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almondcroissantsandink

au where the amnesia doesn't stick and Grace still does his little video logs but he's MAD

#I love the expression on his face #well better be angry than depressed I guess #project hail mary

atomikats

my personal take on the matter

#ofc it's dubois who would ask that #so silly #project hail mary

WE RELEASED THE FIRST ISSUE OF OUR ZINE go check it out!!! please please please

Our queer writing group finally released the first issue of our zine, and I'm gonna shamelessly advertize it now everywhere I can!! It's absolutely amazing, there are a lot of great work there, so it's def worth a look!

You can find it, obv for free, here: COUNTERCARE — Issue 1. It's so unbelievingly pretty you can almost think we knew what we're doing when we first came with the zine idea lol

My piece is called Changing Hearts (which you can also find on ao3 bc, once again, I'm completely shameless), but you should absolutely read every single piece there, bc they're all great!

the paper version is so nice btw you all should be jealous of me. also technically that makes me a published writer now. technically. self-published, but still!

#you can't imagine how happy i am #it feels so wild to actually hold a physical copy in your hands #writing #queer #aroace #asexual #aromantic #enby #non-binary #yes there're enby and aroace characters there bc i'm me #urgh what else to tag #pride month #bc we're releasing it during pride month and all that #what else did you expect from a queer writing club

tuherrus

you don't even have a dog

#what a gorgeous fanart!!#so happy we're meeting this pride month with aroace grace!#aroace pride lets gooooo #project hail mary

not-equippedforthis

thinking about a very specific scenario of a grace with no video logs, with no xenonite failure, who comes back to earth as rocky comes back to erid, heart full but missing a very distinct piece. ten, twenty years go by, and grace is not malnourished nor does he look even half his age, but there's a deepset something in his eyes that has nothing to do with stratt's actions being revealed or the press or adjusting to earth again. about earth getting news of a ship coming down, whose atmosphere is fundamentally different now and causes trouble for that ship. damages sustained on that ship. a red light in the sky. suspected eridian contact as confirmed by dr ryland grace. thank you tom, anna temple here and we're live at nasa's makeshift landing pad, ready to receive, watching- oh, my- a row of officials that cannot pin down ryland grace this time as he, live on air, tears apart every country's anxiety of eridians by ripping from the crowd and jumping the fence into the launching area. a camera pan that judders from dr grace sprinting, the most energetic he's been in years, to a brown eridian kareening towards him in a xenonite suit. prepared to catch ryland's tackle and embrace him properly, there on the green grass, for the very first time. first contact.

#kgditstixigdurajgxlhfiyd #gosh what an idea #I want to read this so bad #project hail mary

i think i just guilt-tripped my own subconsiousness tonight and it's so funny

had a dream that eridians were evil and came to earth to kill all of humanity. got very dissapointed at my own brain for such cliche alien plot, with sweet eridians of all things, and the dream immediately backpadelled to the attacks being just a result of miscommunication (still cliche but. better) and then even let me teach eridians english language chants-of-sennaar style

brains are so silly sometimes

#also i almost dropped one of the eridians into the deep lake where they obv would have sunk bc they're very heavy #they hated me for this for the rest of the dream :C #my subconsiousness is such a meanie to me #project hail mary #phm #tagging this for my own blog search sorry everyone if this nonsense gets on your dash bc of this lol

thepagemistress

You know, one of my favourite things about Ryland Grace is how sociable he is. How easy it is for people to fall into his orbit. They show it time and time again. How much his students obviously love him, how he manages to hype up the dour suits whilst he's testing the astrophage, Carl playing with him in the Home Depot, the other government people eating his Skittles, Eva Stratt dragging him around everywhere and allowing herself to be just that little bit more vulnerable around him, Rocky and the Eridians embracing him as not just as a savior but family.

I know it's not explicit that Grace is aroace but so often, aroace people are portrayed as distant and independent and happily isolated. Sometimes even to the point of misanthropy. It's so nice to see a character like this who loves connecting with people. He's a rambler, he's excitable. So what if he doesn't have a family or a dog. He doesn't need them because he has everyone he meets and that's enough.

#i too am guilty of previously writing an aroace character who's happily asocial and isolated #which is why i love grace so much #also tbf this happy and social character actually represents aroace people i know better than the usual isolated archetype #so yeah #project hail mary

zmeess

sword and shield

tip jar!

#hot #hot boi #like. literally #(also not literally)#not sure if the seal lines going thru his head were meant to resemble a brimmed hat or not #he looks like such a villain here so that hat would honestly fit ahaha #anyway what a gorgeous piece of art #witch hat atelier

quietwingsinthesky

like the betrayal’s always going to be worse if they cared about you and it didn’t matter. someone discards you because they didn’t give a shit, then you can be angry about that, you can feel vindicated in that, you can get over it. but if they can look you in the eyes and say “I love you. I would make the same choice again.” You will never sleep peacefully again, is all.

quietwingsinthesky

“I thought they cared about me, but they were lying this whole time.” <- tired. boring. removes all the nuance of this relationship to make it easier to move on from.

“I thought they cared about me, and I was right, and every minute they were there for me, every time they said they were proud, every laugh we shared leaning against each other bruised and breathless, all of it was real. and they still left me behind. They could put their love aside. I couldn’t.” <- insane. will never leave you alone. reminds you that even the worst people are still people and can still care about even the ones they hurt the most and that undoes neither the harm nor the love.

#this. yes #to me this is also inheritnly aro-spec #even tho it's not necessarily about romantic love and def applies to other types of love as well #(been actually brainstorming a story idea with a relationship that explores this)#writing