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Alienation and Recovery by I_Like_This_A_Normal_Amount
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 May 2026
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While working on solving the issue of Grace slowly dying of starvation, malnutrition, and a host of other issues, the Eridians discover the human internet (largely Wikipedia) and fall down a rabbit hole of trying to figure out everything they can about the needs of their squishy alien savior. While most of their focus is on the food issue, another link catches their (metaphorical) eyes.
"Touch starvation, also known as touch deprivation or skin hunger, is the physiological need by humans and other species for physical contact with their own species or other living beings."
No one is happy about this.
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27 May 2026
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The Universe is Never Wrong (Soulmates AU) by Caseyrocksmore
Fandom Project Hail Mary (2026)
22 May 2026
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Soulmate AU where destiny is weirder than expected.
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25 May 2026
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let all the children boogie by disasterdrow, Taraxinium
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
17 May 2026
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After four years of space travel, Grace and Rocky are finally approaching Erid. Grace has been working hard to learn Eridian, but two days out, disaster strikes - his keyboard is broken and Rocky is hurt.
Luckily, Grace can speak some very basic Eridian with his single set of vocal cords. Unfortunately, he sounds like a newly hatched baby Eridian when he does.
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- Part 1 of Baby Bird
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24 May 2026
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I Crawl Inside and Turn the Cockpit Clockwise by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
09 Apr 2026
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‘You have three hours.’
Stratt’s words echo in Ryland’s head. He is huddled on top of a building surrounded by satellite dishes, curling up as small as he can make himself, legs pulled up to his chest, arms slung around them, head buried in his knees. He must look pretty pathetic but no one will see him up here and even if they did, he’s kind of over it. They just asked him to die, he deserves a bit of a mental breakdown, thank you very much.
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Three times Ryland Grace wasn't given enough time to think about where he wants to go and one time he was given all the time in the world.
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24 May 2026
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The Greatest Act of Optimism by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
30 Apr 2026
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The Eridian thrills a high sound that doesn’t get picked up by the translator which means that it has no clear meaning. Like when a human gasps or sucks in a deep breath. It actually sounds a little like that. When they notice that I’m staring straight at them they scramble back into their hiding spot and hold very still.
A child, I realize with a start.
That’s a child!
“Hey,” I call and the kid squeaks again. I was about to get to my feet but abort the movement and crawl closer on my hands and knees until I'm inches away from the xenonite wall. I wait and it takes me much too long to realize that they don’t have to peek around the corner to see if I’m still there.
“Hey there,” I try again, my voice low and calm. It’s my teacher voice, the one I use for shy and scared students.
Used.
The fact that I haven’t had to use it for years and it still comes to me automatically almost knocks the air out of my lungs but this is not about me, it’s about making sure the little pebble doesn’t die of fright from the scary alien. “Hi, I’m Grace. It’s alright, you don’t have to be scared.”
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How Grace finally gets back into a classroom, where he belongsSeries
- Part 1 of Teacher Grace's Extraordinary Curriculum
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24 May 2026
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and we'll never meet again by theolelazzledazzle
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
14 Apr 2026
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Rocky drops his tools, making Grace jump. “Nightmare? Grace had nightmare?”
He sounds panicked. Grace hurries to reassure him. “No, no, not a nightmare. Just a…just a dream.”
“Just dream?”
Grace sighs. He wrings his hands and sniffles. “We were…on a beach. Together. Sharing the same atmosphere. Safe and…and happy. You asked me about the constellations.”
“Rocky no understand,” Rocky says. “Sound like good dream. Why Grace sad, question?”
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- Part 2 of what dreams may come
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23 May 2026
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Space Orc??? This Guy? by My_Dark_Strange_Son_24
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
17 Apr 2026
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In their complete shock, Adrian thinks they can be excused for missing another presence on that ship before they were almost pounding on the ship's door. But when they did notice, they froze in their tracks.
Bipedal. Almost completely organic. Two front-facing, predator-like light detectors. Descriptions flashed through their head, descriptions that are only known through dead bodies because no Galactic Collective agent would dare go near them alive.
It's a human.
Rocky is trapped in a ship with a human.
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The Humans Are Space Orcs fic that nobody except me was asking for, so I wrote it myself.
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23 May 2026
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Finding Home by C4t1l1n4
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
27 May 2026
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A series of short fics exploring Grace and Rocky's friendship, among other things. (Each chapter is its own story; I just wanted to have them all in one place.)
Chapter 1: Rocky thinks humans are equally disgusting and cute. Somehow, through it all, Grace reminds him of home.
Chapter 2: Rocky can pick Grace up easily, and Rocky thinks it is very funny. Rocky and Grace tease each other.
Chapter 3: Eridians bring Grace their babies for him to see, and Grace learns about Eridian culture/religion. Grace is also bad at taking compliments.
Chapter 4: Rocky makes Grace celebration jewelry. Later, Grace gets a similar gift from Adrian.
Chapter 5: Grace and Rocky tease each other, and Rocky is introduced to the idea of throwing things at your friends. He decides that humans are odd, but maybe aren't all that bad.
Chapter 6: Grace tries to convince Rocky to swim, but Eridians don’t typically like deep water because they are heavy and will sink/drown. Grace learns about some Eridian mythology.
Chapter 7: Grace talks about the lack of support teachers have on Earth. Rocky is confused by this.[This has a limit, so new chapters will have their description at the beginning of the chapter instead]
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19 May 2026
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Now Trending: My Mate and the Human They Didn't Want by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
16 Apr 2026
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It's not jealousy. Adrian is adamant about that. They are actually insisting that it’s not any emotion at all. Not even dislike. They are simply completely uninterested in anything that concerns “the human”.
Rocky believes them. Adrian has always been the level-headed one out of the two of them. They are too logical to be jealous. They acknowledge that Grace and Rocky have a special bond after everything they went through together and also understand that none of that will ever pose a threat to their relationship.
Neither are they heartless or ungrateful. They know that Grace is the only reason that Rocky is back at all, the only reason their star has stopped dying. Adrian has told Rocky again and again that they are grateful and happy and wish the alien no ill will. They even helped with the construction of the biodome.
And yet they have no desire to get to know Grace.
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You know those videos where the dad is like "You may keep the cat but I will have nothing to do with it" and a few days later they are smothering the kitty with cuddles and love?
Adrian never stood a chance.
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19 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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13 May 2026
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"Don't feign innocence, moga."
"I never said I was innocent, Christ, you're dense," Daniil breathed. His trousers were too tight; it was all too many layers of fabric, dulling the contact that should've been overwhelming until it was only teasing, just enough stimulation to drive him insane. "I'm not feigning anything, and I'm not wrong. You're the one who broke my nose and then mounted me like a feral animal, wouldn't you say that's depraved? Hell, you're lucky I'm even allowing this, knowing your bloody track record."
Artemy snickered into Daniil's ear. "It's not broken, don't be dramatic. Your pretty face will be just fine."
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For sworn enemies dead set on killing each other, Daniil and Artemy survive an awful lot of one-on-one encounters.
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03 Apr 2026
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Number one rule for working the night shifts at the sketchy gas station in the middle of butt-fuck nowhere was to not look at them, and they would leave you alone. They weren’t even supposed to see you if you didn’t look at them - just flicker the lights, rattle some shelves, and inflict the fear of death into your bone marrow.
Then, one night, one of them with stupid eyebrows and a serious attitude problem chose to come in only to start yelling at Zoro, who had done literally nothing to deserve it.
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OR: Zoro works at a gas station that gets creepy visitors at night. One of them is more annoying than the others.- Language:
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22 Feb 2026
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There’s a crack, and then something like a rattling sound in his skull, and it’s been barely three seconds when Trevor finds that his mind has gone neatly and blindingly blank.
There’s a ringing sound, too – a strong, bleeding thing, not unlike running your finger on the edge of a champagne flute – and he blinks the world back into focus, the ground sloped on its side and biting into his cheek as he spits the gravel from his mouth. Ah, he thinks. I’m bleeding from there too.
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16 Feb 2026
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Hashirama really doesn't approve of the thoughtful way his father looks at his younger brother's bright red eyes. He's sure it doesn't mean anything good for anyone.
He's right.
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06 Feb 2026
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Everyone in the world has a gift from their soulmate: some inborn, characteristic ability passed from one soul to another along an intangible, unbreakable bond. Unbreakable, but not inviolate, at least to those willing to cross the boundary of sanity and ethics to exert control, as Hashirama—and then several others—discover, rather to their horror.
(As far as anyone knows, Tobirama does not have a soulmate. And yet, secrets long buried do have their ways of making their way back to the light, and grave dirt does stain.)
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21 Jan 2026
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In the shadow of a village built on impossible dreams, two men find themselves bound by an arrangement neither sought. Tobirama, the accomplished alpha who carries his failures like stones in his chest, has exhausted every medical intervention, every desperate attempt to fix what his father's cruelty carved from him. Madara, the omega who makes alphas kneel, refuses to bend to a society that would see him broken before it sees him equal.
When Hashirama's well-meaning machinations bring them together, what begins as mutual convenience becomes something far more dangerous. In the space between expectation and reality, between the roles they cannot play and the people they truly are, an understanding takes root.
But some hungers run deeper than flesh, and the greatest intimacy may lie not in what bodies can do, but in the brutal honesty of being seen, truly seen, by someone who knows what it means to disappoint the world simply by existing.
Sometimes the only way forward is to stop pretending to be whole.- Language:
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20 Jan 2026
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Several months after saving the star, and after a memorable evening with Erenville, Meteor finds himself listless in a state of semi-retirement. A part of him hopes he might catch sight of the beautiful viera gleaner one evening at the last stand, but fate had another plan for their paths to cross once more. Roped into an adventure across the sea in Tural, Meteor finds himself entangled with Erenville again.
What begins as something casual threatens to become something more, if only Erenville can stop being so exasperated with Meteor's antics.
Dawntrail spoilers.
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- Part 2 of Meteorville
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20 Jan 2026
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Madara never liked to advertise the fact that he had an alter. In fact, only his brother knew that he could turn into a horse.
Until none other than Senju Tobirama had to barge in and meddle, with his pockets full of carrots and apple slices.
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11 Jan 2026
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Tobirama could map the spread of a poison, trace the arc of a contagion. But this was something else. A pressure building beneath the surface of every mind in Konoha, eroding restraint, whispering that want was reason enough.
He’d already ruled out infection, chakra interference, genjutsu, mass hysteria. None of it accounted for the same hollow look in the eyes of some of the villagers or the sudden hunger that burned through the rest. Something deeper was threading through them all, and it had started here—seven days ago.
At the center of it sat the merchant’s gift he confiscated from Kagami.
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09 Jan 2026
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The thing about garnering a vampire's interest is; Madara is the least of Tobirama's problems.
That would be the demon cult dogging his heels.
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06 Jan 2026