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A sleeping Eridian is, in almost every way, indistinguishable from a corpse.
Months after returning home, Rocky watches Adrian sleep for the first time. He is not okay.
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22 Sep 2026
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What's In a Name? by sebastian2017
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
02 Apr 2026
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Now on Erid, Rocky brings Adrian to meet Grace. The two of them get along like two peas in a pod. Rocky's ecstatic, Adrian is curious, and Grace is a leaking, emotional mess.
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20 Sep 2026
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rocky, most beloved by nambi
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
31 May 2026
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I’m safe. I know this. As foreign as it feels to give myself credit, I know I helped save Erid, and that every sentient being on the planet knows it too.
And yet, something small and primitive in me can’t fight the brief flash of fear that zips through me when Adrian skids to a halt before me and I am forced to look up at them.
For a moment, they just stand there. I am reminded of the first time I saw Rocky, atavistic horror battling with fascination, coming together in a trembling awe. I feel no different looking at Adrian than I felt looking at Adrian, a vast expanse of green before me, knowing I am the first human to ever witness it, finding beauty in it as much as knowing it could spell my doom under the right circumstances. The light of my dome shines down on them, casting a dozen towering shadows over me.
“Hi,” I manage, forcing myself to swallow through a dry throat. If this is who Rocky chose to spend his life with, they’re cool. They have to be.
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Or: Rocky introduces the two people he loves most.
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19 Sep 2026
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the stretch of my skin by nambi
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
05 Jul 2026
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I never noticed. There are no mirrors in my house; there are no mirrors anywhere on Erid, at least not in the sense that we understand them. There’s reflective surfaces, but not intentionally so. My attention has been tugged this way and that, always something new to discover, or else something new to research in the endless encyclopedia I was left with. I had no reason to look at my own body beyond what was necessary to keep it clean.
But now I’m sitting here, and it stares me in the face. Emphasized by my position, my stomach rises up and over my waistband, forming a soft mass that spills slightly over my sides.
“Oh,” I say out loud. I run a hand over this new pudge that probably isn’t new at all, startling slightly at the texture of it. Soft. Yielding. Slightly cold from the water evaporating on it. I touch my body like it isn’t my own, because for a long, long time, it wasn’t. I touch it the way Rocky touched me once he finally had the option to, committing everything to memory, matching it to what he already knew.
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Or: In the two years that he spent on Erid, Grace has changed in just about every way imaginable. But one way in particular feels more significant than the rest.
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19 Sep 2026
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digitus anularis by nambi
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
23 Aug 2026
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My arm hangs limply by my side as Rocky takes my hand into his, examining it closely. He pulls my fingers apart, then wraps his hand around each of them, one after the other.
“What’chu doing, bud?”
He looks up at me, making a noise that I recognize as an idea brewing in his brain. “I will make rings,” he says.
“What?” I ask. And again, as my brain truly catches up with the meaning of what he’s said: “Wait, sorry, what?”
Rocky releases my hand, straightening like a man on a mission. “You say rings mean staying together forever. I make rings for us. So we stay together. Like last-finger-promise.”
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Or: Rocky learns about the tradition of giving a ring to the person you love. So naturally, that’s what he’s going to do.
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19 Sep 2026
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Eye to Eye by voidknight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
21 Jun 2026
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Getting your brain beamed temporarily into an Eridian body is really weird on the senses. On the plus side, though: there's now so much more of Erid to explore!
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- Part 4 of certaintyverse
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19 Sep 2026
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Without a Doubt by voidknight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
14 May 2026
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Petulantly, Rocky says, “Grace sound stupid. Like child.”
“I’m just talking how you talk, buddy.”
“Yes. This is because I talk like child, to speak to stupid human.”
“Well, you don’t have to do that,” I say without thinking.
“♪♫♩as this♪ when, underst♪♪♫d ♪me, question?” Rocky says.
“What?”
“Can♪♪♫will understa♫d it ♫think talks♫♪ as this♪ Eridian you♩♫, question?”
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- Part 1 of certaintyverse
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19 Sep 2026
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The Nature of a Fixable Problem by startingatmidnight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
18 Aug 2026
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Adrian knows that everything is solvable if you break it down into the right sequence of steps.
The abrupt return of their long-dead partner in an alien spaceship has brought with it a series of absurd, worrying and even dangerous problems, but they're confident they can see the solution even if nobody else can.
They just need to make the alien fall in love with Rocky.
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19 Sep 2026
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Striking a Chord by startingatmidnight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
04 Apr 2026
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Living on a spaceship with an alien that exclusively speaks in song can really recontextualize karaoke for a guy.
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19 Sep 2026
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Leaving a Mark by startingatmidnight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
31 Mar 2026
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Ryland has a tattoo. So does Rocky. It's not the same thing, but it also really is.
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19 Sep 2026
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Love, From Sturdy Solutions Made by darkhelmetj
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
19 Aug 2026
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Your earliest memory is of rough fabrics lining a shallow basin. Polished stones frame the pit; your tiny limbs cannot climb the slippery edges. Instead, you and your clutch-mates scurry about the nest, tiny voices still warbling like the wild creatures that call from outside.
Outside. There is a world outside the nest.
<𝅘𝅥𝅘𝅥?>
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- Part 1 of Song-Birth: Stories of Erid
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19 Sep 2026
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For Science by nykanyka
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
13 Sep 2026
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"Rocky put hand in Grace mouth cavity, statement."
"What."
"For science."
"What," I said again with even more conviction.
grace wants to make the journey to erid more fun with a karaoke session. rocky gets a little freaky and somehow everything changes.
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16 Sep 2026
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wide open spaces by tallboy_benny
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
04 May 2026
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Rocky visits Grace's life support quarters with some exciting news, some time into his recovery on Erid---the biodome habitat has finally been completed.
It takes a step through the airlock and sinks down into rough sand and pebbles. I chirp and hop down after it. Grace has not seen the biodome yet, but neither have I, and in my enthusiasm I dart slightly ahead.
Grace inhales so sharply that I turn to hear him better in a panic. “Grace? Grace, what is wrong? You are hurt?”
My assumption is quickly corrected when, without warning, it bolts.
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14 Sep 2026
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"Hey," I say around the peg in my mouth.
I don't have a laundry bag, so I've improvised by using a storage bag I've cleared the supplies out of.
Rocky doesn't respond to me, he just kind of hovers. He does that sometimes, needing to be in the same room as me. I can't blame him. Honestly, I’m deeply glad he's the one who follows me around, so I don't need to start doing it myself.
"Grace never married?"
I accidentally bite down on the peg a bit too hard.
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Or: Grace pokes at old, forgotten memories and gets his ducks in a row for his slow, painful death. Rocky makes a cultural blunder.
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14 Sep 2026
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We were the one thing in the galaxy God didn't have his eyes on by sburbanite
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
06 Aug 2026
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“So, you want me to be your mate?” I ask, my stomach full of delicious butterflies.
“Of course, what else would all of this be for?”
“I dunno,” I grin. “Maybe you just wanted to have some sexy fun with an alien.”
Adrian lets out a tinkling little burst of laughter.
“I’ve heard you are very good with your hands. But I have designs on all of you, Grace. If you'll have me.”
“We’ll see.” I push myself awkwardly up off the floor. “Let's have our big important date first.”
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Follow up to 'I am healthy, I am whole, but I have poor impulse control'
Adrian, Grace and Rocky work to establish something special on a planet that is pretty incredibly uncool with that.
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- Part 2 of Riches and Wonders
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09 Sep 2026
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From the Palm of My Hand by Myxini
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
06 Sep 2026
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His lips part, and I hear the fluid gather inside his mouth. I can see soft tissues, the shifting muscle of the tongue, hard echoes off those chips of bones he calls teeth. Everything is coated in a layer of thick, sticky liquid. I know I should be disgusted, but somehow, I’m not. Grace’s sheer helpless need fills me with nothing but affection.
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After Grace's brush with starvation on the journey to Erid, Rocky realizes he no longer minds watching his best friend eat. In fact, he kind of really wants to get up close and personal while Grace eats as much as he possibly can.
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08 Sep 2026
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a parable of eggs and baskets by deervsheadlights
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
04 Sep 2026
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Fertility is a fickle thing. Eridians, in spite—or maybe because—of their long lifespan, are only fertile for a hundred years or so.
Rocky anticipates this will be his last clutch. He asks Grace for a favor.
“Remind me why, uh, why we can’t throw together a little xenonite box, stick a silicon heating pad and a thermometer in there, and call it a day?”
‹… Can,› Rocky says, hesitantly. He spins around to put the model down, leaving the two xenonite figurines coupled together, presumably in singular ecstasy or whatever. Joined forever. How romantic.
‹But is… not ideal. Many problems put in nut shell: Once cryo-protectant injected and cooling to 40°C complete, even short 4° internal temperature fluctuation kill egg.›
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04 Sep 2026
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Wavelength by wingedpaki
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
31 Aug 2026
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“Not — not understand,” Rocky continues, a little higher now, his body shuddering. “Try Vℓ times, all failure failure failure. Eridian mating sometimes fail, but not this much. This much unprecedented. Thought location, temperature, time of year problems in previous attempts — fixed all, Grace know Rocky and Adrian work to fix all, and still failure, still.”
Grace fidgets with his hands, stretching each knuckle and palming the free edge of each nail, to keep from throwing himself onto Rocky and howling like an animal.
(Because somewhere along the way, Rocky and Adrian's wish for kids had become Grace's own, too.)
OR: Rocky and Adrian's eggs keep dying long before they hatch, and no one knows why. Grace — who definitely doesn't see himself as a parent to those hatchlings, how stupid and impossible would that be?! — has the normal reaction, which is inventing gene therapy from scratch to help the next egg survive.
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02 Sep 2026
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On their home planet, Eridians have an innate sense of magnetic north and their own position relative to it. Rocky says he has difficulty explaining it to a human, but he tries.
“Because Rocky feels Erid, feels north and feels self, can feel where the home of Adrian is. Rocky can feel the path home.”
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Ryland Grace is the first alien on Erid. He falls in love about it.
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02 Sep 2026
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Time Go Hunting by EtOAc
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
21 Jul 2026
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During one of their talks, Grace and Rocky find out both their species had evolved as predators. Rocky can't believe the squishy-bodied human could ever hunt any prey, Grace insists, so they play a game of hunting to settle this debate.
Story inspired by a comic made by @bluemuffindraws on insta, wich was inspired by a tumblr post.
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31 Aug 2026