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  1. Public Bookmark 90

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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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  2. Public Bookmark 33

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    During the years-long trip to Erid, Grace sets about learning as much as he can about his new home.

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    18 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 47

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    The current assumption that all life in our universe exists within a habitable (or ‘Goldilocks’) zone betrays the limited perspective of prior researchers and will needlessly stifle future exploration and discovery in astrobiology. This thesis argues in favor of redefining ‘life’ and challenges the accepted notion that life requires water.

    The world demands Ryland Grace provide evidence of absence; in his dissertation, he invites it to do the same.

    Or: five times Ryland Grace fails to prove he’s alive, and one time he succeeds.

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    17 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 74

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    “Hey, bud,” I say softly. “I’m here, okay? I just want to help you.”

    Rocky’s vents rattle like a sigh. “I know.”

    “So what is it that you’re so upset to leave behind?”

    There’s another long, silent moment, stretching until I start to worry that I’ve finally done it: found the first-ever cultural or personal barrier between us that we can’t cross together. I’m long past the point of being able to pretend that Rocky doesn’t mean the world to me – more than the world, actually, literally. I don’t need to have all my memories back to know that the moment we were reunited after I turned back for him was the happiest I’ve ever been. So I just can’t stand the thought that he’s hurting in some part of himself I can’t reach. 

    Then Rocky says, “Am upset to leave bodies of crew,” and my heart stops.

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    Or: Grace and Rocky stumble together through an interplanetary anthropological exploration of funerals, grief, and meaning, trying to find a way to say goodbye to Rocky's crew.

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    “It’s different when I’m… looking at it. Thinking about it. Do I need to tell you again about the whole ‘taboo’ thing? I can go over it again.”

    “And I watch you. We are already several layers deep into taboo.”

    “I would be eating myself!”

    “Grace,” I can’t help but stamp a claw for emphasis. It needs to listen,”your body is already eating itself.”
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    Grace finds out that he can stomach the meburger.

    It’s not a happy moment!

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