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  1. Public Bookmark 45

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    "And so, with a knock/I emptied my cage/To hide in the world/And alter with age."

    Dr. Ryland Grace is frantically attempting to patch a leak on the pressure-seal of his airlock when he wakes up gasping in the familiar and ancient cargo-hold-turned-bunk-room that he slept in for the years he was on Stratt's Vat.

    (a time travel AU in which Grace thinks he's dreaming and everyone else thinks that Stratt's boytoy has finally lost it.)

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    26 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 26

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    When porcupinesarentreal said, "In a universe where Grace goes back to earth, he would absolutely kill it on Sesame Street."

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    Back on Earth, Ryland Grace discovers that surviving the impossible does not automatically tell you what to do with the life you got back.

    Then Sesame Street invites him on to explain buoyancy to Elmo, Big Bird, and Cookie Monster.

    What starts as a simple science segment turns into something gentler and stranger: a lesson about floating, about being held up, and about the quiet ways a person can begin to find their place again.

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    26 Mar 2026

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    Hello Earth - Ryland Grace here. Remember me? I’m sure hoping you do.

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    25 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 56

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    “Grace,” she says gently. “You should really play it.”

    I don’t take my eyes off the light. “Are…are we sure it’s real?” I whisper.

    She barks out her boisterous laugh. “I am absolutely the wrong person to ask,” she says.

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    When Grace goes back for Rocky, all he finds is a dead and silent ship. Being the only one left to bring Taumoeba to Erid, he decides to brave the long trip alone. He's not the same man when he arrives at Erid, but an unexpected friendship might bring him back to sanity.

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    23 Mar 2026

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    Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
    Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
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    It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.

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    23 Mar 2026