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    Don Quixote knows that God cannot save ones designated as Sinners, but... come on, haven't they been through enough?!

    Featuring a completely reliable narrator, the knight-fixer Don Quixote, and maybe some other narrators, too.

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    Teruki might need a bit of help in this whole "becoming a completely average and normal commoner who also coincidentally has psychic powers that in no way influence life or place in the vast universe".

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  1. Public Bookmark 62

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    “Lie.”

    “It’s not a lie! I really really don't want to die.”

    Rocky rams his fists into the floor. “Then why Grace ♬♫♩♪♬ twice, question?” 

    A tale of discordant sleep schedules, concordant trauma, and entirely too much Glee.

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    26 Jun 2026

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    grace i've been reading the dsm5

    Or: grace's sleeping patterns are a bit discombobulated. rocky attempts understanding.

  2. Public Bookmark 72

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    "Come on, show me your masterpiece," Grace said, feeling helplessly charmed. "What's it about?"

    "Is proposal," Rocky said.

    "Oh yeah?" Grace smiled. He stretched his arms up, reaching until his spine popped. Maybe taking a break from his experiments was the right call after all. "Sounds exciting. What are you proposing?"

    "Propose Grace Rocky get married," Rocky said.

    Grace twitched violently, fell sideways off the viewing platform, and banged his elbow hard into DGCR screen six.

     

    Rocky and Grace watch a movie and talk about their friendship. Also they love each other to the ends of the infinite, expanding universe.

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    25 Jun 2026

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    let's! get! married!

    Or: and what does THAT entail, rocky?!

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    "It comes naturally to you. In Eridanese, we are typically very literal. Figurative speech is reserved for art or profanity, so it doesn't come naturally to most of us."

    Huh. That's interesting. Rocky never had much trouble understanding me. Maybe he has a poetic soul. Or maybe he swears like a sailor. Probably the latter.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    IVE BEEN CALLING MYSELF A DUMBASS SHIT FOR BRAINS

    Or: an eridian comes to talk about figurative language

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    I very carefully set the gun near the xenonite barrier. “Need a word. Fast moving projectile launcher. This is an object that can make small objects go very fast.”

    Rocky gets close to the barrier and seems to be inspecting it with his sonar. “Unfamiliar with concept. How fast can objects move with launcher, question?”

    “An object is made for the launcher. Cannot be any object. We call objects ‘bullets.’ We call launcher ‘gun.’ It uses gunpowder to make a small explosion, which is powder made from sulfur, potassium nitrate, and charcoal- Carbon. In high oxygen environments this creates a small explosion that propels the bullet forward at 100 meters a second.”

    Rocky scurries back. I would too, but I have the business end facing away from me and the xenonite barrier. “Are objects in this launcher, question?”

    “Yes, I do not know how to take them out.” I point to the end of the gun that houses the bullets. “In Earth’s atmosphere, they would be safe to remove. But in a high oxygen environment like the Hail Mary, I’m afraid of causing a spark that would make the bullets fire anyway.”
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    Grace finds Yáo’s gun.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    rocky i need you to take the gun and fckin destroy it

    Or: grace finds yao's suicide method

  5. Public Bookmark 97

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    “Good morning Grace. Sleep well, question?”

    “No,” he says, which is how he usually answers that question these days. “New symptom, maybe. I might be forgetting stuff.”

    Rocky trills in concern. “Yes, you said that yesterday.”

    (Malnutrition has a lot of symptoms. One of them is memory loss. Grace is not doing great.)

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    22 Jun 2026

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    the next day he decides to start a journal

    Or: grace is starving on the way to erid, and his mental facilities get a bit tangled in the process