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“I’ve gone crazy,” he concludes aloud.
This must be the answer, because his dreams are never this stable, and he doesn’t believe in ghosts. He’s finally lost his ever-loving mind. The grief must have been too much. He’s become one of those men driven insane by tragedy.
“It’s me,” Arthur says, voice raspy around the edges. “You’re not crazy, John.”
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John spends two years trying and failing to move on. Returning to the States, he makes the most unlikely and infuriating discovery of the new century. Life has provided a second chance, and John refuses to let it go to waste.
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- Part 1 of When the Night is Over: Stories
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23 May 2026
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“Dutch and I are older. You’re closest to his age.” Hosea puts a hand up to halt Arthur’s protestations at that– “I know you’re an adult Arthur, you’re still the youngest. He can see an easier path to being you than to being me or being Dutch. That’s a valuable thing for a young man that’s been through what he has.”
He moves his hand to pat Arthur’s arm. “I’ll still be showing him things, but I want him taking your example, too. We all have to pitch in.”
Arthur grunts, and frowns, and gnaws at his lip. But ultimately he acquiesces and bows his big head in deference to his fathers’ wills.
John Marston starts, to him, a burden.
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Things change for Arthur over the scale of years. John Marston worms his way in to parts of him he thought long dead.**UPDATE 12/22/24**: NOW COMPLETE! Explicit rating beginning in Chap 7.
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12 May 2026
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“I’m no good,” John says, voice cracking. “Why d’you even…” The words for what they are stick.
Once something is real it’s easier to lose.
Arthur pulls John’s face back around, shifting his grip to one side of his jaw and raising the other to mirror it, tilting him firmly towards Arthur’s soft blue eyes. “Y’mean why do I love you?”
He says it almost angry.
John remembers Arthur’s lips in his hair while he lay in that cot in the mountains, wrapped in bandages and half-insane with fever. “Love you,” they’d mouthed against his skull, through unwashed hair and flecked by blood when pulled away. “Love you John Marston, you stupid bastard.”
Now, he shudders apart like a fresh-shot hare. And then he nods, small.
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A gift for my new friend cokobi, who gave me the prompt for this fic: an insecure John receiving reassurance from Arthur, after some jealousy regarding Charles. (Note that there's no Charles bashing here, because in this house we love Charles.)
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12 May 2026
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Connection (Long Shot) by chubbysloth11
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
30 Apr 2026
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As Rocky and Grace head towards Erid, a transmission comes through over the ship's comms.
A human voice.
After (rightfully) freaking out, Rocky and Grace have a new friend to rescue. Will they make it in time? And if they do, what will it be like to have another human aboard?
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- Part 1 of BloodyMary
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10 May 2026
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You're Never Gonna Get What You Want by Perpetual_Scribe
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
26 Apr 2026
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Simon wasn't sure he had ever felt loved in his life, but he certainly did now. He was appreciated, respected (debatable), and cared for by Rocky. But he was loved by Grace. It scared him.
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10 May 2026
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What Survives the Equation by ReaderRevolution
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026)
27 Apr 2026
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Stratt deals in outcomes.
The equation was simple:
One man
for eight billion lives.
The kind of math that pretends to be brutal but is, in truth, embarrassingly straightforward.
And so she does not regret.
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After 49 years, Dr. Ryland Grace comes back to earth with alien allies and a scarred stranger. (Stratt’s POV)
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10 May 2026
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Be With You by nervousyoungcritter
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game)
10 May 2026
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Grace thinks Simon needs therapy. Simon disagrees.
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Seven recordings of Simon’s therapy sessions, and one aftermath.
“I won't bow to the universe, I can break its curse and build us something new.”
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- Part 1 of bloodymary 🩸💫
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10 May 2026
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09 May 2026
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The four times Mack and Will were in denial about what they are, and the one time they weren't.
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08 May 2026
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06 May 2026
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“I’ll teach you,” Bender says, and he draws it out so casually that Brian doesn’t register what he’s actually saying at first. And when he whips his head around to just stare, he finds Bender with his head tipped back, tendrils of smoke leaking from his slightly parted mouth.
“What?” Brian stammers after a long moment.
“So you don’t fuck it up with your first girlfriend,” Bender replies and he just looks at Brian — his face blank like he doesn't quite care either way about Brian’s reply.
John Bender, for some reason, offers to help Brian practice kissing with his braces. And perhaps even more weirdly, Brian accepts it.
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15 Apr 2026
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“You were asleep. You had a night terror. I can't blame you.”
Simon watches the blood drip from Grace's nose. He knows exactly what that blood tastes like.
“I hurt you,” Simon says, like Grace is slow. They both know that Simon is the stupid one of the two, even though Grace is too nice to admit it.
Grace shrugs. Like it's no big deal that Simon woke him with a punch to the face.
“Sometimes you get hurt.”
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Or: Simon has a night terror and hurts Grace.
Companion piece for Remembering the Night
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13 Apr 2026
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where nothing bleeds by interstellarisms
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
10 Apr 2026
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Simon didn’t expect his savior to be exactly his type.
What a welcome sight. Even if this stupidly handsome man ends up being evil, or working for the C.O.I, at least he’d die looking at something good.
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Grace and Rocky find Simon's ship floating in deep space on their way to Erid.
UPDATE: This fic has been peer reviewed by a NASA engineer who has approved of the science!
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11 Apr 2026
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Patron saints of one way trips by clokkerfoot
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
18 Apr 2026
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An Eridian mining crew find a human welded into a stranded ship on the surface of a moon. They bring him back to Erid, to the only other human they know.
Something in Grace's chest flickered into life. He had buried it so long ago that he hardly knew what it was anymore, and so he took off his glasses and cleaned them on the edge of his cardigan, as if Rocky's words were a smudge he could clear away before finding the will to hope.
“Ah…” his words failed halfway out of his mouth. Rocky chittered at him, a little sound of encouragement. “There’s another human? Here. And… alive?”
** Work is complete but new chapters may be added if the whimsy takes me**
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11 Apr 2026
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John has loved Paul since he was seventeen years old, and at thirty-four he finally faces it.
Things fall apart, and then, eventually, come together.
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10 Apr 2026
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Mack wakes up to photos of himself with a woman he's never met. Will disappears. The truth comes out eventually — but not before everything breaks.
Reminder: All works in this series can be read as standalones.
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- Part 7 of 71 + 2
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10 Apr 2026
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Mack brings Will to his dad for treatment. Rick doesn't miss the way they touch each other. What he misses is how to feel about it.
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- Part 8 of 71 + 2
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10 Apr 2026
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Dennis was in love with Robby, and the fact that Robby could ever be even remotely attracted to him enough to sleep with him was… unbelievable, really. He was already living out his most emotionally-charged fantasy.
And Dennis would take whatever he could get.
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Or: Dennis and Robby start having no-strings-attached sex, and Dennis has to ruin in by falling in love with his chief attending.
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07 Apr 2026
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I defy my bad luck (with the will to believe) by somevelvetmornings
Fandoms: The Pitt (TV)
27 Mar 2026
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“What’ve we got?”
The voice cuts in from outside the curtain. Familiar and sharp. Whitaker’s stomach drops before he even turns his head. Of course.
The curtain pulls back and Whitaker feels this is a whole other punishment. The final blow to even the burden he’s been carrying. The weight that extends his lung and his gold cross.
Robby steps in mid-motion, already pulling on gloves. His attention on the chart handed to him.
“Male, chest trauma, possible pneumo—” he starts, looks up.
He stops. Everything pauses for a moment.
“...Whitaker?”
Whitaker manages something like a breath. “Hey.”
It comes out much rougher than he intended. Robby’s eyes drop immediately, to the chest movement, oxygen, monitor, the way Whitaker sits slightly forward on the bed. He processes all of it in seconds.
“What the hell happened to you?”
“Horse,” Whitaker tries exhaling.
“A horse.”
“Yeah.”
Robby blinks once. “You got kicked by a horse?”
“It happens.”
Robby shakes his head slightly. “It shouldn’t happen to you.”
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05 Apr 2026
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Sometimes Dennis misses Broken Bow.
It’s not like he isn’t glad he got out. He had to. That was non-negotiable. But still, he tells himself, he’s allowed to miss it without regret. The two are not indivisible from each other.
Which is why, when his father calls him ten times in one night, Dennis almost picks up.
or, Dennis hasn't talked to his parents in four years. Until one day a certain John Whitaker shows up in the ER, hand infected and demanding to see his son.
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05 Apr 2026