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1. (please) cut a six-inch valley through the middle of my soul by lizardhands

   Fandoms: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types  

   • Mature
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Other
   • Complete Work

   04 Jul 2026

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Ryland Grace/Rocky
   • Ryland Grace & Rocky
   • Ryland Grace
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Linda | Ryland Grace's Ex
   • Original Male Character(s)
   • Stream of Consciousness
   • POV First Person
   • Appendectomy
   • Non-Linear Narrative
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • Sickfic
   • (technically) - Freeform
   • Unpack your hang-ups with vulnerability? Nah. Let your alien bff cut you open instead.
   • Chekhov's Rocky-performed Surgery
   • SWP (surgery-with-plot)
   • Wrote as romantic but could be interpreted as queerplatonic or gen
   • Medical Procedures
   • Character Study
   • Canon-Typical Surgery Fetish (Project Hail Mary)

   Summary

   "He's tapping his fingers together again. I know what he's thinking. He's thinking what I am thinking. But if either of us is going to say it, it's gotta be him. 'If it came down to it, I would be completely fine with you performing an invasive surgery on me', is something that would take possibly three more near-death experiences and another coma to grant me the resolve to say aloud."

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