A_Candle_For_Sherlock
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i'll know my name when it's called again by Stargirl_And_Potts (A_Candle_For_Sherlock)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
27 May 2026
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Written for a Tumblr prompt by one-step-at-a-time25/Incorrectlyright:
"Someone should write Rocky trying to tell Grace that he loves him and Grace doesn't understand and is using a bunch of other words. Once they get it Grace has to describe what love means and Rocky just says it over and over to him."
I really need that man to know he's loved, especially on the way to Erid, while he's leaving everything else behind because he loves his friend.
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10 CCs of That by A_Candle_For_Sherlock for themonstrumologist
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock & Co. (Podcast)
12 May 2025
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The Carfax case has shaken John up. Sherlock's voice note, with its blunt affection, and John's mum's honesty leaves John vulnerable. He wants to tell Sherlock how he feels; he just needs to find the words.
“Right—so. Sherlock's still asleep. It's been about twelve hours. I'm still thinking about that voice note. Didn't expect it to mean so much. I'm—I'm proud of him, right? All the time. Guess I never said it either. Maybe I should try. I didn't like going off on my own, even with Mari. I like it when he's there. I wonder if he knows.”
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Found Wanting by A_Candle_For_Sherlock for comicgeekery
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
04 Jan 2025
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Written for the request: “Aziraphale helps Crowley learn about himself.” Post-apocalypse, in their new cottage, Aziraphale hopes Crowley will make himself at home. But after a lifetime spent hiding from Hell — who he is, and what he wants — Crowley needs a little extra help to settle in.
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A Steady Man by A_Candle_For_Sherlock for happyeverafter72
Fandoms: Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
22 Dec 2024
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“Watson has always been a steady man, since I have known him: steady mind, steady hand, steady heart. And while he has called me a man of habits, I have found his habits more reliable by far. When there is danger he will stand to meet it, and where I go, he will want to go.
But it did surprise me that he agreed to retire with me.”
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Devil's Dyke by A_Candle_For_Sherlock for The_Bentley
Fandoms: Good Omens (TV), Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett
05 Oct 2024
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A house on the Downs, a pair of lovebirds and a thorough seeing-to.
“A sacred thing, the angel’s faith. Given to Crowley, the profane, it had transfigured into something else, something startling and new. Something neither holy nor hellish, almost human in its simple mutinous joy: beyond faith and hope, the greater third thing, the thing she had thought lost to her.”
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Tumblr Minifics by A_Candle_For_Sherlock
Fandom Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms, Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV), Sherlock Holmes - Arthur Conan Doyle
25 Dec 2019
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The Beginning and the End by A_Candle_For_Sherlock
Fandom Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
15 Nov 2016
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- 2
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The Way They Were by A_Candle_For_Sherlock
Fandom Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
28 Sep 2016
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- 2
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- 16
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What Kills You Is The Landing by A_Candle_For_Sherlock
Fandom Sherlock (TV), Sherlock Holmes & Related Fandoms
01 May 2016
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better than your best by Goldmonger
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
15 May 2026
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“Rocky, I’m here, okay? Come back to me, pal, please.”
Of course I will, I think, drawn to that voice, that strange, wobbling voice, which I care about without knowing exactly why, and I should – it makes me angry, not knowing – I should know –
Bookmarked by A_Candle_For_Sherlock
01 Jul 2026
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The engineer takes my hand. His skin runs hot. Very hot. He doesn't let go at what I would gauge as a socially-acceptable handshake time interval. Are we just holding hands in the middle of the lab-workshop space? Guess we are.
"I'm Rocky," he finally introduces himself. He has a hint of an accent, something lilting, melodic. I can't really place it.
"Rocky," I repeat, slowly. "Like the movies?"
"No," Rocky deadpans, giving me a look like I'm stupid. "Like the rocks."
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Bookmarked by A_Candle_For_Sherlock
19 Jun 2026
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my grace by some_pomegranate_tea
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
31 May 2026
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Grace tries copying the tones.
Rocky hums. “Close. Skip first note.”
“Why? You always include that.”
“This means… of Rocky, possessive. Of the speaker.”
“My.”
“Correct. But only for names.”
“So you’re calling me…?”
Rocky repeats the word: “My Grace. Yes.”
Bookmarked by A_Candle_For_Sherlock
18 Jun 2026
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The Chain (Keeps Us Together) by ifonlyiwaswittier
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
13 May 2026
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“If you could be any astronomical object, what kind of astronomical object would you be and why?”
“Rocky cannot be astronomical object. Rocky can only be Eridian.”
“Humor me, pal, I’m dying of boredom over here.”(or, snapshots of the fourteen days that Rocky and Grace spent making the chain in orbit around Adrian)
Bookmarked by A_Candle_For_Sherlock
17 Jun 2026
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The Wire Mother by nopaintjustpain
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
24 May 2026
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I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.
Right up until Rocky asks another question.
“When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”
Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”
Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.
“Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”
I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.
“When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”
I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.
“Grace. When last time, question.”
I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.
“Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”
I can taste grass.
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AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.
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- Part 1 of Ave Maria
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Bookmarked by A_Candle_For_Sherlock
16 Jun 2026