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5 valid reasons not to send Ryland Grace to space + 1 nigh-canonical asspull (600 words) by Petra
Chapters: 2/2
Fandom: Project Hail Mary (2026)
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Carl/Ryland Grace, Ryland Grace & Eva Stratt
Characters: Ryland Grace, Carl (Project Hail Mary 2026), Eva Stratt
Additional Tags: Trans Ryland Grace, Trans Mpreg | Trans Male Pregnancy, Eva Stratt Doesn't Respect Bodily Autonomy, single parent, Margaret Thatcher Milk Snatcher Got Nothin' On Stratt, Drabble Sequence
Summary:

Ryland Grace thinks with his heart. Eva Stratt makes ruthless decisions. Everyone, including Carl and Ryland, lives with the consequences.

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Specially commissioned for the Petrova Project (100 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Ryland Grace & Eva Stratt
Characters: Ryland Grace, Eva Stratt
Additional Tags: Ryland Grace's A+ Pedagogy, Education, positive reinforcement
Summary:

Ryland Grace gets a delivery.

Nobody's perfect (588 words) by Petra
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: due South, The Murderbot Diaries - Martha Wells
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Relationships: Benton Fraser & Ray
Characters: Benton Fraser
Additional Tags: Episode: s02e12 Some Like it Red, Alternate Universe - Murderbot Diaries Fusion, Genderfuck, Undercover as a Human Woman
Series: Part 11 of SecUnit Fraser
Summary:

Fraser goes undercover at a single-gender academy.

So you want to know what the music in my head sounds like, huh? Here you go. I can sing basically all of these from memory, or, in one case, hum it.

[A Little] Priest - Stephen Sondheim, Sweeney Todd, Imelda Staunton & Michael Ball - I put this song on the first mix CD I made for my partner of 20+ years as fair warning of what he would end up listening to if he hung out with me for very long. He was entertained as well as weirded out. Warning: cheerful cannibalism.

Everyone Hates His Parents - William Finn, Falsettoland Off-Broadway Cast, Chip Zien, Danny Gerard, et al. -- I desperately want someone to vid this for approximately every single one of my fandoms.

Thousand Grandmothers - Holly Near - This one makes me cry consistently. A song of hope and defiance for people who believe in the power of women who have been through it and are still going.

Rolling Home - John Tams, performed by John Tams and Barry Coope - I have never performed this with backing music, only a capella, so the actual guy who wrote it performing it with electronic piano hits really weirdly. That aside, I love this song in the folk-processed version I know.

A Better Son/Daughter - Rilo Kiley - Everyone who has parents who are not right in the head needs this anthem.

Lift Every Voice And Sing - James Weldon Johnson & John J. Johnson - I will never sing this again without thinking of rubynye and crying. Happy July 4th to absolutely all of the people in my country.

Everything Possible (2024 edition) - Rev. Fred Small - I love this song's message of love and hope, and this updated version includes nonbinary folks (like me) so it is an extra win. I first learned of the lyrics change when Rev. Small spoke at my friend buggery's UU church. Warning: makes me cry.

Music In My Mother's House - Stuart Stotts, arr. J. David Moore, Bella Voce Women's Chorus - My mother taught me to sing, and I have sung this song at mothers' funerals and wept like a baby.

A Chat With Your Mother (The F-Word Song) - Lou & Peter Berryman, sung by Lou Berryman - I am not from Wisconsin, but I was raised on their music. Very silly. Never have I ever sung it to a group of teenagers who swore at me. You can't prove it.

I Dreamed A Dream - Alain Boubil & Claude-Michel Schönberg, Les Misérables 10th Anniversary Cast, sung by Ruthie Henshall - Since a friend pointed out to me that this is the best setting for the lyrics of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer -- cannot unhear. Also, I imprinted hard on this musical as a wee person.

The Gun Song - Stephen Sondheim, Assassins Off-Broadway Cast, Terrance Mann, Patrick Cassidy, et al. - It's been stuck in my head off and on since before I went to Buffalo with hannah and we saw a sketch of the relevant building in a museum. I can't imagine why it won't go away these days.

Roslin and Adama - Bear McCreary, Battlestar Galactica (2003) soundtrack - I have written so much fiction to the BSG soundtrack it isn't funny. This one is the lone instrumental, and it doesn't even have hurdy-gurdy, so far as I can tell.

Eternally Hard (Best Cock on the Block) - Seeing Bitch and Animal in concert was one of my first "Oh, hey, gender! Really truly not binary!" awakenings, and they crack me up, so I am cheating like anything to get this song, one of my favorites, into the list. Worth logging into Youtube for.

This story about the Irish Step Dance community rallying together to allow the 1 (one) trans competitor in a national competition to compete, despite the Florida Attorney General being a dickhead transphobe, made me tear up.

His argument is that all real women should be allowed fair competition, which is ironic, because that's my argument, too. He's just defining his categories incorrectly.