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i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

i-am-snowils-admiral

I'm having so much fun going through a bunch of Project Hail Mary fanfic (you people are writing it so fast) but I have to say very few people are committing to the absolutely bizarre things that would happen to language in the Hail Mary over the years. Like you take two social species speaking languages the other physically can't pronounce and stick them in a confined space for MULTIPLE YEARS.

These two are going to come up with absolutely insane ways of speaking. They're going to invent weird whistling words that they can both say because their little social brains want to mimic one another so so badly. Grace is going to start speaking in the same cadence as the translation software he wrote. Rocky probably simplified a lot of his speech and probably isn't speaking in actual Eridian sentence structure. Most of the science they discuss they both had to make up new words for in their respective languages. They're going to have inside jokes so wildly dependent on context that no one will ever understand them. I understand that this would be difficult to do in a fanfic but it would be so funny. Regardless of whether they head to Erid or Earth they should be completely incomprehensible when they get there.

i-am-snowils-admiral

@tarchives This is EXACTLY what I'm talking about. Eridians have really good memory and I don't know how their language evolves but I can almost 100% guarantee that by the end of several years Grace will have no idea what parts of his speech always existed and which parts he integrated from Rocky-exposure. Humans love robbing other languages for random grammar and phrases.

#project hail mary

pixelmagekumiho

I wished it could be over. I wished I could get out of here. I wished for someone to help me. For someone…anyone, to help me!

Pixel Dailies~

Theme: Indie Fanart, of In Stars and Time~

#isat

startagainaprologue

in nothing and gone

moth-yknowtheartist

must've been the wind

moth-yknowtheartist

HELP

#isat

hallwaysss

Genuinely I think this might be the most important scene in the book

hallwaysss

@carlyraejepsans how does it feel to be the most correct person ever. You're so right

#project hail mary

rovermcfly

I like to think that rocky is the only one who recreationally visits grace's biodome in a xenonite suit. of course there's scientists and engineers who inevitably have to occassionally go in for work on the dome probably, but I think rocky's the only one who goes into the crazy murder air for fun. and don't get me wrong- I think the other eridians adore grace and would do almost anything for him. however as much as they like him and as much as they may trust xenonite, they're still not comfortable the same way not every person would willingly put on an EVA suit and go for a spacewalk where the smallest issue could absolutely kill you possibly instantly; certainly not for funsies.

especially if you consider the book detail that prior to meeting grace, no eridian ever had to make a suit to survive in a hostile atmosphere; rocky was literally the first when he created the ball. it's completely new tech. it's not that eridians don't think it's a safe construction, if they had to they would put it on and trust they're safe, but rocky is the only one who does it every day, for fun and without fear because he loves grace more than he fears anything. and it's quite bewildering to the other eridians that he doesn't mind at all.

silvergryphonart

#project hail mary

ximenasbrokencd

can't wait to say "during pride month?" at every minor inconvenience all of next month

teashadephoenix

imagine if grace has gone ahead and sent a radio message to earth right when he woke up

so like two decades after launch, stratt gets a call that's just grace being like

and then two months later the beetles arrive and he's fine

pronouncingitwang

[ID: A cartoon figure screaming, red-faced, and crying /end ID]

the-haiku-bot

[ID: A cartoon

figure screaming, red-faced, and

crying /end ID]

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

#project hail mary

siffrin-of-the-day

Day 208 Frin: The only hope they have left

#isat

cacklingskeleton

Death Note AU where hbomberguy makes a five hour long video about youtuber Light Yagami that's initially completely unrelated to the murders (Light would probably plagiarize or have really unhinged right-wing political takes if he was on youtube)

but halfway through he reveals that while researching he stumbled upon evidence that Light might be behind the Kira murders, and then spends like fourty minutes explaining the concept of a shinigami, an hour explaining how he thinks Light used one to commit murders, and then another hour explaining Light's ideology and why the concept of criminals being inherently evil is flawed

He finishes the video by addressing Light directly and telling him that he (Hbomberguy) had his name legally changed before uploading the video, to something that only he knows, making it impossible for Light to kill him

spaceexploreunit

Now Light. I know you're still watching, and I'm sure you've tried writing my name in your book. Or you've at least considered it - after all, if I die, then it points pretty clearly to you as the killer. But then, maybe Kira is just going to try to kill me in order to frame you. We get it, you're very clever.

If watching this whole video hasn't changed your mind - made you *think* about the humanity of the people you are just callously sentencing to death - then I'm at a bit of a loss. But I do know one thing you don't:

My legal name.

That's right. Before I uploaded this video, I changed my legal name, and have encouraged those in my life to do so as well. Frankly, trying to decide what my new name would be probably pushed back this video's release like, a month.

(Aside: Actually it didn't but we can all just pretend it did, it's way more interesting than the minutiae of real issues that cropped up)

So. Is Light Yagami Kira? I can't say for sure. It turns out, accusing a public figure of serial murder comes with a lot of legal ramifications! You would think I'd have learned by now that talking about people has "potential consequences" like "being sued by extremely litigious individuals. "

I spent a long time thinking how to end this video. The only thing I came up with is that there's no way to judge a person by just a list of actions alone. And yes that includes Light, the wanker. Courts spend weeks and weeks trying to litigate criminal cases and they still get it wrong! So even though I think he may be the actual scum of the earth, I hope I'm wrong. I want to believe that, given the opportunity, he wouldn't take the ten seconds to write down my name and take my life with just a flick of his wrist.

*long beat*

But I still changed my name so don't even think about it you little sh-

*bouncy credits music*

peace-and-a-place-of-your-own

#death note

animusbell

celestia is such a funny character like she's constantly manipulating twilight and friends to do shit instead of just asking and you could arguably frame that as being bc she's a "god" and pushing fate to her design or whatever, except that she engages with the group like a normal and relatable person, which makes it more like villainous machinations, except 90% of this manipulation goes towards things like "I don't want my party to be boring shit again. put my little country girl blorbos in there with zero prep so they fuck it up bad"

animusbell

you think you've fucked anything up around princess celestia and she's like heh. no worries. all according to keikaku

jukashi

Celestia instantly makes more sense as a character when you ignore the princess stuff and remember that she's a 1000+ years old wizard. Of course she does manipulative trickster stuff to teach moral lessons and/or cause chaos to amuse herself, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course sometimes she's actually socially awkward and bad at personal relationships and has bad ideas that she thought were good that result in her eating shit embarrassing style, that's classic wizard behavior. Of course she lets the aristocrats and nobles run around being assholes she's still running on wizard advisor programming, she's basically trying to merlin the entire upper class of equestria instead of just a king and some knights. "Yeah uuhhh we'll release the incarnation of chaos himself from his ancient prison because we think this shy girl can be friends with him", terrible plan if you're thinking like a ruler, amazing plan if you're thinking like a wizard. Just look at Canterlot 'Castle' for five seconds and ask yourself if that's in any way a castle. No. Wizard tower, yes. Wizard.

animusbell

You are so right actually

endcrys

@crabussy

#my little pony

sarking

Lemme just write this real quick to get it out of my system

Oh no it's deeper in my system

becherdireinen

nobody talks about how exhausting it is to live in that space between "things will get better" and "i can't handle this anymore." it's like your emotions are constantly swinging. leaving you both hopeful and defeated in the same day.