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Healy found being queer a lot more interesting than March did, like it was a hobby or something. She dragged Holland to a new gay bookstore down in Silver Lake on opening weekend and made her wait around for what felt like hours. Holland stood outside smoking with someone else’s bored girlfriend while Jack paged through books and talked earnestly to women in painter's pants.
Holland didn’t read much apart from magazines. She had a stack of Vogue and Playboy by her bed, and that was good enough for her. Sometimes when Jack was telling her some long story about something she read in one of her boring books, Holland got the feeling she was just as bad at being queer as she was at being normal.
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- Part 2 of Ain't Nobody Straight in L.A.
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07 Jul 2026
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Take my Hand and I’ll Hold You to What’s Written There by Prismabird
Fandoms: The Nice Guys (2016)
11 Jun 2016
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When Holland leaves town for a case, Jackson and Holly end up having a rough night in the hospital. Takes place just less than a year after the events of the first movie, in the early Fall of 1978.
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04 Jul 2026
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Clawing the Curtain, Climbing the Wall by Lowe (peppersoap) for Petty_Pretty_Pinay
Fandoms: The Nice Guys (2016)
23 Nov 2020
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Jackson Healy has been doing this job for a long time. A long, long time...
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25 Jun 2026
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The Nice Guys Detective Agency is 6 months old. A seemingly simple case gets complicated fast.
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23 Jun 2026
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If March had a nickel for every time Healy had walked in on him with his pants down, he'd have two nickels, which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it's happened twice.
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21 Jun 2026
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March had his palm read once, years back, by a hack psychic in a gaudy tent at some old timey carnival Holly had begged to go to. She'd taken one look at his craggy hands – two fingers bandaged at the time - and told him, in no uncertain terms, that if he didn't slow down, boy, he was gonna hurt himself. He tipped her very badly.
Suffice to say, he did not often have the appearance of a man in control of his own destiny.
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20 Jun 2026
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When he sees who is leaning against the wall of the house, he drops his hand again. It's March. He's not wearing a uniform this time, but brown pinstriped pants and a red, short-sleeved polo shirt. A pair of violet-tinted sunglasses are wedged in front of his eyes. That stupid, cocky grin is back on his face, too. He looks so dashing that Healy wants to shoot himself on the spot; like a model in a damn fashion catalog.
Or: The police of Los Angeles makes Healy's life a hell for being a gay man in 1969. March, the handsome new police officer, is the worst of them, and in addition follows Healy everywhere. It's not that Healy had enough problems already.
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17 Jun 2026
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“He had a sharp nose and head with full, healthy hair, and was dressed in a white button-up shirt that looked crisp and too tight on his body, with slacks hanging low on narrow hips. There was stubble along his jaw and exhaustion beneath his eyes despite the well-kept mustache and soft blue tint of his irises, but somehow neither of those things took away from him. If anything, they added something unfairly charming. He smelled faintly of cheap cologne and cigarette smoke, and something sweeter underneath that reminded Healy vaguely of oranges.
Healy frowned when he noticed that the man’s blond hair was exactly the same shade of June’s usual beehive hairdo.”
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Four times Jackson Healy thought about kissing Holland March, and one time Holland March kissed him. (Plus one bonus chapter at the end)
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Five days in July 1979.
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14 Jun 2026
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Blackmail. Illegal porn. Undercover at a gay bar. The Nice Guys sure are at it again.
“Porn? I can throw a rock in this neighborhood and I’m gonna break the window of a porn store.”
March gestured anxiously, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
Healy paused. “Ohhhhh. The nasty stuff. Whips and handcuffs. Girls and animals.”
“Close,” March said, grimacing. He really, really didn’t want to have to explain this. “Think more like…. Disco.”
“Disco?” Healy raised an eyebrow. “What, like the queer music? You think the back room of that store is full of porn for… For disco fans.” He nodded thoughtfully a couple of times. “And you’re an expert about this?”
For a second the whole world went white around the edges and March thought he might pass out. He was too sober for this conversation. What exactly had Healy noticed that morning, how obvious exactly had his full-body reaction to Healy’s hand on his neck been? “I was a happily married man!” March said, and as soon as it came out of his mouth he knew it was wrong. Too fast, too high-pitched, too loud.
Incriminating.
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13 Jun 2026
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Between processing the unhealed grief of losing his wife, trying to keep from drinking himself into a coma, and struggling with his freshly grown feelings for his business partner, accepting a new case is probably not the smartest thing March has ever done.
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- Part 2 of goose fics
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13 Jun 2026
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Striking a Chord by startingatmidnight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
04 Apr 2026
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Living on a spaceship with an alien that exclusively speaks in song can really recontextualize karaoke for a guy.
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11 Jun 2026
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The Astrobiology Immersion Program by startingatmidnight
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
10 May 2026
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It's not every day you wake up with five arms and no eyes, but Ryland Grace stopped having normal days a very long time ago.
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11 Jun 2026
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False Friends by IvyLee
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
07 Jun 2026
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In linguistics, a false friend is a word in a different language that sounds similar to a word in your own, but differs significantly in meaning. No word in any Eridian language could possibly be mistaken for English. But Erid absolutely has false friends.
In his right mind, Grace would easily identify the mistaken assumptions inhibiting his integration on Erid. They are:
1: A molecular biologist and a sapient rock can cobble together translation software that reflects the etymological nuance of an entire alien language.
2: Eridians are enough like humans to have an area 51 and look forward to using it.Unfortunately, Grace hasn’t been in his right mind in years.
Or: a ‘Return to Erid’ story where Grace struggles to touch down alone.
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- Part 1 of The Gift Receipt Rockimatic Universe
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07 Jun 2026
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The trip to Erid is long, and some days, nothing goes wrong. Instead, the games we play shape the stories we tell.
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07 Jun 2026
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The Mortifying Ordeal of Being Known by SerotoninShift
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
19 Jun 2026
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After the Taumoeba leak, after I decided to die after all and turned my ship around to save Rocky, after Rocky's frantic calculations about food supplies, Taumoeba multiplication rates, and human caloric intake needs, after we realized that with some rationing and luck I would make it, but that we were headed toward the unknown territory of trying to rapid-prototype me a life support system and synthetic food supply on an inhospitable planet: after all of that, after everything, I shouldn't have been surprised that it only took a few months on board the Hail Mary for things to get weird.
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07 Jun 2026
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Two of Us by itsthemorph
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
16 Jul 2026
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“Hello?” I sing out. It comes almost naturally, scarily naturally.
The man's head whips over toward me, and I feel like I’m going to throw up. I can see his face. His eyes and mouth are closed, and the features are still blurry, but that doesn't really matter.
That's…
Me.
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In which Rocky and Grace body swap and get to experience life as a completely different, new species :))
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You freak out, I watch by marizetta
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
06 Jun 2026
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“Wow, this is so… And what happened to those soldiers? Eridians from frontlines? I gather they had some sort of severe case of PTSD then.”
“They died.”
“I beg your pardon?”
This.
This is clearly some mistake in the translation. Has to be.
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On a long jorney to Erid Grace and Rocky decide to deal with traumatic nature of Eridian's experience in space. They do it with talks, singing, gossiping and dancing.
I just thought there is a lot of works about Rocky helping Grace to deal with heavy emotional stuff, there should be one where Grace supports his friend also!
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minesweeper by landsat9
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
21 May 2026
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Grace bumps into Stratt after learning that everyone thinks they're sleeping together, and then bumbles through the minefield that is Stratt's love life.
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21 May 2026
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Of Home and Horses by castielrisingabove
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
18 May 2026
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It's hard to watch your best friend get almost everything you want. Stuck in orbit above Erid, Ryland Grace tries not to look a gift horse in the mouth as he misses home.
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19 May 2026