*ੈ✩‧₊˚༺~†Elysium†~༻*ੈ✩‧₊˚

⟡°.༺☾ "𝐈 𝐀𝐌 𝐍𝐄𝐈𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐌𝐀𝐍 𝐍𝐎𝐑 𝐌𝐘𝐓𝐇𝐈𝐂𝐀𝐋", 𝐬𝐚𝐲𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐧.𖤓༻.°⟡

[teaboot]

My mom likes to tell me about how when I was a little kid riding public transport with her I'd always smile and giggle and chat with weird old ladies who smelled like cat pee and homeless folks and strangers dressed in bizarre outfits but any time a tidy and respectable businessman in a suit and tie waved at me I'd immediately clam up, and she takes a great deal of pride in my supposed inherentability to clock personalities but the truth is I do vaguely remember those bus rides, and it was never about the clothes or the hair or the smell, but more because everyone "strange" asked interesting questions and listened to what I had to say and seemed to think about what I said while the neat and tidy and rigid folks only ever acted like they were going through the motions, which was boring as hell and also pretty annoying

[teaboot]

Well-to-do finance manager with tidy shoes: "Why hello, sweetheart. Can you say 'hi'? Aren't you cute. Are you on a trip with your mom?"

4 year old me: why must we do this

Fantastic old woman in the leopard print coat: "Why yes, my tooth IS real silver! Nobody ever asks me that. Do you like cats?"

4 year old me, suddenly paying attention: Finally, A Person Of Intellect

[ghostcrypte]

Saw this image and said oh. That’s them

[avoid-avoidance]

Suppose that Stratt needs to set up a robust form of group communication so that, say, ministers of science for multiple countries can all stay in contact and up to date with whatever Project Hail Mary developments Stratt deigns to give them. Direct quote from the book: "Stratt loves well-tested, off-the-shelf products". So, let's say she steals the code for Discord, has experts clone and modify it to heighten the security, and essentially creates her own ultra-secure Discord for this purpose.

Stratt does not have the time, energy, patience, inclination, or temperament to moderate the server, of course. That gets kicked down the chain to Dr. Grace, who once got tricked by his students into joining a Discord server to help plan a surprise birthday party for another teacher. And then emotionally blackmailed into STAYING in the server until the party, instead of leaving immediately like a responsible teacher who does not hang out with his young students online in his spare time like a creeper. And THEN pulled off the INCREDIBLY impressive feat of corralling a class's worth of kids loose in a Discord where everyone except him had admin privileges. (Years after the fact, he can admit that this combination of 30+ kids with admin privileges & one lone adult teacher without them was kind of a hilarious setup.)

Grace loosely copies the channel structure of that old Discord for the science ministers' Discord without thinking too hard about it. It sure is a lot easier for him to just use his own admin privileges to create a "🔊time-out" voice channel directly, instead of begging and wheedling a group of young teenagers into both making it and using it responsibly! He did hesitate for a second about making the #memes channel, but then that was literally the first channel after #general that got posted in, so...

Grace hates to admit it, but riding herd on a group of little shit teenagers, with mostly very little life experience, kind of did prepare him quite well for riding herd on a group of bigger shit politicians with varying levels of scientific experience.

Stratt herself has a username in Discord 2: Discord Harder, but she almost never uses it. Grace mildly abuses his admin powers to create a hidden channel that everyone but Stratt can see and post in, named #class-de-strattification, where Grace re-posts Stratt's rare announcements in the server (because, for some reason, Stratt never makes them pinned posts in the #general channel; she just throws them into a random text channel and then leaves??), and gives the politicians lessons in how to "translate" them from Stratt's curt communications style into something that might play a little better with their constituents and colleagues.

The emoji in Grace's customized all-powerful admin role is a little fox.

[flaccid-rats]

Simon Vs. the coltlandgentry siblings

[lutheban]

Grace goes swimming! Rocky is not thrilled.

Eridians cant "hold their breath" like humans do, their vents dont close completly so water can still get in, if they fall in water they drown and die. safe to say rocky is not a fan of when grace does it for fun xD

(i got the inspo for this from this fic: Enrichment by alatarmaia4, please check it out it is so funny)

More art of Rocky Stressing™️ about human biology

[pineappical]

i've always wondered what human speech would look like visually in the POV of eridians in the same way eridian speech is written as music notes in the book and my favorite version of it i've seen in fics is when words are written as phonetics in rocky's POV :-) oh and also that one post about rocky and grace figuring out random words they can say in the other's language

[blooeyez]

I've been laughing way too hard while making this lmao

( ᐖ)/

[bloodybellycomb]

I really do think that it’s good for the soul to be unironically pretentious about something. Not in a gatekeeping kind of way but in a “yes, it really is that deep and I would love to enthusiastically and passionately explain why” kind of way.

[peachdoxie]

learned today that nearly a quarter of all fics on AO3 tagged with "Dissection" are Danny Phantom fics jfkasjdfkljasdfljasd

[peachdoxie]

nearly a quarter of all fics tagged with "Vivisection" are also DP fics

[jackdaw-sprite]

yep.

[anguishedlurker]

Commenter pointing out that most of the batman ones are probably crossovers (with Danny Phantom) is correct!

Vivisection with crossovers excluded (straight down to batman bc it's interesting info to see 17);

And dissection (batman was not listed so you get top 5);

While filtering for crossovers ONLY gets this for vivisection:

And this for dissection;

In conclusion: we sure do have a lot of dissection and vivisection either way.

[jackdaw-sprite]

#what the fuck is happening in dp why's there so much vivisection#not upset about it but I am intrigued via @finch-the-foolish

So the thing you have to understand is in the show Danny's parents are mad scientists. And not only are they mad scientists, they're mad scientists set on studying ghosts. They don't think ghosts are people. They know ghosts experience pain and don't care, and regularly threaten to tear Phantom apart molecule by molecule:

^ said in front of Danny-their-son

And then these exchanges, following an identity reveal to the whole world. The reveal gets undone via reality hijinks later, but we still get this:

^ His sister Jazz gets it.

And you see in these screenshots something else really important: They do not know that their son Danny is the superhero ghost Danny Phantom.

They love him! Every time they learn he's Danny Phantom in the show, they decide loving him is more important than the fact that he's a ghost.

Buuut.

This whole dynamic opens up a whole beautiful rainbow of angst fics, doesn't it?

What if they kill Danny before ever realizing it's him? What if killing him is what reveals it's him? What if they capture him and vivisect him and he can't reveal himself to them the whole time? What if they get far enough that it kills the human part of him and he can never give them solid evidence what happened to their beloved son?

What if he tries revealing himself to them after he realizes what they're about to do, and they don't believe him?

Because there's the other direction you can take this. A lot of people in the phandom were queer teenagers in the aughts, when the question of 'will my parents accept me even though they hate what I am?' was a very personally relevant question.

Which means you get fics where Danny reveals himself, and his parents don't accept him.

Where not only do they hate ghosts more than they love him, but they start treating him like they treat any other ghost.

And that includes experimenting on him.

ANYWAY! That's not even the only set of characters in the show that are big on experimenting on ghosts! There's Vlad, who clones Danny and maybe island of doctor moreaus a bunch of animal ghosts together into monstrosities, and there's the GIW, a Men in Black parody. Naturally, they want to capture Danny and take him into a secret government lab for lots and lots of painful experiments.

[moss-indie]

Imagine Grace's students keeping a quote book of insane things he'd said, either corny jokes, out of pocket anecdotes or completely nuts life advice, because let's face it he was probably an insane teacher to have. A few of his more dedicated students working so hard to compile it and give it to him at the end of the year, but not being able to because he spontaneously leaves with no explanation (aka gets kidnapped by Stratt to work on the project)

Imagine being those kids, being gutted about not getting to give it to him, but keeping the notebook and kind of just moving on with life. And then after however much time passed (which I assume has got to be at least a year or two) you see on the news that THEY SENT YOUR MIDDLE SCHOOL SCIENCE TEACHER ON THE MOST IMPORTANT SPACE MISSION OF ALL TIME?? And then RUNNING to call your friends because oh my god

"STACEY HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEWS??" "no? Dude why are you yelling??" "THEY SENT MR GRACE TO SPACE" "who??" "Mr grace, our science from the 8th grade!" "What??" "He was the replacement scientist on the Hail Mary" "WHAT???" "Do you still have that notebook of crazy shit he said" "...oh my god we're gonna be so famous"

[chanelrings]

eva stratt is someone very precious to me actually. picture this: if she didn't already have a hard enough time after the hail mary launched (see: using the powers world leaders gave you to help the world and said world leaders get angry with you for using those powers to help the world), she is also a woman. a lone woman in a world wherein millions of people still believe that a woman's job is to be at home with lots of children, and would have resented her for the position she held. and yet, this is not the world eva saw. eva gave her life to save the world and she was thrown into prison for it. but she never stopped loving the earth and caring so deeply about humanity, despite the way humanity treated her in return.

i hate the way some people characterize eva as emotionless or cold because she had no relationships or she was too harsh. eva has so much love, so much love, that she sacrificed her chance at a 'normal' life. she may not have sacrificed herself like the crew of the hail mary, but she gave her life for humanity, and i won't hear anything else. she isn't cold, or harsh. she is a passionate, hard-working, dedicated person.

and she had so much love to give.

[ravmycupine]

everyone wants a piece of Grace

[puppetmaster55]

suddenly thinking about the courtroom scene, of Stratt being accused of pirating literally everything, and Grace later having everything in the various computers aboard his ship that he gave a copy to Rocky without issue, and the beetles having such a massive memory capacity and...

Stratt was a historian. She wasn't just pirating for the sake of entertainment for the astronauts, she was doing a full historical backup of the planet. Who knows how much knowledge and communications ability, how much art and culture and history, how much niche knowledge of how to make specific pieces of modern technology or modern medicines, was lost as the wars for resources isolated everyone, as the death tolls led to the deaths of specialized trade workers and scientists, as the power grids failing across the planet (or cut off, potentially) led to all the cloud servers going dark. Stratt was facing methods of combating extinction and she did her best to ensure that if/when the Hail Mary worked, it would send back not just the hope of the future in the solution to the astrophage, but the restoration of history and culture and knowledge.

Just.... she pirated everything, and put it all on the Hail Mary.

[autumn-sweet-fae]

So like

When Simon finally opens up to Grace about his past, being in prison for 16 years, telling him about Filament Station, about Eden- Grace suddenly stops him.

Because Grace is very good at math.

Simon seems to be in his early 30’s… meaning if he was locked up for 16 years he could have been anywhere from 13-18 at the time of the attack. Grace had been a middle school teacher. He had taught that exact age range, before watching those same kids that he taught grow and go to the high school in the next building over.

The idea of one of his kids being held responsible for 65 deaths and then sentenced to prison is enraging enough. The more he learns about the cult Simon was raised in- it sets off every alarm Grace had ever had as a teacher.

The fact that Simon was a child soldier and Grace was a child educator is not talked about enough.

I need Simon to be ‘forgiven’ by someone who understands that he was just a kid who had been groomed by a cult

[astriiformes]

Other people have touched on this more eloquently, but I love that Ryland Grace is at his core a teacher. A middle school science teacher. Sure, his background as a former academic is also critical to the story, mostly because something about him needed to catch Stratt's eye and thus result in him getting dragged into the project, but more importantly than that, he hated being in academia. The book makes it fairly explicit that he wrote his controversial paper and insulted a leading scientist in his field because he was burnt out and hated the environment and got self-destructive as a result, which is a far less rosy view of academic science than I would have expected (and, frankly, completely believable).

And then he left and became a middle school science teacher. And that turned out to be his real calling. He was bright and creative and a little bit brilliant and a genuinely good scientist, and he gave that world up to teach kids and he loved it. Even after everything, after the Petrova Taskforce and Project Hail Mary and Tau Ceti and ultimately ending up on Erid, his calling is to teach kids.

As someone who has dipped in and out of the science communication/science education world myself, it's so important to me that Grace loves teaching, and especially that he loves teaching kids. People really devalue science communication work, and there's often this unspoken assumption that the people doing it just aren't "smart enough" to become real scientists, so they do scicomm instead. And everything about Grace flies in the face of that -- he's perfectly capable of doing the science, but it's not what he loves the most! What he loves and values and finds important is teaching, and I adore that. It's so refreshing to see, and such a genuine love letter to educators, and to everyone who chooses to prioritize communication and education regardless of how specialized they may or may not be in their field.

His happy ending is to be a teacher. And that's so important.

[bringmethepeculiar]

Humans being such a social species that, to aliens, it sometimes comes across as a hivemind.

Humans are attention seeking by nature. Attention is sought after because there is historically safety in numbers, so humans are naturally inclined to mimic the behaviours of others in order to subconsciously identify ‘hey, look! I do as you do just like the rest of your group so you can trust that I am not dangerous. Can I be a part of this group??’ and the other human sees this and says ‘Ah yes, another one who does as we do so they must be safe, come sit with us’.

Aliens see humans copying each other’s behaviour so fluidly that it almost comes off as creepy. It’s even creepier when humans mimic THEIR actions, too. Like, no, do not rope me into your mind melding species cult, please and thank you.

Even to the modern day, this intensely social instinct is still alive and well, as humans will unconsciously mimic positive actions of others even when they don’t understand the context. For example, clapping.

An alien and a human are sitting having a conversation when suddenly hoots and hollers and the clapping of hands erupt from across the room. Immediately, much to the alien’s surprise, the human starts clapping too as they look around trying to see what is happening.

The reaction was so immediate that the alien is taken aback by it before remembering that humans were known to be strangely in tune with each other compared to other species so they just wait it out.

Once it dies down, the alien asks

“So, what was that about?”

“No idea.”

“But you…joined in. You didn’t know what you were celebrating??”

“Well, no, but I don’t explicitly have to know what’s going on to guess that it’s something good and join in. It would feel a bit rude if I didn’t clap.”

And the alien just sits there like ‘It’s NOT a hivemind???’ strangely, that’s somehow worse than if it was.

[altonzm-deactivated20170213]

french recipes: if you’re not making this in paris then what’s the point. fuck you

italian recipes: use the left leg meat of a pig from one of three farms in this specific area of tuscany, or from this day my grandmother will begin manifesting physically in your house

[thirdtimecharmed]

american recipes: buy these three cans of stuff and put them in a pan congrats you cooked

[svynakee]

chinese recipes, as handed down from mother to child: season it with a pinch of this and some of that. you want to know the exact amount? feel it in your heart. ask the stars. yell into the void. 

[orriculum]

English recipes: boil and salt it. Okay that’s it enjoy

[digitalfare]

Greek recipes: You followed all the right steps but this isn’t quite right. I don’t know what to tell you.

[jamesandlilys]

Australia recipes: chuck it on the barbie

[monsterhighalumni]

Latinx recipes: you will never make it better than your abuela, face the facts

[wereyoulookingforsomething-deac]

Armenian recipes: spend eight days laboring over the stove. the food will be flavorful with the sacrifice of your sanity. no one will appreciate it.

[moldychesee]

Canadian recipes: It either needs more bacon, more maple syrup, more gravy, or an unholy combination of the three

[rhionhutter]

Filipino recipes: SOY SAUCE AND VINEGAR EVERYWHERE

[coto524]

Welsh recipes: you ought to make it with this obscure type of cheese which doesn’t exist any more but you can replace it with this other obscure type of cheese from the other side of the country

[makeshift-style]

Irish recipes: just dump a bunch of potatoes and meat in it, then cook at 350° for 20 minutes

[obviously11]

Slovenian recipes: go to the garden, get some weeds, then make a soup out of it.

[prokopetz]

Ukrainian recipes: It needs more garlic. No, more than that. More. More.

[saferforeveryone]

Scottish recipes: whisky. drink it, put it in the sauce, put it in the food, who gives a fuck.

[elysiiiiium]

Ethiopian recipes: Someway, Somehow, by the grace of the garlic, spices, oil, teff and the universe, it works.