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This Crooked Heart by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: History Boys - All Media Types, History Boys (2006), History Boys - Bennett
03 Feb 2025
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‘Do you ever wonder what you’re doing here?’ Posner asks.
‘At Oxford?’
‘Anywhere. What the point of it all is.’
Posner feels Scripps shift beside him. ‘I don’t think anyone knows the answer to that. God would say worship. Jesus would say love.’
‘And what would you say?’
Scripps falls silent as he ponders the question. Then: ‘I think it’s being with the people you care about. Finding moments of quiet. Looking for beauty.’
Posner smiles bitterly. ‘I don’t think I could find it if I tried.’
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Posner navigates adult life and everything that comes with it, both the good and the bad. Thankfully, Scripps is there through it all, in confusingly fluctuating capacities as friend and lover.
Rated M for some pretty heavy mental health stuff, a suicide attempt by OD (though not in graphic detail), and sexual content (again, not super graphic, but there are sex scenes). Triggers for individual chapters will be in the notes. Please be careful! This is angsty, but I swear it ends happily.
Title is from As I Walked Out One Evening by Auden.
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Or, 5 times Eddie comes out to his friends, and 1 time Steve comes out to him right back.
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The Untold Secrets of Desert Stars by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016), Dirk Gently - Douglas Adams
22 Jul 2018
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When a prospective client turns up at the Agency with the front half of a perfectly happy Siamese cat, matters have to be taken into Dirk and Todd’s entirely (in)capable hands. Over a thousand miles away, in a dusty town in New Mexico, a woman has disappeared without a trace, and the residents live in fear of falling prey to a monstrous witch who haunts their desert home. But nothing here is quite what it seems.
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Bring The Colour To My Life by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (TV 2016)
30 Jan 2018
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Several months after the Bergsberg case, the Agency is functioning with arguable efficiency. But, when an old friend of Dirk’s who died fifteen years ago shows up out of the blue, it’s clear that something, somewhere in the universe, is very, very wrong.
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Driving Home For Christmas by surprisinglyOK
Fandoms: History Boys - All Media Types, History Boys - Bennett, History Boys (2006)
04 Jan 2018
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I know it's not Christmas anymore, but I didn't manage to get this finished in time so HERE IT IS in January! This is just super fluffy romantic/family Christmas fun, in which David spends Christmas with the Scripps', and Don finally comes out to his parents. Very minor content warnings for mentions of depression, suicide attempt and medication (all only mentioned very briefly in one paragraph), as well as a reference to HIV/AIDS, a couple of sex references, and some slight parental confusion about the concept of bisexuality. Enjoy!
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Keep Running ‘Til We’re There by sealyselkie
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
27 Apr 2026
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Grace finally gets to meet Adrian for the first time. It’s really, really important to him that it goes well.
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07 Jul 2026
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What Remains of Dr. Ryland Grace by aligningplanets for ramsay_baggins
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
29 Apr 2026
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The capsule touches down on Erid about a decade and a half after I do.
There's a message inside translated into fourteen different languages. Y'know, just in case I've taught myself - and then the Eridians - Afrikaans.
Hey, it reads. Can we have our ball back, please?
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29 Jun 2026
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Adrian and the Exploration of Eridian-Human relationships by Anonymous
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
17 Jun 2026
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“What? What? What?” Grace stared at Rocky, eyes wide, before a hand flew to his face, fingers pinching at the bridge of his nose. “Sorry, what?”
“Adrian is loving mate,” Rocky hummed. “Adrian curious about you.”
Or: Adrian courting Grace (and it goes very well very quickly)
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- Part 2 of Pervert Rocky's beautiful life
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21 Jun 2026
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wide open spaces by tallboy_benny
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
04 May 2026
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Rocky visits Grace's life support quarters with some exciting news, some time into his recovery on Erid---the biodome habitat has finally been completed.
It takes a step through the airlock and sinks down into rough sand and pebbles. I chirp and hop down after it. Grace has not seen the biodome yet, but neither have I, and in my enthusiasm I dart slightly ahead.
Grace inhales so sharply that I turn to hear him better in a panic. “Grace? Grace, what is wrong? You are hurt?”
My assumption is quickly corrected when, without warning, it bolts.
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16 Jun 2026
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The Scientific Method by Quarfield
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
10 Jun 2026
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Spraying chlorine gas into your best friend's cloaca. Just another freaking Friday night.
46 years really does a number on a guy. Grace is about to find out how, whether he likes it or not.
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- Part 1 of Sol's PHM fics (NSFW)
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