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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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    28 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 36

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    Es De Anatomía

    Idéntica A La Mía

    Su Rostro Es De Alegría

    Y El Mío Es De Agonía..

    -OR!!

    Simon appears on Grace’s ship, they meet VERY ugly, Simon and Grace try to navigate their relationship, but Simon realizes that something is very very wrong with him. Grace ends up getting worse due to scurvy. Simon feels useless, what can he do other than stand by Ryland's side like a useless cuck gargoyle? I mean it's not just like a big, gigantic ship is gonna come out of nowhere and save them MY GOD-

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    28 Jul 2026

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    The Eridians have finally gotten the water feature in Ryland's personal zoo enclosure just right (even if Rocky would like him to stop calling his dome that).

    Rocky refuses to believe that humans naturally float. There is no way Ryland's entire species regularly goes into deep water for fun.

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    24 Jul 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 65

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    Grace was no medical doctor, but he could tell this guy looked like he was dying. And not dying in the sense of ‘all men go the same’ but literally about to die.

    “Oh sugar,” he muttered

    Should he help?

    This was the only human - predominantly human, he amended, he had seen in years. Maybe sort of an asshole, he had used him as a shield, but he hadn't seemed to be trying to hurt him.

    Option A: let him die
    Option B: try to save him

    His hand itched to write a pro-con list. The man moaned. It was such a human sound, the type of noise Grace had not heard in literally over a decade. Save him it was.

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    Grace returns to space, only to come face to face with the world of Iron Lung.

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    22 Jul 2026

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    Rocky and Grace break the incredibly specific Hail Mary accent to Erid at large.

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    15 Jul 2026

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    Kenneth Turner has tried to deny the call of the sea ever since Barbara Swann fished him out of the ocean and took him in. But when pirates attack their home of Port Royal and kidnap Barbie, he's unable to leave her fate in the hands of the British Navy and does the unthinkable—he breaks a pirate out of jail.

    Captain Wilford Warfstache is his best shot at rescuing his dearest friend, but the more time he spends with the mysterious eccentric man and the longer he's out at sea, the more he dreads his inevitable return to shore.

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    11 Jul 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 39

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    The tow ship, along with its entire crew, is mysteriously flung deep into a dead zone after Simon miraculously appears on their ship. With no way to call for help, dwindling supplies, a single shitbox shuttle, and the most capable pilot the COI has ever seen suddenly re-available for further abuse, Captain Ava has to make the tough call and send Simon on a risky mission through space as their last hope.

    A fix-it with severe consequences where I restore cut content from the movie, do some world-building with the Eden-COI culture split, expand on Cross the Wires guy's character, let Simon kick back a little bit, explore Ava, David, and Jack as characters, and then dissect Simon's head as he slowly succumbs to psychosis out in the ass crack of space. If you want to read about Simon doing absolutely nothing with suffering in between, this is your story.

    AKA: guy with writing degree and 300+ pages of notes on Iron Lung after watching the the movie 20+ times, writes a "characterization bible". This is a self-inflicted writing challenge.

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    09 Jul 2026

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    Simon and Grace made it up and out of the blood ocean and into the hands of the COI.

    Lets see how far they can go beyond the original pages of the story.

    (A continuation of "virtual insanity", where Ryland Grace with fresh amnesia is plopped into the SM-13 and has to survive with our local doomed convict, Simon. Now, they're part of the COI and must deal with the fallout of that survival)

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    07 Jul 2026

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    Basically, what if I put Ryland Grace with amnesia in to the SM-13 right after Simon flash banged the COI crew with radiation?

    This covers the events of the movie, and then all the stuff that happens after

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    05 Jul 2026

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    I was asleep when it happened. I'd woken up without my meories on a suicide mission to save the sun and met and tentitivly befriended an alien(!!) this past month. My life was already going crazy.

    So why wouldn't a blood covered person appear out of nowhere on my ship. And oh boy, its a kid the age of my students. What could possibly go wrong?

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    28 Jun 2026

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    Simon just irradiated 3 people and got dropped back into the blood ocean. He'd love to wallow in his mistakes, but there's something shifting just behind the wall...

    Ryland Grace does not know that "Ryland Grace" is his name, nor does he know where he is or who the hell this scrappy man is next to him.

    (Freshly amnesia-d Grace appears in the SM-13, and now they BOTH have to deal with it)

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    24 Jun 2026

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    “I don’t know,” says Simon. “I don’t even know where we’re going, they won’t tell me.” He buries his face in his knees and arms again, and Grace hears something that sounds suspiciously like a sob. Maybe Simon’s eyeballs were sweating too.

    “You have to promise you’ll come back,” Grace demands, his own lower lip trembling. "Pinky promise!" He jabs his pinky into Simon’s cheek and pokes him with it until Simon looks up.

    Simon’s eyes are red-rimmed, but Grace’s glad that he’s managed to surprise just the tiniest smile from him. “I’m not pinky promising, that shit’s for babies,” he says, eyeing Grace’s extended pinky with mock disdain.

    “Then how am I supposed to know you’ll keep your promise?” Grace shoots back.

    “We gotta seal the deal with something else,” Simon says seriously.

     

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    A modern-day AU with no astrophage or the quiet rapture where Simon and Grace are childhood friends and met at a playground when they were eight.

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    15 Jun 2026

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    "- and Mr. Grace really took most of the fall for me and honestly I feel kinda bad because he's already in trouble with Principal Morita for that thing he said to the Brooklyn Visions' coach at the last Academic Decathlon and-"

    Peter's voice whittles down to a high pitched whistle, forgetting that he needs to breathe to continue creating more sound.

    After a few more agonizing seconds during which Peter weighs the possibilities that he just gave his mentor and the savior of the world a heart attack, Mr. Stark looks up at him, eyes suddenly wide.

    A beat passes.

    "What's your teacher's name again?"

    AKA, Ryland Grace and Tony Stark hooked up in college. This is fine, until 20 years later, Peter Parker gets involved. It's all downhill from there.

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    14 Jun 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 22

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    The whole room was decked in glitter, streamers, and disco balls. Ken felt at home as he entered the thrall of dancing bodies and danced along, not really paying attention to the people dancing on stage. 

      That is until a man with a pink afro strutted onto it. He wore a pink silk button up shirt and banana yellow bell bottoms. Though somehow, his most prominent feature was the magnificent mustache that sat atop his lip, the edges just as pink as his afro. Ken stopped in his tracks as the man grinned out at the crowd, before winking and gracefully slipping into the choreographed dance happening on stage. Ken couldn't figure out what he was feeling. It was like when Barbie smiled at him. Just the sight of this man made his veins run hot and his heart start to pound.

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    13 Jun 2026

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    “Is it okay if I touch you?” the man breathes.

    Simon doesn't know why he asks. No, it's not okay. None of this is okay.

    “Please,” he continues when Simon doesn't respond. “I-I need permission.”

    Simon closes his eyes. It's his own type of silent defiance. If this man isn't just fucking with him – if he does, for some strange reason, feel bad or guilty about capturing him, then good. Let him drown in it.

    Simon is captured by a compulsive liar who, bafflingly, gives him food, smiles at him, and pretends the Quiet Rapture never happened.

    Grace saves the life of a violent human who seems to be under the terrifying delusion that every star and planet has disappeared without a trace.

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    11 Jun 2026

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    “Hi, Ken!” A passing man waves at him.
    “Up yours,” Simon deadpans. If he can’t swear, he can at least get creative with it.

    (Or: Simon wakes up in Barbieland. He's pretty sure if Hell were a real place it would be this, complete all of the with pink accents.)

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    10 Jun 2026

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    Ryland Grace is not going to be one of those *crazy* time travellers. He has more sense than that. He can totally fix things and get back home and nobody will ever be the wiser. The Acting thrum would be so proud of how well he is pulling this off right now.

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    Ryland Grace is a time traveller. He's also the world's smartest idiot. The rest of the team on the Vat is totally gonna let him fix things, but honestly, how stupid does he think they are?

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    08 Jun 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 84

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    During their journey back to Erid, Grace and Rocky find themselves in a starless void. At first they assume there must be a scientific explanation, but when they find a man welded into a submarine they realize things are far worse than they imagined.

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    Grace wakes to the sound of Mary and Rocky talking over each other. Blinking away the haze of sleep, Grace groans as he tries to focus on understanding what the heck is going on. Given Rocky’s voice is both closer and louder, his brain parses what he’s saying first.

    “Grace, what’s that mean, question? What’s going on, question?”

    Ok, not the most helpful. Sitting up, sleep properly leaves Grace’s mind as he listens to the message on the overhead.

    “Forward star detection, lost. Aft star detection, lost. Starboard star detection, lost. Port star detection, lost. Ventral star detection, lost. Dorsal star detection, lost. Autopilot offline.” Mary says, repeating the message.

    The exterior cameras on the Hail Mary use the positions of the stars around it to calculate it’s own position. That’s how the autopilot knows when to make course corrections.

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    03 Jun 2026

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    Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
    Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
    🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5

    It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.

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    24 May 2026

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    "Bad. Stupid, very stupid." Grace can still hear Rocky's automated laptop-voice through the closed airlock door. "If Grace body poisoned by 'foreign contaminant', Grace die, contaminate spread and Rocky die—"

    There's more blood smudged on the floors, the walls, leading up, up...Oh. There's a handprint. A handprint of blood. There's no way that could have happened without Grace realizing.

    Rocky's still rambling on in the background: "—Adrian die, Stars-Erid-Earth die, all die because Grace is stupid."

    Grace can hardly believe the conclusion he's about to draw. "I think someone's on the ship."

    "Repeat words. I was narrating Grace-Rocky future."

    "Rock, someone's on the ship."

    —-—-—-—-—-—

    An AU where Project Hail Mary and the Quiet Rapture both happen in the same universe, but at different times.

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    24 May 2026

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