The Rhythm Has Her

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[dragonmiracles]

GUYS I SAW PROJECT HAIL MARY

i love this book and movie so much i think i might make more art now bc of it. stay tuned.

[milky-the-eridian]

The Petrova Line, now animated

[cineshemp]

secunit survived rainforest cafe and all it got was traumatized adolescent humans and this lousy shirt

[fuckhugeoctopus]

For years, sci-fi has asked, what if aliens were wetter than us. Project Hail Mary posits a new, daring question. What if we are the wet aliens

[pensationalwriting]

I'm relistening to the book and I'm struck by how blind Ryland is to his own position. Like yeah, he doesn't realise he's important, but he also doesn't realise how much Stratt relies on him as a mediator. She needs him to translate science concepts, sure, but there are also multiple examples of him calling her out for going too far, being an ass, or not having enough compassion.

No one else does that to Stratt. He's the only one she'll take call-outs from.

She relies on him to be her honest checks and balances.

[foralittlewile]

From the moment that Stratt realises Grace is driven by compassion rather than ego — when he DEMANDS to work on the project despite it proving him wrong, not to save face but because he realised his kids were going to suffer and die the second they exited childhood — she takes him into her confidence. He’s barely landed on the Gansu and she pulls him aside to be her sounding board about the decision to put the crew in comas. She trusts him because she recognizes that he actually cares about wider humanity, outside of himself and his family. She looks at him and sees her own motivations reflected back at her, but in a man with the capacity to be kinder. To save humanity, she believes she needs to get rid of her conscience, so she uses Grace instead.

And her final act for the project is to kill him.

[manyblinkinglights]

#and his final act is an act of cowardice and selfishness that explicitly betrays that very moment of compassion she grew to trust him for#and she won't let him have that. cause he's her humanity as well as his own. and eva stratt is killing herself to make this project happen#she really did let him closer than she ever should've. guys who did this entirely to themselves.

[noknowshame]

just saw a commercial for a brand of pads that boasted "up to zero leaks." up to zero? so zero and any other amount? that means nothing. that is an un-statement

[noknowshame]

just saw another commercial that wasn't even selling anything it was just explaining why you should use the dishwasher you already own and how. what is happening

[da-janela-lateral]

It's impossible to watch MP100 without having Mob in your top 3 he is simply the protagonist ever he is The Character cocaine. ONE just arrived and said hello here is Shigeo Kageyama (shadow/hidden depths pun in his SURNAME just so you know) he is an autistic middle schooler who is a living hydrogen bomb and he has a severe complex related to his ability to hurt others. He doesn't let himself have needs or emotions really and he explodes over it. It makes him super guilty. He also has intrusive thoughts and complex feelings and lots of grief and anger and resentment but that doesn’t make him less of a person. He is good not out of a "lack of negativity" but because he actively puts an effort on being better than he was yesterday. He is incredibly kind and forgives so much because he wants to think everybody can change, and so can he. He is quiet and has a soft voice. He can destroy people verbally. He doesn't get social cues but he gets others' issues pretty quick. He loves his little brother. He stares at clouds. He is bug eyed and has huge round cheeks. He has a very interesting inner world despite people's claims and is very thoughtful. He is anemic. He is a bit lame in the best way. His one dream was holding his crush's hand and walking her home and that thought alone made him blush furiously. He likes ugly clothes and cats. His character arc ends with him accepting he can be loved for his nastiest parts. And you say I'm not supposed to imprint on him or perhaps take him under my fluffy feathers like a chicken receiving some random chicks. Its just not possible

[da-janela-lateral]

How do you not dedicate your life to something that looks like this

[cowardsexual]

and he loved those fucking kids. he spent too long on that aircraft carrier being an actual scientist, THAT was his problem. flying him to and from sanfran would've taken too long but they wouldn't have needed the amnesia drugs and the sedation anymore, just put his ass in front of those kids again and make him look them in the eye and see if he can still say no without throwing up in his mouth

[manyblinkinglights]

#and you know what? maybe he would've said it still. but he WOULD have thrown up#and it would've eaten him alive and genuinely genuinely it would've ruined the rest of his miserable life on earth#more than the apocalypse he signed the planet up for ever could#grace can only distance ignore avoid his way out of his problems so far#make him look cáceres in the eye. make him TRY to teach her everything he knows for those three days#wrap his hand around the trolley lever grab him by the hair and force his head to look at what he's doing

[loveridden1999]

[fosterova]

Two of us wearing raincoats, standing solo In the sun You and me chasing paper, getting nowhere On our way back home

[evstratt]

EVA STRATT WEEK 2026 @dailyprojecthailmary day 2 ‧ favorite relationship: stratt & humanity

[peglarpapers]

i can’t allow myself to think too much about sensory differences on the erid road trip or i throw up and die. grace can look out at the stars any time he wants. if he wants to fuck around with his telescope, grace can see erid and grace can see earth. grace has a sense of place. for rocky, however, the universe is four rooms wide and there are two people in it

[entrailer]

sometimes you invent mind prisons for yourself for no good reason and youre like "i really like being in the mind prison" even though you dont actually like being in the mind prison

[zoenold]

🥄🥄🥄 spoon boy 🥄🥄🥄

one of the consequences of re-experiencing mp100 as a real grown up is that it's making me crazy. but in a different way than it did six years ago

[void-stare-back]

Doing my regular reread of the Imperial Radch books by ann leckie, and I had forgotten how hilariously petty Justice of Toren One Esk was when she didn't like someone. Officer she didn't like getting a promotion today? Dress her in the rattiest outfit she can get away with, then tell her she's needed immediately so she doesn't have a chance to change. Officer bad mouthing one of her favorite people? Politely refill the tea of another officer (who has barely drank any) right in front of her while pretending not to notice the disliked officer is completely out of tea.

One Esk is a level of petty I aspire to.

[blessphemy]

there’s a thing about Breq’s POV where she will notice the specter of servant/household labor. which makes sense considering that back when she was a ship she was the one to do the work. invisibly and without recognition. cleaning and mending and tending. We see though her eyes how much of her time was this menial labor. Comparatively little of her time was the explosive brutalism of military violence. The real exercise of power is the exercise of who sits back and who does the work.

- the perfectly white uniform of the immigration officer coming into the Radch, which she described as indicative of either a servant, or a great deal of time invested in an effort to look like there was a servant

- the impressive wall of household plants in Skaaiat’s home, speculated to be the full time job of one of the household’s occupants

There are more of examples, probably. And there’s something in here about Seivarden acting as servant to Breq in book 1.

I’m having a half-baked thought about how, even with the POV character being a millennia-old warship, with the arc of the story being about galaxy spanning imperialism and political maneuvering. this is a story about the overlooked and taken-for-granted daily work, which is what that empire invisibly hinges upon. man I love this series. And this first book in particular. It’s put together so clean.

[esmeraldablazingsky]

man………. the one surviving body of justice of toren being the one that was connected/born in lieutenant awn’s arms. confused and overwhelmed and in pain, but also held, soothed, cared for in a way that ancillary units just aren’t. except this one, who lives to remember it. what if i died