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  1. Public Bookmark 7

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    Dr Ryland Grace’s sleep schedule is brutally disrupted when his new upstairs neighbour moves in and just won't stop banging. Banging the drums, that is.
    Unfortunately, Grace has a particular tendency for unleashing scathing, witty insults– the kind that falsely imply that he thought before he spoke– upon those who irritate him.

     

    His neighbour, Simon, needed to practice unendingly or else his band would find a new drummer before he could shout “butiwroteallthedamnsongs”– and he wasn’t about to let his asshole neighbour’s beauty sleep stop him.

     
    Or: Simon wants to drum. Grace wants to sleep. Rocky wants them to stop fighting and kiss already.

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    02 Aug 2026

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    Left off chap 2

  2. Public Bookmark 83

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    Simon is newly graduated on the government's dime, recovering mentally and physically from the Navy submarine accident that took his arm and scarred his face, and equal parts excited and nervous for his first year teaching. Somehow, after everything he's done, he gets to be the one kids ask questions and trust to give the right answer. The paycheck and sense of purpose more than make up for how alone he is.

    Ryland Grace has two best friends who love and care for him, the job of his dreams, a boss he loves, and a suspiciously high paycheck for a middle school science teacher. So why is he still so lonely?

    A tour of the building, matching scars, and a fragile comraderie, and suddenly their lives are far more intertwined than either is fully comfortable with.

    Their friends and colleagues are almost as invested in their budding relationship as the nerdy middle schoolers are in shipping their favorite teachers.

    These oblivious idiots might need a little push in the right direction

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    08 Aug 2026

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    Left off chap 8

  3. Public Bookmark *

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    Ilyukhina wakes up light years away from her home, from her promised path to a heroic, honourable end. A hundred thousand miles from all the people she left behind. Her induced coma went on too long, and now she's missed all the action, all the decisions, and opened her eyes to an epilogue to a story that should've been hers too, because why else did she leave? To go home, is the wish in her heart, with the only friend she has left.

    Grace chose to come home, light years away from the porch where he'd throw his bag after school. A hundred thousand miles, and not a single regret, except now there is somebody who's home isn't here. To stay, is the wish in his heart, with the only part of the porch that he'd ever care to keep around.

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    Ilyukhina wakes up half a year after Grace is settled on Erid.

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    07 Aug 2026

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    Left off chap 5

  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    Only a few years after the Hail Mary's launch, Eva Stratt is on the run from the very governments she was once allied with. Far in the North, she comes across something in the frigid sea. Half frozen and drenched in blood.
    Ava was supposed to die when the monster in AT-5 destroyed her submarine. Yet, she is still breathing.

    Light years away, Ryland Grace and Rocky are returning to Erid, when they come across a strange vessel floating in the void of space. Upon opening what is essentially a rusted can, they find another human. Somehow, there is a human out in space with no arm and strange mutations that have no clear cause.
    Simon was supposed to die when the monster in AT-5 destroyed his submarine. Yet, he is still breathing.

    Even if barely.

    Inspired by @mellosdrawings on Tumblr!!!
    This post specifically vvv
    https://www.tumblr.com/mellosdrawings/819322795725078528/dont-ask-me-where-im-going-with-this-thats-the
    Annddd
    @sketchy-scribs-n-doods also on Tumblr
    https://www.tumblr.com/sketchy-scribs-n-doods/815018861749534720/a-week-after-eva-stratt-retrieves-the-answer-to

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    02 Aug 2026

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    Left off chap 5

  5. Public Bookmark 11

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    He shifted on his feet slightly, taking in the sight of Simon standing up against the wall. His shoulders hunched up like he was ready to start swinging at any moment, though…

    That look in his eyes made something heavy settle in his chest.

    He looked…terrified.

    “Alright, Simon…If I walk over there to make sure you didn’t pull any of the stitches on your arm, will you not try to choke me again?”, Ryland asked as he made sure to speak in that soft voice he always used with his students whenever they’d gotten injured.

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    31 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Left off chap 1