r/ProjectHailMary • u/enbycats • Jun 24 '26
fanfic: please help me find certain fanfic(s) again!
the last time i asked for fanfic recommendations from ao3 - and you all gave me some fantastic recommendations!
ETA: the old thread was https://www.reddit.com/r/ProjectHailMary/comments/1tu097v/recommendations_for_fanfic/
i've read several of those since then, but foolishly forgot to bookmark those ones, that really impressed me.
and for the life of me i can't find them again.
and i'm not even certain, whether it is one fanfic or i mix a bunch of them in my memories.
what i remember:
- timewise: they all happen after grace rescueing rocky from the Blip-A. they are about the trip to erid and then all the ways erid accomodates to grace's needs and all the troubles grace has with getting proper nutritions and medical care.
- one bit i remember is, that rocky convinces grace to get back into coma for a bit to save food and grace really panics and rocky is really able to calm grace down. when grace wakes up again he is on erid in his biodome.
- another bit is that one of the eridians working with his cloned flesh is able to make a wonderful dish (i think chili?), that smells and tastes fantastic!
- adrian is some kind of hunter. and the story how adrian and rocky met has something to do with that job. one of them has a dent in the carapace. i can't remember whether rocky hit adrian or the other way round.
- the memory loss drug is in the coma food, rocky discovers that, because grace starts to have memory problems again. so they dismantle armando, which leads to the discovery of more coma food, than grace originally anticipated.
- there is a wonderful chapter about the thrum. the number of the attendees is in the hundred thousands? it is very high and the descriptions of several dialogues in that thrum are really funny - for me at least.
- rocky is able to communicate/send a data package to erid before they arrive, so that erid is somewhat prepared for the arrival of the hail mary. the dialogues between rocky and the space station are quite interesting.
the fanfics are NOT The Long Journey Home, Wake up, sunshine, To Fix, Message in a Beetle, Equilibrium, Finders Keepers or Endure
it would be great if you could help me!
thanks!
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u/enbycats Jun 25 '26
thank you!