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  1. Public Bookmark 80

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    The lives of the crew of the Long Shot are statistically ridiculous. They've travelled over sixteen light-years to answer a three-decade-old distress call from a dying planet. They expected to find any number of things upon arrival at 40 Eridani, but being greeted by a human voice certainly wasn't on the list.

    Dr Ryland Grace says they're welcome. He says the problem has already been solved, and everything's fine, and so, in fact, is Earth. But all they know about Ryland Grace is that he left on a suicide mission ten years before they launched. And they're not so sure they should be taking a dead man at face value.

    OR: The Eridians have learned to safely host a human, despite every barrier of language and instinct. Now they just need to do it with seven more. At least, this time, they have Grace's help, right?

    (This fic is part of a series but will stand alone.)

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    09 Jul 2026

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    Once Rocky learned that Grace can whistle, he decided to teach him how to say some basic words in Eridian
    One day when they were close to Erid, Rocky falls ill and is unable to answer to the Eridian message

    Luckily, Grace could answer

    Too bad that Rocky didn't tell just how, juvenile he sounded when he spoke Eridian

    Or

    How Grace confused Eridians about his age

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    09 Jul 2026

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    Grace has to handle First Contact with an alien planet with what meager Eridian his one set of vocal chords can make.
    This Is Fine. This is totally, completely, utterly fine.

    (Grace sounds like a pebble. This, alongside Eridian's extended lifespans, kicks off a chain of misunderstandings that Grace would find utterly mortifying if he knew what the heck was going on.)

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    09 Jul 2026

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    On their way back to Erid, Rocky and Grace discover a mysterious box. Upon opening it, the two discover some strange changes. Well, perhaps way more than strange.

    Rocky finds a new marking on his arm similar to Grace's scar, and Grace finds markings similar to Rocky's on his arms and legs.

    Rocky begins to dream and can easily wake from sleep, and Grace can stay up for much longer than a normal human should.

    Grace starts seeing sound when it's too dark to properly see, and Rocky starts seeing pops of colour in his sound vision.

    Neither can understand what's happening to them and how they're seemingly linked together, but they know there's nothing in the world that could tear them apart.

    (TLDR: This fic will include almost everyone's favourite things! Rocky learns about how Grace got on the Hail Mary (Including Rocky witnessing the memory of Grace being sent on the Hail Mary)! Grace can survive in Rocky's atmosphere! Grace will live as long as Rocky! Rocky and Adrian reuinite and Adrian meets Grace! Grace will get to go back to Earth with Rocky (for a bit and then go back to Erid)! Grace will get to confront and get closure with Stratt! Fanart included!)

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    08 Jul 2026

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    “Does Grace have soulmate, question? Grace said he had no mate.”

    Grace lets out a small—albeit a little sad—chuckle. “I’m pretty sure I don’t have one.”

    “What?!” Rock screeches.

    Grace flinches back a bit from the noise. At least Rocky has the gall to look a little sympathetic after his outburst.

    “Apology apology apology, just confused.”

    Grace nods in agreement. “I’m not too sure about it either, buddy, but people used to look down on me for it– no, not down,” he thinks, trying his best to pull at any other memories soulmate related of his that are willing to come to the surface of his mind, “They looked at me with pity,” He trails off.

    “No no no. Not right. Grace have soulmate, surely.”

    Grace laughs and shakes his head. “At this point, I hope I don’t have one. Imagine having the other half of you shot up into space before you could even meet them. I wouldn’t want to do that to them.”

    “But Grace go home now, Grace find mate!”

    --

    Or: You find your soulmate the first time you come in physical contact with each other.

    In all his life, Ryland Grace has never met his soulmate.
    He probably never will.

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    07 Jul 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 26

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    'The human probe arrived twenty earth years into Grace’s life on Erid.

    As self-proclaimed ‘second contact’, the probe announced that a human delegation would be sent to Erid, and contained detailed notes and data of how they would survive in our environment. They knew nothing of what we had made for Grace, of the biodome and the xenonite suits. Instead, they had come up with their own method of adjusting to life on Erid. Of a deep, cultural exchange.

    It was ingenious. It was crazy. It was human to the core of it. I was only a little jealous that we hadn’t thought of it first.'

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    07 Jul 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 66

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    Sixteen years have passed since Grace arrived on Erid and a new ship has been spotted in the 40 Eridani system, not from Erid and not from Earth. When Grace finds himself an interstellar ambassador between the Eridians and these new aliens, uncomfortable questions arise about whether Grace could ever really be considered Eridian, and whether he might be happier somewhere else...

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    07 Jul 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 7

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    Grace had planned the perfect one (earth) year anniversary! He got up early and made a lovely breakfast for him and Simon when-- in the midst of their eating-- Rocky burst through the door shouting for help.
    no way.
    They had found another human and Grace has two nickels in his pocket.
    In other words..
    Another human had been found in space and brought to Erid, however this one was small, weak and brought a companion with him. Graces Biodome will probably be a small village in the next decade.

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    03 Jul 2026

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    It's been years since Doctor Ryland Grace saved Erid and Earth. He is content with his life, happy just to teach the next generation of Eridians and have the occasional game night with Rocky and Adrian in his dome. For the most part, nothing changes.

    And that's the problem. Shouldn't Grace, y'know...age? When Rocky indicates that he should be sixty human years old by now, Grace can't reconcile the young face in the mirror with the time that his friend has religiously kept.

    Things get more complicated when another undoubtedly human ship shows up at the edge of the 40 Eridani system. Suddenly Grace is playing ambassador between the two species, and tensions are rising between them. Will this be a successful second contact, or is the peaceful life Grace just wants to live too much to ask for?

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    21 Jun 2026

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    Dr Captain Ryland Grace returns to an Earth that had long designated him “history”; 58 years old, and with a body that ached in vicious revenge, Grace wanted to take Rocky and Adrian through the wonders of Planet Earth before his time came.

     

    Rocky and Adrian would very much like it if Grace stopped referencing his mortality, and are finding Earth about as peculiar and spectacular as the man the planet gave them.

     

    Earth is pleasantly surprised to see their intergalactic neighbours at their doorstep, and would very much like to confiscate Grace from Rocky for scientific study, because how the fuck was he still alive.

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    21 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 63

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    Chloe and Zoe aren't your usual twins. Then again, when you live in the same city as superheroes that's hardly the most interesting thing about you.

    Update 6/28/2025: This fic has a TVTropes page! https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Fanfic/TwoBeesInAPod

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    20 Jun 2026

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    “Pilot Detected,” Mary says.

    “Thank you, Mary,” he responds automatically.

    Exciting news: they’re almost at Erid! Hours away, actually! He’s vibrating with excitement, as much as you can with your ribs sticking out through your skin. But screw that noise! The journey is almost over! Beginning of an end, end of a beginning, baby! His entire journey has culminated into this one event: making contact with an alien species. Whether that was through astrophage, taumeoba, or Eridians. Not even being sick and hungry could ruin this. He doesn’t know if the nausea is from the nerves or not.

    Or: after saving two stars and returning to Erid, Grace and Rocky must face their most daunting challenge yet: having uncomfortable conversations.

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    14 Jun 2026

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    Grace's journey to Erid is long and taxing. 4 whole years spent on the Hail Mary by Rocky's side has inevitably brought them closer together, despite the last year mostly consisting of Grace trying his very best not to die and keep himself from throwing up taumoeba into the bathroom. It’s only after his body has stopped fighting desperately for his life that his mind has the time to catch up on everything that has happened with Rocky…and on Earth without him. It doesn’t help that he’s going to be the only human on a planet of Eridians and that his best friend’s mate doesn’t seem to like him much at all.

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    Ryland Grace tries his best to begin to live again rather than just be alive, balancing his severe attachment to Rocky and helping to fix Rocky’s marriage to a frustrated Adrian.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    It's been seven months since Grace met up again with Rocky and they started their journey to Erid.
    It's been three months since an unexpected and unexplainable passenger joined the Hail Mary.
    Three months of Grace hoping the only other human he's likely to ever encounter will survive despite having horrific injuries that he reasonably shouldn't be able to recover from. But he'd made it so far, it'd be a shame to give up now, right?
    And just as the man finally wakes up, Grace is left wondering if maybe letting him inside the Hail Mary was a huge mistake, or maybe the best decision he's ever made.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    To his surprise, though, the stranger doesn’t fight back. He puts his hands up and stares at Simon with wide eyes. “Hey, um,” he starts, “I know you probably can’t, like, understand me—but, uh, I was trying to help you. You looked a little—I kind of thought you were a corpse, to be honest.”

    A corpse? Simon squints. The organs at his throat gasp for air strangely and then, failing that, close up with an air of finality. Briefly, he allows himself a glance back at the panel that leads to where he had been, but only sees a white wall smudged with the blood he’s still coated in.

    “Yeah, you were kind of free-floating.” The guy swallows. “In space.”

    Simon wants to squeeze the life out of him for saying such absolute bullshit—to his face, no less. Except his eyes still burn from that light. That blazing light. It couldn’t have been what he thought it was.

     

    //

    or: Doctor Ryland Grace brings what he assumes is a dead body onto the Hail Mary. One small issue: the body isn’t actually as dead as he thought, and Simon is freaking out.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    What if Simon was in some of the logs sent on the beetles? How would the people of Earth react?

    I have no clue what I'm doing, this is my first fic.

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    07 Jun 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 80

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    The Iron Lung falls through a worm hole; saving Simon from his demise and sending him to a group of Eridian’s who were studying the other end of said worm hole. Now he is recovering from his traumatic universe in a place where there are ample rations, starlight, growing plants, and a kind human named Grace.
    Grace is adapting to Erid well, the garden is growing, he’s gotten back into the swing of teaching, and his friendship with Rocky is as strong as ever. And now there is a new human in the med bay that was fished from the stars, throwing a new variable into his life on Erid.
    Can they co-habitat and grow from their traumas or will the universe strive to drive them apart?

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Rocky lived his happily ever after with Grace and Adrian. Until he died. And then woke up a week before the Blip A was meant to launch. He makes a few last minute changes.

    Eva Stratt is not having a good day. It was hard enough dealing with the aliens trying to eat her sun. Now she has to deal with the other aliens that know much more about her and Earth than she's comfortable with. And they also claim to have the answer to the Astrophage problem, provided she's willing to hand Ryland Grace to them.

    Grace wishes he could stop getting 'promoted' with no option to say no. At least his new job has better hours, if you could ignore the whole being stuck in space on an alien vessel thing.

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    04 Jun 2026

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    “I just think it’s kind of a messed-up thing to do to a baby,” I said.

     

    AKA: the one with time travel. When the opportunity arises, Rocky and Ryland can't turn down the chance to save Rocky's crew.

    It all kind of spirals from there.

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    24 May 2026

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    22 May 2026

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