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✦ And they were roommates ✦ (Project Hail Mary)

I want them to move in together and do Big Science™!

(The shirt reads: "Be like a proton - positive, even when surrounded by negatives")

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Check out my prints here!

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remade this print to bring them a bit closer together (as they should be)

miniscule difference but ahhhh it was bothering me so

comparison:

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✦ Stargazer ✦ (Project Hail Mary)

Every kid dreams of becoming an astronaut, right?

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The playground toy design is a mix of the book's Hail Mary design and the movie's gems like "shields up!" and "pilot detected" as well as Erid and Adrian's planet designs.

The playground is supposed to look kinda cold and "alien", while Erid's beach looks cozy and just like home. :3 with adequate amounts of fog <3

The constellations turned out to look a bit like xenonite which I like :3 as if rocky drew them in the sky

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scarlct-vvitch

grace, who has been alone for five minutes: oh my god. an alien! im not alone anymore! i hope he wants to be friends :)

rocky, coming up on 50 years of solitude, imprinting on grace in ways baby ducklings can only dream of: if you leave me to sleep where i can't watch your heart beat i am blowing up this tunnel with us both in it

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voidsetup1

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

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gronknuts

rocky hunting grace while hes working like heh. going to pull big prank on grace. stupid human hearing so bad very bad and only 'see' with light-sense organ in one direction at a time. eridian best hunter on all erid, evolved best hunting veeeery quiet. scare grace a lot. very funny.

rocky is HORRIFIED mid stalk when grace suddenly stiffens and turns around to stare directly at him. HOW GRACE DO THAT HOW GRACE KNOW HOW GRACE KNOW

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mnduck

Leclerc's despair

Grace's possessions

Dr. Ryla Grace

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agentrouka-blog

One thing I really like about movie!Stratt is her leadership style. Which, I think, is pretty distinct from her book counterpart.

Because, basically, I'm not sure I find it realistic that a woman (or man) appointed to this role would last long if she was terribly abrasive or confrontational. It would be counterproductive and distracting for everyone involved. (It serves a purpose in the book, but I prefer how the movie did it.)

Movie!Stratt creates the appearance of being very consensus-oriented. She doesn't even acknowledge the concept of power games or sexism for that matter. Authority doesn't live in confrontation or visible status markers but in the visible support and deference of everyone around her, because she made sure they are all pulling in the same direction to begin with.

She's absolutely has a lot of power but she's keeping it understated. Nothing flashy. Business casual, always moving, flat shoes, calm voice, always questions, honest answers. She's consulting the room (while leading the conversation), she is to the point but reasonably polite, she works in tandem with others, creates a sense of shared experience. "Applause!" Carl knows exactly when to jump into the conversation while deferring to her authority, "Talk to her", "Just answer the question", "I would take the three". He clearly really knows her and can pick up his end of that game. The "We don't know" chorus. The "What's the alternative" centrifuge discussion. "Thank you so much" to the underling with the coffees. Seemingly flat hierarchies.

She lets people talk and then gleans what she needs. She gives credit.

Her job is to make the decisions and take responsibility, to keep the momentum going. People are unsurprisingly okay with handing it off. She points, they march.

No one considers opposing her because they all trust her. Because they feel involved in the process. It's not hard to ask, after all, when everyone knows what it's for.

Even in the end, she has the entire team on her side when confronting Grace with his choice. Because none of it is about power or ego. Only about the mission.

The lack of future international cooperation gets her most emotional utterance out of the entire film. "Which they won't."

At every point she is pulling for a team effort. And it works. (Except one time.)

I just thought that was really well done.

beingevil

Agree - consensus and being able to work with people are key drivers of success in big international orgs. Abrasive and confrontational folk make enemies, which gets in the way of achieving objectives.

senki se menekül

a friendship so epic that it saved stars

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salmonpiffy

PHM spaceships gijinka

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presumenothing

"believe in the hail mary" existing as an in-universe tagline but not from any official source. graffiti on a wall just outside the perimeter, the launch site visible in the background. uncredited but the photo goes viral online. publication of a formal notice that the graffiti has been removed so will people please stop coming to take photos of/with it. the backup crew and some of the team retweet the photo. #believeinthehailmary starts appearing on bios and bumper stickers and t-shirts. someone hacks the taipei 101's LED wall to say 相信聖母號 on the one year launch anniversary. next year there's more, dots of light all over the world. buildings lit in blue-white-orange. drones spelling it mid-air. and yet it all remains unrecognised until the end of stratt's interminable trial, when they ask if she has any last words before the verdict and there is no smile as she leans into the mic and says "just this: believe in the hail mary." and the court breaks out in uproar even as she repeats it in every language she speaks. the clip gets uploaded online in near-real time and people start stitching clips of themselves saying it too, in different languages and different lives. scientists working on climate-resistant species. ryland grace's students. the world is cold but still there is hope, always hope.

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