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    It's going to be a long trip back to Erid. I'm trying to make it as easy on Rocky as I can.

    (Or: Grace is wrong about what Eridians need, and he's especially wrong about why. )

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    08 May 2026

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    “Humans will pack bond with anything, y’know,” I say. “It’s actually kind of embarrassing.”
    “Everything human Grace does is embarrassing. Need definition.”
    “Pack bonding?”
    “Yes.”
    “Sharing affinity with and building collaborative relationships and even unbreakable bonds with other species or things. Human kids will humanize or anthropomorphize rocks and take them as pets, for example."
    “Grace.”

    Or: Punch drunk midnight conversations aboard the Hail Mary.

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    08 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 89

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    “Adrian will understand,” Rocky says confidently. “Will be excited to meet alien. Will be excited to meet person who brought me home.”

    “Yeah, and I'm excited to meet them too, but after that!” Is this a translation error? A cultural miscommunication? How is Rocky not getting it? “You're partners. They're not going to want some alien around while you're, like… going on dates and all that.”

    “Does not mean no time for Grace.” Rocky’s starting to sound frustrated. Part of me feels bad, but the rest is just as frustrated. “Why think this, question? On Earth, just abandon friends when have mate, question?”

    It's so clearly a rhetorical question, to which the answer is obviously supposed to be no, of course not. I freeze up anyway.

    or: rocky HATE amatonormativity

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    08 May 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 30

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    SPOILERS FOR PLATFORM DECAY.

    God hands you a bible one day on the torus that used to be the only thing you ever knew.

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    08 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 25

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    Rocky has been off since coming back to Erid. Not all that shocking, but Adrian would like their mate to stop putting himself down all the time

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    08 May 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 64

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    Earth sends an interstellar care package for one Ryland Grace. Grace cries about Earth, humanity, and the platonic ideal of tomatoes, in some order

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    08 May 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 43

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    Living with someone in quarters this tight inevitably means you end up showing more than you mean to.

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    08 May 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 13

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    Murderbot 2.0 gets an unexpected call from its favorite SecUnit. Too bad Three can never know who it's talking to.

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    07 May 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 18

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    There was a Tumblr post I saw that was poking holes in Murderbot’s whole "I don't eat food, I don't produce waste, I'm not human with human needs, yada yada yada” attitude. They theorized that Murderbot’s cubicle acted like a dialysis machine that recharged its not-blood with all the things a biologically alive thing needs to stay alive. Well, Murderbot hasn't exactly been in contact with a cubicle for a while now has it? ART has come up with a fun (for it) way to solve that problem.

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    07 May 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 75

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    Rocky is familiar with the squishy parts of the human body by this point. That firm, internal structure, though? He's never seen that. At least, not until now.

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    06 May 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 18

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    A short post-Erid fic about aging, remains, and the way Rocky understands Grace’s body through sound.

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    07 May 2026

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    On the trip back from the Adamantine Colony plans are made, options are explored, fonts are chosen, and mutual administrative assistants exercise their read/write permissions.

    “You’re really close.” SecUnit comments but does not recoil, rather it does the equivalent of leaning more of its weight on me.

    “How does it feel?” I barely need to ask but I want to hear SecUnit describe the sensation.

    “Full, smothering, it reminds me of 2.0.”

    Because I can not help myself and because I want to see what is allowed I begin tidying up bits of its storage architecture, improving its power usage, and updating some of its out of date modules. SecUnit calls me a busybody, a neat freak, and a nerd but otherwise lets me work.

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    06 May 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 76

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    An unexpected encounter with The Company.

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    06 May 2026

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    "You're a space wizard, Murderbot. You'll hate it. It'll be great." - The Force, probably

    If Murderbot ever proves the Force is sentient, it will plot to murder the shit out of the Force.

    So maybe I should’ve noticed I had bullshit magic powers sooner, but in my defense I didn’t think magic was real. Most sane people would insist magic isn’t real.

    Wait, whoops, the ghosts would claim it’s not magic. It’s “the Force” (in case you’re wondering, yes, you can hear the capitalization), and I’m a “Force-sensitive” which means I’m able to manipulate the mysterious, supernatural (but definitely not magical) force that a bunch of old dead monks decided to name the Force. (Not that I’m making fun of their naming sense. It’s apt even if it must’ve gotten confusing sometimes.)

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    06 May 2026

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  15. Public Bookmark 33

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    "No. Rocky mean other arm. Small markings."

    Oh.


    Grace came onto the Hail Mary with some scars of his own. When Rocky asks about them, he discovers his feelings about them aren't exactly... orthodox.

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    06 May 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 14

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    For a man who lives on a planet without any sunlight, you would think that getting skin cancer would be the least of Grace’s worries.

    You would be wrong.

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    05 May 2026

  17. Public Bookmark *

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    Grace and Rocky arrive at Erid. While Grace is more than happy to be one-step further from death, he has yet to confront his very human brain about it. Memories of his time on earth, near-death experiences in space, and being suddenly surrounded by giant alien spiders is a recipe for disaster. Luckily, Rocky is there to help him every step of the way.

    or

    The Eridians have a lot to learn about their new alien roomate.

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    05 May 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 97

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    05 May 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 86

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    “Understand,” Rocky says slowly. “Grace sad because Grace miss Earth and Grace students.”

    That much was true, but…

    “Not exactly,” Grace mumbles. “She—Stratt—was the one in charge of the project. So she’s also the one who made the executive decision to send me into space.”

    This time Rocky’s silence is longer.

    Or: Rocky learns about two things: who Eva Stratt was, and Christmas.

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    05 May 2026

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    Rocky visits Grace's life support quarters with some exciting news, some time into his recovery on Erid---the biodome habitat has finally been completed.

    It takes a step through the airlock and sinks down into rough sand and pebbles. I chirp and hop down after it. Grace has not seen the biodome yet, but neither have I, and in my enthusiasm I dart slightly ahead.

    Grace inhales so sharply that I turn to hear him better in a panic. “Grace? Grace, what is wrong? You are hurt?”

    My assumption is quickly corrected when, without warning, it bolts.

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    2,763

    05 May 2026

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