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Half-Measured, Half-Committed by childofhebe
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026), The Fall Guy (2024), The Gray Man (2022)
25 Sep 2026
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"You don't even have a dog."
See, even Eva Stratt is wrong sometimes. Ryland didn't tell her everything about himself, and now he is very grateful for it, because this one secret he kept from her saved his life. He is still walking on Earth. He is with his brothers (and Court's mysterious, annoyingly attractive colleague?). He is NOT drugged and in space, shipped off like a sacrifical lamb.
However, Eva Stratt is not to be underestimated. The Hail Mary is grounded, and is waiting for him. For the desperate people of the Earth to hunt him down like prey and bring him back to face his destiny.
So Ryland has to run, and run, and run, and never look back.
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The Hail Mary did not Launch AU combined with Simon is a Sierra Agent AU. Yes, it is a wild ride.
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05 Oct 2026
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stars fading (but I linger on) by noomi_nu
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
27 Sep 2026
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Somehow, in some twisted, unbelievable turn of events, the fate of the entire planet, billions upon billions of people, had fallen on Ryland Grace's shoulders. It was a burden he wasn't fit to carry. A burden that he could feel in all its massiveness weighing down on his chest, squeezing his lungs until all he could eke out of them where wheezing, barely-there breaths.
He pressed his forehead harder against his knees and curled his fingers tight around some of the fabric of his pants, his knuckles turning white. He couldn't—this wasn't how it was supposed to—
His life—his kids—
Simon.
Or Ryland Grace is a middle school teacher turned lead astrophage scientist. Simon Fischer is a convict turned engineering specialist. Surely absolutely nothing could go wrong on a cosmic scale because neither of them are astronauts.
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28 Sep 2026
Bookmarker's Notes
I cannot bear to start this yet but want to eventually
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The Scientist by AzaRed
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Iron Lung (2026), David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types
07 Oct 2026
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Simon looks older. Quieter. More cautious.
Grace is sure Simon sees the same. Two sides of the same coin, two men both touched by the passage of time and circumstance.
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Thanks to Rocky and Adrian, Ryland Grace is suddenly thrown into lab work for the first time in years. His Summer break is now filled with petri dishes, poor notetaking practices, and Adrian's engineering coworker wiggling his way back into Grace's heart after destroying it twelve years ago.
Simon Fischer has made peace with his existence. He has his cat, a small house, and his garden. It's more than he deserves after the monstrous accident his work as a combat engineer caused. But, something about seeing Ryland Grace's smile has Simon hoping for more.
Memories old and new swirl between the two men. What happened all those years ago? Can they try again?
You know what they say: third time's the charm.
The College!AU into Coworkers/Slice of Life fic that no one asked for.
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virtual insanity by BronzePlates
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
04 Jul 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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- Part 1 of Say Grace
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17 Sep 2026
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"There's no need to negotiate for your safety, Doctor Grace," Stratt says sternly. "I can assure you, after saving the world, you will be looked after."
"Um, no," he says, shaking his head. "I'm not negotiating for my safety." He steps aside. “I’m negotiating for theirs.”
They walk into the light of the open doorway; Simon, squinting hard against the vivid sun with his hand raised to shield his eyes and Rocky, who chirps a casual "Hello, humans!" with a wave.
There’s a gasp; someone takes a step backward; one of the military personnel raises their rifle slightly.
Grace doesn’t have eyes for them - he only looks at Stratt.
And he decides, then and there, to replace the image of Stratt’s face sending him to his death, full of remorse and sadness, with the one in front of him: utter, complete disbelief.
Grace thinks he'll treasure it forever.or: rocky, grace and simon go to earth instead of erid
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17 Sep 2026
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Finished, want to reread, so beautiful
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Back to blood by OomintchocoO
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
14 Aug 2026
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After crawling out of a pool of blood, Simon finds himself in the most unlikely scenario. He is on a foreign planet with an attractive scientist who offers him the safety and comfort he so desperately needs.
This peace is shattered, though, when Simon gets dragged back into the nightmare he came from. Ryland has no way to get to him. He's a scientist, not a dimension hopper. Simon knows he's doomed.
What he doesn't know is that Ryland has managed to beat the odds once before. He isn't one to give up so easily, especially when it comes to those he cares for.
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- Part 1 of Simon and Grace are in deep shit (blood)
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09 Sep 2026
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A Stranger on Distant Shores by anya_ackerman
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Iron Lung (Video Game), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
29 May 2026
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So Ryland Grace will love Simon until the day he dies.
And Ryland Grace will love Simon in the next life, and the one after that, and all the ones after that.
And Ryland Grace will sit on an empty shore of a dead sea under a forgotten moon and watch Simon live a long, full life; loved and safe and happy and free, trails of ice crystals and moondust left in his wake as he chases the light of thousands of shining stars.
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Three times Ryland Grace thought he was in love, and the one time when it was true.
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Bookmarked by thoughtdaughter10203
03 Sep 2026
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Cried so hard at this one dawg omgg
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Pushing it Down and Praying by Sagethegayplant
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), The Fall Guy (2024)
20 Aug 2026
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Was it casual when you took your cross off to kiss me?
Simon lives in a “commune” (religious cult) within a small town with his parents and two younger brothers and is trying to be the responsible adult for them working a job at the local convenience store. Ryland and his brother Colt are forced to stay the summer before their senior year with their great aunt who just so happens to live in the same town. Things happen.
GRACE, COLT AND SIMON ARE ALL LEGAL ADULTS
This fic is inspired by Star Tripping by Kevin Atwater and of course, Pushing it Down and Praying by Lizzy McAlpine but you know, in a gay way.
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If the Stars Could Smile by KC Terra (Coora360)
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
03 Aug 2026
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Simon had been working at the middle school for barely two months, and somehow, everyone already knew who he was.
The students knew him as the new metals teacher with one arm who could somehow demonstrate every project better than they could. The faculty knew him as competent, punctual, and impossible to read. The boys' wrestling team knew him as the coach who had accidentally embarrassed their own coach during a demonstration match.And the girls' wrestling team? The girls' wrestling team seemed to know everything. Or at least they acted like they did.
"Coach Simon, do you know Dr. Grace?"
How could Simon NOT know who Dr. Grace was?
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A teacher AU.
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- Part 3 of If the Stars Could
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18 Aug 2026
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The dragon offered Katara a deal: protection for her family and tribe if she lived with it for a year and a day. And she said yes. Because what other way was there to save her people?
But there was more to the dragon than Katara bargined for.
An "East of the Sun, West of the Moon" retelling.
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11 Aug 2026
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“You built a teleporter?” Grace swallows. “You – did I know you could do that? Did you know you could do that?”
“Could not do that.” Rocky lowers himself back down, fiddling with the device. “Had theory. Much trial and error. Build long time. Should work.”
“Should – it should work?” Grace sputters. “You haven't tested it?”
“Not without you,” Rocky says, as if that should be obvious.
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05 Aug 2026
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Blood From The Blood God by Antilocapra
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
19 Jun 2026
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There were times after Rocky moved into the Hail Mary when Grace would be hunched over an experiment, struggling to make things work; struggling to find the solution that Tau Ceti held, then struggling to grow nitrogen-resistant Taumoeba faster. Sometimes he would sit staring at the farm-tanks, slouched in his chair with his hands dangling over his knees, and whisper to himself. “Please,” he would say. “Please, please, please.”
“Who is Grace talking to?” Rocky had asked in the stilted way he’d been stuck with at the time.
“No one,” Grace had shrugged. “Or anyone. Anyone who’ll listen.”
Rocky does not understand humans. But now, he sits on the shore of an infant sea, a brand-new constructed world all around him just waiting for its single lonely occupant to take control of it, and wonders if human senselessness is worth a shot.
“Please,” he whispers, running his claw through the water. “Please, please, please.”
The sea does not respond.
Or, what if your friend accidentally catches the attention of a god in hopes of saving you, and that god falls in love with you instead?
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04 Aug 2026
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Best bloodymary fic I've read, for real
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"So he's really paralyzed?" Simon asks.
"Oh? Uh, yeah." Grace turns back to Rocky's sleeping form and gestures broadly at him.
Rocky is curled at the bottom of his tunnel, legs at his sides, body resting on the ground.
Simon nods, looking uncomfortable. "So he won't interrupt."
"Nah, he can't, he's– huh?" Grace fumbles for his glasses in earnest now. His heart rate picks up, but he's sort of hoping he's wildly misinterpreting what he just heard.
"Sit back down." Simon growls as Grace goes to stand up.
Slowly, Grace sits back down on the floor. He looks Simon over again and realizes, with a panicked flutter in his stomach that quickly spreads through his limbs like ice water, that Simon is holding a razor blade.
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Grace & Rocky decide to go check out an SOS call. It could have gone better. (Trust me, eventual codependent friendship all around.)
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Dreams and Ghostlight Angels by Bibarian
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
06 Oct 2026
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Simon had never been sure whether it was better to be awake or asleep. Being awake meant facing the horrible reality of the Quiet Rapture and of his prison sentence, not knowing when he might be killed to spare resources...or become resources.
Meanwhile, sleep meant being haunted with nightmares made up of his past sins and trials.That is, until he started dreaming of an angel.
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25 Jul 2026
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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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- Part 1 of Rootbound Cinematic Universe
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18 Jul 2026
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how to get a boyfriend (and a son): a Guide by Ryland Grace by throttleheart
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
05 Jun 2026
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Simon goes to pick up his son from school and Grace manages to embarrass himself in front of the huzz.
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14 Jul 2026
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Saving Grace by thendpoem
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026)
14 May 2026
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An angel. Fucking shit - his prayer worked. His prayer worked and God sent an angel to save him, or-
Oh.
"Am I dead?"
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Or, Grace attempts to save a severely injured and traumatised Simon.
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- Part 1 of I Won't Quit On You
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12 Jul 2026
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When the Convict Plays Warden by Bibarian
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026)
05 Oct 2026
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Eva Stratt knew that the Hail Mary's mission would be tough. Human psyches are so very fragile, and emotions can make people act erratically.
That was why she chose a fourth member of the Hail Mary crew. Someone who could make difficult decisions.Enter: Simon.
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11 Jul 2026
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For Evermore by dreaming_up_aces
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types, Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Iron Lung (Video Game)
30 Aug 2026
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The Butcher makes a deal with Ellie, a voice in the blood ocean. He is deposited somewhere full of grace, with one mission: find love to remove the mutations that have turned him into a monster.
Ryland Grace lives on an alien world. He was content with his stories and his science, his students and his chosen Eridian family. But when a mutated monster washes up on the shore, he suddenly has someone to share his world with.
Inspired by Beauty and the Beast.
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Maka is hit with a witch’s curse that compels her to return an unrequited love. It is not in Soul’s favor.
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24 Jun 2026