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“What are you talking about?” Grace's fingers played quick chords as he spoke. He didn’t even look as he did it, but it did not make them any less purposeful.
“Discussing possible reasons why Tau Ceti is not infected while other stars are,” Eva replied deftly. “I would invite you to join, but we were just finishing—”
“Oh, that’s easy.” His hand twisted a knob, and the notes came out sharper. “It is infected—Petrova Line and everything.”
In Grace's opinion, dreaming about time traveling is no excuse for getting out of practice with his Eridian. To the rest of the Petrova Taskforce, it seems a bit odd that their resident Astrophage expert has suddenly taken to carrying a keyboard around and playing it whenever he speaks. Eva Stratt resolves to figure out what is going on.
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17 Jul 2026
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Sol Friend Grace by fantom_noise
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
06 Apr 2026
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Grace and Rocky arrive at Erid. Grace is starving, sick, and trying his darndest to make a good impression. The Eridians are equally curious and concerned for their new alien friend.
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29 Jun 2026
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Life...uh, finds a way by Scythling
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
11 Jul 2026
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After saving Grace and nearly dying in an alien atmosphere, Rocky lays an egg before going dormant.
Turns out being isolated for years and then nearly dying will force biological imperatives onto injured Eridians, and this one leaves Ryland Grace utterly baffled.
Aren't Eridians supposed to lay eggs in clutches? Only fused eggs are supposed to be viable, but when Grace accidentally touches the egg with his bare skin while trying to save it, that's apparently all the genetic fusion required for life to begin.
Ryland Grace skips a few steps when it comes to making a baby, and I test the limits of Eridian biology.
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10 Jun 2026
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“Grace!” Rocky says. “Look!”
I look. Then I gasp.
“Is Adrian!” Rocky says.
(or, what happens once Ryland Grace becomes the sole human inhabitant of Erid.)
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- Part 1 of Project Hail Mary
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- 15/?
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01 Jun 2026
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Star Thrum by Totallyottie99
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
30 Jun 2026
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Eridians fall in love hard.
Humanity's not ready for just how far they'd go to keep only one of them happy.
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27 May 2026
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When V plays her game, she prowls bars and clubs looking for fresh meat to submit to her every whim. All of Night City is her hunting ground. On this night, she meets a distractingly attractive cop and her life starts to shift to orbit him. Soon enough, they uncover another predator hunting in the city and make it their mission to stop him.
This fic has some canon events and retells others in a non-canon way. It also follows a brand new storyline that sees River and V team up to solve a crucial missing person's case and do their best to take down an up-and-coming drug ring wreaking havoc across Night City's murky underbelly. Look forward to heaps of pining, yearning, smut, and thrills as events progress.
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04 Mar 2026
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You remember him the way he was when you met, the way you watched him grow up. Your teenage years weren’t beautiful the way they’re supposed to be. You were awkward in your own body, thick and clumsy and unsure. Wyll, however, was always graceful. His limbs lengthened, his voice deepened, and all of it seemed to happen so smoothly, at just the right time. He was pretty and he was perfect. Neat and tidy next to your messy tangle of string.
But you’ve knitted yourself together over the years, and he’s frayed a bit. Now you’re sitting on a beach together, making each other laugh. Feeling comfortable, impossibly so, even as your heart sits high in your throat. Feeling seen and understood. Feeling…a lot of things. Too many, more than you can identify.
You find yourself wondering how it feels to be kissed kindly, by someone who laughs at your jokes and knows things about your father and thinks you’re smart. By someone who’s thought about it before, for all that it may have been years ago.
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Really, what’s the worst that could happen?
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09 Feb 2026
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Blonde Blazer gets a call late at night that a child saved from a potential kidnapping situation could very well be SDN's newest Dispatcher.
A few secrets come out, and suddenly everything is a lot more complicated as Robert becomes the centre of the weirdest game of capture the flag.
With him as the flag.(Robert is de-aged to the last time he felt safe, which is at 11. Inspired by @killershark82 on Tumblr)
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21 Dec 2025
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my body's made of crushed little stars by DaQuirklessBeauty
Fandoms: Dispatch (Video Game)
24 Dec 2025
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Robert has always treated his body like something temporary—maintained just enough to keep going. Then one run-in with a passing villain leaves him younger, unscarred, standing in a body that no longer carries the visible proof of the pain he survived. As the Z-Team watches him move through the world in a way he hasn’t in years, concern sharpens into something heavier. Others begin to notice what Robert himself has long learned to dismiss, and the truth becomes harder to avoid: whatever hit him didn’t just revert him—it revealed how much pain he’d been living with, and how quietly he let it happen. Because if this is who Robert used to be, then the version they’ve known has been surviving far more than he ever admitted.
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Or: Robert gets caught in the crossfire of a fleeing villain’s power—and wakes up in the body he had at twenty-one.
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20 Dec 2025
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“Tell me. Robert Robertson the Third. Mecha Man. Hero.” There’s something soft in the thing’s voice. Almost reverent. “What do you want?”
His body wants to shut down. His mind wishes for oblivion. The answer is obvious.
“Put me…back into…the fight.” He rasps.
“Very well,” he can hear it smiling, “let’s get to work.”
Or, in simpler terms…let’s do it all over again.
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20 Dec 2025
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"Just one hint," Malevola pleaded. Prism leaned against her chair, eyeing Robert expectantly.
Robert stared at them briefly, deliberating over his response. He settled on honesty. They wouldn't believe him, and they wouldn't be able to link it to his identity as Mecha Man anyway.
"Sure. I can't die."
Prism sighed in frustration. "Oh come on! Don't be like that."
_______________________________________Robert Robertson III was eight when he realized he had a super power. It was also the first time he died.
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07 Dec 2025
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Whatever Kaidan had been expecting from the Butcher of Torfan, this isn’t it.
There’s nothing krogan-like about the soldier sitting at the table. The lethal gaze from the vids is watery and unfocused. The empty bottle in his hand isn’t a gun, but he clutches it like one. When the bartender delivers a fresh one Shepard doesn’t look up, merely pops the top off and takes another quick pull.
This isn’t good.
~Sam Shepard and Kaidan Alenko, in the years before the Normandy. AKA, the slowest of slow burns.
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- Part 3 of Opus
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30 Nov 2025
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LR- 11/30/2025 (COMPLETED)
Best of the best, read again
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The Merc with a Beak by Jenetica
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types
25 Jul 2026
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Wade Wilson is the best merc in the business, and he knows it. When he crosses the wrong kind of withered old lady—the magic kind—she curses him to regret his cockiness in the most literal way possible: By turning him into a cock. A rooster. A male hen, of the chicken variety.
Peter Parker, grieving the loss of Aunt May and Uncle Ben, needs a change. That's what his grief counselor says, anyway. So he makes an impulsive and massive one: He buys a farm. He doesn't mean for it to turn in a rescue for broken things, he just... he can't help but love the animals that no one else wants. Thus, when he overhears a greasy, crude asshole trying to pawn off a rooster in the middle of a farmer's market, he doesn't hesitate.
But there's something wrong with this rooster. It doesn't crow at sunrise—which is the only thing Peter expects a rooster would do—but it does holler its tail off whenever Peter bends over. And it follows him around and clucks like it's talking to him. And it's weirdly good at killing the vermin around the house.
There's a mystery afoot. Peter's going to get to the bottom of it.
(The Beauty and the Beast!AU you never knew you needed.)
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08 Oct 2025
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Wade Wilson's Guide to Studying Your Spider by X_Gon_Give_It
Fandoms: Spider-Man (Comicverse), Deadpool (Comics), Spider-Man - All Media Types, Deadpool - All Media Types
06 Jan 2024
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After months of working with Spider-Man, Wade Wilson realizes there are a lot more to his hero's powers than meets the eye...
AKA
The one where Wade notices that Spider-Man has been acting weirder and weirder, and the more he looks into it, the more he realizes that his not-so-normal partner in crime(fighting) is a lot stranger than he thought.
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22 Aug 2025
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Wade Wilson and the Multiverse of Motherfucking Madness by Jenetica
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies), The Amazing Spider-Man (Movies - Webb), Spider-Man (Movies - Raimi), Deadpool - All Media Types, Deadpool (Movieverse)
26 Mar 2026
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There’s a Spider-Man in front of him.
Note the key phrasing: There is a Spider-Man in front of him. Not the Spider-Man. A Spider-Man.
Wade’s an observant guy. He knows that something fishy went down a ways back near the Statue of Liberty, and that something fishy happened as a result. But once they fixed up the Statue of Liberty, everyone moved on from it the way they move on from every freaky thing that happens, so learning much more than that has been harder than finding Blind Al’s hidden stash of cocaine. And Wade is also a busy guy, so unless he has some reason to care, he’s gonna make like his old man and fuck off about it.
This, though, might be a reason to care.
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Three Spider-Men. One Dogpool. An unknown but concerning amount of Deadpools. What could go wrong?
[ETA: The "Spoilers for DP3" tag does not take effect until Chapter 6, for anyone that cares. Just a friendly FYI!]
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17 Aug 2025
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A son born of Earth, broken and lost. A son born of Pandora, fierce and bound to the land. Two souls carved from different worlds, two lives shaped by bloodshed and survival, and yet, they are meant to meet.
Jake Sully, a paraplegic Marine with nothing left on Earth, begins experiencing strange, lucid dreams after his twin brother's death. Dreams that take place in a world he's never seen, through eyes that aren’t quite his own. Each night, he dreams of towering trees, bioluminescent forests, and a sharp-eyed warrior who speaks a language he doesn't understand but whose presence feels… familiar. Important. His.
Then the news comes: his twin brother, Jake's only family, is dead. The military offers Jake a chance to take his place on a mission to Pandora—a chance to escape the wreckage of his past, to step into a world from his dreams, and to discover what fate has been whispering all along.
As Jake boards the shuttle, he doesn’t just carry his brother’s legacy; he carries the unseen bond of two souls destined to meet—a bond that will challenge everything he thought he knew about loyalty, identity, and love.
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31 Jul 2025
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"Well, here we are." Sirius pushed open the door with a grand sweep of his arms. “Home sweet Hell.”
Sirius had bad memories of Grimmauld Place, tainted by his own less than stellar family. But for Harry, whose summers had previously involved being locked away either in a cupboard or Dudley's second room--with bars on the windows, no less--it was perfect.
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With Sirius free from Azkaban and taking up his role as Harry's guardian, Voldemort pursuing a political path to power rather than bloodshed, and a defense teacher that isn't actively trying to kill him for once, Harry has high hopes for his third year at Hogwarts. It'll be nice to sit back and be a kid for once.Only Harry's life is never so simple, and he soon finds himself facing a myriad of new challenges: school bullies and new family dynamics, horcruxes all but falling into his lap, his deja-vu brain giving him mixed signals, and hidden murmurs arising from old Death Eater circles that may pose a threat to him regardless of his tentative alliance with Voldemort. Things seem destined to never be easy, but if there's one thing Harry knows by now, it's that he won't have to do it alone.
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28 Apr 2025
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The point of suicide is to die and to stay dead. It is not to suddenly be four years old again and to have to figure out how to inconspicuously save everyone lives as preschooler.
The worst part of this all, Jack laments, is that he can't even have a smoke.
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10 Apr 2025
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John Marston is ambushed by the Pinkertons and dies in 1911 after hunting down all his old gang members, not getting to finish the happy life with his family. Why then does he wake up in 1899 on Colter with Javier and Arthur rescuing him?
It seems fate, or a more malevolent force, has given John a second chance and now he has to live among his familial ghosts as he figures out how he can fix it this time. But, people are getting concerned by his new behaviour- what's there to expect from a 39 year mind in a 26 year old body? Or more importantly, what's there to expect from a hardened man forced to live next to everybody who betrayed him?
THIS IS JUST MY EXCUSE TO WRITE RDR 1 JOHN MARSTON, THE LOML. I wish the Van der Linde gang could have seen what a fucking force of nature he became- both as a mature man but also the fastest gunslinger in the west. Took down the rebellion in Mexico and all of Micah's gang in the mountains without batting an eye: he deserves MORE CREDIT.
I'm not sure where I'm going to go with this because it's been a while since I've played either game but I hate mischaracterising Marston. If anybody has any advice, let me know.
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22 Mar 2025
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The wind drops, suddenly, and the swirls of billowing snow settle between them slowly. Arthur squints as the figure becomes more defined, familiar but… not.
Wrong.
John Marston stands at the top of the crest of the mountain covered in snow and blood. There’s a dead wolf pelt with the head still attached wrapped around his neck and shoulders and he drags two more by the tail behind him. Four violent gashes cut through his cheek and up over his nose.
It’s hard to tell how much of the blood is his and how much is from the wolves.
“The hell, Marston?! You kill those with your bare hands?” Javier demands, looking shocked.
John makes a face that might be intended to be a grin but it’s all teeth. It makes the cuts on his face weep and Arthur feels himself wince in sympathy. Those must be painful.
“I had a knife.”
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John closes his eyes on Beechers Hope and opens them to teeth at his throat.
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- Part 1 of Sunset in Purgatory
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- 62,702
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20 Feb 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
LR - 02/19/25
Time travel (fix-it?), beautiful beautiful beautiful
Going in the bookmarks just in case this gorgeous work gets updates