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Thank you to @fancycake for their hilarious idea that I had to draw

They made up :) also wanted to show the tags I put on the og post

As I am "severely the target audience for project hail mary" I have to point out. The thing about Grace's theories the scientific community hated so so so much re: life not necessarily having to be water/carbon based............ In Real Life Astrobiology this has already been pretty extensively discussed and largely discounted. So. Watching the scene where he's talking about like "the only original idea I ever had" I was kinda chewing on my lips like oooooh it's worse actually LMAO

Like. I need you all to understand. He's not getting laughed out of the room because it's this outlandish new idea, it's that in the theoretical biochemistry world this is *already outdated* and he's just like "NO LISTEN IT COULD STILL HAPPEN" & the scientific community is like can you shut the fuck up

tlirsgender

To be fair I would like to stress that it's *largely* discounted not Entirely 100% ruled out. There are some ongoing arguments about this afaik. But it really adds something to my enjoyment of this movie like oh buddy. It's so much worse than it sounds. Fully not a new idea he's pulling kind of a "here's how bernie can still win"

tlirsgender

Can somebody draw Grace kind of frantically pointing at a board that says "here's how silicon based life can still exist" please. For me

justcakethanks

I love this because it adds to his character.

It's Weir going "what's something embarassing he could be obsessed by" and also he spends the rest of the book introducing Grace to aliens who don't SEEM to have water but turns out they do. Just straight up torturing his creations lol.

asphodel-asphodel

i do very much enjoy that most phm/gracerocky artists have completely forgone the whole "their atmospheres would kill each other" thing just to make them cuddle. with love anything is possible

avoid-avoidance

This has me wondering what kind of little white lies the Eridian song-singers might make up about Grace's anatomy, to make it so they could compose ballads about him and Rocky properly singing together, or maybe even thrumming...

If Eridians thrum as a primary way to problem-solve, then The Story could have a super-epic dramatic moment at Tau Ceti, where the two saviors somehow solve that whole issue by doing a ✨ special unique unprecedented 2-person thrum ✨ through the power of Soulmates and/or Handwavey Alien Bullshit.

eridian-heart

carcinization?

kana7o

Kabedon.............

monsterritory

Episode 10 of @eridian-heart

They talked it out! Good for them :3

monsterritory

Episode 11 of @eridian-heart

Rocks with no issues.

Rocky has such normal feelings about keeping Grace safe after almost losing him four times. A normal amount of them too.

Eh, I’m sure Grace will continue to be totally safe so it’s not like this will be a problem in the future :)

monsterritory

Episode 12 of @eridian-heart

In reference to Episode 4.

Kink negotiated! The unaddressed PTSD is still there but hey at least they negotiated the kinks now :3

bramblepatch

Grace explaining sheepishly to Eridian linguists that the reason he uses different pronouns for Rocky than for the rest of the population is that he reflexively defaulted to assigning Rocky the same grammatical and social gender that he himself uses, in a way that has historical precedent but in modern English is considered somewhat chauvinistic and backward, and he's not proud of it but also the habit is pretty deeply ingrained now and unless Rocky objects it's probably easier to just keep on as he has been...

and immediately being informed lol. lmao. do not even worry about it. you have no idea what kind of buck wild grammatical constructs Rocky has invented for you. everyone else addresses you as foreigner/scholar. they're somehow managing to refer to you as their sibling, ward, and semidivine culture hero at the same time every time they talk about you.