Atlas was Here

20 any pronouns Currently obsessed with PHM

[valtsv]

it's always "you gnawed off your own leg to escape like an animal caught in a trap" and never "why didn't anyone try to help you out of the trap" or "why weren't you provided with any other resources to escape the trap with except for your own teeth"

[trufflesmushroom]

[bigbigbigtruck]

i’ll be real, kitten, daddy needs multiple wealthy and powerful folks to die in a painful, drawn-out, and generationally humiliating manner

[coredrill]

something that i DO find fascinating abt both phm and interpretations of it is when folks say things along the lines of “the point of grace’s lack of attachments isn’t that he’s aroace, the point of grace’s lack of attachments is that he’s refused to open himself up enough to form ANY close bonds because he’s a coward” because like. not only is it very possible for both to be true, i think that reading both as being the case continues to enhance the story AND speaks a very honest truth about how being aroace might have affected his life?

like. imagine you are grace. you have a life you enjoy where you get to teach kids you’re fond of about a subject you love. you’ve been hanging out with your friend marissa weekly for years (!) and you have a lot of peers on project hail mary who you respect and even have fun with. but! you’re also like 40, and you know how the world works - at the end of the day, at the end of the project, all of those people will go back to their parents and families and partners. the people whose names are on their emergency contact forms and birth certificates and marriage licenses and apartment leases. no matter how much you care about them, and no matter how much they care about you, there is always someone else in their life who is Above you, and Before you, because That’s How The World Works.

so like… yeah. lmao. aroace grace not opening himself up all the way because he anticipates pain and wants to avoid that is a kind of protective hedging that i find very likely for him to engage in? even if he opens himself up to the people around him, the fact is that most of those people will only reciprocate to whatever degree they/society deem acceptable for friendship, even if they like him a lot.

which is why, imo, the very careful portrayal of grace and rocky’s friendship in the phm film reads as extremely aroace-coded. because it’s not “rocky specifically is Special and Likable in a way which fixes all of grace’s hangups and allows him to open up” - it’s “rocky has a partner to go home to, but on multiple occasions, puts grace Above and Before that in a way which grace is unused to, because grace comes from a society which culturally and legally devalues the types of relationships he wants and holds most dear.” and once rocky shows that he is willing to reciprocate friendship and care to a degree grace could never expect from anyone on earth, grace no longer needs to maintain the kind of emotional defenses he always has. grace likes rocky and wants to be friends from the moment they meet, of course, but only lets himself form SUCH a close bond after rocky demonstrates that he, too, does not place an earth-society-style limit on the strength of their friendship. and they’re both better off for it!

[puncertainty]

a leap of faith !

[puncertainty]

a leap of faith !

[just-a-joey]

Finally included in the card game

[howling-wizard2]

carnivore on carnivore ccomfort

[lutheban]

where are you? I've been waiting for so long. Earth

[lutheban]

Shoot for the stars, the whole world is counting on you. Erid

[atlaswashere024]

This is so cool

[ifoundmybeatingheartagain]

the first tumblr post i read about "you're looking for someone it's ok to be cruel to" honestly rewired my brain.

tumblr is full of dimwitted reactionaries but ive also read a lot of things that have fundamentally changed how i think about justice, mental health, etc.

despite the best efforts of the site's staff and its manbaby ceo, there continues to be a contingent of people here who are committed to understanding things better, to doing better, and to changing the world for the better.

i hope we make it.

[psychotic-nonsense]

Grace having to turn off the gravity for some reason on the Hail Mary, and the second Simon goes weightless he immediately curls into a ball and braces for impact.

Memories of being thrown around like a ragdoll, banging against the walls, heat burning through his clothes and blood seeping into his skin. That feeling of being dropped into the blood ocean the second time and subconsciously knowing he'd never come back up. Weightlessness being a fun form of movement for Grace, but a reminder of losing control for Simon.

But Grace is there now. He gently calms Simon down, reminds him over and over that this weightlessness is under their control. He helps strap Simon into one of the chairs in the cockpit and demonstrates the slow come down, the careful stabilization of the centrifugal system instead of the violent slamming of the SM-13.

The next time they have to turn off the gravity, Grace offers Simon to stay in the chair this time, but he declines. Simon's the one to pull the switch, to make the choice for zero gravity. He learns to move around using Grace's weird webbing system, actually has a little fun with everything floating around. Grace and Rocky have a spinning contest and they only learn Eridians don't have a central balance system once Grace nearly throws up and loses. Rocky's < Victory victory victory, Rocky always win with Grace !!! > gets Simon to truly laugh.

Simon clings to Grace once it comes time to turn the gravity back on. Rocky was okay with flipping the switch, and Simon didn't want the chair again. Grace has him at arm's length by the shoulders, Simon's one hand holding tightly onto him.

Simon can feel the change this time. The slow pull to their relative floor is relayed to him every step of the way. The floor is cool when his feet naturally reconnect with it, and the weight of his own body is gentle on his legs as he rests. Things fall carefully, nothing breaks, and Grace never lets go.

He's okay... He's okay.

Simon's not entirely used to his own legs just yet, when he tries to take a step forward and fumbles. But Grace is still there, catching him, chuckling at his own memory of the same thing happening to him the first time.

And when Simon looks up, sees Grace looking away at his own embarrassment but still smiling so bright, he feels grounded for once. Yes, he will need to drift sometimes. But at least this time, he'll have one soft landing waiting for him.

[sherlockboylove]

no no i actually think it’s super fun that you took that aro/ace character and bent them over backwards to make them gay!!!! we all know being gay is more #progressive than being aro/ace so i’m so glad you freed them from having a storyline unconnected from romance and shipping!!! you go diva!!!

[atlaswashere024]

See, I love BloodyMary, not in a ‘Grace is gay for Simon,’ way but in a, cosmic hope cosmic horror mashup. What universe do they end up in? Who’s there? Does Simon get to Grace’s universe by himself or is it the whole blood moon? Why is he insisting stars and planets don’t exist anymore? Or asking whether they are COI or Eden? And is he questioning reality when Grace and Rocky say they both traveled light years to save their own stars and planets? Is it the book Hail Mary ship, or the movie? Because if it’s the book, how can Grace prove to Simon that stars really do exist without a window? There’s the camera, but who says that isn’t fabricated? In the movie ship he could see the little plants on the ship or find the don’t go crazy room. He has a lot more space to hide as well. If Grace ends up in Simon’s universe, is Rocky there? Did they end up in the SM-13, or somewhere else? How will Grace being in the sub affect the journey? Can they escape the submarine? Where did all the stars and planets go? There were here a second ago…

[fairycosmos]

hey is anyone else sick of having to adapt to horrible conditions over and over again

[spriggan675]

I think adults need summer vacation. Like let's just close down all our jobs for three months and play outside. Please. I'm so tired.

[thebctman]

I think something that makes Project Hail Mary resonate with audiences is that the movie takes your hand and says, “you are never as alone as you think”.

And in a world filled with dystopian or depressing sci-fi stories that argue for individualism and cynicism, it was incredibly refreshing to see something that says no, humanity is at its best when we are one.

That we are at our best when we are a collaborative effort, and that cooperation and hope are necessary for our survival and for our advancements. Nothing can be done without the love we have for eachother, the curiosity we innately have, and our desire for connection.

"Grace Rocky save stars".

Not "Grace saves Earth" or "Rocky saves Erid", but "Grace Rocky save stars". Together.

[butterflypeaflowertea]

trees are very 🥺 because sometimes i’ll stand under the shade of a tree and look up at it and it’ll sway its branches about in the wind and i’m like oh my God i’m alive and YOU’RE alive. we are alive together and made up of the same starry stuff and standing right next to each other in this moment on this earth. do u feel it when i reach out and press my hand to your trunk? can you hear me? i think you’re so neat. and then the sunlight filters through its leaves just so and that lovely green color leaves me dazzled. it’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing

[h4nds4ndwich]

“It’s just very nice to be an alive thing next to a different sort of alive thing” I’m in love

[hideinmyshadow]

There are so many far more important, interesting and touching moments in the tadc finale but here I am rotating the implication that Ragatha got a new mother in The Gloink Queen and is now an honorary cherished gloink with 300 gloink siblings in my mind at a million miles per hour.

This is my kind of found family.

[atlaswashere024]

Aww I didn’t even think about it like that but now that I am it makes so much sense and I love it so much