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  1. Public Bookmark 5

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    Ryland Grace is neurodivergent. Not that he has any idea about this.

    What he does understand is that he seems to be on a different page from just about every other teacher at his school, that his mentor seems committed to misunderstanding him, that he seems to work longer hours than anyone and still can't complete everything.

    He's the students' favourite teacher though, so maybe this will be enough?

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    02 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 92

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    “We call this ♪♫.”

    “The color or the rock?” I tease, earning myself a low staccato noise not unlike what a human might sound like when faking a laugh.

    And then, from one second to another, he straightens. I sense the shift in the air, and as I rise from my squat, Rocky's gaze follows me very, very slowly.

    “What?” I ask.

    “Say name of this again,” he says, and I tilt my head. He’s never needed me to repeat something before. His hearing is immaculate, and he’s never once forgotten something I’ve told him.

    “It’s a rock.”

    He doesn’t move. He stares at me with his featureless face until even that feels more unsettling than eye contact.

    “Grace,” he says flatly. “You are fucking kidding me, question?”

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    Or: Rocky learns the meaning behind the name Grace gave him.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    After the Taumoeba leak, after I decided to die after all and turned my ship around to save Rocky, after Rocky's frantic calculations about food supplies, Taumoeba multiplication rates, and human caloric intake needs, after we realized that with some rationing and luck I would make it, but that we were headed toward the unknown territory of trying to rapid-prototype me a life support system and synthetic food supply on an inhospitable planet: after all of that, after everything, I shouldn't have been surprised that it only took a few months on board the Hail Mary for things to get weird.

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Four years after arriving on Erid, Ryland Grace has built a life. He teaches pebbles, swims in his ocean, arguers with Rocky, and lets Adrian carry him when Erid's gravity gets too heavy. He feels like he is finally home.

    But not everyone on Erid sees him as a person. Some see a miracle. Some see a curiosity. Some see a treasure being kept behind sound dead walls.

    And someone inside Grace's dome has decided Erid deserves more than glimpses.

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    14 Jun 2026

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    Today is a good day. I want to keep it that way.

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    14 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 2

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    "What did I walk like?" The memory wearing Ryland's face laughs, and the cruelty is all her. "You don't remember. You're slipping, Director."

    She takes a breath. "I suppose that makes us even, then. Doctor."

     

    OR: Stratt, alone with her ghost, after the work is done

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    13 Jun 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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    13 Jun 2026

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    Grace and Rocky’s unlikely friendship saved the day. They found the cure to save the stars. Their mission is done. Now, Grace thinks, they'll have to say goodbye.

    But Rocky has seen the signs: regardless of what Grace thinks, Earth is not safe. He has different plans, kinder plans, for his human. Ones he will enact.

    Even if it has to be against Grace's will.

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    08 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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    07 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 17

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    When Grace and Rocky are forced to head to Earth instead of Erid, Grace is expecting Stratt to still be around, doing what she does best: ensuring the world doesn't end.

    Instead, they return to a world where no one will tell him about her, and he's left to assume she's dead. What he discovers is much worse.

    He thinks there's a part of him that still hates her, but there are some things that you shouldn't even wish on your worst enemy, and he doesn't think Stratt is that.

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    07 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 87

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    “Joy does not know Grace,” Rocky grumbles. “Joy thinks Grace is ♩♭ ♬ ♫ ♩! I know Grace— mean is good for Grace.”

    I'm about to argue back, but I'm distracted by Joy's annoyed whistle. “I do not think that!”

    “Wait, what?” I look between them. “Hey, new word. What does Joy think I am?” I address this to Rocky, who is far more likely to tell me if I've just been insulted.

    “Ignore,” Joy says. “Rocky is inaccurate.”

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    07 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 16

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    Starving and dying, Grace finally meets Adrian. Honest discussions, reassurances and new possibilities commence.

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    07 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 12

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    Eva Stratt asked three people to give their lives for humanity. She asked the same of herself.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Grace and Rocky have both been enjoying their time together on Erid. Rocky and Adrian are expecting children and Grace continues to teach at his school. The road to their mental recovery is still ongoing but it’s a journey they’re making together.

    The people of Erid love them both but there is one who believes that Rocky doesn’t deserve to have the Saviour Grace as his friend… in fact they believe that they would be a better companion for Grace, he just doesn’t know it yet…

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    07 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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    07 Jun 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 56

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    In which Ilyukhina cuts corners, Grace is an affectionate drunk, and Stratt does not have time for any of this.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Rocky lived his happily ever after with Grace and Adrian. Until he died. And then woke up a week before the Blip A was meant to launch. He makes a few last minute changes.

    Eva Stratt is not having a good day. It was hard enough dealing with the aliens trying to eat her sun. Now she has to deal with the other aliens that know much more about her and Earth than she's comfortable with. And they also claim to have the answer to the Astrophage problem, provided she's willing to hand Ryland Grace to them.

    Grace wishes he could stop getting 'promoted' with no option to say no. At least his new job has better hours, if you could ignore the whole being stuck in space on an alien vessel thing.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    “Sorry, bud. It’s going to be a hm… a bit of a pickle to keep me alive.” Grace chuckles.

    “Eridians build whatever Grace needs." Rocky chirps. ”Food that taste good and other stupid needs. Grace no worry. Stay alive and happy, Rocky make sure.”

    Grace nods, but that familiar fear is creeping up on him. The one that visits him when his head hits the pillow, that makes him feel like he's just stalling the inevitable. It's silly.

    All he has to do is not starve on the way to Erid. Then he'll be the only human on the planet. For the rest of his life. Which is not scary at all.

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    05 Jun 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 32

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    instance - noun - in-stance - ˈin(t)-stən(t)s.

    1: a human being who has instanced after crossing a border and exists in at least two discrete bodies

    Under ordinary circumstances, there was no reason for an astronaut to instance when crossing the boundary between Earth and space.

    Project Hail Mary had left behind ordinary circumstances a long time ago.

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    02 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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    31 May 2026

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