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i saw it was a trend to redraw the perfect blue movie poster, so here it is as k and joi!
with reference:
progress:
br49 has been my favorite movie of all time since it came out in 2017 and yet the only time i’ve drawn them before was in high school when i was depressed and i couldn’t think of anything else. i will not be posting that here because it sucks and i’m gonna forget it exists now
also i’ve never seen perfect blue. i prolly should though it looks really interesting
n e ways that’s about it! i’ll probably be posting a bit more now that i actually have some motivation to draw, so you’ll see me again! finally i can say that lol
something something these moments will be lost to time like tears in rain blah blah blah
This mystery has now taken over Grace’s entire mind. Who are they? Where did they come from and how? It can’t actually be some otherworldly force pulling them together like fate, right? Why were they in a submarine with an x-ray wired into it—well, it was submerged in blood, so that would make sense, but why and how was it submerged in blood?
And, of course, how will the first human he’s seen in years interact with him when they wake up?
The only way to confirm any of that is to ask them himself. So for now, all he can do is wait.
No big whoop. It’s not like he hasn’t done that before.
hey guys look at me actually making good on my promise of chapter art see lookit i’m doing it hey mom i’m on tv
when is chapter three coming? uhhh too many questions bye
i love being an omnishipper (is that a real term? if it isn’t i’m making it one rn). i ship EVERYTHING.
this makes being in fandoms really fun! phm for example:
the canon ones: rockdrian? my absolute favorites i love them. dubois x shapiro? scientists who fuck, what more can you ask for? headcanon ones: strattland? hurts, but yes. astrophathers? they should have kissed at least once. grace x lokken? messy, but yes. grace x dimitri? they definitely could have made out after a night at the ship’s bar. stratt x ilyukhina? yea i fw that one heavy. if you’re chill with human x alien stuff, which i am as long as they’re both fully sentient and consenting: grocky? they’re soulmates, romantic or otherwise. grockdrian? yea, throw adrian in there too, those eridians love their human mate so much!
but also, crossovers. bloodymary? of course (see red string for details). bloodymary on the rocks? once again, the eridians love their humans. trolley operators? let those hardworking ladies love! grace x tony stark? bitter exes who could definitely make it work after their character arcs. grace x the doctor? i love this one, they would be fascinated with each other. grace x officer k? there needs to be more content of them i LOVE br49 with my whole being.
all of that, and also ryland grace is aroace. that’s cool too.
You chuckle fucks realize Rocky doesn’t say “statement”
That’s not a pattern of speech that he uses. Ever
He does it in the movie because Grace does it Eridians wouldn’t say statement get your fucking head in the game
They say question because question is different from statement if they’re saying question then it’s implied that if they’re not saying question it’s a statement
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guess who’s reworking red string??
yeah so after ranting about all of my issues in bloodymary fics and re-consuming both iron lung and project hail mary, i realized that i was being a bit of a hypocrite with my own fic, so i decided to change things up!
i will be keeping the original up, of course, but will definitely recommend y’all read this one instead because it’ll be a lot better. trust.
n e ways, go check this out! i love gay people in space 🫶
this is specifically a reference for my fic red string! y’all should read it it’s really corny but i love it anyways
i promise i’m getting to the chapter art that i said i would make. i promise i am. i simply wanted to place the men into the white void first to learn what they look like yknow
also i did not look up what healed scars look like. i am on a roll with the whole no research thing
here’s some design notes:
on the hail mary:
- ryland is 38 and simon is 33 :)
- in my fic, simon gets teleported into the petrova line of tau ceti right before the eel gets him, and after rocky wakes up from their fishing trip mishap. they pick him up and work on healing together!
- if i’m remembering right, in the book ryland says that he got second-degree burns from the ammonia of rocky’s atmosphere when sticking him back in his tunnels. i way overshot the healing time, but that’s kinda how second-degree burns look i think. the one from rocky’s claw is from the movie and would definitely be a lot more than second-degree but i think i did an okay job differentiating them
- both of the shirts i gave ryland are ones i own irl and wear regularly! my “say no to pot” shirt is from connecticut, not maine, but i didn’t feel like correcting the google image. also since i posted a tiktok about the “be greater than average” shirt and got a few comments asking where i got it, it’s from kennedy space center! they do still sell it as far as i know :)
- everything else about his appearance is entirely movie-based. i really like how they designed him, especially the dumb t-shirts lol. also i really like the jumpsuit-as-pants thing he has going on so here he is
- simon’s are a bit different. i kinda figured that the corrosion’s effect would resemble burns a bit but it’s 100% more severe than ryland’s so. also darker red because blood? i suppose? i feel really dumb not having done any research now BUT i can just use the excuse that at this point, the blood is doing just about everything it can to keep him alive kinda like it does in the movie, so this guy is effectively immortal and heals decently fast. i can do whatever i want i love my blorbos
- none of simon’s clothes survived the blood, so he’s wearing ryland’s, though they are entirely too small for him despite ryland being the closest crew member to him in size. the tshirt design is one i remember my sixth grade english teacher having so i gave it to ryland and then simon by proxy because why not. ryland does get his jeans back eventually as you can see so the clothing exchange is fine for now! the shoes are yao’s, however, because they just happen to share a shoe size.
on erid (actual headcanon territory):
- ryland is 47 and simon is 42 :)
- in the book ryland mentions having a cane, but i gave him a modified forearm crutch instead since it’d help with the increased gravity. the end bit looks like an eridian claw and has a mechanism to grab onto rough terrain, as well as grab objects from low heights when he can’t bend over because of his arthritis!
- he continues to wear the clothes he brought with him from earth even after all this time, because they’re comfy to him. obviously during his malnutrition and recovery his weight fluctuates a lot, but it eventually settles back into his normal range so he can wear his dumb t-shirts again!
- he wears the jewelry rocky made for him every day. it’s a common eridian tradition to give others a piece of your exoskeleton when you’re close to them (supported by the bit of adrian’s in rocky’s arm in the movie) so the necklace has bits of rocky, adrian, and several other eridians he’s friends with. his earrings are extra bits of rocky and adrian! his students also like to make him jewelry so he wears those a lot too.
-also his watch is a modified eridian clock! he uses the same watchband that he wears in the movie because it’s comfy for him even after the face itself breaks, so rocky fixes it for him so he remembers to go to class and eat and other important stuff that his audhd brain wouldn’t remember otherwise lol
- after being on erid for a while ryland decides to grow his hair out a bit, and since simon gets a proper prosthetic arm they’re able to help each other with haircare! it’s self-indulgent for me but idc i’ll draw all the long hair men i want. also he greys more than simon for reasons i’ll mention in a second
- on that topic, simon’s hair is properly long. he keeps it for a few reasons: it reminds him of how his mom used to care for it for him when he was a kid, he likes having ryland help him with it (ryland loves it too), and it looks awesome on him and everyone agrees. he keeps it in a braid like this most of the time, though he tries different styles very regularly, often with ryland’s help. he has bits of adrian and rocky tied into it as well!
- he greys a lot slower, not just because he’s younger but also because it takes a while for the bits of the blood in him to let him age, and it only happens after he finally accepts that he’s safe and isn’t letting his carnal desire for survival overtake every other emotion he has. yippee trauma
- xenonite arm!! i was kinda going off of how rocky’s inventions looked in the movie for the design, including how a lot of the base shapes are hexagonal, so he has joints that kinda look like d12 dice. it works though! the bits in his toolbelt attach to his fingers so he can do just about anything with it. and it does attach to his nerves (think fullmetal alchemist) so he can move it properly and somewhat feel with his fingertips. he can remove it and does sometimes, but after they really perfect the design he just keeps it on most of the time. theres also a silicone cover he can put on over it when he’s doing more domestic things, because the joints do still get caught on stuff, and also it’s softer for fluff purposes iykwim
- he also keeps his garden shears on him because of course he does. this guy LOVES plants, so whenever he’s not with rocky’s engineering team or with ryland, he’s in his garden or tending to his trees. he has tool attachments for that too, which he designed himself since the eridians aren’t used to having trees around.
- since simon doesn’t have anything that fits him, the eridians make him a bunch of clothes using designs from the endless amount of information on humanity the hail mary has. he prefers much looser clothing (sensory issues. autism) and tends to be better at putting outfits together than ryland, who just cares about comfort. he likes looking nicer but doesn’t like attracting attention to himself, so he usually wears simple button-ups and the equivalent of loose dress pants.
- there is a point later where they have a proper eridian mating ceremony, and—i’m gonna need y’all to get cool with a lot of things real quick—they exchange a bit of the skin on their forearms like eridians do! it’s only the top few layers and they have to do a lot of testing on both of their cells to confirm that they’re biologically compatible after simon’s mutations, but it works because i say so. also they do have a version of a traditional earth wedding as well, and simon takes ryland’s last name because he doesn’t have one :)
aaaaand that’s about it!
here’s some closeups:
have a wonderful day and enjoy the sci-fi yaoi :D
p.s. happy pride month! in my fic ryland is pan-demiromantic asexual and simon is homoromantic asexual, though neither of them care about labels whatsoever other than ryland’s previous awkward “i’m asexual” conversations on earth lol
People got so fixated on those few statement givers calling Gerry a goth they forgot the only canonical thing about his music taste is that he listens to metal. What about mag 4 what about his mastodon tshirt
let me preface this by saying that i love this fandom, fandoms in general, and fandom culture, despite all of the problems inherent to them. i’m aware that mob mentality is a thing and there’s definitely a lot of that, especially confined within a tumblr tag, which can very easily turn into an echo chamber, so a lot of people will end up saying similar things. however, everything i say here is a gross generalization. when i say “y’all” or “you guys” i do not mean everyone. again, i’m cool with most things i see here and scroll through this tag at least five times a day atp.
that being said…
here’s some issues i have with the bloodymary fandom.
my credentials: i’ve seen phm five times and read the book twice. i’ve seen iron lung twice and consumed a shit ton of lore videos about the game. i wrote a fic about them specifically because i saw a bunch of mischaracterization and wanted to fight against it (and also write fluff about them cause why not).
anyways:
1. people love to mischaracterize. i know that’s just a fandom thing in general but it’s more prevalent here than usual in my opinion and it bothers me. more specifics:
- simon is not only aggressive and angry. sure he was not having a good time while he was actively dying, but afterwards, when he realizes he’s not dying? yeah it’d take him a bit to warm up to ryland but he wouldn’t want to kill him yknow. this is the same guy who was guilty about giving cancer to the people who were literally sending him to his death, and later had a tentative camaraderie with the lady that decided to send him there in the first place! cmon y’all
- ryland is not only soft and kind. yeah he’s a teacher so he’s gonna be very careful towards simon at first but he’s also a sassy bitch who will fight for what he wants and one of the smartest people in his field. not only that but he’s a bit selfish, incredibly resourceful, and a major risk taker. he’s going to want to solve the mystery of simon asap, just like he does with rocky at first, even if he hides it behind being supportive.
- i’ve also noticed people doing the reverse, where simon is super sad and traumatized 100% of the time and grace does nothing but protect him. like guys, they’re both grown men with agency of their own.
- yeah simon was in a cult but he makes it clear that he didn’t choose it and doesn’t believe what they do, and yea he’d probably have a bit of a “this guy saved me so i have to repay him” thing, but not to the crazy extent some people make it. also i’ve seen some people have him thinking he deserves to die after all he’s done? what?? he knows filament station wasn’t meant to happen the way it did and even if he did blame himself for it he still wants to live no matter what! even after he realized he wasn’t getting out he still decided to die fighting and save the black box!! why the hell would he suddenly decide to give up after he realizes he’s not dying anymore??
- yeah grace is supportive but he’s got plenty of trauma to work through and has been through a hell of his own, and despite how much he cares about simon he still has his own purpose of saving earth and erid, and later teaching his kids and helping the other eridians with science. he wouldn’t dedicate his entire life to simon like i’ve seen some people have him do, or completely forget about rocky and the eridians. he fully decided to give up his life for them!! he loves rocky enough to stop being a coward and do something for someone at his own detriment for once in his life! he doesn’t only care about the other human around!!
- a lot of it seems weirdly white savior-esque too. like cmon, the poc is aggressive and violent until the caring white guy breaks down his walls and saves him?? and the poc suddenly sees him as his literal guardian angel??? dawg what are we doing (i’m white so i can’t speak too much on this issue but it’s so glaringly obvious that i can’t just not say anything at all)
- speaking of which. SIMON IS A POC!! i see so many people drawing him pale as fuck and while yes he hasn’t had access to the sun so he’d be washed out, he would not be the same skin shade as ryland, who not only hasn’t seen the sun in a long time but is also white as hell.
- also, rocky. i’m not gonna get into book canon here because i know not everyone has read it, but there are still plenty of ways people get him wrong, especially from ryland’s perspective toward him. he is not “just a little guy”!! he’s his own autonomous being with agency! stop making him super cutesy and not doing anything with him other than making him an annoyance or a cockblocker (chillax gang the most he’d do is be like “can i watch for science?” and if he was told to leave he would). also he cares so much about his planet and his mate, he wouldn’t just be obsessed with ryland like so many people make him out to be, though he does care about him immensely.
- also stop having ryland say “whoa it’s been so long since i’ve talked to a person!” HE SEES ROCKY AS A PERSON!! that man sees that alien as his best friend, so why the fuck would he ignore his autonomy and shove him to the wayside for the sake of this random guy they picked up?? if you say something like that and don’t immediately specify “while yes rocky is a person, human connection and touch is really important and ryland has missed that specifically”, i’m gonna assume you see rocky as ryland’s pet or something which is an immediate no from me no thank you that’s fucking disgusting to me give him back his independence please
2. moving on from characterization. i’m not usually one to be a stickler about canon but here’s what i’ve seen people get wrong a lot (these are all just pet peeves btw, i don’t actually care that much. i won’t get into book/game exclusive stuff either):
- simon explicitly states that he did not choose to be involved with eden’s cult. stop making it seem like he believes in their shit when he specifically says he doesn’t! yeah he’s definitely got religious trauma but not to the extent y’all are making it out to be.
- adrian’s occupation. it’s not said in the book what they do, but the movie explicitly states they control what happens in ryland’s dome (at least the water temperature), therefore they’re likely an ecologist or something similar.
- timelines! there are specific distances between earth and tau ceti, tau ceti and 40 eridani, etc. stop saying it’d only take a year for them to get from one to another. even with constant acceleration and time dilation, it’d take three to four years to get from tau ceti to 40 eridani, which would equate to about twelve years on earth or erid.
- IT! IS NOT CALLED!! THE DON’T GO CRAZY ROOM!!! where the fuck did y’all even get that. in the movie the computer specifically calls it the “mental health node”. stop saying that “don’t go crazy room” is its official name because it’s not.
3. last but not least, my biggest issue with this fandom:
STOP TRYING TO BOTHER MARK AND RYAN ABOUT THIS SHIT.
have we not learned from any of the other fandoms who did stuff like this?? involving creators in fandom spaces when they don’t want to be involved is bad. we know this.
also, why are we surprised that mark learned about this fandom?? his job is literally internet. he’s dealt with this shit before. obviously he’s gonna know!!!
i keep seeing people say “mark approves of bloodymary! it’s canon!! simon is the little spoon because mark said so!!!” dude. he was joking. i don’t know enough about mark’s personality to confirm this, but i interpreted the whole “i’ll get to curl up in ryan gosling’s arms and finally be safe” thing as a joke about how people characterize simon as this traumatized wet cat guy who just needs love to be happy. i’m all for traumatized wet cat guys (i’m a tma fan, ofc i am) but that’s not all he is!!
okay yeah i’m done ranting now. i’ll probably make a separate headcanon post because i can’t stop thinking about these guys ever but i’ll stop yapping for the moment
btw go read my fic i linked earlier!! i know it sucks but at least the blorbos are happye in it :D
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