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  1. Public Bookmark 44

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    Grace wakes up on the Hail Mary. He takes stock of his situation as soon as he can move around. He's alone, his crew mates are dead, and he's able to move them far easier than he was expecting. Why is he so strong? Oh yeah, because he has giant muscles. .... What?

    Or Ryland Grace finds out the science team put electrodes on his body to keep it fit through the trip, and he sets up a mirror to take a peek. And, well, he is not a strong man and has not been touched for even longer than that. And no one's around to catch him if he jerks off to his own new body.

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    19 Sep 2026

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    To be completely honest, I don't remember much about soulmarks. Well, I don't remember much about anything, but it doesn't make a lot of sense to me that I'd remember what a soulmark is and nothing else. I think it has something to do with soulmates...?

    Ryland Grace wakes up alone on a spaceship with no memory of who he is or how he got there. All he's got is himself, his precarious memories, and this darn soulmark on his arm.

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    16 Aug 2026

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    "Did I say something wrong?" Adrian asks, stepping towards him again. "Grace?"

    He sucks in a harsh breath and blinks, turning his head away and hanging it low, near his chest. "Jesus…”

    "Grace?”

    "Sorry," his head pops up again, and his heart seems to be fighting to calm down. "Sorry, just—woof. That's the most intense déjà vu I've had in a minute."

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    Adrian joins Grace on a sea glass hunt. Human brains get weird and gentle feelings are shared.

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    07 Aug 2026

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    The more that I think about it, the more I believe in the small possibility that my unfertilized eggs may be safe for Grace to consume. It’s at least worth trying, I resolve, as I watch him cry himself to sleep for the fourth consecutive cycle. His stomach is constricting, growling loudly. He’s been unable to keep the coma slurry from resurfacing once again.

    I can detect his body shutting down. I decide I can't allow this to continue. I won't allow myself to sit by and watch idly as he dies in front of me, like so many others have before him.

    Unfortunately, there is only one method that I can use to procure Eridian eggs for Grace's consumption.

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    07 Aug 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 Aug 2026

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    Spraying chlorine gas into your best friend's cloaca. Just another freaking Friday night.

    46 years really does a number on a guy. Grace is about to find out how, whether he likes it or not.

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    07 Aug 2026

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    After four years of space travel, Grace and Rocky are finally approaching Erid. Grace has been working hard to learn Eridian, but two days out, disaster strikes - his keyboard is broken and Rocky is hurt.

    Luckily, Grace can speak some very basic Eridian with his single set of vocal cords. Unfortunately, he sounds like a newly hatched baby Eridian when he does.

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    07 Aug 2026

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    “Hold still, lovely alien,” the Eridian croons, snapping a claw closed around the hem of my cardigan. “♫♬♩ will be so gentle, yes.”

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    07 Aug 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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    07 Aug 2026

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    Roche limit: the distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity, will disintegrate because the first body's tidal forces exceed the second body's self-gravitation.

     
    As the distance between the Hail Mary and Erid shrinks, as the language and cultural barriers disappear, Grace's health deteriorates and Rocky's worries skyrocket. Scurvy, cabin fever, malnutrition, tension and arguments – their friendship is put to the test when they are faced with challenges they cannot science their way out of. When a sudden Taumoeba emergency disrupts their journey just as they are about to reach Erid's radio range, they are forced to take a detour to Threeworld's Petrova-line to prevent Grace from starving to death. It's one thing to complete a mission when at full capacity… but how do you tackle obstacles you cannot fix with math and engineering?

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    07 Aug 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 22

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    @ziplocmags on twitter: “shortly pre-launch adrian gives rocky an egg-shaped carving as a reminder to come back safe to them so they can start a family once their sun heals and rocky has given that imaginary pebble a thousand different lives over the years and years and years he was alone.”

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    07 Aug 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 46

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    Cheng Xiaoshi witnessed a car accident. The victim was none other than his soulmate.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    Tired of being hit on, Lu Guang embarks on a fake relationship with Cheng Xiaoshi - all while investigating a kidnapping ring, lying to everyone they know, and trying to Make More Money™.

    (A.K.A. just another typical day at the photo studio.)

    -- In which they’re both far too enthusiastic about pretend-dating, and the line between reality and fiction gets blurred

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    18 Feb 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 56

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    “Each life is a story that’s already been told,” Cheng Xiaoshi begins through gritted teeth. “Our abilities to see through memories, to go back in time—they’re not to change what’s already been written, but to understand it. To help people come to terms with it. That’s all we can do. We can’t rewrite it. You said that. You’re the one who—”

    “I know what I said,” Lu Guang says. “But I want a different story.”

    (or: Lu Guang rewrites the story nine times over to finally get it right.)

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    14 Dec 2025

  15. Public Bookmark 28

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    After winning a game of rock-paper-scissors against his annoying co-worker, Lu Guang gets to live in this abandoned photo studio for seven days straight before it gets demolished. Usually, it is not such a pain. He spends most of his time working anyway, rather than seven days, might as well make it seven nights instead. Again, usually there is no actual serious problem, but this time, there is a ghost haunting the studio.

    And this ghost appears to truly hate the idea of spending seven nights with a living human being ...

    or; Lu Guang co-lives with ghost Cheng Xiaoshi for seven nights straight
    inspired by the game 7 nights ghost

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    03 Aug 2025

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    “Anything else?” He waits for Lu Guang to look back at him. “That I’m like, in the future.”

    And Lu Guang— softens, just a touch. “No,” his thumb traces the handle of the mug as he says it. “Nothing else.”

    And Cheng Xiaoshi has no choice but to believe him, even if only partially. He will allow himself this one small comfort.

     

    (Cheng Xiaoshi gets into an accident, forgets a few things, and grows into himself.)

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    18 Jul 2025

  17. Public Bookmark 89

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    Through the Light of an Hour (Series): Spin-off

    Cheng Xiaoshi leans closer, lips brushing the shell of Lu Guang’s ear. His breath ghosts across the sensitive skin.

    “You’ll see. I promise—if it’s too much, I’ll stop.”

    Lu Guang’s eyes close slowly.

    He nods.

    But it’s not a passive surrender.

    His hands tighten at Cheng Xiaoshi’s waist, grounding them both. Cheng Xiaoshi feels it—Lu Guang giving permission, not submission.

    And that changes everything.

    A delicate journey of two souls intertwined by time, where Lu Guang’s struggle to surrender control and embrace trust becomes the pulse of their growing bond. As each tick of the clock reveals new layers of vulnerability, Cheng Xiaoshi learns the quiet art of patience, guiding their love without ever threatening the fragile balance of control.

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    06 Jul 2025

  18. Public Bookmark 72

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    by tuesday lunch, three horrible things have happened to lu guang:

    1. qiao ling is clearly acting out her last-slice-of-cake vendetta by informing unrelated parties of lu guang’s past… exploit.
    2. said past exploit confirms his identity within earshot of cheng xiaoshi, whose reactions are so unsubtle that lu guang questions his suitability for a client-facing role.
    3. liu xiao witnesses lu guang trip when cheng xiaoshi asks lunch?, catching himself and almost eating shit again when cheng xiaoshi hurries over and asks if he’s all right.

    “so,” cheng xiaoshi starts in what lu guang assumes is nonchalance. “liu xiao, huh?”

    by tuesday lunch, he amends, four horrible things have happened to lu guang.

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    26 Jun 2025

  19. Public Bookmark 29

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    Cheng Xiaoshi and Lu Guang are falling together, crashing through light and darkness into something almost like love.

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    13 Apr 2025

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    Cruel watches as Deon stomps on a stress ball that looks exactly like him.

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    28 Jan 2025

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