I have zero focus (biking and looking at art)
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china_shopHaaaai! I am just kind of floating through my day doing random stuff. To-do list? What's that? La la la.
I just spent an hour or more on Duolingo, which was a wrist-centric mistake after two hours' biking yesterday, so I've ordered a stylus in the hopes that'll make all the character-tracing easier. (Also, maybe faster for the timed sprint challenges?)
On Saturday we went to the NZ Art Show, which was uh, mostly crowded. It's hard to appreciate individual pieces in a very busy environment, with everything all crammed in together. The bright/garish pieces stand out, but anything quieter disappears. As always, my favourites were very children's-book-illustration-esque. We went round the whole place at a fair clip and were out in an hour.
And yesterday (Sunday), we biked Te Ara Tupua, the new separated cycleway/pedestrian-way to Pito-one (formerly, there was just the shoulder of the motorway). We continued along the foreshore and up the side of the river into Lower Hutt, had lunch at the Dowse Art Museum and a look around there, and came home again. The whole ride was about 43km. I bought some storage cubes (flat packed) which fit fine in our panniers and some cube packs. Still not really sure how to organise my stuff, but I have options.
Te Ara Tupua, which only opened a couple of weeks ago, was teeming with pedestrians and cyclists -- adults, kids, groups, etc. It felt like the city had been set free. I don't think I've seen so many smiles in my ten years of biking as an adult! It felt like a mix of seasoned cyclists, families with kids, and people who'd decided to take their bikes out of the garage, dust them off and give it a go. Really great. It took half an hour from Wellington railway station to Pito-one, and slightly longer back just because of the busyness of the path. :-)
I just spent an hour or more on Duolingo, which was a wrist-centric mistake after two hours' biking yesterday, so I've ordered a stylus in the hopes that'll make all the character-tracing easier. (Also, maybe faster for the timed sprint challenges?)
On Saturday we went to the NZ Art Show, which was uh, mostly crowded. It's hard to appreciate individual pieces in a very busy environment, with everything all crammed in together. The bright/garish pieces stand out, but anything quieter disappears. As always, my favourites were very children's-book-illustration-esque. We went round the whole place at a fair clip and were out in an hour.
And yesterday (Sunday), we biked Te Ara Tupua, the new separated cycleway/pedestrian-way to Pito-one (formerly, there was just the shoulder of the motorway). We continued along the foreshore and up the side of the river into Lower Hutt, had lunch at the Dowse Art Museum and a look around there, and came home again. The whole ride was about 43km. I bought some storage cubes (flat packed) which fit fine in our panniers and some cube packs. Still not really sure how to organise my stuff, but I have options.
Te Ara Tupua, which only opened a couple of weeks ago, was teeming with pedestrians and cyclists -- adults, kids, groups, etc. It felt like the city had been set free. I don't think I've seen so many smiles in my ten years of biking as an adult! It felt like a mix of seasoned cyclists, families with kids, and people who'd decided to take their bikes out of the garage, dust them off and give it a go. Really great. It took half an hour from Wellington railway station to Pito-one, and slightly longer back just because of the busyness of the path. :-)
Charity Auctions
Jun. 1st, 2026 12:01 amsenmutThe 2026 / 5786 Fandom Does Tzedakah Auction Offerings! - Link to those of us who are offering.
Bidding doesn't start until the 10th of June. I'm offering 1 auction, and the winner can support any of their linked charities.
My offer is a fic up to 5k words this time.
Bidding doesn't start until the 10th of June. I'm offering 1 auction, and the winner can support any of their linked charities.
My offer is a fic up to 5k words this time.
Movies: Backrooms, Saccharine
May. 31st, 2026 01:10 pmsnickficPLEASE NOTE: several of my keyboard keys are going out intermittently, so I’m going to suck at responding to comments for a while. 😩😩😩
Backrooms (2026). A furniture store owner (Chiwetel Ejiofor) discovers an entrance in the store basement to a seemingly endless series of uncanny office rooms.
The second huge horror sleeper hit of the summer! Although maybe not a sleeper to those paying attention, because this movie is adapted from a wildly popular series of CGI Youtube shorts by teenager Kane Parsons, who also directed this movie at the age of 20. The last I saw was that its opening weekend receipts might beat The Mandalorian and Grogu’s from last weekend, which is just incredible. (LOL Disney.) The word is that this is getting huge number of middle and high schoolers into the theater. I know my local theater has been nearly sold out, and I saw it in a nearly full theater. It’s wild, honestly; I’m not used to going to movies that other people want to see, too!
Anyway, this movie is maybe the purest expression of Vibes™ that I’ve encountered in a horror movie in a long time. The horror here is: what if empty rooms? What if the 90s? (This is also a period movie, by which I mean it’s set in 1990.) But most importantly: what if empty rooms that are apparently infinite and don’t make any sense? The comparison used in the film is “What if you described a dog to someone who’d never seen a dog, and then you asked them to draw it?” Stairways go nowhere and carpeted ramps lead to tiny, Alice in Wonderland scale doors with three doorknobs. Furniture is stuck in walls and floors. And everything is very bright and very yellow.
What this movie does not do is clutter up all those vibes with, say… a plot. That sounds like sarcasm, but I’ve seen too many horror movies that feel the need to pull some bullshit plot out at the last minute to justify their existence, and Backrooms is confident enough to eschew all of that. It does have a narrative structure as we follow first furniture vendor Clark and later his therapist around the treacherous backrooms, learning things about them (or at least making conjectures which are never confirmed or denied by the film itself). Some people die, because of course you can’t have a labyrinth without a monster or two. There aren’t even many jump scares, though the whole atmosphere of wrongness is so intense that I spent the whole movie clutching my blanket very tightly.
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Saccharine (2026). A med student (Hana, played by Midori Francis) starts taking a weight loss pill made from human ashes and becomes haunted by the ghost of the person she's consuming.
Francis is absolutely the star of the show here and does a great job portraying Hana's insecurities. I also really enjoyed Danielle Macdonald as her friend and fellow med student Josie. The movie also has a clear cinematic vision for how it tells its story.
As for the themes, I don’t feel fully qualified to make a judgement one way or the other, but here are some thoughts.
( spoilers and a BUNCH of stuff about weight loss and fatphobia )
Backrooms (2026). A furniture store owner (Chiwetel Ejiofor) discovers an entrance in the store basement to a seemingly endless series of uncanny office rooms.
The second huge horror sleeper hit of the summer! Although maybe not a sleeper to those paying attention, because this movie is adapted from a wildly popular series of CGI Youtube shorts by teenager Kane Parsons, who also directed this movie at the age of 20. The last I saw was that its opening weekend receipts might beat The Mandalorian and Grogu’s from last weekend, which is just incredible. (LOL Disney.) The word is that this is getting huge number of middle and high schoolers into the theater. I know my local theater has been nearly sold out, and I saw it in a nearly full theater. It’s wild, honestly; I’m not used to going to movies that other people want to see, too!
Anyway, this movie is maybe the purest expression of Vibes™ that I’ve encountered in a horror movie in a long time. The horror here is: what if empty rooms? What if the 90s? (This is also a period movie, by which I mean it’s set in 1990.) But most importantly: what if empty rooms that are apparently infinite and don’t make any sense? The comparison used in the film is “What if you described a dog to someone who’d never seen a dog, and then you asked them to draw it?” Stairways go nowhere and carpeted ramps lead to tiny, Alice in Wonderland scale doors with three doorknobs. Furniture is stuck in walls and floors. And everything is very bright and very yellow.
What this movie does not do is clutter up all those vibes with, say… a plot. That sounds like sarcasm, but I’ve seen too many horror movies that feel the need to pull some bullshit plot out at the last minute to justify their existence, and Backrooms is confident enough to eschew all of that. It does have a narrative structure as we follow first furniture vendor Clark and later his therapist around the treacherous backrooms, learning things about them (or at least making conjectures which are never confirmed or denied by the film itself). Some people die, because of course you can’t have a labyrinth without a monster or two. There aren’t even many jump scares, though the whole atmosphere of wrongness is so intense that I spent the whole movie clutching my blanket very tightly.
--
Saccharine (2026). A med student (Hana, played by Midori Francis) starts taking a weight loss pill made from human ashes and becomes haunted by the ghost of the person she's consuming.
Francis is absolutely the star of the show here and does a great job portraying Hana's insecurities. I also really enjoyed Danielle Macdonald as her friend and fellow med student Josie. The movie also has a clear cinematic vision for how it tells its story.
As for the themes, I don’t feel fully qualified to make a judgement one way or the other, but here are some thoughts.
( spoilers and a BUNCH of stuff about weight loss and fatphobia )
Token weekly proof of life
May. 31st, 2026 04:37 pmumadoshiThe day has been evaporating and I'm very groggy, but hey. I live. (And we made the usual banana bread today, so that's a couple weeks of breakfasts set.) Finished reading a novel last night and have yet to choose the next one. Dentist tomorrow. Life.
Monday morning ETA: or the dentist appointments could be canceled first thing this morning. Rescheduling to follow when they're actually open for the day. (Someone called us earlier than that to try to make sure she caught us before we were actually en route, and succeeded.)
Monday morning ETA: or the dentist appointments could be canceled first thing this morning. Rescheduling to follow when they're actually open for the day. (Someone called us earlier than that to try to make sure she caught us before we were actually en route, and succeeded.)
not quite stitching yet
May. 31st, 2026 11:38 amthistleingreySince the prior post had no pattern links, heh:
The jettison alternative to trying to make something that fits me passably, btw, would be to knit a deliberate bag of a pullover. Unlike Junko Okamoto's The Twigs, which I sized up, steeked into a cardigan, and then gave to my mother (who has large shoulders compared to her ethnic cohort---as a kid, my mother lost out when the local knitter was paid a lump sum to make thin woolen undershirts for everyone because the knitter sized everyone by eye; my mother's didn't fit and was passed to the next younger sib, which meant she went the winter without any, over and over; in contrast, my nearest aunt (also) has the shoulders of an ox but looks it, stocky all over and with the eye-shape of one grandma, whereas despite malnourishment my mother inherited their father's limb-height and passed it to me) (this remains a sore spot 7+ decades later, and I still hear about it! so I feel bound to record it), Okamoto's Hana is loose, comes with a schematic diagram of garment measurements, and isn't a bunch of fussy (though lovely) colorwork.
I mean, I bet I could knit my mother a suitably chic Hana without blinking, though not for myself. Rather than give up before I start, a cardigan is next and not a pullover-bag. Davies' Yorlin has superficial similarities to a different designer's failed cardigan, Meris, which I tried, modified, and dropped a decade ago. Neither cardigan is fitted, strictly speaking; they drape from the shoulder-yoke, raglan for Yoris and set-in sleeve for Meris (though one wouldn't know it from the last Meris pic, a spring-green cardigan worn by the designer at what looks to be one pattern-size too snug). Yorlin's plain back should ease my task.
Though most top-down cardigans start in directly with the neckline, I think the only way through for me is to do a provisional (crochet) cast-on, to separate a tidy neckband-to-be from the looser stitches needed to traverse my trapezius---and to avoid casting on multiple times just to guess how many stitches may be necessary. It'll allow a neater finish, also, which is why some (actual) designers choose it, but I want it for its hacky, decide-later facilitation.
The jettison alternative to trying to make something that fits me passably, btw, would be to knit a deliberate bag of a pullover. Unlike Junko Okamoto's The Twigs, which I sized up, steeked into a cardigan, and then gave to my mother (who has large shoulders compared to her ethnic cohort---as a kid, my mother lost out when the local knitter was paid a lump sum to make thin woolen undershirts for everyone because the knitter sized everyone by eye; my mother's didn't fit and was passed to the next younger sib, which meant she went the winter without any, over and over; in contrast, my nearest aunt (also) has the shoulders of an ox but looks it, stocky all over and with the eye-shape of one grandma, whereas despite malnourishment my mother inherited their father's limb-height and passed it to me) (this remains a sore spot 7+ decades later, and I still hear about it! so I feel bound to record it), Okamoto's Hana is loose, comes with a schematic diagram of garment measurements, and isn't a bunch of fussy (though lovely) colorwork.
I mean, I bet I could knit my mother a suitably chic Hana without blinking, though not for myself. Rather than give up before I start, a cardigan is next and not a pullover-bag. Davies' Yorlin has superficial similarities to a different designer's failed cardigan, Meris, which I tried, modified, and dropped a decade ago. Neither cardigan is fitted, strictly speaking; they drape from the shoulder-yoke, raglan for Yoris and set-in sleeve for Meris (though one wouldn't know it from the last Meris pic, a spring-green cardigan worn by the designer at what looks to be one pattern-size too snug). Yorlin's plain back should ease my task.
Though most top-down cardigans start in directly with the neckline, I think the only way through for me is to do a provisional (crochet) cast-on, to separate a tidy neckband-to-be from the looser stitches needed to traverse my trapezius---and to avoid casting on multiple times just to guess how many stitches may be necessary. It'll allow a neater finish, also, which is why some (actual) designers choose it, but I want it for its hacky, decide-later facilitation.
The Beauty's Blade Read-Along: Chapters 6 to 10
May. 31st, 2026 01:12 pmaurumcalendula posting in ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png){kind=small}
baihe_mediaone of those weekends that makes you tired
Jun. 1st, 2026 02:40 amtielanI did gardenings and meetings and dinnerings and cropswappings and dogsittings and cookings and prayerings.
Now I need a weekend to recover from my weekend...
No hockey - it was 'Masters' Weekend' where teams 'older than 35' from all across the state play each other. It's usually held at the end of July, but for some reason this year they decided to do it in May. Which threw out a whole bunch of people. But we never have hockey on that weekend. And next weekend is the long weekend away.
So I did ALL THE THINGS (and enjoyed it, even if I'm tired).
Thank heavens the sun's been out the last couple of days. We've been getting a bit soggy here, and everyone was starting to feel a wee smidge sodden.
--
Oh! And I fixed the sleeves of my Oodie so they're shorter!
An oodie is a creation made specifically for the Australian householder in the middle of winter. Because our houses are so cold in the middle of winter that we basically need to wear the warmth equivalent of outerwear inside. So some clever soul came up with a giant hoodie of velour, with thick fleecy inside, for casual wearing inside a house. It's basically a wearable quilt.
The downside is that it only comes in one sze - ginormous. Which means my arms swim in the sleeves. Pushing them up all the time is a pain. So I whacked off the sleeves at the wrist (about six inches) unpicked the cuff, and resewed the cuff back on with a zigzag stitch (for the stretch). The sleeves are still a little longer than I like, but it's much easier to wear!
It only took me years to do it.
Now I need to go look up patterns for foot sacks to see if I can use the off-cuts to make some 'around the house slippers' to keep my toes warm.
--
Although really what I need to do is go back to bed. It's nearly 3am. I woke up around 2am (after going to bed early - around 9pm) and went "oh no". So I thought I'd get up, write this post, poke a few fics, and go back once I'm tired. If I get tired.
--
ps. I'm writing AtlA fic. Cripes.
Now I need a weekend to recover from my weekend...
No hockey - it was 'Masters' Weekend' where teams 'older than 35' from all across the state play each other. It's usually held at the end of July, but for some reason this year they decided to do it in May. Which threw out a whole bunch of people. But we never have hockey on that weekend. And next weekend is the long weekend away.
So I did ALL THE THINGS (and enjoyed it, even if I'm tired).
Thank heavens the sun's been out the last couple of days. We've been getting a bit soggy here, and everyone was starting to feel a wee smidge sodden.
--
Oh! And I fixed the sleeves of my Oodie so they're shorter!
What's an "oodie" I hear the internationals ask?
An oodie is a creation made specifically for the Australian householder in the middle of winter. Because our houses are so cold in the middle of winter that we basically need to wear the warmth equivalent of outerwear inside. So some clever soul came up with a giant hoodie of velour, with thick fleecy inside, for casual wearing inside a house. It's basically a wearable quilt.
The downside is that it only comes in one sze - ginormous. Which means my arms swim in the sleeves. Pushing them up all the time is a pain. So I whacked off the sleeves at the wrist (about six inches) unpicked the cuff, and resewed the cuff back on with a zigzag stitch (for the stretch). The sleeves are still a little longer than I like, but it's much easier to wear!
It only took me years to do it.
Now I need to go look up patterns for foot sacks to see if I can use the off-cuts to make some 'around the house slippers' to keep my toes warm.
--
Although really what I need to do is go back to bed. It's nearly 3am. I woke up around 2am (after going to bed early - around 9pm) and went "oh no". So I thought I'd get up, write this post, poke a few fics, and go back once I'm tired. If I get tired.
--
ps. I'm writing AtlA fic. Cripes.
Culinary
May. 31st, 2026 04:29 pmoursinLast week's bread held out pretty well, up until the point it became a dried out solid brick.
Friday night supper: sorta-nasi goreng with yellow bell pepper and Calabrian salami.
Saturday breakfast rolls: grated apple, with Marriage's Golden Wholegrain Bread Flour and maple syrup.
Today's lunch: baby carrots roasted in sunflower + toasted sesame oil, right at end sprinkled with sugar and mirin; baby courgettes white-braised with ginger rather than star anise, no sesame oil; green beans steamed with fennel seeds then tossed in olive oil + tarragon vinegar with a little chopped red onion; large flat mushrooms marinated for approx 30 mins in 50/50% tamari and mirin boiled with with a dash of sesame oil and star anise, then healthy-grilled for 5 minutes or so.
Star City ( 1.01 and 1.02)
May. 31st, 2026 04:36 pmselenakBeing a spin-off series of For all Mankind, Star City has just released its first two episodes on Apple + . You may or may not have heard about it being in the works; it goes back to the 1960s, where the original series started, from the point of departure FaM took from "our" timeline, i.e. that the Sowjets, not the US, manages to put the first Astronaut on the Moon, with the consequence that the Space Race doesn't end, which in the US also means some significant social and technological advances ahead of schedule while other things stay the same.
Star City - named after the Sowjet equivalent of Houston - doesn't, though, simply cover the same story from the Russian pov, if these first two episodes are anything to go by. Don't get me wrong, it's immediately evident that this was made by the same people (in a good way) and there are some trademark shared qualities: we're introduced to a variety of characters in the first two eps and while some are more prominent than others in the narrative, this is clearly an ensemble story, not one focused on one clear lead character; there is a sequence both suspenseful and wondrous involving space, and btw, it's brought home even more drastically than in the equivalent US scenes how incredibly dangerous it is what these early cosmonauts are doing (with minimal technical protection); it's the collaboration between the engineers back home and the cosmonaut(s) up in space that saves the day; espionage and political competition is a key issue.
The difference comes, imo, because the Soviet setting is taken seriously, which makes The Testaments which I also recently watched the better comparison in some ways, because this show is very much about how you live in a totalitarian dictatorship where nothing, including your body and your beliefs, are truly your own, where there is constant surveillance, where the state can do just about anything to you without you having any protection whatsoever. And how, whether you are a true believer in the ideals you've been taught are the foundation of the state or whether you're a sceptic, this inevitably forms you.
(There is also a big aesthetic difference, in that the first season of For All Mankind did trade on the nostalgia factor for the georgeous Sixties fashion a bit; no such things available in the 1960s USSR for most of the characters.)
( Slightly spoilery talk about the characters and themes )
In conclusion: so far, John Le Carré meets Space Exploration; I am looking forward to see it unfold further.
Star City - named after the Sowjet equivalent of Houston - doesn't, though, simply cover the same story from the Russian pov, if these first two episodes are anything to go by. Don't get me wrong, it's immediately evident that this was made by the same people (in a good way) and there are some trademark shared qualities: we're introduced to a variety of characters in the first two eps and while some are more prominent than others in the narrative, this is clearly an ensemble story, not one focused on one clear lead character; there is a sequence both suspenseful and wondrous involving space, and btw, it's brought home even more drastically than in the equivalent US scenes how incredibly dangerous it is what these early cosmonauts are doing (with minimal technical protection); it's the collaboration between the engineers back home and the cosmonaut(s) up in space that saves the day; espionage and political competition is a key issue.
The difference comes, imo, because the Soviet setting is taken seriously, which makes The Testaments which I also recently watched the better comparison in some ways, because this show is very much about how you live in a totalitarian dictatorship where nothing, including your body and your beliefs, are truly your own, where there is constant surveillance, where the state can do just about anything to you without you having any protection whatsoever. And how, whether you are a true believer in the ideals you've been taught are the foundation of the state or whether you're a sceptic, this inevitably forms you.
(There is also a big aesthetic difference, in that the first season of For All Mankind did trade on the nostalgia factor for the georgeous Sixties fashion a bit; no such things available in the 1960s USSR for most of the characters.)
( Slightly spoilery talk about the characters and themes )
In conclusion: so far, John Le Carré meets Space Exploration; I am looking forward to see it unfold further.
Podcast rec
May. 31st, 2026 10:24 amrydra_wongVia sabotabby, A Meal of Thorns, from the Ancillary Review of Books.
Jake Casella Brookins (whom I have loved ever since he described Prophet as “Gay X-files slash where they walk away from The Hurt Locker and wind up in Solaris instead”) and a guest do deep exegesis on a sf/f (or adjacent) book.
Every ep I've listened to has been really good.
(Also OMG the next ep is on The Fifth Head of Cerberus.)
sabotabby, A Meal of Thorns, from the Ancillary Review of Books.Jake Casella Brookins (whom I have loved ever since he described Prophet as “Gay X-files slash where they walk away from The Hurt Locker and wind up in Solaris instead”) and a guest do deep exegesis on a sf/f (or adjacent) book.
Every ep I've listened to has been really good.
(Also OMG the next ep is on The Fifth Head of Cerberus.)
Very short health update
May. 31st, 2026 10:15 amrydra_wongFor once in my life, for once in my entire fucking life, it appears that I may actually have been Lacking The Vitamin.
(Iron.)
(Iron.)
Current projects
May. 31st, 2026 09:37 amnepenthee posting in makeashrineCollectives aren't self-serving sites, but made to house all the web projects we've made and (still!!) want to make, big or small, and not limited to shrines. So do tell: What are you working on right now, or what have you just finished?
Let's share and show off, discuss and cheer each other on as our event productivity hopefully inspires activity all around our networks and vice versa! WIP shots are very welcome. ;D
Let's share and show off, discuss and cheer each other on as our event productivity hopefully inspires activity all around our networks and vice versa! WIP shots are very welcome. ;D
current stitching
May. 30th, 2026 09:59 pmthistleingreyHaving knitted my cardigan WIP a bit past the armholes (top down), I can see without finishing the body section that the yoke is almost. That is a complete sentence. It's a compromise between the designer's proportions as described and a pattern that would be marketable for other knitters.
It's much closer than patterns usually go to my proportions (I knitted it without modification and can put the WIP on without tugging at it---that's a first!), but close not enough to justify knitting the entire garment. Were I to modify it, I'd just need to rewrite the stitch counts into something that no one else would want. :) I may yet, but not now.
The obvious thing to knit next is another cardigan. I'd like to try rewriting a pattern that will definitely in no way fit me as written, so that it doesn't look almost close enough on the needles and then become another disappointment. For that, the best choice is a pattern with no shoulder depth---hello again to Kate Davies' generally thoughtful work. I have a pattern in mind as a basis, and suitable yarn (repurposed from a failed cardigan, then a boring scarf) for at least a yoke-sized swatch.
Because thinking only about garments is hard, I'm also re-contemplating something released originally as a mystery knit-along. The other parts of its thematic set were completed more than a year ago---the original plan was to make statement shawls for two longtime friends and me, unrelated to any potential milestone-birthday years. Theirs were finished somewhat later than intended, after the pattern of one shawl had to be changed and my current hands proved terrible for deadline estimates. My shawl was begun this week.
It's much closer than patterns usually go to my proportions (I knitted it without modification and can put the WIP on without tugging at it---that's a first!), but close not enough to justify knitting the entire garment. Were I to modify it, I'd just need to rewrite the stitch counts into something that no one else would want. :) I may yet, but not now.
The obvious thing to knit next is another cardigan. I'd like to try rewriting a pattern that will definitely in no way fit me as written, so that it doesn't look almost close enough on the needles and then become another disappointment. For that, the best choice is a pattern with no shoulder depth---hello again to Kate Davies' generally thoughtful work. I have a pattern in mind as a basis, and suitable yarn (repurposed from a failed cardigan, then a boring scarf) for at least a yoke-sized swatch.
Because thinking only about garments is hard, I'm also re-contemplating something released originally as a mystery knit-along. The other parts of its thematic set were completed more than a year ago---the original plan was to make statement shawls for two longtime friends and me, unrelated to any potential milestone-birthday years. Theirs were finished somewhat later than intended, after the pattern of one shawl had to be changed and my current hands proved terrible for deadline estimates. My shawl was begun this week.
Well, Grace never! - Project Hail Mary story, gen
May. 30th, 2026 10:45 pmpetraWell, Grace never! (1296 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ryland Grace & Rocky
Characters: Ryland Grace, Rocky
Additional Tags: Language Barrier, Languages and Linguistics, language learning
Summary:
*
Couldn't be me finding Grace's internal dialogue in the novel entirely ridiculous because I have personally had conversations with middle school teachers while they weren't in front of kids.
...
Couldn't be me posting two stories in one day. Hi, I have a new fandom. Strap in!
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ryland Grace & Rocky
Characters: Ryland Grace, Rocky
Additional Tags: Language Barrier, Languages and Linguistics, language learning
Summary:
There is a slight hiccup in Grace's search for a new teaching job.
*
Couldn't be me finding Grace's internal dialogue in the novel entirely ridiculous because I have personally had conversations with middle school teachers while they weren't in front of kids.
...
Couldn't be me posting two stories in one day. Hi, I have a new fandom. Strap in!
Grace touch penis, command - Project Hail Mary story, Grace/Rocky
May. 30th, 2026 07:56 pmpetraGrace touch penis, command (3483 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ryland Grace/Rocky
Characters: Rocky (Project Hail Mary), Ryland Grace
Additional Tags: Food Kink, Mutual Masturbation, Xenophilia, It's Not Cheating If It's In Space, Rocky is a Monsterfucker (Project Hail Mary), Ryland Grace is a Monsterfucker (Project Hail Mary), Ryland Grace Isn't Allosexual He Just Loves Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
Summary:
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ryland Grace/Rocky
Characters: Rocky (Project Hail Mary), Ryland Grace
Additional Tags: Food Kink, Mutual Masturbation, Xenophilia, It's Not Cheating If It's In Space, Rocky is a Monsterfucker (Project Hail Mary), Ryland Grace is a Monsterfucker (Project Hail Mary), Ryland Grace Isn't Allosexual He Just Loves Rocky (Project Hail Mary)
Summary:
Rocky enjoys his leaky companion's prostate maintenance and ingestion, and learns the English word for "pervert."