How do I explain to people how deeply woven Fairy tail is into my soul?
Fairy Tail taught little autistic me how to be a good friend and a good person. It taught me how to love and how to hate. It taught me symbolism and unironically social cues.
"How are you autistic you are so sociable?"
Because Fairy Tail taught me. Gray and Natsu taught me that not everyone says what they mean, and companionship is deeper than words. Erza taught me what it means to be lonely in a room full of people and that closing yourself off from the people you love only causes pain. Lucy taught me that the greatest bonds form over moments with strangers.
I don't know who I would be without Fairy Tail.
I just know that every time I start an episode I'm sitting in a room with every version of myself at once, gathering up to watch a little bit of home.
I've heard too many people talk about how Rocky is vastly more intelligent than Grace lately and I want to break it down.
The difference in their perceived intelligence is simply a difference in working memory.
Eridians have near perfect memory, anything that Grace has said to Rocky he can remember (hence why he picks up on English so quickly).
And of course Grace is a leaky human who forgets things.
Having a better memory does not make a creature more intelligent, it just gives them a larger database to work with. We humans compensate for that with the memory in our computers (you see where I'm going with this).
Therefore Rocky and Grace are equally intelligent.
I've heard too many people talk about how Rocky is vastly more intelligent than Grace lately and I want to break it down.
The difference in their perceived intelligence is simply a difference in working memory.
Eridians have near perfect memory, anything that Grace has said to Rocky he can remember (hence why he picks up on English so quickly).
And of course Grace is a leaky human who forgets things.
Having a better memory does not make a creature more intelligent, it just gives them a larger database to work with. We humans compensate for that with the memory in our computers (you see where I'm going with this).
Therefore Rocky and Grace are equally intelligent.
anyone that talks to me about project hail mary can vouch that armando is my beloved robot son,, but what if he wasnt a robot,,,,,
headcanon canons below the cut!
his name is Boonmee*/Armando (half thai and hispanic, Armando is his english name) and was used as a main medical consultant (since he’s specialized in coma nursing) for the NannyBot during the mission. in this au, the robot designs continuously fail and it becomes clear that a model suitable for the mission won’t be ready in time for takeoff. with some behind the scenes work (because Yao would hate this), he is prepped last minute to board the Hail Mary and take care of the crew himself.
before takeoff, Armando was already a quiet person. similarly to Grace, he didn’t have much family or friends to lose by going on the mission, and wasn’t terribly put off by the idea of hurtling through space for several years and dying in the great unknown if it meant his life would be somewhat more interesting and comfortable than it was on Earth.
after being isolated on the Hail Mary for years, though, he’s nonverbal by the time Grace wakes up. for the first week or so, Armando is in constant work mode making sure Grace is okay (may or may not have a little anxiety about his health after he wasn’t able to save Yao or Ilyukhina) while also trying to let him figure out who he is and what he’s doing on his own. being nonverbal obviously creates a communication problem between the two, but with the ✨power of friendship✨ (known also as Grace refusing to have another person there and not be able to talk to him) they find several ways to communicate that improve over time (gestures, notes, tts, etc).
once Grace meets Rocky, Armando is fairly content to be in the background while they do their things, checking in occasionally make sure Grace is taking care of himself. after the initial shock of Rocky moving into the Hail Mary, Armando warms up and adjusts to him fairly quickly.
he’s very happy on Erid, being on a simulated Earth reminds him of the little things he used to miss about home, and as Grace says, he does in fact like the fresh air
a lot of this is probably/definitely unrealistic or underexplained, but this concept has been gnawing at me for so long and if a human design is what it takes to make people like armando then so be it look at my son isnt he perfect
( * the text on Armando’s arms is thai, and after some digging it spelled out Boonmee, a name that means to have good karma/to be lucky. thanks again @fairytailfanatic for helping me figure this out 🙏)
Edo Minerva loves to cause chaos in Mystogan's life in as many ways as possible. He deeply regrets signing the paperwork that gave her the agency to create Sabertooth
I was finally able to grab a screenshot of this logo on Armando today for the Armando cosplay I am helping @jellibabie create. Only to be stopped by the fact that I can't read Thai (I am 99% sure it is Thai because he was created by Thai researchers and it looks like simplified Thai)
That being said can anyone smarter or less sleep deprived than I figure out what this says, question
The key difference between Ryland Grace in the book vs the movie is that book Grace goes back to being a biologist and movie Grace remains a teacher.
Book Grace immediately readapts to working in a highly scientific field with other highly specialized people. He drops most of his teacherly quirks and accepts his role as a biologist. (He does teach at the end of the book, but it's more so him becoming a teacher again.)
Movie Grace never accepts that role as a full fledged biologist. At his core he is still a school teacher. Even Rocky addresses him as such. He interacts with Rocky in a much more teacherly way (albeit a very chill teacher) and his role as a teacher always feels much more natural to him.
Book Grace was more biologist than teacher, Movie Grace was more teacher than biologist
I can't remember the book well enough to make a comparison and figure out whether I agree or not but this post made me cry so I'm going to replog it anyway
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Thinking about how Carl takes the place of a very minor character named Steve in the book, and the only reason I can think of for the name change is that Karl is the name of the San Francisco fog that Grace loves
In my head, the last thing Stratt does before she's hauled off to prison is to leak all 5 terabytes of footage Grace sent her to the world. She refuses to let any of the governments of the world break her promise to hail Grace as a hero and to let them bury Rocky's existence.
The key difference between Ryland Grace in the book vs the movie is that book Grace goes back to being a biologist and movie Grace remains a teacher.
Book Grace immediately readapts to working in a highly scientific field with other highly specialized people. He drops most of his teacherly quirks and accepts his role as a biologist. (He does teach at the end of the book, but it's more so him becoming a teacher again.)
Movie Grace never accepts that role as a full fledged biologist. At his core he is still a school teacher. Even Rocky addresses him as such. He interacts with Rocky in a much more teacherly way (albeit a very chill teacher) and his role as a teacher always feels much more natural to him.
Book Grace was more biologist than teacher, Movie Grace was more teacher than biologist
