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✦ elisa | my hyperfixation archive | 16 ✦

[oriixxc]

[cedardivine]

where are my strattlings at. woman who takes care of everyone from afar. who always makes sure people's contributions get recognized. that people get little birthday celebrations. that there is real food on the vat and coffee preferences on the hail mary because people need little luxuries to live, not just survive, and she wants humanity to live, not just survive. she never looks for recognition for any of it, she is never vocal about it. she's just silently kind in a million small ways. and watches from the outside while everyone reaps the benefits of it

[poizedtostrike]

I'm a fan of PHM in the way where I really like Rocky and Grace, but Eva's character makes me so emotional I want to throw up

[pineappical]

funny idea i just got for an Eridian character. meet Hardtack

[pineappical]

like a sick victorian child

[ecranimaginaire]

SANDRA HÜLLER as Erika Mann FATHERLAND (2026, dir. Pawel Pawlikowski)

[tomonimakesart]

Just some Strattland doodles cuz I wanted to simplify/stylize drawing them both

[lorrainestea]

What I love the most about the karaoke scene is Ryland admiring Stratt for being hard to read and very reserved so she goes inside, grabs the mic and is like "See I can be fun too, fuck you"

[evastrattmyangel]

That’s actually kinda what Sandra Hüller says about the karaoke scene: Stratt interpreting Grace’s words as a challenge that she decides to take on. So yeah, basically “See, I can be fun too, fuckers!” 😂

[sylvienat]

okay hear me out

[boldkatte]

Strattland AU

[thatmothra]

“Do you remember telling me you’d found the sweetest thing of all?

You said one day of this was worth dying for.

So be thankful you knew him at all.

But it’s no more.”

- See the Sun by Dido

[ruined-blog]

They could never make me hate you pirate queen

*better quality when you click sry*

[messier31andromeda]

[ahhhdownwego]

Congratulations! You made the right choice

[blonsh]

[hydr0phius]

That woman is red of hair idk where you're getting blonde from

[the225thfox]

Something about how when Grace asked Stratt if he could think about it, she gave him 3 hours, and when Grace asked Rocky if he could think about it, Rocky gives him as much time as he needs.

[jcnth11]

I think these lines were definitely meant to be parallels, but to me they're parallels of life before and after the astrophage crisis- not some proof that Rocky and Stratt lie on the opposite ends of some moral axis.

Time is what both the humans and Eridians were fighting for. More time for their planet, for their people's continued existence in the face of apocalypse. Both Earth and Erid sent their best and brightest away from home for the slim of hope of salvation. And those long shots paid off!! Despite all odds, despite being the sole survivors of their respective planets' missions, Grace and Rocky save their stars!!

Rocky can give Grace all the time in the world because of the triumph of their mission. Because of their efforts life can continue to exist as it once has!! Grace can simply... live and pursue his own happiness, take life at his own pace. After all, the threat of extinction has passed.

Stratt did not have this, in the past. Not time, nor any guarantee of a future. That's what makes it so tragic. Desperation robbed her of her decency, and impossible circumstances forced her hand. There was no time to make a more moral choice, while casualty estimates rose every moment wasted.

But at the end of the story the crisis has been eliminated. "Take all the time you need" is kind of like. The ultimate victory. Both on Erid and Earth, there is space and time again for people to live for themselves, when in the past the astrophage crisis forced them to be means to an end.

[jcnth11]

Thinking of how the wider fandom perception of Eva Stratt mirrors the fate she knew she would receive in canon: overlooked, if not condemned, scorned, or worse.

No self-pity at all when she called herself the world's whipping boy; simply another correct assessment from a woman who has never made a wrong call in her tenure as leader (#fact).

On the upside that means Stratt's supporters in canon must also be dedicated (and insane). Which would explain her jailbreak, container ship, and continued (if covert) hand in saving the world. I think as years pass and governments start to breakdown she becomes a genuine figure of counterculture, although opinions of the wider public remain divided. Meaning: clandestine support from a few donors; a blind eye turned to a sighting of her ship. However, on the small scale, this also means... fandom. A cult of personality. 

There are probably teenagers making edits of Stratt in-universe out of Petrova Taskforce PR and trial footage. They're probably powerscaling her with other world leaders. Do you think Stratt eventually gets to know what "aurafarming" means. Do you think there are kpop-style relationship analysis style videos on her and Grace ESPECIALLY post-Beetles return. Do you think there are people parasocial over the fact that Dr. Captain Ryland Grace gave her a figure of himself from another planet. There'd be Wikipedia editors documenting the long-term implications of every crime she has been charged with (the criticism, legacy and public image, and the personal life subsections of her page get a lot of edits and foot traffic); heated debates over her utilitarianism in university lecture halls all over the world. There'd be children who would grow up to idolize her, and conspiracy theorists who'll earn a living by dissecting every detail of her leadership. 

Post-astrophage crisis (for the sake of my mental well-being), I choose to believe that Stratt receives some measure of recognition. Nothing commensurate with her actual impact (:((), but at the very least acknowledgement that without her billions more would be lost. Pardons as well. Not from every country, but enough so she no longer has to live as a fugitive. I hope at the end of her life she gets to live on solid land and see the return of spring. I hope a couple of people shake her hand in the street over the years. 

Only when her death comes to pass do the honors roll in. Posthumous recognition. Museum exhibits, an NGO named after her; soon, a research center, a street here and there; farther into the future, some sort of spacecraft; perhaps a space station to orbit the planet she so loved, or an envoy to Erid. It's easy to honor a woman who can no longer challenge authority or disrupt the status quo. She's dead, so she's no longer any trouble at all. It's easier to reconcile choices with results in hindsight. 

I think Stratt will be in history books for the rest of time. Whether praised or decried, she'll be there. The lynchpin of the longest shot in the universe.