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    A good day, a bad day, and an okay day on the Hail Mary's journey to Erid. Rocky's POV.

    Chapter 1: Grace introduces Rocky to the Mythbusters
    Chapter 2: Grace has been asleep for 41,400 seconds, and is still sleeping.
    Chapter 3: Love to the point of invention

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    07 Aug 2026

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    “Sorry, bud. It’s going to be a hm… a bit of a pickle to keep me alive.” Grace chuckles.

    “Eridians build whatever Grace needs." Rocky chirps. ”Food that taste good and other stupid needs. Grace no worry. Stay alive and happy, Rocky make sure.”

    Grace nods, but that familiar fear is creeping up on him. The one that visits him when his head hits the pillow, that makes him feel like he's just stalling the inevitable. It's silly.

    All he has to do is not starve on the way to Erid. Then he'll be the only human on the planet. For the rest of his life. Which is not scary at all.

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    06 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 72

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    Rocky points a claw at Ryland’s arm. “Why do you keep doing that? You touch where I hurt you.”

    “It’s soothing,” Ryland answers, lips twitching when he adds, “Human thing.”

    “Many human things are confusing to me.”

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    Ryland talks about the last human touch he ever got.

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    03 Aug 2026

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    Colt is the unfortunate witness to Ryland and Rocky's feelings for each other.

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    03 Aug 2026

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    “Grace promise to be very calm about many things immediately,” Rocky said, his voice low and serious. “Grace promise now.”

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    02 Aug 2026

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    Rocky’s new suit opens up a whole new world of interactivity within the small bubble that is The Hail Mary.
    It makes everything a little bit easier to deal with (a little bit easier to fix).

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    5 times Rocky helps out Grace with his newfound ability to touch things around him, and 1 time touching Grace is the thing that helps the most.

    (Previously titled “Rocky Can Touch, Question?”)

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    02 Aug 2026

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    "Gem is not strict to romantic relationships, gem is for any long lasting and important relationship! Grace is Rocky best friend, we exchange gems!"

    In an instant, his confusion melted to powerful wave of emotion, the sincerity in Rocky's musical tone struck him deeply. "You… You mean it?"

    "Of course, of course, of course!"


    Snippets of time between Rocky + Grace on their journey to Erid!!

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    02 Aug 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 93

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    “Rocky has something to tell Grace but Grace promise not be mad question?”
    “Okay, sure.”
    “Rocky wear clothes”
    “Like on special occasions?”
    “. . . no.”

    Inspired by several book vs movie posts regarding Eridian culture, statement.

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    01 Aug 2026

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    Adrian meets Rocky and Grace in the biodome to discuss Grace’s needs on Erid, which then leads Adrian to discover exactly how Grace ended up in space. They are displeased with humanity, to say the least.

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    01 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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    30 Jul 2026

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    It's not cold like that time Ryland went camping in the Rockies. That had been fun. Finding a cold spot in your spaceship 13-light years away from home? Not fun.
    Which is especially bad because apparently he's the only one who can feel it.

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    30 Jul 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 88

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    It’s obscene in a way that has no human equivalent. I think seeing human genitals on him would’ve shocked me less, because at least that’s something you might reasonably show to another person. But this, the place that is both mouth and everything else to him, that I’ve seen exactly once and then never again because it’s viewed as so private and intimate that even an Eridian’s mate does not get to see—that’s something else. The only time he would reveal himself like this to someone else would be to lay an egg, and even then it would be something you don't draw attention to, something necessary but shameful.

    And now he’s showing me.

    Not only that, he’s offering.

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    Or: Just because the mission is over doesn’t mean Rocky and Grace are done exploring.

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    29 Jul 2026

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    “I wonder how things would be if we’d evolved on the same planet,” Grace says, leaning his forearms on his elevated knee. The one kept up by Rocky’s body. It puts even more weight on him, and Rocky feels the texture of Grace’s shoe through the xenonite, the bumps and ridges, the rocks and leaves stuck to the bottom. “You think we’d eat each other?”

    It takes every ounce of self control for Rocky to keep the noise he makes somewhat dignified. He kind of needs Grace to stop talking.

    /////

    Or: Rocky learns about persistence hunting, and it’s both the most terrified and the most aroused he’s ever been.

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    29 Jul 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 51

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    When he lifts himself, I think nothing of it. I pull my feet back to give him space to adjust, because Eridians, just like humans, need to move sometimes for no other reason than that their previous position became uncomfortable. 

    Then he whacks my knee with the back of his hand, and I jolt so hard I nearly fall back in my chair.

    Within milliseconds, I’ve banged my leg against the underside of the desk, cried out in both pain and surprise, and beaten the heel of my other foot down on Rocky’s carapace like a child throwing a tantrum, sending him fleeing from under my desk with a dissonant noise of complaint. There’s no way for me to hurt him harmlessly, the way feuding siblings do, so it’s become second nature to mess with his senses whenever I feel the urge to do something akin to punching someone’s shoulder.

    “The fuck was that for?” Rocky asks, and I genuinely splutter for a few moments before the words come to me.

    “What do you mean, what was that for?! I should be asking you that!”

    /////

    Or: Rocky learns about the patellar reflex. Grace is in the unfortunate position of being the only mammal on the planet for him to test it out on.

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    29 Jul 2026

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    “If you could be any astronomical object, what kind of astronomical object would you be and why?”
    Rocky cannot be astronomical object. Rocky can only be Eridian.
    “Humor me, pal, I’m dying of boredom over here.”

    (or, snapshots of the fourteen days that Rocky and Grace spent making the chain in orbit around Adrian)

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    28 Jul 2026

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    Grace is dying. He and Rocky have made it all the way to Erid, but getting an emaciated, malnourished, mentally fragile Ryland Grace down to a planet designed to kill him is not a simple feat. Rocky desperate to bring his friend home with him, but Grace himself might become the biggest obstacle to seeing that dream realized.

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    28 Jul 2026

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    “It’s different when I’m… looking at it. Thinking about it. Do I need to tell you again about the whole ‘taboo’ thing? I can go over it again.”

    “And I watch you. We are already several layers deep into taboo.”

    “I would be eating myself!”

    “Grace,” I can’t help but stamp a claw for emphasis. It needs to listen,”your body is already eating itself.”
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    Or

    Grace finds out that he can stomach the meburger.

    It’s not a happy moment!

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    27 Jul 2026

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    Mark Watney has survived 118 sols on Mars, and he wouldn’t exactly say it’s been a cakewalk, but he only has about three more years of listening to disco to go (ugh) before Ares IV picks him up and take him home. But when something crashes on the Martian surface only a few kilometers from the Hab, NASA wants him to leave the safety of his little home on the Martian prairie to go investigate…what could possibly go wrong?

    Ryland Grace has survived a long time in space and almost a decade on Erid, but the anxiety of not knowing if the beetles made it to Earth finally drives him to try the dangerous journey back home, and Rocky and Adrian come with him. Everything was actually going pretty good…until a horrible accident leaves them hurtling through space (and time) with no choice but to crash land on the wrong planet.

    How is Watney going to deal with the unexpected company (and their weird secretiveness over why they were in space)? Is Grace going to be able to adjust to being around another human being again? And how are Rocky and Adrian going to handle the uncertainty of a reception to an Earth that’s never heard of aliens before?

    More importantly…how the fuck is NASA going to get them all home alive?

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    27 Jul 2026

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    A sequel series about language, communication, miscommunication, integration, letting go of fear, and watching amazement grow in the space it leaves behind.

    Each work can stand alone. However, they do complement each other.

    Nothing I post is AI generated.

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    27 Jul 2026

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    Simon wakes up. He hadn't thought he would wake up after his lungs were filled with blood. And yet, here he is, in a pitch-black room, wounds tended to, listening to the most beautiful song he's ever heard.
    He's in a world where the stars are alive, and he's been rescued from his blood-soaked iron coffin by a strange, clever little rock-spider alien trying to save the stars. Of course he'll help. Too bad neither of them are biologists...
    But the new human ship approaching them might have someone aboard who is... if they don't turn Simon into a lab rat first, anyway.

    [BloodyMary where Simon gets wormholed to PHM 'verse but it's before the Hail Mary arrives, so he's saved by Rocky and spends a while on the Blip-A]

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    26 Jul 2026

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