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[bugbeee]

Hello everyone! I decided to make a pinned post of important links and info about me:

Call me Bug

Adult (mid-20s if you HAVE to know)

they/them

From Europe

Fanfic writer with a penchant for horror, emotional catharsis, and other shenanigans

I draft contracts for a living and i fucking LOVE it (affectionate)

Batman side blog is @liverobinreaction, Naruto side blog is @negativeaperture

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[elois-illust]

[kewti-est]

I just learned that they filmed PHM in order, and I am weirdly excited about it. One of the things that frustrates me most about filmed mediums, specifically, is that it's SO much more difficult for actors to be in character, locked in, when they haven't experienced something yet. It also allows for less improvisation (something they held in high esteem for PHM and is yet another thing I love about this film) due to continuity problems. Filming it in order also meant that Ryan Gosling had already spent weeks filming alone before Rocky showed up, which he himself said in an interview made it so much easier to embody Ryland. "By the time Rocky shows up, I genuinely need a friend." Direct quote!!! The fact that James Ortiz and his team were in sync enough with the Rocky puppet to do improv, so much so that Ryan didn't feel like he was acting with a puppet. The fact that Gosling selected this film specifically, asked Chris and Phil to direct, and then committed SO HARD to the character. He was SO involved in making this movie and it shows! I thought I was over it but I am not. Film of the decade for me guys.

[inozuart]

ryan gosling you've charmed me

[kiwinatorwaffles]

i love seeing fan art of rocky swearing on the translator but let’s be real dr ryland grace, middle school teacher, would not translate any profanities into english swears. he told a kid no running he definitely wouldn’t be the cool teacher to throw swears around. rocky could be saying “fuck you dickhead” and the translator would put out “you’re a jerk” and rocky can’t even do anything about it except emphasize how much of a jerk grace is for limiting his colorful vocabulary to jerk

[savelavonsullivan]

Very fond of the Eridians named Adrian and Rocky

[pineapplesaresweet]

Posting this as a wip knowing full well im prolly never gonna touch it again

[maybe-its-kris]

What if I doodled a concept drawing of Ryland Grace as an Eridian?

What if I saw a bunch if other people's Eridian!Graces only to latch onto the concept of Grace turning into an Eridian Grace post-mortem?

What if I made a fic about it?

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Summary of "From the Earth"

Ryland Grace dies at age 46, just three days before Hail Mary was expected to arrive at Erid.

Three years later, a strange Eridian stumbles through the crowd with one mission in mind: Find Rocky.

OR: Grace dies from complications due to prolonged malnutrition before he and Rocky could make it to Erid. Several years after being given a human burial on the very planet he helped save, Grace claws himself out of his own grave – far less human than he should have been.

[p3arl-luk1]

someone on here said something about Rocky giving gifts as a way to flirt with Adrian

[skiimble]

heard about this guy who we're all headcanoning as aroace. say less

[lutheban]

i love your grace design!!! hes so blond, like the sun

thank youu! ^^ honestly i feel like i draw him a bit diferent everytime, the only semi-consistent thing about him is his hair kjhkjhjk

i think this old man grace is still my favorite grace i've draw tho

[aspendrawaw]

I finally got around to making more Project Hail Mary fanart :]

you know when we go “oh big stretch” when we see an animal stretch? I think Rocky starts doing the same after learning about it

[autumn-sweet-fae]

When you think about it

The jingly celebration outfit that Rocky wore was probably Extremely Slutty by Eridian culture (going by what I know of them from the book I’ve yet to read)

I for one, fully subscribe to the idea that Rocky went a bit crazy in his decades of solitude and became a nudist as a result. He fully set himself free from the buttoned up collar modesty of Eridian society, eating included.

Because Eridians all normally wearing clothing makes total sense for echolocation rock folk. The texture and shape of the fabric ‘blurs’ the 3d image others hear. Even more so if the fabric is thick and sound absorbing. So him wearing a sweater in the books makes sense.

Now, for a eridian to dress up and want be the center of attention, they would want to wear something that is literally loud. Crinkly fabrics, lots of jewelry. A chain mail dress to them would be a sequin dress to us. But to wear such outfits ‘respectably’ is wear them while still wearing underwear. Be cause if you let the decoration bounce against your core, the metal colliding with the stone body will echo and show everyone your hole by sound alone.

And to wear Only the loudest jewelry ever while totally naked?? That’s down right public indecency. The kinda stunt pulled by streakers running across a public sports field for the attention.

The truth comes out about this aspect of Eridian culture over half way to Erid. When it fully hits Rocky that he’s going home and gonna be surrounded by Eridians again. So he should probably start wearing cloths again.

Rocky does not say anything to Grace about it at first, just starts slowly wearing more and more cloths again. Until the day that Grace asks Rocky if he made himself these little outfits to emulate human culture. Something Grace thinks is a really sweet gesture of friendship between species.

“Rocky ask Grace hold onto feelings of friendship when Grace hears what Rocky must confess…”

[whotfelsewantedtobelynnyx]

I know we all know how much the rest of the Hail Mary crew would’ve loved meeting Rocky (RIP Olesya Ilyukhina you will always have a special place in my heart) but you know who we totally forget would’ve loved to meet an actual, intelligent alien?

Eva Motherfucking Stratt

Everyone forgets (especially movie fans since I don’t think they even brought it up for y’all) that Stratt wasn’t a scientist like the rest of her crew. Sure, she was definitely smart enough to understand most of what they told her, but it wasn’t her field of study. She wasn’t a biologist or a chemist or an astrophysicist, she was a historian. She was also recommended for the project because she was an incredibly talented diplomat. Canonically, she’s fluent in at least seven languages, and probably speaks several more- give her a day, and she’ll understand Eridian almost as well as Grace. The atmospheric testing, the experimentation with Xenonite, that’s all her crew. But getting to know an alien race, learning all about their language and their history and their culture? That’s her thing, right there.

TL;DR: If anyone would have been absolutely fascinated to sit down and learn about society on another planet, it would’ve been Eva Stratt. Thank you for coming to my TED talk

[karda]

more renaissance faire grace (yippee! wahoo!)

[inozuart]

grace rocky save stars

[im-your-nan]

The reason that I fell in love with Rocky as a character, as a physics student, was during Grace's first in-person meeting with him, and there is just one small area of clear material that Grace is able to look through.

I can't remember where I first saw this information, but apparently Rocky's aim was to make the wall to the tunnel out of many different materials to find out which one Grace is able to see through easiest, not based on opacity - like a human or something that evolved to see light does - but based on acoustic impedance. For anyone who doesn't know what that is, it's a way of measuring how easily sound passes through a material - usually used in ultrasound scans. Therefore, for a species who uses echo-location, he's working out which material is easiest for Grace to see through - and from what I can tell he just got lucky with the clear Xenonite. I'm also fairly sure that he was completely unaware about species that see through light waves rather than echo-location, based on his reactions to Grace in the movie.

Basically, Rocky wanted to make things as accessible as he could for any alien that he could come across with the limited knowledge that he had of how different species see things. He is essentially setting himself up to be as accessible as he can for anyone he could possible meet out there. Whether its due to desperation for connection, or just because he's Like That, that's why I think he's so neat. His first interaction with Grace is just him trying to make Grace as comfortable as possible.

I LOVE ROCKYY