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    ‘There appears to be a real risk,’ said Psychologist Prime, tapping a stylus against their tablet in an idle way that frayed at the edge of Adrian’s sore nerves, ‘That should Alien Human-from-Earth-of-Sol Asylum-seeker Savior-of-Erid Grace perish, then your mate Savior Rocky may experience a radical and potentially fatal decline in physiological and psychological health.’

    ‘...I see,’ said Adrian. With exceptional calmness.

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    Let it not be said that Adrian was not devoted as well. They had stood firm, a loyal widower longer than others could fathom. Once you encountered a love like Rocky’s, there could be no replacement. Nothing could even compare.

    ‘Do you understand that?’ Adrian wanted to ask. So desperately, they wanted the alien’s reply. ‘Are you the only other creature in the universe who understands what it is like to be loved by someone so completely?’

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    Adrian meets Grace several times, before Grace is healthy enough to meet them in return. Despite light-years of distance between their species, Adrian might have finally met the first other being who appreciates Rocky like they do; or so they hope.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    The intruder enters the kitchen slowly, limbs held low to the ground. Their carapace tilts from side to side as they draw near, fixing their auricles on me.

    The xenosuit they have on looks cobbled together, almost experimental. It’s not see-through like my team’s suits are. It wasn’t designed with my light detectors in mind. Instead, it’s dark and opaque, and not at all helping to dispel the impression of a masked burglar in my home.

    I’ve never seen that body language in person before, but I understand it on an instinctual level. Eridians are the apex predators of their planet. It’s a hunting stance, and I am the prey.

    or: Grace experiences a home invasion on Erid.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    Grace’s discomfort with Dr. Devon Hale was a slow, creeping thing. Because on the surface, she was a perfectly nice woman. She worked under Dr. Lamai on the coma bed technology, was tall and imposing with long brown hair and a symmetrical face that others categorized as “pretty”—which Grace only knew because he'd overheard some lab techs comment on it one day. He never had the eye for that kind of thing.
    One of the scientists on Stratt’s Vat likes Dr. Grace, and she doesn’t understand when he says no.

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    22 Jul 2026

  4. Rec 59

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    reminders
    • grade papers tablets
    • convince rocky not to pick twilight for movie night
    • dust the shelves or rocky WILL start counting the individual dust particles on them
    • biodome rain test soon!
    • look for gastronomy research articles

    tell the biodome workers to tone the rain down a little. just a little. because they may or may not have struck the fear of god into you last night with the storm simulation they threw at you.

    is it still platonic if you and your best friend cuddle while watching a romance movie and he scoffs at the couple on the screen and says they'll never have the bond you two have

    never let rocky watch movies with love triangles because again. he'll just keep saying, "when in doubt, poly it out." actually maybe we could do that nope scratch that!

    Or: A glimpse into Ryland Grace's life on Erid, all through a series of sticky notes on his fridge.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    Ryland wilts in the makeshift nest and blows out a long sigh. “Look, it's not that I'm ideologically against it or anything, Rock. It's just that—nothing has ever.” He abruptly pauses, wrinkling his nose to reconfigure his thought pattern while he stares at the ceiling of the ship and makes a vague hand gesture through the air. His blood capillaries are still dilated but not as obscenely as before. “Nobody has ever…y’know? Gosh, why is it so hard to talk about this right now?”

    Simultaneous surprise and arousal hit Rocky like twin bolts of frenetic lightning. He would almost break out into joyous song if that didn’t feel slightly inappropriate in light of Grace’s burning bashfulness. “Oh, Rocky understand now,” he gently cuts in. “Grace is a virgin.”

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    21 Jul 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 42

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    Rocky has designed a xenonite double dildo attachment for their ball so that they and Grace can get fucked silly at the same time.

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    20 Jul 2026

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    [What does hand flex mean, question?] Rocky asks from where we're huddled together on the floor, watching the 2005 adaption of Pride & Prejudice.

    "It's uh—" I hit pause, search for the right word. "Have we had yearning in the vocab yet?"

    ——

    or: two years and seventeen days after reaching Erid's orbit, the climate control in the biodome breaks

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    14 Jul 2026

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    aka the demi!grace poly!erid two cakes gracerocky series!

    featuring erid's constellations of platonic, romantic, and/or sexual partner types; two best friends in love on a spaceship; an excuse to write my speculative anthropological ideas about eridian cultures; and basically every phm fic trope i've enjoyed in my extensive grocky literature review. enjoy! ☺️

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    14 Jul 2026

  9. Rec 35

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    I don’t need all my memories back to know that home is wherever I’m with Rocky. I knew that when I turned around for him. Maybe I even knew it when we said goodbye for the first (and last) time.

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    14 Jul 2026

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    “Genital organ swelling…is because of sleep hallucination, question?” Rocky says, sounding baffled.

    “Pretty much. Human bodies are weird.”

    “Weird weird weird,” Rocky mutters, rolling back out of my arms. “Glad Grace okay.”

    I nod, not feeling okay in the slightest. “Totally okay. I mean, how could I not be? I’ve got a spaceship, all the Taumoeba I can eat, and you. What else could I need?”

    Last night's dream isn’t fading like my dreams usually do after I wake up. I’m not sure I even want it to. I can’t stop hearing the sounds my brain imagined Rocky would make as I sank my fingers knuckle-deep inside of him, as he praised me for making him feel so good–

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    14 Jul 2026

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    Far in the future, long after the Astrophage crisis is over, when the galaxy is loud with long-distance communications, two souls awaken again.

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    He smiles.

    Probably too wide and full of teeth.

    He can't help it. He's finally here, on Erid! Ever since he was a little kid, his eyes had been glued to the starry sky. To be here is a dream come true.

    And his first stop? It's all he has been thinking about ever since he had woken up in Pathfinder, five months before his arrival.

    His blue eyes look outside, seeking his destination.

    Illuminated by thousands of lights, the City of Saviors offers itself to him.

    Grace smiles, as bright as the Sun.

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    14 Jul 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 48

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    He hasn't thought about asking for the kind of intimacy they shared during their journey. They never talked about how they would handle things when they arrived, and they haven't talked about it since.

    They were in a wholly unprecedented situation during their long, isolated journey, and Rocky was there for him in every way he needed. They were there for each other. Now that neither of them are so desperate anymore, no longer living one bad malfunction away from certain death, both of their needs have changed. And they have more people than just each other to help them meet those needs. Anyway, Rocky is back with his mate now. No matter what, Grace still has him as his best friend, and the guy who has made it his personal responsibility to keep him alive. That's more than enough. So he's made it a point to get used to the idea of returning to a life of celibacy.

    Then one day, Rocky walks in and cheerfully announces that he explained their complicated history to his beloved mate, who not only completely understood, but was actually quite curious about the whole thing and wanted to see what all the fuss was about. He just about falls out of his chair.

    OR: Grace, Rocky, and Adrian's first time together.

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    14 Jul 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 50

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    Ryland Grace hasn't purred in years, and when he wakes up on the Hail Mary, he certainly isn't expecting that his Omega tendencies will have a reason to re-emerge.

    Then again, he wasn't expecting Rocky either.

    The sensation is unfamiliar enough to make Ryland gasp; his purrs, in the past, were skittish and tentative, an Omega trying to pretend that he was fine, worried that his exes would find him lacking if he couldn’t. But there’s no fear around Rocky, so his purr fills him from the inside out, strong and sure, and he feels —

    He feels Rocky hug back, one of his limbs molding through the glass to wrap around him and try to pull him close.

    In which Grace purrs and activates Rocky's mating drive.

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    14 Jul 2026

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    Grace is a well-schooled man who loves learning. Surely he can accomplish his goal in fifty-six days.

    He creates a calendar on his whiteboard. Fifty-six days until his ship reaches the Blip-A.

    Fifty-six days in which to learn how to say Rocky's name—his Eridian name.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    "You can literally hear inside me when you focus, bud. Has observing the action of my gallbladder in HD made you think less of me as a person, or humanity as a whole?"

    [Yes,] Rocky says without hesitation, which makes Grace choke on a laugh. He amends, […at first. Then I get used to. Kind of cute now. Humans need infinity liquids to do basic process, always new mucus…]

    "I bet I'm gonna find your ultra-high-temp organs super cute too," Grace offers with an irrepressible grin, "and actually, okay, this strikes me as a morale problem. You're getting too down on yourself. I promise you there is nothing I could find rearranging your—" Nope. "—digging around in there that would shame the entire Eridian race."

    [No way for you to know this,] Rocky says flatly.

    "There definitely is, because I'm gonna shame the entire human race first."

    This is how they spend the next three days on the glove box addition while Mary reads to them from the unreleased 2021 NEISS report, filtered by incidents requiring extraction of foreign objects from the 'lower trunk' or 'pubic region'.

    (or, Rocky eats something inedible. Grace helps. They both get Really Weird About It.)

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    10 Jul 2026

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    It’s only during the second month on their joint journey to Erid that Ryland stumbles upon the egg and sperm specimens for the first time.

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    10 Jul 2026

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    10 Jul 2026

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    Grace laughs, the bath's level swiftly rising with the addition of so much mass. "I thought this was disgusting, you're going to join me in here?"

    Rocky blurts a huffy sound, taking care as he pulls his remaining limbs into the bath, crouching over Grace's legs. "Inside xenonite suit," he says like he's explaining something very obvious (which he is), "No touching cold, dirty bath. Humans made of water, leaking all day long, then still need to go sit in more water. Crazy." He shivers his torso morosely, sending Grace into a laugh that echoes sharply around the bowl of the tub.
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    Ryland Grace has been adrift for a very long time (certainly before being shot into space). Rocky has built him a house, and maybe Grace has found a home.

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    07 Jul 2026

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    Grace doesn't have an exact timeline of his decline, but he does remember being only four months out when he finally notices. His nails are brittle and breaking, his eyes have been gaunt for a while. He's the thinnest he's ever been in his life and just carrying equipment around the lab is starting to wind him. He's able to ignore it for a good while. To smile too widely at Rocky and distract him with the newest game or movie to watch.

    Grace is in the lab when it happens. When he's finally forced to face the facts. Looking back, he'll call himself vain for that very moment being the turning point. He's doing his routine checks in the morning in between gulps of Taumoeba slurry. He runs his hands through his hair. it's a mindless action, one he does without realizing most days. When his fingers fall away, a chunk of hair follows. Like his nails, his hair has gotten brittle and prone to breaking. It hasn't just fallen out before. Not in such a large quantity or all a once.

    Ryland Grace is dying.

    The trip back to Erid isn't all sunshine and rainbows. Grace faces his mortality.

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    07 Jul 2026

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    "He's tapping his fingers together again. I know what he's thinking. He's thinking what I am thinking. But if either of us is going to say it, it's gotta be him. 'If it came down to it, I would be completely fine with you performing an invasive surgery on me', is something that would take possibly three more near-death experiences and another coma to grant me the resolve to say aloud."

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    05 Jul 2026

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