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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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    05 Jun 2026

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    “Uncle Grace!” a chorus of little voices rang out across the beach.

    Chuckling, Grace closed his laptop after finishing class for the day as the last of his students filtered out of the classroom of their side of the xenonite divider. He stuffed his hands in his cardigan pockets and turned around to see the triplets scurrying across the sand in their xenonite suits towards Grace. Just a little further behind them, their elder sibling was moving at a more leisurely pace.

    “Well, if it isn’t my little wonders,” Grace joked, sauntering over.

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    A peaceful and domestic day of babysitting with Grace and his best friend's pebbles.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    "I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, go back to sleep. When you need to worry, I'll tell you."

    "Heh." Ryland ran his hand down his face. "It's terrible you know that it actually makes me feel better. What would I do without you?"

    "Explode at a colleague at a conference and get expelled from academia and become a middle school teacher." Eva said, promptly.

    "Wow, you've thought about that way too hard." Ryland laughed. "Middle schoolers might not vape in class, though. Maybe I should switch."

    "Let's not joke."

     

    or: fourteen conversations where ryland grace doesn’t realize eva stratt is a time traveller

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Project Hail Mary is in dire need of funding. The solution?

    Doctor Ryland Grace PhD. is sold to One Direction.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Popular tales in Eridian folklore include a long, lanky creature that cracks the carapaces of those who enter the ocean.
    So when Erid’s saviour returns in a small, foreign spaceship, missing 23 crewmates, and presenting a creature with an uncanny resemblance to their cautionary tales, Erid is, understandably, horrified.

    Yet at some point, somehow, the creature had found its way into the hearts of Eridians, and the grotesque alien from the unknown of space became a beloved teacher of their most vulnerable.

    Or: Erid learns to love Grace.

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    03 Jun 2026