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1. Whenever You’re Ready by AjaxTheLesser

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

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

   03 Oct 2026

   Tags

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   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
   • Ryland Grace
   • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
   • Adrian (Project Hail Mary)
   • The NannyBot | Armando (Project Hail Mary)
   • The Hail Mary Computer | Mary (Project Hail Mary)
   • Slow Burn
   • My First Fanfic
   • Scientific Inaccuracies
   • Simons not as hurt as he should be
   • yeah it’s another one of those ones where they don’t explain why the submarine is there
   • mlm
   • Fuck AI
   • Be nice in the comments or I’ll cry
   • Mix of book and movie canon
   • I will flop between either to suit
   • Let Rocky Say Fuck (Project Hail Mary)
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Tags Are Hard
   • One hundred percent human written
   • Explicit Language
   • There Was Only One Bed
   • Touch-Starved The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
   • Touch-Starved Ryland Grace
   • Eventual romance (smut?)
   • Yeah there’s definitely smut
   • mention of religious trauma
   • Happy Ending
   • Comfort with sprinkles of angst
   • Additional Warnings in Author's Note

   Summary

   So - there was good news, and there was strange news.

   The good news was that the Time Go Fishing went off way better than either Rocky or Grace were anticipating.

   The strange news was that not only did the container catch a hearty helping of the predator killing the Astrophage, but also a small… Ship? Submarine? What?!

   —
   For my fellow freaks, the big spice chap is on 38. Do with that as you will. *salutes*

   ~67.3k words! All complete, posting when I feel like~

   Language:

   English

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   Chapters:

   39/41

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