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The Astrobiology Immersion Program by startingatmidnight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
10 May 2026
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It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.
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16 May 2026
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The Wire Mother by nopaintjustpain
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
12 May 2026
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I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.
Right up until Rocky asks another question.
“When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”
Oh. Oh no. “When I… a few days after I first woke up here.”
Rocky starts to relax for a split second, but then tightens when something occurs to him.
“Grace crewmates dead when you wake up. You said this, statement. You not even know your own name, remember nothing, see dead bodies, confirm?”
I nod, because if I open my mouth I will gag.
“When last time Grace touch ALIVE human person, question.”
I swallow thickly. I don’t answer aloud because I know Rocky can hear the hitch in my breath. My stomach churns with fresh bile. He senses my vital signs tick over into stress patterns and goes very, very still again.
“Grace. When last time, question.”
I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.
“Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”
I can taste grass.
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AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.
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12 May 2026
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'Taumoeba doesn't leak through xenonite' AU. Ryland Grace comes home after twelve years, and finds Eva again.
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12 May 2026
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There's something sad about Ryland Grace that everyone seems to notice.
Young or old, friend or not-quite-foe, he always just seems slightly off. Ajar somehow. Like walking down an art gallery only to find one painting has been hung upside down - nothing you'd clock immediately, but once you see it you wonder why.
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Beloved by all, but not enough to save him. Ryland Grace's struggles throughout the years with accepting himself for what he is.
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09 May 2026
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“Yes,” Rocky says eventually. “Human music bad bad bad. But has been long time since Rocky has heard other music.”
That makes something hurt in the back of Ryland’s throat, a sick feeling right to the pit of his stomach. Maybe it’s cruel, to dangle something like this in front of Rocky, a crude approximation of what his home must be like, sounds constantly, chirping song a present language instead of a lonely whisper. Maybe it’s cruel, still, because the background instruments and high-pitched wordless belts must hold some kind of meaning to Rocky, must be ascribed to an unknown word Ryland might never learn.
Though – he’s selfish, because he wants to share music with Rocky. And maybe it isn’t all cruel. Maybe it’ll be nice, to hear something that is some kind of taste of home, after so so long of only hearing your own chirps and whistles, and then the static feedback of the communication device.
Ryland swallows. “Wait until you hear The Sex Pistols.”
“Why are guns reproducing, question?”
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Or: Ryland introduces Rocky to music, with mixed results.
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08 May 2026