1 - 20 of 189 Bookmarks by bugbee

Navigation

List of Bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    There their hearts went again, clenching so hard it made them want to cry out.

    Because why did Mom never say this to them? Why did it have to be someone who could never be more important to them than a teacher?

    Why couldn’t Grace be their mom?


    A rendition of sharkfiinn's character Prism getting adopted by Grace.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    16,136
    Chapters:
    4/4
    Comments:
    269
    Kudos:
    732
    Bookmarks:
    159
    Hits:
    3,825

    01 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    “Would it help––should I bring my dinner in too?” Grace jokes, smiling in preparation for the absolute symphony of disgusted whistles he knows Rocky will produce at the thought of them doing something as depraved as sharing a meal. “I’ve been saving this week’s half packet of ramen for just such an occasion––”

    [YES YES YES!] Rocky’s translator app suddenly blares from the laptop on the floor between them. [YES, ACCEPT ACCEPT ACCEPT! GRACE RAMEN ♪♫♪♫ WITH ROCKY, AFFIRMATIVE! GRACE ROCKY EAT ♪♫♪♫ MEAL TOGETHER AFFIRMATIVE YES YES AFFIRMATIVE NOW.]

    -----------------------------------------------------------

    or, a fic to answer the questions: What if you fell in love for the first time in your 40s, and it just so happened to be with your alien best bud who has five legs, no face, and is already married? And then what if you accidentally proposed marriage to said alien best bud without knowing, because while you may be Earth's best and brightest, you are also notoriously inexperienced and kinda stupid at close interpersonal relationships? What then?

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    13,573
    Chapters:
    3/4
    Comments:
    248
    Kudos:
    984
    Bookmarks:
    184
    Hits:
    7,721

    30 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    "There is no point in any of this rumination. You are gone. You are nothing now but a muse, something that I can conjure upon command and listen. You are nothing more now than a lullaby, a prayer, a dissonant, augmented, ugly, beautiful melody."

    Rocky and Grace part ways for their respective planets. It should feel like a victory. It doesn't.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    9,422
    Chapters:
    3/3
    Comments:
    287
    Kudos:
    955
    Bookmarks:
    257
    Hits:
    6,742

    29 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 39

    Tags
    Summary

    It is 2052 and 2032, and a room full of people returns to its prior orientation. Regardless of spacetime impossibilities, the Hail Mary has to launch in three days, and it's time to tell Ryland Grace to die.
    It's a shame, then, that he's absent.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    9,709
    Chapters:
    2/?
    Comments:
    23
    Kudos:
    146
    Bookmarks:
    39
    Hits:
    756

    28 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 81

    Tags
    Summary

    Ilyukhina wakes up light years away from her home, from her promised path to a heroic, honourable end. A hundred thousand miles from all the people she left behind. Her induced coma went on too long, and now she's missed all the action, all the decisions, and opened her eyes to an epilogue to a story that should've been hers too, because why else did she leave? To go home, is the wish in her heart, with the only friend she has left.

    Grace chose to come home, light years away from the porch where he'd throw his bag after school. A hundred thousand miles, and not a single regret, except now there is somebody who's home isn't here. To stay, is the wish in his heart, with the only part of the porch that he'd ever care to keep around.

    -

    AKA

    Ilyukhina wakes up half a year after Grace is settled on Erid.

    -

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    22,133
    Chapters:
    9/?
    Comments:
    106
    Kudos:
    354
    Bookmarks:
    81
    Hits:
    4,322

    25 Jun 2026

  6. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    “But you said you didn’t have a word for – for forcing someone into reproduction?”

    No. Is different, but equivalent violation. Means, to force to sleep.

    Or, Dr. Ryland Grace has yet to confront the choices taken from him. Eridian norms, ironically enough, force the issue.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    25,754
    Chapters:
    7/7
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    588
    Kudos:
    1,350
    Bookmarks:
    394
    Hits:
    10,711

    23 Jun 2026

  7. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Harry hits Light Yagami with his car. (Based on a joke post, taken extremely seriously.)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    36,039
    Chapters:
    2/2
    Collections:
    3
    Comments:
    279
    Kudos:
    1,938
    Bookmarks:
    793
    Hits:
    25,479

    22 Jun 2026

  8. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    The journey to Tau Ceti is a long one.

    Or: For the low low price of clicking a red button, you can pilot the Hail Mary.

    [A HTML-fied interactive game.]

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    98
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    172
    Kudos:
    393
    Bookmarks:
    111
    Hits:
    1,949

    18 Jun 2026

  9. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    What the title says. About 11 years ago (from my perspective; relativity is weird) I was launched into space onboard the Hail Mary to figure out a solution to the Astrophage problem. Now I live on an alien planet I call Erid, in the 40-Eridani system. Yes, I’m actually Ryland Grace. Ask me anything.

    Also, can someone please tell me if Eva Stratt is alive? And ideally send me a video of you punching her in the face? Guess that’s a long shot, but it can’t hurt to ask.

    ---

    Grace and Rocky figure out how to connect to Earth's internet from Erid. They may not have thought this through.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    22,693
    Chapters:
    8/?
    Comments:
    1,334
    Kudos:
    4,579
    Bookmarks:
    1,200
    Hits:
    38,055

    16 Jun 2026

  10. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    "I'll keep you updated. In the meantime, go back to sleep. When you need to worry, I'll tell you."

    "Heh." Ryland ran his hand down his face. "It's terrible you know that it actually makes me feel better. What would I do without you?"

    "Explode at a colleague at a conference and get expelled from academia and become a middle school teacher." Eva said, promptly.

    "Wow, you've thought about that way too hard." Ryland laughed. "Middle schoolers might not vape in class, though. Maybe I should switch."

    "Let's not joke."

     

    or: fourteen conversations where ryland grace doesn’t realize eva stratt is a time traveller

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    10,781
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    267
    Kudos:
    1,972
    Bookmarks:
    757
    Hits:
    8,644

    10 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    The Sokovia Accords were supposed to leash the Avengers. Instead, they gave Eva Stratt a shopping list for the end of the world.

    Fresh off the bleeding edge of Siberia, a broken Tony Stark discovers the sun is dying—and that Stratt has weaponized his stolen genetic records in an attempt to draft him for a four-year, one-way suicide mission into the dark. At the Compound alongside Dr. Ryland Grace, a rumpled junior high science teacher who just figured out how the solar parasite breeds, Tony is forced into a chaotic partnership over volatile space sludge.

    To Stratt, sacrificing three lives to save seven billion is basic math. To Tony Stark, a one-way ticket isn't a tragic necessity—it’s just a design flaw. It’s time to break the rules, rewrite the physics, and make damn sure the universe's most expensive floating coffin gets a steering wheel.

    And he, and Doctor Ryland Grace, would not be taking it.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    68,264
    Chapters:
    6/?
    Comments:
    304
    Kudos:
    754
    Bookmarks:
    192
    Hits:
    9,391

    05 Jun 2026

  12. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Bad dreams suck. Grace wakes up from a nightmare of being on the Hail Mary, which is utterly impossible, but his throat hurts like he really did have a tube pulled out of it.

    Turns out, he wasn't the only one to have that dream. Which was even more impossible than him actually being on a ship that's not even fully built.

    aka A movie react fic where everyone sees the film in dreams.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    104,712
    Chapters:
    46/46
    Comments:
    3,824
    Kudos:
    1,847
    Bookmarks:
    544
    Hits:
    48,148

    04 Jun 2026

  13. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Mindy Park is rapidly realising that the first intelligent extraterrestrial to make contact with the human race thinks they’re fucking stupid. She’s pretty sure that Dr Grace isn’t accurately translating half the things Rocky is saying, but most of what he is telling her is that Rocky has a better way of doing what NASA wants them to do, and honestly, it seems like Rocky is mostly right. She probably doesn’t want to know what the other half of what Grace’s new alien friend is saying, if the things that are making it through what she’s calling the “middle school teacher filter” are “why would you do something the dumb way when you could do it the right way”.

    or,

    Mindy has a headache, Grace has trauma, Mark is confused and Rocky is wondering how humans made it in to space when they're all so, so dumb.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    56,923
    Chapters:
    8/8
    Comments:
    577
    Kudos:
    2,285
    Bookmarks:
    773
    Hits:
    28,140

    04 Jun 2026

  14. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Ten years into their happy ending, Frisk wakes up back in the Underground with no memory of reseting.

    A few hours after parting ways for the night, Kris and Susie wake up in a strange new Dark World... again.

    Frisk's save file has been corrupted. Kris's soul isn't behaving how its supposed to. And Ralsei shouldn't be here at all.
    An epilogue and a story half-told can't coexist without some conflict involved.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    93,817
    Chapters:
    15/?
    Comments:
    463
    Kudos:
    948
    Bookmarks:
    224
    Hits:
    21,632

    18 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    SUSIE CLUTCH

  15. Public Bookmark 47

    Summary

    AU where there's no Painting but there's still a fire.

    Words:
    50,712
    Works:
    7
    Bookmarks:
    47

    11 May 2026

  16. Public Bookmark *

    Words:
    29,967
    Works:
    5
    Bookmarks:
    104

    07 May 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 18

    Tags
    Summary

    Emma watches the world vanish and come back again. Lune finds a new purpose for herself after the expedition.

    Clea comes to grips with her sister's pending death. Sciel soothes over the strife that comes with the clash of new and old.

    Aline returns to the outside and mourns another child. Renoir grapples with his failures as a husband and father.

    Verso tries his best to live as his sister dies. Gustave witnesses tomorrow come in Lumiere.

    Or: the conversations and unexpected realities that come with having a new Paintress. Maelle centered, but with POVs of all these characters!

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    70,149
    Chapters:
    8/8
    Comments:
    61
    Kudos:
    70
    Bookmarks:
    18
    Hits:
    1,263

    05 May 2026

  18. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    It started when he was almost too young to remember.
    Do not speak, unless you are spoken to.
    Sit still through this whole meeting.
    Do not let them notice you.

    It was a game. And Tim was used to winning.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    25,110
    Chapters:
    5/5
    Collections:
    3
    Comments:
    604
    Kudos:
    4,396
    Bookmarks:
    1,135
    Hits:
    34,980

    03 May 2026

  19. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Sometimes, Tim isn’t sure he’s real.

    Tim isn’t sure when he started altering his appearance. Maybe he always knew how to do it. Maybe he learned how watching his mother in front of the vanity in her room, blue silk dressing gown wrapped tightly around brittle bones as she peered critically at her reflection, widening her irises ever so slightly, narrowing the bridge of her nose.

    A good transformation, she’d told him once, is not over exaggerated, or particularly striking. It must appear completely natural at all times, or the trick is ruined. The game is up.

    Tim’s nose is a little crooked. He doesn’t remember how long it’s been that way.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,546
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    5
    Comments:
    41
    Kudos:
    1,046
    Bookmarks:
    205
    Hits:
    4,601

    01 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    I need an entire series of this, it is so painful and beautiful

  20. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    He doesn’t understand, or doesn’t want to. They aren’t looking for him. They aren’t even crying, his mother is clearly more concerned with how his disappearance will look than the fact that he’s—he’s gone, they left him in a sinking car—his chest is rising and falling quickly, and he wonders distantly if the drowning was just a little slow to catch up.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    13,801
    Chapters:
    6/17
    Comments:
    83
    Kudos:
    618
    Bookmarks:
    171
    Hits:
    6,413

    01 May 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    Holy shit, this is brutal and gorgeous

Filters

Filter results:
Submit

Include

?
Include Ratings
Include Warnings
Include Categories
Include Fandoms
Include Characters
Include Relationships
Include Additional Tags
Include Bookmarker's Tags

Exclude

?
Exclude Ratings
Exclude Warnings
Exclude Categories
Exclude Fandoms
Exclude Characters
Exclude Relationships
Exclude Additional Tags
Exclude Bookmarker's Tags

More Options

Word count
Bookmark types
Submit

Clear Filters

Navigation