WitheringEffect
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Endure by WitheringEffect
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
07 May 2026
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Alternate take on the post-fishing scene/CH20, where Rocky saves Grace and Grace returns the favour by exposing himself to superheated ammonia.
Blazing hot ammonia flooded the airlock and dormitory. I slammed the airlock door behind me and spun the lock. Hissing erupted on the other side, loud and violent, but I couldn’t see anything anymore. Can’t even breathe.
The ammonia had hit me straight on. No cover. No shielding. Certainly no glasses on my face to protect my eyes even a little. Just superheated ammonia directly to the face like the universe personally decided I’d gone too long since I’d last suffered five minutes ago.
I’m screaming, I thought. Or maybe gurgling. Hard to tell when my throat felt like it’s being flayed open from the inside. I hit the floor hard, writhing as fire tore through my lungs and airways. Every breath felt like inhaling knives.
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solar eclipse by WitheringEffect
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV), The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner
28 Apr 2026
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[‘bury a friend’ AU set in Season 3B]
Thomas has never had a normal life. Kidnapped, experimented on, and turned into a werefox, he escaped WICKED with his pack—only to be torn away from them just as freedom was finally within reach. Now in Beacon Hills, Thomas is trying to keep his head down and pass for ordinary. But in a town crawling with the supernatural, that was never going to last.
But when Newt and Minho unexpectedly arrive in Beacon Hills with Minho’s family, something else arrives too: a pair of feuding Kitsune. Of which Thomas is caught in the crossfire of—and becomes something far worse than a bystander when the darker spirit, the Nogitsune, chooses him as its host. It doesn’t leave. It doesn’t destroy him. It, dare he say, likes him.
And as Thomas begins to change in ways he doesn’t understand, he uncovers a terrifying truth: the Kitsune the Nogitsune is hunting for revenge… is Minho’s mother, and the reason might just be justified.
Now, caught between a spirit that won’t let him go and a feud he never asked to be part of, Thomas is running out of time to understand what’s happening to him before Noshiko might get the chance to kill him for harbouring the Nogitsune.
Series
- Part 4 of rhinestone eyes
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World Serpent by WitheringEffect
Fandoms: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, ゼルダ無双 封印戦記 | Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (Video Game), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic)
28 Apr 2026
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The last thing Zelda saw was Rook falling—swallowed by the golden light of the mysterious stone.
She awakens above the Cloud Barrier with a decayed Master Sword and an unknown voice guiding her. Rook is gone, and worse still, she soon learns they have been separated by fifty thousand years.
Navigating the challenges that come with being the Hero, Zelda must traverse a changed Hyrule as she embarks on a journey to uncover the contingencies Rook left behind. As she seeks out the new Sages, she must prepare to face the growing threat of a resurrected Demise and the malevolent forces gathering in his wake.
But while Zelda fights for the present, Rook is trapped in the past—drawn into the very war etched into the ancient murals beneath Hyrule Castle.
Then, add in the arrival of the Chain, who are wholly unprepared for the world they have stepped into.
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- Part 7 of OUROBOROS
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Late Night Pestering by WitheringEffect
Fandoms: The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Series)
02 Apr 2026
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Pomni is working a night shift at the bar, and Jax is there to bother her... then following her home and bothering her some more.
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- Part 1 of Crime Circus
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absolute territory by WitheringEffect
Fandoms: Teen Wolf (TV), The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner
19 Mar 2026
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[Sequel to 'bury a friend']
Thomas’s senior year resolution: no monsters, no mayhem, please and thank you.
Beacon Hills answers with Theo Reaken.
Theo—childhood friend, probable liar, walking red flag—returns asking to join Scott's pack. Thomas calls BS. While Thomas's own pack unequivocally trusts his instincts, Scott’s too-trusting nature threatens to drive a wedge between him and Scott.
Meanwhile, Void starts teaching Thomas what he actually is. Spoiler: it is definitely not normal.
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- Part 3 of rhinestone eyes
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OUROBOROS by WitheringEffect
Fandom Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom, The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Warriors, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, ゼルダ無双 封印戦記 | Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (Video Game)
28 Apr 2026
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OUROBOROS;
a circular symbol depicting a snake, or less commonly a dragon, swallowing its tail, as an emblem of wholeness or infinity.
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Book 1 - The Wild Things:
(86k Words)
Wielder of the Tri-Force pieces Courage and Wisdom, Rook, formerly Link, finds himself at an impasse of grief when Heroes of Old appear, seeking the Shade that's running amok through time. Dragged along, Rook finds himself slowly healing and coming to trust these Heroes of Old, and meeting someone his family used to always tell him about.Someone who was absent even before Rook was born. His father.
Prequal One-shot - The Things We Lost:
(2.4k words)
Link defeats the Calamity but the consequences are ones he never expected.
Book 2 - Ouroboros:
(129.5k words)
In which Hylia must find Hyrule’s missing Champion and unravel the hows and whys of the Demise’s return, all while trying to rectify the regional phenomena plaguing Hyrule.
But Rook may be closer and further away than she had ever anticipated.- Words:
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celestial morale officer by WitheringEffect
Fandom Linked Universe - jojo56830 (Webcomic), The Legend of Zelda & Related Fandoms, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild/Tears of the Kingdom
27 Feb 2026
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rhinestone eyes by WitheringEffect
Fandom Teen Wolf (TV), The Maze Runner (Movies), The Maze Runner Series - James Dashner
28 Apr 2026
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bury a friend - main story.
haunted house - prologue set in an alternate S3B before Stiles/Thomas's kidnapping.
absolute territory - sequel to 'bury a friend' set around AU!S5 of Teen Wolf.
solar eclipse - an AU set in S3B, where the Maze happened before Teen Wolf.
winding down - a non-explicit smut fic.
wound up - smut fic
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into wandering weald we go by lariyats
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
08 May 2026
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Doctor Ryland Grace comes to the startling recollection that he is a fox shifter five months into the journey to Erid. The extremely panicked reaction of his best friend comes with it.
Bookmarked by WitheringEffect
08 May 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?’
Bookmarked by WitheringEffect
25 Apr 2026
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Earth, Full of Grace by Rosie_Pines
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
10 May 2026
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Grace thought choosing Rocky over home was the easiest decision he ever made.
Coming back to Earth is harder.
As old memories resurface and the people around them begin to question the bond that kept them alive, Grace and Rocky find themselves fighting for something neither of them has ever had before: a future.
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- 17/28
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26 Apr 2026
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Wake up, sunshine by NovaCaneWay
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
06 May 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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- 39/?
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26 Apr 2026
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A Suspended Moment of Living Hope by mrthology
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
02 May 2026
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Or, five times Ryland Grace desperately tried to cling to family (even when they all but threw him away), and one time family grabbed him and refused to let go.
_AKA, someone’s going to have to hold Rocky back from fighting the entirety of the human race for how sad they made Grace.
That someone will not be Adrian.
Adrian wants a gun, statement.
Bookmarked by WitheringEffect
28 Apr 2026