Stuff

Random stuff from my life.

[danijaci]

jumpscare!!!!

[dailylohen]

[projectorthus]

Grace sends this off as a "fuck you" to Stratt and unintentionally eases 40+ years of crippling guilt.

(40+ factoring in the Hail Mary mission, then the time it would take to get back to Erid and the time it would take for the message to get to Earth. Probably closer to 50+ actually).

(I do think Stratt felt bad. She did a lot of terrible things to save the planet, and obviously felt guilt for sending Grace off. I imagine the time waiting to hear back from the Hail Mary was torture for everyone, but she essentially sent three people off to their deaths, one unwillingly. Hearing that Grace made it out alive would be a huge weight off her shoulders.)

[halfterdark]

big big big fan of platonically, horrendously codependant grace & stratt.

like it starts with sharing passwords and whatnot, but then they have the keys to each others' rooms. grace is glued to her side like they're conjoined twins. she brings him along to meetings to science translate like he's her emotional support dog. he brings her lunch because she always forgets. they both fall asleep working in one office or lab or another all the time.

eventually they straight-up form their own way of communication. grace can say something on the same level of incomprehensible as "carl and i made a baby" and stratt will respond with some obscure hand gesture, and both of them will completely understand. they hold entire conversations like that. one day ilyukhina pops her head in the door to ask grace a question, witnesses this, and wordlessly backs away. she'll ask dubois.

there's a betting pool going on on whether they're hooking up, but one day someone finds out that grace is aroace or something, and it becomes immediately and violently clear that something much more concerning is going on with them.

i don't know. just. yes

[nocek]

Eridian kindergartners may be strong and VERY enthusiastic but they don't have that much stamina

and oh nooooo Rocky in a ball. Rocky can not help at aaaaaall ~~~~

previous instances of adventures of babysitter Grace [first comic] [second comic]

leave me suggestions and there might be a 4th installment in this series ;)

[scifikimmi]

Hey,

Question for the larger PHM fandom. In the book we see Stratt make some hard and morally gray choices that end up having legal consequences. Like, she says she will likely spend the rest of her life in jail.

... since its also implied that Grace was her second in command, helped her make decisions, and frequently signed off on stuff for her... do we think that if he hadn't gone to Space that he ALSO would have ended up with jail time???

[marya-junkerova]

i keep seeing people make broad, sweeping statements about project hail mary- specifically about Eva Stratt and it just. I need to be so so so so so clear that they softened her considerably for the movie. Book Eva is not… gentle. She doesn’t give a speech about how she isn’t betraying Ryland, she’s believing in him- she tells him he has no family, no pets, and she was always planning to send him to space against his will if she had to.

And the movie doesn’t touch on it, but there WAS a fourth option. There was another volunteer for the scientist position who was coma resistant and could have been being trained the entire time. Grace did not HAVE to be the tertiary scientist. She made the choice to NOT train that scientist and instead send Grace against his will.

And yes, he’s the main character and without that choice we wouldn’t have a book and blah blah blah but i’m not talking about why Andy Weir chose to send Grace, i’m talking about Eva Stratt. And Eva Stratt did not do it because she believed in him. She did it because she believed it was best and did not consider Grace or his autonomy at any point.

And in the book, he isn’t knocked out immediately. He sits in a cell, knowing he’s going to die and unable to doc anything about it because he knows at the end of the day, when Eva Stratt has decided something, it will happen. THEN he’s drugged and knocked unconscious and forcibly boarded on the ship.

This is not hate for Eva btw, that’s my girl, she was in an impossible position and did what she thought she needed to in order to save the human race. I deeply empathize with her and how difficult all of it must have been for her to live with.

But that doesn’t mean she didn’t do a shitty fucking thing. She did. And we don’t need to soften her up to make it more palatable.

[thombalan]

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

After school care pulled me aside about my child dropping an f-bomb “without remorse” and I put on my concerned face and nodded a bunch.

Apparently he was building something with a younger kid “who really looks up to him and is just starting to make friends” and said “Hey, you’re really fucking good at this.” which is, in my estimation, really a parenting victory.

[tinyyellowflowers-blog]

I absolutely failed at doing this:

[1300marshall]

so hiccups are a human thing right?

[chernozemm]

Love the soft, curious moments of them sharing about their own cultures, biology, etc. I do think Rocky would have a field day when Grace explains skin as a very sensitive and permeable organ with lots of stuff packed tight on the surface. Since goosebumps are very tactile, I thought Rocky would enjoy hearing those.

Also, bonus.

Because it is endlessly entertaining to me to consider how deep in the trenches Rocky is.

[chernozemm]

Asdfghgjgjddgj

I need humankind to unknowingly spawn xenophilia kinks across the universe. The energy I'm bringing to the table is the energy of the first human to enthusiastically shake hands with a Vulcan in front of the whole Vulcan delegation.

[hailmarysuggest]

Ilyukhina: *looking at Grace’s newest funny shirt* Oh, I like your top, Grace.

Carl and Stratt: Thanks.

Grace: …I don’t think I can explain 😞

Ilyukhina: That’s okay, I assumed they were passing you like a blunt anyways.

[buttered-milky]

You know what they shoulda left Yao saying “I won’t have anyone on my crew who doesn’t want to be there” in the movie. I think it’s integral to the themes. Yknow, there’s always someone in your corner when you least expect it. People are willing to defend those they know relatively little. Love is a powerful force etc etc

Like having dictator of the world tell u ur fucking going to space whether u like it or not is scary and then thinking god fucking Christ no one will even protest this bc they too must all think I’m a coward is even scarier but no. One guy did protest it. Stratt even directly addressed that the amnesia wasn’t even just for graces sake but to prevent Yao and Ilyukhina’s anger at that act from disrupting the mission. Okay bye

[rockrockgrace]

Do you think Eridians have some sort of 'rock skipping' sport, where the ones with flatter carapace shoot themselves across a lake and and the ones that go the farthest/have the best form win? Kind of like human diving competitions, but horizontal??

@forestglade YOU'RE A GENIUS YOU KNOW THAT RIGHT

(It's one of Grace's favourite Eridian Sports!)

[cookieiswriting]

@stick-eridian-collection

[ruinedchildhood]

[differentcatcat]

Priceless. Will need therapy.

[pizvoarel]

Og post by @cloudabserk I changed the text a bit to be more accurate 🫡 ref below

[epicallyevil]

Imagine being Eva Stratt getting Ryland Grace’s little beetles with the stuff you need to save your world. You took a risk, a massive gamble, almost 23 years ago. You were given all the power in the world to try and do the impossible and you were doing it. You had a talented crew of volunteers, a massive team of top tier scientists working around the clock, and poor little Grace, your resident pet genius. He’s funny and weird and endearing. You never wanted to put him in space, to send him to his death against his wish, but it’s your job to make tough decisions and the world needed him. So you put him and two others up in space and hoped that they would survive. Hoped that they would figure out a way to save the world. Hoped that the information would get back to you and that it wouldn’t be too late. Counting down the days until they should wake up, tracking the petrova line left by the ship and waiting for it to reach Tao Ceti. Then waiting another eleven years in the hope that the beetles were on their way. And then you get the beetle. And you find out that Grace, marvelous, awkward, nerdy little Grace was the only survivor. The one person who didn’t want to be there, who didn’t want to die. He didn’t just give up, he got the solution. He met an alien species and solved the issue and now you can save Sol. And you’re so proud. So, so proud of this man who was not prepared to do any of this but did it anyway. Imagine being Eva Stratt and almost crying from relief and joy and pride but having to hold it in because there’s still stuff for you to do to save the world. Just imagine.