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The Background of Carlos the Scientist by misspelledideas
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
20 Oct 2013
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"When Carlos the scientist was young, he had no desire to be a scientist, if he was being, as he always tried to be with himself, perfectly honest." This story is a bit of a possible, if slightly A/U, backstory for Carlos the Scientist.
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06 Jul 2026
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Charlie joined Carlos' team hoping to gain some practical experience, contribute to his field, maybe get a paper published.
He definitely wasn't expecting...well...Night Vale.
(A series of vignettes about everyone's favorite scientific researchers and their handsome leader.)
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06 Jul 2026
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Carlos and Cecil visit Carlos' family.
Carlos' little brother seems to have a problem with them both.
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- Part 4 of Meanwhile, In Night Vale
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06 Jul 2026
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Based on the comic by blobcecil on tumblr:
Cecil is slammed by an awful bout of the flu. So sick, he can't work, he can't cook, he can't make tea, he can hardly even move, let alone pull on his human shape.
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06 Jul 2026
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"These pauses were growing more and more concerning - something was wrong. Something was very wrong, as the silence continued. Cecil was never silent, not on his radio show, not at home, not with Carlos, not even in sleep.
Something was wrong, and Cecil was clearly not okay."OR
The idea of Cecil losing his voice when stressed/on air came to me and I couldn't shake it
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- Part 3 of Willow's "Giving Back" 2025
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06 Jul 2026
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On a normal day in Night Vale, a strange man in a blue box pays Cecil and Carlos a visit.
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04 Jul 2026
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Cecil gets more than he bargained for on his day off.
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04 Jul 2026
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Mostly Lost (Partially Found) by CelticKnot
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Welcome to Night Vale
24 Oct 2018
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The TARDIS has crash-landed in Night Vale, but will it ever leave again? The Doctor and Rose must race against time—for whatever that’s worth in a place like this—to figure out what is slowly killing it.
Meanwhile, Cecil is absolutely beside himself, as Carlos has suddenly gone missing.
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04 Jul 2026
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A Traveller of Both Time and Space by Captain_Link
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale, Doctor Who (2005)
13 Mar 2021
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A stranger arrives in town, a rip in time and space opens in Desert Grove. The usual Night Vale madness.
(not great at summaries)
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04 Jul 2026
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There Is A Man With A Blue Box by canisonicscrewyou
Fandoms: Doctor Who (2005), Welcome to Night Vale
08 Jun 2025
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"In case you haven’t seen him, Night Vale. There is a man who stepped out of a blue box. Now, everybody saw it. On the corner of Fullerton and West, just past the Moonlite All Nite Diner, in broad daylight... A blue telephone box appeared in front of us all."
The Doctor and Ruby Sunday get to know a strange community in the desert called Night Vale. Likewise, Night Vale gets to know a strange duo called the Doctor and Ruby Sunday.
The Doctor & Ruby explore Night Vale, interspersed with Cecil’s radio show.
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04 Jul 2026
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'Cause You Are the Compass That Beats In My Chest by Jadealaide
Fandoms: Welcome to Night Vale
12 Jan 2025
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“Actually,” Carlos began. “I’m looking for…seals.” A seal, but this man didn’t need to know that.
The man’s grin widened. “Seals, huh?”
“I’m a scientist. I’m studying marine life.”
The man looked amused by this. “Haven’t we all been scientists at some point in our lives?” He asked, but continued before Carlos could answer. “Any particular reason why you’re looking for seals? Why not, oh, I don’t know…” the man shrugged. “Scallops? Fish?”-
After being saved from near-death by a harbor seal, marine biologist Carlos Robles decides to investigate the situation. The results are...unexpected.
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03 Jul 2026
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Deleted Scenes from Right By Them, my time-travel fix-it. These scenes are designed to be read as supplemental material for "Right by Them" and I'll be including around where in the story they take place.
Chapter 1: Jon's Statement (Takes place during Chapter 2)
Chapter 2: Burning of Statements (Takes place during Chapter 41)
Chapter 3: The Tape (Takes place during Chapter 48)Series
- Part 2 of Right By Them - A Fix-It of sorts
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01 Jul 2026
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I miss you tonight, like a child who doesn't want to go to sleep without you by TardisRos
Fandoms: Interview with the Vampire (TV 2022)
18 Jun 2026
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*SPOILERS FOR SEASON 3 EPISODE 1*
The slam of a door, and then Louis is in front of him, pulling him up, touching him, running his hands all over his body, gentle, and delicate, barely grazing his skin. Scared, almost.
"Christ. Jesus fucking- Lestat, what the hell did they do to you?"
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Daniel informs Louis about the fight. Someone else is already there by the time he reaches Lestat.
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27 Jun 2026
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After L has had some time to get to know Light more intimately, he decides to take a chance on surprising Light with fulfilling one of the fantasies he's uncovered. Fortunately for him, Light's willing to be on the receiving end of L's audacity.
Or: The one where L brings along half the task force and a few friends to tie Light up and fuck him until he breaks.
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27 Jun 2026
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“Tell me,” L repeats, “what you think happened last night. I assure you that nothing you did I consider a humiliation.”
“Oh my god,” Light mumbles, squeezing his eyes shut. He opens them again before L can tell him to, and stares into the black void that seems so eager to swallow him whole.
L waits, gripping Light’s chin between his thumb and forefinger.
“I…” he wracks his brain, but all he can come up with is the sensation of heat. “I don’t know what happened, or how I got into your side of the bed. I only know–” Light feels his face getting hotter, and he averts his eyes from L’s to stare at a point on his cheek. “I only know how I woke up this morning, and it’s really seeming like you might have had something to do with that.”
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A sequel to "uninhibited". Light, hungover, can't remember much from the previous night. L is determined to remind him.
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25 Jun 2026
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We Like Out of Print Games, Retro Skates ('Cause Guys Like Us Are Cool in College)! by FadedPurpleLights
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
23 Jun 2026
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"Jeez- he’d been yawning on about Wii consoles, something about how a lesson back home during a school day had led him to understand that Wiis were now considered retro! His students had laughed at his shock, how he’d willingly let himself get off track for the better part of that day, distraction evident in every period. Well, everything gets old at one point or-
What?!"
Or, the favorite second in command of the Petrova Taskforce, Dr. Ryland Grace, accidentally manages to have a Wii console set up on Stratt's Vatt. This fact sets off a very endearing series of events. Did he ever mention he was a fan of the Mario franchise, and more specifically, that he was very good at New Super Mario Bros for the Wii?
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23 Jun 2026
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The Tiniest Moves She Makes & the Whole Damn World Shakes by rodamned for the_tardis_is_blue
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026)
18 Apr 2026
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In the smallest, most economical of movements, Eva Stratt alters any room’s entire gravitational logic, barely a glance, a shift of weight, a single word, and the machinery of global consequence begins to realign itself. And Ryland Grace, perpetually caught in her orbit, watches in exhausted awe as the universe keeps proving that when she so much as clicks her heel, the world obligingly shakes to compensate. Also, Carl is there, like the bestie that he is.
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23 Jun 2026
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For Fear to Be a King by Sanguine_Melody
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary (2026), Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types
28 Jun 2026
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“Dr. Grace? As in the Dr. Grace who studied the Arclight samples and named Astrophage?" Minoru felt as if he was going to explode from excitement, “He’s here? On this boat?!”
Ilyukhina laughed and Minoru didn’t even care that she was making fun of him. Even Dubois seemed a little taken aback by the enthusiasm. Shapiro though— her eyes were glowing.
“Yes he’s on the boat!”
“Do you think we’ll get to meet him?!”
“Who do you think is going to teach us how to handle Astrophage?” Dubois asked, like he thought they were both overreacting. Minoru felt like he was going to faint.
Alternatively: Ryland Grace in the eyes of others during his time on The Petrova Task Force and Project Hail Mary.
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- Part 2 of Paint the Sky with Stars
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23 Jun 2026
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I Thought Love was a Kind of Emptiness by Sanguine_Melody
Fandoms: Andy Weir's Project Hail Mary - All Media Types, Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
20 Jun 2026
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Grace’s short history of relationships taught him that maybe he was just childish. Maybe he just— maybe he didn’t want a relationship. Maybe he just wanted a best friend who wouldn't leave him when they got married. That he was the one that was the problem.
Adults had sex. That was a fact of life. They fell in love and love meant sex and that was just how it was. If you didn’t want to have sex then you weren’t really in love. Sure sex didn’t equate to love— people had flings all the time— but romance and sex were the kind of things that went together. So Grace had just— accepted the words of his girlfriends. That maybe he just never actually loved them the way he thought he did. Maybe he just liked them and tied the thought of romance to it so that he could monopolize their time. That all just came together so maybe he actually was just leading these women on. All of them gave him everything he needed in a relationship but he’d never been able to be what they needed. Wasn’t that selfish? Wasn’t that cruel?
Alternatively: Grace is alloromantic asexual. This is traumatizing in many ways. Not for Rocky though. Rocky's perfectly okay with being in love and never having sex.
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- Part 1 of Paint the Sky with Stars
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23 Jun 2026
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This isn’t rage; it’s too specific by Emdanste
Fandoms: Project Hail Mary (2026), Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
30 Jun 2026
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Adrian wants nothing to do with the alien Rocky brought home. When Rocky is rendered incapacitated, Adrian has no choice but to step up and care for Grace
Surely they wont develop feelings for the leaky space blob, right?
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23 Jun 2026