026

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    Adrian's love has returned to them from the stars and brought along... an alien. All new things take an adjustment period. Some are just stranger than others.

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    06 May 2026

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    Rocky visits Grace's life support quarters with some exciting news, some time into his recovery on Erid---the biodome habitat has finally been completed.

    It takes a step through the airlock and sinks down into rough sand and pebbles. I chirp and hop down after it. Grace has not seen the biodome yet, but neither have I, and in my enthusiasm I dart slightly ahead.

    Grace inhales so sharply that I turn to hear him better in a panic. “Grace? Grace, what is wrong? You are hurt?”

    My assumption is quickly corrected when, without warning, it bolts.

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    06 May 2026

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    “I’m fine.” I swallow. My mouth is dry and my tongue feels too big for my mouth. “Just… stay with me?”

    Rocky presses a claw against the xenonite, just below my fingers. “Yes. I will watch you sleep."

     

    (OR: After Grace remembers how he came to be on the Hail Mary, he’s plagued with nightmares. Weak and sick from vitamin- deficiency after running out of coma-slurry, the nightmares reach a new fever pitch.)

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    27 Apr 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 32

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    Eridians are pretty resilient, but their cells are even more susceptible to radiation than humans’ are. I’d imagine that even though he spent most of his time around the fuel tanks and thus was shielded most of the time, Rocky still didn’t come away from his 50 or so years in space totally unscathed.

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    27 Apr 2026

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