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  1. Public Bookmark 52

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    Simon's new life had been almost perfect. Food, safety, and people who, for some reason, truly cared about him. Of course, nothing good could last forever; his own personal demon has somehow wormed its way into his new reality, and he won't let it hurt anyone else.

    Why does it seem so scared?

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    Ellie gets dropped into the biodome a few months after Simon, and, like him, eventually gets a safe life away from The Horrors (despite technically being a horror herself).

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    15 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 19

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    Simon wakes up on the Hail Mary, disoriented and scared.

    As Grace and Rocky travel to Erid a new human shows up in desperate need for help, first in medical attention and next in mental help and healing.

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    Also they have more food because I don't feel like I can handle writing about starvation

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    13 Sep 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 12

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    ❝... "Mmm. Hate to break it to you, but the if I don't look at him, it disappear trick still isn't working, Simon."

    Simon responded with a low growl from the bed.

    "Aha," Ryland replied, smiling faintly; a hint of nervousness underlying his small note of triumph. "So, you are awake."

    So, to preserve his dignity, Simon had to open his eyes... ❞

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    Five times Ryland Grace take care of Simon since he arrived at the Hail Mary, and the one time Simon has take care of Ryland.

    (and how Simon realizes how long they've been taking care of each other)

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    29 Aug 2026

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    A Eridian scout ship finds an injured human and returns him to Erid. Doctor Ryland Grace is initially excited by the prospect of another human being! But after a catastrophically failed first encounter where Ryland tries to save this newcomer's life as the expense of any trust, they must learn relearn to trust each other.

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    “If you leave,” Ryland pulled himself to his knees, “You’ll die.” He pressed his hands to his knees and stood to his full height.

    He lunged again, driving the stranger’s body into the wall. A pained roar echoed off the walls and threatened to drown out all else. A fist connecting with the side of his head. His vision blackened, vignetted at the edges. Grace screamed an answering roar of his own. Before his legs gave out, he dug in his heels, struggling against the man fighting for his life against him.
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    A Simon/Ryland enemies-to-lovers slowburn (hopefully)

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    07 Aug 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 28

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    Grace and Rocky are on their way to Erid when Grace starts having these strange dreams about a void of blood. For a while he thinks he's finally just gone crazy! The diet of nothing but Taumoeba surely has gotten to his head, right? Right? Not right. Not right at all. Ryland wakes every morning more and more confused while also hacking up FAR too much blood. More than scurvy should account for... But it all clicks when there's a submarine (yes, Rocky sees it too so he's NOT crazy this time) launched into his air lock. But what now...? Simon wants to live, but Grace isn't entirely sure if HE does. Not anymore.

    A bit of eldritch horror mixed with a whole lot of angst which ends in fluff

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    06 Aug 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 53

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    Grace recalls the time he’d learned how the Hubble telescope had spotted “ghost light” emitting from the remains of dead galaxies. How it must have felt to have the yearning pull towards discovery only to find it is long dead. How even though they were gone, NASA had still recognized their light. It was time travel, only they were too late.
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    Grace and Rocky set course for Erid when a new transmission is received by The Hail Mary.

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    05 Aug 2026

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    Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a mission he doesn't remember volunteering for. Alone on a ship scaled far too large for a borrower, he has to try to figure out why he's so far from home, and what he's supposed to do. On top of that, he needs to figure out why this mission is so prepared to have a borrower on the crew--standing at only six inches tall, it's easy to think none of this was meant for him. And yet, everywhere he looks he finds evidence that whoever built this ship built it with both humans and borrowers in mind.

    An impossible task looms over him. A scientific mystery has somehow sent him hurtling through space, impossibly far from any other human or borrower, and it's on him to surpass an extinction-level threat that doesn't care how big someone is. It will end the world all the same if he doesn't do something about it.

    But, despite what he thinks, he's not alone.

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    05 Aug 2026

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    "You're on the Hail Mary. You're safe." Grace says it so many times the words wear a groove into both of them.

    A recovery story told in small moments.

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    31 Jul 2026

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    Whatever happened here was bad. Irrevocably, inexplicably, inarticulably bad in a way that the most basal parts of his being wants nothing more than to escape from. But Grace can't turn away.

    After encountering what appears to be a last hoo-ra emergency mission attempt from Earth caught up in the Hail Mary's wake, Grace and Rocky discover a single, severely injured human being quite literally encased in what Grace can only describe as a crime scene. A horror movie. And when he wakes up? He's mad. Really mad. Talking to the walls mad. Now they have to figure out just where he came from and why. Things are further complicated when all the newcomer (Simon, they learn) can talk about is missing planets, haunted oceans, and non-existent space stations. That and the really weird data they've been picking up on.
    Maybe part of solving that is, much to Rocky's enthusiasm; both Grace and Simon slowly realizing how lonely they are.

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    26 Jul 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 92

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    Grace was no medical doctor, but he could tell this guy looked like he was dying. And not dying in the sense of ‘all men go the same’ but literally about to die.

    “Oh sugar,” he muttered

    Should he help?

    This was the only human - predominantly human, he amended, he had seen in years. Maybe sort of an asshole, he had used him as a shield, but he hadn't seemed to be trying to hurt him.

    Option A: let him die
    Option B: try to save him

    His hand itched to write a pro-con list. The man moaned. It was such a human sound, the type of noise Grace had not heard in literally over a decade. Save him it was.

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    Grace returns to space, only to come face to face with the world of Iron Lung.

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    23 Jul 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 59

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    Hands.

    There were hands on him.

    Someone was pressing their hand against his chest, before pressing against his neck. Oh they were checking if he was alive, looking for a pulse he assumed. At least he hoped. Seemingly confirming that he was alive, he felt the hands readjust him, before wrapping underneath his arms to lift. He felt his body start to drag against the floor.
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    Simon is used to violence. He was used to following orders without question. Believing in the cause.

    What he wasn't use to was a literal angel breaking down his walls one gentle touch at a time.

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    21 Jul 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 85

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    A compilation of cross posts from my tumblr, they're set in the same au but they're mostly just a way for me to play with Simon's character and trauma
    Can be read as a ship or not, it's not the focus

    Ch 1: Simon and Grace meet-ugly
    Ch 2: Grace and Rocky talk in the aftermath of chapter 1
    Ch 3: Simon's POV after waking in the hail mary
    Ch 4: Freaky self indulgent vivisection dream that's still related to Simon's character
    Ch 5: Simon having to do a blood test and not coping
    Ch 6: Simon instigating

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    21 Jul 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 12

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    When Rocky wakes Grace up in the middle of the night, telling him about a mysterious object at seemed to appear out of nowhere on Erid, he did not expect that object to be covered in what looked like human blood.

    Nor did he expect there to be a living, breathing, seemingly human body inside close to death.

    When he rescues the stranger, he discovers he has a kindred spirit who has also had an extremely traumatizing experience from which he is slowly recovering.

    What follows next is a period of learning, introspection, and readjustment as Grace and the stranger learn to live together.

    AKA Two sad gay spacemen find each other and talk about their feelings.

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    21 Jul 2026

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    "Are you satisfied, Butcher? You've killed us all."

    Or: PHM AU where Simon was the pilot and navigator for the Hail Mary...sort of.

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    19 Jul 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 81

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    Simon and Ellie have a mission to save their stars from going extinct, except they find a weird submarine object with a body inside
    This is a swap au I made! So instead of Grace and Rocky saving Simon, it's Simon and Ellie saving Grace

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    18 Jul 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 3

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    ''ᴏᴏʜ, ᴀɴᴅ ᴏᴜʀ ɢᴏᴅꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ʜᴇʀᴏᴇꜱ
    ᴀʀᴇ ᴏɴʟʏ ᴏɴᴇꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ᴢᴇʀᴏᴇꜱ
    ᴊᴏɪɴ ʜᴀɴᴅꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ꜱɪɴɢ ᴀʟᴏɴɢ
    ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ ᴡᴇ ᴋɴᴏᴡ ɪꜱ ᴡʀᴏɴɢ.,,

    Due to Simon's aggression and failure to comply with demands he is sent to one of the head biologists of Eden, Doctor Ryland Grace; Who is currently the lead researcher for a special project. He has big plans for Simon, and he believes the convict could help him with his research.

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    06 Jul 2026

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    Ryland Grace finds a submarine, filled to the brim with Astrophage. With a lowered fuel supply and a determination to ensure he and Rocky make it to Erid to save the star with as little complications as possible, why wouldn't they accept free fuel?

    Unfortunately for Grace, and fortunately for Simon, it looks like the Hail Mary is going to be getting a new crewmate.

    May The Gods Help Us All.

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    26 Jun 2026

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    The worst part about it, Simon thinks, is that when his skin starts to slough off, it’s replaced by a film of blood. And when that starts, the line of demarcation that separates what was strictly him and strictly other starts to fade. Even when his left arm detaches with an uneven rip and the voice in his head stops being his voice, he still hopes there’s a way to distill his real self from the sludge.

    Simon subscribes to the idea that people get what they deserve as a consequence of their actions. Something along the lines of karma. It brings a sense of closure, and he’ll take closure where he can get it. With that, Simon submits himself to the notion he’s getting exactly what he deserves. This is how it’s going to end - with him blindly slinging an axe in a battle for unsatisfying gulps of metallic air, fumbling around the dark for a line that used to exist.

    But he wakes up. And the first thing Simon’s traitorous brain thinks is that this man has the kindest eyes he’s ever seen.

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    25 Jun 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 19

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    It was decided. Ryland was going to save the drowning man in front of him.

    Thanks to forces beyond his field of study, a broken man has been delivered to Ryland Grace's doorstep and he couldn't be more grateful. He just wishes that they both could retire from saving the universe.

     

    [Updates Every Saturday]

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    23 Jun 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 7

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    Once upon a time, there was a fox on the run and a lamb to the slaughter.

    The fox was running from a responsibility he never wanted to inherit.

    The lamb was being sent to a fate worse then death.

    Both had one thing in common, all they wanted was to keep living. So, they ended up living together, no one but them understanding how they felt.

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    20 Jun 2026

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