TenderHolding



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    "Singing a courtship song to Grace while ey falls asleep has become part of their nightly ritual. It is different than singing with Adrian; when they sang to each other, their voices joined in harmony, and the song resonated with their mutual pleasure. But Grace is human. Ey has no concept of what the song means between Eridians, and no way of singing the song back to Rocky, even if ey wanted to. There is no harmony here, merely a one-way message of love that Grace is incapable of sending back.

    Still, a one-way message is better than none. And the way that Grace’s muscles relax during each night’s song, eir body limp and at ease, is a message in its own way."

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    Or, Grace is oblivious to Rocky's attempts to court him. Rocky is NOT oblivious to Grace's attempts to keep a secret.

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    26 Aug 2026

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    Simon’s breath caught in his chest. Even through the haze of pain and death, this man was . . . beautiful. Dirty blonde hair that stuck up every which way it wanted to, shocking blue eyes that felt like they could peer straight through his tainted soul, framed by the crinkles of smile lines, and speaking of, an excited smile, looking at Simon as if he wasn’t a murderer, a monster, someone worthy, maybe even deserving of being saved, of being in their presence. And his wings. The purest white that Simon had ever seen. No one had white wings, the only time he’d seen wings this white was in depictions of . . .

    Angels.

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    Fic inspiration from TikTok user: @purple_jellyfish222

    Wing AU where humans are pre-dated from birds. White winged humans quickly went extinct during the Quiet Rapture, and with a vast majority of humanities information on wildlife lost with Earth. So when Simon wakes from what should have been his death to see Ryland Grace, with the pure white wings of swans, he thinks he's met an angel.

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    24 Aug 2026

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    Sequel to When is a Seed Not a Seed.

    Art by Cait May <3

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    12 Aug 2026

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    Simon didn’t expect his savior to be exactly his type.

    What a welcome sight. Even if this stupidly handsome man ends up being evil, or working for the C.O.I, at least he’d die looking at something good.

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    Grace and Rocky find Simon's ship floating in deep space on their way to Erid.

    UPDATE: This fic has been peer reviewed by a NASA engineer who has approved of the science!

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    19 Jun 2026

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    When Grace gets seemingly teleported by means unknown into the SM-13 right as it was nearing The Light, both Simon and Grace have no idea what is happening. Grace knows he was supposed to be in his house on Erid, Simon knows this new guy cannot possibly be a hallucination, and Ava, upon hearing Grace ramble about theories for how he got there, knows that new guy is Smart. Could-Secure-Our-Survival Smart.
    She orders Simon to bring Grace back to the surface, and thus begins Grace's ordeal in a starless universe.

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    16 Jun 2026