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Roots to Grow and Wings to Fly by Acewithapaintbrush
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
02 Jun 2026
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“They kept asking questions that had nothing to do with Quinn’s performance.” I roll my eyes and notice that I’m getting worked up again. Trying to get the midnight blue Eridian back on track had been a nightmare and I’d almost lost my composure a couple of times. “Just what I like to do and what I’ve seen of Erid so far and if they can give me a tour once my suit is finished. And they insisted I tell them what my favorite type of mineral is. I mean, why would they want to know that? What does that have to do with how their kid is doing in class?”
Midway through my rant Rocky has stopped carding his claw through my hair. He is silent for a few seconds and I’m just about to ask him if he’s alright when his whole body starts to tremble. It alarms me enough that I wiggle my arms underneath me and lift my upper body off the couch.
“Rock?”
But then the trembling morphs into full on shaking and then laughter so loud and shrill that I have to cover my ears.
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Erid's first ever parent teacher night does not quite go according to plan.
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- Part 3 of Teacher Grace's Extraordinary Curriculum
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09 Jul 2026
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the stretch of my skin by nambi
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
05 Jul 2026
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I never noticed. There are no mirrors in my house; there are no mirrors anywhere on Erid, at least not in the sense that we understand them. There’s reflective surfaces, but not intentionally so. My attention has been tugged this way and that, always something new to discover, or else something new to research in the endless encyclopedia I was left with. I had no reason to look at my own body beyond what was necessary to keep it clean.
But now I’m sitting here, and it stares me in the face. Emphasized by my position, my stomach rises up and over my waistband, forming a soft mass that spills slightly over my sides.
“Oh,” I say out loud. I run a hand over this new pudge that probably isn’t new at all, startling slightly at the texture of it. Soft. Yielding. Slightly cold from the water evaporating on it. I touch my body like it isn’t my own, because for a long, long time, it wasn’t. I touch it the way Rocky touched me once he finally had the option to, committing everything to memory, matching it to what he already knew.
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Or: In the two years that he spent on Erid, Grace has changed in just about every way imaginable. But one way in particular feels more significant than the rest.
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08 Jul 2026
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it's bloody and raw, but i swear it is sweet by nambi
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
26 Jun 2026
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“You are crazy,” he says. “Crazy and stupid stupid stupid. Not same Grace I saved planets with.”
“Alright, Rock, I get—”
“Is not too much,” Rocky says firmly, leaning in until he’s nearly met my forehead, until my eyes go blurry with the task of adjusting to how close he is. I couldn’t even fit my glasses between us to put them on. “Hugs and cuddles through xenonite suit, only touch through many layers. Is not enough. Better to be under you skin, between you ribs. Hear you heart right up close, noisy, alive. I would prefer.”
"What?"
"What, question?"
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Grace is worried that Rocky secretly hates hugs. In an attempt to reassure him, Rocky says a bit too much.
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08 Jul 2026
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i want us both to eat well by peglarpapers
Fandoms: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
25 Jun 2026
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“Not so strange,” Rocky says mildly. “Back in not-so-distant past Eridian eat other Eridian all the time. Top of food chain. After natural disaster, war, not so much else to eat. Ecosystem delicate, especially if carnivore, especially if big. 🎵🎶 good thing to have to fall back on.”
“Cannibalism,” I manage to get out.
“New word. Cannibalism.”
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08 Jul 2026
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two are gonna stumble along the way, one is gonna go up alone by maybemight_love
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
29 Apr 2026
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Eva Stratt stares at the short transmission. It’s in unremarkable Mary-standard ACSII format, just like the rest of the status updates had been. This one read, on the early-morning, sun-streaked pixels of her MacBook:
HAILMARY/INC/STATUS-25/07/2023-CREW
STATUS
YAO - DECEASED; Vitals - NONE, EEG READ: BRAIN DEATH
ILYUKHINA - DECEASED; Vitals - NONE, EEG READ: BRAIN DEATH
GRACE - ALIVE; Vitals - WNL (WITHIN NORMAL LIMITS).-
Ten months after launch, Project Hail Mary recieves a status transmission informing them that Yao and Ilyukhina have died in their comas. Eva Stratt isn't ready to talk to medical lead Chananyapak Yimlamai about what that means.
Inspired by this post < https://www.tumblr.com/hauntedhowlett/813429326601175040/so-the-project-hail-mary-ground-team-probably-had?source=share > by, and written with consent from, @hauntedhowlett on tumblr
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07 Jul 2026