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    "I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, go back to sleep. When you need to worry, I'll tell you."

    "Heh." Ryland ran his hand down his face. "It's terrible you know that it actually makes me feel better. What would I do without you?"

    "Explode at a colleague at a conference and get expelled from academia and become a middle school teacher." Eva said, promptly.

    "Wow, you've thought about that way too hard." Ryland laughed. "Middle schoolers might not vape in class, though. Maybe I should switch."

    "Let's not joke."

     

    or: fourteen conversations where ryland grace doesn’t realize eva stratt is a time traveller

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    02 Jul 2026

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    Description: SCP-90306 is a classroom located on the second floor of ██████ █████████ ██████ ██████ in ███ █████████, California. The room measures 9.1 m × 9.8 m (30 ft × 32 ft), with a total floor area of 89.2 m² (960 ft²). School records indicate that the last educator assigned to SCP-90306 prior to its first recorded anomalous manifestation was Dr. ██████ █████, who ceased employment at the institution on ██/██/████.

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    28 Jun 2026

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    Afterwards Rocky reassured me that it is pretty common for pebbles to earn their first nicks and cracks at that age. Their outer shell isn’t fully developed yet and not quite as hard as that of an adult. He proudly showed me various indents and hairline fractures on his own body, telling me about how he got them in his youth during adventures with his friends or just messing around.

    It’s a sign of growth, he told me. A sign of getting older and maturing.

    Not a big deal. Happens all the time.

    I believe him. Tori was in good spirits afterwards. Their crying was more because of the shock and the scare, not any actual pain. We finished the rest of the day without any further incidents and then I wished them all a happy holiday and returned to my home and got into bed.

    Where I stayed for the next eighteen hours.

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    There is an accident in the classroom. Everyone tells Grace that it's not a big deal.
    But then why can't he stop thinking about it?

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    20 Jun 2026

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    A group of mischievous Pebbles decide to frighten their younger siblings with a scary story about their squishy, lanky, alien teacher: Grace.

    Unfortunately, an anti-human conspiracy group catches wind of the tale.

     

    Or: Grace accidentally becomes an urban legend.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    Someone has been gifting Grace jewelry, and Rocky is okay with it. Super okay with it. The okayest, even. For real.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    The Anthropocene extinction event (AEE), often called the Astrophage extinction event[2] or end-Anthropocene extinction, is an ongoing mass-extinction event caused by the absorption of electromagnetic radiation by the extraterrestrial microbe Astrophage.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    “Sleep. I watch,” he warbles from his post at the door. The first thing he’s said to me in hours. We haven’t talked about anything yet, aside from his pushing to prove I wasn’t hiding more contraband. I scowl at him.

    “Don’t want to.” I feel like one of my kids with the level of petulance that seeps into my voice. I miss my kids. I miss having a place. I have a place here, I need to accept it’s just… Different. Still, I’m not gonna listen to Rocky right now.

    Rocky grumbles at me. “Scientists say Grace hasn’t slept in 32.6 hours.” Jeez, has it really been that long? I don’t think I’ve had an all-nighter that bad since college. “Cognitive impairment begins after only 24. Bad decisions, dangerous thoughts like you mention. Why you are sick.”

    “You left me.” I didn’t mean to say that. Too late.

    or Grace is having a hard time adjusting to life on Erid, and it only gets worse when Rocky disappears. They work it out.

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    12 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace is a vampire. What is he to do when he's shipped off to a boat in the middle of nowhere?

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    04 Jun 2026

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    When you look at Dr. Grace, you'll notice a few things.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    Oh my GOD

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    "Mild sedation will be beneficial to avoid further damage.” Mary says, cool as a cucumber. Right. That sounds good. Great, even.

    And there was a needle coming towards me.

    Wait."
    ...

    Grace has made peace with not going home. Grace has made peace with his choice, and he would choose Rocky every time. Grace has not made peace with what happened to him before he left.

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    31 May 2026

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    'Rocky, do you remember the expected, average human lifespan?'

    I ask it conversationally but Rocky freezes in place all the same.

    'No,' he states.

    'No?'

    'Yes, Rocky remembers. No, do not want to talk about this.'

    I lean back and fold my arms.

    'Rock…'

    'Grace. No. Bad bad bad.'


    Dr Ryland Grace is an old man. Dr Ryland Grace knows what he wants to happen when the time comes. Rocky doesn't want to talk about it.

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    28 May 2026

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    The capsule touches down on Erid about a decade and a half after I do.

    There's a message inside translated into fourteen different languages. Y'know, just in case I've taught myself - and then the Eridians - Afrikaans.

    Hey, it reads. Can we have our ball back, please?

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    28 May 2026

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    “Rocky not explain question?” asked Adrian slowly.
    “Busy,” said Rocky, sheepish.
    “Had four years on ship.”
    “Busy then too.”
    Adrian skittered back and forth, which I think equated to a human throwing both hands up in exasperation. “With what question?”
    “Science!”
    “Whole time science question? Four years!”
    “Is much science in universe!”

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    Rocky has neglected to explain some very important cultural context to Grace.

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    27 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    GOD i wish i was him

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    My head lifted from where it had been sitting in my hands. My hands didn’t feel real anymore. I stared at the box in front of me. Before I could protest, my shaking limbs dragged my weary body to it, grabbing the small firearm. It was heavier than I anticipated. It was almost unassuming.

    Grace is not doing well. Thank God he has Rocky.

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    24 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Aw man

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    “Um, hello.” Rocky lifts a hand slowly. The rock spider chitters and attempts to lift one back. But it’s tangled in wire, and the force that the alien uses to tug it free sends his body reeling backwards and thumping against the side of the tunnel. Rocky tries to keep a straight face.

    “I’ll call you Grace,” he says. “Clearly you have plenty of it.”

    ...

    Rocky wakes up in the Tau Ceti system, with his commander and science specialist dead. How's he supposed to save Earth?

    Befriend the alien scientist he runs into, of course.

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    24 May 2026

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    In this BBC documentary special, Philomena Cunk travels to the planet Erid to pose the questions no one else would even think to ask.

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    24 May 2026

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    Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
    Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
    🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5

    It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.

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    24 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    yeah theres really no doubt that this is the most popular PHM fic for a reason

    i love love love when people use CSS/HTML elements in their fics so badly

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    It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.

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    23 May 2026

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    Grace didn't have much of anything these days. Less appetite, less strength, less of whatever it was that made a person reach for a disgusting coma food slurry bag and drink it down because it was necessary to live and do it all over again tomorrow because tomorrow existed and had things in it worth being alive for.

    Or - Grace's mental health deteriorates on the journey to Erid.

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    23 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    its barely been a day since i first watched phm and ive already indulged in my angst addiction this aint FAIR man!!

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    The Ryland Grace Memorial Diner sat between a construction site and a cluster of small apartments on the recovering streets of San Francisco.

    It was founded in 1972, renamed in 2051, and in 2053, a statue of a schoolteacher was erected within its walls. Now, it attracted tourists and students alike, bright eyes and eager minds all competing for a view of Earth’s most beloved man in man’s most beloved habitat.

    Or: A look at the people of the San Fran diner Grace goes to every morning for breakfast in the book.

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    23 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    its a little funny that my 200th bookmark is gonna be the first of a new fandom, cause i just watched+read phm yesterday, and im hooked.

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