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1. critical mistakes (to remember, to regret) by PierogiesInTheDark

   Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types  

   • Explicit
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   30 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Ryland Grace/Original Female Character(s)
   • Ryland Grace
   • Original Female Character(s)
   • Original Characters
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Pining
   • strangers to friends to lovers to exes to friends to stuck on a spaceship
   • Relationship Status: It's Complicated
   • Ryland Grace is a Leaky Space Blob
   • Touch-Starved Ryland Grace
   • Ryland Grace Human Disaster
   • prior relationship
   • Angst
   • amnesia-induced angst
   • Rocky Learns About Earth Culture and Customs (Project Hail Mary)
   • Rocky Learns About Humans and Earth (Project Hail Mary)
   • Rocky plays matchmaker
   • Coward Ryland Grace
   • Mix of book and movie canon
   • Morally Grey Eva Stratt
   • fair warning Stratt leans more towards book Stratt
   • she is very morally questionable in this
   • I support women's rights and women's wrongs

   Summary

   I want a house on the hill by the ocean
   I'd let the tide wash away all my critical mistakes

   Ryland Grace wakes up in space with no memories. One crew member is comatose but alive. There's just one problem--he thinks he's in love with her. And he can't remember why.

   ___

   In other words, Ryland is pretty sure his comatose crewmate used to be his girlfriend. Why did they break up? Why is he certain it was his fault? Why is she in space? Why is he in space? Why can't he remember anything? Grace drives himself insane trying to answer these questions.

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   English

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