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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    English only has one word for every type of love. Rocky thinks this is stupid, stupid, stupid.

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    29 Aug 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 46

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    Sometimes we do this; we dance around the thing that lives between and inside of us. It doesn't need explicit vocalization. We speak it constantly, in our every action. It is louder than his pumping heart.
    I understood what he meant when he laughed around a wince and said “You’re the only surgeon on this whole ship I’d trust, Rock.”
    I hummed.

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    Grace gets appendicitis on the way to Erid. Rocky fixes it.

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    24 Aug 2026

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    ACTUALLY so fucking good

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    18 Aug 2026

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    Very good stuff

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    I just wanted Grace and Rocky to watch Amok Time together.

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    14 Aug 2026

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    Peak Characterization

  5. Public Bookmark 93

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    “Hey, bud,” I say softly. “I’m here, okay? I just want to help you.”

    Rocky’s vents rattle like a sigh. “I know.”

    “So what is it that you’re so upset to leave behind?”

    There’s another long, silent moment, stretching until I start to worry that I’ve finally done it: found the first-ever cultural or personal barrier between us that we can’t cross together. I’m long past the point of being able to pretend that Rocky doesn’t mean the world to me – more than the world, actually, literally. I don’t need to have all my memories back to know that the moment we were reunited after I turned back for him was the happiest I’ve ever been. So I just can’t stand the thought that he’s hurting in some part of himself I can’t reach. 

    Then Rocky says, “Am upset to leave bodies of crew,” and my heart stops.

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    Or: Grace and Rocky stumble together through an interplanetary anthropological exploration of funerals, grief, and meaning, trying to find a way to say goodbye to Rocky's crew.

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    10 Aug 2026

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    AMAZING