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    ABSTRACT: Months into their journey to Erid, Grace decides to pass the time and distract his wandering mind by writing a scientific paper. Considering his track record, it’s safe to say that absolutely nothing can go wrong with that.

    KEYWORDS: Astrophage, kindness, memory, space exploration, cooperative breeding, grief, friendship

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    03 Sep 2026

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    “Adrian will understand,” Rocky says confidently. “Will be excited to meet alien. Will be excited to meet person who brought me home.”

    “Yeah, and I'm excited to meet them too, but after that!” Is this a translation error? A cultural miscommunication? How is Rocky not getting it? “You're partners. They're not going to want some alien around while you're, like… going on dates and all that.”

    “Does not mean no time for Grace.” Rocky’s starting to sound frustrated. Part of me feels bad, but the rest is just as frustrated. “Why think this, question? On Earth, just abandon friends when have mate, question?”

    It's so clearly a rhetorical question, to which the answer is obviously supposed to be no, of course not. I freeze up anyway.

    or: rocky HATE amatonormativity

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    31 Aug 2026

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    Ryland Grace wakes up in space... and he's not alone.

    All three members of the Hail Mary wake up en route to the Tau Ceti system. One of them doesn't know who he is. All the answers they need are here for them to find, deep in interstellar space. They just don't know it yet.

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    31 Aug 2026

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    “How far did he get?”

    “Almost touched the fence,” Carl says.

    “He was motivated,” Eva murmurs distantly. She is suddenly very tired.

    “Past tense already?”

    Eva flinches, feeling slapped in the face. No more coffees brought to her right as she starts to lag in the afternoon, no more bags of obnoxiously-colored candies hidden away in her pocket to slip to him, lest the vultures in the engineering department claim them all. No more staring at reports while he spins his chair around and talks about nothing, his voice soothing white noise to her after three years of hearing it practically nonstop. No more beers shared after a long day’s work, a brief respite before beginning another grueling day the next morning. It is all past tense now.

    (eva stratt has just kidnapped her second-in-command. eva stratt has just lost her closest friend.)

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    27 Aug 2026

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    Ryland Grace wakes up in a lifepod floating on an endless ocean, the sole survivor of a spaceship crash. With no rescue on its way, the only way he's getting home is by staying alive on a planet crawling with titanic predators and ancient secrets- and with the help of another survivor, a peculiar little alien who's just as far from home as he is.

    (the subnautica au)

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    27 Aug 2026