The Rhythm Has Her

Mostly a fandom blog! She/her pronouns. If you need anything tagged just let me know! Profile pic is art by sushiisiu

[worldwright]

the Hail Mary is the opposite of idiot-proof. she's built for very smart people to be able to do Whatever They Need with every tool they have in order to achieve their goals. fucking with the centrifuge settings? i'll warn you that you're messing with important stuff but go right ahead man. ripping up the floor panels and pulling out the electricals to make a really unsafe extension cord? sure why not. pop off the fucking fuel tanks? yeah ok you're the most qualified person here and if you say you need to do that who am i to argue. i love the utter lack of guardrails on everything

[ceruleana]

oh damn it also only clicked with me now. Rocky insisting on giving Grace the astrophage fuel to get home, actually saves fucking,,, everyone. Like that one act of kindness, that one insistence of "no I will not let my friend die like this". "I could not save my crew but I sure as hell will save you." and that changes everything. this movie makes me unwelllllll

[ceruleana]

Like. Rocky gives Grace to fuel to go home, at the cost of reaching Erid 6 years slower. So, Grace starts the journey back with the samples, instead of just sending them back on drones and waiting to die - crucially, this allows him to realise that the samples are escaping their containers (and destroying/eating his fuel). If he had just sent the samples back in the drones by themselves, before containing them in something else, who knows if they would have reached earth intact. Grace would never have known that both missions have failed, leaving both him and Rocky to die alone in their respective ships.

Instead. Because Rocky gave that fuel to Grace, Grace can safely send the samples to Earth, return to Rocky, save him from the contamination of the samples (and the radiation goddammit), therefore also saving all of Eridian. Just because Rocky was like fuck you, you're going home. wow.

[grac3yn]

400 pounds my ass

[paksthestoic]

thinking about eva stratt crafting a coffin for her friends. the very best coffin, full of every piece of pirated media the entire world has to offer. crafted for maximum comfort, this coffin, with every bit of authority available to her, which is all of it.

and then thinking about all the people who call her cold or uncaring or clinical about what she has to do to save earth. eva stratt, who had silly t-shirts and vodka and favorite meals stored in the Hail Mary and treated with the same level of importance as the finely tuned equipment and the centrifuge the entire planet relies on for salvation.

and then thinking about eva stratt nodding and saying, “yeah, I’m pretty awful. that’s why i’m in charge” with a neutral expression and even believing it. as if crafting the most beautiful coffin and homage to her soon-to-be dead friends won’t haunt her always.

thinking about eva stratt being the first person on the “eva stratt is a monster” train, welcoming ryland grace aboard and knowing she believed in him more than anyone else.

it’s fine, really it’s fine and normal and eva stratt makes beautiful coffins for the people and things she cares about.

[rylandgracie]

i love posts that are about carl and stratt’s all encompassing grief for grace and the post ends with meanwhile grace in erid:

[awakeagainstmywill]

"Ok, wrap him up and put him on the ship. And add 10 kg skittles, twizzlers and instant ramen to the food supplies. "

"But ..."

"He needs red40 for optimal brain function. 10 kg of each, assorted flavors, thanks."

[to-proudly-go]

They haven't talked about this particular idiom yet

[koiagain]

"Employment" big scam. Big scam to distract You from what matters,posting on Ur tumblr blog at 3am

[cheap-slaw]

Learn to walk again

[my-heart-of-heart]

Duo of all time

[habken]

wait this sketch was cute

[starrose17]

So movie!Grace is terrified of elevators, and in the book Eridians get to space by an elevator.

Grace is gonna get to Erid, and after everything he's survived, everyone he's saved, everything he's accomplished, half starved to death, he's gonna stand there in his Eridian EVA suit and see the biggest, longest, tallest elevator in the universe and just nope the fuck out.

[starrose17]

I adore all your reactions to this lol:

[raviolireptile]

A misunderstanding

[daftpatience]

okay okay listen okay listen. i finished reading fugitive telemetry and i had to draw my favourite part SO BAD. skip this if u dont want kinda spoilers for that idk

[daftpatience]

murderbot i love you

[purplepenguintime]

I really love that we know now Rocky locking these arms together is him forming his family crest

Because when Grace asks for his name and does that whole display, he’s not just saying “my name is Rocky” he’s saying “my name is Rocky, this is my family, my mate, my job and my mission. This is everything that I am.” I love that so much

[eternalspine]

I'm sorry but I can't get over how much of a loser Ryland Grace is. I love him but he's so stupid. He writes the most controversial paper in the history of his field and after he's laughed out of academia he's like actually I wanted to leave anyway. And then when the worst paper in the history of science somehow gets him access to actual real life aliens it takes him like a week to have the idea to kill one of them to see what happens. And then when the sample is distributed and he only has three left he fucking loses them and has to play the worlds highest stakes game of I Spy. He gets kidnapped by Earth's new dictator during a top secret mission during which she commits ten thousand crimes and thinks that she's just keeping him around for his winning personality. Tries to save his friend by using a leaf blower to separate him from his internal organs. Guy of all time