Starry_Oceans
Recent bookmarks
-
Tags
Summary
Ryland Grace isn't teaching summer classes this year, so he comes up with the bright idea of going on a "vacation" - AKA, driving across nearly the entire continental United States to go to a research summit. His car breaks down just outside a town so small it's hardly included on maps: Salt Creek, Tennessee, right by the Kentucky border. Maybe it's the warm spring air, the charming tiny library, or the cheap diner food that makes him want to stick around awhile. Or maybe it's the quiet, handsome stranger fixing his car.
Bookmarked by Starry_Oceans
09 Oct 2026
-
Far Too Young To Die by JustAManicMonty
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
09 Oct 2026
Tags
Summary
Ryland Grace attends Petrova University with his roommates Rocky and Adrian. Brilliant yet clumsy, he finds that his circle of friends is too small — so small that he can’t even find a partner for his class project.
Simon Fleischer goes through the motions as he attends the same university. He’s been alone so long he doesn’t find friends necessary, especially since everyone assumes him to be violent because of his appearance. But still, he needs a partner for his psych project.
After crossing paths at a house party, the pair decide to work together. Simon fails to show up to their work session, returning to class days later acting strangely.
Forced onto a road of blood and isolation, Simon fights to keep his humanity and his secret. His new vampire lifestyle forces him to confront the old pain he’s been avoiding for years.
Oblivious to his struggles, Grace wants to get closer to him. Maybe because that pain is so familiar. Or maybe it goes deeper than that.
Can Simon resist the temptation to tear into flesh?
Can Ryland solve the puzzle that is Simon?
Bookmarked by Starry_Oceans
09 Oct 2026
-
your name whispered by the fire by otayuri_oh_nice
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
07 Oct 2026
Tags
Summary
Two weeks after the disaster of a conference that was meant to be his academic victory run and the successful start of the rest of his life as a molecular biologist, Ryland Grace escapes to one of Washington’s state parks. Hiding away in his twin brother’s cabin, Ryland has to come to terms with the fact that the life he worked so hard for had slipped right through his fingers because his ego had been larger than his logical brain, and now he’s haunted by a community of scientists and online enthusiasts yearning to run what little is left of his dignity into the ground.
But as a hike, one fuelled mostly by spite because obviously he didn’t learn his lesson just yet, goes south, he’s forced to call the rangers for help. And because life hates him, the ranger who told him not to wander into the woods is the one to take his call.
Something about ranger Simon’s disapproving and definitely disappointed look cuts deeper than he anticipated.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 224,092
- Chapters:
- 28/?
- Comments:
- 2,274
- Kudos:
- 1,542
- Bookmarks:
- 387
- Hits:
- 48,651
Bookmarked by Starry_Oceans
09 Oct 2026
-
When My Time Comes Around (Lay Me Gently in the Cold, Dark Earth) by Ellectrix
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
10 Oct 2026
Tags
Summary
It's the easiest thing Grace has done all month. He signs his name on the underlined space, returns the clipboard to the man, and waits as the employee leaves to prepare for ‘dumb as a rock’ Pomeranian's departure.
When he gets to the front desk to pay for the adoption fees, the young woman manning the station smiles extra-wide for him. “Thanks for adopting him. He's been on his own here for far too long. I'm glad to see him finally going to his forever home. What will you name him?”
Grace glances down at the dog carrier he holds in his hand. After the Pomeranian's last failed adoption, they decided to keep him unnamed. Calling him by his old name kept sending the poor guy into a spiral, looking for his old human that used to call him by it.
He thinks about it for a moment. Then, a smile comes to him unbidden as an ironic joke comes to mind. “Rocky.”
_
Or: The AU where Eva Stratt lets Ryland Grace go and he proceeds to adopt a dog he names Rocky and becomes friends with a local homeless man called Simon in a desperate attempt to justify his existence after refusing to go on the Hail Mary.Bookmarked by Starry_Oceans
09 Oct 2026
-
Something to Lose by S666t666n
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
10 Oct 2026
Tags
Summary
Slice of life Coltland Twins Bloodymary AU! No astrophage. No Hail Mary. Human Rocky and Adrian will be introduced later!
Ryland Grace is still a teacher at Grover Cleveland Middle School in San Francisco. Simon in the Uncle of one of his students. They meet at the same time as Colt comes back into his life, those things are not independent of each other.
Hope you're ready for this ride because it's...rocky. lol.Simon grew up in a death cult and his backstory will be discussed in depth, including the torture he was subjected to.
Colt and Ryland had an abusive father as well, so read at your own risk!- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 421,113
- Chapters:
- 49/?
- Comments:
- 3,072
- Kudos:
- 3,592
- Bookmarks:
- 672
- Hits:
- 132,411
Bookmarked by Starry_Oceans
09 Oct 2026