Agent Rouka's Blog

My asoiaf canon speculation playground. House Stark. Sansa. Jonsa. Stark Sisters. Arianne. Elia. Young Griff. Theon. Targaryen critical. Game of Thrones critical.

[boyfenious4boygenius]

I just saw a comment about Eva choosing to save Earth over Ryland, “A daughter who did everything and anything she could to protect her mother.”

I am SICK.

[kvetchinglyneurotic]

my project hail mary take is that even though stratt is the one to mention that grace doesn't have any close relationships, that actually tells us more about why grace refused to participate in the mission than it does why stratt chose to send him: grace wasn't her plan A or her plan B; he's just the best option she had left and i'm pretty sure she would have made the same choice if he was married and had 10 kids.

one of the only things we know about the other astronauts is that they did have close relationships— friends, children— and that they were willing volunteers, implicitly because of those relationships. obviously grace has people he cares about and people who care about him, but it's not until he has that kind of deep, tangible connection with rocky (as opposed to a general investment in the fate of humanity) that he's willing to make that type of sacrifice

[coffee-with-vanilla-sugar]

"sending people to their death" this "suicide mission" that EVERYONE IN PETROVA TASKFORCE WERE ALREADY ON A SUICIDE MISSION. the Stratt Vat was hundreds of miles away from any shoreline in case something went Terribly Wrong with Astrophage Experiments. every single member of the crew was there, sitting on a powder barrel with a fuse in one hand and a lighter in another and nothing more but blind trust in themselves and each others to not let flames touch wooden walls. one picogram off the charts, one nanosecond off calculations, – and all hope of humanity would've perished at sea, disintegrated without even a trail of smoke. invisible scythe of the reaper was near their necks at all times. grabs you by your shoulders shakes you violently do you see the vision

[girlrandomstuff]

finally rewatched phm for a third time and now i'm sad thinking about a lot of the people that worked on the hail mary never lived to see the beetles return to earth with grace's discoveries.

scientists like lokken (only having as reference the age of the actress), maybe redell and leclerc (but the book is not descriptive) are older than the rest of the crew.

stratt would be around 72 when the beetles return to earth, but lokken would be around 90, if redell and leclerc are close to that age, then it would be much of the same.

a lot of them wouldnt live to see the hail mary have success, everything they worked for and they will not see it.

lokken who design the centrigufe that allowed to experiment in the hail mary, but wont see the results of her work.

this story gets more tragic as you keep seeing the details behind the main story

[greykolla-art]

I just suddenly remembered this song by The Antlers, connected it with THEM, and I’ve been on the verge of tears since.❤️‍🩹

[maeselc]

The scene where Grace goes to talk to Stratt during the party REALLY gets me, every part of their conversation gets me, but especially when he’s freaking out a little bit about how the flight crew are coping with things and she says ‘Camaraderie helps them. Me, not so much.’ OUGH. She just said ‘You don’t bother me,’ she’s not unhappy to be talking to him exactly, BUT she just also does not want to be part of this, the whole social landscape of this terribly fucked up and desperately important situation.

And then she decides: she does kind of need to be a part of it. For the sake of Grace who is really struggling and has gone to her specifically, for the sake of the flight crew, for the sake of all the people she’s asking to work on this project in any capacity. She decides to give something of herself that she wasn’t intending to give to them. Camaraderie doesn’t help her. But it helps them. And Grace needs it, but she can see he doesn’t know how to get it from the rest of them.

She threw this party. She bought them all hats. She wanted that to be enough, but she decided it wasn’t and she decided to give a little bit more of herself.

[panickingavocado]

Grace: You're very mysterious.

Stratt, who just very openly shared about being in an Eastern German Youth choir: No I'm not????

[missdeeds5070]

Grace and Stratt pioneer new, affordable clean energy using astrophage. Grace and Stratt encourage even more stringent management for seed vaults worldwide. Scientists are tasked with making sure all temperature sensitive animals have eggs/sperm/dna stored. Grace and Stratt bring on biotech engineers to consult on the best ways to store various medications. They'll need to withstand unpredictable weather and dropping temperatures. They also will need to be made en mass and quickly so that governments can go ahead start storing medicines and vaccines. They encourage clothing brands to use their resources to create warm clothes, coats etc to make available to people worldwide for no cost. Same with other companies to create durable and waterproof footwear. They work with state and local officials to assess and improve their infrastructures.

They work very hard, especially in that first decade, to insulate humanity from what's to come. They are highly respected and are quietly, unofficially considered the most influential voices.

[agentrouka-blog]

Eve, whose first son murdered his brother.

Eva trying to get a Hail Mary off the ground by the collaborative power of ingenuity and hard work before she has to watch humanity turn on itself in despair.

She knows what people are. She is no better. But she will give them this fighting chance, and when they lock her up, she will claw her way out to keep fighting for time.

Unconditional love.

[fishfingersandscarves]

sansa (x)

[aruvyl]

Wolf pup in the Lion’s Den

[cheesytoastyy]

[crocbandit]

[tomonimakesart]

Did someone say more Strattland doodles? (I did. This time its angst 🫶)

[chubs-deuce]

god I love this movie (and book)

[melangea3]

Just me trying to draw an idea and failing miserably because that's not what I thought 😆

[lutheban]

Interplanetary Friendship

i saw this post where they hit the planets with the anime girl beam and i just thought it was SO FREAKING CUTE i had to make my own take on it else it would not leave my mind lmao

here some details on the designs

+ some early years of the astrophage crises