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One day, your dearest friend in the universe asks you what your name is.
You say, what, and do not tap a question. (This is one of many weird linguistic quirks you've picked up recently. It's one of your favourites. It's a funny way to be flat and vaguely judgemental, to imply nonplussed bafflement.)
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We all know how it is; you save each other's lives, you save each other's worlds, you undertake an interstellar journey with only each other for company, and then eventually you realise that you have no idea what the other person's name actually is.
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"Come on, show me your masterpiece," Grace said, feeling helplessly charmed. "What's it about?"
"Is proposal," Rocky said.
"Oh yeah?" Grace smiled. He stretched his arms up, reaching until his spine popped. Maybe taking a break from his experiments was the right call after all. "Sounds exciting. What are you proposing?"
"Propose Grace Rocky get married," Rocky said.
Grace twitched violently, fell sideways off the viewing platform, and banged his elbow hard into DGCR screen six.
Rocky and Grace watch a movie and talk about their friendship. Also they love each other to the ends of the infinite, expanding universe.
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Sometimes I'd forget
Rocky has been stranded, alone and light years away from home for 46 years. For a long time it seemed like nothing would ever change. But a new arrival in Tau Ceti system is about to alter the course of history; For Rocky, for Erid, and for another world far, far away.
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Beta read by chez_levi! Thank you for your notes, and curse you for your implications about metaphors
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"I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, go back to sleep. When you need to worry, I'll tell you."
"Heh." Ryland ran his hand down his face. "It's terrible you know that it actually makes me feel better. What would I do without you?"
"Explode at a colleague at a conference and get expelled from academia and become a middle school teacher." Eva said, promptly.
"Wow, you've thought about that way too hard." Ryland laughed. "Middle schoolers might not vape in class, though. Maybe I should switch."
"Let's not joke."
or: fourteen conversations where ryland grace doesn’t realize eva stratt is a time traveller
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A tree grows on Erid by dirtymakeupbrushes
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game)
05 Jun 2026
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Ryland Grace is living peacefully on Erid. Peacefully until something (or someone) so monumentally bloody stains the water in his enclosure.
Simon is trying to get by on what he thinks is heaven, until he starts to mutate into something unholy.
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You know the drill it’s platonic bloodymary time
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podfic/translation welcome!
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Universe Unspooled by gumbiedots
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game)
25 May 2026
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The idea of holding any living, breathing thing in his arms after all this time was. . . certainly something. It was forcing feelings to bubble up that Grace thought he had made peace with, even if his track record of making peace wasn’t exactly stellar. And of course, there was the ever-looming fear that he had completely imagined the whole thing, that the image of a mutilated, blood-soaked human appearing on the ship for him to take care of was just some twisted fantasy that his brain had invented, and that he was doomed to slowly lose his mind and wither away before even getting to stand on solid ground again—but even still, the feeling of a warm, breathing thing in his arms had been so real, so different from any other possible sensory experience on the ship, so strangely comforting despite the grotesqueness, that the idea of it being a complete figment of his imagination was, frankly, scary.
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Is Grace touch-starved enough to blindly trust this guy who just spawned onto the Hail Mary covered in blood? Yeah, probably.
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There’s probably only one universe in which Orpheus turning back will save Eurydice. Grace sure hopes it’s this one.
Soulmate AU.
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A Luminary No-One by WildTh0rnz
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
22 Jun 2026
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“Please,” he whispers, hoping the eel can’t hear him, “please, I want to live. I just want to live, I don’t want to die. Please don’t let me die.”
The turning of a new eye upon him feels as if he’s been scrubbed raw suddenly, the truth of him pulled from the dark places he’d made to hide it away as something answers him.
“What would you do if you were to live, little star?”
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Simon is rescued at the last minute by *something* and dropped onboard the Hail Mary at quite possibly the worst time. Ryland Grace is fresh off a horrible fishing trip and his best friend is comatose. As the most injured and broken versions of themselves, they meet.
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Sometime during their unstoppable descent into the realm of the damned, it became apparent to V1 that they are merely a chess piece, moving at the hands of an unseen player; one that is swiftly closing in on the other for a resounding checkmate. At the very end of Hell, Gabriel loses his final match with the machine that unwittingly broke the shackles he had noticed far too late.
Rather than putting an end to his existence, V1 instead takes the opportunity to shatter the board and stop the game.
In the aftermath, both machine and archangel are left standing in the settling dust of the collapsed echelons of creative order. But a scorched earth isn't always the end. Something will eventually grow from the ashes of utter destruction, if given the chance.
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- Part 1 of We Lose Time
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Engineer needs to do *something* about his crush on Spy. So Pyro convinces him to write him a love letter. Unfortunately, Spy reads way too deep into things and ends up spending a whole week trying to crack a code that doesn't exist. He also, somewhat to his consternation, ends up decoding his own feelings for someone on the team in the process.
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Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.
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Striking a Chord by startingatmidnight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
04 Apr 2026
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Living on a spaceship with an alien that exclusively speaks in song can really recontextualize karaoke for a guy.
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The Astrobiology Immersion Program by startingatmidnight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
10 May 2026
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It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.
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Gabriel let out an ugly bark of laughter and abruptly looked away, his hand rubbing against the front of his helm.
“Machine,” he said in wry, twisted amusement, “you are far more likely to grow a soul. When a day comes that an object such as yourself possesses such a thing, will be the day an angel can live without Father’s light.”
V1 knew a challenge when it heard one. It also knew it excelled at winning them.
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In Gabriel's final hours, he and V1 make a bet.
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Act 0: Finished
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- Part 1 of The Gabv1el Road Trip
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A Thousand Different Things in a Thousand Different Places by ElsaTheHobo
Fandoms: ULTRAKILL (Video Game)
03 May 2026
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All my ULTRAKILL fics that are less than 900 words. (ish)
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- Part 11 of Possession, Obsession
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Things weren't exactly perfect before the Council took over.
Remiel had told him Raphael wasn’t doing well the second he got home.
Gabriel quietly knocked on the bedroom door and gently asked, “Raphael? Are you alright?”
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- Part 9 of Possession, Obsession
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Don't Bring a Knife to a Gun Fight, Don't Start a Fight You Aren't Willing to Win by ElsaTheHobo
Fandoms: ULTRAKILL (Video Game)
29 Dec 2025
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V1 saw V2’s focus shift, saw them pull out their own pump shotgun and turn towards the wall. It noticed the structural degradation the same time they started sprinting.
It saw red.
It had already started sprinting, was running the calculations to try to intercept V2. But every calculation said that they were going to get there before it, they were going to run like a little bitch, again, and its creative-solving matrix suggested something. It overclocked itself, the world slowing down.
It threw its coins in the air and pulled out its marksman. Aimed, ran new calculations, and fired.
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- Part 6 of Possession, Obsession
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He wouldn’t have lasted this long if he couldn’t feel it coming from a mile away.
(You must not be a good angel, his insides clawed.)He could be good, he just had to be better. He could be good.
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- Part 5 of Possession, Obsession
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Gabriel wants to know if the machine likes him. It doesn't know.
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- Part 3 of Possession, Obsession
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Gabriel was speared to the wall like a butterfly, high enough off the floor that his feet dangled. This was not an uncommon occurrence during his spars with V1, but what was new was Sisyphus, who had somehow stumbled upon them and decided to freak out.
Well. He supposed that most people would panic upon seeing a lover pinned to the wall with their own sword through their gut, never mind that Sisyphus saw something like this before.
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- Part 1 of Possession, Obsession