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L / Marjan | they/them | 21+ | blog exists to appease the PHM brainworms (they are very hungry like Taumoeba)

[eridianenby]

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.

Chapters: 5/?

Fandom:

Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir

Rating: Mature

Warnings:No Archive Warnings Apply

Relationships: Ryland Grace & Rocky, Ryland Grace/Rocky, Ryland Grace/Linda (past relationship), Ryland Grace & Eva Stratt, Adrian/Ryland Grace/Rocky

Characters: Ryland Grace, Linda | Ryland Grace's Ex, Adrian (Project Hail Mary), Rocky (Project Hail Mary), Original Eridian Characters (Project Hail Mary)

Additional Tags: Autistic Ryland Grace, Aromantic Asexual Ryland Grace, Ryland Grace Is Not Graceful, Ryland Grace Needs a Hug, Amnesiac Ryland Grace, Queerplatonic Relationships, Asexual Relationship, And the exploration and variations within, Ryland Grace Has a Bad Time, (but he will get better I swear), POV Ryland Grace, Ryland Grace and Rocky are Platonic Soulmates, Ryland Grace Whump, I fear it counts, With Ryland being both the whumper and the whumpee, Cover Art, Slow Burn, Eventual Happy Ending, no beta we die like the rest of the crew, Other Additional Tags to Be Added 

Summary: 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)

[tendebill]

grace & rocky hug in zero-g <3

(no-xenonite version under the cut!)

[ssopimir]

oh okay

[koymadis]

never post again

[nikoisme]

scar studies

[puncertainty]

they did heelys in space…

[poltergeist-404]

Based on this tweet!

[foralittlewile]

It is actually nuts how much Grace is canonically liked and likeable in PHM. Obviously there's all the hints about how much the crew like him, but even outside of that, we can see that in his pre-project life, when he wasn't 'important,' people wanted him around! His fellow teachers were asking him to hang out, and he had more friends than just Marissa! Who, by the way, hung out with him every Thursday night (insane amount of consistency for adult friendship tbh) for YEARS. Don't even get me started on how Marissa met him because he was the roommate of a guy she BROKE UP WITH. Imagine staying friends with your college ex-boyfriend's roommate for almost two decades??? To the point that you tell him about a world-changing problem before it's even public, just because it's him.

And even with all of that, he sees himself as alone.

[cloudabserk]

before i watched project hail mary i knew exactly 2 things about ryan gosling:

[froxyfroggo]

happy ten year anniversary to this article !

[cloudabserk]

??? 10 years? i had initially assumed this was during the barbie press tour or something. why would they ask him this in 2016…

[clowndraws]

mimicry

[faint-taste-of-almonds]

Ryland Grace has got to have one of the funniest scientific careers of all time:

Research

Dissertation (piss off your entire field)

Teach middle-schoolers

Be the first person to be in contact with alien life (non-sentient)

Have your dissertation (also what killed your career) be proven wrong

Kill and also breed alien life

Become expert in said life

Become first person to be in contact with alien life (sentient)

Successfully communicate and solve the universe’s biggest problem with sentient alien life

Live the rest of life on alien planet as the savior of the universe

[neonthewrite]

Hail Mary: Grace by Inches

Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a mission he doesn't remember volunteering for. Alone on a ship scaled far too large for a borrower, he has to try to figure out why he's so far from home, and what he's supposed to do. On top of that, he needs to figure out why this mission is so prepared to have a borrower on the crew--standing at only six inches tall, it's easy to think none of this was meant for him. And yet, everywhere he looks he finds evidence that whoever built this ship built it with both humans and borrowers in mind. An impossible task looms over him. A scientific mystery has somehow sent him hurtling through space, impossibly far from any other human or borrower, and it's on him to surpass an extinction-level threat that doesn't care how big someone is. It will end the world all the same if he doesn't do something about it. But, despite what he thinks, he's not alone.

Artwork by the incredible @hailed-marys! Go check them out for some artwork, or even just some fun blogging. Extremely grateful to them for this lovely work ❤️

[littlehippyhehe]

I like to think there is sentient life on Adrian and like three of them saw Rocky and Grace and were like "omg a ufo?!?"

And everyone else is like yeah okay you saw an alien ship with a ball hanging from it why tf would an alien do that you're being crazy rn

[azu-mog]

When Rocky finds out earth memes and crabs

Or maybe Grace is having a weird dream

[lotldraws]

hey don't worry? completely unrelated giant dump of heartwarming PHM doodles ok??

once again these are all from like the same two canvas files in procreate judging from the same color background. also straight up had a dream where grace and rocky figured out how to make gnocchi out of taumoeba hence the making gnocchi over a bunsen burner

[rylandgracie]

[cloudabserk]

stratt said grace will be a perfect astronaut he will never have a workplace relationship! but then…

[darkestbrook]

Wanted to try my hand at comparing Book Rocky vs Movie Rocky. At first I was much more partial to movie Rocky (having seen it first), but now that I've read the book I think I'm fonder of his design and character in the book more! I thought it would be fun to combine my favorite attributes from both into one design.

And then I had a lot of fun with it and it spiraled into drawing a bunch of random Eridians and a design for Adrian. I just think they are very neat (and very fun to draw)!!