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Ryland looked down at his clipboard, where he had written a reasonable script, supplied earlier that day by Adrian. Unfortunately, the moment his eyes landed on the words, his brain supplied only terrible ways to say them.
He chose the worst one.
“I need flowers with prominent reproductive structures.”
The man went completely still.
Ryland could feel his soul attempting to leave his body.
“For a plant anatomy lab,” he added quickly. “For my students. Middle school students. Not–” He cut himself off, because there was simply no end to that sentence that would improve his situation. Instead, he just weakly smiled, and added “Science.”
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Ryland Grace is brilliant with biology, awkward with adults, and far too invested in giving his students the lessons they deserve. Simon Fleischer is a guarded florist who trusts plants more than people and has no interest in being needed by anyone again. But when a forgotten school lab brings Ryland into Root & Thorn, their lives begin to tangle in quiet, unexpected ways – through flowers, roots, and the terrifying possibility of being cared for properly.
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25 Jun 2026
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Read through Ch 6
Oh my goddddd, how does this fic have so many good quotes?? Who do I have to murder to get lines as good as these?
...Asked for something low-maintenance for the office and he told me “Nothing is low-maintenance if you ignore it.” Plant is still alive though. Five stars.
Competence was dangerous. Ryland had learned that about people. Competent people made him want to hand them things. Problems. Trust. The soft, ugly little truths he usually kept behind his teeth.
Competent people with strong arms, a nice face, and a working knowledge of plant anatomy were, frankly, a public safety hazard.And then there's the one I'm going to be bringing to my therapist later:
“Okay,” he said, because Adrian had once told him that arguing with kindness was not the same as accepting it. “Thank you.”
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Dies Irae by SunBringerSuri
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
07 Jul 2026
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“I don’t一” Simon’s voice is soft and broken and he hates it, he hates the fear permeating his entire body. “I don’t want you to be a hallucination.”
Grace’s faint mumbles and a strange whistling voice die down. Then Grace says, “This is real. It’s real, and we’re getting you out. I promise.”
Simon closes his eyes. He breathes out.
“My name,” he says. His voice is rough with unshed tears. “My name is Simon.”
“Nice to meet you, Simon. Hang tight. We’ll be there soon.”
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Simon is rescued from the blood ocean by a stranger who calls himself a scientist, who claims to be on his way to an alien planet called Erid. Aboard the Hail Mary, Simon has to contend with the fact that dimensional travel maybe exists, living on a space ship, and somehow surviving the struggles of deep space—all while maybe falling in love with the strange man with blue eyes.Series
- Part 3 of and love (is not what i thought it was)
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Before end of Iron Lung, Grace is on radio. Rocky's fishing chain gets Grace down to surface, they cut Simon out. Simon tears off his arm to escape while Grace is there; Grace gets cut on leg. Simon has branches and leaves inside his body? And his blood can feed Grace, or something?
Hope is not a beautiful bird. Hope is a parasite. Hope is a leech that takes and takes and takes until you have no choice but to go insane or give in to despair. Hope is the monster that can’t be killed, the voice in your head that can’t be silenced, the creature that makes a nest in your chest and stays there until it’s eaten you from the inside out.
Right. Simon cracks an eye open. “Ship name,” he mumbles. “What’s the ship’s name?”
“The Hail Mary.”
Huh. Simon laughs sleepily. “Hail Mary, full of Grace,” he whispers. His eye closes again. “Save us now and in the hour of…” He yawns. “…our death. Amen.”
He doesn’t see the strange look Grace gives him. He’s already asleep- simon recognizes earth hacky sack, but doesn't recall where he knows it from
- astrophage bomb takes out eel
- rocky road
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Bloody Mary Oneshots by Notarobot07
Fandom Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
06 Jul 2026
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For The World Is Hollow And I Have Touched The Sky by GhostOnTheMoon
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
06 Jul 2026
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Simon arrives on Erid with no memory. His wounds, his vessel, and his fear are his only clues to his past, and Grace his only shepherd.
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Simon experiences amnesia on Erid similar to the amnesia Grace experienced on The Hail Mary.
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Dreams and Ghostlight Angels by Bibarian
Fandoms: Iron Lung (2026), Project Hail Mary (2026)
06 Jul 2026
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Simon had never been sure whether it was better to be awake or asleep. Being awake meant facing the horrible reality of the Quiet Rapture and of his prison sentence, not knowing when he might be killed to spare resources...or become resources.
Meanwhile, sleep meant being haunted with nightmares made up of his past sins and trials.That is, until he started dreaming of an angel.