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Naming the eel Ellie sounds like such a Ryland Grace thing to do I just had to make this

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Zines

AVE MARIA (@phmfanzine) A celebration of hope and love, AVE MARIA is centered around the red string of fate that guides Grace’s journey. 💫creation period Info

SYSTEMS OF GRACE (@systemsofgrace) Focused on artistry and visual storytelling, this zine explores the Universe of PHM through the the different solar systems that Dr Ryland Grace has explored. 💫creation period Info

PETROVA SPECTRUM (@phmcolorszine) A zine exploring the colors and symbolism from Project Hail Mary 💫contributor apps closed Info

SAVE THE STARS (@savestarszine) A zine focused on the pairing of Ryland Grace/Rocky 🚀contributor apps open until August 9 Info

SPECIES OF TWO (@grockyzine) A zine focused on the romantic pairing of Ryland Grace/Rocky 🚀contributor apps open until August 8 Info

STARCROSSED (@gracerockyzine) A zine dedicated to the ship Ryland Grace/Rocky 💫interest check open until August 15 Info

Crossover with Iron Lung

LIVING, BLEEDING (@living-bleeding-zine) A zine centered around the pairing Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace 💫interest check soon Info

THE BLOODYMARY FANZINE (@bloodymaryfanzine) (more updates @/bloodymaryfanzine on ig) A large collab fanzine of 30 artists centered around the pairing Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace 💫artist introductions

STARS IN DARK PLACES (@starsindarkplaceszine) A zine exploring the pairing Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace and the feeling of hope when everything seems lost 🚀contributor apps open until August 21 Info

Big Bangs & Reverse Big Bangs Big Bang: writer creates a fic and an artist creates art based off it Reverse Big Bang: artist creates art and a writer creates a fic based on it

PHM BIG BANG (@phmbigbang) A big bang event with the theme of soulmates. 🛸pinch hitter and beta reader apps open until September 22! 💫creation period ✨Opposite Day mini-Reverse Bang: Ao3 collection, #phmodb26 Info

PHM INITIATIVE: THE BIG BANG (@/phmbigbang on twt) A big bang with the optional theme of rainbows, open to crossovers. 💫creation period Info

PHM REVERSE BIG BANG (@hailmaryrbb) A reverse big bang open to all ships, crossovers, dynamics, ratings, or content. 💫contributor apps closed

Crossover with Iron Lung

BLOODYMARY BIG BANG (@bloodymarybigbang) A big bang to celebrate the relationship between Simon (Iron Lung) and Ryland Grace 🚀Participant apps open until August 15 Info

Gift Exchanges

PHM GIFT EXCHANGE (@phm-gift-exchange) 🛸pinch hitter apps open 💫creation period Intro

GROCKY HALLOWEEN EXCHANGE (host: @savestarsevents) A Halloween-themed exchange focused on the pairing Ryland Grace/Rocky. Participants encouraged (but not required) to submit Halloween, horror, or seasonal prompts 🚀Sign ups open until August 20 Info

Prompt Events

AUGUSTELLAR (@augustellar) A month-long art challenge this August themed around space and PHM 💫Running August 1–31! ✨Ao3 Collection, #augustellar Full Prompt list, Today's Prompt Info

EVA STRATT WEEK (host: @dailyprojecthailmary) 💫Runs August 10–16 Info/Prompt list

WEEKLY SAVESTARS (@savestarsevents) Regular prompts posted weekly to inspire Ryland Grace/Rocky fans 💫ongoing Prompts

Art Collab

PROJECT SAVE ERID (@/projectsaveerid on ig) (@/lliuwrite on tiktok & yt) Animated series following Rocky and his crewmates on their journey to Tau Ceti. 💫creation period ✨Character previews (pt 1) (pt 2), Style renders (pt 1) (pt 2) Info

Q&A + Tags Guide

Rather fond of the fics that just put these two through more hell, so ofc I’m loving Virtual Insanity by @bronzeplates rn

I’ll honestly probably do more drawings like this for the fic as chapters come out cause it’s pretty fun. Plus, Art Fight is wrapping up and I’ll have bit more freedom with what I spend my time drawing.

are you JKIDDING ME??? The rendering??? the line work????? omfg i’m gonna die you can’t do this to me

Breakfast with Eddie and the Forest Hills strays

He’s not K-I-S-S-I-N-G-ing anyone or anything. He’s just sitting, carving his name into the bark of the tree with a pocketknife he stole from Tommy’s brother and muttering swear words.

He’s been six years old for three days and life could not be worse.

Everyone treats him like he’s five so he’s run away from home.

Steve looks off into the distance where he can kinda see his house through the leaves and wonders if they miss him yet. He wonders if they found his letter. Probably not.

He frowns.

He calls his dad a rat bastard under his breath and starts carving an H next, and then freezes.

There’s a rustling in the grass below and when he looks, he sees the Weird Kid doing Weird Kid things.

Eddie walks into view, knocks against a tree trunk, listens, and then moves on. He does this three times before knocking on Steve’s tree.

“What are you doing?” Steve calls down to him.

“Looks for a creature,” Eddie smiles back up at him, eyes squinting in the sunlight. “Come down here. I got something for you.”

A gift!

Steve hurried down the tree, only scrapping his hand a little which means he’s improving. His feet are barely on the ground before he’s engulfed in a tight hug.

“I’ll miss you,” Eddie says into Steve’s shoulder. “I’ll think about you forever.”

“Are you leaving?”

“My dad is comin’ to pick me up tomorrow,” Eddie explains, keeping his hands on Steve’s shoulders when he leans back. “Summer is over and I gotta to back for school, yuck.”

Steve frowns, “Can’t you go to school here?”

“Not yet,” He replies. “Uncle Wayne is working on it. I might be able to come back for Christmas. Are you here for Christmas or do fae migrate for the winter?”

Steve doesn’t know what migrate means so he just shrugs and points to the tree, “I live here now.”

Eddie nods.

He hesitates for a beat before he yanks Steve towards him. He presses his lips against Steve’s for a second before pulling back.

Eddie’s eyes are watery and bright as he stares at Steve, hands still on his shoulders. Steve stares back with big surprised eyes before something cracks.

He starts giggling.

“Silly goose,” Steve giggles, the tips of his ears going red as he covers his face. “You’re supposed to kiss people on their cheeks. Not their mouths! That’s how they do it in Italy.”

Eddie laughs too.

He takes Steve’s face in his hands and plants a wet kiss on each cheek. Steve’s giggle explodes into laughter, even more so when Eddie licks him.

Steve wipes tears from his eyes and tells him sincerely, “I’m gonna miss you, Weird Kid.”

Steddie | Explicit | wc 3,222

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“You giving up already?" Eddie asked, locking the front door behind him.

Steve ran his hands over his face, groaning again. "I can't find anything heavy enough."

"That's why I don't lift," Eddie said, beelining to the kitchen for a snack. He grabbed a banana off the counter. "Can't find anything heavy enough, so why workout?"

"Whatever," Steve rolled his eyes. He extended his hips to the sky, shoulders planted to the ground as he held a hip bridge. His brain wracked through the items in their home, thinking of something that weights more than a hundred pounds. At least.

Wait.

Steve sat up. He looked at Eddie snacking on his banana. "How much do you weight?"

"Uh — 165, 170," Eddie chewed. "Why?"

Bingo.

"I need you," Steve said.

Eddie coughed, choking on his banana. "What?"

I'm normal about it I swear™

Let’s see, some other thoughts I had about my precious Mutated!Grace

He is always cold, his skin needs more temperature to get warmer now, but he has refused to change the conditions of his dome, looking at it as his small little piece of earth, and he doesn’t want to lose it.

He knows that by accepting the modifications he is denying himself the opportunity to go back to earth, because how could he go back now looking like this?

He forces himself in relearning how to swim, even when his new eridian characteristics are not made for this. He tells Rocky that it is because he needs exercise, but it is because he wants to prove himself that he can still do the same things he did when he was completely human.

Grace is stronger now, strong enough to carry the pebbles (at least the small ones) around.

I think the extra arm should be extra long and extra strong in comparison with the other arms and even legs. It can be multipurpose, work as an helping extra hand, sometimes it works to prevent Grace from falling to the ground, sometimes it just has its own mind.

The extra arm is always doing something; doing some maths, writing notes, playing with a rubrik cube, carrying a pebble,etc.

Grace had a depressive episode when he realized that he couldn’t wear his shirts and sweaters anymore, he cried for at least two weeks and he didn’t leave the house until Rocky brought him his favorite sweater modified to have an extra sleeve. After that Rocky and Adrian make sure to modify his clothes.

In the bad days he thinks that he was just a coward for accepting the eridian modifications and that he should have faced his own human mortality instead.

He says he had made peace with his mutations, but it isn’t entirely true.

Extra + Simon ( in this one Simon is not mutated, just amputated):

If the eridians ever introduced Simon to the dome, Grace would do what he can to avoid Simon seeing him, even moving to another place (maybe he stays in the hail mary), at least in the start, too scared to face a “real human” and see how they would react to his new appearance.

This leads to a lot of problems, because he only communicates with Simon through audio, making Simon revive a lot of his trauma of the submarine.

Grace then accepts to do video calls, in which he does his best to hide his third arm, but still Simon wants to meet him in person, because of trauma.

When they finally meet in person, it is still a very bad first meeting. Simon thinks that Grace is just an effort of The Eel to make a hallucination that looks human enough, or he just thinks that Grace is an alien that want something from him and that was trying to trick him.

Grace falls into a dark place, feeling like a monster and Rocky spends time with him trying to cheer him up and help him recover, reassuring him that he is still just Grace . Adrian is the one in charge to deal and take care of Simon until they find another time to re-introduce them.

P.S: I’m thinking of doing a fanfiction about this but I have so many ideas that it is hard to pin a single one down.

An idea I had was that after the eridians learned that human life expectancy is very short in compare to theirs and that their favorite human would be dead even before he would be old enough to be consider an adult by eridians measures, they start doing research (leaded by Adrian of course) about how to expand his life, finding that merging eridian DNA with Grace's is their best bet.

After Rocky really really begged and bring up how Grace's students would react badly to lose their teacher at such a young age, Grace accepts to be mutated and ends having some eridian characteristics:

He would age slower. He may not live as long as a eridian, but he at least triples the average human life expectancy.

He would have a third arm (I personally think it should come out of his low back, but it is open to interpretation.)

His skin would become more resistant, not as strong as a eridian' caparace, but stronger than any human skin.

He would still be able to see with his eyes, but he would also be able to use echolocation (that could be very useful, but it can also be very overwhelming).

He would speak eridian, been able to reproduce the same notes, hums and vibrations that an eridian does, but he sounds way off, not been able to intone correctly and in some points sounding eldritchish (for both humans and eridians).

He would be able to eat some of the eridian food (my poor guy deserves more options than himself for lunch.)

He still breaths oxygen and ammonia is still deadly to him, but thanks to his skin he can resist its exposure longer.

He still sleeps like a human, but he looks a little bit more dead when he does.

Rocky makes sure to teach him everything he can so Grace doesn't feel awkward with his new abilities, and assures him that he would always be the same leaky human for him and Adrian.

Extra + Simon:

I think that if Simon was introduced to Mutated!Grace it would make more sense for him to assume that he is dead and that Grace is an angel, because he would look and sound more like a biblical angel.

Grace (Who has one arm more, and had not need to speak english in several years since he was able to speak eridian): HeLLoo, BuuDdy. i'Mm GrACe, NicE tO meeT yOu!

Simon (Who has somehow survive his canonic event, one arm less and as disoriented as a newborn deer) : I'm...dead?

The language barrier that Simon and Grace may present? Gone, because Simon can just talk to him through his mind.

Arriving to Erid before Grace and Rocky and meeting Adrian? He could speak to them because we know that the eridians have mind, meaning that the communication through telepathy should work too.

Simon been new in the ship and not understanding what Rocky says (remember that in the book Grace learns it and Rocky doesn't have a translator all the time)? Same as the previous, he could just connect his mind to Rocky's.

Maybe to spice up drama Simon doesn't use his real voice until he feel safe, using only the telepathy and mind bond until one day he actually speaks and Grace and Rocky celebrate.

Some examples could be:

Simon making subtles comments and trying to use his deep voice now and then.

Grace using bad pick lines that can pass as jokes.

Simon, who is not ignorant of his physic, doing exercise and flexes all the time with the excuse of wanting to be healthy.

Grace trying to look good while doing experiments every time that Simon pass by.

They both unapologetically flirting just to think that the other one is not catching the clues they throw to them.

They been good at flirting but bad at realizing that someone is flirting with them.

They get shirts screen-printed with Steve's face on it and something silly he always says, and then they all wear them to practice. They time how long it takes Steve to notice (nine minutes and only because the team had a bad case of giggles).

It's a funny prank.

Steve gets a kick out of it.

Unbeknownst to Steve or the team, the guy who made their shirts is an old friend of Eddie 'left Hawkins and got famous' Munson.

It was a known secret in Hellfire that Eddie was crushing bad on King Steve so he sent Eddie one of the shirts.

Steve calls.

Before the interviewer can finish saying, "We have someone on the line from your homet-"

"Why are you wearing a shirt with my face on it?" Steve asks. "And would it kill you to answer the phone when Dustin calls you? Or call him back? The kid misses you."