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    It's a remarkable fluke that Earth has managed: sending one scientist into space on one-way trip only to discover him back in the solar system after three decades, and sending an entirely different astronaut for a circuit up to Mars and back just for disaster to strike and he's left stranded alone on the planet. Wilder still that the timelines align, and both space-farers end up on the same ship back home.

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    Project Hail Mary x The Martian crossover because the parallels go crazy and I needed to think thoughts that were not just spiraling about PHM so I rewatched The Martian and roped my other favourite scifi main character into it too. Featuring the dumbest fic title I have ever come up with.

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    24 Sep 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 48

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    Ryland spent years convincing himself that what happened at Baikonur wasn't that bad.

    Simon only has to hear one night terror from Grace to know otherwise.

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    22 Sep 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 21

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    Stratt calls Grace for an important meeting and doesn't tell him what it is.

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    22 Sep 2026

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    "Sorry- Who do you think I am?"

    "You are Doctor Ryland Grace."

    "I mean yeah, but I'm just a scientist! I'm a middle school teacher! I am no one important! I do fun maths in a lab all day! I make spreadsheets! I get Stratt's coffee! I'm the coffee boy!"

    "Your conviction is almost convincing. Unfortunately for you, my intel is more precise than you hope. You are not Ryland Grace, 'coffee boy'. You are Ryland Grace, Chief Scientist, Head Astrophage Handler, and second in command of Project Hail Mary. We'll film your ransom in a moment, I trust you're intelligent enough to cooperate."

    Grace stared at her. Stared at the floor. Back at her.

    He was fucking WHAT?

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    Grace gets kidnapped by a terrorist cult, Stratt goes on a very polite rampage, several world leaders are harrassed, two bedrooms are forcefully entered, ilyukhina's vodka is commandeered and Grace finally gets a hug (feat. the Vat being a family, Vattling shenanigans, Stratt's wardrobe choices and Grace having self esteem issues)

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    22 Sep 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 30

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    Grace struggles on the trip back to Erid. Some help from his best friend helps to put him back on track.

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    “Rocky, what on Earth are you doing in—” I stop in my tracks. Or, more accurately, I trip, stumble, and then stop in my tracks. Letting out a stream of half-curses, I turn around to glare at the thing that's definitely bruised the front of my calf.

    That's when I see Rocky.

    He's… in a suit. Not his ball, but — oh my God — an actual clear, xenonite suit!

    It's comprised of a lot of small, triangular xenonite panels held together by some kind of… glue? It’s clearly different to what he used for his ball, since it’s completely flexible and way more form-fitting. I can't even begin to imagine how long it took for Rocky to assemble all of those little panels. They're more like shards, actually, reflecting the light of the ship in little spots all over the room, similar to a disco ball.

    The sight is enough to bring tears to my eyes. I doubt it was intentional, but it's really beautiful.

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    22 Sep 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 84

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    Earth is terrified. Their salvation lies in the hands of aliens who they know nothing about, and these new beings demand one of their own in exchange. Dr. Ryland Grace is their leading expert on Astrophage, and despite his stoic insistence on being sent to the Eridians for the good of humanity, some of them aren’t sure they should give him up on the chance that these aliens will keep their word.

    Grace is delighted, though he’s trying not to let it show. His family has come back with him, and they have left the choice of whether to tell the other humans the truth about his situation up to him. He’s decided to let the rest of humanity make a few assumptions. It’s not like they’re likely to believe the truth, anyway, so what’s the harm in a bit of fibbing?

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    22 Sep 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 74

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    “Grace said no, statement. Grace said no, Earth do anyway. This illegal on Erid, to do after say no.”
    And even as the memory of trying to say no exploded in his brain, even as he drowned in being chased like a fucking animal and shoved into the dirt and held there, held like the fact he was screaming and thrashing and fucking pleading no didn’t fucking matter, he said, “It was illegal on Earth, too,” in an irrational desire to defend his planet. (Where was that desire when Eva had called him into her office and-) “There were only so many options. It was selfish of me. I should’ve been braver. I should’ve wanted to go.”
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    Or, Grace having PTSD from being held down and Rocky trying to comfort him, with a side of Rocky finding out Grace was forced into space

    Title is a common phrase but I specifically drew it from “No” from the musical Jagged Little Pill

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    22 Sep 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 21

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    21 Sep 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 3

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    Colt is forced to reckon with the pain his actions have caused his siblings as he attempts to repair his relationship with Ryland

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    21 Sep 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 10

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    The boys' relationships are tested as they deal with the fallout of Colt's actions.

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    21 Sep 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 18

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    Colt promised Ryland he wouldn't do anything to his bully unprovoked.

    He has a feeling the limits of that promise are going to be tested quite soon.

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    21 Sep 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 38

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    Ryland walks down the aisle of the bus, doing his best to move quickly without drawing attention to himself.

    He nearly lets himself believe he'll make it out the door without incident when suddenly a foot juts into the aisle and he trips, his head colliding painfully with the corner of a seat.

    ~~~

    Ryland's bully takes it a step too far. How will his brothers react?

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    21 Sep 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 12

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    The thing with time travel is it’s an entirely uncharted field. If you know you’ve done it once, do you change things or not? What if you liked the way it ended up the first time? What if you didn’t? What if you make it worse? If the only thing that went back was your mind, what are you then, a Prophet? A saint? Or are you merely crazy? Knowledge is power, but the butterfly effect is long reaching. If you know what happens, and you don’t want to change anything, but you yourself are already irrevocably changed, what happens then?

    Relativity and quantum dynamics and dimensional changes are the work of science fiction, but then so are aliens and space travel. What then, does the hapless space traveler, the unwitting prophet who clings to a life once lived and long gone, what then does he do?

    Ryland Grace is born thinking in whale song and star begot melodies.

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    21 Sep 2026

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    “Grace,” Myrta began gently. “What do you have there?”

    Grace paused, before extending the object to them instead. It was a plain tube, no bigger than a single claw-digit, with an unidentified smear of... something, resting at the bottom. “Staaar-eat.”

    “‘Star-eat’,” Theodor moaned as they picked themself back up. “‘Star-eat’, it says. You let a hatchling into a lab for λλ seconds and it finds unsecured star-killer rolling around the back of a drawer. A single micron from that tube could vapourize the space elevator so thoroughly they wouldn’t even feel a speck of us landing down below.”

    “Ah, geez. I should’ve expected that."

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    18 Sep 2026

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    Grace and Rocky had never spoken about ages during their trip to Erid-- such a simple fact that was never brought up in their four years of travel. Rocky had assumed it was fine, there's no way Earth wouldn't send an adult.

    What do you mean Grace is a fucking infant?!

    alt summary: instead of Rocky getting hurt on the way to Erid Grace gets hurt instead, come to find out the strange leaky alien he's been with for four years is actually a child and Rocky feels like a terrible parent.

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    18 Sep 2026

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    Basically what it says on the tin: the Eridians studying the leaky space blob Rocky brought back and being mildly horrified at, like, most of his weird habits and biology things.

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    12 Sep 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 54

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    Technology is amazing, isn't it?

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    11 Sep 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 26

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    Science happens under constraints, most of the time. There's never enough money in the pot, never enough personnel to manage the workload. There are limits, to what can be done.

    This project has no such pressures. This is a project with unlimited money, unlimited resources; it turns out science is capable of quite a lot, under those conditions.

    The Hail Mary's underway, but the research never stops.


    Across the room, Dimitri notices the action. He sits up straighter in his chair, elbows coming to the table.

    It's been a long time, since Grace was nervous to present.

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    07 Sep 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 22

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    At the tail end of his recovery from regaining his memories, Grace has too much time on his hands and a deep-seated need to show his family his gratitude for everything they did for him.

    A problem remains, however: Grace can and will say something ridiculous instead of something heartfelt. The solution is simple.

    Show that he cares by making it a detailed project with tangible outcomes - shenanigans pending.

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    06 Sep 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 14

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    “Greetings, you have reached the contact services for Grace Rocky Save Stars, the interstellar rescue and recovery service.

    “If you are calling to enquire about our express taumoeba deliveries, please press one.

    “If your sun or planet is being threatened by hostile external forces, such as a death ray or mutant star goat, please press two.

    “If you are suffering from a globally-threatening situation which does not fall under any of the above, please press three.

    “For more general, non-urgent, enquiries, please press four.

    “To repeat the options, press five.

    “Have a nice planetary rotation!”

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    04 Sep 2026

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