I should be writing right now

So I reblog far too many things that cross my dash and make me laugh. Other than that I write fanfiction and gibber about various fandoms - current obsessions are Project Hail Mary, the Murderbot Diaries (books not TV show) and Pillars of Eternity. Permanent obsessions are The Martian, Star Wars, space, radioactivity incidents and Mass Effect. I'm in my 40s, queer, married, depressed and very tired. I will try to do better. Always.

[devilangel657]

I need a fic that has grace in space with photos and videos of time in petrova task force. Digital and physical.

Headcanon grace during covid made videos to teach and they remain up on earth and in all media on the ship Mary.

I just need him to know he loved earth and his kids, his team.

Especially when he brings it to erid and they can see him as a teacher (maybe even show bc science), and help recognize his importance to earth on the petrova task force - being second in command, being lead scientist about astrophage ect.

Also for him to look back on.

Especially if he continues the vlogs on hail Mary for earth and erid.

[anotherhawk]

I've been thinking of writing a fic with Rocky finding these sorts of videos on the journey back to Erid by basically googling Grace.

[devilangel657]

Erid looking up things on the laptop grace gave rocky with all earth information and they look up grace and find all of this information would be hilarious.

Grace being unreliable narrator saying he is just a teacher and member of petrova line. Meanwhile they find him in a lot of photos with eva stratt aka the leader of the operation meeting others. And his accomplishments.

[anotherhawk]

Also they find a video of him completely losing it at a flat earther saying astrophage is a government conspiracy. Carl is dragging him away.

[raointean]

From chapter 17 of Andy Weir's "Project Hail Mary"

[devilangel657]

I need a fic that has grace in space with photos and videos of time in petrova task force. Digital and physical.

Headcanon grace during covid made videos to teach and they remain up on earth and in all media on the ship Mary.

I just need him to know he loved earth and his kids, his team.

Especially when he brings it to erid and they can see him as a teacher (maybe even show bc science), and help recognize his importance to earth on the petrova task force - being second in command, being lead scientist about astrophage ect.

Also for him to look back on.

Especially if he continues the vlogs on hail Mary for earth and erid.

[anotherhawk]

I've been thinking of writing a fic with Rocky finding these sorts of videos on the journey back to Erid by basically googling Grace.

[rylandsgrace]

[home-and-having-tea]

Stranger Things could have been so good if it had been good

[twiggy-boy]

"what is this BABY doing in space!???"

-Rocky, probably

[aropride]

if your animal is lying on the floor, furniture etc, it’s important to take a picture of them. then, if they move or shift in any way, it’s important to take another picture. with this technique, you can take many pictures of your animal

[filmgifs]

PROJECT HAIL MARY dir. Phil Lord & Chris Miller, 2026

[freenarnian]

You know what would make a GREAT plot twist? Fidelity.

[freenarnian]

And yes I mean in the context of romantic relationships, but not only in the context of romantic relationships. Or did AND ROHAN WILL ANSWER mean nothing to you?

[y2ksnowglobe]

Stratt: It is pride month, Dr. Grace. You know what that means. Grace: What? You want us to breed gay astrophage? Stratt:No. Don't be ridiculous, astrophage reproduce asexually. I only meant it is a good time to acknowledge those on the project who exist under the queer umbrella, including yourself because of your aroace identity. Grace: My what?

[memser]

imagine you have amnesia and cant remember your name. you remember your name. you cant remember who you are. you meet an alien. you introduce yourself with part of your name that is typically a woman name. no matter. give or take 4 years go by with various levels of mortal peril. you land on said aliens planet. you introduce yourself as that part of your name again. you will never go back to human society. this planet does not have gender. youre nonbinary now

[lizlemondyke]

4 non blondes were right. I DO wake up in the morning and I step outside and I take a deep breath and I get real high and I scream from the top of my lungs what’s going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[verdictvelvet]

fucker! we wanted to trek those

[likelightinglass]

[tr-shb-g]

*this meeting could have been an email voice* this cgi could have been a puppet

[pseudomantis]

the cambrian period was like 10 years ago

[toskarinarchive]

the cambrarin period was like 3 years ago

[magi-magi-tamamoland-chan]

the cambrian period is TOMORROW!!!

[imitationgame77]

Commander Yáo and Olesya Ilyukhina - unsung heroes

(some spoilers from both film and book)

I have seen fan works (I think?) of statues of Grace and Rocky to commemorate their role in saving Earth and Erid. True, without them, the stars of both the solar system and eridian system would have died. They were true heroes.

In the book, we don't get to see what happened on earth after the launch of Hail Mary. We don't find out what happened to Stratt. All we know that many years later, scientists on Erid report that Sol had returned to full luminance, indicating that they did receive the beetles and people on earth have done the work. In the film version we see Stratt smiling at the video messages by Grace (and Rocky in the background) as she prepared to launch the taumoeba.

Imagine that families and friends of Commander Yáo and Ilyukhina see these videos. They will be glad that at least one of the three made it and saved earth, but they will be also sad to know that their loved ones just died in coma.

Story-wise it was more interesting that Grace wakes up with amnesia, alone, panicking not knowing what to do, and then meets Rocky. But if these two had survived they would have been so very brave, too. I hope in that universe, these two also get the full credit for what they were prepared to do. They volunteered to the suicide mission after all!