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1. A place where we belong by c0ffeeinaniv

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Iron Lung (2026)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   21 Jul 2026

   Tags

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   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • Eva Stratt
   • Ava (Iron Lung)
   • Sunshine Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Grumpy Grace (Project Hail Mary)
   • Alternate Universe - Modern Setting
   • The Convict | Simon Has PTSD (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace Has Self-Esteem Issues
   • Human Rocky (Project Hail Mary) Looks Like James Ortiz
   • They/Them Pronouns for Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • Religious Cults
   • inaccuracies across the board
   • the tethaurus is my friend
   • No beta readers
   • Eventual Smut
   • whoever finds the most PHM and Iron Lung movie references gets a cookie
   • Semi Slow Burn

   Summary

   PHM x Iron Lung present day Grumpy Grace vs Sunshine Simon AU

   Grace just exists. Discredited and shunned by his peers and betrayed by his GF, he is now a Middle School science teacher with exactly one friend and no other social life. Just the way he likes it… right?

   Simon is a convict. Fresh out of prison he wants to redeem himself. Be better. Do better. And that starts with positivity.
   And apparently being hit by a handsome stranger on a bicycle he can’t get out of his head.

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   English

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