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evstratt

Grace looking at Rocky PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

#oh my god he is so fond he loves that fucking rock BAD

rylandgracie

Project Hail Mary (2026) // For Your Own Good, Leah Horlick

#phm

notquiteaghost

thinking again about memory and cptsd and the different kinds of forgetting and this post and ryland grace. the concept of someone giving you amnesia to get you out your own way, and it works. and it does nothing. it robs you off the ability to know for sure either way. would you have behaved differently, if you remembered? did you actually, meaningfully forget? you didn't know your name but you still censored your swear words. you still had to grab a whiteboard pen and do the math. you didn't know you were a coward but you still tried to avoid telling your new friend you were going to die. what did you really lose. you were so scared. you were filled with such familiar fear

#I was writing a fic about him recently and realized I barely have a grasp on his characterization outside the events of PHM because both #versions of the story are from his first person perspective and so we only see his past self through the kind of fog of memory loss #it’s like he’s a little bit unknowable to us because he’s unknowable to himself #also imagine living the rest of your life away from everything and everyone you’ve ever known and not even having the luxury of remembering #with any clarity #or is that a blessing idk #PHM

casgirl

i think grace teaching on erid was rocky babytrapping him. i think at one point grace was like the only thing i miss about earth is teaching my kids and rocky was like hmm...rocky make some calls.

#phm

nancywheeeler

hopeless time loop. the way out isn’t to save everyone. the way out isn’t to save even one person. the way out isn’t to change anything. the way out is accepting how it happened the first time is how it always will be. that’s how you acted, that’s how they acted, that’s how you would have acted every time if you weren’t given the curse of hindsight. the way out is accepting you can’t fix the past; you can only forgive yourself for it.

#I think about this all the time

annabelle--cane

right so reportedly we got the karaoke scene in the movie because ryan gosling overheard sandra hüller singing to herself in some downtime on set and approached the directors to say "if we have her here and don't ask her to sing in the movie then we're insane," so the scene was hastily planned and recorded during the last day they had with that set; stratt grew up singing in an east german youth choir because hüller did, too. a fun meta textual wrinkle this adds is that gosling is also a singer but grace doesn't take a turn with the mic, so you can read the scene not just as stratt saying "I am a full human being, I just can't be for this project, you get to see it for two minutes before I turn it off again" but additionally "you could be doing this exact same thing but you aren't even willing to give us two minutes." his doomed work friend the trained choral singer, his fated bestie the being who communicates only through song, his world-saving probes named for the most famous musicians ever, his choir-based soundtrack underpinning all his actions, and his unwillingness to ever sing himself.

#PHM

astrotheyge

"I guess there's something about you don't know why you're attracted to a character, but you're attracted to them enough to want to—it's like when a song comes on, and you feel like dancing. You don't know why; you just want to dance." - Ryan Gosling

#we need to free him from action hero prison and let him sing and dance again

idontthinkaboutmuch

another wip because I can’t do one thing at a time

He’s so beautiful

#this is so impressive i can't imagine trying to get the lights and shape of the helmet face right #phm #fanart

ximangshrine

#this is the thesis statement of this au to me #they're so special to me #coltland gentry

stargirldotcom

comments from tiktok user @/sillycicilly’s post

#ough

strictlyquadrilateral

the more i talk to extended family the more i learn that it was EXTREMELY obvious to all the adults around me as a child that something had gone horribly wrong and i needed professional help, but i guess there's some sort of prime directive thing where you can suggest to the kid's parents that the kid might need help but you can never ever ever let on to the kid that you can tell something is wrong. you just have to hold on to that until the kid becomes an adult who's able to say "so i think i experienced a lot of trauma when i was very little" and then you can say "yes, i know. i didn't know what happened but it was completely unmissable that something had." okay. thank you. that's very validating. but why did you leave me to suffer and keep feeling like there was no other explanation than that i was broken and going insane. would it really have been so bad to sit me down and go "i see you. i can't help much, but i can tell something happened and you're in a lot of pain. you deserve help and support. you're not going insane." or something. i don't know. my internal experience was mostly that i had suddenly become a bad child who couldn't seem to get anything right and was always being yelled at. maybe it would have helped if someone had said something.

is-that-sand-in-my-waffles

I love you complex puppets requiring multiple puppeteers. I love you giant spaceship set. I love you zero gravity wiring rig that was apparently hellish to be hooked up to. I love you rotating lighting apparatus that emulates the changing lighting of the centrifuge portion of the ship. I love you chicken wire and fairy lights petrova line shot. I love you practical effects enhanced WHEN NECESSARY by CGI. I love you project hail mary.

#movie of all time with the most attention to detail ever #phm