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it's midnight and I'm practically in tears at the thought of rocky becoming sort of a patron saint of safety in the dark back on earth
Weighted plushies of Rocky being made. Parents giving them to their children, telling them "It's okay! Rocky's here to watch over you. He'll make sure to keep you safe."
Tabloids for the Project Hail Mary mission, c. 20xx. (The Sunday Times, The Times Magazine.)
wwx, who’s been dressed in his signature wwx look while clinging to lwj all this time: and I was being so secretive about it too [xx]
Petrova line
Hua Cheng : I have all those cute symbolic things that remind me of His Highness like the pearl, the umbrella or the tattoo on my arm 😊
Xie Lian : So, I have this silk my parents used to hang themselves, this sword people stabbed me with a hundred times and two cursed shackles to remind me of that one time I attempted mass murder
watching Grace’s logs be like:
Wonder how this queen is doing today
Edit: For those wondering, this is from a 70s nsfw sci-fi zine called "alien brothers" (more specifically, page 83). This little paragraph was right above a k/s smut fanfic written by this lady.
Being an Eridian scientist has to be so funny. You train your entire life as a biologist, becoming specialized in your field, probably giving lectures or educational speeches to other Eridians, and then the star savior Rocky comes home with his weird pet dog. Your job is now to cultivate food so the weird dog who is the age of average baby doesn’t die. The dog also saved the stars. Your job is making dog food out of the dog. You also learn that you and the dog have the same job. You are the happiest scientist on Erid.
The dog knows more about how the universe works than anybody else on your planet. The dog understands how relativity works and how the universe began. The dog has access to complex machines that can store and process massive amounts of information, launching your society into a new age of scientific and technological advancement.
You later find out that these machines were originally invented because the dog's species has a memory like a sieve and struggles with primary school level maths.
Presaux crew watching the original rescue
Ask me how long it took to get the poses I dare you. And it’s still not done T_T
(Arada, overse, mensah, ratthi, gurathin, pin lee)
I loved the tv show set design outside the cubicle so I stole most of the look from that.
part 2
I like All Systems Red because SecUnit is having a bad day at work and Preservation crew is discovering the horrors of corporate slavery
(hopefully this is just one part of six for asr)
part 1, part 3
Everyone go look up the song nasa banned from space
Don't forget to play it loud as fuck
please….listen to the whole thing. And imagine that you are IN SPACE in 1973 and you JUST woke up. Every time you adjust…it escalates somehow.
This song had to be designed in a lab for the sole purpose of fucking with astronauts. whoever added it to the NASA playlist was a genius.
It took them two tries to ban it?
ryland grace patron saint of having a Difficult Childhood and becoming an adult who can pass very well as well-adjusted and perfectly happy, unless you get close enough to see the cracks, and for unrelated reasons no one gets close enough to see the cracks. it's actually very easy to go through life with a gnawing wound in the core of you you're pretending isn't there. weird kid no one liked that much who grew into a guy you can be friends with for five years before you realise you don't even know if his parents are still alive. all his teacher coworkers know a certain type of kid gravitates towards him and absolutely none of them know why, not for certain, not in his words. and this isn't even unstable! this isn't killing him! who manages to actually truly love their life! everything is fine!
Embarrassing fact about me is that it took me so so long to be able to tell Ross Bryant and Grant O'Brien apart. I'm sorry guys you're both tall white dudes with similar-sounding names and very very similar voices. I would just wait for the first sex joke or Shakespeare reference.
I feel better now because everyone in the notes is like "yeah same".
Every day I receive further vindication
They’re a bit Schrödinger’s white man, I think you have to make a Shakespeare reference or say something wrong about a rollercoaster and fix the superposition before you proceed
I was fully prepared to be all whiny "c'mon stop being racist" about this but.
...
...those are the same fucking guy my man
I understand that from a glance, one could denote a similar look from both pictures. However, from a close examination, almost every feature on the two indivuals are different.
Feature/Left/Right
Nose/is thinner/is wider
Eyes/blue and wider/brown and smaller
Ears/bigger/smaller
Lips/fuller/thinner
Eyebrows/thicker/ thinner
Chin/has divot/no divot
Glasses/ both different colors
These pics are taken at different angles under different lighting. When you see them moving around on a consistently lit stage, they're a lot harder to tell apart until you learn to recognise the difference in their voices.
And also the things they’re doing on those stages are high energy gremlin improv for challenges devised by comedic mad geniuses who would be horror villains if this wasn’t consensual with guard rails. It’s hard the differentiate the width of a gangly white man’s nose while flailing like a puppet.
They need to do an episode of Game Changer pitting Ross and Grant against each other on bizarre challenges but using someone completely physically opposite to them as a control - maybe Anna Garcia or Lily Du
They should put Ross, Grant and that Try Guys guy on Make Some Noise and give each of them prompts that are more stereotypically associated with a different one of them
#the last comment is when I realised that Keith Habersberger is not in this post
#game changer#this would just be outright violence against face-blind people
Bonus points if they're given identical outfits by Costuming first
I bet they'd start randomly switching podiums throughout the shoot
another project hail mary observation:
I noticed that Grace was looking at golden plaques with inscription and realized they look like something made based off the Voyager Golden Record, made by Astrophysicist and Cornell University professor Carl Sagan and singer John Lennon. It was sent out in the probes Voyager 1 and 2, I believe. It has a message etched on it which says, "To the makers of music, all worlds, all times."
For reference, pictures below show the Voyager Golden Record.
People keep talking about the science in PHM like yeah, obviously. Math saves the world, equations translate the universe, whatever.
But what gets me is how hard the story leans into something else: Music!!!!
Like the whole movie quietly argues that sure, math is universal because it is precise. It lets completely different species understand each other.
But music is what lets them feel each other.
When we first see Grace's old memories, the first one shown was him teaching the kids about soundwaves being affected by frequency. This is probably a foreshadowing that it will mean so much in the next few parts of the plot. Specifically Rocky.
Rocky’s language is not framed like cold data, even if it technically is. It is patterned, tonal, almost harmonic. Grace does not just decode it, he recognizes it. There is a difference. Even in the book, he always mentions how Rocky drops an octave when he expresses sadness and grief.
And that is why it hits that even someone like Eva Stratt, who reduces everything to outcomes, to sacrifice, to necessity, can still be pulled into something as unnecessary as music.
Science lets different life forms understand each other, yes. But something like music exists on a smaller, quieter level. It does not need translation in the same way. It just needs recognition.
And maybe that is the point, that even at the edge of everything, when all you have left is survival and logic and numbers, the thing that still reaches across the gap is not just understanding. It is resonance.
Music transcends all cultures and now, extraterrestrial life! ^°^
the three graces
based on this lovely writing by @42starsintheuniverse
When Grace dies he asks for his body to be turned to ashes, and then into a statue. The statue has him sitting, legs crossed, arms curled slightly, with his palms on his knees. He says in his final message there is a reason for this very specific positioning, but that he can't say what it is.
Time continues forward. Rocky and Adrian grow and change. They move house a couple of times. Rocky changes career from engineer, to inventor, to scientist, to diplomat, to teacher. Adrian picks up a new hobby every few decades. They explore other parts of Erid they've never seen. They meet humans on more than one occasion, but there's something about it... Something not quite right. The Eridian mind can never forget, and no matter how much time passes, Rocky feels it. Missing Grace. His human.
And then time really does move on. Rocky walks stiffly, Adrian sleeps for weeks at a time, they both eat less often due to how draining it is.
And one day, the temperature is perfect. Adrian wakes earlier than they have in years. The warmth loosens Rocky's arthritis, the wind is quiet that day, and sound can carry for miles because of it. The soil is quiet, ready, resonant. And they both know.
They go for a walk, take a dip in the sea, attend a choir in a crystal cave. And then, without fanfare, when no one else is around, they visit Grace. And Rocky climbs into his stone lap. And Adrian curls their body around Grace too. Just like Grace did hundreds of years ago, they let go, no scream, no pain, just peace and togetherness. Too beautifully intertwined to ever untangle.
And there they sit, three stones, for the rest of time.
*smirking* you couldn't waterboard that out of me, but even if torture was an effective method of information extraction and not a futile display of state-sanctioned sadism, the high percentage of false confessions it produces would mean that even if you could waterboard it out of me, could you even trust the veracity of my statement?
Bro what the fuck did they do to Neil Josten
people accidentally stumbling across the aftg fandom while they’re posting unhinged jokes that hilariously fit the characters well is a niche genre, but i hope it grows
