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you'll be out in the open (part of everything alive again) by rootspan
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021), His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
06 May 2025
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A series of vignettes, mostly unrelated to one another.
His Dark Materials Fusion AU, lots of dæmon interactions, eventual angst that comes with season 2 of Arcane.
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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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17 May 2026
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aperture by birdbyrne (beezlebubz)
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
18 May 2026
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Ryland doesn't know where he is, what he's doing, or why he's doing it. All he knows is that he's in a universe with no stars and that an organization called the COI found the Hail Mary spinning out into deep space. He knows that Rocky may be injured somewhere, and he knows that the man that currently lays in a hospital bed in front of him should be dead as dirt but has miraculously survived.
He knows he has been given an ultimatum. Find out what brought Simon back to life or never see Rocky again.
The task proves more complicated than he thought.
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16 May 2026
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The Astrobiology Immersion Program by startingatmidnight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
10 May 2026
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It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.
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16 May 2026
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Within A Spectroscopic Binary by oofouchyikes
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
22 May 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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07 May 2026
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“Hey… Is everything alright?” Jayce was by their side in a second. Even if he didn’t know them, this being so clearly was magic, in the flesh, and Jayce was nothing if not drawn to magic. “It– I promise, we just do research in here. Equations, experiments– But you can leave whenever you want to!” No, they can’t, they’re fucking stuck, Jayce. “I mean– If you don’t like the lab, you don’t have to– We’ll get you back. My partner and I… Well, my partner’s the one who really comes up with the clever ideas, but we hone them together, and I’m sure we can–”
“Jayce.”
On instinct, Jayce whipped around to the door, expecting Viktor to be there, standing behind him, watching one of his rambles with that practiced expression that, if Jayce let himself think on it too long, almost felt like fondness.
But no one was there.“Jayce.”
-- Or, Jayce is exploring their creation late at night, and discovers someone he isn't expecting. (Alternatively, Season 1 Jayce spending an evening with the Arcane Herald, because I see a lot of Season 2 Jayce with Season 1 Viktor which is lovely and all but we deserve the inverse.)
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27 Apr 2026