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After all these years, touch has taken on different meanings.
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you could perhaps call it a routine by usually_verity
Fandoms: Discworld - Terry Pratchett
07 Aug 2025
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A bedtime routine is hard to kick, and hard to create.
Soft Sybil/Sam sleepy vibes.
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It's a hot summer, and Commander Vimes tries to escape his office.
The palest attempt at a casefic.
Warnings for disordered eating and self-loathing.
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In which Sam Vimes is forced to take a seat.
Brief description of broken bones.
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Part of a larger (unwritten) hospital AU.
Intensive care doctor Aziraphale makes it to the end of a particularly difficult night shift, only to find a familiar face on his way home.
Mention of fat shaming and Covid.
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Captain Bird and her navigator (and wife) Fran. Stories set between the Sunless Sea and Fallen London universe.
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Verity does Inktober 2023 by usually_verity
Fandom Discworld - Terry Pratchett, Doctor Who (2005), Fallen London | Echo Bazaar, Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett, Sunless Sea
25 Oct 2023
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1. dream
2. spiders
3. path
4. dodge
5. map
6. golden
7. drip
8. toad
9. bounce
10. fortune
11. wander
12. spicy
13. rise
14. castle
15. dagger
16. angel
17. demon
18. saddle
19. plump
20. frost
21. chains
22. scratchy
23. celestial
24. shallow
25. dangerous
26. remove
27. beast
28. sparkle
29. massive
30. rush
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Within A Spectroscopic Binary by oofouchyikes
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
25 May 2026
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Between Grace's scant first aid and the nanny bot they managed to get the man mostly stable, tucked into Grace's bed and completely dead to the world for the past few days.
It's the same man currently trying to kill him.
or, the Eridians find a man covered in blood and Grace hasn't been able to care for something in far too long.
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- Part 1 of The Nature of Star Systems
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Bookmarked by usually_verity
21 May 2026
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lovely slow burn - simon from iron lung and grace - each of them learning to trust and love each other
less rocky, but always a treat
ch 35-36: grace in a deep depressive episode
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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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Bookmarked by usually_verity
24 May 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
touch-starved
set shortly after coming into orbit around Erid
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Curls In The Shape Of A Question Mark by The Angel Basket (A_Peculiar_Child)
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
03 Mar 2026
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Jonathan Sims grows up brown-skinned in 1990s London, raised by his white grandmother in a house built on order, restraint, and careful Englishness. From the moment he cuts off the curls his mother loved, Jon begins sanding down the parts of himself that draw attention—flattening his accent, sharpening his intellect into armor, and learning how to survive in rooms where he is the only one who looks like a question. At the Magnus Institute, he is not the only one.
Bookmarked by usually_verity
28 Apr 2026
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vision of the magnus institute where everyone is marginalised in some way
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Ryland Grace is no stranger to panic attacks. Once he learned that sour skittles shocks the nervous system and single handely stops his body from panicking, he never looked back.
That is until Stratt’s vat ran out of sour skittles.
Bookmarked by usually_verity
11 May 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
lots of descriptions of fidgety ND anxious panicky Grace, who uses sour skittles as his coping mechanism.
Eva notices (fav chapters are Eva POV!).
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Gеts Harder to See Me the Closеr You Try to Look by FlowersAndCDs
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026)
13 May 2026
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One thing Grace didn't anticipate, even though he really should've... Getting sick.
Unluckily for him, when he gets sick, hes down for the count. Luckily for him, he has a whole team of people ready to help him feel better.
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- Part 5 of Be in those Good Graces
Bookmarked by usually_verity
18 May 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
post-canon
Grace gets meningitis (!) after he's ... kinda adopted into Rocky and Adrian's family with their adopted pebble Athos