Mental juxtaposition between Tumblr posts about Project Hail Mary and a Pale Blue Pod episode that quickly talks about fungal hitchhikers from Earth’s surface into orbit on space stations — we need a weird romance sci fi fantasy story about people on a space journey who think they are alone but discover fungal colony mat, and they had so much alien-comm tech in anticipation of making contact out there they can communicate and bond with the other Earth-based traveler.