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just trying to help with the dishes.. all good here (via)
I'm sure he likes all animals
Simon continues to rejoice at the fact that he can look at recordings of something living existing on Earth
btw, this is one of the first comics I drew about them
Imagine that your knowledge of the once-lost Earth is limited to religious stories, legends about the past, rare and hard-to-find texts and images, and one tree you've seen in person... And then you're given access to nature documentaries. Would you choose sleep over watching movies?
Simon rejected sleep.
Simon is afraid that everything will be taken away from him again(((
project hail mary is insane bc the first half is like oh my god the world is dying and there's alien bacteria eating the sun and there's some guy alone on a ship and he's having a breakdown and the flashbacks are getting darker and this is a tragedy the likes of which i have never seen. then BAM andy weir says fuck you actually. here's this pokemon guy he's here to save the day with the power of friendship. and it's the best thing you've ever seen in your life
something i really liked about project hail mary is that Rocky and Grace are both equally out of their depth and about as competent as the other. theyre both the smart one. theyre both total dumbasses. neither knows whats going on. they both think the other is an idiot baby. they both admire the other's intelligence so much.
Ryland Grace has got to have one of the funniest scientific careers of all time:
Research
Dissertation (piss off your entire field)
Teach middle-schoolers
Be the first person to be in contact with alien life (non-sentient)
Have your dissertation (also what killed your career) be proven wrong
Kill and also breed alien life
Become expert in said life
Become first person to be in contact with alien life (sentient)
Successfully communicate and solve the universe’s biggest problem with sentient alien life
Live the rest of life on alien planet as the savior of the universe
A very deep headcanon I hold is that when Grace said he had “a lot of mean things” to say to Stratt back on Earth, what he *actually* did was send a photo in the beetles of himself flipping off the camera (scandalous) while playing Minesweeper for Windows 3.1 because Stratt said during the intellectual property trial that the Hail Mary “probably wouldn’t need it” and he wanted to spite her.
I've been in a bit of an art funk lately, so I decided to do a little redraw of this piece from 2021.
did you predict the bloody mary ship
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hey it's me black mold. thanks for running your window air conditioner all summer. whatever you do, do not regularly clean the removable filter. that's not necessary
you should also never ever unplug the air conditioner and stick a flashlight in the vent that blows air to see if we're in there. it's very bad, that place should not be checked
and whatever you do, if you've already made the mistake of unplugging it, don't remove it from the window for cleaning if possible. and whether it's possible to remove the unit or not, don't carefully disassemble the front panel, document where the screws go and plastic bits go, and open up the vent more to be able to get into it easily
as black mold, i'm an expert on this. you should heed my warnings: now, if you've somehow made the mistake of doing all of the above, you should not use warm water and dish soap to CLEAN the inside of the vent thoroughly. DON'T ever use a bottle brush to get into the hard to reach places. and certainly don't rinse and dry the cleaned area before carefully putting it back together
there's nothing wrong with us, black mold. we don't cause or exacerbate breathing conditions like asthma or other illnesses. it's cool, we're cool
furthermore, if you're capable of removing the window unit, DONT take a hose with the same soapy water and wash the portion of the window unit that sits outside the window and is therefore weatherproofed.
whatever you do, don't allow the air conditioner to dry before plugging it back in and turning it on again
and if you have a central air conditioner, you will definitely never ever consult a manual or sources online to perform a similar cleaning procedure on the cooling unit outside.
lastly, if you're physically unable to do the things we (the black mold) warned you not to do above, you should never ever ask someone to help you or hire a service to do it.
Also even if you do not have the time, space or ability to do some of the the things in the OP, definitely do not clean the coils (the awful sharp flat stacks of metal) with foaming coil cleaner. That removes the beneficial black mold (us) holding the unit together. It will be completely unsatisfying to watch the foam clean out the Super Beneficial Black Mold, Mildew, Hair, Lint & Dust Combo™ (that is not only a health hazard but making the unit less efficient at cooling necessary for air conditioner function) and leave the metal shiny.
It is a lot of elbow grease and definitely not just spraying a can and waiting. Especially do not use the ones that are self rinsing via the natural condensation of water around the coils where all you have to do is let the foam settle a couple hours before turning the unit back on. These foaming cleaners are also terrible to use on the removable air intake vent covers. You definitely do not just have to spray the opposite side of all the trapped shit on the plastic mesh and let the foam push it off. Also that stuff on the cover is great for you and your air conditioner.
Trust us. We, the mold, know much more about air conditioners than the people who make aerosol cans you can pick up for like $8 at home depot. Definitely do not do this a couple times a season.
its fun to remember we can use the big text if we want. bonjour motherfuckers. i'm posting loud as hell now.
hey everypony. can you direct me to the nonfiction birding books. thanks.
The Eridian science teams try soooo hard to be soooo normal about Grace. "He helped save our entire planet, we cant experiment on him!" "Hes a whole ass intelligent being, the biodome isnt like a zoo enclosure at all we swear." "Rocky might actually kill us if we try and add enrichment things to the biodome just to see what happens. It'll seem like an insult to Grace's intelligence."
Meanwhile Grace is just waiting in anticipation for someone to ask for a chunk of his hair or something. Hes lowkey curious as to what theyd find. Hes fine with being a creature to them its chill he gets it as a fellow intellectual and all around curious guy who insisted on watching Rocky eat.
On the way to Erid, Grace bothers Rocky into agreeing to designate a small "control group" of Eridian scientists, who will be asked to design some human-studying experiments on behalf of Erid's scientific community before speaking extensively with Rocky, working directly with Grace, or getting to learn anything from the laptops or Hail Mary's computers.
Rocky thinks this is stupid stupid stupid -- what if a scientist who's in the control group would have been the key to keeping Grace alive, question?! However, Grace insists that at least some attempt be made to let the Eridian scientific method operate unaffected by human influence first. Rocky badgers a concession out of Grace in turn that if Grace's health looks to be in extremely serious danger, Erid can abandon this "control group" nonsense and bring all claws on deck to preserve Grace's life.
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Later, when Rocky and Grace are tossing around some ideas for places on Erid that Grace would like to visit in person if at all possible, Grace brings up Eridian zoos. His Eridian care team are just a little concerned that Grace might see the zoos, draw the parallels himself, and get offended -- instead, Grace goes back to his biodome all fired up with ideas to make his Eridian home more accessible and educational for his Eridian visitors.
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There are bad apples in every bunch; despite very strict requirements and interview processes to determine which Eridian scientists get to join Grace's care team, there are one or two who make it onto the team who actually do view Grace more like a rare animal specimen than as a fellow scientist. This accidentally leads to the discovery of an extremely popular form of human enrichment: Trolling. Specifically, spite-motivated trolling.
Come on, Grace is the "staggering waste of carbon" guy. He would be delighted if every once in a while, he got to butt heads with some jerk trying to insult his intelligence, because that would mean Grace is allowed to insult that jerk's intelligence back.
The Eridian science teams try soooo hard to be soooo normal about Grace. "He helped save our entire planet, we cant experiment on him!" "Hes a whole ass intelligent being, the biodome isnt like a zoo enclosure at all we swear." "Rocky might actually kill us if we try and add enrichment things to the biodome just to see what happens. It'll seem like an insult to Grace's intelligence."
Meanwhile Grace is just waiting in anticipation for someone to ask for a chunk of his hair or something. Hes lowkey curious as to what theyd find. Hes fine with being a creature to them its chill he gets it as a fellow intellectual and all around curious guy who insisted on watching Rocky eat.
Turns out you can win at tagging.
#phm#HE HAS A SCIENTIFIC EXPERIMENT FETISH TRUST ME#source: trust me.#i mean rocky would still get mad bc he’s territorial but grace would be SO fine with being the subject of a benign little experiment
#literally who doesn’t love surprises and packages.#It even works with the design of the biodome! Shit washes up on a beach! It enhances the realism!#project hail mary#let him BEACHCOMB
eridian scientists (zoologists? anthropologists?) making lists of "natural" human behaviors -- which in this case I think would mostly mean ancestral human behaviors, because your average modern human isn't exactly recieving a standard of enrichment that would pass an ethics board -- that they can try to encourage via his environment, but like, maybe not totally understanding the nuance of which behaviors are learned and which are innate? like, they get him to run and swim fairly easily, and hiding treats around the enclosure is successful in producing foraging/browsing behavior, and he even starts to collect some of the carefully synthesized earth-specific minerals and plant-like objects they've put in there! but several people on the advanced behaviors team are absolutely distraught that he's done nothing to process these materials after collecting them, not even after he found the reproduction stone-knapping site and the pre-drilled warp weights they made for him!! clearly something is terribly wrong and he's about to drop dead if they don't figure out why immediately