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endlessly through hollow bones by deervsheadlights
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
15 Sep 2026
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Eridians don't have a word for [goodbye]. They also don't have a word for [burial]. They only have the final sleep, and the forever after, and mourning songs that ring within deathless shells.
Or: If you sing with your crewmates' bones, they will sing back.
And if you give your Human companion detailed instructions on how to ritually disembowel your body after death, it might have some follow-up questions.
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12 Sep 2026
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One Grace-sleep is not so long.
It is not “night,” but Grace calls it night, and so Rocky does too. One human night. One third of one human day. One three-hundred-thousandth of Rocky’s life so far.
This is what Rocky tells himself. He folds up on his xenonite shelf above Grace’s sleeping area, and he listens, and he fiddles with his clock, and he tells himself that it is not so long.
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Rocky has lived through the deaths of many of his friends. He does not want to lose Grace.
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06 Sep 2026
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to be understood by scarlct_vvitch
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
18 Jun 2026
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Two days after their first contact—and more importantly, their first words—Grace sets up his thinking machine to speak.
Rocky does not need the assistance of a machine for Grace’s language. It is ugly and harsh to listen to, but it’s relatively simple to learn. That, and, well—Rocky was alone for a very, very long time before he met Grace. He maybe hangs on to each word a little more than strictly necessary. Grace only needs to tell him each word once for Rocky to know it forever.
Grace, though…
Well, he’s lucky Rocky is patient. Let’s leave it at that.
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05 Sep 2026
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“Need word,” Rocky says in baby-talk Eridian for me. The translator dutifully repeats “need word” in English a second later.
After fifteen minutes of bewildering back and forth between the three of us, we determine the word he needs is “declension.”
A year into the journey to Erid, Grace faces down his most formidable academic gauntlet since astrophage: the five-part polyphonic Eridian language. It’s only fair after Rocky mastered English, human mannerisms, Grace mannerisms- without so much as one complaint. And if learning Eridian might temper some of Grace’s desperate, near-complete dependence on Rocky in the future… well. That’s his own business.
Eridian breaks Grace’s brain, heart, and soul- and puts it back together.
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01 Sep 2026
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dog days by furiosophie for spqr
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
14 Jul 2026
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[What does hand flex mean, question?] Rocky asks from where we're huddled together on the floor, watching the 2005 adaption of Pride & Prejudice.
"It's uh—" I hit pause, search for the right word. "Have we had yearning in the vocab yet?"
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or: two years and seventeen days after reaching Erid's orbit, the climate control in the biodome breaks
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16 Aug 2026