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    “Who complained about you eating, question?” Someone must’ve said something. He’s had so many visitors in the last couple of days. Who was it? Grace has never questioned this part of himself. Grace huffs at me.

    “No one! I’m just trying to be polite! Eridians have special soundproof eating rooms, shouldn’t I?”

    “You are not Eridian!”

    He doesn’t need to meet our standards; he’s his own species! Some things he might need to change in his daily life to adapt to Erid life, but his food habits don’t need to be one of them. My words don’t comfort Grace like I thought they would. Grace shrinks into himself, and I wish I were on his side to hug him.

    or the Entities provide Grace with a culture teacher to prepare for life on Erid and he gets his first taste of Eridian inhospitality.

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    25 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 17

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    Rocky has hardly left Grace's medical room since arriving on Erid. Rocky needs to watch Grace sleep to know Grace is okay, even if that means putting off his own needs. Adrian figures if Rocky is not going to sleep, then they can at least talk.

    Or Adrian tries to lighten Rocky's mood by teasing him about the juicy rumor that Grace's scar is a matemark gone wrong

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    23 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 31

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    The person in the video is clearly a practiced archer, and they effortlessly hit bulls-eyes from double the distance of the spear throw. They fire multiple arrows in quick succession, and Rocky makes a little squeaking noise with every thunk they make into the target.

    “Weapon is… very powerful.”

    “Yeah, it certainly can be, but it takes a lot of practice to be able to shoot like that. Archery is more of a sport these days, but some people still hunt with a bow and arrows.”

    Rocky falls silent again. Honestly, Grace is relishing in having the evolutionary upper hand for once. He’s put up with so much teasing from Rocky about being leaky, fragile, and stupid, and while it doesn’t really bother him it’ll be nice to have something to tease him back about. He can already picture himself clapping back to a Humans so squishy and weak with a Your species couldn’t even figure out slingshots!

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    Grace introduces Rocky to some early human hunting tactics

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    23 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 33

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    "Accounting for time dilation and various features of our course to Erid, we have– what, four Earth years to kill? Thirty-five Eridian years, give or take? Time's not even real anymore.”

    “Kill?” Rocky presses abruptly, incredulity obvious in the chords of the question. “Four years to kill?”

    ─ ·✶· ─

    Like any good scientist, he's tried to be systematic about it, and divided things up by a set of variables. If his students had been here they'd've started up a chorus of groans, protesting emphatically. The thought warms him a little.

    Metric one: Time.
    Control variable: Nutrition.
    Independent variable: Available entertainment. 
    Dependent variable: Mental health.

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    20 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 54

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    Eridians show affection mostly through singing, or by making gifts. Rocky has always found it an easy, uncomplicated way to express his feelings.

    Human affection is neither easy nor uncomplicated, he quickly discovers. It’s full of strange customs, involves a lot of touching and is, sometimes, worryingly violent.

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    19 Jul 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 38

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    Human biology is, at best, fascinating and, at worst, downright horrifying. Rocky comes to discover one of his least favourite quirks of the human body; its ability to make sounds without the permission of its owner.

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    19 Jul 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 15

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    Grace struggles on the trip back to Erid. Some help from his best friend helps to put him back on track.

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    “Rocky, what on Earth are you doing in—” I stop in my tracks. Or, more accurately, I trip, stumble, and then stop in my tracks. Letting out a stream of half-curses, I turn around to glare at the thing that's definitely bruised the front of my calf.

    That's when I see Rocky.

    He's… in a suit. Not his ball, but — oh my God — an actual clear, xenonite suit!

    It's comprised of a lot of small, triangular xenonite panels held together by some kind of… glue? It’s clearly different to what he used for his ball, since it’s completely flexible and way more form-fitting. I can't even begin to imagine how long it took for Rocky to assemble all of those little panels. They're more like shards, actually, reflecting the light of the ship in little spots all over the room, similar to a disco ball.

    The sight is enough to bring tears to my eyes. I doubt it was intentional, but it's really beautiful.

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    19 Jul 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 6

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    Rocky finally meets an alien face-to-carapace and an attempt is made to say hi, i.e Chapters 9 through 10

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    18 Jul 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 3

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    Ryland Grace meets his old grad school friend Marissa for dinner every week. One week, she shows him unannounced data from a Japanese space probe showing that the sun is dimming. But where did she get the data from? Why does an American scientist have preliminary results from a Japanese space probe? How far back before the launch of Project Hail Mary does the international cooperation go?

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    18 Jul 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 4

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    Eva Stratt slowly grows to trust and rely on Ryland Grace. Sure hope nobody sends him on a suicide mission to space, haha, ha, ha…

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    17 Jul 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 22

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    In modern Western tonal music theory, a diminished second is the interval produced by narrowing a minor second by one chromatic semitone. It is enharmonically equivalent to a perfect unison; therefore, it is the interval between notes on two adjacent staff positions, altered in such a way that they have no pitch difference in twelve-tone equal temperament.

    The ache I feel for Adrian has been a part of me for so many years that it is a familiar dragging weight, like a mangled sixth limb. The ache for Grace is stranger, worse. Not because he is an alien, but the opposite; he is so much of myself that I have entirely lost the sound of where he begins and I end, and somehow I still want him closer, closer, closer.

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    17 Jul 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 7

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    Ryland Grace's parents died four and seven months, respectively, before he learned the world was ending.

    Eva Stratt regrets her words.

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    15 Jul 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 19

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    "Rocky doesn’t respond, other than continuing his wordless trill. The sound triggers a memory, a bunch of different moments, rolled into one: sitting with my knees pulled up to my chest– in my classroom after my students had all gone home for the day, in a corner of my tiny apartment, hiding out alone in Stratt’s office– anxiety crushing my chest so tightly that I couldn’t breathe, that I was sure the world was going to fall apart around me.

    A panic attack. I get panic attacks. That makes sense for me.

    Is Rocky having a panic attack?"
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    AKA Grace gets a lot of hurt comfort and Rocky deserves some too!

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    14 Jul 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 15

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    The Hail Mary Project was the largest project ever undertaken by humanity.
    Several years after the launch, a new book written by accomplished author Sienna Woods sheds new light on what might just be humanity's greatest error.

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    13 Jul 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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    12 Jul 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 6

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    Rocky and Adrian tell Grace how much they love him.

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    This fic is the result of a round robin with 10 writers! Each writer could only see the work of the person who'd gone directly before them, so if we lost any plot details behind that's why.

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    08 Jul 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 7

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    Episode description:

    Join me and Doctor Ryland Grace as we talk about molecular biology, the wondrous and inhospitable world of extremophiles, controversial opinions in academia, and the joys of sharing a love of science in other ways.

    Listen to the original episode here and see other episode transcripts here

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    08 Jul 2026

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    During one of their talks, Grace and Rocky find out both their species had evolved as predators. Rocky can't believe the squishy-bodied human could ever hunt any prey, Grace insists, so they play a game of hunting to settle this debate.

     

    Story inspired by a comic made by @bluemuffindraws on insta, wich was inspired by a tumblr post.

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    08 Jul 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 10

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    Grace teaches Rocky about sleepovers and they play truth or dare together :]

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    08 Jul 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 44

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    ”Have robot arms check you arm before you get Beetles,” Rocky insists. He taps the wall again. ”Been hurting you more since before power outage and arms no change cloth in sleep.”

    “They probably didn’t because of the outage. I’ll have the NannyBot check it before I get ready,” Grace says, absentmindedly rubbing the offending appendage. He’s not exactly surprised that Rocky’s noticed his increased discomfort. He figures it’s because of the lack of painkillers and from spending hours inspecting the fuel lines for Taumoeba contamination, but doesn’t voice it. He knows the Eridian already feels bad about his ammonia burns and pushing him off the pain meds.’

     

    Or: Grace and Rocky run into an unfortunate complication when getting ready to execute their plan to escape planet Adrian.

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    07 Jul 2026

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