Mulit-fandom chaos

I'm a minor. Likes LOTM, Ace Attorney, DMC, Sherlock, Murdle, MTP, PHM, Ghost Trick, AC, BSD, YOI, SK8, Case Study of Vanitas, Record of Ragnarok, Black Butler, Professor Layton, Watch Dogs, Little Nightmares, many musicals, Castlevania, Mythology (especially Greek), Warrior Cats, Uncharted, TMA, Mechanisms and more but I can't think of them all off the top of my head. Also music, I play instruments too!! @jay_feather23 on tiktok

[only-a-heartbeat-away]

Rules: Make a poll with ten of your favorite shows and let people vote on which one they like the most.

Saw this tag game and really wanted to do it myself!

Which of these shows do you like the most?

Spongebob Squarepants

Avatar: The Last Airbender

Gravity Falls

Supernatural

Gilmore Girls

Grey’s Anatomy

Lucifer

The Good Place

Criminal Minds

New Girl

I haven’t watched any of these shows/don’t like any of them/results

Voting ended onMay 11

@emometalhead @ride-the-hammett @leviathanlazarus @bettergobackoutandfindher and anyone else who wants to do this!

[ride-the-hammett]

Thanks for the tag @only-a-heartbeat-away

Which do you like the most? 🤔🤔

Gilmore Girls

Bob's Burgers

Sex And The City

Psych

Walking Dead

New Girl

Hot In Cleveland

Arrested Development

Girls 5 Eva

2 Broke Girls

Voting ended onMay 16

Tagging @rottingbite @hungercityhellhound @iggysinfamouspoolhall @boy-oneder @a-sad-punk @simpforsimon @vancruejovi @rhythm-catsandweed @elliotts-personal-property @ayehnsfang @badluck-fistfxck and anyone wanting to do it!! 😁😁

[simpforsimon]

Thanks for tagging me @ride-the-hammett

Tagging here because Tumblr is being a butt: @metallicames @5000voltsthroughme @unicorndiehard @billlyramone @radccoonwitch @wysteriagay69 @sleepyykal @ametoaleta

Which show do you enjoy the most

Downton Abbey

Heaven Offical’s Blessing

One Piece

1883

Unsolved Mysteries

Gunsmoke

Mama’s Family

The Nanny

Different Strokes

Voting ended onMay 16

[sleepyykal]

Thanks for the tag @simpforsimon !!

It won’t let me tag at the bottom but whatevs

@idontgottatellyoucrap @thatonebisexualgunner @papahetluvr @angelius-ir1des @cliffburtonlover participate if u want !!

Which one is ur faveee

House M.D

The Walking Dead

Death Note

Interview with the Vampire

DC Superhero Girls

The animated Batman series

The Amazing world of Gumball

Teen Titans Go!

A series of Unfortunate Events

The Justice League

Voting ended onMay 10

[thatonebisexualgunner]

Yaey ty

Pick your fav show

Grey‘s Anatomy

13 Reasons Why

Lucifer

Teen Titans Go!

Suits

Outer Banks

Atlanta Medical

O.C., California

Gilmore Girls

Stranger Things

Voting ended onMay 16

@j3nny21xcx @glitterystrawberrypeace @ser4phim-sw4ggot @idontgottatellyoucrap @angelius-ir1des @axlthetwink87 @undead-vamp @thereisnomilkk

[j3nny21xcx]

Tyy!

pick a show :)

One Piece

13 reason why

Michiko and Hatchin

Arcane

The Hollow

Julie and the phantoms

Stranger things

Anne with an E

Never have I ever

shameless

Voting ended onMay 10

@aleks-is-dead @irlorangecat @kcookiez @dietcoke-cans @imhungryyyyyyyyyy @baldbrams @0xxsleepyheadxx0 +open tags

[irlorangecat]

Thanks for the tag <3

Pick a showww

Black Lagoon

House MD

Castlevania

Total drama

Devil May Cry

The Hollow

Inside job

Kakegurui

Gliniarze

MLP

Voting ended onMay 10

You can tell I was running out of series I watched by the end

@norzyczki @theinterpretingbookworm @smalllookingturtle +open tags

[norzyczki]

<3

Pick pick pick!!

Anne with an E

Outlander

BBC Merlin

Derry Girls

The Society

Why Women Kill

Our Flag Means Death

Over the Garden Wall

The End of The Fu*** World

The Hunting of Bly Manor

Voting ended onMay 16

@surrealie @five-raccoons-in-a-trenchcoat @shwuuu @runasulienadanika + open tags!

[shwuuu]

Well this one seems fun!

☆

Arcane

Winx club

Helluvaboss

Punks triangle

TADC

At 25 in Akasaka

Heartstopper

Jack & joker

Mary and the witch's flower

Your name

Voting ended onMay 14

Tags: @acideatingcockroach @meowwmeowmwahh @kcookiez @jungyeinieeeeee @ethanslife1o1 @adamantinetoska @deathhull @joe-chungus @later-heaven + anybody else

Ik this one is more tiring to make, so no pressure <3

[adamantinetoska]

:]

my hero academia

heartstopper

arcane

hazbin hotel

helluva boss

gravity falls

Voting ended onMay 15

I only have 6 😭

tags: @4hl474h @corvus-limbus @corvine-cosmos @daughterofdeath28 @dropoutbeatle @evenpuppet3 @extra-terrestrial-3 @geekandafreak @islaiscoolerthanbefore @ladypomithe3rd @lovinglyours90 @later-heaven @lalalilliloopsy @meowch-agh @merrychristmas-pleasedontcall @niyahmonroee @ratmalsoup @samuelmustdie

[corvine-cosmos]

:3

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power

Voltron Legendary Defender

Arcane

The Owl House

Tales of Arcadia (I'm counting it as one series)

Gravity Falls

Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts

Dragons Race to the Edge

Avatar The Last Airbender

The Legend of Korra

Voting ended onMay 22

@transsharkguy @littleduckdudee @acetrashgremlin @shaethecrow @4lethia @guineapigdork @daughterofdeath28 @sesneksheep @later-heaven

[sesneksheep]

Pick one 👀👀

Heartstopper

13 reasons why

the amazing digital circus

Alien stage

Castlevania

BBC Sherlock

arcane

Arcane

ARCANE

ARCANEEEEEEEE :D

Voting ended onMay 16

(I don't know that many shows TT)

(absolutely not biased 🌚🌚)

@that-one-gay-turtle @lesbianinthewildlol @littlechaoscryptid @raine-fall777 @somebananaaa @lioleshark @chr0nically-b0red @potatodontlikeuman @sonofchupacabra @someaverageteenagegirl @p3rpetual-moti0n @mrow42 @amanyn @jaxandn-loveme +everyone who wants :D

[potatodontlikeuman]

YES SHOWS

choose

Heart Break High

MLP

Dragons Race to the Edge

DHMIS

BSD

MHA

Horimiya

Wakfu

Hazbin Hotel

Helluva Boss

Voting ended onMay 22

Wtf is my personality at this point there is so much variation there-

Anyway tags:

@wtfamidoinghere12 @amultifandomgirly @the-l0ser-st4rr @prettyprincesse80 @iamheretoservenuggets @ashthemultifanatic @aikooki @amethystspaceace @confusedfroggirl @eveessideblogfornonsense @frogshroomsarentadrug @friendlylemon87 @gregoriahlookin @grapefruit-offical @i-eat-asphalt @rattboxwarriorr @sage3939 @the-frogshroom-god-and-ruler @tetsuthesunanin @twomanyeyes @weird-gummyworm and anyone else i accidentally missed if u sew this :p

[frogshroomsarentadrug-offical]

wowie!

:3

Gravity Falls

The Owl House

Hazbin Hotel

Helluva Boss

Amphibia

Carmen Sandiego

The Amazing Digital Circus

Murder Drones

Voting ended onMay 17

i dont know any more shows 😭

@pami-the-bunterfly07 @silly-fi5h @weirdo-offical @whitestreamrct2 @jayfeather-04 @k4tskr4tch99 uhhh i dont really know sorry if i missed uuu

[jayfeather-04]

Ooh

which one

Sk8 the Infinity

Moriarty the Patriot

Record of Ragnarok

Yuri on Ice

The Mentalist

Lord of the Mysteries

Devil May Cry

BBC Sherlock

Castlevania

Bungo Stray Dogs

Voting ended onMay 23

@s0f-arg2010 @greypigman07 @celestialbeingsthings @acingthisattorney @milkofbeads @human-name-right-here

[whimsy-on-the-moon]

tagged by @vampiric-decay it wouldn’t let me rb for some reasonnn

Mario Kart Main: Rosalina everytimeee (she may have been my gay awakening in the motorcycle suit tbh)

Gas station order: blackberry iced tea and a pep n cheddie (theyre usually gross but road trips make them taste good idk)

Animal you were obsessed with when you were 8: foxes since I was wee

Lightsaber colour: I would want Ashoka’s white double wielding ones they’re soooo cool

Vampires, werewolves, or dragons: obviouslyyyy vampires there’s no competition I fear

tagging @little-doggy-boy-kisserstraight @zombies-sold-cheap @renee-minkowskis-therapist @angelgarters uhhh whoever else I tag I forget

[renee-minkowskis-therapist]

Thanks for the tag!

Don't play Mario Kart, but:

Gas station order: Pickle-flavored potato chips, Life Saver gummies, and a bottle of water.

Animal you were obsessed with when you were 8: Bunnies, and I still kind of am.

Lightsaber color: My only exposure to Star Wars came when my now ex-best friend made me watch the original trilogy, and my dad's attempts to get me to watch the rest have mostly failed, so I do not know the extent of the lightsaber colors. The green ones are pretty.

Vampires, werewolves, or dragons: While I'm not a big supernatural creatures guy, from a literary standpoint I really fuck with werewolves.

Tagging @aro-geo-turtle, @manesetgalaxies, @lyss-overcomplicates-everything, and anyone else who wants to join in!

[manesetgalaxies]

Mario Kart Main: splatoon boy purple!!!

Gas station order: fanta or a Dr Pepper and watermelon sour patches. or pretzels <333 #mypretzels

Animal you were obsessed with when you were 8: the humble okapi babeyyyyyy !!!!!

Lightsaber colour: green!! :3 i have thought long and hard about it

Vampires, werewolves, or dragons: vampires!! for no reason at all!! :D

tagging: @idiot-in-the-walls @iicor @weirdo-with-a-potato and anyone else who wants to join!!

[iicor]

mario kart main - yoshi or waluigi (gemder)

gas station order - iced tea and corn nuts - and haribo gummy bears or peach rings

animal i was obsessed with when i was 8 - snow leopards and chinese river dolphins

lightsaber - yellow!

vampires, werewolves, or dragons - vampires. i'm bisexual, what more do you want from me /silly

@wiltingtu1ips @aussiebeth @autopilotangel @depressionanddrama @vickysnowpawz @sunshine-snake @coppperrrcoinnnn @aries0nmars @maedaeeee @mars2moons @moon-storm @kitab00m101 + open tags!

[moon-storm]

Oooh funnnn

Mario kart main- link or pink gold peach

Gas station order (we don’t call them this lol)- sausage roll, a bag of pretzels, a punnet of blueberries or strawberries, CAPRI SUN, and a bag of some sweet or smth

Animal I was obsessed with when I was eight: snow leopard or border collie

Lightsaber- purpol

Vampires, werewolf or dragons- dragons all the way, in less its werewolf’s from that one book

@mars2moons @fandom-portal @faenar @landofw0nder @ghostie-blu

[fandom-portal]

Mario kart main: Rosalina

Gas station order: ??? Dr pepper ig? (We dont have one close to home and I'm never really allowed to but sweets/snacks when we drive past one)

Animal I was obsessed with at 8 years old: Wolves

Lightsaber: Red

Vampires, werewolves of Dragons: Dragons 100% (unless werewolf covers other were creatures like werecats in which case it is a difficult choice)

@saint-eebydeeby @court-jester-on-the-throne @spindlezero @landofw0nder @fussbudget-fopdoodle-fribbler +open tags

[birdbrain-on-tumbler]

Mario Kart Main: I don't play

Gas station order: Vanilla coffee and chips

Animal you were obsessed with when you were 8: same here wolves and horses

Lightsaber colour: orange??

Vampires, werewolves, or dragons: dragons!

Tags

@merthaevelynk @doingautismsohardfortangi @hartogtm

@shadow-ember16 @smallishmaddox. @mxshrimp @crazyqueerqueen @leaf-onyx @rusty-spooooooooon

[eveessideblogfornonsense]

Mario Kart main: Rosalina is my fave character but I play Isabella from Aniaml crossing cuz I win

Gas station order: I go to Costco for gas there is no order

Animal you were obsessed with when you were 8: I don't get hyper fixated on animals I got third life

Lightsaber colour: Red ofc

Vampires, Werewolves, or dragons: ooo I'm a vampire myself cuz I like the taste of blood lol but I rlly like the idea of flying on a dragon so Dragon

@sunshine-snake @sunshinefroggers @lotustired @potatodolikeuman @peskybirdonyx @birdbrainztumb1r @rzkx @yosanoschainsaw @yourlocalavian @iwishfishwerereal @iicor @tabbykai @maedaeeee @nerd-alerts and open taggsss

[potatodolikeuman]

Mario Kart main: Toad or Monty Mole (but he is never an option)

Rosalina is a close 3rd (she is my fav princess and 2nd-3rd fav character)

Gas station order: petrol??? Yall order meals from gass stations??? Ig like lollies or something (or a frozen drink thing if they have that but ive only been to like 2 that have them)

Animal you were obbssessed with when you were 8: Ducks or Tiger Quolls (or pottentially penguins)

Lightsabber colour: are there rules to this?? Ima say Yellow (but it has a gradient with purple)

Vampires, Werewolves or Dragons: Dragons.

@wtfamidoinghere12 @amultifandomgirly @the-l0ser-st4rr @prettyprincesse80 @iamheretoservenuggets @ashthemultifanatic @aikooki @amultifandomgirly @confusedfroggirl @frogshroomsarentadrug @gregoriahlookin @friendlylemon87 @i-eat-asphalt @lioleshark @leftoversandwch @loser-37 @nerdonline23 @opal-sunshine @rattboxwarriorr @sage3939 @the-frogshroom-god-and-ruler @tetsuthesunanin @twomanyeyes @weird-gummyworm

[frogshroomsarentadrug-offical]

uhm.

Mario kart main: don't play enough to have one

Gas station order: slushies and those ten cent bubblegums

Animal you were obsessed with when you were 8: hmmm. Pineapples.

Lightsaber colour: uh. Is there rules cause if not, blue green

Vampires, werewolves, or dragons: Always dragons.

@pami-the-bunterfly07 @silly-fi5h @whitestreamrct2 @weirdo-offical @k4tskr4tch99 @jayfeather-04 @yori-mori

[jayfeather-04]

Hmm

Haven't played Mario kart in ages but I do like toad

I'm assuming a gas station is the same as a petrol garage (I'm not American) but a bottle of water, magic stars and a twister ice lolly

Animal you were obsessed with when you were 8: umm gonna go with foxes, always liked them

Lightsaber colour: i need to properly watch star wars don't think I've ever seen it all but turquoise if that's possible

Vampires, werewolves or dragons: oooh going with vampires but dragons are a close second

@human-name-right-here @acingthisattorney @celestialbeingsthings @greypigman07 @s0f-arg2010 @milkofbeads

[aroace-ryland-grace]

Some of a random Eridian's favourite Grace noises

[jayfeather-04]

Shared this in the ace attorney community I'm in a while back but I dont think i remembered to put it here. Theres a lego ideas Apollo Justice courthouse. So if you have a lego account go support it!! And share with other fans you know elsewhere. Even if you don't have an account, it is so easy to set up, so if you'd like to see this as a set please support it in any way you can. It isn't my lego idea, I just seen it and it's really cool!!

Here is the link

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy Courthouse | LEGO® Ideas

HOLD IT! The Ace Attorney series is an iconic and beloved franchise depicting the wacky and convoluted misadventures of Phoenix Wright, a ro

[jelicatessen]

PHM means so much to me as a scientist because for once, a movie celebrates the wonder of science and human capability, of morality without throwing anyone (not even Stratt!!!) under the bus, it celebrates our ability to collaborate and come together when we need to, it celebrates teachers and scientists as people we can aspire to be like, it celebrates the love of learning and curiosity, and in a time where anti-intellectualism is so rampant, it's everything the world needs to remember that being smart and being passionate and being brave is what the world needs to grow

[alexxuun]

Random PHM things.

[jayfeather-04]

Jumpscared me for a second there..... don't do me like that google. Its talking about a new adaption not what I thought it was going to be.

[jayfeather-04]

No, YOU think we sitting in silence. I, in fact, have an entire radio station of absolute tunes playing in my head ALL THE TIME

[essaimart]

☝️ one

[jayfeather-04]

forgot brain freeze existed guys, absolutely devoured a tub of ice cream and a smoothie and nothing happened

[forgetful-nerd]

Spelling mistakes? I guarantee neither of us saw those at 3:00 AM Monday Morning.

[forgetful-nerd]

Tumblr users multitasking:

[zstraps]

the musical motifs of project hail mary

been nerding out about the project hail mary score real hard, so here are some notes on the various motifs the appear throughout the score! this is just based on my own observations from listening to the score on repeat for the last two weeks, noticing patterns, then going back to the film to see the exact moments they correspond to. this score is so so gorgeous but also so so SMART, the more i listen to it, the more i hear.

(note: this post contains SO MANY SPOILERS)

main theme (connection)

there are two motifs that appear most often/prominently throughout the film, but I think of this one as the main theme. while it's not the first music we hear in the movie, it's added on to the beginning of the first track on the score album, almost like an intro to set the tone, and it's prominent in the last song we hear as well, bookending the score.

it shows up over and over again in the score, usually at moments of connection, collaboration, and trust. it's often heard as choral vocals, in the rhythm written above (often repeated a second time with the last note up a fifth) but there are many many variations on it as well.

its big debut is when grace takes off his helmet in the tunnel, trusting rocky and allowing connection between them (Connection)

however a variation of it appears earlier, when grace first puts the hail mary into centrifuge mode (Centrifuge). the melody starts with this sequence of notes, and a variation of it can also be heard as a small ornamentation right as he pulls down the lever. the score here is dreamy and optimistic—a celebration of humanity's innovation and success in coming together to design the hail mary.

after rocky tells grace he will give him enough astrophage to go home (Grace Go Home)

when grace is observing the taumoeba under the microscope and realizing that he and rocky succeeded (Tau Amoeba)

in Amaze Amaze Amaze, the upbeat song which plays as grace shows rocky the breeder tanks and as they celebrate their success, then again during the final scene of grace and rocky on erid. not only is the main form of the theme present as vocals (in Fist My Bump) and strings (in Life on Erid), but the repeated syncopated melody that forms the backbone of the song is actually a variation using the same pitch sequence

astrophage theme

this is the second of the two most prominent motifs. it's often repeated a second time down a half step (which puts the second instance in a minor key). another common variation is for the final note to go up instead of down (up to a G and then resolve to an A). like the main theme, it is very often choral vocals, but it appears in many variations.

(as a side note, one thing i love about the choral vocals in this score—in addition to the celestial/holy sound and the organic/human aspect—is that while they're wordless, there's a bit of vowel distinction and consonant articulation. not enough to be recognizable as words, but enough that your brain interprets it as language and strains to understand it, recreating rocky and grace's experience in a way)

anyway. i call this one the astrophage theme, but it's broader than that. it underscores moments of profound emotion. both have a celestial, almost holy/spiritual sound, but where the main theme is hopeful, the astrophage theme is haunting, present for moments of wonder, uncertainty, grief, awe. it's the feeling of looking up at the stars and feeling very, very small.

the very first time it's heard is (briefly, but very clearly) at the moment grace realizes he has bred astrophage (Box in a Box)

it's there as a small ornamentation in Secret Clearance on the score album, though interestingly I don't hear that part in that scene in the movie

during the burial scene, beginning right when grace nearly breaks down giving their eulogies, and then building as he sends their bodies off (You Were Loved)

when grace and rocky talk about their crewmates dying (Learning to Communicate). leads into "grace rocky save stars", followed by the dies irae theme (more on that below)

during grace and stratt's conversation on deck, right when he asks if she believes in god (God Willing)

during grace's moment in the petrova line!!!! here it's slow and grandiose, with a huge swelling orchestral sound (A Moment)

in the background as rocky and grace realize that astrophage has a natural predator on adrian (Life Is Reason)

after grace sets up the taumoeba breeder tanks and there's nothing left to do but wait for rocky to wake up (Tau Amoeba)

as rocky and grace say goodbye (Goodbye My Friend)

the moment grace makes his choice to save rocky instead of returning to earth (Xenonite Contamination)

ascending 6ths

ascending 6th intervals, often repeating in a descending sequence. i can't even catalogue everywhere this motif is used because it's so omnipresent in the score. it's often played on cristal baschet, which gives the score that unearthly, shimmery vibrato. but it shows up in some other really cool variations as well!

dies irae

ok this one is really, really cool. this is a variation on the dies irae, a theme from a 13th-century gregorian chant about the judgment day that was used in funeral masses, which in the last century or so has been widely quoted in music from symphonies to film scores. here's a video from a composer talking about how the dies irae theme has become synonymous with death and apocalypse in popular consciousness, and project hail mary's more hopeful-sounding variation on it.

within the score, the dies irae still represents high-stakes moments and moments of existential fear—where failure would mean death for the characters and their entire species and planets. but it's transposed from the original into a major key (i think from dorian to lydian? don't quote me tho), and at times the second part of the phrase is changed to move upward instead of downward, giving it a swelling, hopeful feeling.

it's first heard when grace looks at astrophage under the microscope for the first time, in the lab on earth. (interestingly, this doesn't appear at this point on the score album, and i think it might actually be Life Is Reason, which comes way later?? the music at the moment he puts the petri dish under the scope is the exact same as when he's putting the petri dish with the sample from tau ceti's petrova line under the scope!)

it appears again when stratt and co are explaining the hail mary mission to grace—and it comes in specifically when they say they need grace to breed the astrophage, aka the moment that the stakes become personal for him (Secret Clearance)

as noted above, it comes in after rocky and grace talk about losing their crews and rocky's determined "grace rocky save stars". the score has been more curious and upbeat in the few minutes prior as they begin to communicate; now the dies irae theme interweaves with that optimism as they are reminded of the stakes (Learning to Communicate)

it's heard as grace and rocky study their petrova line sample and they begin to prepare to collect samples from adrian's atmosphere (Life Is Reason). this is where you can really hear the more hopeful upward-climbing variation, particularly as grace looks at the sample under the microscope and the music builds towards rocky's realization of the significance of life on adrian.

and of course it's a huge part of the masterful building of tension as they're retrieving the samples from adrian's atmosphere (Time Go Fishing)

what i didn't realize until i was halfway through writing this post, though, is that the main theme is ALSO a variation on this one! the four notes of the main theme are the first four notes of the dies irae. there are some moments, like the choral vocals when grace is first looking closely at rocky (Connection), where i truly wasn't sure whether which motif to put it under. so not only does the score inject a more hopeful sound into the dies irae, it also remakes it entirely, into something nearly unrecognizable—transforming death and fear into connection and trust.

curiosity theme

this one shows up for moments of curiosity and investigation!

it first appears in the score in Water Based. i can't actually find this one in the film, so if anyone knows where it is, let me know! but my best guess is that this was planned as the score for when grace is first in the lab studying astrophage, but it was replaced with a version of Life Is Reason. it's very wet-sounding, which is fun. the lower staff pitches are approximated with percussion, sort of like a proto-version of the motif that then develops further.

it shows up as grace is deciphering the contents of rocky's canister (The Message)

and when grace starts building his translator and they start to be able to talk (Learning to Communicate)

the synocpated motif in the lower staff is heard as grace demonstrates the astrophage's power for the astronauts

and when rocky wakes up while grace is sleeping, it's what plays as the lights come on and rocky comes into frame in his ball (Wake Up Buddy)

the four note sequence from the top staff is heard when rocky and grace are in the tunnel, after their mirrored motions, when they come closer and look at each other through the xenonite (Connection)

and! the same sequence appears diegetically in the same scene—rocky vocalizes it as he taps on the xenonite!

box in a box (aka doin' science together)

this one just makes me laugh a lot. this motif appears in Box in a Box, when grace and carl are putting a sealed box (containing the three astrophage) inside the sealed lab. and a variation of it appears later in Rocky Moves In.... aka a sealed container (rocky's ball) inside a bigger sealed container (the hail mary)

they're also both moments of working together, where grace is letting someone else in to his work!

hail mary theme

this motif scores the first moments of the film and the climax. it has a few similar variations, so i just picked one to transcribe, but they all use the same main pitches, just rearranged a bit and with different grace notes. i'm not sure of the exact instrument it's usually played on, but whatever it is has a very bright, resonant tone. i think of this one as the theme for life triumphing over the odds.

it's the first music we hear in the film, as grace is waking up on the hail mary (Ryland Grace Cognition Assessment)

we hear a similar version of it after yao tells grace "you just have to find someone to be brave for"

it's heard as rocky is waking up after saving grace. the score swells into the last few notes just as grace hugs rocky's ball (Wake Up Buddy)

after grace goes back for rocky, the score shifts from a darker sound to this motif right as rocky appears in the tunnel, and that same triumphant swell happens right as they touch hands through the xenonite (Believe in the Hail Mary). the same song continues through the shots of the probes reaching earth and stratt watching grace's video

whew!

this post got so much longer than i meant it to! i hope someone else finds this all as interesting as i did. it's such a brilliant score, and it really rewards a close listen—there are so many moments where these motifs are woven together in very clever ways. please feel free to add on with any moments i missed, other observations, or just your favorite moments from the score!

[jayfeather-04]

Lazy edit as I am working on a bigger one (and a lotm P!ATD one) but I seen a sherlock video with this audio and this was my first thought so I just had to use it.

[sunflowermumblings]

This one went triple platinum on tiktok

[animatedjen]

The Stars Stay the Same | Project Hail Mary

[animatedjen]

Don't Look Back | Project Hail Mary

[elgatoarcoiris]

i miss the fog...🌫