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    14 Sep 2026

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    Ryland wilts in the makeshift nest and blows out a long sigh. “Look, it's not that I'm ideologically against it or anything, Rock. It's just that—nothing has ever.” He abruptly pauses, wrinkling his nose to reconfigure his thought pattern while he stares at the ceiling of the ship and makes a vague hand gesture through the air. His blood capillaries are still dilated but not as obscenely as before. “Nobody has ever…y’know? Gosh, why is it so hard to talk about this right now?”

    Simultaneous surprise and arousal hit Rocky like twin bolts of frenetic lightning. He would almost break out into joyous song if that didn’t feel slightly inappropriate in light of Grace’s burning bashfulness. “Oh, Rocky understand now,” he gently cuts in. “Grace is a virgin.”

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    14 Sep 2026

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    On the way to the 40-Eridani system, Grace and Rocky suddenly wake up on the roof of the Baikonur Cosmodrome. 50 days before the launch of the Hail Mary.

    Rocky looks... a little different.

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    14 Sep 2026

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    “Does Grace have soulmate, question? Grace said he had no mate.”

    Grace lets out a small—albeit a little sad—chuckle. “I’m pretty sure I don’t have one.”

    “What?!” Rocky screeches.

    Grace flinches back a bit from the noise. At least Rocky has the gall to look a little sympathetic after his outburst.

    “Apology apology apology, just confused.”

    Grace nods in agreement. “I’m not too sure about it either, buddy, but people used to look down on me for it– no, not down,” he thinks, trying his best to pull at any other memories soulmate related of his that are willing to come to the surface of his mind, “They looked at me with pity,” He trails off.

    “No no no. Not right. Grace have soulmate, surely.”

    Grace laughs and shakes his head. “At this point, I hope I don’t have one. Imagine having the other half of you shot up into space before you could even meet them. I wouldn’t want to do that to them.”

    “But Grace go home now, Grace find mate!”

    --

    Or: You find your soulmate the first time you come in physical contact with each other.

    In all his life, Ryland Grace has never met his soulmate.
    He probably never will.

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    14 Sep 2026

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    Grace turns 122…

    …and he's pretty sure he shouldn't be alive.

    No matter how much Rocky insists on the effectiveness of Eridian vitamins.

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    13 Sep 2026

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    12 Sep 2026

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    Tau Ceti and the fishing trip, but this time nothing is going to go wrong! That doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye.

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    Epilogue to Let's Call The Whole Thing Off

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    12 Sep 2026

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    If Rocky propositions him during the workday, he makes no such attempt at a performance—or, as Rocky likes to call it, courtship.

    After they determine this is indeed the word Rocky’s using, Grace snorts. “No. Courtship is, like, old-fashioned dating. Very formal old-fashioned dating.”

    “No, no.” Rocky gestures to what he gave Grace. “Is courtship. Trust.”

    “I don’t know what this is, but it’s not courtship!” Grace holds up the honest-to-God padded handcuffs Rocky made for him. They jingle a little. “Explain how this is old-fashioned to you. Quickly.”

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    11 Sep 2026

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    “No.” Rocky said, cutting Grace off. “Grace big.” His carapace did a slow tilt in a very pointed ‘look down’ kind of motion.

    Grace swallowed hard and looked away from Rocky with another laugh, albeit more awkward and forced than before as he reached for the pipette.

    “That’s kinda something you’re supposed to pretend you haven’t noticed, pal.” He said stiffly and adjusted his weight on the chair. Maybe if he just silently acknowledged and made peace with how pink his face was it would go away.

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    or, alternatively: grace has a massive dick. rocky is ovulating and horny about it.

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    09 Sep 2026

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    It's been years since Doctor Ryland Grace saved Erid and Earth. He is content with his life, happy just to teach the next generation of Eridians and have the occasional game night with Rocky and Adrian in his dome. For the most part, nothing changes.

    And that's the problem. Shouldn't Grace, y'know...age? When Rocky indicates that he should be sixty human years old by now, Grace can't reconcile the young face in the mirror with the time that his friend has religiously kept.

    Things get more complicated when another undoubtedly human ship shows up at the edge of the 40 Eridani system. Suddenly Grace is playing ambassador between the two species, and tensions are rising between them. Will this be a successful second contact, or is the peaceful life Grace just wants to live too much to ask for?

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    08 Sep 2026

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    The day Ryland Grace proves the Carl Hypothesis and discovers how to breed Astrophage, a probe is spotted in the outer regions of the solar system. When it's recovered, the words TO SOLVE ASTROPHAGE PROBLEM are found written on the outside, and below that is written in slightly smaller text, Deliver to Ryland Grace.

    Grace, unfortunately, has no idea what's going on.

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    07 Sep 2026

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    "It takes me another moment before I realize that I wasn’t hurting from the fall. There’s no struggle to get air back into my lungs. I’ve tumbled end over end, and sort of landed upright. All my limbs are sprawled in every direction.
    Rocky skitters down to my level, right up against the xenonite. “Grace fall! Hurt question? Okay okay okay?”
    With all my brainpower, I focus on responding. 'Y-ye-es,' I manage to chirp. I freeze. Process.
    That was definitely not English. Or any other human language. I didn’t move any muscles to speak.
    'Y-ees,' I say again, and the same chirping note comes out. Inside me, I feel the shifting of five gas-filled… things. That note came from me. But it sounded like Rocky."

    ...

    In which Grace wakes up as an Eridian. And then a human. Eridian again.

    Figuring out how to walk and sing is the first step. The rest will have to come later.

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    07 Sep 2026

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    A site skin that gives AO3 a slightly modernized, semi-flat look and enhances the user experience.

    Features:

    • Slimmed-down header
    • NEW: Optional header image
    • Sticky dashboard (desktop only) and sticky filters
    • Custom content icons and stats icons
    • Color-coded tags
    • Improved tablet and mobile compatibility
    • Optional automatic switching between light and dark mode
    • Seven customizable color schemes (more may follow)
    Available color schemes
    • AO3 Default Colors
    • Black & White
    • Charcoal Rose
    • Dusky Dark Purple
    • Midnight Black (true dark mode for OLED)
    • Powder & Pink
    • Tumblr Blue (based on the low-contrast classic palette)

    Last updated: 30 August 2026

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    07 Sep 2026

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    The arrival at Erid is a momentous occasion. Rocky is excited and thrilled. Ryland is overwhelmed. But the reunion is happy, beautiful, amazing.

    Or that's what it should have been. Except Rocky gets hurt, Ryland is left to try and communicate with an alien planet, and everyone is scrambling to figure out how to do this. To Grace, this is incredible but also bittersweet - he got Rocky home safely with the taumoeba, now he just gets... to starve. To Erid, this is insane - how did Rocky show up in an alien spaceship with a child???

    ...

    Ryland Grace is stuck trying to speak Eridian, immediately makes himself sound like a child, and Rocky's world and family scramble to help this strange pebble. Misunderstandings galore, alongside hurt/comfort and angst and fluff.

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    07 Sep 2026

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    Rocky realizes he is in love with Ryland, and after confessing he learns a lot about how Ryland's biology works.
    Later, Ryland visits Erid and Adrian learns about Ryland's biology.

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    06 Sep 2026

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

    ---

    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    04 Sep 2026

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    Wade Wilson is the best merc in the business, and he knows it. When he crosses the wrong kind of withered old lady—the magic kind—she curses him to regret his cockiness in the most literal way possible: By turning him into a cock. A rooster. A male hen, of the chicken variety.

    Peter Parker, grieving the loss of Aunt May and Uncle Ben, needs a change. That's what his grief counselor says, anyway. So he makes an impulsive and massive one: He buys a farm. He doesn't mean for it to turn in a rescue for broken things, he just... he can't help but love the animals that no one else wants. Thus, when he overhears a greasy, crude asshole trying to pawn off a rooster in the middle of a farmer's market, he doesn't hesitate.

    But there's something wrong with this rooster. It doesn't crow at sunrise—which is the only thing Peter expects a rooster would do—but it does holler its tail off whenever Peter bends over. And it follows him around and clucks like it's talking to him. And it's weirdly good at killing the vermin around the house.

    There's a mystery afoot. Peter's going to get to the bottom of it.

    (The Beauty and the Beast!AU you never knew you needed.)

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    04 Sep 2026

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    Ugly, lonely, and depressed, Wade Wilson has all but resigned himself to a life of solitude. But when a glory hole place called The Promised Land (the "Home of the Holy") opens up, Wade discovers a way he might be able to find some intimacy without traumatizing anyone with the sight of his skin. Enter Peter, the sassy, sweet sex worker who has a perfect ass and an even better sense of humor. They might (might!) be even better than Spidey's.

    ~*~*~

    Yes. This is 100% the glory hole + identity porn love story no one asked for. It's a smutty, angsty, fluffy, funny rollercoaster. Please read the tags!

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    02 Sep 2026

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    “Where am I?” he mutters. Adrenaline is flooding through his body. His heart is beating so terribly that he can feel it inside his chest. His entire body has broken out in a cold sweat. And somehow, despite it all, his spidey-sense is dead silent. What does it know that the rest of his body doesn’t?

    “Our apartment,” says the man. He’s standing now. Peter didn’t notice when he got to his feet. “Can you tell me who you are, sweetheart?”

    Peter laughs, incredulous. He’s not exactly sure what he’s laughing at. “Peter,” he says. “Of course, I know who I am.”

    “Okay,” the man says, sounding just as concerned and careful as before. “But you don't know who I am?”

    Or: Peter gets amnesia, wiping out the last 5 years of his life. But really, how much can change in five years?

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    02 Sep 2026

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    Thumbing at the swollen glands in his wrists, seeking relief from how sore they are, Pete heads back to the bedroom. He has just enough wherewithal left in his foggy brain to remember to flick on the scent neutralizing diffusers all through the little apartment. He doesn’t produce anywhere near enough silk to operate as Spider-Man, and what he does produce is released far too slowly to be of any use...but for this, it works for this. It hurts a little, a stinging pull, the scent glands in his wrists red and puffy, exacerbated by the passing of the silk.

    The nest smells so intensely of Pete, it fills the whole walk in with an overbearingly cloying scent. It's not like a normal Omega scent, not enticing, it doesn't cry out to be bred. It's a warning, tells predators that what's inside is hostile and to be avoided. Smells like danger and the promise of death.

    Pete gave up fighting this instinct on his second heat. His brain is telling him that he should be making a nest, that he should want soft things, that he should want to be in bed or in a blanket fort or some other sort of nest made of familiar things that all the other, normal Omega’s want.

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    28 Aug 2026

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