See that? Oh... You missed it.

He still believes that there are kinds of live out there that go beyond what humans can comprehend, and he is going to do what he can to show it.

At the start Grace is stubborn about he having to do this by himself, but Rocky is five times more stubborn about that there is no good to be alone in space, so Grace ends going with Rocky as his engineer and Adrian as their biologist support (who is not letting their mate, nor their friend go without them for years again.) in the Hail Mary. Maybe other eridian scientists interested in the premise of finding more kinds of life in the universe decide to follow their track in another spaceship (this time with radiation protection.), but the Hail Mary is the one leading.

They never mention Grace's health, and how is getting weaker and weaker, they are to focus on recording every discovery and new planet they see. It is like all those good memories Grace and Rocky had of their time in space without the concerns of having to safe a civilization or dying of starvation.

I also like to believe that before Grace's do find a waterless life form, maybe some kind of bacteria that he names "Graceteria" or something and then he writes a paper following that essay that kick him out of the academia, showing that he was right all along, that is his last big act.

He may get back to die in Erid, he may die in space, but he did so happy and satisfy.

I also believe that he donated his corpse to science.

He dedicated his life to science; He learn from it, taught it, even make discoveries for it. I feel he would want his remains to help eridians to understand human biology better, all for the sake of sciences and progress.

Rocky is against this, but Adrian understands, and is they who do the autopsy, with as much care and solemnity they can manage in such a sad moment. All the scientist community is there, moved by curiosity of course, but more for respect.

The biodome stays intact, a memory of the alien willing to sacrifice his life for a foreign race's star. Most of eridians do not dare to go in, too afraid of disturbing the place, but Rocky would lived there if Adrian didn't have an opinion on the subject.

This is the first time I can say with confidence I feel like he looks kinda like Grace 🫪🫪 and I have been trying REAL hard to get it right

But it just never felt like him you know idk how they do it

made it. minus the multivitamin because i dont have one and also that seems like a bad idea. only protein powder i had was coffee flavor but theres caffeine in it so maybe thats a bonus.

I’m using six colours in the piecing, which should make it 92”x109” (unless I mess with the pattern even more and take one of the rows out completely) which will technically be a king size LOL The seventh colour pink is gonna be used on the binding so I get to use alllll the colours we had in stock in the shop 🎉

Okay, blocks done and middle rows complete!

I did take one row out of the centre so there are only two red centre blocks instead of three. 109” is too big for my queen bed, but I can work with 101” LOL

Technically this will still fit a king at 92”x101”, but I am a blanket hog and that feels like a really skinny king to me.

ALSO??

Because I altered the amount of rows (downsizing) but did not alter the amount of blocks I made, I ended up with just enough left over to make two matching pillow cases! They are even on point like the quilt.

And it’s so fucking big LOL

Not as big as the greyscale king for my brother, but still. It feels big.

As you can see a little from the roll on the back of the long arm, I found a fun rainbow universe print to put on it with all the colours on the front.

I’m quilting the pillowcases too, though in a tighter pattern so they can handle more washing.

The pillow cases look so good too. As I mentioned, I quilted them much tighter than the quilt so they can be thrown in the wash a lot more. Same pattern, just smaller design.

It’s so busy, I could stare at it for hours finding things in the prints.

Also? I love the pink binding. I really did want to use every colour, so this was a nice compromise to having to resize everything LOL

The backing is also so busy LOL You can hide a lot of pet fur on both sides of this thing.

The pillowcases turned out great. I used the leftover from the backing to back the pillow cases so that everything matches. And they’re envelope style so the pillows won’t slip out. Hate it when the pillowcase slips off my pillow.