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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    While watching Star Trek on the way to Erid, Grace and Rocky stumble upon an episode that has some very familiar plot beats.

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    16 Sep 2026

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    Rocky visits Grace's life support quarters with some exciting news, some time into his recovery on Erid---the biodome habitat has finally been completed.

    It takes a step through the airlock and sinks down into rough sand and pebbles. I chirp and hop down after it. Grace has not seen the biodome yet, but neither have I, and in my enthusiasm I dart slightly ahead.

    Grace inhales so sharply that I turn to hear him better in a panic. “Grace? Grace, what is wrong? You are hurt?”

    My assumption is quickly corrected when, without warning, it bolts.

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    15 Sep 2026

  3. Rec 42

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    When word comes from Baltigo’s outer sentries of a small vessel approaching, carrying a handful of fishmen and a small human child, Hack picks his head up with more shining hope than Dragon has ever before seen in his eyes. “Well, then. Shall we go meet them?”

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    07 Sep 2026

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    “When dead whales sink down to the sea floor, they become a whole”—Grace waves his hands in a big circle and draws out the word to emphasise his point—“ecosystem for a tonne of bottom dwelling creatures down there.

    “To them, it’s the equivalent of an oasis falling from the sky and landing in the middle of a desert. It can feed them for decades, and gosh, the microbes that can be found there. I would love to study a whale fall...if they weren't at the bottom of the ocean. Eugh.” He shudders dramatically. “If I never have to go in a submarine, I will die happy.”

    Eva wonders if the whale died happy. Or, at least, happy to know its death would bring life to so many. Surely that was a comfort when faced with the end.

    ⸻🌊🐋🌊⸻

    (or: Eva drifts along a sea of memories, in which whales swim ever underneath)

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    07 Sep 2026

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    "What are Eridian funeral rites, Rocky?"

    Or - Grace was growing older.

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    03 Sep 2026

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    "...Mr. Grace?"

    Colt froze.

    He had turned instinctively at the voice - and for a single moment he saw three or four kids crowding the doorframe of the classroom, and one of them, a girl in a bright yellow jacket, had her hand over her mouth in shock.

    "Mr. Grace!"

    Or - Colt Seavers visits Grover Cleveland Middle School.

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    02 Sep 2026

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    The two watch in horrified silence as this stranger punches his big brother across the jaw, sending him careening to the floor. He stays there, unmoving, for an agonizing, excruciating moment. Then this– this fucker drags Ry onto his knees and lances his fingers into his scalp, tugging him by the hair so that he has a good look at his face.

    When he shoves Ryland’s head into the water basin, Colt starts seeing red.

    He thinks about the last text Ry sent him. He thinks about the three dropped calls from last night. He thinks about someone hurting his brother—his brother—and suddenly he can’t breathe.

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    Ryland Grace and Colt Seavers have managed to move past the abusive tragedy of their upbringing. Despite all of it, they've found stability in each other, and are as close as a pair can be.

    But what happens when Ryland suddenly disappears?

    Colt must put everything he has on the line to save the only family he has left, and he's quickly running out of time. He's determined to bring his brother back home, even if it might be the end of him.

    ...And he's not the only one looking.

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    30 Aug 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Brutal violence with the sweetest comfort. 10/10

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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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    27 Aug 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 76

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    Human biology is, at best, fascinating and, at worst, downright horrifying. Rocky comes to discover one of his least favourite quirks of the human body; its ability to make sounds without the permission of its owner.

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    22 Aug 2026

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    Rocky clicks nervously, swaying and tapping the ground in a tight rhythm. He stands next to the xenonite barrier overlooking Grace's medical area, but most of his attention is across the lobby, on the space elevator door and its approaching platform.

    When the door opens Adrian explodes into the room; Rocky's name and every nickname they've ever given him repeating and overlapping within their desperate song.

    Rocky hesitates for a single hearts-beat before barrelling toward them, warbling broken notes as his vents catch and strain.

    The two crash hard and loud. Several scientists and doctors jump then click at them to check they haven't cracked their carapaces.

    Rocky and Adrian cling to each other, deaf to the world as they entwine limbs and rasp claws over one another. They twitter, exchanging frantic messages of love and longing, trilling out relief painful and raw.

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    06 Aug 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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    04 Aug 2026

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    After four years of space travel, Grace and Rocky are finally approaching Erid. Grace has been working hard to learn Eridian, but two days out, disaster strikes - his keyboard is broken and Rocky is hurt.

    Luckily, Grace can speak some very basic Eridian with his single set of vocal cords. Unfortunately, he sounds like a newly hatched baby Eridian when he does.

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    30 Jul 2026

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    Mica handled a lot of unpredictable situations in their job as an emergency hatchling guardian. It came with the territory – there were all kinds of reasons a pebble too young to be alone might need watching by someone who wasn’t a cluster member. But Mica had never had a situation like the call they received from the space science cluster.

    “Engineer Rocky is on that ship, apparently injured, and he’s brought back some kind of alien with him. It’s very young, only IIVI years old, it doesn’t have any of its own kind, but it learned some Eridian from Engineer Rocky. Can you come and watch it while Engineer Rocky recovers and we work out what it needs?”

    or, Grace gets babysat by an Eridian.

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    30 Jul 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 31

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    Lami is ten years old when Cora hears about his brother going to the Grand Line. She’s busy slurping down her porridge, and doesn’t at first realize what it means, other than Cora being really still and quiet and not in the way he gets when teaching her to be a sniper.

    “If he’s going closer to Marineford, that means Grandpa Senny and Uncle Garp can beat him up,” Lami figures. It makes Cora snort, slumping back in his chair, and she grins, glad to have cheered him up a little.

    “It means,” her guardian says slowly, “That you and I can go back to the North Blue.”

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    29 Jul 2026

  15. Rec 48

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    Why you so surprised, question?” Rocky asks. “How long do humans live, question?"

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    29 Jul 2026

  16. Rec 53

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    As dementia begins to set in, an older Ryland Grace films a message for Rocky.

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    27 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Ah yes, the pain sauce

  17. Rec 48

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    One of the first stories Sabo hears in the Grey Terminal is about the Terror. According to the old beggars gathered around their campfires and willing to indulge a little boy too curious for his own good, the beast isn’t all that large, but wicked fast, and deadly with spine and claw.

    After a couple of weeks spent sleeping in a nest of trash some three miles or so from the Great Gate, Sabo gets a real look at the Terror.

    It’s... small.

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    24 Jul 2026

  18. Rec 20

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    Whumpay 2026 Day 14: Shared Pain

    “Then I propose we hold a service on March 21st, 2033, exactly one year after they’ve all woken up. Realistically, within a full year they’ll have either found a solution and sent the Beetles home or realised there’s nothing to be found, and they’ll have…” The man speaking choked a little on his words. "They'll have seen the project through to its conclusion.”

    Exactly one year after the day Earth knew all the astronauts aboard the Hail Mary were to have awoken, Eva Stratt attends a memorial service.

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    23 Jul 2026

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    15 Jul 2026

  20. Rec 22

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    A series of voicemails to Ryland Grace from his old college buddy, Marissa.

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    16 Jul 2026

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