1 - 20 of 162 Bookmarks by jayistootiredforthis

Navigation

List of Bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    “But you said you didn’t have a word for – for forcing someone into reproduction?”

    No. Is different, but equivalent violation. Means, to force to sleep.

    Or, Dr. Ryland Grace has yet to confront the choices taken from him. Eridian norms, ironically enough, force the issue.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    25,754
    Chapters:
    7/7
    Collections:
    2
    Comments:
    667
    Kudos:
    1,662
    Bookmarks:
    494
    Hits:
    12,939

    22 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Read ch6

  2. Public Bookmark 11

    Tags
    Summary

    Their tree had fallen a few years earlier, its roots rotted by record-breaking rainfall. Eva came here every February 14th to remember him until the beetles came back.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,521
    Chapters:
    3/4
    Comments:
    20
    Kudos:
    85
    Bookmarks:
    11
    Hits:
    624

    20 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Read ch1

  3. Public Bookmark 51

    Tags
    Summary

    He couldn’t take it anymore, Grace needed to sit. He plops right down onto the sterile flooring, knees up as he rests his arms across them, head buried. Biking that hard for that long, then running across the building at full speed really wasn’t a smart idea in his current condition. He might throw up. He’s been so nauseous lately.

    Grace could feel Stratt’s eyes on him, looking, calculating. Evenly, she speaks again.

    “…Your physiological state is affecting performance?”

    Grace closed his eyes briefly.

    “I said I’m fine.”

    “You are not answering honestly."

    “I’m just pregnant,” he said, emotion finally leaking through to his voice. Grace refuses to cry here.

    A pause. Then Stratt speaks again.

    “Does this impair cognitive function?”

    “No,” he said, voice wobbling.

    “Then it is irrelevant.”

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    17,422
    Chapters:
    2/?
    Comments:
    58
    Kudos:
    310
    Bookmarks:
    51
    Hits:
    2,378

    19 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Read ch2

  4. Public Bookmark 49

    Tags
    Summary

    I think everyone needs to hear someone say, “Nobody else will do. It has to be you,” sometime in their lives, even if it only happens once. Just once is enough. As long as you can feel sure those words were sincere, you can live through anything, no matter how painful.

    Except Rocky isn’t the first person to say that to me, is he? Now that I think about it, I realize I’ve heard it before.

    Stratt just phrased it poorly, that’s all.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    22,489
    Chapters:
    10/10
    Comments:
    70
    Kudos:
    148
    Bookmarks:
    49
    Hits:
    1,683

    15 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    "And I, for my part, took it poorly. Rather, I refused to hear it. I didn’t want to be told I was so incredibly important, didn’t want to know how deeply I was trusted, didn’t want to have to shoulder the burden of those two facts. In those closing hours of the project, she must’ve hoped beyond hope that I would step up and do the right thing—she didn’t have to do me the courtesy of presenting that false choice, you know. She could just as easily have had someone ambush me with the needle in the hallway and that would’ve been that. It wouldn’t’ve made much of a difference to the endgame: both scenarios conclude with her standing over my comatose body, in the twilight period between one life ending and another one beginning, trying to come up with some action she could perform that would make the situation even an iota less painful, only to find herself woefully inadequate for the task at hand. Still, I suppose she did what she could—it’s common knowledge that hearing is the last thing to go before someone dies."

  5. Public Bookmark 43

    Tags
    Summary

    Eva returns home after years in the stars to save Ryland Grace from that fate that she was meant to have as the world whipping boy. As she predicted, the world had not been kind to the remaining leader of the project. If only fixing Grace was as easy as fixing Sol.

    Beta-read and rewrite in progress. Chapters 1/12 - 6/26/26

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    23,449
    Chapters:
    12/12
    Comments:
    77
    Kudos:
    235
    Bookmarks:
    43
    Hits:
    3,437

    12 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    She can see Carl surveying Grace while he's distracted looking at her. He must be worried. Grace looks horrible, thin and washed out, sunken and sad. It's like all of his brightness faded with the sun. If only fixing this was as simple as fixing Sol.

  6. Rec 6

    Tags
    Summary

    The night after the explosion, Stratt has some things on her mind.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,240
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    46
    Bookmarks:
    6
    Hits:
    192

    11 Jun 2026

  7. Rec 33

    Tags
    Summary

    "If we're married,” he says, folding his hands over the desk, “they can't legally make me testify against you."

    The first actual sign of life from her in well over a minute is a brief roll of her eyes. "I know what spousal privilege is, Dr. Grace."

    Or: after the launch of the Hail Mary, a late-night idea that may or may not be ill-advised

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,254
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    23
    Kudos:
    362
    Bookmarks:
    33
    Hits:
    1,446

    08 Jun 2026

  8. Rec *

    Tags
    Summary

    A series of short fics exploring Grace and Rocky's friendship, among other things. (Each chapter is its own story; I just wanted to have them all in one place.)

    Chapter 1: Rocky thinks humans are equally disgusting and cute. Somehow, through it all, Grace reminds him of home.
    Chapter 2: Rocky can pick Grace up easily, and Rocky thinks it is very funny. Rocky and Grace tease each other.
    Chapter 3: Eridians bring Grace their babies for him to see, and Grace learns about Eridian culture/religion. Grace is also bad at taking compliments.
    Chapter 4: Rocky makes Grace celebration jewelry. Later, Grace gets a similar gift from Adrian.
    Chapter 5: Grace and Rocky tease each other, and Rocky is introduced to the idea of throwing things at your friends. He decides that humans are odd, but maybe aren't all that bad.
    Chapter 6: Grace tries to convince Rocky to swim, but Eridians don’t typically like deep water because they are heavy and will sink/drown. Grace learns about some Eridian mythology.
    Chapter 7: Grace talks about the lack of support teachers have on Earth. Rocky is confused by this.

    [This has a limit, so new chapters will have their description at the beginning of the chapter instead]

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    22,250
    Chapters:
    15/15
    Comments:
    634
    Kudos:
    5,219
    Bookmarks:
    1,083
    Hits:
    46,213

    03 Jun 2026

  9. Rec 53

    Tags
    Summary

    “Grace, there is a problem.”

    I pause what I’m doing to look at Rocky. “What’s up?”

    Rocky skitters around his tunnel nervously. “I may have taught you the wrong language.” Rocky squeaks out.

    What?

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    541
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    15
    Kudos:
    760
    Bookmarks:
    53
    Hits:
    4,795

    24 May 2026

  10. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    ♪So humans do not need to care about viruses, question?♪

    “Well… we do need to care a little. Some viruses cause more severe infections than others. Influenza, for example, is pretty inconvenient for most people. It can cause nausea, fever, nose leaking, aches, coughing, and more. It can even be deadly for people with weak immune systems, like children or the very old. We definitely take it seriously when someone vulnerable gets infected. Influenza is one of the diseases we vaccinate for. Who remembers what vaccination is?”

    The entire class raised their claws. Grace facepalmed.

    “Right, duh. Forget I asked.”

    ♪Cannot forget.♪ Someone chimed, eliciting several giggling thrills.

    OR

    Ryland Grace has an annoyingly short lifespan by Eridian standards. Rocky fix. Good thing Grace is there to teach the Eridians everything they need to know about human biology.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    32,019
    Chapters:
    11/11
    Comments:
    299
    Kudos:
    1,721
    Bookmarks:
    371
    Hits:
    26,342

    22 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Read ch8

  11. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary


    “Think of it in this way: suppose I make two statements. Statement one: “After I die, I shall be reborn as a baby… but I shall forget my former life.” Statement two: “After I die… a baby will be born.” Now, I believe that those two statements are saying exactly the same thing.”

    —Alan Watts



    Grace and Rocky watch a movie.


    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,655
    Chapters:
    3/?
    Comments:
    270
    Kudos:
    903
    Bookmarks:
    192
    Hits:
    10,975

    19 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    nausea inducing /pos read ch 2

  12. Rec 51

    Tags
    Summary

    “Do you have any siblings, Rock?” Grace hasn’t spoken for hours, not since he curled up beside the glass separating him and Rocky. Not since he pulled his patchwork quilt around his body and laid his head on his pillow so he could watch Rocky sleep. 

    He wasn’t expecting the Eridian to still be awake, and yet, he heard a soft little musical chord, soft, like he was tired. After the day they’d had, studying the Taumoeba, they were both exhausted, and it was when Grace was sleepy, that he thought about Earth. 

     “♪♩ ♫♪♫ ♪♩ ♪?”

    “No it is very hard for Eridian have sibling. Often one egg all life. Grace have sibling question?” 

    Grace thought about home, about his brother, whose blood was his blood, whose face was his face. “I had a twin brother. That means… basically… there’s another Grace out there.” 

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,082
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    16
    Kudos:
    362
    Bookmarks:
    51
    Hits:
    1,826

    07 May 2026

  13. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Robby walks out of the Pitt on the Fourth of July with his life shrunk down into two bags and finds himself in the dark--in an an apartment already stripped of everything his, trapped in his own head, in a maelstrom of guilt and regret.
    Then Jack's texts arrive. And his last reason to stay dissolves.
    He has always been the problem. Now he is going to do something about it.
    Miles away, Jack answers a phone call in the middle of the night. Could he pull Robby back before it's too late? And what will be the cost of survival?

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    19,672
    Chapters:
    4/10
    Comments:
    129
    Kudos:
    454
    Bookmarks:
    115
    Hits:
    5,649

    04 Apr 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Read ch 3

  14. Public Bookmark 33

    Tags
    Summary

    There's a new charge nurse, and she's being awful to everyone but specially Langdon, threatening to ruin his chances with his program.

    He's having a bad time, specially after he gets sick. Some ladies help

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,998
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    3
    Kudos:
    280
    Bookmarks:
    33
    Hits:
    3,498

    26 Mar 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 47

    Tags
    Summary

    “What are you doing here? This is my ER, this is my workplace, I am not entertaining whatever it is you think you're doing.” Robby stared at John, incredulous, and asked again, “Why are you here?”

    “You know, if you answered your phone once in a while you might have an idea,” John replied, raising his eyebrows at his older brother, “I’m sure someone told you that there would be a visiting doctor today; you had to have gotten a memo as the ED chief, right?”

    ~~

    Carter joins The Pitt for a week of observation in the ED as a prospective Chief Resident candidate. Robby is less than thrilled to have his kid brother underfoot again. Both men aren't exactly what the other remembered. Maybe Michael isn't the hero Carter thought he was. Maybe it wasn't all John's fault.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    8,304
    Chapters:
    3/?
    Comments:
    38
    Kudos:
    297
    Bookmarks:
    47
    Hits:
    3,513

    21 Mar 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Read ch 3

  16. Rec *

    Tags
    Summary

    "Frank felt the impact before he heard it—like being punched by fire. His body lurched backward, breath ripped from his lungs as pain detonated in his abdomen and chest.
    He hit the wall hard and slid to the floor.
    The man screamed.
    'Oh my God. Oh my God. I didn’t— I didn’t mean—'"

    Langdon's attempts to help a struggling patient have devastating consequences.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    6,171
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    11
    Kudos:
    674
    Bookmarks:
    138
    Hits:
    9,059

    20 Feb 2026

  17. Rec 45

    Tags
    Summary

    Santos avoids the subject; Whitaker earns his keep.

    Slice of life told mostly through the eyes of Dennis Whitaker. Friendship fluff. Angst. All the good stuff! Picks up right at the end of Season 1 and fills in the gaps leading up to Season 2.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    10,258
    Chapters:
    8/?
    Comments:
    41
    Kudos:
    374
    Bookmarks:
    45
    Hits:
    4,829

    16 Feb 2026

  18. Rec 26

    Tags
    Summary

    The team recalls why they volunteered for the Traveler program, and Philip spirals a little when he has to remind them that not everyone grew up with the luxury of free will.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,506
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    21
    Kudos:
    147
    Bookmarks:
    26
    Hits:
    1,551

    26 Jan 2026

  19. Rec 7

    Tags
    Summary

    Luke has a bit of a judgment problem. Alison seems to be the only one who cares.

    Part of a series, but can be read on its own.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    820
    Chapters:
    3/3
    Comments:
    1
    Kudos:
    35
    Bookmarks:
    7
    Hits:
    504

    22 Jan 2026

  20. Rec *

    Tags
    Summary

    Thalia bowed her head as the presence behind her approached. Ozone built on the back of her tongue in response, and her ears popped with the change in pressure and power, so much power

    “Don’t bother with the tree this time,” Thalia choked out. “Just—just end it. Please end it. I don’t belong here; you don’t want me here. Father, please.”

    The figure settled beside her in the sand. “I am not your father, Thalia Grace.”

    ***

    Thalia is having a rough time. Help comes from a very unexpected place.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,309
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    53
    Kudos:
    794
    Bookmarks:
    130
    Hits:
    5,059

    22 Jan 2026

Filters

Filter results:
Submit

Include

?
Include Ratings
Include Warnings
Include Categories
Include Fandoms
Include Characters
Include Relationships
Include Additional Tags
Include Bookmarker's Tags

Exclude

?
Exclude Ratings
Exclude Warnings
Exclude Categories
Exclude Fandoms
Exclude Characters
Exclude Relationships
Exclude Additional Tags
Exclude Bookmarker's Tags

More Options

Word count
Bookmark types
Submit

Clear Filters

Navigation