Green Eggs and Spam

I draw-a-da-pictures, I sometimes write-a-da-fanfic, art tag: #eggsdrewthat Currently being possessed by Project Hail Mary She/He 20

[eggsandspam]

Writing an Eridian!Grace AU fic

Started a new fic inspired by @pomellon 's Eridian Grace AU because I love it so much!

Read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/84257636/chapters/222209086

Inspired by this post:

Post by @pomellon · 3 images

💬 73  🔁 1856  ❤️ 6280 · Been sitting on these for a solid month now so I figured it’s time to post em! AU in which an aging and frail Grace

[keyfili]

RYAN GOSLING as DR. RYLAND GRACE PROJECT HAIL MARY 2026 • dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[freshlydelivereddarce]

Happy birthday Russ!!!!!

[eggsandspam]

TADC SPOILERS AHEAD BEWARE BEWARE

My first impression opinions below

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Ok so in my opinionnnnn it was not bad. It was not great. The building blocks of it were good, there were some lovely moments, but it felt like the story's Priorities and order of operations was off.

It felt as if there was a plot beat that didn't exist but should've been there to frame and tie together the finale. Everyone* just sorta had their own thing going on, Jax's thing didn't tie into anything except himself really. Caine just went to time out for a bit and then felt bad. *Everyone else was just kinda a bit sad and then okay about everything and didn't do much else. These are great characters but I still feel like I don't know enough about most of them. I think if Pomni is the POV character, we should know more about her.

Like Jax's whole thing was pretty touching, the bedroom scene with Ribbit was lovely, but like I don't think there was enough of a catalyst for him to completely shift personalities after being embarrassed after opening up to Ribbit. He's acting like his trust has been broken with these people when Ribbit was nothing but kind to him. I know that people can be like that irl, but I dunno for such a massive 'mystery' of why he became so jaded, I wish something more actually happened.

I think the fact that they are clones should have been explored more and been a catalyst for more drama and plot progression. Everyone just had the same reaction of being kinda sad. I also think they should have figured that out on their own and that be a cause for conflict amongst themselves instead of Caine just telling them

Other notes

-Zach Hadel spoiler warning fish was funny

-My theatre crowd was awful. Just so many 12 year olds yelling behind us, I missed a few lines of dialogue because of them

-Recap at the start was cringe af but I get if the cinemas needed that or whatever

-I wish we knew less about their irl selves. A little something is nice but we know too much.

-I want to watch it again on digital without distractions

- Kaufmo, Jax and Ribbit were a really lovely trio I loved their chemistry for the short amount we saw of them

-I really liked the convo Pomni and Kinger had when Kinger was trying to fix the world.

-I like that Jax's abstraction was a non-dramatic thing, like it was a given. I think that was the right choice.

-Estrogen would have saved her

-Please don't kill me for not adoring it. I think having it in theatres is a fantastic step for indie animation and that overall it was a reasonably successful end to the story

[gorillaz-girl]

पर्वत

Russel

[kerink]

i love grace-rocky-adrian poly, don't get me wrong, but i don't think it should be instant. i think it should be hard, i think they should struggle, i think it should take work.

rocky was gone for about a fourth of the time he and adrian were a couple. what's it like to wait 50 years for your mate, not knowing if they're alive? was adrian close to the families of the other crew? was there any kind of support group? was adrian the last one holding out hope for a return?

and then what's it like to wait so long, with everyone thinking they're in denial, only for their mate to beat the odds and come home? except he's deeply traumatized and single-mindedly focused on the alien he brought with him.

rocky a frantic, rushing mess between mission debriefings and worrying about grace. how long is it even before rocky and adrian get to talk? really talk. does adrian attend rocky's thrum and hear everything that happened and want to talk to him, connect, reach out, but rocky can't leave grace alone for longer than he absolutely has to. apologizes, promises they will, but he doesn't stop moving towards the space elevator.

adrian understands what's going on. logically they do, but that's all it is. logic, rationality, information, empathy. but that doesn't change the way they felt all this time, the way they feel now. it doesn't bond them to grace.

but adrian does feels gratitude towards grace! they're bursting with relief and joy and endless thanks for him both solving the astrophage problem and bringing their love home to them. that he sacrificed his life and risked the certainty of his own planet's salvation to do so.

but also, in doing so, grace has stolen rocky from them.

adrian is kind to grace, respectful towards grace, works on grace's biodome as hard and as seriously as they can. but that doesn't mean they love grace. and even if they do, that doesn't erase the pain.

and what can adrian even do with this pain? what are the social implications? eridians mate for life, so adrian has to find a way to make this work. can adrian talk to others about it, or do they fear appearing ungrateful? their mate was the only one to survive, why do they complain?

will the other crew's family still accept them into their support circle, or does rocky's survival change things? will adrian be asked to leave because their presence is a painful reminder? because adrian is talking about something else now?

do people hate adrian because rocky couldn't fix it, couldn't save them? do people take their suffering out on adrian because they can't take it out on the savior? does adrian become a buffer between rocky and the real world's criticisms and critical questionings and doubts?

what's it like to be the beloved mate of erid's savior? what social pressure are they put under? what's it like for your species to see your relationship as a poetic love story? what's it like for the planet that saved your people to be named after you?

what's it like to be constantly told how lucky you are, even when your mate never leaves someone else's side? do people see rocky and grace together and feel sorry for adrian? are people angry at rocky on their behalf? angry at grace?

how long does adrian have to grin and bear it?

how much longer before adrian's no longer alone?

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

Every time I think about what the New York Times did to Susan Doku, I get a bit enraged inside

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

In case you don't know, Susan Doku, inventor of popular number puzzle game Sudoku, was outed as a lesbian by the New York Times in 2003. Many have speculated this was done more or less to slander her to the public so their attempted purchase of exclusive printing rights for the game could be done at a much lower price. She actually lost a lawsuit against the Times, as it was not deemed libelous, given she was in a civil partnership with her now wife, Christina "Chris" Ward.

Susan also lays claim to the first recorded use of the word "polyamorous" in her 1994 essay "81 Squares"

[thyfleshc0nsumed]

UPDATE: The NYT apologized after 22 years and SOLD HER THE FREAKING RIGHTS BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!

[quasi-normalcy]

I've reached the point where cynicism is a major turn-off for me. You're not smarter than idealists, and you're not helping.

[gremlin-posting]

James Ortiz approves of massive Adrian!

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[shrodingers-catgirl]

HEY STAFF DONT YOU THINK YOU'RE BEING TOO ON-THE-NOSE

[loserrsquad]

How to Disappear Completely

[crackshipsandregret]

Curious pebble (3/?)

Part 1 / Part 2

A massive shoutout to @thereal-sillyguy for making everyone's favorite pebble into a gif! I very literally couldn't have done it without them!

[eggsandspam]

Writing fic about Eridians is hard because while Mr Weir has kindly provided us with in depth notes about Eridian biology to the point that we know the elemental composition of their blood, we know so little about their society that we don't even know if they have houses.

We all just be making up sum bullshit

[explodingsillycat]

“Coward”

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[soup-future]

my thing with indie animation atm is that it feels like all these shows rely too heavily on the idea of an auteur in series animation - which i fundamentally think doesnt work. animation is a labour-intensive and intrinsically collaborative art form and the centering of this labour on just the one "creator", or producer or art director - whatever role is called, greatly hinders these shows. its great to have a clear creative voice, but when it comes to animation, collaboration and refinement of this creative vision is not just preferred but necessary! and i think a lot of the problems these shows run into is largely because there were no producers or outside collaborators to tell the "creator" no.

it also annoys me with the conversation around indie animation, fans often reduce the studios behind the series to just the auteur, when there are probably tens, if not hundreds of people behind the project. but because of indie studios focus on a single auteur, these animators are not given the credit, or the opportunity for creative input, like the auteur is. and i feel like the shows these indie studios produced would be greatly improved by input from a wider range of animators.

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[loserrsquad]

How to Disappear Completely

ik this is a bit out there but i had a lot of fun with it. i kinda wanna make a different drawing for each song on the album since it’s so perfect for this fic lol