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  1. Public Bookmark 97

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    But anyway the point is that the rest of his life blew up with his house. Their families came out to the funeral and, well, they didn't really get it. It wasn't simple to them. What could be more simple than Emma's name carved into stone, Holland isn't too sure, but it is what it is. They tried to get Holland sent to some hospital for queers and tried to take Holly from him and neither of those things happened, but he's never going to see his parents again or his brothers.

    But now there's Healy.

    Now, March has never felt this way about a man before and he got in his head about it for a while until he saw Healy knock out their client's soon-to-be ex-husband with one punch and then throw March over his shoulder like he was a half-empty sack of potatoes and his dormant and grieving libido woke up and went, "Okay, this one! It's this one! Gender is a social construct, as you very well know, and you want this one to rail you into next Sunday, please and thank you!"

    so march has a vagina and everyone always makes that so complicated. he and his wife thought it was pretty simple, all things considered. maybe healy will too?

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    03 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 63

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    “You are crazy,” he says. “Crazy and stupid stupid stupid. Not same Grace I saved planets with.”

    “Alright, Rock, I get—”

    “Is not too much,” Rocky says firmly, leaning in until he’s nearly met my forehead, until my eyes go blurry with the task of adjusting to how close he is. I couldn’t even fit my glasses between us to put them on. “Hugs and cuddles through xenonite suit, only touch through many layers. Is not enough. Better to be under you skin, between you ribs. Hear you heart right up close, noisy, alive. I would prefer.”

    "What?"

    "What, question?"

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    Grace is worried that Rocky secretly hates hugs. In an attempt to reassure him, Rocky says a bit too much.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    "There is no point in any of this rumination. You are gone. You are nothing now but a muse, something that I can conjure upon command and listen. You are nothing more now than a lullaby, a prayer, a dissonant, augmented, ugly, beautiful melody."

    Rocky and Grace part ways for their respective planets. It should feel like a victory. It doesn't.

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    29 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 40

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    It’s obscene in a way that has no human equivalent. I think seeing human genitals on him would’ve shocked me less, because at least that’s something you might reasonably show to another person. But this, the place that is both mouth and everything else to him, that I’ve seen exactly once and then never again because it’s viewed as so private and intimate that even an Eridian’s mate does not get to see—that’s something else. The only time he would reveal himself like this to someone else would be to lay an egg, and even then it would be something you don't draw attention to, something necessary but shameful.

    And now he’s showing me.

    Not only that, he’s offering.

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    Or: Just because the mission is over doesn’t mean Rocky and Grace are done exploring.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    SCREAM

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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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    29 Jun 2026

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    “But you said you didn’t have a word for – for forcing someone into reproduction?”

    No. Is different, but equivalent violation. Means, to force to sleep.

    Or, Dr. Ryland Grace has yet to confront the choices taken from him. Eridian norms, ironically enough, force the issue.

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    28 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 56

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    "Here," said Healy. She held out a lighter and clicked it on.

    “What are you, my boyfriend or something?” said Holland.

    Healy hesitated for a moment, while Holland slouched harder against the wall behind her and tried to convey through her eyeballs, I’m just an innocent little heterosexual, it would be an awful shame if some sinister old lesbian seduced me later tonight.

    Healy, thank God, caught Holland’s drift and leaned in closer. She cupped her hand around Holland’s to shield the lighter from the summer breeze until the tip of the cigarette caught.

    “You in the market for a boyfriend, March?”

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    24 Jun 2026

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    “Grace promise to be very calm about many things immediately,” Rocky said, his voice low and serious. “Grace promise now.”

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    21 Jun 2026

  9. Rec 75

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    The planet 40 Eridani a b is approximately sixteen point three light years away. She checked. It’s actually a very popular Google search these days.

    He keeps having these dreams about a person with no face. It's on the tip of his tongue, really.

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    19 Jun 2026

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    "Rocky did not understand human names and titles when we met. Eridian names longer, give information on Eridian's home, associations, skills." For the first time in ages, he positioned two of his arms together, forming the design that Grace thought of like a family crest, a single design bisected.

    "You should teach me to read those before we get to Erid, so I can be polite." As Grace considered the linework, already picking up on some vague ideas from the shapes in Rocky's carapace, something else occurred to him. "So… I picked 'Rocky' because your outer shell looks like stone."

    "And for inspirational story of athlete who defeats human system of poverty to become great champion. Eye of the tiger."

    "Retroactively, yeah." Grace bent at the hips, getting to Rocky's 'eye' level. "So what'd you name me?"

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Qin Su frowns up at him with her hands on her hips. How did you know what I was thinking? she does not say, but he hears just the same.

    Jin Zixuan blinks at her. I heard you, he thinks carefully. Can you hear me?

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    06 Jun 2026

  12. Rec *

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    Friendship means never having to say you’re sorry that the lighting in that Instagram made them look sallow. All of the bulbs in Walmart are fluorescent, so, really: what can you do.

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    04 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 8

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    It is 1885, and the San Francisco municipal government has figured out a new way to get rid of all those pesky Chinese laundries...

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    04 Jun 2026

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    The most important thing Lan Wangji ever stole was roughly the equivalent to twenty dollars USD.

    The second most important thing Lan Wangji ever stole was Wei Ying’s heart.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    “Grace! Why you no say plants are on Hail Mary, question?!”

    The question puts me on my back foot. Literally. I jog up to the door after my morning run to find Rocky waiting for me on my side of the house, suited up and ticked off. I rock back on my heel.

    “Huh?”

    “What you mean ‘huh’, is simple question! Why no mention plants on Hail Mary when almost die of no vitamins?!”

    “No bud, I heard you the first time,” I scoff, shaking my head ruefully. He gets under my feet, tapping at my thighs with his claws to annoy me while I toe off my running shoes.

    “Hey, quit— quit it! You’ve gotta be confused, the only plant matter on the Hail Mary was the food in my meals, and that’s years gone.”

    ——-

    Aka, Grace gets a bittersweet surprise several years after he settles into his life on Erid.

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    31 May 2026

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    31 May 2026

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    Theresa Cabral is two weeks, three days, and ten hours from defending her PhD thesis in molecular biology when she gets a text from a kid she went to middle school with.

    Michael Whitman (11:06 pm):
    Did you see it?

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    30 May 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 85

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    Moving day. 

    The day I leave the confined comforts of the Hail Mary into the ridiculously toxic-to-humans atmosphere of Erid. What could possibly go wrong?

    Rocky is ecstatic. 

    And I’m…well, let’s just go with understandably petrified

    Or, the backstory for why Rocky gets annoyed when Grace doesn't shut the door at the end of the movie.

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    29 May 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 63

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    “This piece goes where now?”
    Rocky stomps his feet and then points towards the upper corner of his wall. I’ve learned enough Eridian body language now to know he’s annoyed. He’d be rolling his eyes if he had any.

    Or, when accommodating his new roommate, Dr. Grace learns how to see Rocky’s vision.

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    29 May 2026

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    Lan Wangji has grown up hearing stories of the feared Yiling Laozu, who kidnaps young boys--including his childhood best friend, Wei Ying.

    When a Lan child is taken, Lan Wangji travels to the Yiling Laozu's lair in the Burial Mounds.

    He does not find what he expected.

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    27 May 2026

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