Hey if you See This can you reblog this or comment on this with a character you headcanon as aromantic, asexual, or both. It can be canon it can be founded on absolutely nothing I just need more aroace stuff on here #yay
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it's only been a handful of months since the film came out and the film ao3 tag is already insanely big. as such, i'm definitely missing out on some great fics that by all rights ought to be on this list. if you've read something cool lately, please throw a reply under this list so i and others can check it out!
in the meantime, here's a bunch of authors i'm obsessed with who one day will receive a hugo award. or maybe already have, honestly. in this lineup i'd hardly be surprised.
GEN/TEEN
forever altered by @deervsheadlights (T)
Grace finds an extra bag of vodka. Rocky makes clear to us, the audience, that nobody has ever suffered so nobly for love like an Eridian having to be designated driver.
"I will not describe the next 1,042 seconds in any further detail, because the very reminder of it leaves my insides writhing in ways that make me consider whether there could be kindness in the embrace of the void waiting beyond the Hail Mary's hull."
better than your best by Goldmonger (T)
One of the best explorations of Rocky's trauma relating to sleeping alone for nearly half a century, using some great additions to Eridian biology and culture to get those feelings out in the open.
"You can’t build while you’re sleeping, but you can die. You can die for no reason at all."
The Chain (Keeps Us Together) by @bottommattmurdock (G)
Vignettes of conversations during the long, boring task of making a chain, and two aliens becoming besties4life. As the author says, it's extremely 'delirious at the sleepover' vibes, in the best way possible.
"Grace eats a breakfast burrito. Throwing himself out of the airlock has been postponed. For now."
silence more musical than any song by @hansdevice (G)
Rocky's years alone on the Blip-A, trying to engineer himself out of an impossible problem. Incredible characterisation of someone who's only surviving by pushing their skills and competence to the bitter limits, and still not succeeding despite it.
"After twenty-seven years alone, he builds a nest. It’s humiliating, this primitive effort. It feels like something ♪♫♪♫♫♩ would do, not an Eridian, but what other choice does he have?"
Without a Doubt by @eldritch-elrics (G)
An amazingly detailed and well-researched dig into linguistics that, in the PHM tradition, finds a tender story in the exploration of a really dense subject.
"'Does Grace feel like the dictionary is cucking him?' Rocky says in the placid tones of the TTS."
MATURE/EXPLICIT (UNDER THE CUT)
evil alien space pirate by @serenfire (E)
This is a placeholder for basically any of serenfire's fics; grace pretty, rocky stare and rocky curious too are also all-timers! But while both of those fics are fantastic, I can't not put the main spotlight on the world's least convincing pirate roleplay. The perfect example of writing two characters who love each other and are absolute saps and have never stopped arguing literally once in their life.
"Yes," says Rocky scaldingly, pouncing on the moment of indecision. "I do much for you and your sweaty, leaky body and get no appreciation, just requests. 'What if it taste like pizza? Oh, Rocky, Rocky, come to monitor room, have to show you beach again so you can understand full importance of margarita!' Well, since Grace not taking brainstorming meeting seriously, why not continue to make contraption to make Grace sweat and leak all over himself more?"
phenomenal nominal nothing by @grimark (M)
Grace's first taste-test of me-burger, taken to the best possible extremes. grimark is another author whose fics could just be the whole list. This fic is the example because there's a line in here (that I won't put as the below line, to preserve the joy of discovery) that I'm pretty sure is the most *gunshot sound* line in PHM fic history. You'll know it when you see it.
"'Gonna hand-feed it to me?' Grace says, with the intonation that means he’s making a joke."
i'm your man by @andthepeople (E)
And three in a row; again, spqr physically cannot write a bad fic. The limelight goes to a fic that is, I have to presume, the first erotic use of a belt sander in the history of literature.
"Grace gathers that usually there would be a greater variety of minerals involved; Rocky asks him if he has any charnockite, and then he asks if he has any phyllite, and then he asks, in a tone like he’s rolling his eyes, if Grace has any metamorphic rock of any kind whatsoever on the Hail Mary or if they just shot him into space completely unprepared."
The Scientific Method by @convocation-conduit (E, WIP)
I truly started out with a rule to not include any WIPs on this list, but it's at 4/5 and I couldn't not include it. Rocky's in need of help and it's going to involve chlorine gas, skintight plasticised xenonite, a bunch of Eridian leg spreaders, and everyone being totally normal about what Grace thinks might just be sex. The author's actively produced detailed anatomical diagrams for this fic, because this is the fandom of incisive attention to scientific detail while still being funny as fuck. Example!
"Rocky loves bowling. Rocky is probably a bigger fan of bowling than any human who's ever lived. Given the choice to either teleport Mary to Erid or himself to the nearest Splitsville Lanes, I think Rocky would not only choose Splitsville, but claim it as sovereign Eridian territory and live there. He mimics the moves he sees on tutorials. He hates pro coverage because the commentators talk over the “song of the ball” (I have no idea what this means), and he doesn't even care about scoring. Anytime ball meets pin, Rocky's hopping around squealing “Yes. YES. Kill,” with a glee that maybe slightly concerns me."
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif
An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.
Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.
Anthropeum.com · Jun 8 2026
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this is soooo unironically eye opening. hearing why people are choosing what they're choosing and why they think the other option is wrong. we literally just live in a world of misunderstandings.
A daily game that challenges our understanding of human cultures. Ten objects. 5,000 years of human history. Guess where and when each artif
An interesting game where you are presented with 10 artifacts from the MET. You have to place where the artifact is from and what time period it is from. Each artifact scores up to 10,000 points, and you lose points the further away your guess is and how far off in time you are. You can only play once a day. Thanks to @baebeylik for showing this to me.
Today I scored really well. Yesterday ... not so much.
Anthropeum.com · Jun 8 2026
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