One Cool Kid

24 - 🏳️‍🌈- very

[unhappy-sometimes]

hand over your heart

vs

how it should be

[hamsternamedmarinette]

Ostania's normalest family

The next day, at a hastily thrown together birthday party at the Forger residence:

[seerya]

I will never be over how excited Rocky was to get Grace's laptop. I mean, if I went on a mission because my planet was dying and then I met an alien who helped me save it and he also gave me the collected knowledge of his species in an advanced little machine, like, he gave that to ME. ALL THE KNOWLEDGE HIS SPECIES HAS GATHERED SO FAR, sure, they don't know how to turn Xenon into a solid but they know about relativity and radiation and movies and so many amazing things I could have never imagined before I went on this trip. And he just handed it to me because we're FRIENDS, I didn't even have to ask him for it, he just did it. Without hesitation. He didn't even tell me "This is for your planet.", he said "This is for you." Like, hello? Can you imagine coming home after decades, your crew is dead, but you made it and you don't just bring the solution for the whole "the planet is dying" thing, you bring the collected knowledge of an advanced alien species?!?!? And it was a personal gift.

The happy little dance and grabby hands were fully appropriate.

[crafteeauthor]

Imagine Eva Stratt years after sending her favorite guy to boss around to space. Getting the logs and recordings and finding out that her guy made first contact with sapient alien life and it IMMEDIATELY started bossing him around too. Like what if you surrendered your dog and it got adopted by an alien instantly. Happened to my girl Eva Stratt

[anemonemm]

i’m so normal rn

[cozy-stardust]

Imagine Grace defined his name as the elegance definition of grace and Rocky spends years thinking how fucking ironic this clumsy leaky space blobs name is.

Until Grace slips out a sentence along the lines of "could you give me a little grace here" and Rocky immediately points out he used a word wrong so Grace has to explain that yeah, grace means elegance but it can also mean mercy sometimes too.

And Rocky has to suddenly reconcile that the clumsy leaky blob that saved his life twice, that almost certainly doomed himself to come back for him, name is Mercy.

[till-dawn-do-us-part]

[carisstiel]

cas: dean is the light of my heart, his soul is my inspiration, he taught me what love is and in return I love him more than anything. I must take on all of the darkness in the world single-handedly, never telling dean about any of it, because he deserves to be happy and carefree for once. I will do anything to never be a burden to him, a man already so burdened. I yearn to be around him always but I cannot let myself be so selfish — I must only be near him to be useful in times of need. maybe I can be the guardian angel he always deserved and love him from afar, that would be enough for me

dean: cas please will you answer your phone. I just called you 87 times in a row. I’m dying to suck your dick

[spider-mann]

Project Hail Mary (2026) | Dir. Phil Lord & Christopher Miller

[seren-dipitous-art]

…okay so what if the problem with the taomeba never happened on the way back home. What if the radiation never got onto the Blip-A. What if Rocky ended up back on Erid, and Grace made it back to Earth. What if they missed each other desperately forever.

What if Grace made a lopsided crochet Rocky and cuddled it every night.

What if Rocky couldn’t stop making xenonite puppets of his alien friend.

What if I made myself cry, what about that? Huh? What then?

[pissvortex]

Do tree branch pruners count as a mech

[gayfertilitygoddess]

Imagine being Eva Stratt when the Beetles splash down and you find out that your work husband science lap dog good friend Dr. Grace whom you sent to space to die for humanity not only met an alien but through his friendship with said alien has acquired the fuel he needs to come home.

Imagine for that brief moment thinking there’s a chance you’ll see your friend again after missing him for 24 years—

Only to find out that he gave up his chance to go home. He gave up his life because he finally found someone to be brave for and it wasn’t you.

[aroace-ryland-grace]

never not thinking about eva stratt being a history major. she has seen what can happen and she will do everything she can to make sure it does not happen again because she has also seen the love and knows it's worth saving

[thirsty-and-distant]

Eva Stratt who is the most powerful woman in the world and has a powerpoint ready the second she needs to explain project hail mary. and the title page is "what is project hail mary". exactly like you would do for a classroom presentation. no one is doing it like her

and Ryland Grace. a middle school teacher. is taking notes like this is a classroom.

[atomikats]

my personal take on the matter

[bowlcutprotag]

Literally nobody I know knows Gayle Waters-Waters despite how much she has contributed to society and meme culture. Get rid of the couches. We can’t let people know we sit. Was anyone gonna tell me x or was I supposed to read it in x myself. That gif of her in the kitchen breaking a board with her head. Her mad dash from the house that ends with her jump kicking her mailbox off

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[lemondoddle]

[Description: a looping bouncy animation of grace and Rocky from project hail mary. Grace throws himself onto rocky for a hug, smiling and nuzzling his face to the top of Rocky's xenonite covered carapace. Rocky brings a claw up to ruffle Grace's hair and grace throws himself even more on top of rocky, rocky wrapping his arms around grace. End description.]

[verenakauer]

I know there's a popular headcanon that Grace's crew died because of feeding tubes malfunction (based on the paperwork Grace was doing right before the explosion), but — in the book he specifically says that even after the accident he kept dealing with that same paperwork on minor Hail Mary issues, so I doubt that feeding tube problem was left unaddressed. May I offer instead:

Grace was put into coma by the people who cared about him. They (especially Yáo being Yáo) probably double-triple-quadruple checked everything. They watched him sleep for those first few days — I doubt they went into coma immediately after leaving Earth's orbit. They probably talked to him, assuring him that he'll be okay.

Ilyukhina's coma procedure was probably supervised by Yáo. He made sure that everything was in order, but — he is just one man and he is not a doctor. There was much more room for mistakes.

When Yáo went to sleep, he was alone. He had to rely on the technology completely.

We know that he died first.