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    Astrophage, Ilyukhina thought, was not going to be the death of them all.

    But rather, one Ryland Grace and his new pet alien-rock friend.

    -----oO*Oo-----

    Olesya Ilyukhina and Commander Yáo Li-Jie survive their voyage into space. This changes everything.

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    04 May 2026

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    “You trust me?”

     

    “I… yeah. Of course.”

     

    Rocky stopped working, not because he needed to in order to carry on the conversation, but to make sure I was sure he was giving me his full attention. He was thoughtful like that. His carapace tilted up. “Rocky fix beetles, send to Erid.  Then Rocky and Grace go to Earth. Grace will live. Grace see sibling again. Rocky promise. Rocky fix. Grace trust.”

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    04 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 61

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    Rocky’s body thinks it’s found a cluster of mates.
    Rocky knows that’s a problem.

     

    [[the author has given up and admitted this has to be an episodic series]]

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    7/?
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    02 May 2026

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    He’s actively stepping around Rocky, stepping over him, and heading towards the other end of the lab, cabinets and rows of samples. He could find something else here to look at, check up on the Taumoeba farms…

    Except, he doesn’t even make it to the threshold to cross the hallway of the ship. His feet stop. A complete, precise standstill.

    Rocky had chittered at him, a short burst of notes, monosyllabic in Eridian despite the layers of chords. He registered it not as any word, yet the command still struck.

    Stay.

    Heeled. Like a dog.

    And it wasn’t by any doing of Grace’s own decision making.

    alt; Rocky finds out how to control Grace via song

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    01 May 2026

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    Several years from settling on Erid, Grace starts getting severe migraines.

    After discovering they're caused by wearing the wrong prescription, Rocky finds a temporary solution while eridian scientists figure out how human sight, and glasses work.

    A flaw in Rocky's solution after a small accident allows Grace to see the world as an eridian. Chaos ensues when, aided by ultrasound-like vision, Grace notices Rocky's five hearts beating way too fast whenever he's around him.

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    29 Apr 2026

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    How would that liquid feel to his touch? Rocky wonders. It would be cold, that's certain; the viscosity could allow his fingers to slide together smoothly, wetness dripping from him like blood, like arousal.

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    23 Apr 2026

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    Ryland Grace wakes up, goes to work, feels the rain on his face, teaches his students, cries over the galaxy, and dreams about a rock.

    Wait.

    What's that last one all about?

    There is a feeling in the back of his head like he's forgetting something. Is he forgetting something?

    Is he forgetting something again?

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    14/?
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    21 Apr 2026

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    "Grace has new human, question? What is name, question?"

    Smiling brightly, Grace gestures to me. "Rocky, meet Olesya Ilyukhina, she's an engineer as well."

    OR

    Ilyukhina and Yáo survive the trip.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    “Robot,” Yào calls out. “How long — how long was I asleep?”

    The robot whirrs. “You have been in a medically induced coma for — one hundred — eighty — one — days,” it reports.

    Yào’s not as quick at theoretical maths as Dr. Grace or Ilyukhina, but he’s pretty handy with the normal stuff. One hundred and eighty-one days is … just shy of six months. He runs the numbers again, counts them out slower in his head. It’s the same result.

    It’s not enough time. It’s not nearly enough time. It’s not even enough time to be completely out of their fucking solar system.

    Yào wakes up early.

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    20 Apr 2026

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    Eva Stratt has never been a woman who hesitates.

    She’s made countless decisions after decisions throughout her life, often regardless of the consequences that may result. She’s not an idiot. She’s well aware that there will be consequences, and she’s equally sure that the consequences will be of little concern. The end justifies the means — her actions will be judged, but at least they will have happened.

    But here, alone in a Russian conference room, for once in her life Eva Stratt does not know what to do.

    OR; The beetles make it home.

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    18 Apr 2026

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    Eva Stratt is determined to do whatever it takes to save the world, regardless how immoral her decisions may seem to everyone else. Unfortunately, the universe seems equally determined to make her efforts as emotionally painful as possible, a fact she discovers when she realizes she’s gotten a little too close to her head scientist.

    Or:; Eva Stratt has a problem, and his name is Ryland Grace.

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    16 Apr 2026

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    15 Apr 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 6

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    “You were fired for calling the leading scholar in your field a staggering waste of carbon at the UNESCO conference in Denmark.”

    The UNESCO conference where Ryland Grace is ridiculed for his research and it makes him quit his promising science career.

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    12 Apr 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 9

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    In a fleeting moment, Stratt's steely exterior cracks. Thankfully, her second-in-command is there. The weight of the world's survival can't only rest on one person's shoulders.

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    11 Apr 2026

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    I saw a couple Tumblr posts about how Stratt would first react to Grace's video logs when the beetles are recovered, and I started having ideas.
    So here's Stratt watching Grace's video logs. (mostly made up by me ofc but includes some direct quotes of the logs he makes in the movie)

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    06 Apr 2026

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    Simon didn’t expect his savior to be exactly his type.

    What a welcome sight. Even if this stupidly handsome man ends up being evil, or working for the C.O.I, at least he’d die looking at something good.

    or

    Grace and Rocky find Simon's ship floating in deep space on their way to Erid.

    UPDATE: This fic has been peer reviewed by a NASA engineer who has approved of the science!

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    Chapters:
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    04 Apr 2026

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    The longer Simon spends with Ryland Grace and Rocky, the more he realizes they're genuinely good people (or rock-spider-crab things)... and the more convinced he becomes that he doesn't belong with them in the slightest.

    (Or: A criminal, a science teacher, and a rock walk into a spaceship.

    This is a continuation of "The People We Meet at the End of the World", which you may need to read first for context.)

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    31 Mar 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 64

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    Rocky starts to communicate with the alien ship. It turns out they want to talk to him. Now he has to do everything he can not to mess this up, so maybe they’ll be willing to help save his species.

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    28 Mar 2026

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    It’s been nearly 27 years since Eva Stratt forced Ryland Grace to board the Hail Mary and sent him off to his death for the greater good of mankind. Meanwhile, Eva and the Project Hail Mary team have been fighting a losing battle against the cooling sun—and their own demons—trying to make sure there were still people to be saved by the time the crew could send a solution home. Right on schedule, the beetles are returning to Earth, hopefully with the answer to saving the world. But Eva has something else to worry about; there’s every possibility Ryland Grace’s last words would be coming home, and all the time in the world couldn’t make her ready to face the consequences of her actions, or what will happen when her colleagues find out what she did to their friend.
    It was time to find out if it was worth it for her to sacrifice Grace, and her soul, to save humanity. And to find out if she was ready to face him after all these years…

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    64,314

    28 Mar 2026

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    Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
    Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
    🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5

    It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.

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    Chapters:
    25/31
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    Comments:
    4,049
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    12,846
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    4,383
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    314,639

    26 Mar 2026

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