As the self proclaimed biggest fan of Astrophilia (yes I am do not take this away from me Astrophilia is the bomb and deserves all the love in the world) I would like to spiritually reblog this a hundred times and just say that I am not even 30% of the way through Stardust but I. I am shook. I resonate. I am existing on a higher plane. I am in space with these guys (hopefully not for long). I am l i t e r a l l y vibrating in excitement because I have loved Astrophilia 163 days and I will for the rest of my life and this. This is. Yes. Yes. Yes.
Anyways this has been a PSA to read Stardust and Astrophilia because they slap so hard I got transported to their future and lived through this with them. I’m not sure if they survive I didn’t even read the tags. I think they do. They better.
Some months ago I wrote and posted "Astrophilia," a fic that, while not my most popular, inspired a unique emotion in my readers in which multiple people started headcanoning a future in which everything was okay, arguing against the finality of the Captains' fate... And I figured, you know, if these strangers felt so strongly that this was not how this story would end, well... Their boyfriends left behind on earth certainly wouldnt have let it be, either.
Dedicated to everyone who commented telling me they hoped there would be a way to get them home in the future: "Stardust."