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noelle • 30 • she/her ryland grace pulled me out of retirement. fics to come! no ai used in any capacity. 18+, MDNI

[gracefriends]

hypothetically how would we feel about grad school!ryland x reader where they hook up every now and then to get their minds off the stress of their workloads, he’s insufferable and reader is blunt, and they can handle each others’ attitudes

[gracefriends]

thinking about teacher!ryland x coworker!reader, and he's finding it harder and harder to deny he has a big ol' crush on you...

some sickeningly fluffy (and one spicy) headcanons simply because i can :)

requests open for ryland grace headcanons, blurbs, and/or drabbles! fluff, smut, au, canon compliant, canon divergent welcome!

coworker ryland grace who doesn’t get major crushes often, but when he does, they’re debilitating and he forgets how to function

coworker ryland grace who realizes with excitement and also a bit of worry that the crush he has on you is not just a work crush, it's an actual, tangible thing. and he realizes that he doesn't just want to half-smile at you when you pass each others' classrooms, and he doesn't want to only text you to coordinate what time you both need to get to the school to chaperone the dance. he wants to take you out on dates and learn your favorite things and all your quirks, and fudge, he really wants to kiss you, too

coworker ryland grace who has no problem talking to you about teacher things. you need to borrow his three-hole punch? you got it. you need someone to vent to about parent-teacher conferences? he's there to listen and swap some horror stories of his own. but when you ask him 'what do you like to do outside of work?' or 'would you ever want to grab a drink after school one day?' he stumbles over every word. and it's not that he misses the hint, because he's not an idiot and he is starting to sense that maybe his crush isn't totally one-sided, but something about you makes it so that he simply cannot be cool to save his life

coworker ryland grace who can recite the entire periodic table from memory and do complex math in his head, but when he passes you in the hallway and tries to compliment your outfit, his brain short circuits and he just nods in your general direction. the compliment flies right out of his brain when you smile at him, but his mouth has already decided to say something and he realizes that it's too late to stop it, and oh dear god, he's about to find out right along with you whatever it is that he's about to say

the moment happens so fast and he ends up panicking and just pointing at your legs and saying “pants," through an awkward laugh, then keeps walking

he immediately wishes the ground would swallow him whole, or at the very least that someone would pull the fire alarm so he has a reasonable excuse to sprint away

but you think it's incredibly endearing, if a bit baffling

you see ryland in the teachers' lounge later that day and you simply gesture towards him and say “shirt” and he’s equally as embarrassed as he is elated because he's thinking 'okay, she's got jokes!!! wish my failed attempt at flirting wasn't the punchline, but I'll take it!!'

coworker ryland grace who finally asks you out a couple of weeks later, and the date goes so well that you both wonder what took you so long

and soon enough, nodding and simply pointing out a piece of each others’ outfits becomes your guys' favorite bit throughout your relationship  

"tie," you point at his loosened tie and fix it for him halfway through the school day. you stopped in just to say hey while his class was at lunch and noticed his tie was a little crooked, and yeah, he could easily fix it himself, but he loves how close you have to stand to do it for him. one of his students happens to pass by the open classroom door right when you sneak a quick kiss, and you and ryland are both so confused as to where the sudden dating rumors came from

"sweater," he says, absolutely beaming because you're staying over at his place for the first time, and you asked to borrow some clothes to wear as pajamas, and that lumpy fox cardigan looks ten times better on you than it ever has on him, and his heart is fluttering with the relationship of it all when you curl up against him on the couch and start a movie with your head on his chest

"shoes," you say plainly as you're both lacing up bowling shoes, ready to playfully trash talk each other and compete for bragging rights (and to determine who buys ice cream after)

"lingerie," ryland says in a low, breathless voice when you step out of your dress and reveal the new set you just got. he takes a full five minutes just to admire how it looks on you from every angle before taking it off ever so carefully because he'll be damned if he rips it even a little and you can't wear it again. even (and honestly? especially) when there's no clothing on you at all, he notices every single thing about your body... every soft inch of your skin, everything that makes you moan, makes you arch, makes your hands fly to his hair and hold his head right where it is...

a year into dating, you’re splitting a bottle of wine for your anniversary (he's planned a very fun weekend getaway at the end of the week, but it's a surprise)

you're tipsy in his living room and, well, it doesn’t matter why, but you end up doing a one-woman performance of the confrontation from les mis, powered by red wine and the kind of natural comfort that you can only feel with someone who fully sees and accepts all the weird and wonderful sides to you

which ryland does

and when you’re done, ryland says (with the perfect balance of love, adoration, and playful roasting), “I can’t believe I used to be nervous to talk to you”

i'm giddy over these dorks, wow i might just have to do a part 2 if there's interest!!!

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

was anybody going to tell me that grace's quilt is covered in good luck symbols from around the world as a way to show that the entire world was wishing him luck on the mission

[gracefriends]

random ryland grace headcanons (pt. 1?)

no theme to these, no order, and no logic, just random hcs I can't stop thinking about. requests are open for more!

has lost his grover cleveland middle school ID badge twice, and next time he has to pay for a new one which is why he keeps it around his neck all day now, even on the way to and from school

grows tomatoes on his balcony and is very meticulous about caring for them. names the two plants he has 'to-may-to' and 'tom-ah-to.'

actually did have a dog, as a kid, and she was his soul dog. they got nine beautiful years together. it wasn't enough.

overly competitive at bar trivia and will trash talk his opponents loud enough for them to hear after he's had a couple beers. even reused 'waste of carbon' once and one of the players on the other team thought it was so creative that they gave him their number

ryland 'it's been a while since i've taken a pill from a stranger without knowing what it was' grace was a bit of a menace in college during his party days — hangxiety was his middle name for a little while, especially after parties with colt's frat

big omelet guy. keeps a list of the best omelets he's had and where he had them. tried to make the one from the bear at home and failed miserably

almost cursed in the classroom once when a fire drill went off, even though he'd gotten the staff-wide memo saying it would happen during fifth period. caught himself just in time and turned 'shit' into 'shi...iiiiiiirley temple' but it was a very close call

can't be bothered to turn his socks right side out when folding laundry, then gets annoyed at his past self when he goes to put them on and they're inside out. never changes his ways and the cycle repeats

has an idea for a fox tattoo that he keeps saying he's going to get but never does

thinks out loud a lot, when he's cleaning his apartment he'll narrate what he's doing, talk to himself, comment on students' papers out loud as he grades them, makes himself laugh with his own jokes, randomly sings

has seven (7) pairs of converse in varying states of wear

does a science bee at the end of every school year, and the students on the winning team get to pick out their very own science pun t shirts from a bin of them he keeps in the classroom as prizes— decades later after he’s saved earth, every student who ever won a shirt donated them to the air & space museum for their phm exhibit

stood with other colleagues behind the podium for one (1) project hail mary press conference, and it prompted the internet to try and figure out who the hot scientist in the back was

chronically offline and the only social media he has is linkedin, but vaguely knows internet references because of his students, and loves to ragebait them by purposely misusing internet slang

puts bonus questions on his tests that have nothing to do with science, like 'what is dr. grace's favorite movie?'

it's jurassic park btw

can't cook, but has a couple of mean cocktail recipes up his sleeve.

wants to host parties one day because he loves the idea of filling his home with people he loves, he just doesn't know many people that well

hope you enjoyed these!!!

[gracefriends]

thinking about teacher!ryland x coworker!reader, and he's finding it harder and harder to deny he has a big ol' crush on you...

some sickeningly fluffy (and one spicy) headcanons simply because i can :)

requests open for ryland grace headcanons, blurbs, and/or drabbles! fluff, smut, au, canon compliant, canon divergent welcome!

coworker ryland grace who doesn’t get major crushes often, but when he does, they’re debilitating and he forgets how to function

coworker ryland grace who realizes with excitement and also a bit of worry that the crush he has on you is not just a work crush, it's an actual, tangible thing. and he realizes that he doesn't just want to half-smile at you when you pass each others' classrooms, and he doesn't want to only text you to coordinate what time you both need to get to the school to chaperone the dance. he wants to take you out on dates and learn your favorite things and all your quirks, and fudge, he really wants to kiss you, too

coworker ryland grace who has no problem talking to you about teacher things. you need to borrow his three-hole punch? you got it. you need someone to vent to about parent-teacher conferences? he's there to listen and swap some horror stories of his own. but when you ask him 'what do you like to do outside of work?' or 'would you ever want to grab a drink after school one day?' he stumbles over every word. and it's not that he misses the hint, because he's not an idiot and he is starting to sense that maybe his crush isn't totally one-sided, but something about you makes it so that he simply cannot be cool to save his life

coworker ryland grace who can recite the entire periodic table from memory and do complex math in his head, but when he passes you in the hallway and tries to compliment your outfit, his brain short circuits and he just nods in your general direction. the compliment flies right out of his brain when you smile at him, but his mouth has already decided to say something and he realizes that it's too late to stop it, and oh dear god, he's about to find out right along with you whatever it is that he's about to say

the moment happens so fast and he ends up panicking and just pointing at your legs and saying “pants," through an awkward laugh, then keeps walking

he immediately wishes the ground would swallow him whole, or at the very least that someone would pull the fire alarm so he has a reasonable excuse to sprint away

but you think it's incredibly endearing, if a bit baffling

you see ryland in the teachers' lounge later that day and you simply gesture towards him and say “shirt” and he’s equally as embarrassed as he is elated because he's thinking 'okay, she's got jokes!!! wish my failed attempt at flirting wasn't the punchline, but I'll take it!!'

coworker ryland grace who finally asks you out a couple of weeks later, and the date goes so well that you both wonder what took you so long

and soon enough, nodding and simply pointing out a piece of each others’ outfits becomes your guys' favorite bit throughout your relationship  

"tie," you point at his loosened tie and fix it for him halfway through the school day. you stopped in just to say hey while his class was at lunch and noticed his tie was a little crooked, and yeah, he could easily fix it himself, but he loves how close you have to stand to do it for him. one of his students happens to pass by the open classroom door right when you sneak a quick kiss, and you and ryland are both so confused as to where the sudden dating rumors came from

"sweater," he says, absolutely beaming because you're staying over at his place for the first time, and you asked to borrow some clothes to wear as pajamas, and that lumpy fox cardigan looks ten times better on you than it ever has on him, and his heart is fluttering with the relationship of it all when you curl up against him on the couch and start a movie with your head on his chest

"shoes," you say plainly as you're both lacing up bowling shoes, ready to playfully trash talk each other and compete for bragging rights (and to determine who buys ice cream after)

"lingerie," ryland says in a low, breathless voice when you step out of your dress and reveal the new set you just got. he takes a full five minutes just to admire how it looks on you from every angle before taking it off ever so carefully because he'll be damned if he rips it even a little and you can't wear it again. even (and honestly? especially) when there's no clothing on you at all, he notices every single thing about your body... every soft inch of your skin, everything that makes you moan, makes you arch, makes your hands fly to his hair and hold his head right where it is...

a year into dating, you’re splitting a bottle of wine for your anniversary (he's planned a very fun weekend getaway at the end of the week, but it's a surprise)

you're tipsy in his living room and, well, it doesn’t matter why, but you end up doing a one-woman performance of the confrontation from les mis, powered by red wine and the kind of natural comfort that you can only feel with someone who fully sees and accepts all the weird and wonderful sides to you

which ryland does

and when you’re done, ryland says (with the perfect balance of love, adoration, and playful roasting), “I can’t believe I used to be nervous to talk to you”

i'm giddy over these dorks, wow i might just have to do a part 2 if there's interest!!!

[gracefriends]

thinking about teacher!ryland x coworker!reader, and he's finding it harder and harder to deny he has a big ol' crush on you...

some sickeningly fluffy (and one spicy) headcanons simply because i can :)

requests open for ryland grace headcanons, blurbs, and/or drabbles! fluff, smut, au, canon compliant, canon divergent welcome!

coworker ryland grace who doesn’t get major crushes often, but when he does, they’re debilitating and he forgets how to function

coworker ryland grace who realizes with excitement and also a bit of worry that the crush he has on you is not just a work crush, it's an actual, tangible thing. and he realizes that he doesn't just want to half-smile at you when you pass each others' classrooms, and he doesn't want to only text you to coordinate what time you both need to get to the school to chaperone the dance. he wants to take you out on dates and learn your favorite things and all your quirks, and fudge, he really wants to kiss you, too

coworker ryland grace who has no problem talking to you about teacher things. you need to borrow his three-hole punch? you got it. you need someone to vent to about parent-teacher conferences? he's there to listen and swap some horror stories of his own. but when you ask him 'what do you like to do outside of work?' or 'would you ever want to grab a drink after school one day?' he stumbles over every word. and it's not that he misses the hint, because he's not an idiot and he is starting to sense that maybe his crush isn't totally one-sided, but something about you makes it so that he simply cannot be cool to save his life

coworker ryland grace who can recite the entire periodic table from memory and do complex math in his head, but when he passes you in the hallway and tries to compliment your outfit, his brain short circuits and he just nods in your general direction. the compliment flies right out of his brain when you smile at him, but his mouth has already decided to say something and he realizes that it's too late to stop it, and oh dear god, he's about to find out right along with you whatever it is that he's about to say

the moment happens so fast and he ends up panicking and just pointing at your legs and saying “pants," through an awkward laugh, then keeps walking

he immediately wishes the ground would swallow him whole, or at the very least that someone would pull the fire alarm so he has a reasonable excuse to sprint away

but you think it's incredibly endearing, if a bit baffling

you see ryland in the teachers' lounge later that day and you simply gesture towards him and say “shirt” and he’s equally as embarrassed as he is elated because he's thinking 'okay, she's got jokes!!! wish my failed attempt at flirting wasn't the punchline, but I'll take it!!'

coworker ryland grace who finally asks you out a couple of weeks later, and the date goes so well that you both wonder what took you so long

and soon enough, nodding and simply pointing out a piece of each others’ outfits becomes your guys' favorite bit throughout your relationship  

"tie," you point at his loosened tie and fix it for him halfway through the school day. you stopped in just to say hey while his class was at lunch and noticed his tie was a little crooked, and yeah, he could easily fix it himself, but he loves how close you have to stand to do it for him. one of his students happens to pass by the open classroom door right when you sneak a quick kiss, and you and ryland are both so confused as to where the sudden dating rumors came from

"sweater," he says, absolutely beaming because you're staying over at his place for the first time, and you asked to borrow some clothes to wear as pajamas, and that lumpy fox cardigan looks ten times better on you than it ever has on him, and his heart is fluttering with the relationship of it all when you curl up against him on the couch and start a movie with your head on his chest

"shoes," you say plainly as you're both lacing up bowling shoes, ready to playfully trash talk each other and compete for bragging rights (and to determine who buys ice cream after)

"lingerie," ryland says in a low, breathless voice when you step out of your dress and reveal the new set you just got. he takes a full five minutes just to admire how it looks on you from every angle before taking it off ever so carefully because he'll be damned if he rips it even a little and you can't wear it again. even (and honestly? especially) when there's no clothing on you at all, he notices every single thing about your body... every soft inch of your skin, everything that makes you moan, makes you arch, makes your hands fly to his hair and hold his head right where it is...

a year into dating, you’re splitting a bottle of wine for your anniversary (he's planned a very fun weekend getaway at the end of the week, but it's a surprise)

you're tipsy in his living room and, well, it doesn’t matter why, but you end up doing a one-woman performance of the confrontation from les mis, powered by red wine and the kind of natural comfort that you can only feel with someone who fully sees and accepts all the weird and wonderful sides to you

which ryland does

and when you’re done, ryland says (with the perfect balance of love, adoration, and playful roasting), “I can’t believe I used to be nervous to talk to you”

i'm giddy over these dorks, wow i might just have to do a part 2 if there's interest!!!

[gracefriends]

i wasn’t going to drink tonight, but then i thought about how everyone in the theater laughed when grace told rocky “i didn’t mean any of that” about making peace with his death, when it’s actually one of the most vulnerable and heartbreakingly honest lines in the whole movie

[gracefriends]

ok i am officially drinking tonight because he really was simultaneously comforting rocky and trying to somehow convince himself that he was okay with dying alone, huh? when in reality, he had people he cared about and he had a life that he was not! done! living!!!!!!

[gracefriends]

random ryland grace headcanons (pt. 1?)

no theme to these, no order, and no logic, just random hcs I can't stop thinking about. requests are open for more!

has lost his grover cleveland middle school ID badge twice, and next time he has to pay for a new one which is why he keeps it around his neck all day now, even on the way to and from school

grows tomatoes on his balcony and is very meticulous about caring for them. names the two plants he has 'to-may-to' and 'tom-ah-to.'

actually did have a dog, as a kid, and she was his soul dog. they got nine beautiful years together. it wasn't enough.

overly competitive at bar trivia and will trash talk his opponents loud enough for them to hear after he's had a couple beers. even reused 'waste of carbon' once and one of the players on the other team thought it was so creative that they gave him their number

ryland 'it's been a while since i've taken a pill from a stranger without knowing what it was' grace was a bit of a menace in college during his party days — hangxiety was his middle name for a little while, especially after parties with colt's frat

big omelet guy. keeps a list of the best omelets he's had and where he had them. tried to make the one from the bear at home and failed miserably

almost cursed in the classroom once when a fire drill went off, even though he'd gotten the staff-wide memo saying it would happen during fifth period. caught himself just in time and turned 'shit' into 'shi...iiiiiiirley temple' but it was a very close call

can't be bothered to turn his socks right side out when folding laundry, then gets annoyed at his past self when he goes to put them on and they're inside out. never changes his ways and the cycle repeats

has an idea for a fox tattoo that he keeps saying he's going to get but never does

thinks out loud a lot, when he's cleaning his apartment he'll narrate what he's doing, talk to himself, comment on students' papers out loud as he grades them, makes himself laugh with his own jokes, randomly sings

has seven (7) pairs of converse in varying states of wear

does a science bee at the end of every school year, and the students on the winning team get to pick out their very own science pun t shirts from a bin of them he keeps in the classroom as prizes— decades later after he’s saved earth, every student who ever won a shirt donated them to the air & space museum for their phm exhibit

stood with other colleagues behind the podium for one (1) project hail mary press conference, and it prompted the internet to try and figure out who the hot scientist in the back was

chronically offline and the only social media he has is linkedin, but vaguely knows internet references because of his students, and loves to ragebait them by purposely misusing internet slang

puts bonus questions on his tests that have nothing to do with science, like 'what is dr. grace's favorite movie?'

it's jurassic park btw

can't cook, but has a couple of mean cocktail recipes up his sleeve.

wants to host parties one day because he loves the idea of filling his home with people he loves, he just doesn't know many people that well

hope you enjoyed these!!!

[gracefriends]

i wasn’t going to drink tonight, but then i thought about how everyone in the theater laughed when grace told rocky “i didn’t mean any of that” about making peace with his death, when it’s actually one of the most vulnerable and heartbreakingly honest lines in the whole movie

[lotldraws]

lofi beats to chill/study/relax to

[gracefriends]

well well well another 30-something out of tumblr retirement for phm just like myself what are we DOING here but i lowk love it tho

no but actually, what is going on??? but also i feel so alive???

[multifandomevi]

No, YOU watched project hail mary. I let it consume my soul

[incaseyouart]

this study got out of hand haha, but it's a perfect shot for the text from the book (opening of chapter 24) - what a brutal passage :(

<ref once again from the amazing admins behind the PHM twitter account>

[dragonstwin]

it's usually closer / on your chest

[gracefriends]

thinking about when grace tells yao that he doesn’t have the bravery gene that the others have. and stratt half-glances over her shoulder at him with that look on her face… because although there might not be a bravery gene, he does have the coma resistance gene and she knows it

[saym0-0]

another teacher grace moment i love is when rocky gives him the oxygen model he goes 'i dont have one of these thank you!' like that is THE most teacher response ever when a child gives them something utterly incomprehensible but made with love

[houujin]

A relatively messy study/fanart for project hail mary, the last month has really awakened my inner space loving child again

Also fun fact, while drawing Man of war by Radiohead started randomly playing which i think is very veru fitting for this