Aphrobiteme



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    A knee injury ends Shane Hollander's nineteen-year NHL career.

    Ilya Rozanov keeps checking in.

    Shane pencils in "big gay midlife crisis" between physiotherapy sessions.

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    09 Sep 2026

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    Hearing the waver in his voice makes Ryland’s own eyes sting. Christ. He loves this man so much. “Yeah. We’re going to be fine. And I’ll go back to teaching, and you’ll be an aerospace engineer, like you always wanted. No matter what happens, it’s you and I, together.”

    Simon’s face pinches. Tears splash on his cheeks, and Ryland smiles and gently wipes them away with his thumb.

    “I really want to believe that,” he chokes.

    “Believe it when it happens,” Ryland whispers. “And until then, I’ll believe it enough for both of us.”

    Simon Hyun, the back-up pilot for the Hail Mary, dies three days before the ship is set to launch in an unfortunate on-site explosion. Years later, a strange, mutated human known only as Simon washes up on Erid's shores, covered in blood.

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    14 Aug 2026

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    (wake up your saints, ryland, i need them)

    In which Ryland Grace makes it his mission to rescue the broken, bloody man he and Rocky found drifting among the stars. (He just doesn't realize that this broken, bloody man is going to rescue him too.)

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    14 Aug 2026

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    "There's no need to negotiate for your safety, Doctor Grace," Stratt says sternly. "I can assure you, after saving the world, you will be looked after."

    "Um, no," he says, shaking his head. "I'm not negotiating for my safety." He steps aside. “I’m negotiating for theirs.”

    They walk into the light of the open doorway; Simon, squinting hard against the vivid sun with his hand raised to shield his eyes and Rocky, who chirps a casual "Hello, humans!" with a wave.

    There’s a gasp; someone takes a step backward; one of the military personnel raises their rifle slightly.

    Grace doesn’t have eyes for them - he only looks at Stratt.

    And he decides, then and there, to replace the image of Stratt’s face sending him to his death, full of remorse and sadness, with the one in front of him: utter, complete disbelief.

    Grace thinks he'll treasure it forever.

    or: rocky, grace and simon go to earth instead of erid

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    30 Jul 2026

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    Two weeks after the disaster of a conference that was meant to be his academic victory run and the successful start of the rest of his life as a molecular biologist, Ryland Grace escapes to one of Washington’s state parks. Hiding away in his twin brother’s cabin, Ryland has to come to terms with the fact that the life he worked so hard for had slipped right through his fingers because his ego had been larger than his logical brain, and now he’s haunted by a community of scientists and online enthusiasts yearning to run what little is left of his dignity into the ground.

    But as a hike, one fuelled mostly by spite because obviously he didn’t learn his lesson just yet, goes south, he’s forced to call the rangers for help. And because life hates him, the ranger who told him not to wander into the woods is the one to take his call.

    Something about ranger Simon’s disapproving and definitely disappointed look cuts deeper than he anticipated.

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    30 Jul 2026