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    Grace is a teacher at heart and wants to help teach every Eridian student he can, despite the lack of class space. Luckily, when he and Rocky put their heads together, they come up with a great idea, turning Grace into an Eridian Bill Nye

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    16 Apr 2026

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    Completed ✅

    can’t let go of this yet. it’s just rly nice

  2. Public Bookmark 12

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    On their home planet, Eridians have an innate sense of magnetic north and their own position relative to it. Rocky says he has difficulty explaining it to a human, but he tries.

    “Because Rocky feels Erid, feels north and feels self, can feel where the home of Adrian is. Rocky can feel the path home.”

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    Ryland Grace is the first alien on Erid. He falls in love about it.

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    05 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 25

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    After a minorly life-threatening incident aboard the Hail Mary, Grace can't sleep. Rocky takes the opportunity to indulge their...less than scientific curiosity about their leaky human friend's body. Non-sexual intimacy abounds.

    How fragile this creature is, Rocky realizes. Its endoskeleton is so flimsy, and so far beneath the soft skin it should really be protecting. How easily injured. How malleable. How easily Rocky would be able to crush the tiny blood vessels (“capillaries”) near the surface, leaving marks that remain tender and sore and turn many colors (“bruises”). Humans etch things into their outer skin, sometimes, for decoration or religious reasons. They use tiny needles to embed colored pigments just below the surface, where it remains visible to other humans forever (“tattoos”). Rocky wonders if Grace has any tattoos. Rocky thinks about being embedded underneath Grace’s skin.

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    05 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 6

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    They're not gone.

    Not all of the humans.

    There has to be someone else out there, and he just hasn't found them yet.

    Maybe they're still alive somewhere.

     

    They're not gone.

    Not all of the Eridians.

    He has searched so many systems. He has called out into the dark so many times. And every time, the only answer has been silence.

    But maybe this time will be different. Maybe this time, he won't have to be alone anymore.

    Or: Grace is the last human alive. Earth didn't make it. Rocky is the last Eridian alive. Erid didn't make it.

    All they have is each other.

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    05 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 9

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    A collection of short fics focused on Grace and Rocky discussing the various similarities and differences between Erid and Earth, be it biological, cultural, or some other funky thing: if you befriend an alien you've got to get curious about the deets!

    Chapter 1: Animals
    Chapter 2: Introduction to history

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    04 Jun 2026