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As he stared down into the lumpy grey goop that was his evening rations, he contemplated whether it was really worth it.
They’d come a very long way just for Grace to give up and die at the last hurdle, both physically and emotionally. The Tau Ceti system was a long, long way away now, and Grace had faced not one but two highly emotional suicide missions. Three, if you counted the time before he was given a military grade roofie and hucked into space without his memories.
Rocky and Grace make it back to Erid! Huzzah!
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When it’s over, you’re the start by Spades (bumblingbees)
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
10 May 2026
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All parts after part 1 can be read separately or as part of the series!
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as you've always been by Spades (bumblingbees)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
10 May 2026
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“Who complained about you eating, question?” Someone must’ve said something. He’s had so many visitors in the last couple of days. Who was it? Grace has never questioned this part of himself. Grace huffs at me.
“No one! I’m just trying to be polite! Eridians have special soundproof eating rooms, shouldn’t I?”
“You are not Eridian!”
He doesn’t need to meet our standards; he’s his own species! Some things he might need to change in his daily life to adapt to Erid life, but his food habits don’t need to be one of them. My words don’t comfort Grace like I thought they would. Grace shrinks into himself, and I wish I were on his side to hug him.
or the Entities provide Grace with a culture teacher to prepare for life on Erid and he gets his first taste of Eridian inhospitality.
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- Part 2 of When it’s over, you’re the start
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Star Thrum by Totallyottie99
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
27 May 2026
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Eridians fall in love hard.
Humanity's not ready for just how far they'd go to keep only one of them happy.
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I Didn't Mean That by Bunny_innit_WQ
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
09 May 2026
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This is all Rocky's fault. He was stupid, stupid, stupid. How could he be so stupid and let this happen? Between the two of them, Grace was supposed to be the stupid one, not Rocky.
They were supposed to be okay, fine. Rocky and Grace saved the stars, saved Earth and Erid, saved humans and eridians. Rocky helped Grace and Grace helped Rocky. Then Grace saved Rocky. So Rocky had to save Grace.
Now they're supposed to be safe and fine.
But Grace isn't fine. Not at all. And it's all his fault.
Or, Grace accidentally comes into contact with Erid bacteria and gets sick, Rocky (understandably) panics
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wasting time by decimalsbuiltdifferent
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
26 Apr 2026
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Rocky is a good dancer, which I already knew. He has good coordination, which is kind of necessary when you have five arms, and he has amazing memory. There's only so much he can do with my clumsy footwork, though.
"You are messing up rhythm," he scolds, though his voice has no bite.
"Am not," I snap, even though I totally am.
"You say rhythm strong weak weak. But you take step strong weak strong strong weak. Irregular. You only have two legs and you still cannot coordinate, question?"
I didn't think first contact would involve this much bullying. "You're so mean to me."
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- Part 6 of project hail mary fics :)))))
- Part 2 of culture lessons
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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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and I think it's gonna be a long, long time by Likelightinglass
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
22 Apr 2026
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Grace and Rocky discuss tattoos, markings, and scars.
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- Part 5 of Platonic cuddling
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when it's over, you're the start by Spades (bumblingbees)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
21 Apr 2026
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“Hey! It’s a lot up here, okay? It’s a normal response to stress.” He rubs a hand over his face. “Okay, I cried a lot down there, too. But not in class! Not if I could help it. But having to say goodbye, gosh, I’ve never been good at that.” Grace laughs, but it sounds sad. His mouth is shut firmly, and he leans against my ball. He’s so soft, his body melds to the side of the xenonite with ease. “I can’t imagine what a mess I’ll be when—” he cuts himself off, but I know what was coming next.
I’m not sure how I’ll be when we say goodbye either. It didn’t seem like it’d matter so much at first, after all, if we part ways, it means we succeeded. I’d be going back to Erid, to Adrian, to home. But I’d be leaving behind Grace. The thought of that is unpleasant. It sinks deep in me; the emotion is painfully familiar. It’s been a long time since I’ve had anyone to mourn losing anyone again. I don’t want to think about it, I’m not ready.
or 5 times Rocky feels something for Grace. 1 time he does something about it.
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- Part 1 of When it’s over, you’re the start
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Someone to Watch You Sleep by Whirl13
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
14 Apr 2026
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Grace takes a trip onto the Blip-A and stumbles in on something Rocky definitely didn't want him to see.
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15 Apr 2026
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And the universe said you are not alone by MyriadOfThings for TheBok
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 Apr 2026
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"Humans put Eridians in game, question?"
"You mean, like a spider?" I ask. "Are you seeing a spider?"
"Not spider," Rocky says. "Four legs. Tall carapace."
"What color is it?"
"Middle-rough."
Middle-rough. That's Eridian for green.
"Strange sound," Rocky comments.
The creeper explodes.
Grace and Rocky play Minecraft. That's it that's the fic
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Die Later by Flint_toaster
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 Apr 2026
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On their way to Erid, Rocky has to encourage Grace to eat instead of rationing his food so much. Grace is not looking good.
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Cuddle Buddy by ChocolateSyrup
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
04 May 2026
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"Hey...can I ask you something kind of weird?"
"Shoot," Rocky says, his voice sounding amused. "But not actually shoot."
Grace wants to laugh at the joke (he's been getting better at joking and sarcasm) but instead he swallows, his fingers tracing idle patterns on the blanket. The ache from earlier at the classroom, the beach, the constant invisible wall feels closer tonight.
"What does it feel like... to touch you?" he asks. "I mean, if we could. Your carapace. Your claws. What would it feel like to me?"
Rocky is quiet for a long beat. When he sings again, his melody is thoughtful and gentle.
"Hard. Rocky, like name. Like...strong stone that is alive. My claws are sharp but careful. My body pulses a little when I am happy. Like singing Grace can feel instead of hear." He pauses, then adds with a soft, almost shy trill, "What does human skin feel like, question? To me, I wonder."
He imagines it.
In his mind, the xenonite shell vanishes.
Or: Grace is touch starved and Rocky wants to make it better
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Will we ever learn? (we’ve been here before) by Apollos_Last_Prophet
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
12 Apr 2026
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“Oh,” I sigh, rubbing still-shaking hands across my stubbly face because oh, that was so close. Too close. We were supposed to be done with the theatrics, with the life-and-death bullhonkey.
What the heck, universe? Not cool.
I don’t want to move for a bit. The siren song of dissociation calls my name, and honestly, I’m so, so chill with just sitting here for a second and decompressing and trying to remember all the breathing techniques I learned for my students, butー
But the lights are still flashing red, flashing with urgency and Mary is saying something and I have to drag my mind, kicking and screaming, back to focusー
“-ected. Toxic gas in Laboratory detected. Toxic gas in Laboratory-” Mary drones, and once it clicks into place the cold sweat is backー
Oh god noー
The banging noise. The gas leak. The lab.
Rocky.
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Did You See? by hole_in_the_roof
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
11 Apr 2026
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Theresa Cabral is two weeks, three days, and ten hours from defending her PhD thesis in molecular biology when she gets a text from a kid she went to middle school with.
Michael Whitman (11:06 pm):
Did you see it?Series
- Part 1 of North Star
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it's lonely out in space by Likelightinglass
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
19 Mar 2026
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Grace is touch starved.
Rocky can fix.
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- Part 1 of Platonic cuddling
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ain't i fallen in love? by blimpie
Fandoms: 人渣反派自救系统 - 墨香铜臭 | The Scum Villain's Self-Saving System - Mòxiāng Tóngxiù
30 Nov 2025
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Being without a soulmark isn't news for Shang Qinghua.
Being in love with someone that has one, though, is.
It's even worse when he falls for the other half of that soul too.This time though, he's in luck.
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Whitaker has epilepsy and a massive crush on two old men.
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please leave a message by subcorax
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers Series - Rachel Reid
19 Dec 2025
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Sarah
Does anyone have the number for Shane's girl from Boston? I feel bad that they've been seeing each other for this long and we've never added her here.Jackie
Oh good point! Let me ask Hayden.Jackie has added Lily to the conversation
Lily
what
what is thisOr: Ilya Rozanov is, apparently, one of the girls.
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- Part 1 of You Have (81) Unread Messages
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He takes Lucifer to clear a debt. That’s the only reason. Yet in the quiet of the bayou, with Lucifer weak in his chair and the light flickering out of him, Alastor realises he’s far more rattled than he should be.
Sequel to i bet on losing dogs
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- Part 2 of more like resting than running