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  1. Rec 66

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    "There's something down there," you say, as afternoon light catches something metallic in the subterranean caves, something unknown flashes like the sun on the scales of the silver fish that swim in the river outside the crater.

    "Gabbro says that before Slate made the big rockets, they used the geysers to help launch the first ships. We were too little to remember. Lots of the first ships didn't make it. The water came up and just blew them apart."

    "Gabbro says a lot of things. Gabbro says there are trees that move around when you're not looking at them."

    "Gabbro's going to be a real astronaut soon," Hal says, and you can feel their forehead wrinkle in doubt. Gabbro is the best at stories, but they're also the best at tricks and pranks, so it's a tough call which of you is more right.

    You both fall into thoughtful silence, and if you squint against the dark and the deep you can kind of identify the silver something as a fuel canister, or maybe a tin of salted fish. But that might just as well be regular old garbage from when the grown ups stay up too late and drink too much, and not the remains of a broken rocket that couldn't make it into space.

    It's a thought worth thinking about, though.

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    08 Oct 2025

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    So Gabbro’s always gotten a giggle or two out of a twisted situation. So Shale’s getting more morbid by the hour. So they’re both more than a little sick in the head by now.

    All this to say—you can’t really blame them for making the joke, can you?

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    A story about loneliness, and laughing not to cry, and whether Time Buddies can just be buddies too.

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    07 Oct 2025

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    There's only so much you can do to in a 22 minute time loop that ends in the sun going supernova. You've tried a whole lot of what you can do, but at some point, there's a change that needs to happen, and you have to try something new.

    So you can try to fix it, or give up. You're leaning on the former.

    But as you realize, it's a painfully hard job to keep a dying universe from going out completely.

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  4. Rec 57

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    The Hatchling did it. They've explored the solar system, reached the Eye, and completed the legacy of the Nomai. They said goodbye and hello simultaneously. They let go. So why do they wake up staring at Giant's Deep? And why is the Orbital Probe Cannon still intact? Perhaps by exploring the solar system again they can find out exactly what happened when they entered the Eye of the Universe.

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    Solanum is being taught to fly the Hearthian's ships! And right now everyone is home, which means there's one cabin that's kinda too full

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