1 - 20 of 252 Bookmarks by PaperHermits

Navigation

List of Bookmarks

  1. Public Bookmark 69

    Tags
    Summary

    Ryland Grace found the gun on the forty-third day.

    He’d been reorganizing the storage bay — not because it needed reorganizing, but because his hands needed something to do and his brain needed something small enough to manage — when his fingers closed around the case at the back of the cabinet. Compact. Heavier than it looked.

    He knew what it was before he opened it.

    Yao’s gun. Captain Yao, who had died in a coma before the Hail Mary reached Tau Ceti, along with Ilyukhina. Who had carried a gun on the mission for reasons Grace understood too well.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    2,266
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    27
    Kudos:
    379
    Bookmarks:
    69
    Hits:
    1,610

    04 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  2. Public Bookmark 70

    Tags
    Summary

    "What that, question?" Rocky asks instead of answering the question. He's got his light gun thingy pointed at the screens.
    "Hm? You know what the stars are, buddy." Grace doesn't think much of it, but Rocky goes quiet.
    "Have not seen like this before."

    or: constellations as connection

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    1,615
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    53
    Kudos:
    366
    Bookmarks:
    70
    Hits:
    1,214

    04 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  3. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    I very carefully set the gun near the xenonite barrier. “Need a word. Fast moving projectile launcher. This is an object that can make small objects go very fast.”

    Rocky gets close to the barrier and seems to be inspecting it with his sonar. “Unfamiliar with concept. How fast can objects move with launcher, question?”

    “An object is made for the launcher. Cannot be any object. We call objects ‘bullets.’ We call launcher ‘gun.’ It uses gunpowder to make a small explosion, which is powder made from sulfur, potassium nitrate, and charcoal- Carbon. In high oxygen environments this creates a small explosion that propels the bullet forward at 100 meters a second.”

    Rocky scurries back. I would too, but I have the business end facing away from me and the xenonite barrier. “Are objects in this launcher, question?”

    “Yes, I do not know how to take them out.” I point to the end of the gun that houses the bullets. “In Earth’s atmosphere, they would be safe to remove. But in a high oxygen environment like the Hail Mary, I’m afraid of causing a spark that would make the bullets fire anyway.”
    -
    Grace finds Yáo’s gun.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,880
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    53
    Kudos:
    659
    Bookmarks:
    120
    Hits:
    2,417

    04 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  4. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    "Grace, question?” Rocky says from his tunnel.

    “Yeah?” I peek my head up, wiping nonexistent dust off my pants. The storage compartment was almost completely sterile, but I needed something to do with my hands.

    All okay, question?” There’s a slight quiver in the notes of his voice that I’ve come to recognize as hesitance.

    “Of course, buddy.” I laugh disbelievingly, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

    Ryland finds Yao’s gun and he is perfectly normal about it, thank you very much. He’s only been stuck in the same environment eating the same meals everyday for a year now. He’s fine.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    3,115
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    114
    Kudos:
    6,164
    Bookmarks:
    768
    Hits:
    23,536

    04 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  5. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Grace is dying. He's been dying half this trip. There's no point in ignoring it, though he and Rocky try to anyway. One particularly bad day, he finds he can't shake the thought of Yao's gun, hidden away down in storage and calling to him.

    ---

    "There's a gun on the ship.
    A gun on the ship for one very specific reason. A reason that Grace has spent years running away from, but one that keeps chasing after him. "

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    4,556
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    84
    Kudos:
    1,089
    Bookmarks:
    199
    Hits:
    4,848

    04 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  6. Public Bookmark 55

    Tags
    Summary

    “Lie.”

    “It’s not a lie! I really really don't want to die.”

    Rocky rams his fists into the floor. “Then why Grace ♬♫♩♪♬ twice, question?” 

    A tale of discordant sleep schedules, concordant trauma, and entirely too much Glee.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    11,345
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    22
    Kudos:
    194
    Bookmarks:
    55
    Hits:
    742

    04 Jul 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  7. Public Bookmark 52

    Summary

    all of these can be read as standalones, but they are interconnected and happen within the same universe

    Words:
    12,766
    Works:
    5
    Bookmarks:
    52

    04 Jul 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 94

    Tags
    Summary

    Rocky finds Yáo's gun and things kind of go downhill from there.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,124
    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    47
    Kudos:
    644
    Bookmarks:
    94
    Hits:
    2,858

    04 Jul 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 46

    Tags
    Summary

    Grian no-clips into The Backrooms.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    21,360
    Chapters:
    17/17
    Collections:
    1
    Comments:
    216
    Kudos:
    481
    Bookmarks:
    46
    Hits:
    6,017

    02 Jul 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 6

    Summary

    The full collection of Song fics/ hermits getting trapped in other dimensions. Posted in timeline order with the exception of the one shots which contain stories from across the timeline.

    Words:
    53,704
    Works:
    12
    Bookmarks:
    6

    29 Jun 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 30

    Tags
    Summary

    Everything Doc says ends with ‘in theory’.

    And Grian, in theory, is screwed.

    Grian no-clipped into The Backrooms.

    (Rewrite of "Should I Stay or Should I Go?" now with over 22,000 extra words and better prose! Happy two years!)

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    60,462
    Chapters:
    24/24
    Comments:
    164
    Kudos:
    199
    Bookmarks:
    30
    Hits:
    2,956

    29 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  12. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Wanting to know more about their dear teacher, Grace the alien from space, the pebbles ask their teacher how he came to space, unknowingly making him remember his final moments on Earth and how he was sent against his will

    When told by their pebbles, the Eridian parents are unhappy with the teacher for telling untrue horror stories and scaring their children

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    4,889
    Chapters:
    2/2
    Comments:
    51
    Kudos:
    703
    Bookmarks:
    114
    Hits:
    4,970
  13. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    The journey to Erid is going to be long and difficult for Grace, somewhere around 4 years for him and Rocky to get back home

    Grace will face many difficulties as he attempts to survive the trip there - lacking food and other basic resources - but he has Rocky by his side, always

    ~~~

    Please mind the tags on this fic as it does deal with some darker topics at length, such as child abuse and suicide

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    43,778
    Chapters:
    21/21
    Comments:
    610
    Kudos:
    621
    Bookmarks:
    177
    Hits:
    11,284

    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  14. Public Bookmark 45

    Tags
    Summary

    Ryland Grace has been living on Erid, peacefully and enjoying his time there, until a crack forms in his dome that requires immediate action for his own safety

    Enter the Eridian-Human consciousness swap program - more commonly known as Project Saving Grace

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    9,662
    Chapters:
    5/?
    Comments:
    82
    Kudos:
    219
    Bookmarks:
    45
    Hits:
    2,238

    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  15. Public Bookmark 23

    Tags
    Summary

    You meet Simon through an old friend of yours, Raphaela, who happens to be his neighbor when your friend decides to have a party…Feeling relaxed thanks to the alcohol, you go over and introduce yourself. You let him know you realize he probably wants to be alone and you respect that. You even offer to help him leave and make an excuse for him.

    He pulls up his mask revealing nice pale pink lips that sip his beer before replying with a small smile. “Nah vanks, luv. Told ‘em I’d be ‘ere.”

    You smile and nod, “Yeah, they can be quite coercive when they wanna be and then make you feel guilty as fuck if you leave or don’t show, but they’re a great friend otherwise.”

    He shrugs. “Nah worse van Johnny,” he replies and nods over to Johnny, another new acquaintance you’ve made. He’s rather loud and a bit brash but rather funny and charming.

    ”Mind if I join you?” You request permission.

    He pulls a chair up almost against his seat and motions for you to sit. You sit down and lean back. Simon manspreads in the wooden chair and you sip your beer trying not to giggle. He glances at you. You shake your head.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    21,026
    Chapters:
    10/14
    Comments:
    54
    Kudos:
    87
    Bookmarks:
    23
    Hits:
    2,426

    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  16. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    The room is silent except for Dick’s harsh, stuttering breaths.

    “Tim?”

    Tim doesn’t answer. He can’t. His body doesn’t work. His voice is gone. Dick reaches toward him—

    —and Tim takes a single, instinctive step back.

     

    Or: Dick learns Tim isn’t dead after almost dying himself. Tim isn’t sure how to feel about it.

    Or: Sometimes loving yourself means loving someone else at a distance.

     

    THIS IS A SEQUEL YOU HAVE TO READ THE FIRST ONE OR ELSE THIS HAS MAJOR SPOILERS FOR “HE’S NOT MY KID (AND OTHER FAMOUS LAST WORDS)”

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    47,496
    Chapters:
    3/3
    Comments:
    155
    Kudos:
    818
    Bookmarks:
    103
    Hits:
    9,522

    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    reread this before continuing series

  17. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    Tim Drake is good at surviving.

    He knows how to keep his head down, how to read a room, how to make himself useful enough to be tolerated. Between school, a café job, and a home that never quite feels like one, Tim doesn’t expect much more than that.

    Babysitting Damian Wayne was supposed to be simple. Temporary. A paycheck.

    Instead, Tim finds himself pulled into a family that notices too much, bruises that linger, smiles that don’t reach his eyes, silences that say more than words ever could.

    The Batfamily sees one of their own.

    And Tim?
    Tim is learning what it feels like when someone stays.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    49,022
    Chapters:
    10/10
    Comments:
    603
    Kudos:
    3,182
    Bookmarks:
    729
    Hits:
    43,718

    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  18. Public Bookmark 42

    Tags
    Summary

    He believed that if his ten-year-old self could see him right now, looking like a dying man, he would only smile and ask:

    "—Were we able to be useful long enough for Bruce to heal? —Were we enough to keep ourselves in one piece so that Bruce and Dick could heal?"

    He believed he would answer him with:

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    5,632
    Chapters:
    4/?
    Comments:
    24
    Kudos:
    227
    Bookmarks:
    42
    Hits:
    2,277

    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  19. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    When Bruce refuses to make Tim Robin after Jason's traumatic death Tim decides to fight crime in his own way.

    Five years later he's acting in Gotham as a crime lord desperately trying to keep the bats safe whilst also doing his best to avoid the many other crime lords who want him dead, especially the Red Hood.

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    82,451
    Chapters:
    23/23
    Collections:
    2
    Comments:
    794
    Kudos:
    3,878
    Bookmarks:
    905
    Hits:
    87,379

    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Tags:
  20. Public Bookmark *

    Tags
    Summary

    ____

    Tim Drake died at seventeen, his family long broken beyond repair.
    A Cuckoo finally rid from the nest.

    But when he wakes up in his time, just a year after the Graysons death and appearance of the first Robin.
    Tim wouldnt let his family suffer again, even if it meant he couldnt join them.

    Bruce Wayne is not "Brucie Wayne"
    Tim Drake is not "Timothy Drake"

    They are both personas, a front to prevent people from looking at whats really under the surface. But sooner or later Tim should have known Gotham being a city of secrets, nothing stays buried forever. Especially not when the bats get involved with their trashy next door neighbor whose behavior seems more and more contradictory.

    Tim had saved them all more times than he could count, maybe this time they could return the favor.
    __________________________________
    Inspired by @brucewaynehater101 on tumblr
    My beta!! @brynthewriter

    FOREWARNING!!-
    This fic is a VERY wordy SLOW BURN- but every line is crafted with love, and if you decide to continue- I sincerely hope you enjoy <33

    Series
    Language:
    English
    Words:
    146,736
    Chapters:
    23/?
    Collections:
    38
    Comments:
    5,587
    Kudos:
    14,618
    Bookmarks:
    3,986
    Hits:
    435,324

    28 Jun 2026

    Bookmarker's Notes

    23

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