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  1. Public Bookmark 58

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    I dramatically swing my head around to look down the galley, between the island and the sink and cabinets on the wall.

    Nary a pebble in sight.

    Hm.

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    Ryland is watching one pebble while the rest of the family is away.

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    12 Aug 2026

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    Rocky has some thoughts about the strange, alien habits of his human friend, Grace.

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    10 Aug 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 65

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    "Social conditioning, Rocky had realized with awe. (Or maybe brain damage. Or maybe some kind of sexual deviancy. Rocky would need to prod further about that.) Such utterly different ways to Eridians. How about that.
    And wretched lonely perverted strange Rocky, who had seen all of its crewmates die and had no ways to solve the problem alone, decided that it had been far enough away from Erid and other Eridians long enough. What’s another social construct broken? "

    Just because the interactions between species are understandable doesn't mean everything under the hood, so to speak, lines up one-to-one.

    Rocky learns about human society. And it would just like to know: what the actual fuck???

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    09 Aug 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 82

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    Inspired by a tumblr post by @goldenaltar about a no astrophage/space diplomacy AU I literally could NOT stop thinking about since I first read it.

    The first collaboration between eridians and humans involves planning for a proper first contact, out in space so their respective interstellar trip times are cut (approximately) in half. Grace was conscripted for ‘Project Neighborhood’ as one of many biologists on the team. He sneaks out to the tunnel connecting their ships after hours to try and catch a glimpse of a Real Life Alien - and there's an eridian on the other side who has the exact same idea.

    When their sneaking around catches up to them, they're forced to consider the implications of all this sneaking around, and maybe lean into them a little to keep from being thrown out the nearest airlock - or starting an intergalactic war.

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    08 Aug 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 41

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    Just when Ryland Grace thought things couldn’t get any worse, they do. He’s in the hospital on the verge of death, suppressed memories of a religion he barely remembers are filling him with guilt, Adrian refuses to see him as a person, and he’s just not seeing a good future ahead. But Rocky wants him alive, and who is Grace to refuse him? And as a biologist, who is Grace to refuse to be the perfect specimen for Adrian?

    Or, Grace is depressed, Adrian is trying to pretend he’s not a person, and Rocky’s about to solve the problem by fucking. Most of this is going to be neither OSHA approved nor ethical by any stretch of the imagination.

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    07 Aug 2026