Love is Blind AU (chronological)

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• the nearness of you by mimi_kc_i

  Fandoms: The Fall Guy (2024), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir  

  • Teen And Up Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  18 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • Ryland Grace/Tom Ryder
  • Ryland Grace
  • Tom Ryder
  • Colt Seavers
  • this is a prequel to my
  • Love is Blind AU
  • One-Sided Ryland Grace/Tom Ryder
  • fellas is it gay to want your stunt mans twin brother to step on you?
  • sources say yes
  • Implied Sexual Content
  • in the sense that they leave to hookup at the end
  • First Meetings
  • Tom Ryder Is Down Bad
  • ryland is pretty neutral about the whole thing
  • rated teen and up simply bc ryder is in it
  • Brat Tom Ryder
  • Sub Tom Ryder
  • ryland isnt a dom btw
  • ryder wants to be told what to do so badly
  • but only if its grace
  • i regret writing this
  • but one of y'all is bound to like it so to that one person:
  • enjoy
  • set in 2016

  Summary

  (prequel to 'i know what i look like to you')

  the first time ryland meets tom ryder he's hungover, jetlagged, and meaner than he had any right to be.

  unfortunately for both of them, ryder is super into that.

  or.
  what leads up to the time ryland hooked up with ryder

  Series

  • Part 1 of Love is Blind AU (chronological)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  5,592

  Chapters:

  1/1

  Comments:

  17

  Kudos:

  119

  Bookmarks:

  11

  Hits:

  632

• i know what i look like to you by mimi_kc_i

  Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir  

  • General Audiences
  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • M/M
  • Complete Work

  13 Jul 2026

  Tags

  • No Archive Warnings Apply
  • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)/Ryland Grace
  • Ryland Grace
  • The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
  • Courtland Gentry (mentioned) - Character
  • Ava (Iron Lung)
  • Colt Seavers
  • Love is Blind AU
  • oh yeah no one asked for this and im giving it
  • i watched love is blind for the sole purpose of writing this au
  • au where grace works w the government on the dl but is not getting shipped into space
  • Teacher Ryland Grace
  • Park Ranger Simon (Iron Lung)
  • Amputee The Convict | Simon (Iron Lung)
  • no AI
  • Fuck AI
  • leaving my typos in so you know im human and not bc i dont have a beta reader
  • Simon falls first
  • ryland falls harder
  • Ryland Grace-centric
  • mostly - Freeform
  • Past Ryland Grace/Tom Ryder
  • In a funny way
  • Updating tags as I go
  • Yearning
  • an unholy amount of yearning
  • the slowest non-slowburn
  • i use ryland as a mouth piece to air my grievances with reality tv
  • ryland is demiromantic greysexual but hes on a dating show and isnt thinking about that right now
  • idiots to lovers
  • a rom com plot in the hands of a moron

  Summary

  When two people back out of the San Francisco season of Love Is Blind, there's only so much time to find interesting replacements. So they settle on just finding replacements. They can make them seem interesting in editing, right?

  Ryland is there as a favor to Colt, who submitted Ryland as a favor to his crush Jody, who wanted to find a replacement for her friend Ava, who has somehow ended up as a producer for the latest season of Love is Blind.

  Simon made the mistake of befriending Ava years ago and is regretting it.

  (title from Boys Like You by Dodie)

  Series

  • Part 2 of Love is Blind AU (chronological)

  Language:

  English

  Words:

  42,471

  Chapters:

  14/14

  Comments:

  746

  Kudos:

  619

  Bookmarks:

  120

  Hits:

  5,209