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1. Meat and Bones, Glitter and Gold by Sugar_Junkie

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Iron Lung (2026), David Szymanski's Iron Lung - All Media Types, Iron Lung (Video Game), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   13 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
   • Ryland Grace
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • The Blood Eel (Iron Lung)
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Canon-Typical Gore (Iron Lung)
   • Canon-Typical Blood (Iron Lung)
   • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder - PTSD
   • Body Horror
   • Mutation
   • Minor Adrian/Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • They/Them Pronouns for Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • He/Him Pronouns for Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • mix of the book and movie for Project Hail Mary
   • Slow Burn
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Mutated The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • author is very happy to nerd out about science
   • author is not a scientist but asked their smarter friends
   • Trans Male Ryland Grace
   • the iron lung loves simon
   • Personification

   Summary

   Pain is a language Simon speaks fluently.

   He was born in it, from it, in a world that bites more often than it barks. He knows the cold burn of the knife, the strangling twist of the rope, the sickening crunch of the bone.

   He knows pain. This is different.

   This is not the discordant singing of damaged nerves, nor the dull throb of crushed tissues trying to heal.

   This is reality unravelling. This is him unravelling, his very soul being unmade and remade, over and over again. Shattered and then glued back wrong.

   Language:

   English

   Words:

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   Chapters:

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