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  1. Public Bookmark 44

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    I think everyone needs to hear someone say, “Nobody else will do. It has to be you,” sometime in their lives, even if it only happens once. Just once is enough. As long as you can feel sure those words were sincere, you can live through anything, no matter how painful.

    Except Rocky isn’t the first person to say that to me, is he? Now that I think about it, I realize I’ve heard it before.

    Stratt just phrased it poorly, that’s all.

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    01 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 29

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    Rocky and Adrian are brooding their nest site, leaving Grace to his own devices for 5.5 Eridian years. At least he’ll have company. From many other Eridians; many he’s met before, others he meets for the first time.

    (Alternately, Adrian wants to be sure Grace has sufficient behavioral enrichment so he doesn’t go cuckoo again)

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    01 Jul 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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    30 Jun 2026

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  4. Public Bookmark 50

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    “Dr. Grace? As in the Dr. Grace who studied the Arclight samples and named Astrophage?" Minoru felt as if he was going to explode from excitement, “He’s here? On this boat?!”

    Ilyukhina laughed and Minoru didn’t even care that she was making fun of him. Even Dubois seemed a little taken aback by the enthusiasm. Shapiro though— her eyes were glowing.

    “Yes he’s on the boat!”

    “Do you think we’ll get to meet him?!”

    “Who do you think is going to teach us how to handle Astrophage?” Dubois asked, like he thought they were both overreacting. Minoru felt like he was going to faint.

    Alternatively: Ryland Grace in the eyes of others during his time on The Petrova Task Force and Project Hail Mary.

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    30 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 98

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    When Ryland Grace wakes up, all knows is the weight of the world has been put on his shoulders. He isn't an astronaut. He isn't the best of the best like Yao and Ilyukhina are. He doesn't even know why he volunteered. But his crewmates never needed another astronaut. They need him. And they aren't alone.

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    AU in which Yao and Ilyukhina survive the coma because I love them and I need Grace to have human contact. AKA Rocky returns home with three weird aliens.

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    30 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 18

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    I don’t have Rocky to watch over me whilst I sleep, but the star model helps, a reminder of him every time I open my eyes. It doesn’t take long for me to start touching a hand to it when I get up, a kind of greeting. Good morning, Rocky. I hope you’re safe, wherever you are.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Project Hail Mary if Yao and Ilyukhina survived their comas, and things went a little more according to Stratt's plan.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    “Grace, question?”

    I perk up at the sound of Rocky's voice. It's not uncommon after almost two years into our trip to Erid to ask random questions about me, or humans, or really earth in general. Especially after an hour or two on his computer.

    “Yes Rocky?”

    “Humans persistence predators, question? Humans hunters, question?”

    “Ah.”

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    or humans can seem terrifying to space rocks

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    29 Jun 2026

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  9. Public Bookmark 42

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    First in what is probably going to be a series of PHM one-shots. Is this out of character for Grace? Almost certainly. Do I care? Not really, I just couldn't get this idea out of my head. I've also been putting Grace through the ringer elsewhere and wanted to give him a moment to be a confident little diva taunting the allos with his intense hotness that they'll never get to touch.

    Grace is dragged to the common room on Stratt's vat and given a dare; little do the others know it's gonna take more than that to scare a middle school teacher!

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    28 Jun 2026

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  10. Public Bookmark 70

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    Grace’s short history of relationships taught him that maybe he was just childish. Maybe he just— maybe he didn’t want a relationship. Maybe he just wanted a best friend who wouldn't leave him when they got married. That he was the one that was the problem.

    Adults had sex. That was a fact of life. They fell in love and love meant sex and that was just how it was. If you didn’t want to have sex then you weren’t really in love. Sure sex didn’t equate to love— people had flings all the time— but romance and sex were the kind of things that went together. So Grace had just— accepted the words of his girlfriends. That maybe he just never actually loved them the way he thought he did. Maybe he just liked them and tied the thought of romance to it so that he could monopolize their time. That all just came together so maybe he actually was just leading these women on. All of them gave him everything he needed in a relationship but he’d never been able to be what they needed. Wasn’t that selfish? Wasn’t that cruel?

    Alternatively: Grace is alloromantic asexual. This is traumatizing in many ways. Not for Rocky though. Rocky's perfectly okay with being in love and never having sex.

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    27 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 59

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    Stratt informed part of her team that they have to do, ugh, publicity. Hopefully just this once. Grace has a contact that may help out.

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    25 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 37

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    The notes blur together and you can't make sense of anything but how loud they are, all the words you've learned meaningless. You could go grab your laptop, but that would mean moving from the comfortable little ball you've curled yourself into, so that's not happening. Rocky lets out a piercing trill when all you do is stare blankly at him - that, you recognise. He's worried. When you flinch at the sound, he rolls closer.

     

    Grace gets overstimulated. Rocky tries to help. It works out better than either of them expects.

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    25 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 64

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    In American courts, spousal immunity protects a witnessing spouse from testifying against their partner.

    or.

    Grace and Stratt get married as a legal defense.

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    25 Jun 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 40

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    Grace has a dream that maybe isn't a dream, after all.

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    Did you know that sometimes, people in comas remember the things said to them?

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    25 Jun 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 47

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    I have a lot of things I need to be able to say to Rocky. Hundreds and thousands of specific, finnicky, scienc-y things. Right now, all we can say is yes and no. At least there's nowhere to go but up, right...?

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    AKA: the numbers were the easy part.

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    25 Jun 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 72

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    Grace and Rocky know who they are. They know how they feel about each other. Too bad literally no one else gets it at all. Like, at all.

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    “It’s platonic!” I blurted out, spreading my arms out wide to interrupt Adrian’s interrogation of my best friend. “We’re platonic songmates! Completely friendly, no romance, no mating. You have nothing to worry about! You’re still his mate!! Not me, never me!!”

    “Impossible,” they said.

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    25 Jun 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 13

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    In the flurry of activity surrounding Ryland Grace's return to Earth, he has an important stop to make.

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    25 Jun 2026

  18. Public Bookmark *

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    Fifty years after the Hail Mary's launch, Earth finally meets its galactic siblings. They come bearing glad tidings, and a gift.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that sounds similar to a word in your own, but differs significantly in meaning. No word in any Eridian language could possibly be mistaken for English. But Erid absolutely has false friends.

    In his right mind, Grace would easily identify the mistaken assumptions inhibiting his integration on Erid. They are:

    1: A molecular biologist and a sapient rock can cobble together translation software that reflects the etymological nuance of an entire alien language.
    2: Eridians are enough like humans to have an area 51 and look forward to using it.

    Unfortunately, Grace hasn’t been in his right mind in years.

    Or: a ‘Return to Erid’ story where Grace struggles to touch down alone.

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    24 Jun 2026

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    Bad dreams suck. Grace wakes up from a nightmare of being on the Hail Mary, which is utterly impossible, but his throat hurts like he really did have a tube pulled out of it.

    Turns out, he wasn't the only one to have that dream. Which was even more impossible than him actually being on a ship that's not even fully built.

    aka A movie react fic where everyone sees the film in dreams.

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    23 Jun 2026

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