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grace is not rocky's dog

grace is kept in a clear, airtight container filled with a completely different environment with a carefully maintained life-support system that, should it fail, he will quickly die.

grace is erid's fish.

stealthetrees

I think Rocky named Grace ‘Dumbass’ or ‘Idiot’ or something and then just never changed it. Then when they get to Erid he’s so used to calling his alien friend ‘Shithead Moron’ that when he introduces him to a large crowd they’re all like ‘woah man what the fuck’ and ‘that’s not nice!’ and ‘you can’t say that bro that’s too mean’ and Rocky has to awkwardly explain to Grace why they’re upset. Grace, who is now very familiar with Rocky’s standard vocabulary, laughs until he is crying on the floor and can’t breath, which makes all the other Eridians panic while Rocky stands there yelling at Grace that it’s not that funny asshole.

thesmileykate

i just love how complex all of suzanne's characters are. but especially peeta.

because what do you mean that the boy who holds so much insecurity about his worth is the popular kid? the kid who can make anyone laugh? who is so quick-witted and charming that everyone seems to like him? he is the person who thinks that people think so poorly of him? that no one would care if he were gone?

it would have taken no thought on suzanne's part to draft peeta as a kind boy who isn't particularly smart. a wallflower like his father. too scared to talk to his crush until its too late. turning a smart, strong character into a weak boy waiting for his dream girl to save the day. a boy his mother likely characterized him as.

but no. instead, peeta is written as the kind, charismatic, popular kid. who also thinks he is worthless, dumb, and a burden to those around him.

showing a duality that is both a testament to peeta's upbringing and his humanity.

ruinedchildhood

I wanted to make a gifset ... but nothing would do this scene justice.

the-haiku-bot

I wanted to make

a gifset … but nothing would

do this scene justice.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

electric-skillet

One project hail mary character dynamic from the book that I love is Grace moping around like ough I'm just Stratt's little lapdog, her pet scientist that she drags around everywhere, this sucks so bad

Meanwhile everyone else is apparently like waow. There he goes. Mr. Number Two of the hail mary project. Stratt's right hand man. And also her lover.

bayofalgecirascranes

prev tags: #everyone: you're eva stratt right hand arm. man. you're eva stratt everything. her confident. her silly rabbit#grace: her ✨️what✨️

Everyone: her silly rabbit

Grace: Does she call me that?

Everyone: no

hawke-gosling

The red string of fate tugged at them so hard it brought them to Tau Ceti

parkchanwoohoo

edgebug

so grace is probably alarming to most eridians at first because he's a lanky wet alien with too few limbs, yes--but what if he ends up being terrifying in a sort of divine way instead of a repulsive one?

like. a creature that perceives the intangible? a creature that walks with thin permeable membranes bared to the air, whose blood contains elixir that can destroy pathogens without heat? a creature that is impossibly fragile yet resilient? a creature that breathes potently flammable gas to survive? a creature that is loud all over and speaks in a strange and frightening monotone, who thought it would die for you? who gave up its home in the heavens for you without meeting you first, whose first words to your people were probably something along the lines of We saved your star. It's gonna be okay. Don't be afraid.

parkchanwoohoo

Need him. Who said that

rrcenic

grace meets adrian

dreamingeternally

"The fun thing for us for that end sequence was his costume -- what he would have left over from the ship. I don't really think you see it in the film but the trousers that he's wearing, they're cut from one of the flight suits. And we've done a belt buckle that's made of xenonite that Rocky would've made for him. And all of the sewing on it is a little bit - it's nowhere near as good as Jenny would normally do, so we had to purposely ask Jenny to do bad sewing at the top of his trousers, so it'd look like he would've done it.

And then our brilliant breakdown department, run by Tim Shanahan, they break everything down to look like it's 10, 20 years old. So his cardigan and the t-shirt's all faded. And even on the laces -- the laces in his chuck taylors -- because your laces always break after a certain period of time, so we found stuff that was on the ship, like elastics and stuff. There's a nice big close-up actually in the film, so you can see that they're not normal laces, they're like stuff that he would've got from the ship that he's made as make-shift laces."

Glyn Dillon, one of the costume designers on Project Hail Mary

aemelia

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danadelion

Just finished reading the Hunger games trilogy.

I wanted to capture the book versions, but the film adaptations still have an iron grip on me, so you might see some similarities

penny-anna

Do Eridians know they are different colours. I bet Grace's alien kids love finding out what colour they are. It means absolutely nothing to them but they're like :O :O

penny-anna

Some of them think he's making this whole 'colour' thing up to mess with them and try to catch him out by asking again on a different day to prove he's just saying random noises but he's like you are still blue buddy and they're like :O :O

penny-anna

Like if we met an alien species who had extra senses & they said that some humans felt spingly and some humans felt spoingly I bet we'd all want to know if we were spingly or spoingly humans

penny-anna

#we would create an entire new astrology system about it#spoinglology

Grace, watching the eridian children develop a whole astrology-esque personality typing system based around what colour they are: oh god what have I done

penny-anna

anyway ppl mentioning synesthesia in the notes so i suggest to you: Grace explaining to fascinated Eridians that deep sounds are 'dark coloured' and high sounds are 'light coloured'

penny-anna

Grace: so red is hot

Rocky: ok

Grace: and blue is cold

Rocky: ok

Rocky: why?

Grace: I. I'm not really sure.

penny-anna

#ok thats fire and ice/water obviously

Rocky: so fire is red?

Grace: well no it's usually more orange

Rocky: and ice is blue