20 Bookmarks by Starry_Oceans
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Escaping Eden by infernalpalindromeofwoe
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (Video Game)
13 Oct 2026
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The year is 2051. Dr Ryland Grace was able to come home from his suicide mission, thanks to Rocky's generosity. The Taumoeba farms worked perfectly... nothing went wrong on his journey home.
Now he is back on Earth and Eva Stratt needs to decide what to do with him... But Grace already knows what he wants; he want's to fade into obscurity and go back to teaching. Nothing is too much trouble for the man who saved the sun. So Stratt makes it happen.
Grace settles into his new life, finding comfort in his familiar routines. But something keeps gnawing at him. He's come to terms with the fact he was sent, is almost thankful for it in some ways. What he cannot come to terms with is the way he was sent and that... leads him down a journey of questionable decisions.
Simon Fisher grew up in a cult and after committing a crime at the age of 20, he spent 12 years in Prison. Then a month before his release, the world rejoices at the news that the Hail Mary mission succeeded, whilst Simon is made an offer he cannot refuse. A new identity, freedom from his cult, in exchange for information. New life acquired, it rapidly goes downhill.
Plot with eventual smut.
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10 Oct 2026
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Acceptable Losses: A BloodyMary Teacher AU by 10vs for laeollla, noomi_nu
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game)
10 Oct 2026
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When NASA assigns Ryland Grace to oversee crew safety on a mission to a blood-red moon, he finds himself teaching the one man who treats survival like dead weight — a reckless, brilliant ex-convict engineer and pilot who enrolls in his class just to take it apart.
Grace has spent his whole life being the most reasonable man in the room. It turns out the hardest thing he'll ever have to survive is falling for someone who was never planning to come back.
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- Part 1 of Mandatory Training
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10 Oct 2026
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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.
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09 Oct 2026
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Far Too Young To Die by JustAManicMonty
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 Oct 2026
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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?
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09 Oct 2026
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your name whispered by the fire by otayuri_oh_nice
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
10 Oct 2026
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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.
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Bookmarked by Starry_Oceans
09 Oct 2026
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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
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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.”
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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
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Something to Lose by S666t666n
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
10 Oct 2026
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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:
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- 49/?
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09 Oct 2026
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The Eridians had made little sense of it when it was first detected, resonating from within an astrological body only a fragment of light years away that had—apparently, impossibly—not been there before. A crooked moon with no star, they’d said. No planet. And, from it, this little noise that had reached the Eridian transmitters, quick as a heartbeat. Staggering like a gasp of breath.
A sign of life, crying out into the universe for help.
And Dr. Ryland Grace, in all his cosmic stupidity, followed it.
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OR: a cosmic anomaly brings two lost and broken souls together and reminds them of what it means to be human.
Bookmarked by Starry_Oceans
06 Oct 2026
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Imagining Sisyphus Happy by the_wanlorn
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026), The Fall Guy (2024), The Gray Man (2022)
06 Oct 2026
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The thing was, Ryland had never really stopped thinking about Simon after that one glorious summer. They'd hung out every day for three months, and then Ryland's family had to move to a whole different state for his dad's work, and he'd never been able to go back.
Post-UNESCO, post-cult, two friends reconnect and fall in love.
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- Part 3 of Crab Bucket of BloodyMary Fic
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06 Oct 2026
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You Push, I Pull, We Both End Up Falling by Shineyybean for ollicrillix
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026)
05 Oct 2026
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Grace is pushing forty, still working the same old job as a biology teacher at a private San Francisco high school. His life is pretty unassuming. Mundane at best.
At least until he meets his new coworker Simon, the twenty-something PE teacher who is hellbent on seducing him.
Not that Grace would need much persuading. Only, he's a bit too oblivious.Grace shouldn’t have come here again.
It’s a horrible idea. The worst one, really.
But if it is so wrong, why does the thought of it have to feel so good?
Simon leans against the cold, white tile of the teacher showers.
“You can’t seriously stand there and tell me you’ve never even thought about it,” Simon mutters, resting his head on the wall, damp hair falling onto his face.
Grace gulps, hard. He should leave. Turn back and pretend none of this ever happened. That would be for the best.
But he doesn’t.
“I have,” he nods. His lust clouds his judgement, and he speaks without contemplating it first. “I’m thinking of it right now, actually.”
Simon smirks.
“And are you gonna do something about that, Mr. Grace?”Fic illustrated by ollicrillix.
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06 Oct 2026
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Wayfaring Strangers by the_chapaa_herald
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026)
12 Jul 2026
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Simon, a disgraced biomedical engineer, spends his time as a hermit, shut up inside his apartment during the day. His ideas and willingness to take risks have labelled him a psychotic recluse, as did the accident that took half his arm, half his senses, and the life of his lab partner and best friend. Stripped of his title, his funding, and his general standing in the local community, he moved across the country to escape. He cannot outrun his past. He is not well.
Enter Grace.
Ryland is an esteemed molecular biologist, his genius and ingenuity known throughout the nation- and one or two other countries, but he doesn't like to brag. Despite his numerous diplomas and published papers, he chooses to spend his time surrounded by the chaos of a classroom, trying to keep children engaged in the science and life of the world around them. The distraction is a welcome one after witnessing the death of his twin brother in a tragic work accident. Teaching his students quickly became all that he had. Placed on leave and unable to teach, he now has nothing.
The collision of their paths happens unceremoniously and spectacularly all at once in the midst of a musty gymnasium support group.
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- Part 1 of Wayfaring Strangers AU
Bookmarked by Starry_Oceans
04 Oct 2026
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Seven Minutes in Heaven by Bean_in_a_Pan for laeollla
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026)
25 Aug 2026
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Inspired heavily by laeollla's 4-part comic on instagram that shares the same name. This was written and posted with their permission.
To win a game, Ryland has to play Seven Minutes in Heaven with Simon.
Just for the game though, right?...Right?
Bookmarked by Starry_Oceans
30 Sep 2026
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Head in The Clouds by Laiken_lux
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Iron Lung (Video Game)
04 Oct 2026
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Ryland Grace has had a less than ideal childhood. He's hoping starting fresh at university will finally teach him how to be a normal person. The trouble is, he has to actually talk to people in order for that to happen...Good thing his eccentric roommate Rocky and lab partners Adrian and Simon never leave him alone.
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27 Sep 2026
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By Chance by WeirdlySpiritual
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Iron Lung (2026)
12 Oct 2026
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The best love stories start with a dog.
Ryland Grace is used to chaos. It comes with the territory when you teach middle school science. But a white dog wandering into his classroom? That's new. So is texting the owner, making a fool of himself, and accidentally falling for a man he's never even met.
Simon Fisher has his hands full with Laika, his niece Charlie, and a fresh start in a new town. He doesn't have time for distractions. He definitely doesn't have time for the kind of distraction that makes his heart race from a single photo.
But the universe has other plans. When Charlie ends up in Ryland's class, Simon realizes some things are worth the risk.
Falling fast has never felt so right.
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A/N: This is an insanely sweet and fluffy story with so many cliches, tropes, and other similar moments. Make sure to have your dentist on standby.
A/N 2: Alright I threw some bricks. XDBookmarked by Starry_Oceans
22 Sep 2026
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Thirty did not feel finished, and Ryland was glad. The blank pages beneath his hand did not feel like proof that he was late to something.
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On his thirtieth birthday, Ryland reflects on the life he once expected to have and realizes he is happier with the one he actually built.
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- Part 3 of Rootbound Cinematic Universe
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14 Sep 2026
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To be filled with light, and to shine by nethyfern
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Iron Lung (2026), The Fall Guy (2024), David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types
11 Sep 2026
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At the compound, the only books they were permitted consisted of a short list of theological books and a few children’s books that didn’t contradict Father’s teachings. Even those, Simon had read hundreds of times by the time he was a teenager. Having such unrestricted access to the books at the library had filled him with so much wonder; he took a new one home every shift. They offered him information about the new world he had suddenly found himself in, but they also provided him with a feeling of connection; the stories of thousands of characters were at his fingertips—full of hope, survival in the face of hardship, and, above all, love. He read nearly everything he could get his hands on, finding merit in every story no matter the genre or content.
Maybe it was fate that it was those very same books that led him to meet Ryland Grace.
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AKA a Bloodymary AU where Simon is a librarian who has just left the cult he grew up in, Grace comes in for materials for his students, and they fall in love while also healing the parts of them that reject softness <3
Title is from 'When I am Among the Trees' by Mary Oliver
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12 Sep 2026
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Within A Spectroscopic Binary by oofouchyikes
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
05 Oct 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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- 172,909
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- 75/?
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07 Sep 2026
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Not the only human by Liz_art_Cern
Fandoms: Bloodymary - Fandom, Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), ironmary - Fandom, Ryland Grace - Fandom, Simon - Fandom, Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Iron Lung (Video Game)
06 Aug 2026
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"Your cooking tastes like prison food," Simon muttered into the glass, his voice bitter but without a trace of venom, fogging the pane as he spoke.
Ryland let out a breathless, watery sound, halfway between a laugh and a sob. "I'll take that as a compliment."
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A continuation of the story after the events of Project Hail Mary and Iron lung. I try to be as story (and fact) accurate as I can be for the nerds out there. I see you, you're welcomed here (and everybody else). I heavily rely on PHM book with some details from the movie.
TL;DR Grace is panicking because Simon is hot, but make it slow burn and cosmic horror. >:D
#look at the tags: Body horror and graphic injuries!- Language:
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03 Sep 2026
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The Scientist by AzaRed
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Iron Lung (2026), David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types
07 Oct 2026
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Simon looks older. Quieter. More cautious.
Grace is sure Simon sees the same. Two sides of the same coin, two men both touched by the passage of time and circumstance.
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Thanks to Rocky and Adrian, Ryland Grace is suddenly thrown into lab work for the first time in years. His Summer break is now filled with petri dishes, poor notetaking practices, and Adrian's engineering coworker wiggling his way back into Grace's heart after destroying it twelve years ago.
Simon Fischer has made peace with his existence. He has his cat, a small house, and his garden. It's more than he deserves after the monstrous accident his work as a combat engineer caused. But, something about seeing Ryland Grace's smile has Simon hoping for more.
Memories old and new swirl between the two men. What happened all those years ago? Can they try again?
You know what they say: third time's the charm.
The College!AU into Coworkers/Slice of Life fic that no one asked for.
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01 Sep 2026
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The Romantic Hypothesis by iwillmakethisasituation
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026)
09 Aug 2026
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Ryland Grace loses a drinking bet against his brother and must attend a college Halloween party to meet the love of his life.
Hey readers! Just a quick heads-up: I’m currently going through the story to edit, revise, and correct typos/mistakes.
No major plot changes at all! If you see chapters updating or notifications popping up, that’s why!
Thanks so much for reading! :3 ❤️Bookmarked by Starry_Oceans
28 Aug 2026