SalamanderSocks
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- Final Fantasy XV (2)
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Musings of a Messenger by SalamanderSocks for MathClassWarfare
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV
09 Nov 2023
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Post Dawn, a second chance is given to Noctis and his furry companion. A story in which Umbra is the Goodest Boy.
Umbra POV
Written for FFXV 2023 Remix, Inspired by 'Old Friend, New Tricks' by MathClassWarfare.
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It was a dark and stormy night... by RedRose101, SalamanderSocks, stopmopingstarthoping (bladesandstars)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV
15 Sep 2022
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Gladio is a historical fiction writer with writer's block, and Ignis is a supportive boyfriend with some clever ideas. One hungry cat and one power outage later, the story is back on track.
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“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.”
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Or, Dr. Ryland Grace has yet to confront the choices taken from him. Eridian norms, ironically enough, force the issue.
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09 Jul 2026
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Incredible cross species courting and Grace dealing with the ghosts of his past (not well, obviously but he’s trying lmao)
My own epilogue:
Adrian waiting back home: I wonder who our third will be? I bet Rocky’s charmed the carapace off one of his crewmatesGrace:🧍🏼♂️I hope they like me👉👈
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I Thought Love was a Kind of Emptiness by Sanguine_Melody
Fandoms: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
20 Jun 2026
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Grace’s short history of relationships taught him that maybe he was just childish. Maybe he just— maybe he didn’t want a relationship. Maybe he just wanted a best friend who wouldn't leave him when they got married. That he was the one that was the problem.
Adults had sex. That was a fact of life. They fell in love and love meant sex and that was just how it was. If you didn’t want to have sex then you weren’t really in love. Sure sex didn’t equate to love— people had flings all the time— but romance and sex were the kind of things that went together. So Grace had just— accepted the words of his girlfriends. That maybe he just never actually loved them the way he thought he did. Maybe he just liked them and tied the thought of romance to it so that he could monopolize their time. That all just came together so maybe he actually was just leading these women on. All of them gave him everything he needed in a relationship but he’d never been able to be what they needed. Wasn’t that selfish? Wasn’t that cruel?
Alternatively: Grace is alloromantic asexual. This is traumatizing in many ways. Not for Rocky though. Rocky's perfectly okay with being in love and never having sex.
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- Part 1 of Paint the Sky with Stars
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01 Jul 2026
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This hurt so good, oh Ryland Grace you are always like one missed stair step from finding out about the asexuality spectrum and goddamn you’re so real for that. This one captures ‘The Ace Experience’ so painfully perfectly.
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"I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, go back to sleep. When you need to worry, I'll tell you."
"Heh." Ryland ran his hand down his face. "It's terrible you know that it actually makes me feel better. What would I do without you?"
"Explode at a colleague at a conference and get expelled from academia and become a middle school teacher." Eva said, promptly.
"Wow, you've thought about that way too hard." Ryland laughed. "Middle schoolers might not vape in class, though. Maybe I should switch."
"Let's not joke."
or: fourteen conversations where ryland grace doesn’t realize eva stratt is a time traveller
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Bookmarked by SalamanderSocks
27 Jun 2026
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Oooogh this one is so good, Eva re-doing things to make Grace’s journey easier (and her own harder). We love a complicated woman. Also 11/10 way to reveal to your platonic bestie that you’ve been a time traveler the whole time.
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Hail Mary Counter @hailmarytracker · 12 hrs
Days since last contact with Hail Mary: 9,716
🗨 1 ⇄ 2 ♡ 5It's been nearly 27 years since the Hail Mary departed. When the ISS detects a signal in the far off solar system, hope begins to grow, even as mysteries start to unravel and the universe becomes a little smaller.
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25 Jun 2026
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Holy god, I binged this all in a day and I have no regrets. Incredible multimedia experience and just the attention to detail aughhh I wanna crawl inside the authors brain and swim in it. Grace coming back to earth and him and Rocky trying to navigate humanity is fucking PEAK (oh my god the memes also, Inspired~)
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A series exploring the biological, cultural, and linguistic differences between two members of a very unconventional (but good) social group on a little spaceship far from home.
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Bookmarked by SalamanderSocks
23 Jun 2026
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Love the deeper explorations of them trying to understand each other when they’re just two fundamentally different beings. Eridian culture speculation is my jam