hi i'm cedar! he/xe/any. i'm a disabled guy from texas and my brain is filled with words!
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PROJECT HAIL MARY
girl talk-- stratt & ilyukhina (tumblr)
lost in thought-- eva stratt visits a statue of grace that she had commissioned from her jail cell (tumblr links to ao3)
all the people that i thought i knew-- stratt is drugged & put on the hail mary in ilyukhina's place. multichap. (tumblr links to ao3)
wip: on eridian names and culture (tumblr); wip: on the eridians that go to tau ceti (tumblr) (these are from the same larger document)
to become a murderer, from any perspective (snippet)-- yáo confronts stratt (tumblr)
wip: on parenthood (tumblr)
whatever this one is (grace googles eva stratt i guess?) (tumblr)
MMOLB
word prompt ask game: "stadiums" (tumblr)
two of spades-- gabriella paulus and mollie lai after season one (tumblr links to ao3)
weather: thunderstorms-- sneakers calvo and the pitcher they replaced have a conversation during off-season (ao3)
happy augmentation-- season zero, on relegation (tumblr)
After the beetle probes come back (honestly, probably even before), plenty of things get (re)named after Ryland Grace - Grover Cleveland Middle School becomes Ryland Grace Middle School, obviously, and astronomy/astrobiology buildings on college campuses and STEM scholarships in his name. Astrophage almost certainly gets the scientific name Astrophagus gracei.
Eva Stratt, meanwhile, gets the Eva Stratt Memorial Library (tagline: "she's not dead we just like remembering her") which is not, in fact, a library, it's the predominant hub for internet media piracy. The creators think they're hilarious.
“Rich kids should go to public schools. The mayor should ride the subway to work. When wealthy people get sick, they should be sent to public hospitals. Business executives should have to stand in the same airport security lines as everyone else. The very fact that people want to buy their way out of all of these experiences points to the reason why they shouldn’t be able to. Private schools and private limos and private doctors and private security are all pressure release valves that eliminate the friction that would cause powerful people to call for all of these bad things to get better. The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems. Their public spirit will be infinitely less urgent when they are contemplating these things from afar than when they are sitting in a hot ER waiting room for six hours themselves.”
sometimes i see posts that are deeply unempathetic towards eva stratt and the situation she found herself in, acting like she didnt exhaust all of the alternatives to save the earth and acting like sending grace to his death was something she did almost gleefully. people really like to forget that grace was maybe the closest thing she had to a friend during the entirety of the petrova taskforce. she was stuck between a rock and a hard place, carrying the weight of the entire world on her shoulders, and people conveniently forget that she was there for the sole purpose of being the point of blame after she did everything she could to save the world. oh my god you guys she was willing to be hated by the entire world to give it a shot of living past thirty years.
when you flatten eva stratt like that you become one of the faceless many that spit on her name because she was brave enough to shoulder the blame of all of the things it took to keep the planet from extinction. you are the stereotype. good lord
see unfortunately I have this condition where if I am not explicitly told that I am a part of the ingroup then I will assume I must be part of the outgroup
real talk I think steampunk is kinda neat like sorta neat you'know like as a little touch of spice to a setting that shouldn't normally have that kinda stuff. like a robot arm here a gun there some contraptions elsewheres. like skies of arcadia levels of steampunk is pretty much ideal. but y'see ultimately I'm pro-steampunk as a concept. but real talk for a second if your setting has a place called "the clockwork [location or concept]" I'm gonna beat you to death with hammers.
Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.
Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.
And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.
