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1. Thermal Equilibrium by sakusbo

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Other
   • Work in Progress

   12 May 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ryland Grace/Rocky
   • Ryland Grace
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • The Hail Mary Computer | Mary (Project Hail Mary)
   • POV Ryland Grace
   • POV Third Person
   • i refuse to write first person sorry
   • Eridian Culture & Customs (Project Hail Mary)
   • Alien Cultural Differences
   • Courting Rituals
   • loosely based on spider courting rituals
   • Oblivious Ryland Grace
   • Manipultive Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • is it manipulative to deliberately not tell your mate-to-be they're being courted
   • Canon - Book & Movie Combination
   • Slow Burn
   • Eventual Smut
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Banter
   • half the dialogue really

   Summary

   If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, it will float there quite placidly. As the water gradually heats up, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.

   -Daniel Quinn, The Story of B

   As Grace and Rocky work to save their suns, Rocky begins courting Grace. Except Grace has no idea he's being courted and Rocky has no plans to tell him any time soon.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

   1,680

   Chapters:

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   Comments:

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