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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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    24 Jul 2026

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    Man.... it just gets better and better sentence after sentence if was of this damn fic. It does the genre SO much justice. So well written so insightful so detailed... a must must MUST read!!!!! Finished chapter 17

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    Years pass. People grow. The world moves on without you. The Angel grew content with that for a while. It still hurt whenever they thought of the world that had long banished them, but something new pulled them out of the depths. Now, the Angel walks amongst friends who swear that they will not be banished. Kris, Susie, and Ralsei mean everything to them. Maybe this time, their banishment doesn't have to be as set in stone as they thought.

    The Roaring comes. The light falters. Everyone falls.

    A desperate connection is established in an attempt to save what remains of the Angel. If they fall, all hope will be lost. The world that banished the Angel long ago has forgotten them, but they have not forgotten it. This connection will have to be enough. Even if the rules have changed irrevocably, the Angel's one goal remains the same: Find them.

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    29 Oct 2025

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    Up to date now yayyy! Finished chapter 46

    This series of fics is just delightful if more on the angst/hope side of things... It really makes me wonder where in the WORLD could this go???? Long as hell but EVERY WORD is worth it y'all you have to believe me

  3. Rec 14

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    Ryland Grace does not have a good track record when it comes to love. He figures it's all a big joke that everyone is in on except him.

    Rocky knows better. He knows that there are more types of love than there are stars in the sky. But after a lifetime of failed relationships and bad romcoms, Grace remains skeptical, unless he can learn to come to terms with who he was and who he became.

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    17 Aug 2026

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    “Need word,” Rocky says in baby-talk Eridian for me. The translator dutifully repeats “need word” in English a second later.

    After fifteen minutes of bewildering back and forth between the three of us, we determine the word he needs is “declension.”

    A year into the journey to Erid, Grace faces down his most formidable academic gauntlet since astrophage: the five-part polyphonic Eridian language. It’s only fair after Rocky mastered English, human mannerisms, Grace mannerisms- without so much as one complaint. And if learning Eridian might temper some of Grace’s desperate, near-complete dependence on Rocky in the future… well. That’s his own business.

    Eridian breaks Grace’s brain, heart, and soul- and puts it back together.

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    01 Aug 2026

  5. Rec 47

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    A two-column poem, Stratt and Grace's perspectives of his last moments on Earth.

    yes, i relive that day when i close my eyes. // i can't do it
    you cried // you're murdering me
    and i condemned // a sacrificial lamb
    with clear-eyed cruelty // to the slaughter

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    30 Jul 2026