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  1. Public Bookmark 62

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    or "Statistical Fallacy (N=1)
    or "Mimicking you Mimicking Me"
    or "oopsie doopsie absolutely nobody here is a trained diplomat lol"

    or the Erid homecoming keeps having more issues arise. Human and Eridian relations are off to a, pardon the pun, rocky start. And Grace doesn't know why, but he is a little paranoid that Rocky somehow did it on purpose.

    Hopefully Earth gets his updated information on communicating with Eridians before they decide to send someone else. Otherwise it'll probably be pretty embarrassing for everyone.

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    07 Aug 2026

  2. Rec *

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    The elevator's receiver array picks up a garbage signal beamed in from deep space. No matter their attempts, Eridian scientists cannot make top or bottom of it. A misfire, or an echo of that long lost crew's final transmission, most likely. It is recorded, but never publicized.

    And then it happens again.

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    07 Aug 2026

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    Owiwe

  3. Public Bookmark 17

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    "Do you know what a roller pigeon is, Barney? They climb high and fast, then roll over and fall just as fast toward the earth. There are shallow rollers and deep rollers. You can't breed two deep rollers, or their young will roll all the way down, hit, and die. Officer Starling is a deep roller, Barney. We should hope one of her parents was not." - Hannibal Lecter


    Sometimes the worst part of a day in the Dungeon was the need to simply hurry up and wait. While Carl does just that, working his anxieties higher and higher towards the ceiling of the bubble, Mordecai comes to check on him.

    And to ensure that he doesn't crash to the ground.

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    10 Jul 2026

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    “Need word,” Rocky says in baby-talk Eridian for me. The translator dutifully repeats “need word” in English a second later.

    After fifteen minutes of bewildering back and forth between the three of us, we determine the word he needs is “declension.”

    A year into the journey to Erid, Grace faces down his most formidable academic gauntlet since astrophage: the five-part polyphonic Eridian language. It’s only fair after Rocky mastered English, human mannerisms, Grace mannerisms- without so much as one complaint. And if learning Eridian might temper some of Grace’s desperate, near-complete dependence on Rocky in the future… well. That’s his own business.

    Eridian breaks Grace’s brain, heart, and soul- and puts it back together.

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    04 Aug 2026

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    Neat as hell linguistics for Eridians and a delight to read

  5. Public Bookmark 74

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    Grace sings these days to pass the time on the Hail Mary

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    02 Aug 2026