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[i-will-bite]

Hi :) I'm D.

Forever attached to clones from Star Wars. This particular blog is a mix of everything. Included but not limited to The Murderbot Diaries, Project Hail Mary, Disco Elysium, The Apothecary Diaries, and random art & trivia.

My AO3 (@i_will_bite)

@i-will-definitely-bite - the Long Dark.

@i-will-decidedly-bite - Lackadaisy.

@i-will-boldly-bite - everything Star Trek.

@i-have-bitten - archive of my art.

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I don't really bite people :) despite the names. Feel free to talk to me - we don't have to be mutuals to chat about fandom stuff 💜

One warning: occasional personal posts can be a dark place. Seriously. They are under "read more" though, so you should have no problem avoiding them.

[the-tardis-is-blue]

hilarious how grace is wandering around that aircraft carrier thinking i'm just a guy. meanwhile his security clearance is technically on the same level as the actual eva stratt herself

[manyblinkinglights]

#phm#in the book he's like#'my office is technically a storage closet. they're gonna kick me out of here when we resupply. i'm about as important as toilet paper.'#man you live on a boat. how many other people on the boat have an office at all.#you're the guy who looks at the paperwork and signs shit that's not worth bothering stratt over#which you can choose to interpret as either not very important or VERY IMPORTANT INDEED.#you're the guy who says 'yeah i think this plan is scientifically feasible'#to which stratt says 'okay my pet scientist says it'll work‚ let's go ahead and pave the sahara.'

[moredifferentthanusual]

Some guy: "i have a crazy plan"

Stratt: "hmm what do you think dr grace?"

Grace: wow what a crazy plan that would take an absurd amount of power to accomplish and have far-reaching impacts "yeah it's feasible, i'd go with it"

Stratt: "alright, you heard him, do it"

Grace: waow she has so much power to just decide that. that's wild. glad i don't decisions. i wonder why she keeps bringing me to these

[lucianinsanity]

Rocky "I want to watch you sleep as close as possible, on your chest" would not be horrified by feeling Grace insides during a hug!!!!!!

He would probably feel Grace calm down while doing it and go "I am now a hugging kinda person"

Come on, he gets RIGHT IN THERE when he wakes up and Grace sees he's fine for the first time

That clingy little crab-rock wouldn't think twice

"Yes yes, Grace might be gross looking, but he's my beloved best friend, I need to hear his heartbeat slow down and his breathing get steady while surrounding me with his arms"

[primarybufferpanel]

Something I love in the Murderbot books is how even in the corporation rim, people will do good things and help others when they have the option. People in charge of lowering zone barriers wait until the last possible moment to give more of the public a chance to evacuate. People in charge of transport warn passengers not to get off (because there's a dangerous situation) or like in the new book, go 'screw tickets, get as many people on board so there's a chance we can get them safe'.

Even as tiny cogs in that brutal, dehumanising system, people find ways

[unidentifiedspoon]

my turn at this one. ART is the feed? no. ART is the frame

[unidentifiedspoon]

part 2 of this. what if instead of be not afraid you said Be Afraid but joke's on you, asshole, it's been afraid its entire life

[paperpatchnotes]

In my head Secunit is like old like

meanwhile three is like

This isn't true but Secunit DOES say three is a newer model so

[paperpatchnotes]

lol you get it

[raviolireptile]

Project Hail Mary side characters

A lot of the side characters in PHM were changed/merged/removed for the movie so I thought I would draw how I imagined them while reading the book. Closeups below the cut!

No Leclerc is not intentionally similar looking to Jon Sims TMA he just kinda looks like that coincidentally I swear.

[lifes-pinata]

One of the compelling things about Project Hail Mary is that you can't fix it.

"What if Stratt didn't force Grace to go?" Then the Earth dies.

"What if Yao and Ilyukhina had survived?" Then they all would have died in space, not enough food to get to Earth or Erid

If the Taomoeba hadn't escaped then Grace would have never seen his best friend again. Returning to a world he loves but no longer recognizes.

If the stars weren't dying then Grace never would have met his best friend at all. Living content but alone.

Project Hail Mary is a hopeful story. It is a story of friendship and what it means to be brave. It's a story about saving the world.

But you can't remove the tragedy of the story without making it unrecognizable. It's written into the bones.

[sharkfiinn]

whatever go my little rainbow weird kid rock

[paperpatchnotes]

Ok someone has to take this away from me before I drive myself insane attmepting to idk art better 🙈

Idk how long I'll be on this murderbot train but these ARE my new favorite books to ever.

[starlingabyss]

Grace found the skittle stash!🎉

[sonyaheaneyauthor]

On the Farm by Mykhaylo Berkos. Ukraine, 1903.

[darkestbrook]

I hope they pirated Minecraft on those computers. I think Rocky would like it

[tamsong]

Hi everyone. You guys read project hail mary. you like hard sci fi. you guys liked stratt so you enjoy problematic woman, right?? You should read the three body problem

[sunderwight]

sometimes you just gotta ask yourself, what would murderbot do?

likeliest answers:

-pirate media

-bribe someone (with pirated media)

-sit in a small confined space and watch media

-internally lament the stupidity of mankind

-help out

-repress some stuff

-begrudgingly stop repressing that stuff in order to unpack it

-complain the entire time

[glittergalaxiescreations]

Spoilers for Project Hail Mary (book, definitely. Movie, idk)

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So . . . I was thinking about how "all the astronauts were there by choice" and yeah, Ryland very clearly wasn't sent up in space by choice. That was still very messed up.

But, if they stuck with this story, then Stratt technically would not be lying to say he joined the program by choice.

Yes, upon first meeting, Ryland was essentially drafted into working on Astrophage. Just like the rest of the project's scientists were. And he apparently kept this in mind.

However!

Ryland was also allowed to leave after finding out the composition of Astrophage.

He went back to his lab and straight up demanded (to Stratt's face!) to be let back on the project because he couldn't stand by and watch the world break apart. Not when his students would inherit that world.

I saw a discussion that said he was brave enough to continue working on Astrophage, despite knowing that it could melt metal within less than a fraction of a second.

It was powerful enough to evaporate metal!

That's crazy, and I feel like a lot of people would get far away from that stuff if given the choice.

Ryland went back to a lab full of this stuff of his own volition.

I don’t think he was against risking his life to help save those he cared about. It was about the finality of the Hail Mary mission. His back was against the wall and it terrified him.