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Teaching a Tone-Deaf Wet-Faced Human How to Sing-Share by theyhavenotyetinventedawordforwhatiam
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
08 Jun 2026
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Rocky has officially moved into Hail Mary with Grace, but he's still dealing with the aftereffects of living nearly fifty human years by himself. By chance, he finds himself singing with Grace, and it's clear Grace doesn't fully understand what that means for Eridians.
This story roughly follows the plot of both the book and the film, but Rocky and Grace's personalities are more reminiscent of the book. Furthermore, Rocky's speaking style closely follows the book, although his physical appearance is closer to his depiction in the film.
Spotify playlist made for this story: grace rocky save stars
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06 Jun 2026
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The longer Grace spends with Rocky, the more he wishes he could touch him. Grace has never been a very tactile person, but something about his alien roommate has him contemplating what it would be like to throw an arm around him or grab his hand without the xenonite between them.
It's not like Grace has anyone else to touch these days.
Or: Five times Grace wants to hold Rocky's hand, and one time he gets what he wants (and more).
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02 Jun 2026
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leave this star-crossed world behind by grimark
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
28 May 2026
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“Don’t have to face any specific direction to talk to you, Grace,” Rocky says. “Am radially symmetrical. Hearing organs on whole body. Grace biologist, should know this.”
I suddenly regret teaching him literally anything about biology. Some things more than others.
“Figure of speech,” I say. That’s so not the point. “Listen, is this about the other day? Because we can pretend it never happened, if it’s making you uncomfortable.”
Rocky skids to a stop. He slowly backs up a few paces, and now I can tell he is actually focusing on me, even though it doesn’t really matter which facet of his body is pointed in my direction, due to the aforementioned radial symmetry.
“Not uncomfortable,” Rocky says. “Interesting display of human culture and biology. Grace very kind to share with me."
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- Part 2 of xeno jerkoff cinematic universe
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29 May 2026
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How to screw an alien by bleeding_hydnellum
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
31 Mar 2026
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Rocky realizes he is in love with Ryland, and after confessing he learns a lot about how Ryland's biology works.
Later, Ryland visits Erid and Adrian learns about Ryland's biology.- Language:
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20 May 2026
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when it's over, you're the start by Spades (bumblingbees)
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
21 Apr 2026
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“Hey! It’s a lot up here, okay? It’s a normal response to stress.” He rubs a hand over his face. “Okay, I cried a lot down there, too. But not in class! Not if I could help it. But having to say goodbye, gosh, I’ve never been good at that.” Grace laughs, but it sounds sad. His mouth is shut firmly, and he leans against my ball. He’s so soft, his body melds to the side of the xenonite with ease. “I can’t imagine what a mess I’ll be when—” he cuts himself off, but I know what was coming next.
I’m not sure how I’ll be when we say goodbye either. It didn’t seem like it’d matter so much at first, after all, if we part ways, it means we succeeded. I’d be going back to Erid, to Adrian, to home. But I’d be leaving behind Grace. The thought of that is unpleasant. It sinks deep in me; the emotion is painfully familiar. It’s been a long time since I’ve had anyone to mourn losing anyone again. I don’t want to think about it, I’m not ready.
or 5 times Rocky feels something for Grace. 1 time he does something about it.
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- Part 1 of When it’s over, you’re the start
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19 May 2026
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Eddie was—
Eddie was.
Eddie’s brown eyes flashed behind his eyelids whenever he closed his own. His voice echoed in his head as he laid down to sleep. He imagined his sharp canines sinking into his throat every time he wrapped a hand around himself, biting into his knuckles until they bled to keep quiet.
He wanted. He craved. And that was his problem.
He knew Eddie better than anyone, and worse, Eddie trusted him.
Eddie trusted good ole reliable Buck, the best friend, the babysitter, the guy to call in a crisis. He didn’t know about the cavernous hole that housed a snaggled beast, hidden behind his organs, in a place Buck didn’t have a name. He didn’t know how fucked up and needy Buck was.
So, Buck did what he did. He plastered on a smile, was punctual to every movie night, joked with Eddie in between every call, and tamed the lonely monster that nipped at his heels, inching closer and closer every day to ripping open his carotid artery
Or, the one where Buck wants, wants, and wants.
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08 May 2026
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“I’ll do whatever you want, just, please.” Buck sobs out the last word, eyes burning with unshed tears.
“A vow.” The man leans uncomfortably close to Buck. The knife brushes against his neck, lightly scratching across the top layer of Buck’s skin. The man’s cold blue eyes hold Buck’s full attention. “That’s what I require. Sell me your allegiance.”
Buck stares back at the killer, unable to fully process what is being asked of him. He sees a flash of anger dance in the stranger’s gaze. He's impatient. Unpredictable. Fear pours into Buck's chest as he realizes he might not get a second chance at this. He has to make this count. “I vow to give you complete control over the remainder of my life. My body is yours to destroy—so long as you let my sister live and return safely to her family.”
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Or, After Eddie leaves for Texas, Buck goes to seek comfort from his sister and walks in on her kidnapping. In order to save Maddie's life, Buck offers up his instead. Unintentionally agreeing to something worse than death.
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17 Apr 2026
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The chances of being struck by lightning twice are incredibly minute, but Buck still manages to pull it off. During a double date with Marisol and Natalia, nonetheless. Eddie manages to resuscitate him, but as Buck recovers from yet another trauma, Eddie can’t help but notice there’s something very different about him. He’s not quite sure what version of Buck he got back.
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22 Mar 2026
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Buck had lost-- he was sure of this now. His resolve only lasted a few weeks before his exterior began to crack; he was never a very good actor. He couldn’t keep up the greetings and the asking questions and the easy stroll. He let his shoulders creep up to his ears, let his foot tap incessantly. He did what his Captain told him, but stopped asking for anything more. Stopped following the conversation in the back of the engine on the way to the call; he just stared out the window, thinking about the case to come, preparing for it. When he woke every morning, there was no big recovery milestone to strive for, no big fight for the soul of his career to win. Not even the happy swell of being back on shift -- something so easy to dismiss, that had dominated so much of his life, that he had taken for granted-- that had catalyzed him each morning of his first week back.
An old habit of his had returned. A bad habit.~~
or: after the lawsuit, buck confronts what it was he wanted all along. he looks and looks and longs for it; the team looks right through him. buck breaks-- right down the middle.
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- Part 1 of Lighthouse Universe
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- 35/35
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20 Mar 2026
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They’d promised each other, sworn blind that they wouldn’t let him get a rise out of them. That they weren’t going to snap and give Gerrard and his ugly ass presence what he wanted.
Despite that promise, the following shift they all had after Buck being wrung out, it happened.
“What in the hell is that?” Gerrard’s arms were folded, eyes narrowed, looking to all the world a villain from an 1800s children’s novel.
Eddie, who Buck had never seen quite so obviously looking to start something, turned on his heel from the coffee machine, the shadow of a smirk written across his face.
“What’s what?” Eddie asked coolly, as if he didn’t have a caterpillar crawling along his upper lip to match Gerrard’s.
OR - Eddie is a little unhinged since Christopher left. When Buck gets yelled at for having facial hair, Eddie makes a spectacle out of his own.
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26 Feb 2026
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As the summer heat blazes through the city of Los Angeles, a masked serial killer targets first responders. The killer, dubbed The Reaper by the press, stalks the night and chooses his victims at random.
After narrowly surviving an attack, Buck finds himself staying with Eddie for his own safety. As he and Eddie investigate the attacks, their close proximity and heightened emotions force them to come to terms with their feelings for each other before it's too late.
Buck was the only victim to ever survive an attack, and The Reaper doesn't intend to let him get away again.
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- Part 1 of Slash
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- 10/10
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26 Feb 2026
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Christopher peered at him, his eyes bigger through his lenses. “Why?”
Buck nearly choked. “Why? Why… what? I mean, I’m bisexual, if that’s what you’re—”
“Oh, no.” Christopher shook his head, “I just meant, if you’re dating men, why aren’t you dating Dad?” Which simply did not help Buck’s choking problem.
Buck really, truly had never pictured Eddie’s son asking him these questions, specifically why he wasn’t dating Eddie.
“Uh— your Dad isn’t— we’re not—”
“Oh.” A pause.
“I don’t want you to date Dad.”
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A 7x10 rewrite wherein which Christopher does NOT leave and Buck offers his apartment to Bobby and Athena.
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22 Feb 2026
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‘I always wanted to be a Jedi as a kid. A long con for Halloween costumes would’ve just meant you secretly read my mind or something.’
‘I am pretty good at that sometimes.’
Buck smiles at him, fond, and Eddie aches, he aches so much to tell Buck all the things about his big stupid gay awakening that he couldn’t tell his best friend when he came out to him during a quiet night sometime after Chris first texted him back in the summer. All the things that are so intimately tied to Buck.
‘You are,’ Buck says, quiet, eyes sparkling and Eddie’s a stronger man than he thought because he doesn't get on one knee in the middle of the kitchen and propose to another man's boyfriend. ‘Really good. At that.’-----
It's Halloween, Chris is heading back to Texas for a few days and Frank gives Eddie therapy homework to do something for himself, to let himself want things. Eddie enlists Buck's help and something shifts between them in the following week.
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14 Feb 2026
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After a gruesome war finally comes to treaty, it is decided that the King of Piltover will take a bride from Zaun.
Viktor isn't expecting to be a candidate.
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26 Jan 2026
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Liminal (Smudged in the Margins) by walrusface
Fandoms: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 (Video Game)
02 Aug 2025
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As a lonely teenager, Verso paints himself a friend on a small, hidden canvas: Gustave, a confidant who quietly grows into something more. After the fracture, the other Verso finds Gustave again in Lumière. It should be impossible - and keeping his distance might be.
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- 8/8
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27 Dec 2025
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Ret'urcye mhi
[ray-TOOR-shay-MEE]
-'Goodbye'
-Literal meaning: 'Maybe we'll meet again'“I need you to keep someone in line for me,” Vader said. Then he began pacing, clearly having grown tired of keeping his festering emotions still. “He has proven time and time again that he is more than willing to go against my orders, and frequently gallivants across the galaxy—blatantly ignoring his duties. I require an escort to follow him, report to me if he steps out of line, and stop him when he does. Not with lethal force. If he dies under your care, consider your lives forfeit.”
There was a moment of silence as the situation dawned on Din, and then he bristled from shock.
This wasn’t a bounty—it was babysitting duty.
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or; it started with an attachment, like all Sith love stories do.- Language:
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25 Dec 2025
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Hazards of Galactic Politics and Motel Trysts by sluttysuperheroes
Fandoms: The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars - All Media Types, Star Wars Original Trilogy
01 Feb 2025
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It’s been five years since the fall of the Empire and Luke Skywalker, hero of the galaxy and herald of the New Republic, seems to have everything—except a sense that his actions make any meaningful difference.
Notorious hunter Din Djarin’s life is his work and he never shies from a bounty, not even when his target is the last Jedi. When he tracks Skywalker down, the ensuing confrontation alters the course of both their lives.
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07 Dec 2025
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pucker up for heaven's sake (there's never been so much at stake) by icenineporcupine
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
29 Nov 2025
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“I have ways of remembering who I am,” Azune says. “Of keeping both of us safe. Of keeping the body safe. I can bear you without losing myself, if you trust me.”
Bolaire shakes his head vehemently. “You don’t know what I am—not truly.”
“I know exactly what you are,” Azune says, soft but unyielding. “You are my friend, and Hal’s friend—but you don’t want to hear that right now, so let’s speak on your terms:
“You are a weapon. But more than that: you are a weapon that wields itself. A weapon doesn’t need to understand its cause, but the wielder does, or the force behind it ends up warped and wasted. You want to fight for what you feel for Halandil Fang? Good. Let me help you name it.”
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- Part 1 of the song that shapes the tongue
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03 Dec 2025
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Ever Decreasing Circles by pixie_rings
Fandoms: The Mandalorian (TV), Star Wars Original Trilogy, Star Wars - All Media Types
05 Sep 2022
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His newest (small, green) student has been completely inconsolable, and so Luke Skywalker decides to track down the Mandalorian Grogu calls father, however long it takes.
Meanwhile, Din Djarin is coming to terms with the new, painful absence of the most important being in his life, and this damn Darksaber.
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- Part 1 of A Softer Epilogue
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- 112,201
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01 Dec 2025
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From Some Place the Sunlight Won't Come Through by good_old_fashioned_lover_boy
Fandoms: Critical Role: Aramán (Web Series)
24 Nov 2025
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“So we’re really crashing one of the most high-profile events in the damn city just to check in on a guy we’re not even sure we fully trust?” she says gravely. “I can’t help but feel like we should think this through a little better, y’all.”
(Or: House Cormoray puts Bolaire in a tight spot, forcing the schemers to attempt a rescue mission.)
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25 Nov 2025