we all have to make sacrifices

side blog | 20s

[abilene-paradox]

a sucker for the details.

I love dead wife montages, unlikable survivors, and the glass cliff

my favs | my posts | my art

Currently: Atticwifing Grace, The Solar Ice Age Series, Incorrect Hail Mary Quotes, & CSG (CarlStrattGrace)

[itwashotwestayedinthewater]

Amoeba Leashes for sale

[veggiesforpresident]

honestly one of my favorite things about fanfic is when you can see the canon influences come out in really subtle ways. like a canon line thats mentioned once as a throwaway is suddenly the entire premise for a fic or it influences the characterization or something. its just so cool to see how people weave their ideas around a source material, especially if its not a detail i'd thought about before

[fairycosmos]

you can chew an image like gum. they don’t tell you that

[worst-egirl]

weirdly enough i think it's easier to accept non sexual nudity if you're a bit of a a pervert. like people think "boobs are too sexy, people can't be normal about them", and it seems like a compelling argument, boobs are sexy. but when you realise that other things are sexy as well, things like stomachs, thighs, feet, back muscles, and you can normal about them in a non sexual context, so there's no reason anyone can't be normal about any other part of the body.

[abilene-paradox]

Are you missing the whiteboard math problem solving of the Project Hail Mary book, and want a fic that leans more in that direction? Look no further than this fic where Rocky and Grace run into some classical science miscommunication á la the Mars Climate Orbiter and have to problem solve their way back to Erid. (With lots of banter, of course, and intuitive visuals)

[sheishine]

Deep Water Clam - Blue (2017).

Soft sculpture by Hiné Mizushima.

[sharkfiinn]

loser duo

[andthepeople]

what if they get back to erid only for grace to discover that rocky has like. a crazy rap sheet. extensive eridian criminal record. he's stolen everything it's possible to steal. there was a huge brouhaha when he got elected to the petrova line mission because it's basically like if danny ocean had been really really good at fixing shit and so they decided to send him to the moon. he's been arrested approximately 12,000 times for public indecency. grace is like (still not over the clothes thing) so i'm NOT the only guy you like to be fully naked around. i see how it is. and rocky has to reform his image and only do his nudist thing around grace to save his bug marriage. the fact that he came back from space married to a bug is somehow entirely unsurprising to the entire planet, who mostly assumed he'd stolen the blip-A and made off with it and that was why no one came back for 50 years. grand theft spaceship. grace visiting rocky's cave like wow cool jewel artwork or whatever and rocky's like yes yes. if anyone asks you've never seen it.

[bugliest]

Rocky successfully navigating to tau ceti with no knowledge of relativistic physics is absolutely fucking wild. I forgot in the book his crew was all incapacitated and/or dead by the time he realized something was up with the travel times being faster than expected and then had to troubleshoot it all on his own with a negligible understanding of how to do it. and he did it. insane interstellar piloting talent right off the cuff like wtf

[shittyidea]

A super long audio book with just silence and an “oh, out loud?” at the end

[bitty-bean]

The softest girl you’ve ever seen

[ilions-end]

found myself unexpectedly emotional at a moment in seneca's thyestes when the chorus (a group of argives) sing in horror,

Are we of all generations in human history judged worthy of being crushed by the world's collapse? Is ours the final age of man?

and it made me realize that surely one of the oldest fears of humanity has to be the idea of the world ending within our lifetime; seeing the end coming and being alive to experience it. i worry about it, and here's an ancient roman expressing it, by making a people of an ancient-to-him mythological past worry about it. in every generation someone's been certain the world will collapse very very soon, and here we still are.

[chromaticrainarts]

Getting spanked by a rock seems like a really bad idea

Full on my ao3!

[fuckrozanov]

there is something fundamentally strange about demanding that transformative fiction function as an exercise in perfect canon replication. fanfic is by definition interested in possibility. it takes characters out of the fixed circumstances of the source material and asks what they might become under different pressures, in different relationships, with different experiences, or simply through a different author’s understanding of them. sometimes the entire premise is “what would have to happen for this character to behave in a way they never did in canon?” and like that is not necessarily a failure of characterization. sometimes that is the characterization. and obviously there are interpretations that feel more or less supported by the text. it is perfectly reasonable to argue that a fic has failed to make a particular choice psychologically convincing. but that is a wholly different argument from treating canon as a list of immutable behaviors and using “they wouldn’t do that” as a supposedly objective veto against any trope you dislike.

[grossavocados]

Rocky’s rly just absolutely perfect right? He’s perfect. Perfect shape. Vocalizes in music. 5 legs. No face. Hard carapace. Small. Strong as fuck. Incompatible atmosphere. One of a kind. We don’t get these type of aliens often. Cheff kissy to Rocky

[phasma-e-color]

i love those old space propaganda posters and i've been craving something like that for project hail mary so i decided to experiment a bit with ps, it isn't very accurate but i really liked the final result

also, yes, i used the xenonite model of the hail mary because i love the patterns it has