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Trauma can give people PTSD, flashbacks, and nightmares, can make them depressed and suicidal. But sometimes, trauma doesn't look so sympathetic. Sometimes trauma looks like anger, screaming insults at the ones you love and sometimes wishing you'd never been rescued in the first place.
Watney is rescued, but he isn't the charismatic and friendly man he used to be.
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25 Jun 2026
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One Giant Leap by Brokenpitchpipe
Fandoms: The Martian - All Media Types, The Martian (2015), The Martian - Andy Wier
18 May 2016
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Mark Watney survived 549 sols stranded on a barren desert planet barely able to sustain life. But a 211 day trip home, stuck in the Hermes?
With this crew, he never stood a chance.
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28 May 2026
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i'll look away and smile wide (you found me) by OrionAurora
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Martian - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015)
24 May 2026
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He finds himself staring at almost the exact face from his childhood memories. Hypnotizing blue eyes behind slightly crooked glasses stare back at him. Sandy blonde hair tussled slightly, and that thick knit sweater with foxes on it. Mr. Grace has barely changed. Only now his sweater is faded and his cheeks are turning red as he starts to bite his lip, clearly growing uncomfortable with Mark’s obvious staring.
Great, nice going dumbass.
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28 May 2026
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Past Lives in the Stars by tinallie
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, The Martian (2015), The Martian - Andy Weir
27 Jun 2026
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Every screen in the room blazed with the same breaking news feed. An alien voice had just asked for him by name on live television.
“Mr. Grace?” little Jamal whispered from the front row, eyes huge behind his glasses. “Is that really you they’re talking about? Like, you you?”
Ryland’s mouth opened, but nothing came out. His heart slammed against his ribs like it wanted to escape and hide under the desk with the class hamster. He was just Mr. Grace. The guy who drew cartoon planets on the board, who stayed late helping kids glue together messy dioramas of the solar system, who once spent an entire lunch period comforting a sobbing girl because her goldfish had “gone to the great fishbowl in the sky.” He graded spelling tests on vocabulary words like photosynthesis and asteroid. Aliens did not know his name. Aliens did not ask for science teachers.
The marker slipped from his fingers and clattered to the floor.
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27 May 2026
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Do What I Can, to See the Wood From the Trees by vampiringg
Fandoms: The Magnus Archives (Podcast)
23 Mar 2026
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"Why is there —" his head is pounding, "— there's no —there's not —!" Jon's breath keeps hitching, like there's something lodged in his chest. Still glancing around wildly through the gaps between his fingers, Jon's gaze finally latches onto Elias' eyes, and he watches something like understanding dawn there. Something almost like fear. "Where am I?"
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20 May 2026