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1. The Innocent Will Drown by Ineffable_Enby

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

   • Mature
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   06 Oct 2026

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
   • Adrian/Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Ryland Grace
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Ryland Grace's Eridian Students
   • Original Iron Lung Characters
   • Original Eridian Characters (Project Hail Mary)
   • Post-Canon Fix-It
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • There Was Only One Bed
   • Getting to Know Each Other
   • Touch-Starved Ryland Grace
   • Touch-Starved The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Everyone Needs a Hug
   • Everyone Needs Therapy
   • Amputee The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung) Thinks Ryland Grace is an Angel
   • Ryland Grace and Rocky are Platonic Soulmates
   • Slow Burn
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Fluff and Angst
   • The Convict | Simon Has Religious Trauma (Iron Lung)
   • Scientific Inaccuracies
   • Worldbuilding
   • Eridian Culture & Customs (Project Hail Mary)
   • Age Difference (not by much like maybe 10 years)
   • The Convict | Simon Has PTSD (Iron Lung)
   • Yearning
   • timey-wimey stuff
   • Nature is crazy
   • Not Beta Read
   • fuck it we ball
   • Let Rocky Say Fuck (Project Hail Mary)
   • Protective Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Adrian has the braincell most of the time
   • grief and depresssion
   • The Convict | Simon was in a cult
   • lots of religious talk
   • POV Alternating
   • I'm Bad at Tagging
   • there are inaccuracies everywhere
   • im sorry but also not at all
   • Adrian is basically a main character

   Summary

   “Witch swimming was the practice of tying up and dunking the accused into a body of water to determine whether they sink or float. Sinking to the bottom indicated that the accused was innocent while floating indicated a guilty verdict. (Kittredge, p. 232.) The premise of the ordeal was that the trial provoked God’s direct intervention in determining the guilt or innocence of the accused.” - Nathan Dorn in his post Swimming a Witch: Evidence in 17th-century English Witchcraft Trials

    

   Alternatively - If Rocky gets to bring back a half dead human, so does Adrian

    

   Inspired by comic artist: lana-is-reading on tumblr

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