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[basilandliberation]

Your post about how the Roger pirates treated Shanks and Buggy, made me think of au about when Shanks went to meet his birth family for his mission . What if yeah they were terrible people. But his brother and father(mainly his brother from what little we saw) genuinely treated him like family. It adds some angst possibilities because they are only acting like that towards him because hes blood. Adds some intriguing angst for Shanks to have to deal with. Especially with his twin brother who he finds out genuinely loves and worries about him.

I don't really like Garling all that much and can not see him acting like a genuine father in any capacity. To me, it always felt like he saw Shanks and Shamrock as a means to an end, rather than his children.

Even if he tried to pretend to be a 'caring father', I think Shanks would be able to see through it right away. The only thing that would be truthful is the pride he takes in Shank's strength, because he sees it as an extension of himself. Garling is the kind of man who thinks his kids aren't their own people, but are just extensions of him.

Shamrock is a much more confusing case. He is absolutely detestable in a lot of aspects. Despite this, he does genuinely care for Shanks. He seemed concerned for his well-being in the recent chapter, and talks about him disappointed rather than disgust or simple anger. If there was any aspect that made Shanks hesitate, it would be Shamrock.

In fact, he sometimes thinks about what would've happened if they had actually grown up together. Maybe on the Oro-Jackson, things could've worked out differently.

But Shanks would think that all their love is superfecial. It's only borne out of blood-relation rather than actually liking him as a person.

There are days where he feels angry at everyone, and it kills him to try and hide it. It takes everything in him to not snap at Shamrock whenever he asks about how he's feeling.

There are others where he's asking himself if its worth it. And if he what he wants really ever mattered. He thinks about whether this is what Roger truly meant for him. He wonders about hat exactly pushes Buggy away from him and if he could've changed anything. He just thinks a lot about unanswered questions those days.

Then there are the days where he just...misses. He misses his childhood, he misses Roger, he misses Rayleigh and Gaban and the other. He misses Buggy. He just misses when everything felt simple.

I would imagine there would be moments where he would compare his life on the Oro Jackson and realises just how much he misses his old life.

Just think about Shanks drowning in his memories, and having to mourn the fact that he'll never get back those days again. And the future he had planned will never come true, because that's not his 'destiny'.

He's sitting in a room, angry tears rolling down his face, as he's just cursing the blood that runs through his veins, the destiny that the stars have bestowed on him.

[crinj-central]

Considering how Loki remembers the circumstances of his birth, does that mean Shanks and Shamrock remember how Garling killed their mother?

[lua-cor-de-rosa]

It would be really funny if Buggy would fall upwards again by NOT seeing Shamrock as a threat (if they ever meet in canon)

I mean intellectually he knows this is the captain of the God’s Knight, a world noble, an arrogant man who would hunt him for sport and call it justice…

But then he sees Shank’s face looking back at him and his fear receptors shut down

He will scream at his face, he will call him a bitch, he will taunt this man to hell and back and not break a singular sweat

He will get directly on his face, grabbing him by the lapels and Shamrock will be so shocked by the sheer audacity that his response time will take a sever delay

Buggy’s mythos would grow EXPONENTIALLY among the Cross Guild crew and the World Government because not only is he not afraid of EMPEROR OF THE SEAS RED HAIR SHANKS but he also told SAINT SHAMROCK FIGARLAND TO GO FUCK HIMSELF

[alleesaur]

the productivity creatures

[peachdues]

Sometimes I think about how Giyuu found it in himself to spare Nezuko because he understood intimately the pain of being unable to save one’s sister. Like yes, had she not defended Tanjiro he probably would have killed her, but it went deeper than that. Giyuu wakes up every morning and recalls the sick, horrific guilt he felt when he realized Tsutako was beyond saving, that nothing he did would make her whole again and he didn’t even have anything left of her to mourn — nothing save her haori, and can you imagine how bloodied and torn it must have been? How he probably had to cut around the teeth and claw marks left behind to salvage what he could so he could always carry something of hers with him? How do you think he felt looking at the scraps he couldn’t use — the ones with threads so stiff with her dried blood that it was impossible to wash out, or the tatters reminding him exactly where the demon sank its teeth into her while Giyuu remained helpless?

Contrast that with Nezuko’s death at his hand — if he had executed her, it’s likely she would have disintegrated, kimono and all, just as we see demons do time and again throughout the series. Tanjiro wouldn’t even have anything of Nezuko’s to carry on, to remind him of what he lost, and Giyuu ultimately spares him that pain and gives him what he wishes he could have, and more than he got — his sister, whole and breathing.

[silvaerial]

Patron Saints of One-Way Trips

[ghstwht]

Chapter 1, in which Grace faces a tragedy.

Based on @neutronian and @vonlipwig brilliant conversation. Thank you both for inspiration!! ✨️

[halethleia]

everybody: hello ryland you are now the Main Character ryland: Yikes!! No Thanks!

[earthtoamaal]

when i read this bit i knew I’d love this book ngl

[princess-of-ithilien]

Stratt: "...you don't have a family, you don't even have a dog."

Grace:

[littleannoyingbluebird]

One of the reasons people headcanon Grace as aromantic is the unfortunately realistic scene where they go "you don't have a family or a loved one" as if that's enough of a justification to send him on a suicide mission. As if not having a family makes Grace inherently less valuable and means he should be more willing to sacrifice himself for the greater good.

Grace wasn't sad and lonely, he was happy, he had a good life, he very much did not want to die. They have to do a looney tunes chase sequence and drug him because Grace was *very* unwilling to be the sacrificial lamb. Humanity's savior was dragged kicking and screaming into the role and called selfish for daring to be a coward, as if most of us wouldn't be.

And then he befriends Rocky, who never demands a sacrifice from him, who willingly prolongs his journey home so Grace can go back to his. Rocky has a mate back home and his species depends on his return, and still risks his life to save his squishy human friend. And Grace returns the favor.

And thus the power of friendship saves two planets.

[queenbruv]

one thing from project hail mary the book that i really wish theyd made clear in the movie is that when grace makes the decision to save rocky instead of go back to earth, he is prepared to die. like i understand why the movie had to cut a lot from the book for pacing and it wasnt exactly necessary to include the whole sub-subplot where rocky and grace figure out that there is nothing on erid that is safe for humans to consume, but it would have been worth a passing mention at some point, because grace goes back for rocky knowing that even if rocky takes him to erid, he will still die there, because there is nothing he can eat. the only reason he survives is by eating taumoeba, which is a solution rocky comes up with only after grace saves him and admits to him that he came to his rescue fully prepared to die.

the movie really breezes past rocky's rescue and the time skip, and it never explains why choosing to save rocky is so monumental in the first place: it answers the central question grace is grappling with for the whole movie. "who would i die for?" he doesn't just go back for rocky because it's the right thing to do. he sacrifices himself to save rocky. he is ready to die if it means rocky will live.

[jupeywoopy]

I think having the main theme of your movie being that bravery does not nessicarily mean willingness to subject yourself to pain and fear but rather rising to the challenge once you’re already in that situation is such an important message given our circumstances right now

[moss-indie]

[Project Hail Mary spoilers]

Eva Stratt who insisted on being the first to be tested for the comatose gene

Eva Stratt who made sure the ship computer knew the crew's exact coffee orders, even Grace, down to the most precise measurements

Eva Stratt who illegally acquired thousands of video games for the hail mary crew, despite the fact they'd be in a coma for the majority of the trip

Eva Stratt who sent a school teacher into space because she knew he was a fundamentally good man

Eva Stratt who would betray the closest thing she had to a friend because she knew there was no other choice

Eva Stratt who would do anything to save the Earth, no matter the cost

Eva Stratt who desperately wished she could be the one to make the sacrifice instead

Eva Stratt who couldn't, no matter how much she wanted to

Eva Stratt who studied history, and had seen the way the world would become

Eva Stratt who was terrified by it

Eva Stratt who knew she would would go without credit

Eva Stratt who knew no statues would be built of her

Eva Stratt who knew she would never be a hero

Eva Stratt who did it all anyway

Eva Stratt who had to

[stiffyck]

Do you think he had a breakdown at some point about the hugs. Rocky can’t actually hug him back. Rocky can’t hold him or touch him without hurting him. Because I’m now thinking about it. I'm thinking about him hugging rocky before just slowly tearing up and crying because he’s just… he’s not hugging rocky, he can’t feel rocky, he can't wrap his arms around his carapace and rocky can’t wrap his arms around him.

[autisticlittleguy]

Apparently Eva Stratt at the end of the movie on the ship had a prison tattoo on her neck that meant something along the lines of "life without parole." So, parallel to Grace and Rocky's adventure, there was a whole subplot where Eva Stratt

- Was eventually trialed by governments of the world as a scapegoat and sent to prison

- She somehow BROKE out of said prison and currently commandeers a rogue paramilitary faction of Project Hail Mary loyalists who believe in her over world governments, who presumably are still hunting her down

- She currently is on the run and staying mobile on an ice breaker ship like some kind of james bond villain base (but you know, good) while STILL working on project hail mary the whole time

- Her rogue loyalist faction controlled enough resources they could go to space and collect the beetles Grace had sent. Alternatively, it was the world government that collected the beetles, and Stratt had a whole ass heist movie to steal them, which is why she had the little xenonite figure at the end of the movie. Either ways she was running circles around them.

Absolutely insane. Never piss off a history major

[mylo-space]

the scene where Rocky runs off to get a clock, and Grace kinda just stands there waiting and apologizing for talking so much while Rocky bops back into the screen, just chirping away--and we know those aren't idle sounds. it's language. it's Rocky talking, just as much as Grace is talking. Rocky has been so, so alone for so, so long and meets this creature who makes so much noise all the time, and even though they're sort of talking over each other it must be such a comfort to just have something to talk at, to have something talk at him. imagine if Rocky had known that Grace was apologizing for being the sole beacon of sound and life Rocky has come into contact with in five decades.