the sun, and the moon, and the stars have deserted us

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[nanzyn]

I dunno I just like the idea that rocky's from a relatively small culture back on Erid so grace is expecting to show up on Erid and see Eridians that look and talk like rocky but it turns out that not only are the tattoos a very localized thing and no one else has them, but also Rocky maaaay have taught grace the Eridian equivalent of like Tagalog

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Human-inspired names really take off on Erid after the Hail Mary arrives. Human media, especially audiodrama and music (for obvious reasons) becomes pretty huge, and giving your pebble an Earth name becomes the new way to distinguish yourself from the crowd.

Grace finds out about this after one of his students excitedly informs him that they've got a new batch of baby siblings, named 🎵🎶🎵🎶, 🎶🎶, 🎵🎶🎶 and [pitch prefect rendition of the Star Trek theme].

[theknightandhersteed]

Things in the Project Hail Mary book that aren't in the movie that I think are delightful

Spoilers under the cut for the book

Stratt hires a climate change scientist and then nukes Antarctica and paves the Sahara desert and the scientist just sobs

Rocky calls Grace a leaky blob

Rocky thinks humans are crazy for doing EVAs

Stratt gets sued by Everyone for plagiarizing Everything

Grace gets scurvy

Grace drags Rocky back into his habitat after Rocky saves him, and he gets really bad burns from coming into contact with Rocky's atmosphere

Grace also power washes Rocky, but we don't talk about it

Rocky was orbiting Tau Ceti for 40 years before Grace came along

Rocky has anxiety about oxygen after he gets lit on fire by Grace's atmosphere

Rocky also has anxiety about Grace using the centrifuge because of how it almost killed him that one time

Grace also pulls that maneuver a few more times and repeatedly passes out (at least he doesn't get crushed by a metal chair after the first time, though)

During the confrontation with Grace and Stratt, Stratt calls Grace a coward and Grace says that Stratt is murdering him. Just much more aggressive language all around

Grace doesn't lose his memories from the coma; Stratt injects him with memory altering drugs. Her hope was that by the time he remembered, he'd either already be done, or he'd be in too deep to stop

Eridians don't know about relativity, which is said in the movie, but in the book Rocky talks about how he was basically running the ship alone with a faulty trajectory and STILL managed to make it to Tau Ceti

When taumoeba leaks into the Hail Mary's fuel, Grace immediately dismisses the possibility of Rocky's boxes failing because Rocky is such an incredible engineer

When Grace and Rocky separate, Grace does loser amounts of math to figure out how long he'll be able to see Rocky's ship

When Grace does something stupid, Rocky forces him to take a nap to be less stupid

Rocky doesn't have a voice, Grace just learns Eridian by using his laptop setup

Grace gets arthritis at the end from Erid's intense gravity

Grace also gets a slew of other diseases from malnutrition

He survives by eating taumoeba until the Eridians can figure out how to feed him

The Eridians feed Grace by synthesizing human meat. Grace calls them "me-burgers" and they're his favorite food

Rocky's blood is mercury and he eats toxic heavy metals

When Grace teaches Rocky about radiation, he gets Rocky to cover his side of the tunnel in astrophage to protect him. Rocky tells Grace to do the same, but Grace just lies and says that humans are immune to it. On the inside, he thinks that it doesn't matter if he gets cancer because he's going to die anyway :(

Rocky's ship is the first actual spaceship Eridians ever made. Rocky has to fix so many things on the way over, because they just have no experience with space travel

Rocky thinks it's really cool that Grace can see light, and he's a little jealous until the power goes out and Grace keeps blindly walking into things and Rocky is like "wow you are useless"

[theknightandhersteed]

Things in the Project Hail Mary movie that aren't in the book that I think are delightful

Because this may be the best book to movie adaptation I've ever seen, and I wanted to give the movie some love on this post

"DIRTY DIRTY DIRTY why room so MESSY question?? Ohhhh this room for garbage? Ohhhhh"

Karaoke

The music AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

"Is beautiful! 😊 *Horrifying alien eating noises*"

"No 🥺 do puppet show 🥺🥺"

Rocky bouncing happily when Grace does the puppet show

Carl

"That's lava" "It's not 😐"

Savior of the universe hat

The don't go crazy room

HUGS

The ship talking to Rocky

"Grace Rocky dead, Erid dead, Earth dead, we DIE we DIE we DIE we DIE"

That part when they go fishing and he gets hit in the head and drops the collector and he has to get it and he just goes "be back in a minute" and as he slides down you hear Rocky going "NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO" and my heart explodes

His SHIRTS

"Is usually closer. On your chest :)"

He gets to go on the Blip A!!!!!!!

"Rocky hate Mark >:("

Ilyukhna's little "you'd be in 😎 very cool company 😎"

When Grace tells a fun fact about the centrifuge and immediately regrets his entire life

👎👎👎

Woomp there it is

"WHO GRACE TALKING TO, QUESTION🗣️🗣️🗣️"

"Hello Grace :) Hello Grace friend :)"

Getting to see old Stratt

The whole sequence before he wakes up to the alarm when the taumoeba escape... it's so beautiful. It plays in my head constantly.

[moonychka]

In the name of the moon I will punish you 😎

[wiseguynephile]

#the increasing militarization of the moon kingdom has interplanetary relations experts ‘deeply concerned’

[valtsv]

Do you think Stratt arrangedin advance to give Grace an appendectomy just in case, like how they do to people who go to Arctic

idk why i keep getting asks about the project hail mary characters like i know them personally, but i have several answers for this one:

realistic but boring: grace was already appendix-free before stratt recruited him, because appendicitis just seems like the kind of thing that would happen to him

also realistic but more compelling, especially if you're a certain kind of sicko: yeah she yoinked that thang

unlikely but funny/pervert answer:

[marvinhere]

Wait don’t leave this in the comments!!!

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

I see your “Rocky swears like a sailor but only in pitches humans can’t hear/refuses to teach Grace what those words mean” and raise you “Rocky swears like a sailor and now has to explain to Grace that ‘bad bad bad’ isn’t actually a sequence you play on your Eridian speech piano in polite company.”

Grace is both horrified and amused to realise that a more accurate translation for what Rocky’s been saying is “shit shit shit”.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Eridian government representative: Greetings Rocky, Saviour of Erid, and Grace, Saviour from Beyond the Stars. We are pleased to welcome you home.

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—

Rocky: GRACE STOP TALKING NOW NOW NOW I EXPLAIN LATER

[davinciwannabesblog]

I’m starting to get a hang of this stupid vector program

[emhidesart]

lesbian meet cute ( but it’s Blip A and the Hail Mary)

[frightfullytreeish]

no nuance you have to decide

would jeeves have succumbed to the one ring?

no, he would diminish and go into the west and remain a valet

yes, he can't resist such power (burn bertie's ugliest trousers)

the ring has no effect on him, tom bombadil style

Voting ended onApr 5

[livingdeadbat]

One of my favorite homoerotic moments in comic books is ollie "killing" parallax hal in zero hour. Hal wasn't actually dead but ollie thought he killed him so thats what matters here

THE LAST THING HE SAID WAS OLLIES NAME!!! Kyle has the worst gig here hes third wheeling these two gay ass old man and he just started being green lantern. He doesn't even know what hes doing yet. Anyway here's how ollie dealt with his grief

And when hal came back in final night ollie was dead! That was the last time he saw ollie until he personally revived him! Hal do you have anything you'd like to say to the class?

Gayass old men

[bluehairedspidey]

on the subject of it often being out of character for characters to be having carefully negotiated bdsm sex in smut fics: 90% of metal gear ships are insane toxic yaoi and would definitely be having sex that is neither safe nor sane and only borderline consensual HOWEVER otacon and snavid would be thoroughly negotiating kinks before during and after sex like theyre doing mission briefings on a codec call

[imhereforotasune]

[haljordangetpregnant]

Hal Jordan is that dead wife at the start of the film to many people, except that he is not dead yet and still hot as fuck and the people he traumatized still have to see him every other week

He just gives people dead wife trauma for free, no refunds

[haljordangetpregnant]

Communal dead wife

[ushas42]

Black Jack performing surgery: I posses a rarefied talent unmatched on this earth. I am the best to ever do it. I could break you down into your constituent parts and rebuild you as something strange and new. These hands can work miracles.

Black Jack performing surgery on a woman he likes: My very touch has corrupted and ruined you forever. I don't know how I can live with myself.

Patient: The surgery went fine and I got the exact results I wanted?

Black Jack: We can never speak again. Don't look at me.

[mokadevs]

first time drinking

[betasuppe]

If I think about Ocelot for more than two minutes, I get worked up into a sweat and cryyyyyyyy

Everything about this idiot - INCLUDING HOW HE ENTERED THE WORLD - is completely INSANE♡

[obiwhat]

sometimes i think waaay too much about that one line during the volgin fight where ocelot goes:

“i made a promise to the boss”

u had private convo w mama? was that promise just to play fair during the fight? or was it more, did he promise to help snake? HUH

this. this is the last time they saw each other:

he does this proud lil smile and nod. when i first played it i thought “oh he’s being a cocky lil shit per usual.”

but no. now i think he’s saying: “i got this. i’ll play my role, i’ll have snake’s back.”

bc immediately after he puts himself between snake and volgin and challenges snake before volgin can. im assuming this is another attempt to “mess up” and let snake get away. of course, volgin cuts in, no more games. but ocelot helps snake out from the sidelines anyway.

may be a stretch to say it, but i think a part of him wanted to make the boss proud. whether that was because he knew she was his mom or bc he just really respected her as a legend. or both. and that smile is the last she saw of her son.

[khairosclerosis]

🃏 ‘ i know i won’t be leavin’ here (with you) ’

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