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    It’s so quiet in space. Lance thinks he might be going insane. He wonders, not for the first time, how Voltron is doing without him. He hears whispers of his old team, sometimes; fighting Haggar’s Robeasts all across the universe, never gaining any ground. He’s glad they’ve found a new pilot to replace him as the Red Paladin. It hurts that they never came to look for him, but Lance understands. Introspection has become a byproduct of existing and he’s been alone with his thoughts for four months.

    So yeah, Lance understands.

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    Keith pushes Red’s throttle to full, and the Lion goes into overburn on her own. He knows it’s foolish to waste so much energy on the search—especially here, especially now—but he’s getting desperate, and so is she. Lance is her paladin, not him. He’s just a stand-in. Really, he always was.

    “C’mon, Lance, where are you?” he asks. The emptiness, as always, doesn’t answer.

    Keith’s clock, set to earth standard time, chimes midnight. It’s been six months and thirteen days since Lance was taken—but for Keith, it’s been over two years.

    He knows the only reason the Paladins haven’t found Lance yet is because they weren’t looking.

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    15 May 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 56

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    The first time that Mumbo experienced an auction was also the first time that he remembered questioning everything that he knew.

    Everyone reaches a point in their childhood where they realise that their parents are people who aren’t always right. Usually however, this doesn’t include a shattering realisation that you don’t actually know anything about the world.

    The bubble that Mumbo grew up in had black tinted windows that prevented him from seeing anything other than what was right in front of him. And with no reason to suspect otherwise, how was he to know that there was a whole world out there.

    Okay, maybe that was a little extreme, but the general point still stood. His entire world view had just collapsed and now, at the grand old age of ten, he was finding out that life wasn’t supposed to be a constant charade.

    Unfortunately, Mumbo was not a natural to the art of acting.

    //From the universe of ‘Like a Deer in the Headlights’:
    The Tale of Lord Mumbo Jumbo

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    08 May 2026

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    It’s been nearly 27 years since Eva Stratt forced Ryland Grace to board the Hail Mary and sent him off to his death for the greater good of mankind. Meanwhile, Eva and the Project Hail Mary team have been fighting a losing battle against the cooling sun—and their own demons—trying to make sure there were still people to be saved by the time the crew could send a solution home. Right on schedule, the beetles are returning to Earth, hopefully with the answer to saving the world. But Eva has something else to worry about; there’s every possibility Ryland Grace’s last words would be coming home, and all the time in the world couldn’t make her ready to face the consequences of her actions, or what will happen when her colleagues find out what she did to their friend.
    It was time to find out if it was worth it for her to sacrifice Grace, and her soul, to save humanity. And to find out if she was ready to face him after all these years…

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    30 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 19

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    Eva Stratt did what she had to do to save the lives, but she can't escape the ghosts she created along the way.

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    A semi-linear series of blurbs that bounce between the time of Project Hail Mary being worked on and Stratt's life on the boat. Grace haunts the narrative.

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    30 Apr 2026

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    It had been a long and difficult 27 years since the Hail Mary had launched. Not as terrible as it could have been, but not easy. Humanity had survived and adapted, as it always did. There had been terrible wars. There had been incredible acts of kindness. There had been massive scientific breakthroughs. And now, there were two distant blips of Petrova-light, picked up by the Deep Space Network, hurtling home. Two probes, braking hard as they hurtled toward Earth holding the secrets to its salvation. They were late, or at least, not very early, but they were here.

    Grace may have made his peace with dying to save Rocky, but Rocky insists they return to Earth.

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    06 Apr 2026