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[moss-indie]

[Project Hail Mary spoilers]

Eva Stratt who insisted on being the first to be tested for the comatose gene

Eva Stratt who made sure the ship computer knew the crew's exact coffee orders, even Grace, down to the most precise measurements

Eva Stratt who illegally acquired thousands of video games for the hail mary crew, despite the fact they'd be in a coma for the majority of the trip

Eva Stratt who sent a school teacher into space because she knew he was a fundamentally good man

Eva Stratt who would betray the closest thing she had to a friend because she knew there was no other choice

Eva Stratt who would do anything to save the Earth, no matter the cost

Eva Stratt who desperately wished she could be the one to make the sacrifice instead

Eva Stratt who couldn't, no matter how much she wanted to

Eva Stratt who studied history, and had seen the way the world would become

Eva Stratt who was terrified by it

Eva Stratt who knew she would would go without credit

Eva Stratt who knew no statues would be built of her

Eva Stratt who knew she would never be a hero

Eva Stratt who did it all anyway

Eva Stratt who had to

[rylandgraces]

thought about them had a breakdown bon appétit

[alexxuun]

What happens when Grace doesn’t sleep for 48 hours.

Based on this panel from Dungeon Meshi:

[louthelost]

First post of the year! I love this meme so much I had to do it for the two who have been my two biggest comfort characters lately, Keladry of Mindelan from the Protector of the Small series, and Murderbot. from Murderbot.

I've been listening to the audiobooks for both series a bunch lately. I really debated who should be saying what, but as funny as "I think we're gonna have to kill this guy, Mindelan" was, being said from MB to Kel, this version just felt right.

[dr-dendritic-trees]

I love that an intrinisic part of Page training in Tortall is waiting tables. Like, if you want to be a knight and truly understand the ways of Chivalry you must first experience... The Service Industry.

[crocodiletrolley]

Squire is so funny because Raoul and Kel will be covered head to toe in mud, trying to rebuild an entire house, still making jokes and laughing with their squad

Meanwhile Neal and Alanna need to be sprayed with water to stop them from fighting like cats at the slightest provocation

[janthony-anthony]

[morphmaker]

Protector of the Small No. 4: Neal

[crocodiletrolley]

Wyldon watching Kel apply to be a page: what’s wrong with this girl

Wyldon watching Kel climb every tree he tells her to until she vomits from fear in front of the gods and all her classmates: what is WRONG with this girl

[crocodiletrolley]

Anyone watching Keladry and Wyldon interact is like "I have never seen such icy formality. Those two must hate each other"

meanwhile Kel is thinking "I admire this man like he's my own father. He's the kind of knight I want to be someday"

and Wyldon is thinking "she is the most chivalrous, exemplary knight I have ever met. Training her is the best thing l have done in my life. And she's fucking funny."

[barren-and-trivial-words]

@horse-on-a-porch

Kel and Neal are both outsiders, particularly in First Test and Page. One too old, one too female, one too emotionally repressed, one too outspoken.

The first thing Neal does in the narrative is try to befriend Kel. I cannot express how much "oh, there's a girl here? maybe I can have a friend!" is classic gay-boy behavior. I think he does have other friends, but he quickly becomes best friends with Kel in a girl-gay-boy dynamic I 100% recognize from my childhood.

Kel and Neal are foils, and one of the places where they are foils is gender. Kel is obviously doing femininity wrong, but Neal, with his education and love of philosophy and dislike of combat training, is also doing masculinity wrong. We'll skip over the fact that at least one of Kel or Alanna should have been queer, and focus instead on another way to allow Neal to do masculinity wrong.

Neal has these incredibly overblown crushes on girls throughout Page, but he never acts on them and it honestly seems like a lot of the appeal of those crushes to him is that they could never be anything more.

You see what I mean?

[perihelion-with-hat]

I don't know if means anything to anyone but Murderbot AU where everything is the same but sometimes ART wears a hat thats just a shitty 2D jpg that only bots can see in the feed. ART does not acknowledge it but Murderbot can see it.

It'd look something like this.

I hope you all can see my vision

[julianhertbert]

I had to do the ART drone version in a hat

[perihelion-with-hat]

This is perfect.

[all-systems-dead]

Hi my name is Murderbot SecUnit Eden Security Consultant Rin and I have guns built into my arms and am a heartless killing machine (that's how I got my name) with hair that is definitely a color and eyes that are also probably a color and a lot of people tell me I look like Flight Commander Kogi (AN: if u don't know who he is get da hell out of here!). I'm not related to anyone because I am a bot construct but if I was I wouldn’t care if they were hot or not because sex is gross. I'm a SecUnit but my governor module is hacked and broken. I have vat-grown skin that I never describe the color of because I don’t care. I'm also a security consultant, and I go to a sentient university transport called Asshole Research Transport (Perihelion) in Pansystem University of Mihira and New Tideland where I'm in the ??? year (I'm indeterminate age because it’s confusing. do you count from my assembly date? or my last memory wipe? who fucking knows). I'm a SecUnit (in case you couldn't tell) and I wear mostly clothes with pockets. I love Sanctuary Moon and I get all my ideas from there.

[the-dandelion-queen]

Ok so like in a heist movie, Murderbot is in the femme fatale dress but for bots and systems. I mean how much of its hacking is literally just going up to systems and saying "hey don't worry about it, kitten, I totally already work here :)"

[alanahikarichan]

also on ao3!

[calico-mouse]

goodbye markhelly welcome back the demolition lovers

[bunnywoman]

id rather b laid up with the most delusional severance theorists than w a bitch in my ear complaining about the reintegration pacing.. idgaf