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    “Is the alien…dangerous?” he asks slowly.

    “No! No, no he’s my friend, he’s - uh, well, the engineer of the Hail Mary,” says Grace. “Look, I’m just saying that - he’s gonna wake up soon, and we don’t need to tell him about how our first meeting went. We can gloss over the whole ‘tackle me to the ground and scare the daylights out of me’ thing. I won’t tell if you won’t.”

    Simon is 90% sure this is going to come back to bite him in the form of blackmail but he nods anyways, because it sure as hell sounds like Grace is implying Simon will be allowed to stay a while longer.

     

    Rocky sleeps through the absolute shitshow that is Simon and Grace’s first meeting. It’s probably for the best.
    Despite it all, it will be the start of beautiful friendship.

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    27 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 76

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    Simon woke up.
    He was surprised to be in the same room again. Surprised the too clean room and the too kind man and the freaky alien weren’t a trick made by the eel. Surprised that they hadn’t started demanding payment for saving him yet. There was always a price to pay.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    Oh my god so sad but so good

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    31 May 2026

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    I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.

    Right up until Rocky asks another question.

    “When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”

    Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”

    Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.

    “Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”

    I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.

    “When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”

    I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.

    “Grace. When last time, question.”

    I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.

    “Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”

    I can taste grass.

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    AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.

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    12 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 55

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    There’s no way that I can watch him sleep the whole time.

    I try anyway.

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    10 Apr 2026

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    The longer Simon spends with Ryland Grace and Rocky, the more he realizes they're genuinely good people (or rock-spider-crab things)... and the more convinced he becomes that he doesn't belong with them in the slightest.

    (Or: A criminal, a science teacher, and a rock walk into a spaceship.

    This is a continuation of "The People We Meet at the End of the World", which you may need to read first for context.)

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    09 Apr 2026

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    It's something of an unspoken commandment that when you hear the SOS beacon, you respond, no matter what. Grace knows this. He knows that it might jeopardize the mission, but he can't leave someone in danger. He can't.

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    Through a bunch of coincidences and the author pulling many worldbuilding strings, the Hail Mary picks up a faint distress signal and goes to investigate. When it does, what should it find but an ocean of blood on a tiny moon drifting in a starless void.

     

    the #evolution AU on my Tumblr page (which is mentioned in my profile)

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    08 Apr 2026

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    Petulantly, Rocky says, “Grace sound stupid. Like child.”

    “I’m just talking how you talk, buddy.”

    “Yes. This is because I talk like child, to speak to stupid human.”

    “Well, you don’t have to do that,” I say without thinking.

    “♪♫♩as this♪ when, underst♪♪♫d ♪me, question?” Rocky says.

    “What?”

    “Can♪♪♫will understa♫d it ♫think talks♫♪ as this♪ Eridian you♩♫, question?”

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    07 Apr 2026

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    He stared up at the person above him. No. Not person. The angel above him, lit with stunning white light, brighter than Simon had seen in years, with clean blond hair, the only spot on his entire form the blood on his hands from touching Simon.

    "Is alive!" The mechanical voice chirped the words from beyond Simon's line of sight; all he could see was the brightly lit angel standing above him.

    "Oh god," the angel whispered, "oh god oh god oh god...."

    OR: Simon from Iron Lung somehow wakes up on The Hail Mary

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    07 Apr 2026

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    Sometimes impossibility is finding life outside of earth. And sometimes it's two men and a rock talking across time while the possibility of death lingers

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    05 Apr 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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    26 Mar 2026

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    “What are you talking about?” Grace's fingers played quick chords as he spoke. He didn’t even look as he did it, but it did not make them any less purposeful.

    “Discussing possible reasons why Tau Ceti is not infected while other stars are,” Eva replied deftly. “I would invite you to join, but we were just finishing—”

    “Oh, that’s easy.” His hand twisted a knob, and the notes came out sharper. “It is infected—Petrova Line and everything.”

    In Grace's opinion, dreaming about time traveling is no excuse for getting out of practice with his Eridian. To the rest of the Petrova Taskforce, it seems a bit odd that their resident Astrophage expert has suddenly taken to carrying a keyboard around and playing it whenever he speaks. Eva Stratt resolves to figure out what is going on.

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    25 Mar 2026

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    Brave, self-sacrificing, heroic.  

    These are words Rocky might associate with the human he befriended.  

    Heck, these are words I associated with myself up until a few months ago.   

    And we’d have been right…if it weren’t for the facts.  

    You know, those pesky things that get in the way of misconceptions and assumptions? 

    Yeah, those.  

    How exactly are you supposed to explain that to your best friend who thinks the galaxy of you?

    A Missing Scene

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    25 Mar 2026

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    “I just think it’s kind of a messed-up thing to do to a baby,” I said.

     

    AKA: the one with time travel. When the opportunity arises, Rocky and Ryland can't turn down the chance to save Rocky's crew.

    It all kind of spirals from there.

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    25 Mar 2026

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    After giving up Grogu, Din's plan was to drift listlessly through space, be sad forever, and bounty hunt until he dropped. He was not going to be Mand'alor.

    Well, the Darksaber has thoughts on that. It has many, many thoughts.

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    25 Mar 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 11

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    Sequel Series to We Could Get Better.

    The Moon Knight system is learning how to live a better life.

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    25 Mar 2026

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    Ryland Grace was, at long last, adapting on Erid—even thriving—until he wasn’t. There came a tipping point when it became clear to the Eridians that it was time to send him back home to Earth.

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    23 Mar 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 16

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    "Grace wasn’t a young man anymore. He wasn’t as strong. He wasn’t going to survive much longer on Erid, certainly not without a lot of difficulty. This was one last shot, one last chance at letting him live a little longer in comfort. A second Hail Mary, Grace had called it."

    Grace and Rocky leave Erid so that Grace can return to Earth one last time. Based on a Tumblr post I can't find anymore but I'll link it when I do.

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    09 Mar 2026

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    Hob Gadling is recently divorced and not in a good mental place when Dream walks into the New Inn over thirty years late for their appointment.

    So, instead of warmly welcoming Dream, Hob decides to finally give him a piece of his mind. As far as he's concerned, it's Dream's turn to be the good friend if he wants Hob back in his life.

    He was not expecting Dream to take him up on that challenge.

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    08 Mar 2026

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    Hob writes a play. (Calliope helps, a little.) Then Dream shows up and his entire theatre company is immediately like HEY, WAIT A SEC -

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    08 Mar 2026

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