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    I look to the clock Rocky forged for me, my ‘Earth’ clock as it were… died a few months ago, turns out I’m not great at figuring out how to build triple A batteries! Add it to the to-do list. 11:34am.
    With a deep sigh I roll onto my back, but my vision swims further, twisting my ceiling in spiralling ways.
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    Ryland Grace is settling into his life on Erid, a place to now call home. Working hard to teach kids and pushing himself to find a new normal, Grace becomes sick with a unknown illness. Can he get better under Erdian care or will his mysterious illness consume what's left of him.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    Grace navigates his new life on a different planet, communicates with Earth, falls in love for the first time, and kinda accidentally ends up in the middle of a marriage

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    11 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 73

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    Foreign object damage, or FOD, is a term for any damage to an air- or spacecraft that results from an impact with debris external to the craft, which can result in serious consequences to the craft or flight.

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    Rocky is very proud of his species. He is strong and scary, unlike Grace, who is a leaky space blob. He does not like how Grace’s species is so susceptible to injuries, like when they were escaping Adrian’s orbit. And like now.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    "Hey...can I ask you something kind of weird?"

    "Shoot," Rocky says, his voice sounding amused. "But not actually shoot."

    Grace wants to laugh at the joke (he's been getting better at joking and sarcasm) but instead he swallows, his fingers tracing idle patterns on the blanket. The ache from earlier at the classroom, the beach, the constant invisible wall feels closer tonight.

    "What does it feel like... to touch you?" he asks. "I mean, if we could. Your carapace. Your claws. What would it feel like to me?"

    Rocky is quiet for a long beat. When he sings again, his melody is thoughtful and gentle.

    "Hard. Rocky, like name. Like...strong stone that is alive. My claws are sharp but careful. My body pulses a little when I am happy. Like singing Grace can feel instead of hear." He pauses, then adds with a soft, almost shy trill, "What does human skin feel like, question? To me, I wonder."

    He imagines it.

    In his mind, the xenonite shell vanishes.

    Or: Grace is touch starved and Rocky wants to make it better

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    10 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace slams face first into the realization that he will never be touched by another living being again. Rocky does his best to help.

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    09 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 7

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    "She would go if she could, but she cannot—and there is only one soul she trusts enough to go in her stead."

     

    OR: Eva, in the moments after the explosion. The choice of what to do it obvious--but that does not mean it is easy.

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    09 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 52

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    "When the Beetles crash-landed on Earth, twenty-six years after the launch of the Hail Mary, they carried 5 terabytes of video storage, enough Taumeoba to save the Earth twenty times over, and an encrypted file titled only 'for Eva.'"

    OR: when it comes to saving the world, there is little time for goodbyes.

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    09 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 33

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    «Rocky always here for Grace, Grace have Grace Rocky forever, if want. But not same for Rocky. Grace die. No more Grace Rocky, no more Rocky. Only sad sad sad sad.»

     

    OR: what is supposed to be a wholesome movie night aboard the Hail Mary instead sparks a difficult conversation

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    09 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 39

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    "You had prayed for an angel, and the great song of the universe sent you an alien."

     

    OR: Alone on the ship, Rocky begs the universe for salvation. One day, it answers.

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    09 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 34

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    “Rocky, would you tell me a bedtime story?”

    “No understand,” Rocky says.

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    A series of conversations between Rocky and Grace as they pass the time on the trip to Erid. Topics include bedtime stories, epic road trip playlists, and the best way to cook Taumoebas.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    “You molt? That’s a thing?”
    “Yes. 𝅘𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅮𝅗𝅥♫. Molt. Earth life do this, question?”

    Written for nerdy.noodles as a PHM Secret Santa gift!

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    09 Jun 2026

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    09 Jun 2026

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    Dr. Ryland Grace was many things. A disgraced microbiologist, a schoolteacher, a leading expert on alien life, not an astronaut.
    Dr. Ryland Grace was also deathly allergic to peanuts.

    An unexpected reaction leads to an unexpected conversation.

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    09 Jun 2026

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    A beautiful day in the life of Ryland Grace on Erid.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    08 Jun 2026

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    Tony goes to Peter's parent teacher conferences for Aunt May because she's sick, little does he know his old college crush is Peter's favorite teacher.

    He obviously has to try and tap that.

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    08 Jun 2026

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    “Grace!” Rocky says. “Look!”

    I look. Then I gasp.

    “Is Adrian!” Rocky says.

    (or, what happens once Ryland Grace becomes the sole human inhabitant of Erid.)

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    08 Jun 2026

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    A bunch of doodles of Rocky and Grace being soulmates and cuddling because it’s an universaly good feeling when you have been alone in space for a long time trying to save stars.

    Ongoing series of doodles.

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    08 Jun 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 68

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    It starts with Rocky questioning about money...

    Grace learns about thrums... 

    ...and ends up having an Erid-wide existential crisis.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Grace’s discomfort with Dr. Devon Hale was a slow, creeping thing. Because on the surface, she was a perfectly nice woman. She worked under Dr. Lamai on the coma bed technology, was tall and imposing with long brown hair and a symmetrical face that others categorized as “pretty”—which Grace only knew because he'd overheard some lab techs comment on it one day. He never had the eye for that kind of thing.
    One of the scientists on Stratt’s Vat likes Dr. Grace, and she doesn’t understand when he says no.

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    3,980

    06 Jun 2026

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