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    Yao was a principled man, glad to be working with a crew of brave volunteers from all over the world who came together to save the stars. It's probably for the best he doesn’t find out how must of the crew were recruited.
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    Aka, Yao finds out how most of the science and engineering team were recruited by Stratt.

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    02 Jul 2026

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    When the burger factory was first commissioned, I was promised it would be for therapeutic cloning only. Muscle tissue for meburgers; organs if I needed them; but no experimenting with brain tissue. And absolutely no reproductive cloning – that is, making a whole other me. My provisions were ratified by the Eridian legislative body over a decade ago, and it's the reason I gave up my stem cells willingly – well, that, and I missed meat. A lot.

    I mean, I miss hugs too, but not so badly I would condemn another human to live his entire life inside this dome with me. Don't get me wrong, I like Erid; I'm happy here. But to never know Earth, to only have yours truly for human company… that's a pretty raw deal. I couldn't conscience bringing a new life into the wrong world – and neither could my Eridian hosts.

    Or so I thought.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Four years after the beetle probes reach Earth, the internet inadvertently gets ahold of the Hail Mary’s video logs.

    Chaos reigns.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    The Eridian thrills a high sound that doesn’t get picked up by the translator which means that it has no clear meaning. Like when a human gasps or sucks in a deep breath. It actually sounds a little like that. When they notice that I’m staring straight at them they scramble back into their hiding spot and hold very still. 

    A child, I realize with a start.

    That’s a child! 

    “Hey,” I call and the kid squeaks again. I was about to get to my feet but abort the movement and crawl closer on my hands and knees until I'm inches away from the xenonite wall. I wait and it takes me much too long to realize that they don’t have to peek around the corner to see if I’m still there.

    “Hey there,” I try again, my voice low and calm. It’s my teacher voice, the one I use for shy and scared students. 

    Used. 

    The fact that I haven’t had to use it for years and it still comes to me automatically almost knocks the air out of my lungs but this is not about me, it’s about making sure the little pebble doesn’t die of fright from the scary alien. “Hi, I’m Grace. It’s alright, you don’t have to be scared.”

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    How Grace finally gets back into a classroom, where he belongs

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Ilyukhina and Yáo do not die whilst in their medical comas aboard the Hail Mary, but they do not wake either.

    Not until Operation Time Go Fishing.

    This makes all the difference.

     

    or; Ilyukhina hasn't even been awake one hour, and they've already nearly died three times and there's a literal alien rock that's distressed beyond belief.

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    01 Jul 2026

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    Ryland Grace woke with a start, opening his eyes before quickly squeezing them shut against the bright light of the room. His head was tipped back, the top pressing back into a soft surface. Turning his face to the side, away from the direct view of the light, he gave a few cautious blinks until his eyes adjusted. After a moment, he carefully looked up, rolling his head into an upright position to look around the room.
    It featured two rows of reclined leather chairs, the back row elevated slightly above the front. The right arm of each chair featured a few buttons on a small keypad. In each seat there was a member of the Project Hail Mary research and mission team. Most of the members were blinking awake like he was, although some were still unconscious.

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    The members of the Project Hail Mary find themselves in a cinema, forced to watch a film which supposedly shows their future. Their captor tells them this will allow them to save Earth (and Erid) but how?

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    A watching the film fic because every fandom needs one.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace hasn't slept in days, unable to rest without being watched while Rocky and Adrian are away, leading him to falling asleep during one of his classes

    The pebbles take it upon themselves to watch their favorite teacher rest

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    Inspired by Aroace-Madness (Tumblr) post

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    30 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 55

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    Stuck aboard the Hail Mary on the long journey back to Erid, Grace wishes he could just take a nice, hot shower. Unfortunately for him, the Hail Mary is only equipped for sponge baths: something Grace despises. So for the whole trip back, every time Grace bathes he's left feeling depressed and less than human. This won't do, not in Rocky's eyes. Rocky fix.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    After saving Grace and nearly dying in an alien atmosphere, Rocky lays an egg before going dormant.

    Turns out being isolated for years and then nearly dying will force biological imperatives onto injured Eridians, and this one leaves Ryland Grace utterly baffled.

    Aren't Eridians supposed to lay eggs in clutches? Only fused eggs are supposed to be viable, but when Grace accidentally touches the egg with his bare skin while trying to save it, that's apparently all the genetic fusion required for life to begin.

    Ryland Grace skips a few steps when it comes to making a baby, and I test the limits of Eridian biology.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace has been caught, sedated, and is about to be put into a coma for the mission. They have to be sure the amnestic worked first though.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Decades after saving the Earth, Grace’s video logs are released to the public

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    30 Jun 2026

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    What the title says. About 11 years ago (from my perspective; relativity is weird) I was launched into space onboard the Hail Mary to figure out a solution to the Astrophage problem. Now I live on an alien planet I call Erid, in the 40-Eridani system. Yes, I’m actually Ryland Grace. Ask me anything.

    Also, can someone please tell me if Eva Stratt is alive? And ideally send me a video of you punching her in the face? Guess that’s a long shot, but it can’t hurt to ask.

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    Grace and Rocky figure out how to connect to Earth's internet from Erid. They may not have thought this through.

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    30 Jun 2026

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    Three years after the probes carrying Taumoeba and Dr. Ryland Grace's final message arrive on Earth, humanity launches an interstellar spaceship with a brand new mission. Thirty-six crew members (including two graduates of a certain San Franciscan junior high school) travel to the star 40-Eridani to make friendly contact with the Eridians and bring them the alien life form from Tau Ceti-E that can save their star if Dr. Grace's sacrifice failed.

    Grace, now fifty-seven years old, is just trying to balance his life as a teacher while no longer being the only human on the planet anymore. It's a big adjustment, but Rocky and the Terra's Grace crew are going to make sure he's well taken care of.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    Grace has to handle First Contact with an alien planet with what meager Eridian his one set of vocal chords can make.
    This Is Fine. This is totally, completely, utterly fine.

    (Grace sounds like a pebble. This, alongside Eridian's extended lifespans, kicks off a chain of misunderstandings that Grace would find utterly mortifying if he knew what the heck was going on.)

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    29 Jun 2026

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    On the good days, it can understand why I can't say yes when it asks for more painkillers.

    On the bad days, like today, all it can focus on is the fact that it is in pain, and its only friend is denying it relief that it thinks that friend should be able to provide.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    He’s fine, he’s slept alone before, he can sleep alone again. He doesn’t need someone watching him, he’s not a baby, crying in the dark for a… what’s the word…. nightlight! Adults don’t babble for their parents after a nightmare. His skin doesn’t crawl, there’s no sense of impending doom, there’s no danger crawling up from the shadows, and there’s certainly nothing wrong with Rocky- he’s in the next room over, the same place he’s been for the last few days, working on his project alone, just like he wanted-

    Grace is tired. He’s so, so tired.

    Or: Grace and Rocky have an argument that results in them avoiding each other, which leads Grace to realise he's become more reliant on Eridian customs then he first thought.

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    29 Jun 2026

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    29 Jun 2026

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    First "Grace speaks eridian and is mistaken for a baby" fic 👶

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    Set in the astrophage research era, Grace gets sick while he's got a lot to do. He doesn't know when to quit, and suffers the consequences. Carl is there to help :)
    dessa song title!!

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    25 Jun 2026

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    Yáo registered the yellow first. 

    Bright yellow, the color of a hazard sign - it was Dr. Grace's familiar raincoat, unmistakable even at distance, the man wearing it moving fast across the open ground that separated the administrative buildings from the interior fence line.

    Grace was running.

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    06 May 2026

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    I read it again, my pointer drifting over the hyperlink. It was the same as the first time I’d read it; I didn’t know what I’d expected.

    14 Historical Figures Who Were Probably Autistic (You Won’t Believe Number Twelve)

    I rubbed my eyes and laughed again, this time a little lighter. Yeah, no way.

    Or: Grace returns to Earth with an Eridian envoy, gets sucked into an internet rabbit hole, and discovers that he's become one of those scientists who everyone sort of just accepts was probably autistic.

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    16 Apr 2026

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