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  1. Public Bookmark 25

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    Update: Rocky is using pronouns now!

    And another update: He’s using the possessive pronoun ‘my’ and is constantly referring to me as his! Someone should send me to the airlock without the EVA suit because I’m so embarrassed with how much this is affecting me.

    Or, grace teaches rocky pronouns, and everything devolves from there

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    30 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 41

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    The slightly cold atmosphere of the ship feels like it’s been bumped up ten degrees, and Grace tugs at the collar of his shirt as he tries to flee the conversation, Rocky’s ball tumbling through the corridors behind him.

    “Graa-aa-aa-ce.”

    A deep, trembling sigh escapes Grace as he turns around and kneels in front of the xenonite ball to be eye to eye – figuratively – with his friend.

    “Look, Rocky. I appreciate your enthusiasm. I do. But think about what you’re asking, man. I can’t let you vivisect me, for fudge’s sake.”

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    Or, Rocky is interested in learning about the inner workings of the human body, and Grace lets himself be his lab experiment. To no one's surprise, this deeply intimate interaction takes a turn.

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    28 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 44

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    "Social conditioning, Rocky had realized with awe. (Or maybe brain damage. Or maybe some kind of sexual deviancy. Rocky would need to prod further about that.) Such utterly different ways to Eridians. How about that.
    And wretched lonely perverted strange Rocky, who had seen all of its crewmates die and had no ways to solve the problem alone, decided that it had been far enough away from Erid and other Eridians long enough. What’s another social construct broken? "

    Just because the interactions between species are understandable doesn't mean everything under the hood, so to speak, lines up one-to-one.

    Rocky learns about human society. And it would just like to know: what the actual fuck???

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    21 Jun 2026

  4. Rec *

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    After the Taumoeba leak, after I decided to die after all and turned my ship around to save Rocky, after Rocky's frantic calculations about food supplies, Taumoeba multiplication rates, and human caloric intake needs, after we realized that with some rationing and luck I would make it, but that we were headed toward the unknown territory of trying to rapid-prototype me a life support system and synthetic food supply on an inhospitable planet: after all of that, after everything, I shouldn't have been surprised that it only took a few months on board the Hail Mary for things to get weird.

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    10 Jun 2026

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    I Just know this is gonna be an all timer of a fic

  5. Public Bookmark 49

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    Mating hunts were something of a myth on Erid; a romanticized relic of their pre-civilized past. But Rocky should have noticed the signs that something was wrong before his instincts took over, with only one target: his best friend and sole companion on the Hail Mary, Ryland Grace.

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    06 Jun 2026