He'd have very different feelings about this depending on when in his timeline he's asked - so here's a few Ambroyses across the years.
4/10 uncomfortable as a callow young brat for whom "consequences" are things he's heard of but never seen, 10/10 after he's been slapped with multiple comeuppances, and 7/10 when he finally (sort of) knows better but doesn't enjoy being reminded of a time when he didn't.
i almost forgot to translate and post about this shiwang agenda from three-body universe's weibo acccount. so right before the new year, three-body universe posted two year-in-review videos for wang miao and shi qiang, and they are just filled with shiwang agenda, especially shi qiang's (after all, 80% of what he does in season 1 is just being miaomiao's emotional support turkey bodyguard).
this is the shiwang part from wang miao's year-in-review.
and shi qiang's year-in-review is really flooded with shiwang agenda:
last but not least, I FREAKING CAN'T BELIEVE THEY PUT THIS IN THE VIDEO. THIS IS NOTHING BUT PURE ROMANCE. THIS IS ROMANCE AT ITS BEST:
they really down right put miaomiao's crying face in there, and tell us that is a unique and beautiful sight that shi qiang wants to look at for the entire night. I CAN'T...this is the kind of shit that you put in a love letter!!! I REALLY CAN'T!!!
whoever's running the three body universe weibo account, i love you!
Three-Body Community's new post on Wang Miao's breakdown in front of Wangfujing church after witnessing universe flicker via 3K glasses. This is actually a post about Gamma Normid meteor shower happening on March 14th to 15th which kinda mimics the universe flicker. I absolutely love how Three-Body copyright holder's weibo account is so good at connecting the novels/tencent's tv series to current events.
So a nanoscientist and a microbiologist walk into a bar
(spoilers for phm and the three body trilogy below cut)
Project Hail Mary and The Three Body Problem have such striking similarities to me. Obviously their content is similar; both are hard scifi and depict first contact with aliens, and off the top of my head some of the central themes are human resilience and connection in times of strife. (maybe the latter isn't as prevalent in the text of Three Body, but it's still there)
However, the books are also counterparts of sorts. Three Body is intensely impersonal in its focus on plot and worldbuilding over characters.. it will sack characters freely. Wang Miao appears only in the first book and disappears after. There's a recurring image, of one tiny person against the vast cosmos, of insignificance. The universe will die and be reborn and it will be like we never existed, but we still existed, but does it really matter? The alien adversaries in the book were so powerful that they likened us to bugs. Though it was pointed out that bugs like locusts survive despite the best efforts of the locusts' adversaries (humans), we still got crushed in the end.
Project Hail Mary, meanwhile, is so so personal. From the very first page the reader gets intricate insight into Grace's problem-solving process from his perspective, with first-person narration. He cries every other chapter. The reader experiences or is exposed to every emotion he feels and we get intensely attached to him and Rocky as the book goes on. There's the feeling of one human against the universe, but the human is actually... winning? We are bugs, we're literally using beetles to transport our saving grace back to Earth, but it. it works? I was thrown by this because I'd read Three Body first and was fully expecting to see the Hail Mary explode horribly. But no, it's sci-fi hopecore.
they're so alike, they're so different. They're two sides of a coin, the heads side facing a brighter future and the tails side slipping down a gravity well of doom. Not to mention the characters: on the one hand you have Grace, who never raised kids but taught so many of them, and he loved them so much they were always at the forefront of his thoughts. On the other hand, you have Wang Miao, who had a wife and a kid, but I don't think he ever once has a single thought about his kid in the book and his wife is mentioned like, twice (it's cause he's too busy thinking about his gay bodyguard Shi Qiang trust). Even in the 'divorce bad' environment typical to China at the time I think it makes the most sense to headcanon his wife divorcing him. You got the teacher who loves so intensely but just doesn't have the relationships society expects of him (hello aroace Grace) and you got the Successful Career in Applied Science guy who looks Properly Heterosexual until you realize he has no romantic attachment to his wife and also does not care about his kid. You have two people, two middle-aged guys who are also leading scientists who somehow got unwillingly roped into save-the-world plots, and who object to the loss of autonomy they experience along the way, but who ultimately really, really care about Earth and all the people there.
...so anyways the (friend)ship name is locustbeetle-
I think the reason I’m so obsessed with Billy Batson identity reveal fics is because how *would* you react to that.
Imagine you work in finance or something and then your coworker (who is amazing at his job by the way) shows up one day and just… is ten years old? And he’s not concerned about this btw, apparently being ten is his usual afterwork activity, definitely not weird or reality bending at all. He’s more concerned about losing his job, for some reason? Plus, he’s better at your job than you are. so now, as well as grappling with the fact that this adult man you work with moonlights as a preteen boy you also have to come to terms with the fact that you are worse at your profession than a TEN YEAR OLD BOY. (The phrase, ‘whatever you do, there will always be a child doing it better than you’ comes to mind)
ALSO- in most cases- your boss? Totally okay with it. In fact, he knew, for a while. Forgot to mention it really. He has full intentions of letting this three apples tall kid continue to do whatever it is you do, he can’t see a problem with it. Labour laws definitely don’t exist or apply…