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    Yáo registered the yellow first. 

    Bright yellow, the color of a hazard sign - it was Dr. Grace's familiar raincoat, unmistakable even at distance, the man wearing it moving fast across the open ground that separated the administrative buildings from the interior fence line.

    Grace was running.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    “The man is a pariah in his field. If you’d read his post-doctoral thesis,” Vale chuckles and shakes his head. “He’s not what I’d call ‘leadership material,’ in any case.”
    “Dr. Grace is very well respected on this ship, Friedrich,” Dr. Cohen says with a hint of reproach. “While you’re here, perhaps it is best not to say such things in polite company.”
    Vale rolls his eyes, but lets the subject drop with a muttered, “Really, what could Grace do to me?”
    The astrophysics team experiences a collective realization: Friedrich Vale might be a complete idiot, actually.
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    Or, Friedrich Vale is the newest scientist on Stratt's Vat. Friedrich Vale, for whatever reason, does not like Dr. Ryland Grace. Friedrich Vale is about to have a VERY bad time.
    Featuring the crew of Stratt's Vat being totally prepared to throw a bitch overboard if they so much as give Dr. Grace a dirty look, because he's too nice to do it himself.

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    10 Jun 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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    09 Jun 2026

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    Mindy Park is rapidly realising that the first intelligent extraterrestrial to make contact with the human race thinks they’re fucking stupid. She’s pretty sure that Dr Grace isn’t accurately translating half the things Rocky is saying, but most of what he is telling her is that Rocky has a better way of doing what NASA wants them to do, and honestly, it seems like Rocky is mostly right. She probably doesn’t want to know what the other half of what Grace’s new alien friend is saying, if the things that are making it through what she’s calling the “middle school teacher filter” are “why would you do something the dumb way when you could do it the right way”.

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    Mindy has a headache, Grace has trauma, Mark is confused and Rocky is wondering how humans made it in to space when they're all so, so dumb.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    "I had a dog as a kid," Grace had told them once. "Her name was Maisy. Big yellow labrador. We got her when I was around five—" (Rocky had never quite gotten used to human aging) "—and I loved her to bits. She was my best friend all through middle and high school.")

    Years ago, Ryland Grace lost a best friend. Years later, Rocky will too.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    There’s a gas leak on the Hail Mary and the sensors aren’t working properly. Ryland acts as a sensor.

    (Or Grace suffers from hypoxia and Rocky fixes it)

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    08 Jun 2026

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    Cool multi-thought format for Rocky.

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    It has been VℓℓI [433.58] years since Adrian has heard their mate. Since the families of Erid’s first and, to this day, only interstellar crew have heard them. I+∀∀V+ℓ [85,416] days.
    Even after all this time, Adrian can’t help but hope that the crew will return. That today will be the day that Erid will pick up the signals from the ship. Some of the other families have given up hope, assuming their loved ones are dead. Many scientists and engineers started working on ways to combat the cooling of their primary star.
    Then-
    A signal.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    Description of the thrum made me tear up.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace went into a coma 10 days before the Hail Mary launched, and his crew were put into their own comas. Turns out there's a ten-day difference in wake-up time, too; and, unfortunately for Ilyukhina and Yao, ten days is enough time to make first contact.

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    02 Jun 2026

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    The Ryland Grace Memorial Diner sat between a construction site and a cluster of small apartments on the recovering streets of San Francisco.

    It was founded in 1972, renamed in 2051, and in 2053, a statue of a schoolteacher was erected within its walls. Now, it attracted tourists and students alike, bright eyes and eager minds all competing for a view of Earth’s most beloved man in man’s most beloved habitat.

    Or: A look at the people of the San Fran diner Grace goes to every morning for breakfast in the book.

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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

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    Eventually, the Beetles return to Earth with all of Grace's recordings on them. Naturally, someone at Buzzfeed is going to write a listicle about it.

    Look, we here at Buzzfeed have our own ways of honoring that Guy Who Died In Space To Save The Entire Planet.

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    30 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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    30 May 2026

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    Ryland has a tattoo. So does Rocky. It's not the same thing, but it also really is.

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    27 May 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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    26 May 2026

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    It's the mid 80s. Remus Lupin is penniless, homeless, out of work and isolated. Newt Scamander is getting bored of Ministry-approved subjects and is looking for a werewolf to study. A suspicious advertisement for a Research Assistant in the Prophet brings the two together in a lonely workshop turned menagerie on the outskirts of the New Forest. Remus is there for the unusually modest pay and absolutely not because the researcher he's working alongside has Lily's eyes, James' boundless enthusiasm and Sirius' gentle hands.

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    The sunlight was waning behind them and the low streaks of light pierced through the trees, dappling the wet marsh before them in evening gold. Remus’ feet were numb, but he wasn’t willing to complain, and instead focused his attention on the clumps of mud and thick reeds that poked above the surface of the deeper areas, waiting for magical activity.

    Newt leaned in slightly, so that their heads were close enough for Remus to catch his low whisper.

    “They come out at sunset of course, but I suspect it’s because of the dappling. They can be quite lonely creatures, but a facsimile of your kin is sometimes enough.”

    ** Edited on 13/09/25 .

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    11 May 2026

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    Six months after Tony Stark’s sacrifice, Peter is struggling. His grades were slipping, his focus was shot, and everyone was noticing.

    It would be easier if he could explain why. The principal wanted an answer, but Peter wasn't sure he understood it, himself.

    All he knew was Happy was waiting outside to pick him up from school, and somehow the principal has decided maybe that's the problem.

    Happy was very much not the problem.

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    08 May 2026

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    “Anything for your friend?”
    Remus was too startled to speak. Friend. He had never had a friend before. He waited for Peter to protest, to correct her mistake, except he didn’t.
    “I’ll take two more Chocolate Frogs,” Peter said. He deposited the armful of candy on the seat and dropped a couple of Chocolate Frogs into Remus’s lap. “You seem like a chocolate person.”

    Scattered moments throughout a doomed friendship.

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    04 May 2026

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    Supposedly, Voldemort sent representatives to the United States during the Second Wizarding War. However, we've never been told what the results of their efforts were. Canon-compliant.

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    04 May 2026

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    They were used to catching killers in the act, not listening to audiobooks and making strangely coloured cookies wearing gingham aprons but that hardly exonerated the kid. After all, there was a lot about him that just didn't sit right, that seemed far too close to the case to be a coincidence.

     

    In which Percy Jackson really isn't a serial killer, he just has terrible luck.

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    30 Apr 2026

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