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🐍 fic masterposts:
svsss - mostly zhuzhi-lang + tianlang-jun/su xiyan, though the occasional moshang and bingqiu can be found
trigun - levash/vashgato and millionsummers
tgcf - junmei and hualian
The toughest scenes to watch in The Vampire Lestat is not the sad backstory it’s actually having to see this beautiful princess get degraded by vampire jeremy fragrance while just taking it
dm aside that entire daniel/armand exchange was so funny because “did you actually not get tortured by me?? was none of it real???” “noo babe ofc you tortured me, you tortured me so well you’re so good at torture”
I just noticed my darling baby boy (cat) sitting in his little loft bed about 5 inches away from the most delightful sunbeam, so I scooted it into the sunlight for him and he looked me with the biggest widest expression. I don’t think he knew that was an option. I think I just blew his whole little mind
The Tau Ceti system was a long, long way away now, and Grace had faced not one but two highly emotional suicide missions. Three, if you counted the time before he was given a military grade roofie and hucked into space without his memories.
Rocky and Grace make it back to Erid! Huzzah!
Now they have to navigate all of... that.
cosmic love by thanotaphobia (blue000jay)
“Grace!” Rocky says. “Look!”
I look. Then I gasp.
“Is Adrian!” Rocky says.
(or, what happens once Ryland Grace becomes the sole human inhabitant of Erid.)
Permission to Hope by sburbanite
Grace and Rocky set sail for Erid and unpack all their emotional baggage along the way.
When you're stuck in a tin can for almost four years, it's rarely smooth sailing. But, hey! At least your best friend is there to call you an idiot, and you're almost certainly going to die when you reach your destination!
(Or: The one where Rocky builds a robot instead of an EVA suit)
The Wire Mother by nopaintjustpain
I lived with this hunger long before the Hail Mary. This is nothing new. I’m fine.
Right up until Rocky asks another question.
“When last time you touch other human person skin, question?”
I clench my jaw so hard my temples ache, and beg him with my eyes to just stop.
“Grace. Please say not when… when Evil Stratt humans put you to sleep.”
I can taste grass.
AKA: Grace starves for more than just food on the journey to Erid.
Parting Gift by wreckerdeckerr (a series currently on 3 of 4)
Ryland Grace is unknowingly pregnant when he is put into suspended animation and sent on a suicide mission to save Earth from astrophage. After completing his mission and turning back for Rocky, he and his friend have to navigate ever-complicated human pregnancy and parenthood during the 4 year trip to Erid. After touchdown, will Erid be willing and able to support two fragile human lives? What will Grace have to do in the name of bravery for his child? What does life look like for a child of the stars?
Co-Valence by Minimalistless
“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.
someday you will find me by ForestDivinity (if it's not clear from the summary, this is a time travel fic)
Ryland Grace wakes up, goes to work, feels the rain on his face, teaches his students, cries over the galaxy, and dreams about a rock.
Wait.
What's that last one all about?
There is a feeling in the back of his head like he's forgetting something. Is he forgetting something?
Is he forgetting something again?
Gravity holds me down and it's taking over by FishFromMars
Something goes catastrophically wrong with Grace's dome.
adding some tags since it's a very short summary: Mentions of Death, Angst and Hurt/Comfort, Domestic Fluff, Blood and Injury, Self-Sacrifice, Protective Ryland Grace, Parent Ryland Grace, Protective Adrian (Project Hail Mary), Rocky is a mess, book and movie canon blend. not sorry. (mostly book tho), Child Injury, Ryland Grace Has PTSD, Ryland Grace and Rocky are Platonic Soulmates, Asexual Ryland Grace, But he's married to them, They/Them Pronouns for Adrian (Project Hail Mary), Existential Crisis, Permanent Injury
The Hail Mary, full of Grace by Second_Sol
Project Hail Mary from Rocky's Perspective.
Also includes a couple of bonus chapters at the end.
Bonus chapter 1: Rocky and Grace's arrival at Erid
Bonus chapter 2: Grace introduces Rocky to Earth life
Bonus chapter 3: Grace introduces Rocky to Tetris
Bonus chapter 4: Rocky finds out about the Golden Record
Bonus chapter 5: The Eridians plan and initiate 'Project Saving Grace'
To Leave A Mark (At the Beach, In Every Life) by eridianenby (wholisticleeme)
Ryland wakes up on a planet 16.5 light years from home with nearly 2 decades worth of memories missing. He’s done incredible things, or so he’s told, but all of that is overshadowed by the painful process of remembering. There’s a lot of jagged edges around events from his life that he wishes remained buried. But for the first time, Ryland has the opportunity to pick up pieces previously left untouched, and create a stronger foundation for the new relationships in his one-of-a-kind, wild ride of a life.
(Plenty of angst/hurt/comfort, flashbacks, etc. with fluff and lovely bits holding it together in between)
Life…uh, finds a way by Scythling
After saving Grace and nearly dying in an alien atmosphere, Rocky lays an egg before going dormant.
Turns out being isolated for years and then nearly dying will force biological imperatives onto injured Eridians, and this one leaves Ryland Grace utterly baffled.
Aren't Eridians supposed to lay eggs in clutches? Only fused eggs are supposed to be viable, but when Grace accidentally touches the egg with his bare skin while trying to save it, that's apparently all the genetic fusion required for life to begin.
Ryland Grace skips a few steps when it comes to making a baby, and I test the limits of Eridian biology.
consider this a work in progress as I continue burning through the plethora of excellent fic for this fandom
(if any authors would like their tumblr @ on here as well, please let me know!)
Playing through DMC5 again and I always thought Vergil choosing to turn away from the family portrait while running himself through with his own sword was because he couldn't bare to look at his family while he did it (and I still think that's part of it)... but then I realized that the moonlight from the front door (and the cabinet/closet Eva hid Dante in) is visible in front of him. Meaning he's staring at the place he found Eva's body while essentially killing himself...