rat-a-tat-tat

she/they I wanted to put an Ada Lovelace quote here but none of them were gay enough :(

[thckskulll]

[marinersubmariner]

Guy who's estimating whether the corpse whose face he just shot off looks enough like him to pass as his own dead body

[ot3]

its awesome that neither mind reading nor god are real and all of the thoughts inside of your head are completely private and consequenceless forever #myprivacy

[b0nkcreat]

i'm your only friend (realizes that's statistically unlikely) i'm not your only friend (considers my positive qualities) but i'm a little glowing friend (suddenly gets cold feet) but really i'm not actually your friend (remembers to be confident in relationships) but i am

[rylandgraces]

ryland grace running around in his bright yellow little raincoat while the original crew of the hail mary are walking around in their yellow jumpsuits..........grace was always part of the crew just one they saved for a rainy day...

[saudade-lovers]

pure passion for this movie has overtaken me, so here is some art with an aggressive amount of symbolism, to mitski of course 🙂‍↕️

[shetheyslain]

Dahling you simply must read this book! It’s all about this devious little caterpillar who simply gorges himself on all manner of divine things

[lorquiana]

season 2 riverlouisa is barely there but the 1 scene there is is Really good. season 3 riverlouisa is fun because river hasn't hit the s4-s5 rapid downward trajectory and is approaching the whole thing like hello :) would you like to be friends :) its ok how you choose to process your trauma :) (he googled what to say to your coworker with trauma) and louisa (made a friend once and has sworn off it forever) is like You have daddy issues leave me alone. s4 riverlouisa is awesome because river is like would you like to go from work friends to real friends and louisa is like No. I dont like you like that. stop talking about how you feel closer to me suck it up. and then is forced to reckon with the fact that a) they ARE real friends (unintentional) and b) her friend is stupid and keeps getting himself in situations. and s5 riverlouisa if i think about it for too long i have to lie down

[tinkertailorsoldierguy]

Him saying to her “you know, it is okay to me that you are slutting it up in the name of grief, I think women should be allowed to do that when their boyfriends die” and then being 😮 SHOCKED that she isn’t like “omg thank you so validating😍😍😍”

[tinkertailorsoldierguy]

i made a sequel:

5 minutes of people insulting river personally and telling him how much they dislike him and pointing out all the way he sucks and his life sucks

[ahumanprobably]

died and went to heaven and thanked God for all my battles

and he said "Wait what? Oh my bad you were not meant to have ANY of those battles. Whoops. You think you're my strongest soldier?? LMAO bro be serious."

[houujin]

A relatively messy study/fanart for project hail mary, the last month has really awakened my inner space loving child again

Also fun fact, while drawing Man of war by Radiohead started randomly playing which i think is very veru fitting for this

[wolfythewitch]

all all all

[lhurluberlu-hululant]

[altrnvte]

Patron saint of one way trips

[irradiatedsnakes]

you cant just say that man

[speyriver]

some rambles & fun facts about the beach in project hail mary

if you're wondering what & where it is before i start yapping, it's durdle door, in dorset

some background context, my first exposure to project hail mary was when folks started freaking out on the local facebook groups - ryan gosling's coming to town for filming a new movie!! i thought to myself ahhh fuck. the city that i go to uni at is gonna cameo in a gosling film. fml i guess i have to see this now

anyways i forget about it for ages until the movie drops and i finally go see it and imagine my surprise when i'm expecting miserable fuckass portsmouth and instead. i snap upright like-

"is that durdle door?!" "yes i think so-" "the dorset fieldtrip?!" "yep" "ohh my god. they went there?!" "i guess so" "what the fuck" <- live reaction of me and my bf who both have done fieldwork there related to our respective degrees (geology & palaeontology)

anyways now for some fun facts:

the arch structure you see is part of portland limestone formation, and is going to eventually to erode away entirely

the arch itself it estimated to collapse anytime from 100 years time, to several hundred years time - depending on ongoing weathering/changes in weather patterns (woo yay climate change)

the cliffs are mainly cretaceous era chalks, and this area is so prone to landslides it's not even funny. we went for a day and literally i think the week after? there was a landslide

fun extra fact about the chalk, they contain loads of coccoliths which are great for dating rocks + analysing the palaeoclimate during deposition

whilst the directors cut implies the reason behind the beach being shingle is because the eridians can't figure out sand particle size, the reason why the beach is flint is literally because of geology; it's been eroded out of the cliffs

sidenote it would be much nicer if it was a sandy beach but unfortunately that wouldn't make much sense geologically

at the very end of the movie, we see some beds extending into the water and the camera panning out as he begins teaching the little eridians - this is in man o' war cove is is on the other side of the archway!

this is visualised in the little diagram i made at the very start of the post, so ryland's house sits atop where the pathway down IRL is located, and the beach where he and rocky sit on is the western side, and the classroom is on the eastern side

the line in the movie where ryland says "the beach is always changing. you could go to the same spot every day. you're always looking at a different beach." is so especially true because durdle door is (like i said before) constantly changing both from erosion, landslides, and just the result of it being a tourist location

it's been different everytime i've been, in fact it was closed? earlier this year because the paths were badly damaged from storms

so it's like the paths you see in the film are the old ones, and if you visited, they'd look different/they'd be new

sidenote not confirmed at all but i wonder if they chose durdle door because of its "proximity" to portsmouth because of filming locations in hampshire... it's a 2hr drive but ig that's not far if you've got a film crew

anyways here's some pictures from when i went for fieldwork a few years ago:

so yea! hope someone enjoys reading this mini info-dump about the beach. super recommend people visit, it's a beautiful place and a great way to spend a day. the beaches are fantastic, the geology is great, and you might even see an adder!

[bulkhummus]

someone sent me an anon ask about rocky meeting eva and i tried to post it not once but twice and tumblr ate it both times so now im just regular posting it here

i think ryland would grow to understand stratt’s choice with time, and even thank her logic of it because it led to his meeting of rocky, but i dont think he’d ever really forgive her for what she did to him

(Ryland had to prep rocky before they touched down to meet Stratt so he wouldnt charge her at first sight)

thank you for the request :o)