The Rabble's Ridiculous Ramblings

We are forever flummoxed in this fandom-filled fellowship.

[thelongdistancefroglover]

So like, I barely use Tumblr but now I need to because people in my groupchat are tired of me shitposting and ranting about fandoms to their uncultured, unimpressionable minds.

This IS a warning to anybody that looks at this chaotic mess.

[thelongdistancefroglover]

Hi! I've seen your PHM fic rec post (and read almost most of them) and seeing you also kind of like Bloodymary, could you do also a bloodymary fic rec?

YESYESYES!!!! The hyperfixation since the movie came out has faded to more of an interest and enjoyment, with my fixation moving back to FMA×HP crossovers, but I ended off the obsession with a good chunk of BloodyMary. I'll provide stuff I read and things I have on my reading list for when the fixation strikes me again.

Stuff I've read(I only read 10, so I'm adding all of them and little personal summaries if I remember what happened...):

1.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82325371

Listen To The Land Of Good Will - Aspengrove_the_chaotic

Simon spawns on the Hail Mary. Simon calls Ryland an angel. They bond over aliens and one-way trips <3(oneshot in a 2 part series)

2.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83102201/chapters/218850126

In the Absence of Space - Cowboycrows

The Hail Mary saves Simon while on the way to erid. Healing and bonding and slightly worrisome stuff happens :))))

3.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82332346/chapters/216694216

where nothing bleeds - interstellarisms

Also some dubious stuff like rocky hearing through a vacuum, but it's very good. The Hail Mary runs into Simon's ship floating in space, and they grab him and take him to Erid! Bonding and healing ensues.

4.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81965971/chapters/215660801

Patron saints of one way trips - clokkerfoot

Eridians find Simon and bring him to their pet human. They bond and have very sweet moments <3<3<3

5-7.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/6037921

Totally Normal Bloodymary AU - snapdragonpop007

Basically a "nothing goes wrong" au where BloodyMary is just a mostly regular couple on Earth. Also goslingverse :)

8.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83320736/chapters/219473196#workskin

Connection (Long Shot) - chubbysloth11

Slightly scientifically dubious but very good otherwise. The HM goes to save Simon from the blood moon, legit yoinking him from Ava's clutches. #starvation on the way back to Erid <3

9.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83063346

I said I'm fine (it's just a sitting down in a shower day) - snapdragonpop007

Simon is traumatized and Ryland is there for him.

10.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82690776/chapters/217689986#workskin

We Can Meet Again Somewhere - KingFern

Eridians find Simon and bring him to Grace. They bond and there are minor miscommunications, but they mostly get their shit together... mostly. <3

Stuff I haven't read(not adding individual fic context besides links since I'm very tired rn, sorry):

1. https://archiveofourown.org/works/82445591/chapters/217009806

2. https://archiveofourown.org/works/83000271

3. https://archiveofourown.org/works/83857446

4. https://archiveofourown.org/works/84179971?view_adult=true

5. https://archiveofourown.org/works/85496961

6. https://archiveofourown.org/works/84179206

7. https://archiveofourown.org/works/82940016/chapters/218388161

8. https://archiveofourown.org/works/84807156

[emiqip]

"Bloodymary is fucking peak!!" I scream at the enraged mob, hollering at me to die.

"He's right!" A voice echoes from the back of the crowd.

I raise my head- Markiplier from YouTube is smiling at me.

[nexeliam]

Sacrifice for human kind

[thelongdistancefroglover]

BROOOOOOOO

[thelongdistancefroglover]

Oh great froggy one. Might I ask for your favorite angsty PHM fanfics? I just finished the movie and it is indeed very peak, statement. Anyway, I require pain. Thank you in advance my liege.

HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH YOU HAVE SPOKEN TO THE RIGHT PERSON, MY FRIEND! I have plenty of Amaze Amaze Amaze fics at my disposal. Now, would you like my full list(sifted through for the best summaries and tags from the top 300ish kudos fics in the fandom) or just my favorites? Are you comfy with Grace/Rocky?(i was uncomfy at the start and didn't read those fics till recently bc I wasnt sure if I liked the ship) Do you want to be brought into the Goslingverse? Coltland Gentry?(as explanation, this is a crossover of many of Gosling's roles in which Ryland is Colt Seavers'(Fall Guy) twin brother, and Courtland "Sierra Six" Gentry(The Grey Man) is sometimrs their older brother to add an angsty backstory and protective big brother to the mix back on Earth(a personal favorite AU). There are also a lot of fics where earth mourns the loss of Grace and there is no "happy" ending, which can be a minefield. For now, I'll give you some of my favorites and some of the first ones I read to get into the ao3 fandom of PHM.

(Note: I have 145 PHM fics rn and read 133 of them, so the pool of content is massive. I will not be giving every fic i liked(almost all) unless u want that. I also left out a few longer ones that got me hooked because ik they can be a slog if you are starting out in a new fandom.)

This will not be in any particular order:

1. https://archiveofourown.org/works/81563671/chapters/214495116?view_adult=true

This is a very angsty kidnapping+torture fic, unfinished, taking place on Erid. Many original things are in fics like these, as Erid is not described much in the book(read the book!!!! It is very good, though most of these fics are from the more popular movie tag)

2.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80302576/chapters/210836921

On the way to Erid with Rocky, Grace gets irradiated <3

3.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82321651

A little fluffy, this is about Grace's biodome on Erid

4.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82625616/chapters/217503516

Earth, after Grace left.

5.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84107211

Similar to 4, but from the PHM crew's perspective.

6.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83177346/chapters/219060606

Easing you into Coltland first :)

7.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82222526

Locked on a ship with a gun, oh no....

(Please read the book, a lot of characters in fics are far more fleshed out in the books and you may not recognize people or events bc the movie dropped a lot of really cool stuff. The audiobook is less than 20 hours and is very very good. Trust in the narrator and you will be hooked by the hilarious "why do I like kids" scene.)

8.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82045226

Eridians don't dream...

9.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83535426/chapters/220087936

Hahaha welcome to Courtland Gentry

10.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83471246

Here is a generally accepted version of their backstory!! It is always subject to change, but I usually assume this is along the lines of what happened unless otherwise directly referenced as different.

11.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81518901/chapters/214361351

One of my favorite time travel fix its in the fandom :) btw, ik I'm getting off track from angst, but there is always atleast angsty connotations or plot points in each fic, even if it isn't the central point, yk?

12.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84222236

A little Coltland Twins AU fluff??? ig.

13.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84143131/chapters/221877966

Grace Rocky go to earth <3 also Coltland twins

14.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82107301

Aroace Grace is fandom law most of the time. Sometimes there's a romantic/platonic thing with Rocky or smth platonic with Stratt, but usually hes atleast ace :)

15.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55375903

Bro is touch starved

16.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81963826

Humans have short lives compared to Eridians...

17.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79299316?view_adult=true

Goofy fic

18.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/6069351

This while series is a peak timetravel au where nobody is doing the whole: "oop, he crazy" thing.

19.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83551626

Phm team fic

20.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83218666/chapters/220191901#workskin

Ao3 author Grace

21.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83601116/chapters/220283551

Yao and Ilyukhina live.

22.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81874236/chapters/215392401

Here, have some heavy angst. Beware of tags.

23.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82701181

Grace sees Stratt again.

24.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84699166

More Courtland Gentry stuff

25.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84781231?view_adult=true

Hehe murder <3

26.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83824946/chapters/220954136

A little angst

Now, take the unfinished works I keep up with constantly:

1.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83718551/chapters/224703621

Peak peak peak Courtland Gentry, earth after Grace leaves, ryland returns to earth(I think) fic

2.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84743171/chapters/223633886

Ryland is given a daughter. Yay. Here is some context in case u dont know this stuff already: Claire is Fitzroy's niece. Fitzroy is the guy that recruited Courland to the Sierra program at a young age out of prison after killing their abusive father. Fitz dies and everyone dies and Claire gets angsted up at age 14. She has some sort of heart problem(enough to have a device for her heart, idr). Court takes her in while they are on the run from the government or smth(im simplifying here for fear of misexplaining stuff I got purely out of fics and not original material). For colt, he just got a back injury and lashes out at everyone like a stupid stupid stupid idiot with issues. I love him <3.

I spent an hour on this, at least. It is very late now. Goodnight.

[thelongdistancefroglover]

Me: Finally getting bored of the fandom(exhausted every popular trope)

The modern "freaky shit didn't happen" aus: Hello, we've been trying to reach you about your car's extended warranty!

Me: *walking back into the jaws of my fandom like a lamb to the slaughter* YIPPEE!!!!

This is about PHM. I started to get bored and then read BloodyMary. I then read like 20 of those nd it got repetitive, but I discovered the wonders of modern aus for it where they're just together and happy and nothing went wrong(that was cannon) Things must go wrong for the show to go on. :):):)))

[thelongdistancefroglover]

I am not an author. I am not a writer. Despite this, I keep coming up with super sick, poetic names for fic ideas or as titles to lists of fics I pull together for my fandoms(PHM). The title ideas themselves make me ~almost~ convinced to start writing, though I could never trust myself to be committed to something like that and not abandon a work. :/ In another life, I was born both creative and consistent. That life is not this life. I shall continue my days with ideas with no ways for others to see them.

[thelongdistancefroglover]

I only have 3 phm fics left out of 189 and I am not coping well. I am going to spend my eventing scrolling ao3 incessantly for a cure. Please send any good fics that are underappreciated, because I am dying from lack of fics and for every hour I search, I only find maybe 8 short ones hits and 2 short, unfinished multi chapters...

[thelongdistancefroglover]

Do you like yoai, question?

I love Yaoi <3

[thelongdistancefroglover]

Oh great froggy one. Might I ask for your favorite angsty PHM fanfics? I just finished the movie and it is indeed very peak, statement. Anyway, I require pain. Thank you in advance my liege.

HAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAH YOU HAVE SPOKEN TO THE RIGHT PERSON, MY FRIEND! I have plenty of Amaze Amaze Amaze fics at my disposal. Now, would you like my full list(sifted through for the best summaries and tags from the top 300ish kudos fics in the fandom) or just my favorites? Are you comfy with Grace/Rocky?(i was uncomfy at the start and didn't read those fics till recently bc I wasnt sure if I liked the ship) Do you want to be brought into the Goslingverse? Coltland Gentry?(as explanation, this is a crossover of many of Gosling's roles in which Ryland is Colt Seavers'(Fall Guy) twin brother, and Courtland "Sierra Six" Gentry(The Grey Man) is sometimrs their older brother to add an angsty backstory and protective big brother to the mix back on Earth(a personal favorite AU). There are also a lot of fics where earth mourns the loss of Grace and there is no "happy" ending, which can be a minefield. For now, I'll give you some of my favorites and some of the first ones I read to get into the ao3 fandom of PHM.

(Note: I have 145 PHM fics rn and read 133 of them, so the pool of content is massive. I will not be giving every fic i liked(almost all) unless u want that. I also left out a few longer ones that got me hooked because ik they can be a slog if you are starting out in a new fandom.)

This will not be in any particular order:

1. https://archiveofourown.org/works/81563671/chapters/214495116?view_adult=true

This is a very angsty kidnapping+torture fic, unfinished, taking place on Erid. Many original things are in fics like these, as Erid is not described much in the book(read the book!!!! It is very good, though most of these fics are from the more popular movie tag)

2.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/80302576/chapters/210836921

On the way to Erid with Rocky, Grace gets irradiated <3

3.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82321651

A little fluffy, this is about Grace's biodome on Erid

4.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82625616/chapters/217503516

Earth, after Grace left.

5.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84107211

Similar to 4, but from the PHM crew's perspective.

6.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83177346/chapters/219060606

Easing you into Coltland first :)

7.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82222526

Locked on a ship with a gun, oh no....

(Please read the book, a lot of characters in fics are far more fleshed out in the books and you may not recognize people or events bc the movie dropped a lot of really cool stuff. The audiobook is less than 20 hours and is very very good. Trust in the narrator and you will be hooked by the hilarious "why do I like kids" scene.)

8.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82045226

Eridians don't dream...

9.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83535426/chapters/220087936

Hahaha welcome to Courtland Gentry

10.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83471246

Here is a generally accepted version of their backstory!! It is always subject to change, but I usually assume this is along the lines of what happened unless otherwise directly referenced as different.

11.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81518901/chapters/214361351

One of my favorite time travel fix its in the fandom :) btw, ik I'm getting off track from angst, but there is always atleast angsty connotations or plot points in each fic, even if it isn't the central point, yk?

12.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84222236

A little Coltland Twins AU fluff??? ig.

13.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84143131/chapters/221877966

Grace Rocky go to earth <3 also Coltland twins

14.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82107301

Aroace Grace is fandom law most of the time. Sometimes there's a romantic/platonic thing with Rocky or smth platonic with Stratt, but usually hes atleast ace :)

15.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/55375903

Bro is touch starved

16.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81963826

Humans have short lives compared to Eridians...

17.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/79299316?view_adult=true

Goofy fic

18.

https://archiveofourown.org/series/6069351

This while series is a peak timetravel au where nobody is doing the whole: "oop, he crazy" thing.

19.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83551626

Phm team fic

20.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83218666/chapters/220191901#workskin

Ao3 author Grace

21.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83601116/chapters/220283551

Yao and Ilyukhina live.

22.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/81874236/chapters/215392401

Here, have some heavy angst. Beware of tags.

23.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/82701181

Grace sees Stratt again.

24.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84699166

More Courtland Gentry stuff

25.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84781231?view_adult=true

Hehe murder <3

26.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83824946/chapters/220954136

A little angst

Now, take the unfinished works I keep up with constantly:

1.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/83718551/chapters/224703621

Peak peak peak Courtland Gentry, earth after Grace leaves, ryland returns to earth(I think) fic

2.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84743171/chapters/223633886

Ryland is given a daughter. Yay. Here is some context in case u dont know this stuff already: Claire is Fitzroy's niece. Fitzroy is the guy that recruited Courland to the Sierra program at a young age out of prison after killing their abusive father. Fitz dies and everyone dies and Claire gets angsted up at age 14. She has some sort of heart problem(enough to have a device for her heart, idr). Court takes her in while they are on the run from the government or smth(im simplifying here for fear of misexplaining stuff I got purely out of fics and not original material). For colt, he just got a back injury and lashes out at everyone like a stupid stupid stupid idiot with issues. I love him <3.

I spent an hour on this, at least. It is very late now. Goodnight.

[thirsty-and-distant]

Since i'm talking about the Stratt and Grace situation. they are insane for this parallel specifically

it's Eva Stratt saying you are smart. I know you will figure it out. you may be the only one able to figure it out. you are my only option. I have to do this. I believe in you. I need you to save the world. I wish we had any other choice. It has to be you. I trust you with everything i have. you will figure it out. I am sorry.

it's Ryland Grace saying you are smart. I know you are still out here to keep up the fight. I remember you. I know what you did to me. I am not mad. I did everything I could. I still think of you fondly. it's your turn. I trust you to save the world. you have to make sure it was all worth it. this is the last joke I have to give. I believe in you. you will figure it out. you were right.

it's Stratt and Grace who believe in each other more than anything else. it's Stratt and Grace who find ways to let the other know they care. but they still have to let go.

[thelongdistancefroglover]

Project Hail Mary is so entrenched in my life that I have started ending questions with "question?" and repeating words thrice for emphasis. This is not in purpose. I have not been speaking like this, even as a joke. This seems to be entirely due to the sheer volume of PHM content that I have been consuming lately, which is simultaneously worrisome and astonishing.

[thelongdistancefroglover]

If Project Hail Mary doesnt let me be free soon, my phone will combust from how much content is currently downloaded to it. 130 fics is a lot for a phone that has been at max storage for forever(ik it wont actually explode, but you get my deal)

ANYWAYS, please join this fandom. These fics need kudos so that the chemical reaction of authors' brains happens and they are inclined to post more(very mercenary, I know and apologize). I ran out of Coltland Gentry fics and am getting hit with the post-hyperfixation emptiness without the hyperfixation actually ending, so that's great. This post is basically just a rant about PHM because I need an outlet, sorry.

[thelongdistancefroglover]

Just hit the 78th out of my 116 Project Hail Mary fics! I'm genuinely considering rereading the book soon, since this fandom has me by such a chokehold that I'm not tired of ANY tropes whatsoever. I haven't even delved into BloodyMary yet!!!

(Please comment or reblog or whatever is standard on Tumblr with any fic reccomendations! I'm only 200 fics in to sorting by kudos on the tag for the movie fandom.)

[thelongdistancefroglover]

I found you.

What is not lost cannot be found. Perhaps it is you that I have found?

[thelongdistancefroglover]

I keep finding more PHM fics, tropes, and crossovers to read. I've got the Goslingverse, the Weirverse, and the ironmary??(iron lung and PHM) things going on on top of the daily increases of around 100 fics. I feel like I'm drowning in content, and I couldn't be happier about it <3

[thelongdistancefroglover]

Update: STILL feral over Project Hail Mary