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  1. Rec 73

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    “Understand,” Rocky says slowly. “Grace sad because Grace miss Earth and Grace students.”

    That much was true, but…

    “Not exactly,” Grace mumbles. “She—Stratt—was the one in charge of the project. So she’s also the one who made the executive decision to send me into space.”

    This time Rocky’s silence is longer.

    Or: Rocky learns about two things: who Eva Stratt was, and Christmas.

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    06 May 2026

  2. Rec 25

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    Morbid, that's what this is, and I don't want it to be.
    I'll leave this part out of any memoirs, I guess, just mention it in passing. If there is any time to write memoirs: if Rocky gets me to Erid alive, and he and his fellow alien scientists are able to engineer some way to keep me functioning, then I'll jot this all down in their language and mine for posterity's sake. I've gotten used to chronicling. If I could get this story to Earth, everybody would line up in the bookstores to get their hands on it. They might even forgive me my faults. I'd read my book, too, but mostly for Rocky. He's easy to get attached to.
    Not feeling like I'll have much time left for my memoirs today, though.

    I read Project Hail Mary last year but was thinking again about the period of time on the journey back to Erid where Ryland becomes malnourished and seriously ill and I wanted to write a couple scenes about it. Literary references included for my own enjoyment.

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    05 May 2026

  3. Rec 34

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    Once Grace learns Rocky's sleep patterns, he starts sneaking out and back in before he wakes up. When he gets really hurt in the lab while Rocky is asleep, however, he has to wait for rescue, then fight to get to the med bay, and THEN worry about making up with Rocky. Fun banter and a little extra angsty fight at the end as a treat. (title is, as always, a dessa lyric)

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    05 May 2026

  4. Rec 52

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    This article is about humans who lack sexual attraction or interest in sexual activity. For the lack of romantic attraction, see Aromanticism. For the lack of a gender, see Agender. For other uses, see Asexual (disambiguation). Not to be confused with Asexual reproduction.

    So I am confused. Or, I did exactly what that little dummy paragraph said and confused asexuality with asexual reproduction. Which is something I don’t ever need to be Googling because I have a flipping doctorate in this crap. Why am I looking this up agin? I am far too exhausted for this.

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    05 May 2026

  5. Rec *

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    "Grace sad, not good. I fix."

    "… Um. How?" I ask. "Oh, God, please don't make me a human-shaped robot to hug. That would be so creepy."

    "No robot," Rocky promises.

    (Or: Grace was touch-starved even before he left Earth. Rocky attempts to fix.)

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    02 May 2026