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Over and Over by NinjaShrew64, Real_Life_Sucks
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
06 Jul 2026
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"There are people who need your help there. They don’t know it yet, and will likely try their very best to get rid of you. But they need you. If you don’t help, their world will end, and then countless others will be affected when they attempt to fix it. If you intervene now, this can all be prevented. And hey, if you fix it, you can go back to Arkham! The apocalypse is due for them in just a few years. If you stop it in time, you can return to the home you want so badly in no time at all!” The Manager begins to laugh slightly, quickly suppressing it into a quiet chuckle.
Arthur sighed in resignation. “Okay. What do we have to do?”
“What? Oh, I have no idea. Figure it out! That’s what you’re good at, right?”
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AU where Arthur and John are sent to help out at the Magnus Institute in season one instead of back to Arkham. Nobody is impressed by this situation, except maybe Tim.
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- Part 1 of All Go Together When We Go
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Born Disaster by NinjaShrew64, Real_Life_Sucks
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
02 May 2026
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Arthur Lester is a strange man with many, many problems.
Tim is quickly learning this.Series
- Part 2 of All Go Together When We Go
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All Go Together When We Go by NinjaShrew64, Real_Life_Sucks
Fandom Malevolent (Podcast), The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
06 Jul 2026
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third time's the charm (or, And Never To Yield) by SupposedToBeWriting
Fandoms: Malevolent (Podcast)
22 Oct 2023
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Nearly every night, Arthur finds himself in Jack's bar. He drinks until the world starts to spin, upon which Arthur stumbles home and starts the day anew. One night, however, an unusual man perches himself on the adjacent stool and buys Arthur a drink. Suspicious and distrustful of the man's intentions, Arthur brushes him off... only for the nosey parker to come back a second time.
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14 Jul 2026
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“What are you talking about?” Grace's fingers played quick chords as he spoke. He didn’t even look as he did it, but it did not make them any less purposeful.
“Discussing possible reasons why Tau Ceti is not infected while other stars are,” Eva replied deftly. “I would invite you to join, but we were just finishing—”
“Oh, that’s easy.” His hand twisted a knob, and the notes came out sharper. “It is infected—Petrova Line and everything.”
In Grace's opinion, dreaming about time traveling is no excuse for getting out of practice with his Eridian. To the rest of the Petrova Taskforce, it seems a bit odd that their resident Astrophage expert has suddenly taken to carrying a keyboard around and playing it whenever he speaks. Eva Stratt resolves to figure out what is going on.
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28 Jun 2026
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A Headful of Stars by ForgetMeNotForest
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
26 Apr 2026
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‘Hey Rocky,’ I slur. ‘You make these stars for me, buddy?’
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26 Apr 2026
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i'll keep you warm and you'll keep me sane by AruiI
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
23 Apr 2026
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Jesus, my back.
I pause, gasping for breath — I'm genuinely sweating. And embarrassed. I wonder if Rocky can hear me losing to a slab of wood.
God, I hope he can't. Please God.
It's stuck behind a few empty crates and some miscellaneous spare lab supplies. A few beakers. A blender, for some reason. An ironing board. Why? Because go to hell, Ryland Grace, that's why. You can't have enough fuel to come back but you can have an ironing board with no iron. Here's two kilos of cement-flavoured coma slurry. Kill yourself.
"I'm being dramatic," I tell myself aloud.
I'm really not. Dying in space is a very dramatic situation.
The ways that Rocky and Grace miss everything all the time, yet watch over each other, always.
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- Part 1 of time passes in leaps up here
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23 Apr 2026
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Wake up, sunshine by NovaCaneWay
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
18 Jul 2026
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It had been a long and difficult 27 years since the Hail Mary had launched. Not as terrible as it could have been, but not easy. Humanity had survived and adapted, as it always did. There had been terrible wars. There had been incredible acts of kindness. There had been massive scientific breakthroughs. And now, there were two distant blips of Petrova-light, picked up by the Deep Space Network, hurtling home. Two probes, braking hard as they hurtled toward Earth holding the secrets to its salvation. They were late, or at least, not very early, but they were here.
Grace may have made his peace with dying to save Rocky, but Rocky insists they return to Earth.
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20 Apr 2026