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  1. Public Bookmark 14

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    A series of prequels set before Project Hail Mary.

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    27 Jun 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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    20 Jun 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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    19 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    It's easy to pull the trolley lever when people are lining up to lay down on it.

    It's a lot more difficult when you have to tie down someone kicking and screaming.

    or, how Eva Stratt came to sacrifice Ryland Grace.

    (19k words, finished, posting Mon/Wed/Fri)

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    16 Jun 2026

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    Blackmail. Illegal porn. Undercover at a gay bar. The Nice Guys sure are at it again.

     

    “Porn? I can throw a rock in this neighborhood and I’m gonna break the window of a porn store.”

    March gestured anxiously, waiting for the other shoe to drop.

    Healy paused. “Ohhhhh. The nasty stuff. Whips and handcuffs. Girls and animals.”

    “Close,” March said, grimacing. He really, really didn’t want to have to explain this. “Think more like…. Disco.”

    “Disco?” Healy raised an eyebrow. “What, like the queer music? You think the back room of that store is full of porn for… For disco fans.” He nodded thoughtfully a couple of times. “And you’re an expert about this?”

    For a second the whole world went white around the edges and March thought he might pass out. He was too sober for this conversation. What exactly had Healy noticed that morning, how obvious exactly had his full-body reaction to Healy’s hand on his neck been? “I was a happily married man!” March said, and as soon as it came out of his mouth he knew it was wrong. Too fast, too high-pitched, too loud.

    Incriminating.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    "Those bees were real?" K says, intent and curious on the honey. With the exception of humans, he can count the number of real animals he's ever seen on the fingers of one hand.

    But of course, it's not that simple. Deckard shrugs stiffly.

    "I don't know."

    So the question changes. Not whether they're real, but the definition of real.

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    Conversations between K and Deckard, centered on the quirks of K's programming and his life views.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    When Ana Stelline was younger, she cheated on an assignment. Just once. She thought she got away with it too, until a KD6 officer had a break down in her office. And here she just thought she was being kind.

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    02 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 46

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    Ryland Grace is right. He is also, as of seventy-two hours ago, unemployed and no longer welcome near a UNESCO conference. These things are related, as is everything that follows.

    This is the story of how the best science teacher at Grover Cleveland Middle School ended up there, and what he had to leave behind first.

    A Project Hail Mary prequel.

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    27 May 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 33

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    Ken struggles to acclimate to his new existence, but life goes on and so must he. (With a lot of help.)

    [A oneshot collection in the “something in me in you” universe, following up the first three fics in the series.]

    Latest Story: there is a better world - Ken and Gloria during Ken’s first three visits. (Sort of a prequel installment. Also, as it turns out, the final installment.)

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    18 May 2026

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    Colt Seavers spent most of his life staring at the ground as he plummeted toward it.
    Then one day, his attention was captured by the stars.
    Not for a fun, curious, or fantastical reason. No, his reasoning was shitty, life-altering, and painful.

    or;

    It’s been twenty-seven years since Ryland Grace was sent on a suicide mission lightyears away from home.

    His twin brother, Colt Seavers, looks back on their time together and their time apart, while waiting to receive a crucial update - was the mission successful?

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    02 May 2026

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    Distantly, Grace recognizes what he's experiencing is either impossible or has already happened -- but it doesn't make the nightmare any easier to process. The science behind dreaming and nightmares is easy to explain to an Eridian. The emotional turmoil that comes with it is...not so much.

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    18 Apr 2026

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    Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
    Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
    🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5

    It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.

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    18 Apr 2026

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    Sometimes I'd forget

     

    Rocky has been stranded, alone and light years away from home for 46 years. For a long time it seemed like nothing would ever change. But a new arrival in Tau Ceti system is about to alter the course of history; For Rocky, for Erid, and for another world far, far away.

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    Beta read by chez_levi! Thank you for your notes, and curse you for your implications about metaphors

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    16 Apr 2026

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    The Eridians have finally gotten the water feature in Ryland's personal zoo enclosure just right (even if Rocky would like him to stop calling his dome that).

    Rocky refuses to believe that humans naturally float. There is no way Ryland's entire species regularly goes into deep water for fun.

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    13 Apr 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 1

    This work isn't hosted on the Archive so this blurb might not be complete or accurate.

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    Blockbuster was murdered ... and Nightwing was "involved". What happens when the superhero community finds out.

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    01 Feb 2026

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    The road to Hell is paved with Good Intentions.

    In a world where Betas are born sterile, Alphas cannot bare children and Omegas have been subjected to progressively undermining laws, things managed to get even worse in Gotham.

    Dick and the Bats are collectively working on a puzzling case where mass graves and mutilated bodies are popping up all around Gotham. No suspects. No explanations. No clues. Are they related? Probably. Can they prove it? Possibly. Will one of them get in too deep and all of them be forced to bare the consequences? Definitely.

    Bring your flashlights friends, this shit will get dark.

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    31 Jan 2026

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    Jack should have known better than to be surprised. Life had already thrown enough curveballs his way. And yet, when his long lost twin and a seven year-old niece he didn’t even know existed suddenly emerged from the shadows of his past, he was definitely thrown off balance.

    However, a cat always lands on its feet. And this too, Jack would endure and survive. At least he had his husband, Robby, by his side, and Robby’s brother, John. Certainly, between the three of them, they would figure it out. They had done it before, they would do it again.

    But if the road ahead of them promised to be long and arduous, it wouldn't be without its rewards either. Thanks fuck.

    Pope ignored the barb. It wasn’t about him.
    “Listen, I saw you once. Medical conference in San Diego. I… You were with that guy, tall, gangly, he… he looked nice. He looked like a guy who would have kids. Not… not like me.”
    Jack huffed. “You don't know him. You don't even know me.”
    Hearing it hurt him more than he wanted to admit.
    “It's about Lena. It's not about us.” Pope reiterated. “She’s just a kid. She deserves a chance. She needs a family.”

    No real knowledge of Animal Kingdom or ER is necessary. Updates every week.

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    13 Jan 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 10

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    Patrick has known he was a robot for a long time. He has Iris to thank, sort of. It was her that first made him notice.

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    11 Jan 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 25

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    Your mind and my heart will never agree until your mind
    ceases to live in numbers, and my heart in the mist.

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    01 Dec 2025

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    After being arrested for gross indecency with another male person, Thomas Barrow learns that he has a natural gift which will plunge him into a startlingly different society which exists in parallel with the one in which he has lived his life until now. He’s not entirely sure whether or not that’s a good thing….

    Downton Abbey/Sentinel fusion. (If you are not familiar with the Sentinel, fear not: the note at the beginning of chapter 1 will fill you in on everything you need to know.) This story occurs in the same universe as my other Sentinel/Guide stories, but is intended to work as a standalone.

    Diverges from canon toward the end of series 3 (3x07 UK or 3x06 US)

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    08 Nov 2025

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