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[spinmeround]

William Hawkins ‘Desert Clouds in Thunderstorm’

[scarlct-vvitch]

aroace grace is so important to me because yes, he experiences all of the things that make being aroace feel so isolating, but more importantly, these feelings and these experiences are actively used against him.

it is specifically his lack of relationship that gives stratt the ability to whisk him away to work on the hail mary. in every aspect of his life he is seen as replaceable.

take him out of his classroom. there are other teachers. put him in a hazmat suit and see if astrophage kills him. there are other biologists. fly him to a military base to work. there's no one wondering where he is. (not even a dog.)

it's a critical part of his story that his life is perceived as lonely, as sad, and that its not a problem to uproot him, solely because there's no one waiting for him at home. stratt knows this, knows the optics of it, and knows that it makes him a better candidate than anyone else.

so little consideration is given to grace's life by anyone - he barely even considers it himself until it's too late. and that's so real, so important, because i promise you every aroace person in your life knows how it feels to be dehumanized, and seen as less-than, to be seen as disposable, because you want to live your life a different way. because every single one of us would have fought stratt tooth and nail to not go up on that ship and we all would have lost.

grace's life was different, but it was still worth living, still worth enjoying, and worth loving. because he did love his life - he loved it enough to leave it, even if no one understood what it meant. even if they used it against him, in the end. he loved his life and he deserved to live it how he wanted. but he didn't get to, because no one saw his life as something worth sticking around for.

[b0tster]

you look like the kinda girl who'd open up ms paint back in the day select the spray paint tool and click and hold to watch it slowly turn into a perfect circle

[sluts4samruby]

sam wilson is incredibly well adjusted which is why its so easy to ignore that he's crazy. sam wilson goes on a morning run and eats a balanced breakfast and goes to therapy. he also only talked to steve like twice before agreeing to kidnapping a government agent with the help of stolen flight technology.

[homunculus-argument]

The biggest fault in playing magic the gathering online is not being able to physically strangle your opponents. When the fuck did everyone else get the fucking Turbo Steroid Decks starting every game with some fuckass zero cost card going "if you have seven cards in your hand rn you win immediately no matter what" that summons a 12/13 Fuckzilla with vigilance and deathtouch. Like oh wow wowwee congratulations fuck you. I wonder if your mother is self-aware enough to regret having children.

[indefiniteavatar]

see, /this/ is how angry gamers are supposed to talk!

so take note, cos sounding like a bigoted broken record when your healer or tank drops the ball is just lazy

[homunculus-argument]

Gamer rage is the sound of a livid animal loudly biting at the bars of its cage because breaking your teeth on steel out of sheer frustration is the second-best thing to sinking them into someone's throat.

[scarlct-vvitch]

aroace grace is so important to me because yes, he experiences all of the things that make being aroace feel so isolating, but more importantly, these feelings and these experiences are actively used against him.

it is specifically his lack of relationship that gives stratt the ability to whisk him away to work on the hail mary. in every aspect of his life he is seen as replaceable.

take him out of his classroom. there are other teachers. put him in a hazmat suit and see if astrophage kills him. there are other biologists. fly him to a military base to work. there's no one wondering where he is. (not even a dog.)

it's a critical part of his story that his life is perceived as lonely, as sad, and that its not a problem to uproot him, solely because there's no one waiting for him at home. stratt knows this, knows the optics of it, and knows that it makes him a better candidate than anyone else.

so little consideration is given to grace's life by anyone - he barely even considers it himself until it's too late. and that's so real, so important, because i promise you every aroace person in your life knows how it feels to be dehumanized, and seen as less-than, to be seen as disposable, because you want to live your life a different way. because every single one of us would have fought stratt tooth and nail to not go up on that ship and we all would have lost.

grace's life was different, but it was still worth living, still worth enjoying, and worth loving. because he did love his life - he loved it enough to leave it, even if no one understood what it meant. even if they used it against him, in the end. he loved his life and he deserved to live it how he wanted. but he didn't get to, because no one saw his life as something worth sticking around for.

[autismfox]

In chapter 18 of Project Hail Mary Grace says he has a temporary office on the aircraft carrier that used to be a storage closet for bathroom supplies. He describes himself as "approximately as critical as toilet paper" and I'm over here like, that's pretty damn important Grace. Toilet paper? The thing everyone went crazy over in 2020? Critical component of western hygiene and plumbing systems? Without which everything literally goes to shit?? Half of my fucking job is refilling toilet paper. Toilet paper basically pays my fucking bills. It's a very apt description of how much Grace undervalues himself.

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Ok. Hi. You are a young lesbian and you dig the whole Loyal Knight dynamic but you’ve never seen Stephen Universe; it’s fine, it’s whatever, just keep living your life like that if you want I guess

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Hi I’m Pearl SU and I’m an artificial intelligence that was created to be a handmaid to a princess but then I helped her find a more true identity for herself and she uplifted me to an equal and she decided to go full Rebel against her family’s empire and we fought a war together and I literally not figuratively gave my life for her more than once because you can put me back together after I’m broken and we lived together in sapphic bliss for thousands of years before she met this fucking scruffy hair metal guy and got herself killed having his baby that I got stuck raising but it’s fine I’m fine I’m ok it’s lucky I don’t have organs because by this point I would have eaten them while getting drunk and listening to Florence Welch but don’t worry about me I’m fine I’m literally fine

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Hi I’m Ruby SU and Sapphire SU and we’re a lesbian Noble/Bodyguard couple that’s so head-over-heels for other that we literally not figuratively fused into a single person but anytime we have even a minor disagreement we literally not figuratively explode back into two people who each individually storm off to do a bunch of property damage before dramatically and tearfully making up and one of us can literally not figuratively predict the future which means on some level we’re doing this on purpose

[asteroidtroglodyte]

Hi I’m Connie SU and I’m a regular human girl with overprotective parents and an active imagination who thinks of myself as kinda boring but I met this magical boy who contains the soul of a girl and his adoptive aunt trained me to be a knight and protect him with my life but when the big moment comes he pulls some noble sacrifice shit and doesn’t let me put my life on the line for him and we kinda have to break up for a little bit about it because I’m so fucking livid

[stonesense]

totally i understand narratively why project hail mary ends with grace becoming a teacher again but ever since i saw the movie i haven’t been able to stop thinking about what a crazy move it is from the eridian perspective. like imagine if we had one (1) alien on earth and we liked him so much that we just let him have a class of schoolchildren to teach all the brand new alien science to, for fun. what’s the selection process for that classroom. do the adult eridian scientists wish they were in there

[avoid-avoidance]

wait, WAIT

now we need the story of an impatient adult Eridian scientist, who happens to be very small in stature, and who comedically tries to fake being an Eridian child in order to get into Grace’s class and learn from/observe the alien in person..

[bugsnbites]

Grace making huge advencements in the Eridian medical field.

Turns out there's a childhood disease to the tune of measles that erodes the carapace, and the first symptom shows up about a week before any actual damage is caused.

Grace comments to Rocky that one of his students seems to be turning oxidisation-green. About a week later that student has to be hospitalised for this illness.

Eridian scientists realise pretty quick that Grace can detect the illness long before any of their equipment can, and when caught that early it is much, much easier and safer to treat.

Not only is Grace celebrated in the scientific field for his knowledge and for his part in saving the world, he becomes a beacon of hope for doctors and parents and children on Erid.

[redsparrow12]

The first early diagnosis test involve the equivent of sending a polaroid of the kids to Dr. Grace, who can write "OKAY" or "GREEN" on it

[type-blaze0]

Quickly after that, rocky's color gun can be found in basically any school or clinic. Turns out in the time they've been coming back home, they've accidentally invented a tool that can eradicate the disease

[avoid-avoidance]

Except Rocky's gun isn't a color gun, exactly, it's a light gun, taking old Eridian camera-tech (likely developed for very niche scientific purposes, to study phenomena in Erid's upper atmosphere or in orbit) and modifying it for hand-held use. If I recall correctly, it wouldn't function in the pitch-dark that is Erid's typical environment, so the medical device that gets created to test for this disease would be Rocky's gun plus a little flashlight attached.

In the future, Eridian children would get regularly checked out with that device to confirm that their carapace reflects only the expected amount of "middle-rough" light frequency. Passing those checks is a prerequisite for the child to go to classes, etc.

And so eventually, the phrase "given the green light" becomes an idiom for "given the go-ahead" on two different planets, for two very different reasons.

[beetleandfox]

watching grace & rocky & adrian hang out inside the biodome must be the eridian equivalent of when you go to the aquarium and see the trainers chilling in the sea lion exhibit

[avoid-avoidance]

let's admit it: spiritually, we are ALL that little green Eridian in the back. We all wanna see.

Please and thank you, we would like 20 seasons each of:

Science with the Saviors: kids' educational programming, co-hosted by Grace & Rocky.

Erid's Funniest Alien Audios: basically just clips of Grace faceplanting 20 times an Earth day, edited together by Rocky and set to humorous music.

Mono Tone: more educational programming, but aimed at all ages and focused on teaching listening comprehension & a little basic reading comprehension for Grace's first language. A certain subset of Eridian parents are determined to raise their pebbles bilingual (some of them are only starting families now because Grace Rocky save stars and they believe in a future for Erid again).

Found In Translation: Eridian-translated, Eridian-performed versions of various works of Earth fiction. (Grace LOVES tuning in to this one. And he will never, ever, ever attend one of these performances in person, lest he offend the performers by breaking down into tears of laughter).

The Secret Lives of Spacefarers: This one is only accessible if you know the right people; there are occasional broadcasts, but it's more often distributed 'under the table' in recorded format. It's pretty much anonymized podfics of RPF fan fiction, speculating about Rocky & Grace's private lives.

And of course... Grace Anatomy: A medical drama. (Despite the name, it's actually focused more on the team of brilliant, heroic Eridians who left behind their previous careers and bravely delved into the study of human health in order to save Grace's life.)

[bulkhummus]

the eridians have this beautiful, transcendant concept called the thrum where they come together to form a hive mind in order to discuss scholarly pursuits and solve their peoples greatest issues which resulted in them building a space ship to save their planet

and the human race has eva stratt with her two cups of coffee

[ceruleana]

yknow. i really appreciate ryan gosling's commitment to keeping the canon Grace reaction of just fucking crying the entire time. it's in character, and it's like, an extremely realistic reaction to the situation at hand. But. from most actor's ive heard (both irl friends and interviews from professionals) have bemoaned crying scenes in film, because it can be very draining and give you a splitting headache to do multiple takes etc etc. So they could have dialed it back and saved the tears for the more poignant moments. but no. they clearly went fuck it, we're committing. Grace is a Crier. here. have him crying in happiness, sadness, despair, terror, relief, disbelief, overwhelming joy. Have some heaving sobs. have some single tears. oohhh this man is gonna Cry about it.

[bugsnbites]

Grace making huge advencements in the Eridian medical field.

Turns out there's a childhood disease to the tune of measles that erodes the carapace, and the first symptom shows up about a week before any actual damage is caused.

Grace comments to Rocky that one of his students seems to be turning oxidisation-green. About a week later that student has to be hospitalised for this illness.

Eridian scientists realise pretty quick that Grace can detect the illness long before any of their equipment can, and when caught that early it is much, much easier and safer to treat.

Not only is Grace celebrated in the scientific field for his knowledge and for his part in saving the world, he becomes a beacon of hope for doctors and parents and children on Erid.

[cloudabserk]

just watched an interview with james ortiz (rocky’s puppeteer) where he’s like “they were torturing ryan gosling for this movie. it was killing him. he was developing isolation sickness in real life from being the only actor on set for 6 months. i needed to be there for him even when rocky wasn’t in frame to serve as his guiding light and the sole thread tethering him to the concept of love. i was kneeling at the altar” and what

[shastafirecracker]

eridian children in Grace’s class interested but slightly disappointed to learn that much earth life is bilaterally symmetrical with even numbers of limbs

Grace going “oh!! But!” and teaching them about starfish, to their absolute delight

new eridian schoolchild trend of starfishing aka flopping flat down with all legs out and moving by wiggling and squirming around, giggling. parents hooting at Grace in despair. why did you teach them this

[itsgonnabeoak]

is this anything