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“Need word,” Rocky says in baby-talk Eridian for me. The translator dutifully repeats “need word” in English a second later.
After fifteen minutes of bewildering back and forth between the three of us, we determine the word he needs is “declension.”
A year into the journey to Erid, Grace faces down his most formidable academic gauntlet since astrophage: the five-part polyphonic Eridian language. It’s only fair after Rocky mastered English, human mannerisms, Grace mannerisms- without so much as one complaint. And if learning Eridian might temper some of Grace’s desperate, near-complete dependence on Rocky in the future… well. That’s his own business.
Eridian breaks Grace’s brain, heart, and soul- and puts it back together.
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31 Jul 2026
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took me back to something (that i'd somehow lost somewhere along the way) by AruiI
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
02 May 2026
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The biodome is, at last, finished.
Grace runs.
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- Part 4 of time passes in leaps up here
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31 Jul 2026
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FANART [I'd wave my hand, reveal the stars] by Andersss
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026)
03 Aug 2026
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These are illustrations based on my favorite scenes from the amazing « I'd wave my hand, reveal the stars » by WyvernQuill
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28 Jul 2026
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the light [in] a dark, black night by willoftitanium
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
14 Jun 2026
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A good day, a bad day, and an okay day on the Hail Mary's journey to Erid. Rocky's POV.
Chapter 1: Grace introduces Rocky to the Mythbusters
Chapter 2: Grace has been asleep for 41,400 seconds, and is still sleeping.
Chapter 3: Love to the point of inventionBookmarked by elephantmere
27 Jul 2026
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This whole thing had started out as an impromptu biology exchange, where Rocky had explained the basic nerve structure of his digits and palm, and Grace had, in turn, explained some of the nerve structures in the human body. Including in his neck, where Rocky's third hand rests. His heart is hammering in his chest, and now he knows that Rocky can feel it through his fingers instead of just hearing it as he usually does.
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- Part 2 of By Any Other Name
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24 Jul 2026
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you weren't there that day for the Naming of Things by callmearcturus
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 Jun 2026
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"Rocky did not understand human names and titles when we met. Eridian names longer, give information on Eridian's home, associations, skills." For the first time in ages, he positioned two of his arms together, forming the design that Grace thought of like a family crest, a single design bisected.
"You should teach me to read those before we get to Erid, so I can be polite." As Grace considered the linework, already picking up on some vague ideas from the shapes in Rocky's carapace, something else occurred to him. "So… I picked 'Rocky' because your outer shell looks like stone."
"And for inspirational story of athlete who defeats human system of poverty to become great champion. Eye of the tiger."
"Retroactively, yeah." Grace bent at the hips, getting to Rocky's 'eye' level. "So what'd you name me?"
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22 Jul 2026
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Settled by gravidowl
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
04 Jun 2026
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The toll of listening to his friend waste way from malnutrition and make himself sick on taumoeba harms Rocky mentally almost as much as it does to Grace physically. He never wants to hear his friend vomit again, and he desperately wants him to stop sounding like skin stretched over bones. He'll do everything he can to make Grace healthy again.
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- Part 2 of PHM Weight Gain/etc. Stories
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21 Jul 2026
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dog days by furiosophie for spqr
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
14 Jul 2026
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[What does hand flex mean, question?] Rocky asks from where we're huddled together on the floor, watching the 2005 adaption of Pride & Prejudice.
"It's uh—" I hit pause, search for the right word. "Have we had yearning in the vocab yet?"
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or: two years and seventeen days after reaching Erid's orbit, the climate control in the biodome breaks
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17 Jul 2026
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Dr. Exophile or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Rock by gangstabilbo
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
11 Jul 2026
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Bored on the journey back to Earth Ryland remembers masturbation exists, then his old roommate moves back in and things get Awkward.
or: Rocky learns about Grace's ability to masturbate and totally doesn't get jealous over that.
or: Two nerds jerk each other off.
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11 Jul 2026
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Grace is a well-schooled man who loves learning. Surely he can accomplish his goal in fifty-six days.
He creates a calendar on his whiteboard. Fifty-six days until his ship reaches the Blip-A.
Fifty-six days in which to learn how to say Rocky's name—his Eridian name.
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- Part 1 of By Any Other Name
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11 Jul 2026
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The engineer takes my hand. His skin runs hot. Very hot. He doesn't let go at what I would gauge as a socially-acceptable handshake time interval. Are we just holding hands in the middle of the lab-workshop space? Guess we are.
"I'm Rocky," he finally introduces himself. He has a hint of an accent, something lilting, melodic. I can't really place it.
"Rocky," I repeat, slowly. "Like the movies?"
"No," Rocky deadpans, giving me a look like I'm stupid. "Like the rocks."
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11 Jul 2026
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choked up by nikomedes for harpydora
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
10 Jul 2026
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"You can literally hear inside me when you focus, bud. Has observing the action of my gallbladder in HD made you think less of me as a person, or humanity as a whole?"
[Yes,] Rocky says without hesitation, which makes Grace choke on a laugh. He amends, […at first. Then I get used to. Kind of cute now. Humans need infinity liquids to do basic process, always new mucus…]
"I bet I'm gonna find your ultra-high-temp organs super cute too," Grace offers with an irrepressible grin, "and actually, okay, this strikes me as a morale problem. You're getting too down on yourself. I promise you there is nothing I could find rearranging your—" Nope. "—digging around in there that would shame the entire Eridian race."
[No way for you to know this,] Rocky says flatly.
"There definitely is, because I'm gonna shame the entire human race first."
This is how they spend the next three days on the glove box addition while Mary reads to them from the unreleased 2021 NEISS report, filtered by incidents requiring extraction of foreign objects from the 'lower trunk' or 'pubic region'.
(or, Rocky eats something inedible. Grace helps. They both get Really Weird About It.)
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- Part 2 of niko's phm madness
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10 Jul 2026
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"You're acting weird today."
Rocky exhales a puff of air from his radiator the way a human would. He wonders when certain habits became second nature to him, like tilting his carapace and bobbing it up and down as though nodding, and he wonders, too, whether the time spent with Grace hasn't changed them both beyond repair, until they've become almost strangers to their own species. No longer Eridian, no longer human, but simply Rocky and Grace.
"I'm acting weird?" he murmurs. "You're sitting on the floor in your underwear."Bookmarked by elephantmere
08 Jul 2026
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Dog Years by farseersfool
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
24 May 2026
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One week ago, Ryland Grace passed away.
Today, the first crewed diplomatic mission arrives on Erid.
Rocky, as the leading expert on human culture, has a job to do.
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08 Jul 2026
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“But you said you didn’t have a word for – for forcing someone into reproduction?”
“No. Is different, but equivalent violation. Means, to force to sleep.”
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Or, Dr. Ryland Grace has yet to confront the choices taken from him. Eridian norms, ironically enough, force the issue.
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07 Jul 2026
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approach the asymptote by lizardhands
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
04 Jun 2026
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"There is no point in any of this rumination. You are gone. You are nothing now but a muse, something that I can conjure upon command and listen. You are nothing more now than a lullaby, a prayer, a dissonant, augmented, ugly, beautiful melody."
Rocky and Grace part ways for their respective planets. It should feel like a victory. It doesn't.
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06 Jul 2026
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The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known by SerotoninShift
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
19 Jun 2026
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After the Taumoeba leak, after I decided to die after all and turned my ship around to save Rocky, after Rocky's frantic calculations about food supplies, Taumoeba multiplication rates, and human caloric intake needs, after we realized that with some rationing and luck I would make it, but that we were headed toward the unknown territory of trying to rapid-prototype me a life support system and synthetic food supply on an inhospitable planet: after all of that, after everything, I shouldn't have been surprised that it only took a few months on board the Hail Mary for things to get weird.
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05 Jul 2026
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my grace by some_pomegranate_tea
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
31 May 2026
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Grace tries copying the tones.
Rocky hums. “Close. Skip first note.”
“Why? You always include that.”
“This means… of Rocky, possessive. Of the speaker.”
“My.”
“Correct. But only for names.”
“So you’re calling me…?”
Rocky repeats the word: “My Grace. Yes.”
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04 Jul 2026
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i'd take care of you, if you'd ask me to by belbelbel
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
01 Aug 2026
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“Would it help––should I bring my dinner in too?” Grace jokes, smiling in preparation for the absolute symphony of disgusted whistles he knows Rocky will produce at the thought of them doing something as depraved as sharing a meal. “I’ve been saving this week’s half packet of ramen for just such an occasion––”
[YES YES YES!] Rocky’s translator app suddenly blares from the laptop on the floor between them. [YES, ACCEPT ACCEPT ACCEPT! GRACE RAMEN ♪♫♪♫ WITH ROCKY, AFFIRMATIVE! GRACE ROCKY EAT ♪♫♪♫ MEAL TOGETHER AFFIRMATIVE YES YES AFFIRMATIVE NOW.]
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or, a fic to answer the questions: What if you fell in love for the first time in your 40s, and it just so happened to be with your alien best bud who has five legs, no face, and is already married? And then what if somehow you accidentally proposed to said alien best bud without knowing, because while you may be Earth's best and brightest, you also notoriously suck at close interpersonal relationships (and also you have permanent memory damage)? What then?
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04 Jul 2026
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i'm so curious about you, boy by nambi
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
28 Jun 2026
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It’s obscene in a way that has no human equivalent. I think seeing human genitals on him would’ve shocked me less, because at least that’s something you might reasonably show to another person. But this, the place that is both mouth and everything else to him, that I’ve seen exactly once and then never again because it’s viewed as so private and intimate that even an Eridian’s mate does not get to see—that’s something else. The only time he would reveal himself like this to someone else would be to lay an egg, and even then it would be something you don't draw attention to, something necessary but shameful.
And now he’s showing me.
Not only that, he’s offering.
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Or: Just because the mission is over doesn’t mean Rocky and Grace are done exploring.
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29 Jun 2026