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  1. Public Bookmark 62

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    Grace frowned. Maybe he could—

    An almighty crash reverberated through the dome, and Grace startled. He surged to his feet, turning automatically toward the sound, looking up.

    A crackling creak groaned from the roof of the biodome, and abruptly, one of the xenonite panels popped out of its frame and fell, shattering. A massive floodlight fell through the opening and crashed through the roof of Grace’s house on top of the hill.

    A superheated plume of ammonia exploded from the hole with a loud hiss, expanding rapidly.

    “Grace!” came a frantic shout from down the beach. Grace swiveled to face Rocky, some hundred yards away, poised tall on his claws with alarm. “The safebox! Now! GRACE RUN!”

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    07 Oct 2026

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    Rocky sings the tale of how he and Adrian met, fumbled, fell in love and finally became life-long mates despite coming from two completely different realities in Erid. Grace fails to see the similarities between their story to his own’s meeting, fumbling, falling in love and — who knows — becoming life-long mates with Rocky.

    "For never was a story of more mirth
    Than of Juliet, Romeo and the Mercy of Earth."

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    06 Oct 2026

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    Rocky, Adrian, and Grace have been mutual mates for a few years.

    Now, it would be really great if Grace himself was aware of that.
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    (From the perspective of Eridian tradition, Grace is hitting on Adrian and Rocky pretty hard and going through all the steps to court them. He just isn't doing it on purpose.)

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    05 Oct 2026

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    “Mr. Grace, do you have a girlfriend?” Aria called out, which resulted in a cascade of laughter and jeering. Grace, despite four years of practice, was blindsided by this blow and floundered to come up with a rejoinder.

    “Uh,” He gurgled into the microphone, an idiot wearing three pairs of glasses, “No, I do not.”

    Or: Middle School Science Teacher Ryland Grace accidentally falls in love.

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    05 Oct 2026

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    As Rocky and Grace head towards Erid, a transmission comes through over the ship's comms.

    A human voice.

    After (rightfully) freaking out, Rocky and Grace have a new friend to rescue. Will they make it in time? And if they do, what will it be like to have another human aboard?

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    04 Oct 2026

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    Doctoral student Ryland Grace is informed, in no uncertain terms, that he is to be seduced. Fortunately, he's completely down for that, especially coming from the charming asshole engineering student he's been TAing.

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    02 Oct 2026

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    Ryland Grace and Rocky are on the way to Erid when… something happens. See end of work for the scorching hot art by tumblr user kiodja that inspired this fic. (There might be more.)

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    02 Oct 2026

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    I hated how silent the house was without him. Earlier in my life I would have said I hated superfluous noise. That was before the UNESCO conference and my downfall and subsequent rebuilding of an entire existence. Before Rocky bulldozed his way into my life.

    I could say then, after 3 years of dating and 2 of marriage, that I just hadn’t found noise I liked before him.

    - Or -

    Grace adores seeing his husband be successful in his career. He loves the work trips a lot less.
    Now Rocky is being sent out of town for three weeks and Ryland is dealing with it as best he can.

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    5/5
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    02 Oct 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 55

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    Grace plans a birthday party for Rocky… almost a little too elaborately. Their friends, of course, immediately notice how much harder he's trying than usual.

    or, "fuck it, I've definitely fallen for my roommate, and I want to make his birthday as special as possible... even if our friends keep making fun of me for it."

    t.w. alcohol, vomiting

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    02 Oct 2026

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    The engineer takes my hand. His skin runs hot. Very hot. He doesn't let go at what I would gauge as a socially-acceptable handshake time interval. Are we just holding hands in the middle of the lab-workshop space? Guess we are.

    "I'm Rocky," he finally introduces himself. He has a hint of an accent, something lilting, melodic. I can't really place it.

    "Rocky," I repeat, slowly. "Like the movies?"

    "No," Rocky deadpans, giving me a look like I'm stupid. "Like the rocks."

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    30 Sep 2026

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    Grace is sick and tired of the food he has to eat on Erid, so he decides to risk a taste of Eridian food. There will be consequences, but they're nothing like what he thought would happen. Suddenly, he can see Rocky with his eyes closed.
    As a man of science, he wants to see how far the rabbit hole goes- but a lot can happen when two biologies have very different means of constructing consciousness.

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    29 Sep 2026

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    “I wish he didn’t care about me so much. It’s gonna really hurt when I die.”
    “Why would you say something like that, question?”
    “I dunno. I guess I don’t think I should really mean much to him. I mean, we were stuck in a spaceship together for a while, sure. But that was a forced proximity thing. I don’t expect him to be by my side every second of the day just because of that. I can’t believe he’s not sick of me by this point. Honestly, I wouldn’t blame him if he left and never came back.”
    Adrian is silent.
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    Or: Grace and Rocky are severely codependent. Adrian gets tangled up in their mess, too.

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    29 Sep 2026

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    James "Rocky" Rockwell has to leave his dream job at NASA due to an episode he would rather not speak about. He moves to San Fransisco to begin his new career, and stops at a little diner on the way to his new apartment. There, he sees someone incredibly familiar, though they have never met before.
    Not in this lifetime, at least.

    Memories come flooding back to Rocky of an entirely different life he lived. The universe has given him the chance to reunite with the person he holds closest to his heart. And the one who is currently holding him up on the diner floor, telling someone that he needs an ambulance. Rocky grips the sleeve of his cardigan, calls Grace's name, and Grace holds onto him tighter.

    Does he remember, too?

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    27 Sep 2026

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    When Rocky returns to planet Erid after 60 odd years, Adrian expects a beautiful reunion with their long lost partner and a happily ever after under a brightening star. Instead, they get an extremely codependent and traumatized mate, and a malnourished, creepy, leaky space blob, who are attached at the hip. Could Adrian learn to love this alien creature, or will it tear their marriage apart?

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    27 Sep 2026

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    In the aftermath of the arrival of the Hail Mary, Adrian becomes used to it. Polite, not unkind deferrals. Occasional rejections, stiffly sung, claws stamped firmly in a simple, no. Not today. Perhaps not for a long time, Adrian. You have a mate to take care of.

    Adrian would love to take care of their mate. Adrian cannot tell their community that Rocky is still high above them, still in the spaceship that houses the sick, dying alien Rocky refuses to leave. Adrian will take care of Rocky when they return, but they have not yet returned, and so there is nobody for Adrian to care for at all.

    Adrian has waited four hundred and thirty-one years for their mate. Their mate, upon returning to them, has an alien. Adrian will adjust. Just like they always have.

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    26 Sep 2026

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    Rocky doesn’t offer false assurances or claims that everything will be okay. They both know the world doesn’t work like that, that life isn’t always kind. They both know that you can never truly determine what the future holds, that you never know what you’ll truly do, what action you’ll take, unless faced with the decision head on. Rocky doesn’t lie. He doesn’t sugar coat his words, and is sometimes too blunt for his own good. Grace loves him for it. That bluntness that pulls him out of his own head.

    His former partners had told him before that he always had ‘his head in the clouds’ and they were right. They used to try to pull him back to Earth, to force him down. Rocky’s never done that. He’s always flown next to Grace, staying by his side as a grounding presence, letting him float but never drift too far. Lives with him in the clouds but keeps them both tethered to Earth.

    Or: Modern!Married Grace and human Ortiz!Rocky where we take a walk through the domesticity of their lives, fated in every universe.

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    24 Sep 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 88

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    Dr. Ryland Grace meets his person on Stratt's Vat. A genius by the name of Rocky.

    Too bad Rocky becomes the Primary Engineer of Project Hail Mary, with an interstellar one-way ticket to Tau Ceti.

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    24 Sep 2026

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    Dr. James “Rocky” Rockwell fell ill and suddenly regained hundreds of years worth of memories of his previous Eridian life.

    Dr. Ryland Grace got into an accident that caused him to remember years of being in space and living on a planet that was not his.

    Now, both middle school teachers are burdened with the complete knowledge of their old lives, profoundly yearning for a person who they thought they had lost forever.

    Too bad they’re too busy being at each other’s throats to realize that they'd each found what they thought they've lost.


    Rocky and Grace are reincarnated and get their memories back, but they do not recognize each other (Rocky only remembers how Grace sounds through Eridian ears; Grace doesn’t know Rocky’s back as a human), then one incident causes them to constantly want to throw hands at each other LMAO

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    24 Sep 2026

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    Overworked molecular biology student Ryland Grace has a terrible habit of sleeping through his early morning alarms. But, fortunately and unfortunately for him, his engineering roommate, Rocky, happens to have both sensitive hearing and an inclination for organized chaos... and maybe plenty of other things that Grace can't help himself from falling for.

    or, “oh no, I think I might be falling in love with my roommate but I’m sure that he’s definitely pissed at me because my alarms wake him up too early in the morning.”

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    Comments:
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    23 Sep 2026

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    “Tell me,” I say, sitting up finally, Rocky hunched between my legs, “How can I help? I want to help.”
    At those words Rocky shudders.
    'Help,' he sings, 'yes. Grace help. Grace good good good help.'
    Okay, we’re getting somewhere, even if he’s still acting really weird. He hasn’t tried to sass me even once yet. His whole demeanor is strange.
    “So there is something wrong,” I hiss, triumphant. “I knew it.”
    He huffs. 'Not wrong,' he burbles. 'Meant to happen. Expected. '
    Oh. It's something natural.

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    Rocky has been acting... weird.

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    8,140

    23 Sep 2026

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