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PHM WIP fic recs

I know a lot of times WIPs don't get nearly as much love as completed fics, so I thought I'd rec some of my favorite WIPs.

Please DO NOT harass the authors about updates. Enjoy what's been posted and make sure to kudos and comment to let them know you're reading and enjoying the stories. And don't forget to subscribe so you don't miss an update.

Some of these stories are locked to AO3 members only.

Second First Contact by verynotokay : Gen, T : currently 7/? chapters, 13k words : An alien ship shows up in the Eridani system and Grace and Rocky are called in to help try to communicate with the aliens.

Dream a Little Dream with Me by Marchling : Gen, M : currently 4/5 chapters, 28k : Grace thinks he'll die before he gets to Erid, but he pretends otherwise to keep Rocky happy, which means he's completely unprepared when he actually does get to Erid.

and i'm chewin' on a honeysuckle vine by jamais_vu0 : Gen, T : currently 1/? chapters, 7k words : Grace decides to help the Eridians by taking a bunch of scientists to check up on Threeworld. Rocky can't come, but Adrian can. Too bad Grace and Adrian are only barely civil with each other.

I Went Back to the Desert by ceramic_glass : Gen, G : currently 1/2 chapters, 17k words : Grace decides he and Rocky should go on a road trip while on their road trip to Erid, so they build a car in the Don't Go Crazy Room.

The Chronicles of Terra's Grace by Clare_Hope : Gen, T : currently 12/18 chapters, 104k words : Earth sends a scientific and diplomatic mission to Erid, which includes two of Grace's former students. No one expected Grace to still be alive to welcome them.

I'm Ryland Grace - AMA by sly_as_an_alpaca : Gen, T : currently 9/? chapters, 27k words : Grace and Rocky get access to Earth's internet while on Erid and shenanigans ensue.

Permission to Hope by sburbanite : Mostly Gen, could be read as either romantic or platonic Grace/Rocky, T : currently 24/? chapters, 60k words : The one where Rocky builds a robot instead of an EVA suit.

A Change of Heart by swordsandsadness : Gen, G : currently 4/6 chapters, 19k words : Grace has a heart attack and Rocky doesn't take it well at all.

Lost in Translation by Mayasynth : Kinda QPR Grace/Rocky, T : currently 3/6 chapters, 22k words : Grace doesn't realize that Eridian relationship types don't map one to one with human relationship types, which causes all sorts of confusion and miscommunication.

cosmic love by thanotaphobia (blue000jay) : Adrian/Rocky/Grace, M : currently 15/? chapters, 52k words : What happens once Ryland Grace becomes the sole human inhabitant of Erid, including cultural differences and miscommunication.

Unconventional Social Group by Clare_Hope : Gen, T : currently 7/? chapters, 37k words : Vignettes set during the trip to Erid.

The Long Journey Home by HeartAway : Gen, T : currently 28/32 chapters, 174k words : I think everyone and their mother is reading this one, but I had to include it anyway. What happens on Earth before and after the Beetles come home and before and after Grace comes home.

#project hail mary #fic recs #fanfic #long post

fancycake

Rocky and Grace are yelling at each other. Rocky stops mid argument to demand that Grace put on his angry eyebrows. Grace immediately stomps to the whiteboard, stomps back over with the dry erase marker, draws angry eyebrows on the xenonite ball. the argument continues

fancycake

#project hail mary

inthetags

Reblog and put in the tags what your blog title (not URL!) is a reference to.

#it's a coheed & cambria song lyric #it's been my blog title for at least a decade

belladonnabedlam

Okay. I was on my beloved AO3 and I saw something that made me do a double take. So, now I really want to know…

What is your AO3 user ID?

I’m an OG user 5 digits or less

Six figures baby!

I’m in the millions…

Remaining time: 6 days 37 minutes

I’m so curious to see how long people have been on AO3! I know some people have been on there since beta/invite only, but I would love to see what the number is on tumblr!

#2509 - i got it for yuletide 2009

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emilyrosecreatives

obsessed with this scary space monster

#project hail mary

wardengrill

Lucy Liu as Dr. Joan Watson | Elementary 1.14

#elementary

kaomojiloser

drawing possibly one of the funniest moments in the book. chain… must chain……. quote below !!!!!

#project hail mary

hylianengineer

There is one very important thing I need people without major dietary restrictions to understand: the distress caused by allergies, celiac disease, and other food restrictions is largely not about the food.

Do I miss some foods I can't eat anymore without getting sick? Sure, but that's not what really bothers me. What bothers me is being excluded from a huge portion of human social life of which food is a crucial component. What bothers me is the stress and social stigma of trying to figure out what I can safely eat. What bothers me is the amount of extra work and cost that is required of me to identify, obtain, and prepare safe foods. What bothers me is people treating my needs like a nuisance, as though I chose to be like this - as though their brief inconvenience to check an ingredients list is unreasonable, when I deal with this every day of my life forever.

I don't miss the food that much. I miss not having to worry about what I eat. I miss freedom. I miss when trying new foods and new restaurants was fun instead of a minefield. I miss not having to plan my entire life around the need for safe foods.

Food is such a basic human need, and a lot of people don't really need to think about it. When your danger foods can be anywhere and everywhere, suddenly your entire life revolves around avoiding them, and it massively sucks. You get used to it and it's not a big deal most of the time, but then you go to a new restaurant, or your office has a potluck, or you've been invited to a party and suddenly it feels just as miserable and exhausting as it ever has.

scribeherself

people will say “they’re only friends” and then show me two people who would crawl through broken glass to hear the other laugh once. two people who have memorized each other’s coffee orders, fears, childhood stories, and emergency contacts. two people who would haunt each other’s houses as ghosts. be serious.

scribeherself

Just an FYI—the original intention of this post was to challenge the way people say only friends, as though friendship is somehow lesser than other forms of love. As if being deeply known, cherished, and chosen by another person could ever be a small thing. Normalize profound platonic love. Some of the most fulfilling, transformative, and enduring relationships we will ever have are friendships. 🫶🏼

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The further I get, the more obvious it becomes that this will need to be blocked. The bottom right corner is all out of whack.

#crochet #the kraken blanket

ananaander

ngl I flinch every time I go to reblog a Carl post and it says something about how Grace is his best friend or so important to him or w/e - like I'm sorry he is literally at work, we get no hint of his personal life, and the fact that his customer service facade IS undeniably Grace's best friend is part of the tragedy. not even a dog, and not even a single friend who isn't being paid to be there. because Grace either can't tell or actively prefers it that way.

#project hail mary

It's not even 3pm and the kid* upstairs has already busted out the pot and made my entire apartment smell like ass. I'm sure I'll have a headache in about 10 minutes.

I don't care if you use pot but have some common fucking courtesy if you live in an apartment and do edibles or brownies instead of vaping.

*I say kid but he's home from college for the summer

wizardnaturalist

a book should be $5 a little drink should be $2 and museum access should be free and all hours

atagarock

I am obsessed with them. I imagine book Rocky much more angular-like if-you're-not-careful-you-could-cut-yourself sharp

and book Grace to have brown hair. It fits him.

Stratt is the same, a bit older maybe.

JUSTICE FOR DIMITRI THOUGH

#project hail mary #i love your dimitri op he just looks so happy

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hedgehogofvictory

another thing i appreciate about project hail mary the book is that the happy ending in still under construction. and complicated. I loved the film, but the book doesn't give us a magic perfect human habitat and i LIKE that.

Grace only recently got food that tastes okay. the dome is as comfortable as the eridians could make it, but its not a hyper-realistic recreation of earth. the gravity of Erid hurts grace. there's still a literal wall between him and the people (person) he cares about.

when the question of whether grace wants to go back to earth comes up, its not as simple as 'do you want to stay here with your best friend rocky?' its also "how long can your body handle this?" and "how long will you endure it?" and "do you ever want to have arms around you again?"

#project hail mary #the ending of the book is almost bittersweet and i really like that #honestly i was a little unhappy with the movie ending because it wrapped everything up in a nice little bow #and completely ignored anything that was outside of grace's happily ever after #i get why drew goddard adapted it the way he did but man do i wish we'd gotten something closer to the book ending

nevertheless-moving

so when i was a kid a read this story where a boy gets turned into a mouse by evil witches. at the end (spoilers) him and his beloved grandmother manage to slaughter all the witches but they do NOT manage to turn him back to a human child. he stays a mouse. the grandmother rebuilds her home to be mouse accessible. and they discuss the fact that he's aging like a mouse, so he probably only has a few years to live; but it's ok, because the grandmother confesses that she ALSO only has a few years to live and they both agree that they wouldn't want to live without the other. So everything is alright then, and they're happy, and that's the end of the story. it's probably been over two decades since i read it and quite frankly i am still processing the intertwining concepts of love and mortality but anyway that's not my point. my point is that Rocky did not die of acute radiation sickness because he spent enough time shielded by astrophage that his body was able to handle the damage, but holy shit does he have every type of cancer. he didn't die entering grace's atmosphere but all of his organs caught fire. I repeat — his internal organs caught fire. he spent several decades in a low gravity environment. Do you know what human bodies do in low gravity? it's not good man. 20% muscle loss in two weeks. 1% bone density loss every month. Maybe carapaces and low organic matter would handle the change better, but idk, it might actually be worse.

anyway my point is, actually, i do think that Rocky and Grace would get to grow old together.

nevertheless-moving

i know i'm op but op the idea of Grace arriving at Erid on the verge of death, recovering, and then living a long and full (maybe not especially healthy) life, vs Rocky arriving home a trimphant hero, a miraculous survivor of a thousand calamaties only to at long last have to pay the toll, dying tragically young, I'm.

Rocky and Grace jokingly comparing the pros and cons of bipedal vs pentapedal joint pain. Rocky wearing the xenonite exo-suit because it actually helps keep his carapace from collapsing to the ground. Grace affectionately bumping his cane against it in morse code because of course their stupid ernglish pidgin isn't enough; now that everyone know english they also need a secret language that's just for them.

Grace in his motorized bubble scooter touring the city. Naturally, Rocky's going to keep him company by riding in the stupid sidecar, how would he explain everything if he was walking beside him? And of course Rocky's telling people to repeat things and his voice is weirdly pitchy, Grace is there and human hearing is awful. It would be rude to talk normally.

Rocky pulling out the old hamster ball and curling up inside. And he knows, he knows its bad posture, but right now it hurts less. Grace curled up around him, the exterior of the ball a carefully calibrated 39 C. They are both hiding from well meaning physical therapists. Whispering doesn't actually do anything in that regard, but Rocky finds whispering hilarious for some reason (Eridian equiv of helium infused squeaky voice).

Gravity as Erid's love for them, a painful embrace they wouldn't trade for anything.

They get to grow old together. It's not enough time, but its so much more than they thought they would have; it's surprisingly easy to be okay with it. It's a tragedy from every angle except perhaps the inside.

#project hail mary #seriously rocky is not going to be anything resembling healthy when he finally gets back to erid

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