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  1. Public Bookmark 14

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    Grace’s next sleep-cycles are peaceful, and Rocky hasn’t needed to comfort him. Not that they mind doing it, but it’s a relief that he has had good sleep.

    But now, as if the roles are swapped, they’re the one troubled now.

    In which Rocky comforts Grace, and Grace comforts Rocky.

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    19 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 43

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    aka the demi!grace poly!erid two cakes gracerocky series!

    featuring erid's constellations of platonic, romantic, and/or sexual partner types; two best friends in love on a spaceship; an excuse to write my speculative anthropological ideas about eridian cultures; and basically every phm fic trope i've enjoyed in my extensive grocky literature review. enjoy! ☺️

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    19 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 74

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    “Genital organ swelling…is because of sleep hallucination, question?” Rocky says, sounding baffled.

    “Pretty much. Human bodies are weird.”

    “Weird weird weird,” Rocky mutters, rolling back out of my arms. “Glad Grace okay.”

    I nod, not feeling okay in the slightest. “Totally okay. I mean, how could I not be? I’ve got a spaceship, all the Taumoeba I can eat, and you. What else could I need?”

    Last night's dream isn’t fading like my dreams usually do after I wake up. I’m not sure I even want it to. I can’t stop hearing the sounds my brain imagined Rocky would make as I sank my fingers knuckle-deep inside of him, as he praised me for making him feel so good–

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    18 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 77

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    “Hey, you’re the one who loves hearing my heartbeat.” Wait, nope, shouldn’t’ve said that. That definitely seems like too much, somehow. I feel my cheeks heating up.

    Rocky’s claws fidget against the xenonite. “Yes. I do. Is good sound,” he insists, more quietly than I’d expected. “Means you still alive."

    “Yeah.” I’m so alive right now that I can feel the pulse jumping in my throat. “That’s, um. That’s good.”

    In the back of my mind, a very cool and rational part of myself is telling me: hey, since you’re on the subject of internal organs, why not take this opportunity to ask Rocky to feel you up so he can check on your appendix/gallbladder situation? Unfortunately, the rest of my mind just heard ask Rocky to feel you up and had the psychic equivalent of a seizure.

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    18 Jul 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 41

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    Anyway, there isn’t a therapist on Erid who could work on me without a seminar. And even after a curriculum, a thesis, and a defense, it’d still be impossible to explain why I feel so goshdarn weird about the wheelchair.

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    18 Jul 2026

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    “Would it help––should I bring my dinner in too?” Grace jokes, smiling in preparation for the absolute symphony of disgusted whistles he knows Rocky will produce at the thought of them doing something as depraved as sharing a meal. “I’ve been saving this week’s half packet of ramen for just such an occasion––”

    [YES YES YES!] Rocky’s translator app suddenly blares from the laptop on the floor between them. [YES, ACCEPT ACCEPT ACCEPT! GRACE RAMEN ♪♫♪♫ WITH ROCKY, AFFIRMATIVE! GRACE ROCKY EAT ♪♫♪♫ MEAL TOGETHER AFFIRMATIVE YES YES AFFIRMATIVE NOW.]

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    or, a fic to answer the questions: What if you fell in love for the first time in your 40s, and it just so happened to be with your alien best bud who has five legs, no face, and is already married? And then what if you accidentally proposed marriage to said alien best bud without knowing, because while you may be Earth's best and brightest, you are also notoriously inexperienced and kinda stupid at close interpersonal relationships? What then?

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    18 Jul 2026

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    Living on a spaceship with an alien that exclusively speaks in song can really recontextualize karaoke for a guy.

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    15 Jul 2026

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    Ryland has a tattoo. So does Rocky. It's not the same thing, but it also really is.

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    15 Jul 2026

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    “But you said you didn’t have a word for – for forcing someone into reproduction?”

    No. Is different, but equivalent violation. Means, to force to sleep.

    Or, Dr. Ryland Grace has yet to confront the choices taken from him. Eridian norms, ironically enough, force the issue.

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    15 Jul 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 32

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    14 Jul 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 83

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    Grace reaches out and puts his palm flat against Rocky’s ball, feels the heat that comes up from glass-like wall. His lip quivers, breath unsteady as he sighs out and admits, “I wish I could touch you.”
     

    Loved to the point of invention; Rocky makes his xenonite suit to help Grace.

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    14 Jul 2026

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    A Project Hail Mary AU in which Grace (for Plot Reasons) develops the ability to shift between his human body and an Eridian form at will a couple of weeks after the Adrian Incident.

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    13 Jul 2026

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    It has been VℓℓI [433.58] years since Adrian has heard their mate. Since the families of Erid’s first and, to this day, only interstellar crew have heard them. I+∀∀V+ℓ [85,416] days.
    Even after all this time, Adrian can’t help but hope that the crew will return. That today will be the day that Erid will pick up the signals from the ship. Some of the other families have given up hope, assuming their loved ones are dead. Many scientists and engineers started working on ways to combat the cooling of their primary star.
    Then-
    A signal.

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    13 Jul 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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    13 Jul 2026

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    After the Taumoeba leak, after I decided to die after all and turned my ship around to save Rocky, after Rocky's frantic calculations about food supplies, Taumoeba multiplication rates, and human caloric intake needs, after we realized that with some rationing and luck I would make it, but that we were headed toward the unknown territory of trying to rapid-prototype me a life support system and synthetic food supply on an inhospitable planet: after all of that, after everything, I shouldn't have been surprised that it only took a few months on board the Hail Mary for things to get weird.

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    11 Jul 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 84

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    What if Grace's arm needed to be amputated after he got burned getting Rocky back to his enclosure?

    Can be read as slash or not.

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    10 Jul 2026

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    “If you could be any astronomical object, what kind of astronomical object would you be and why?”
    Rocky cannot be astronomical object. Rocky can only be Eridian.
    “Humor me, pal, I’m dying of boredom over here.”

    (or, snapshots of the fourteen days that Rocky and Grace spent making the chain in orbit around Adrian)

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    05 Jul 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 1

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    Rocky feels horrible for the scarring he gave Grace. Grace explains the good that can be found in it and explains the top surgery scars that Rocky notices.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    Sometimes I'd forget

     

    Rocky has been stranded, alone and light years away from home for 46 years. For a long time it seemed like nothing would ever change. But a new arrival in Tau Ceti system is about to alter the course of history; For Rocky, for Erid, and for another world far, far away.

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    Beta read by chez_levi! Thank you for your notes, and curse you for your implications about metaphors

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    28 Jun 2026

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    "Photon sensing is short-range for navigation? How far Grace see?"

    Grace's brows furrowed as he contemplated.

    "In here? To the wall—about six meters. But outside, or looking out into space? I can see things that are kilometers away. If it's a star, I can see it from light-years away."

    All three Eridians clicked in surprise, the third Eridian—Grace nicknamed them 'Mendel'—wobbling on their stool in surprise.

    "Light-years?!" Rocky chirped, melody rising. "You lie! Explain!"

    OR

    Grace explains what light and colors are.

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    22 Jun 2026

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