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  1. Public Bookmark 94

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    07 Jun 2026

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    “Proof of concept,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. “We’ve tested it thoroughly to ensure it fits the specified nutritional profile, and several members of our team have ingested small amounts of it to ensure there were no adverse effects.”

    “You ate some of it?” I ask, rudely. I’m too irate to mind my language. Who do they think they are? That meat is for Grace. In a way, that meat is Grace.

    “Yes,” ♫♬♯♩♩♫ says. They and the rest of the human life support thrum know better than to be offended by my occasionally strange behaviour. “Obviously we weren’t going to risk the life of Honoured Grace on a completely untested technology.”

    That doesn’t mean much. There’s a lot of things that are safe for ingestion by Eridians that would outright kill a human.

    Trust Grace, I remind myself. He’ll have thought of all this.

    (OR: Grace's meburgers from the book epilogue. Let's talk about those!)

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    07 Jun 2026

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    06 Jun 2026

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    “Rocky, I’m here, okay? Come back to me, pal, please.”

    Of course I will, I think, drawn to that voice, that strange, wobbling voice, which I care about without knowing exactly why, and I should – it makes me angry, not knowing – I should know –

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Simon focused on the view. So many stars. They were beautiful, and he was happy they'd be the last thing he'd see.
    "I'm ready." Simon whispered into the still air. The combing stopped, and Simon mourned the loss immediately.
    "You can kill me now."
    AKA: What if Simon misinterpreted why Grace was showing him the Greenhouse? Our bodies become the soil, after all.

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    04 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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    04 Jun 2026

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    To Grace's knowledge (i.e. the Hail Mary's database, i.e. all of human knowledge), there have never been any studies done to confirm whether ambrein (a derivative of sperm whale digestive secretions!) actually functions as an aphrodisiac in humans or not.

    Well, 15.8 light years from Earth, he's about to find out. Because the cytoplasm of Taumoeba consists in large parts of a triterpene alcohol that is startlingly similar to ambrein — and baby, he's all out of coma slurry.

    Or: The sex pollen amoeba fic you (never) asked for.


    Rocky utters a wordless little trill, half concerned and half curious. Always curious, and why would this be an exception? If anything, this is me conducting a pilot study on the unusual effects of Taumoeba on the human body, and oh is he ever morbidly fascinated by the many things my gross, leaky body does.

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    01 Jun 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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    01 Jun 2026

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    Rocky and Adrian leave to visit the families of the Eridians who died in space, while they are gone Grace meets a bunch of new Eridians, making Rocky and Adrian just a wee bit jealous.

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    01 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 50

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    When Rocky starts using an unfamiliar word for Grace over and over, Grace assumes it's some kind of nickname, a shorter, easier version of his name. But after conversing with Rocky, he finds out it meant "beloved".

    Aka language barriers and all the (adorable) conversations that occur.

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    01 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 37

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    The toll of listening to his friend waste way from malnutrition and make himself sick on taumoeba harms Rocky mentally almost as much as it does to Grace physically. He never wants to hear his friend vomit again, and he desperately wants him to stop sounding like skin stretched over bones. He'll do everything he can to make Grace healthy again.

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    30 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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    30 May 2026

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    28 May 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 68

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    ”Being stubborn!” Rocky accuses. ”Making excuses, statement!” And yeah, I don’t have any defense for that one.

    “Will you watch me sleep? I want to take a nap,” I ask without preamble. I’m tired and don’t have the energy to argue right now. Or eat for that matter.

    ”Yes. Always watch, fact,” he agrees immediately. ”Still mad. But Rocky watch, statement.”

    I set aside the laptop, rubbing at my eyes with a tired sigh as I get comfortable right there in the little ‘nest’ as Rocky likes to call it. It makes me feel just a little better. I’m drifting off before I even realize. 

     

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    It's been nine months since Grace woke up in space. Stratt only planned for them to be alive for nine months. Which means that Grace has ran out of a very important item: his antidepressants.

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    27 May 2026

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    DuBois and Shapiro are aware that death will come for one of them, and soon. Blowing off steam through casual sex is the most economical solution to the stress they've found. So why not indulge in one last private little fantasy, with death looming closer every hour?

    What's so wrong with having a little fun when it might be the last chance you'll ever get?

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    22 May 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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    22 May 2026

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    Grace cuts his hand really bad on one of those xenonite panels he's putting up when Rocky moves in. He gets woozy at the sight of his own blood, so getting him to Armando for help is a struggle. Rocky deals with fear and guilt as he tries to basically get a limp toddler into a minivan without being able to touch him. It's cute and fluffy and angsty.

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    18 May 2026

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    Grace squeezes out a wet chuckle, thick with emotion, before suddenly falling silent. Its mouth does that strange up-down up-down movement, like it’s trying to figure out if it’s perplexed or amused. “Wait a minute—“ The human flops on its side to face them.

    “Rock, that almost sounds like I’m your kids’ \.\\.”

    “New word.”

    “Uh… companion animal.”

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    Grace and Rocky talk about evolution, family dynamics, and dogs.

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    13 May 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 80

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    A group of Eridian parents do their best to provide a comfortable learning environment for their children. It's not Savior Grace's fault it's so squishy and gross, after all.

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    13 May 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 15

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    "So... do you wish they were a person?"

    "No, that would suck. I'm in love with an inanimate architectural fixture, not whatever newborn stranger grappling with a sudden influx of free will it would turn into."

    "That's a shockingly reasonable attitude. Though, I mean it is a relationship right? If it's that one sided how does this even function?"

    Jason shrugs, "I dunno, it just does."

    "Do you like that it can't love you back? Is it, like, an enjoying peace in loneliness kind of thing?"

    "No, it loves me."

    "...How?"

    "People are incredibly complex machines. We know for a fact that the chemicals in our brains, which ought to be inert and unfeeling, are conscious in a myriad of ways. A psychic can induce euphoria, so too can a drug, because fundamentally they are both effecting the same interlocked system of chemical-conscious. I think that extends to other things than just people. I mean, you tell me, how the fuck else does a psychic impression linger if there's no capacity in objects to feel and experience?"

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    13 May 2026

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