The M9 show grabbed me by the collar and forced me back here

I'm Rae (21+ she/her). I enjoy ttrpgs / CR / Dropout / BG3 / PHM and General Gosling. Not sure if I'll make something of this blog.

[hailed-marys]

how to get out of your own way

[aroace-ryland-grace]

Hi guys! I thought I should just share my whole mini little library of Project Hail Mary-related things so they're all in one place:

It includes:

A digital copy of the movie (with subtitles in 30+ languages via download)

My transcript of the movie (more on that here)

Audio recordings of the movie

A PDF of the book

An EPUB of the book (for e-readers)

The full audiobook

A copy of Andy Weir's doc on Eridians

A copy of Andy Weir's spreadsheet on Astrophage physics (among many other things!)

A draft of the screenplay for the film from 2022

An audio recording of the director's commentary

My transcript of the director's commentary

There's also a google doc with some instructions to follow if any of the files aren't working or aren't allowing you to download them, which usually happens when too many people try to access or download something at the same time.

Additionally there's a UHD copy (that's too big to fit in the drive) here!:

Proton Drive

Securely store, share, and access your important files and photos. Anytime, anywhere.

Please note that because of the way that google drive works, some of the subtitles only work if you download the file yourself.

The audiobook, audio recordings, and commentary all have their properties programmed so they (should) work just like songs with a track number, album cover, artist, and so on if you download them.

There are two audios of the movie, one is the entire film untouched and one is that same audio cut up and broken down into separate scenes for convenience.

Additionally, there are two versions of the movie transcript, one with time stamps that match the audio recording and one without. The time stamps (+ their titles from the audio) are outlined in that version, so if you double-click on that tab or click "show outline," they'll all show up and you can pick a specific scene.

Similarly, there are two different versions of the director's commentary transcript. The first is made to listen along to the commentary, while the second is more intended to be read on its own. The first is a direct transcription of everything that's said (an attempt, at least), while the second is slightly cleaned up for easier reading, meaning things like jumbled sentences and stuttering were removed or reorganised, but nothing has been actually paraphrased. Both are broken down into different scenes based on how their conversation goes, and the listening version includes timestamps. 

The first few seconds of the commentary are missing unfortunately as my US friend who was kind enough to record it for me had some technical difficulties at the start, but the she paraphrased the part that was missed. The commentary starts at that first red shot of Ryland Grace's face in the coma suit 32 seconds into the digital copy.

As always, if anything's not working right or you notice any mistakes in anything, please let me know and I'll fix it as soon as I can!

[digitalkiddo]

If you're writing anything involving cons, scams, heists, or morally questionable characters who are very good at lying, here are some free resources I've been using for research. Saving you the "why is this in my search history" anxiety.

1. The FBI's Famous Cases & Criminals archive (fbi.gov/history/famous-cases) has detailed breakdowns of real fraud cases, Ponzi schemes, and confidence operations. The language they use is clinical and precise, which is perfect for getting the procedural details right.

2. The FTC Consumer Sentinel Network publishes annual reports on the most common fraud tactics in the US. Great for understanding how modern scams actually work and what makes people fall for them.

3. The Smithsonian's American Art Museum has a free digital collection of forgery case studies. If your character forges documents or art, this is gold.

4. Court Listener (courtlistener.com) is a free legal database where you can read actual court transcripts from fraud trials. Want to know how a real con artist talks under oath? This is where you find out.

5. The Internet Archive's collection of old newspaper crime sections. Search for "confidence man" or "swindle" in papers from the 1920s through 1960s and you'll find incredible real stories that would feel too dramatic for fiction.

Bonus: The Psychology of Fraud section on the Association for Psychological Science website has accessible articles about why people trust, how deception works cognitively, and what makes someone a convincing liar. Essential reading if you want your con artist characters to feel psychologically real.

Reblog to save for later. Your WIP will thank you.

[ratsoupee]

field trip cancelled

Based off hit tumblr post:

[lewadny]

happy june to everyone, especially my fellow aroaces

[bryancookie]

happy pride month from our favorite queer people

[darkestbrook]

[magpie-scraps]

He’s read one (1) page since he sat down.

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[criticalrolo]

caduceus won’t scry on his family or use Sending to try to contact them because he’s too scared they’re all dead, just a reminder that this shit is canon

[elfgrove]

And he did eventually ask about them during a commune with the Wildmother. He used the 3rd and last question of the spell only after asking the needed questions that looked after everyone else’s concerns and needs and he had an extra waiting. He then immediately chastised himself for weakness that he even asked rather than just held silent faith. A decade alone and not knowing, and he blamed himself for having a moment where he let that worry and fear drive him to just ask for confirmation they were alive and in his eventual path.

About that moment, you see Caduceus, who has prepared a small circle of trinkets, implements are on the ground, fall into a momentary trace. Caduceus, all the sounds of chatting and bickering and confused, raised voices here in the house begin to fade, as you feel the familiar warm breeze blow over you. You can sense the clouds above traveling at a far greater speed. Time begins to accelerate, but slow to a crawl simultaneously, and you feel the warm, familiar presence of your protector. Caduceus: Does the woman who cursed Nott live? The breeze comes cold and biting, not in a way to deny it, but in a way that shivers the truth through you. Caduceus: Has this creature ever had a conversation with Beau’s father? The cold breeze rescinds, and then, blows with equal strength. Caduceus: Does my family wait for me at the Menagerie? The cold breeze comes once more, but this time, it turns warm, to confirm as well, but this answer with less intensity. But all confirmations nonetheless. Caduceus: Good. (sighing) I regret my weakness. (“Home is Where the Heart Is”, c2e091)

[wildshaper]

Seekers table + text posts (more CR)

[rann-poisoncage]

[sicklyseraphnsuch]

What strikes me a lot is how different Maya Davinos plays the game compared to Yanessa Halovar

To put it quite frankly, as vicious as Maya is, she is a bad player because she adheres to imaginary rules. She plays for safety and safety means keeping her head down, marrying some guy, and having baby. As Julien rightfully calls out, all she's doing is handing her care and keeping into someone else's hands. That's why she resents Aranessa so much. Maya Davinos is helpless if not under the shelter of someone much bigger and more powerful than her

Yanessa is someone much bigger and powerful. Yanessa learned her lesson as a young girl watching her god fall. There is no safety in being a follower. If you want to be safe, you have to play to dominate. You cannot take your turn by the rules, you have to rewrite them. The rules are a scam for other people to live by.

Midwives and Marriages?? Pfft. Please.

Start a cult. Build a pyramid scheme. Kill yourself then resurrect in a sufficiently fabulous manner. That's how you play the game.

Maya Davinos thinks too small. She let the world tell her what she should be doing, letting them fool her into thinking this would keep her safe. It's security theater.

And Yanessa knows theater.

[tanoraqui]

what cheeses me most about Yanessa’s (attempted) last-minute insertion of the Light into Hal’s play is her excuse that it’s necessary to prevent the tragedy about a failed rebellion against Azgra from just being a tragedy. Bitch (magnificent), the tragedy is subverted by the fact that they’re putting on the play, as a triumphant and prosperous people 70 years after killing Azgra! The rebels will die, Azgra will give a gloating speech, maybe an ancestral Lloy will bow to him while glancing directly at the fourth wall, and then the actors will all get up and take their bows! You think Halandil Fang would open his much-sought-after theater with a simple tragedy about a failed rebellion against the god whose conceptual corpse he is treading upon these boards? Halandil Fang, brother of a legendary rebel, lover of a Lloy druid of the Old Path? (Yanessa doesn’t, of course; it’s just an excuse.) I’d even bet the play Kother’ai pre-dates the Shapers War in some form—Azgra seems like the sort of guy who’d enjoy forcing his slaves to perform pantomimes of his victories against them—and Hal rewrote it, or at least used it as a recognizable template. Because orcs make art, now, their own art! That’s the triumph from the tragedy!

[lordofchips]

It’s so important to me that he says “Dr. Captain Ryland Grace” when sending the Beatles back to Earth. Because the Hail Mary was made for a Captain, a Scientist, and an Engineer. And Grace only claims the Captain and Scientist parts. Because Rocky is the Engineer! Rocky is the Hail Mary’s Engineer!!!

[hollenix]

for the good of all mankind

[thestrawberryfool]

It's easy to stay motivated to get outside and go places when Guillermo del Toro is walking behind you, pushing you forward with his psychic powers.