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Leftover Light by atimefeeler
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026)
14 Jul 2026
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“Don’t let the blood get into your ship, okay?”
That made Grace pause. “What?!”
“If I die, you have to get my body out of here,” the man pleaded, but Grace had to go. His oxygen was out. The guy would be dead in six minutes. “You have to get me out, even if I’m dead. Hey!”
“Just hold on!” Grace propelled himself through zero gravity, away from the radio.
“Don’t leave me here-!” The roar echoed through the ship halls.
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When Ryland Grace complained about being a little bored, maybe a little lonely, he thought a nostalgic trip around Erid would fix him right up. The last thing he expected was to find deadly space bacteria in deep space and a human. Alive.
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In which two deeply damaged people try, badly, to offer each other olive branches without mistaking them for weapons--or turning it into a sex thing.
(It's definitely a sex thing.)
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(Trans!Grace repeatedly gets the rug pulled out from under him. Simon continues to require several therapists. Unfortunately, there are still no therapists on Erid.)
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- Part 4 of The Butcher and the Lamb
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19 Jul 2026
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You know that Bloodymary fic you're gonna finish some day, where you've already planned that the notes are going to say "Being communicative is not the same thing as a lack of communication problems'"? Whooo boy: did this author beat you to the punch...
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It is red. A bright, remarkable red. Ryland unbuckles himself, stepping around Rocky to press his hand to the window, and rubs at his eyes when his vision blurs. “Rocky.”
“Grace-friend sit down. Head leaking.”
“It’s got an ocean.”
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An AU where Simon survives to be found by Grace, and accidentally brings something else with him.
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There are some great quick-and-dirty guides to HTML on A03. This is not one of them - it is a comprehensive guide
It's now 2025, a decade later. A03 supports some new HTML and and we're all walking around reading fic on supercomputers that fit in a jean pocket. It was time to update.
The previous three chapters have been divided into smaller concepts. Each tag continues to have - at a minimum - a link to the w3schools page about it (so you can learn more), a code example, and the result of the code example. Most tags have their attributes, things like [src] or [title], listed and examples of how using the attributes modify the tags.
There's a chapter on Bad Ideas, including how some of the archive's default CSS is available to you to format your work (users can't turn that off by hiding a workskin!)
Oh. And I added a bunny army. You could learn how to add one too.
/)/) /)/) /)/) (..) (..) (..) *( ) *( ) *( )
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- Part 19 of AO3 Work Skins/Tutorials
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Any Semblance of Touch by TrashLass for gxee
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026)
15 Jul 2026
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Touch-starved Ryland Grace was excited at the prospect of another human on Erid who could help with platonic touching every once in a while. Simon, however, refuses to touch Ryland, closes himself off from everyone around him, and keeps having sex dreams about Grace.
What could possibly go wrong if they’re in a room together?
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Grace refused to be so pathetic as to get hard from a punch to the face (he very much did get hard from it)
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15 Jul 2026
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you can come closer (i'll let you hurt me) by s0lanum
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
20 Jul 2026
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Grace is beautiful and brilliant and, inexplicably, always has a smile for him. He's an angel to Simon's dog and Simon will spend the rest of his life groveling at his feet.
He doesn't mind.
[Or: Simon believes he needs to give Grace something in return for everything. Along the way, he falls in love, all while thinking Grace views their arrangement as something purely sexual.]
[Read the first work in this series first! It's essentially chapter 1.]
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- Part 2 of there's a hole that you fill
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I'm Ryland Grace - AMA by sly_as_an_alpaca
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
12 Jul 2026
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What the title says. About 11 years ago (from my perspective; relativity is weird) I was launched into space onboard the Hail Mary to figure out a solution to the Astrophage problem. Now I live on an alien planet I call Erid, in the 40-Eridani system. Yes, I’m actually Ryland Grace. Ask me anything.
Also, can someone please tell me if Eva Stratt is alive? And ideally send me a video of you punching her in the face? Guess that’s a long shot, but it can’t hurt to ask.
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Grace and Rocky figure out how to connect to Earth's internet from Erid. They may not have thought this through.
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honey, tell me: are you good at staying still? by BeeLove
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
12 May 2026
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(wake up your saints, ryland, i need them)
In which Ryland Grace makes it his mission to rescue the broken, bloody man he and Rocky found drifting among the stars. (He just doesn't realize that this broken, bloody man is going to rescue him too.)
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11 Jul 2026
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BloodyMary (Simon the Convict/Ryland Grace) by ObsessiveAgony
Fandom Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
06 Jul 2026
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09 Jul 2026
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“Inguinal ligament!”
- The Way To a Man’s Heart is…Gardening? -
Numb Shoulders and Interrupted Science by SWAGDRAGON_13
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
05 Jul 2026
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Within seconds, he was muttering to himself again.
Simon leaned back in his chair.
His eyelids felt... heavier than they had a few minutes ago.
He blinked.
The tiredness didn't go away.
It had been a long day.
Repairing the cooling system had taken longer than expected.
He'd skipped his afternoon break without realizing it.
Now that he was finally sitting still...
His body seemed determined to make up for it.Bookmarked by paper_starz
08 Jul 2026
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Clarity by Moooses
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
16 Jul 2026
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Simon believes he's hallucinating. That the man he keeps seeing and the pristine ship he repeatedly finds himself in aren't real. That that monster is fucking with his head.
Grace believes he's got a lot more on his plate than just the fate of the earth, and he's not sure which task is more impossible: stopping the astrophage without any memories, or helping one man in another universe.
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By getting yanked between universes, Grace gets to experience the horrors, Simon gets to save the stars, and Rocky gets two (2!) humans for the price of one.
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"-so I think, and here's the part I'm really afraid of, I think ninety nine point nine percent of humanity got turned into blood soup," Grace says.
"And Simon currently trapped in human blood soup, question?" Rocky asks.
He lets his head fall back and closes his eyes. "Hes in the soup. Hes so in the soup Rocky."
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08 Jul 2026
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Grace's pusle is beating against his check. Simon knows pulse, where it bleeds out. Its trying to tell him something new, now. He shifts to put his ear to it, hear it's secret. He hears Grace's heart beat out alive alive alive.
No, that's not it, he knows that. What's the truth that exists now, right now. What is true about here and now. He remembers what Grace said, he had called it a comfort. He closes his eyes.
Safe safe safe.Read through Ch 21
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For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky by GhostOnTheMoon
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
18 Jul 2026
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Simon arrives on Erid with no memory. His wounds, his vessel, and his fear are his only clues to his past, and Grace his only shepherd.
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Simon experiences amnesia on Erid similar to the amnesia Grace experienced on The Hail Mary.
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05 Jul 2026
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Read through Ch 25
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“Simon, you were in a cult. If they had brainwashed you enough, broken you down enough, you might have done anything they said, regardless of how you felt about it. Nothing you did for them reflects who you really are.”
“How the fuck do you know that?!”
“Because I know you.”“You are a gardener, Simon. Not a butcher.”
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Eva Stratt has come to realize that one Doctor Ryland Grace has managed the impossible once again.
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02 Jul 2026
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the great tribulation by aloremrem for Ikira
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game)
17 Jun 2026
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When Grace gets seemingly teleported by means unknown into the SM-13 right as it was nearing The Light, both Simon and Grace have no idea what is happening. Grace knows he was supposed to be in his house on Erid, Simon knows this new guy cannot possibly be a hallucination, and Ava, upon hearing Grace ramble about theories for how he got there, knows that new guy is Smart. Could-Secure-Our-Survival Smart.
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Prism the Eridian by 22FantasyLover22
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
04 Jul 2026
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The story of sharkfiinn’s character Prism and their adoptive mom Grace ^^
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Mom Grace by 22FantasyLover22
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
26 Jun 2026
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There their hearts went again, clenching so hard it made them want to cry out.
Because why did Mom never say this to them? Why did it have to be someone who could never be more important to them than a teacher?
Why couldn’t Grace be their mom?
A rendition of sharkfiinn's character Prism getting adopted by Grace.
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- Part 1 of Prism the Eridian
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01 Jul 2026
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We Three Amongst the Stars by kokica1
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
14 Jun 2026
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Grace and Rocky are one year away from Erid when an unidentified object slams into the Hail Mary. It's an object that shouldn't exist in a place that shouldn't hold problems.
Inside is a man that definitely shouldn't exist, too.
After a violent first meeting, Grace, Rocky, and their newfound passenger - Simon - are forced to survive the remainder of the trip to Erid together: low on supplies, stranded in deep space, and each carrying traumas from their difficult journeys.
Yet somehow, against all odds, they begin to build a life together aboard the ship.
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29 Jun 2026
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Short Circuit (5+1 times) by Lex_To-Be-Kind-Takes-Work (Seth_Silver_Ink)
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
16 May 2026
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“It’ll work better if you insulate that wire and connect it to the bolt of this gear,” Simon leans in closer as he speaks, pointing to what he’s talking about, his breath hitting the shell of Grace’s ear with each word. “It’ll keep it from short circuiting.” The ghost of contact never made makes Grace want to writhe in his seat, maybe even dare to reach o-
“Ri-” Grace’s voice cracks embarrassingly high before he clears his throat, “right, thank you so much, I will get right on that.”——
Or 5 times Grace short circuits plus one time that… He still short circuits.
So more accurately 5 times Simon unintentionally short circuits Grace, plus one time he intentionally short circuits Grace.Bookmarked by paper_starz
29 Jun 2026
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After years of believing he was going to be alone forever, Ryland Grace is informed of a spacecraft drifting near Erid. The survivor he pulls aboard is Simon: younger, scarred, broad-shouldered, and carrying enough religious trauma to fill a spaceship. As recovery turns into late-night conversations, shared nightmares, and one very crowded bed, two men who have both been starved of human touch begin to realize that survival is easier when someone is there to reach back.
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Ryland Grace rescues a human he thought he’d never find. Simon is wounded, haunted, and convinced he doesn’t deserve saving. Ryland disagrees.
EDIT: this story now has two endings like a choose-your-own adventure novel
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28 Jun 2026
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Oh my godddd, these quotes are just too good:
"Missing something just means it mattered."
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"What if the thing you miss never existed?"
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"Then what you miss is what you should have had.""No one at Eden liked questions."
Grace looked at him.
Simon kept his eyes on the notes.
"They said questions were a sign of weak faith."
Grace's stomach turned.
"That's convenient for the people in charge."“You don’t have to belong immediately,” he said. “You can just arrive.”
Simon breathed out slowly. “You make everything sound simple.”
“No, I make everything sound like a solvable problem because if I don’t, I panic.”Let the children learn that curiosity was not permission. Let the entire planet learn it if they had to.
If Grace had asked him to stay, Simon would have stayed. If Grace had said it mattered, if Grace had looked disappointed, if Grace had needed him to stand there and answer every question until the whole planet was satisfied, Simon would have done it because some part of him still did not know the difference between being wanted and being useful.
Eventually I learned that being alive after the emergency is not the same as failing to be useful.”
Simon did not relax so much as redistribute tension into more efficient places.
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Ryland looked down at his clipboard, where he had written a reasonable script, supplied earlier that day by Adrian. Unfortunately, the moment his eyes landed on the words, his brain supplied only terrible ways to say them.
He chose the worst one.
“I need flowers with prominent reproductive structures.”
The man went completely still.
Ryland could feel his soul attempting to leave his body.
“For a plant anatomy lab,” he added quickly. “For my students. Middle school students. Not–” He cut himself off, because there was simply no end to that sentence that would improve his situation. Instead, he just weakly smiled, and added “Science.”
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Ryland Grace is brilliant with biology, awkward with adults, and far too invested in giving his students the lessons they deserve. Simon Fleischer is a guarded florist who trusts plants more than people and has no interest in being needed by anyone again. But when a forgotten school lab brings Ryland into Root & Thorn, their lives begin to tangle in quiet, unexpected ways – through flowers, roots, and the terrifying possibility of being cared for properly.
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25 Jun 2026
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Read through Ch 9
Oh my goddddd, how does this fic have so many good quotes?? Who do I have to murder to get lines as good as these?
...Asked for something low-maintenance for the office and he told me “Nothing is low-maintenance if you ignore it.” Plant is still alive though. Five stars.
Competence was dangerous. Ryland had learned that about people. Competent people made him want to hand them things. Problems. Trust. The soft, ugly little truths he usually kept behind his teeth.
Competent people with strong arms, a nice face, and a working knowledge of plant anatomy were, frankly, a public safety hazard.And then there's the one I'm going to be bringing to my therapist later:
“Okay,” he said, because Adrian had once told him that arguing with kindness was not the same as accepting it. “Thank you.”