The Hotspring

Just my blog to chat and rant

[justakidicarus]

I am very excited to introduce Icarus (Kid) in his full colour reference!

Design notes:

Kid’s gemstone is a Sapphire

Kid’s wings and tail is tipped with gold because I wanted to separate him more from Pit, his inspiration

Yes his ears are feathered

Blue is my favourite colour

His eyes change colour with his mood. They are different here to showcase them. His eyes are blue when he’s calm and gold when worked up

I was inspired to draw again by Tumblr so thanks for giving me the confidence to try and draw again.

[sylvies-kablooie]

i do unironically think the best artists of our generation are posting to get 20 notes and 3 reblogs btw. that fanfic with like 45 kudos is some of the best stuff ever written. those OCs you carry around have some of the richest backstories and worldbuilding someone has ever seen. please do not think that reaching only a few people when you post means your art isn't worth celebrating.

[justakidicarus]

Ok I kinda really needed that right now. 20k words deep with another 10k already written for my long fic and I’ve pretty much gotten to the climax of act 1 of three of the fic. It’s posted and three chapters are already out, and I even think the writing is the best I’ve ever done…

But I’ve had a single comment the entire time, and less than 20 kudos. In three months. And it feels really disheartening, especially when I’ve been working on this story for half a year now, and it’s the first long fic I’ve ever committed to finishing in over a decade of fanfic writing. I don’t even know if I have any returning readers who actively follow the story, even though I try to be just that on the other works I actively follow and. I struggle badly with intrinsic motivation so seeing the poor reception my fic is getting isnt the best for my writing schedule.

It feels like I managed to post right when the fandom died down to near silent, as is typical for this specific fandom. And it’s not like it’s a small fandom, in fact my works for smaller fandoms that were of an objectively worse quality had a better reception. But also that the story and world I’ve been working to craft, the characters I’ve been building… people just don’t really like it at all. Even my own sibling who is the closest thing I have to a beta and someone who at least used to be obsessed with the fandom just… refuses to read it because they moved on from the fandom for now. Even if I desperately ask them to check over a scene for me to check if the tone is alright or if it’s too jarring. Just… Less than zero interest from everyone around me. And that’s not including my other sibling who actively avoids looking at it. The one time I want a beta and I can’t even find one in my friends.

So thanks, I needed this. You’re the reason Chapter five will be finished.

Bit of a vent post but yeah, sometimes putting yourself out there can be soul crushing if you aren’t entirely posting for yourself. Sue me I have an ego, and one or two nice comments can make my whole day. It just… isn’t great when those comments don’t come… at all.

That’s why for the fics I actively follow, and the ones I really like, I go out of my way to comment. For the ones I’m not following just a small one, but for the main ones I follow I try to write something really substantial, just to try and brighten their day.

I at least want to affirm for them that I love what they’re writing and want to read more. Even if I don’t have any commenter like that for me yet (growth mindset).

Again, just wanted to get this off my chest.

[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 telesync of the movie (with English soft subtitles)

A digital copy of the movie (with occasional Russian hard subtitles)

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

The telesync subtitle SRT file

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 transcript, one with time stamps that match the audio 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.

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 commentary starts around the shot of the robot arms right before the shot of "good luck!" written on Grace's sleeping bag. It's also about 40-45-ish seconds behind the audio recording if you can only listen.

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

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!

[aroace-ryland-grace]

Apologies for the long and unexpected delay, but the transcript for the director's commentary is finished and now available in the drive! 

There are two different versions of the 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 or anything. Both are broken down into different scenes based on how their conversation goes, and the listening version includes timestamps. 

Like I said in the movie transcript's post, I am not a professional transcriber and this is just something I did for fun, so it is definitely not perfect. Additionally, there are a few spots throughout the transcript where I couldn't figure out exactly what they were saying, mostly because there wasn't enough diction, and those are all marked with a question mark in brackets. So if you know what they're saying in those spots (or any other spots I may have misheard without realising it), please let me know and I'll correct it!

[goth-queen]

[justakidicarus]

STINKY

[justakidicarus]

Can I just say Hail Mary fandom? Love what you’re doing with the HASO stuff, please keep it up I love HASO soo much and as cool as Eridians are I love when Grace can baffle them just as much.

[byjove]

been unable to feel joy lately. like, I’ll buy myself a new candle and smell it and be like ‘that’s pretty nice 😐’

[justakidicarus]

This but emotion in general rn lol. I think it’s burnout? Idk my emotions aren’t really connecting. Like I’ll smile and laugh but I don’t really feel the joy as strongly as I should? Like it’s there but again, disconnected. Hopefully it’ll get better with time this is a really awkward grey area to be in rn

[justakidicarus]

Body swapping AU where humans can switch bodies with each other. It’s not necessarily a common occurrence and has a couple pre-requisite but it is possible. They can’t do it cross species, and they can’t do it without consent and Willy nilly, but it is possible.

All this is to say Grace struggles with chronic back pain in the Hail Mary and he doesn’t know why until after he goes Fishing with Rocky. Where he remembers where he got his spine injury from.

Except he didn’t get it. Colt did.

Grace switch bodies with his twin so that Colt could continue to do his stunts and live his active lifestyle without dealing with the pain. They didn’t have time before the Hail Mary was launched to switch back.

Meanwhile, the last meaningful thing Colt has left of his brother is his body.

Make of this what you will, but it would be fairly delicious angst. Especially if there is a degree of body switching that is healthy and normal to do. Just know people do prefer to stay in the body they were born in as both a societal and instinctual thing.

[spin-the-wheel-polls]

you have this superpower! BUT you have this side-effect

is it worth it?

yes!!

the side effect is bad but ITS WORTH IT

meh it's okay

the side effect makes it unusable/not worth it

Results/option I didn't think of

Voting ended onMay 20

[justakidicarus]

Can fly but it slowly kills you? Sounds like regular cell death (aging) and my body already does that. Plus doesn’t specify speed and for my dream power I will take that!

[going-dead]

Humans being persistent predators is probably a terrifying concept to Eridians. A creature that slowly follows you until your body forces you to sleep knowing you will be unable to wake up as they inevitably get closer and closer.

Grace’s explanation of old human hunting practices probably spawned a whole new genre of horror on Erid.

[justakidicarus]

This and Rocky chasing Grace up and down the biosphere before he quickly has to stop. While at the start Rocky easily outsped Grace, Grace, even freshly recovered from starvation and in 2x gravity, outpaces Rocky.

After Grace does an endurance test for the eridian scientists they are horrified by how long he can continue without a long break. Rocky is mad that some of Grace’s leaking actually has a purpose (humans are one of the few species on earth that sweat, and this cools us down enough to keep going when other pursuit predators are forced to stop)

This is doubly funny when some bad eridians try and kidnap him and he just, evades their initial assault and then they quickly grow too tired to keep chasing him. The only reason he could evade them is because he could see them coming long before they could hear him

Talk about horrifying. A creature that can linger outside where you can perceive them, but they can perceive you. You can outrun it, but as soon as you stop for a rest it’ll be there. You can climb away from it but it’ll still find you. You can’t escape it, you can’t outsmart it, you either stop it at the start, or pray your asleep by the time it finally catches up so you don’t have to feel it’s attack.

Rocky shows Grace one of the horror movies spawned by this and Grace doesn’t know whether to be embarrassed, mortified, or laugh.

[shymagnolia]

so I got into grad school today with my shitty 2.8 gpa and the moral of the story is reblog those good luck posts for the love of god

[shymagnolia]

okay so i just got my dream job??? a week after applying to it?? and now i’m thinking….maybe this is the good luck post

[flagellant]

…..not even six hours later i got an offer of a well paying full time long-term job with free room and board in queens in nyc, allowing me independence and a way to escape an abusive situation and an unhealthy environment

likes charge reblogs cast, folks, this is the good luck post

[coffee-or-hot-cocoa]

i need all the help i can get for finals

[finnglas]

Hey so

the last time I reblogged this post right before I got a great job, in a permanent work-from-home position, with benefits, retirement, and a salary literally 3x what I was making before, doing something I really like. 

So you know. 

This might be the real one, y’all.

[avhira]

I could use some luck

[parkchanwoohoo]

The facial expressions of everyone trying not to lose it are killing me

[gunsandfireandshit]

This is painfully American

[dirtbaby2016]

Americans be like it is totally normal for an entire stadium (including military members) to stand at attention while a fast food clown mascot sings the national anthem

[json-derulo]

"you were always such a good kid! we never had to worry about you :)" thanks! you actually should've, though. like about this specifically

[justakidicarus]

Chat do you think Eva Stratt would be able to kidnap Tony Stark for Project: Hail Mary? Not as an Astronaut he wouldn’t have the gene but as like, one of the engineers of the project. Not for his wealth but for his brains.

I was also gonna ask if she could stop the Accords but honestly, she would be for them. Ryland Grace however, would get them reformed via one very long press conference in which he makes his previous hit of “a staggering waste of carbon” seem like a compliment compared to what he calls Thaddeus Ross

Would Eva Stratt be able to kidnap Tony Stark to the Stratt Vat (pre Civil War post Age of Ultron)

Yeah probably

What hell no he’s Iron man.

Voting ended onMay 17

Btw I’m 100% convinced it would have to be a kidnapping like I don’t think Tony would go along with her willingly. Not because he doesn’t want to help but because he doesn’t want his tech in government hands that could easily misuse it, especially on a project with zero transparency and one lady having absolute power over the world.

[atomikats]

has anyone heard of the coltland twinsssss 😁😁(month old and very popular au) (i haven’t been able to draw in ages)

[autumn-sweet-fae]

Realized something hilarious

You know how Stratt pirated all of earth media to the Hail Mary? She had to have included video games, right?

So, for you BloodyMary fans, consider Grace and Simon take up to gaming together as a hobby. (I could also see Grace making a modified game controller for Rocky.) The more they play, the more they realize Simon is allot better at gaming then Grace, to Rocky’s amusement.

Anytime there is tricky combat Grace hands Simon the controller. Or if they’re playing a scary game, Simon is the one playing and Grace is next to him screaming.

Eventually the modified controller for Rocky is widely available for the Eridian public, along with most of the media and games Stratt had put on the Hail Mary.

So… while we all agree that Grace basically becomes bill nye the science guy to the youth of Erid,

Please consider…. Simon becoming the Markiplier of Erid

[justakidicarus]

Man fandoms are wild when you don’t have twitter and only just recently got Tumblr. Like- I thought MHA was pretty chill and DSMP a bit concerning on the content but understandable considering the source material and then I hear all about how they’re all super toxic fandoms.

Guys the only social media’s I have are YouTube and Tumblr and let me tell you, it’s liberating. I get zero toxicity and brain rot (my YouTube feed is pretty curated and I report any channels stealing content/are slop I can spot) and only good content. The most interaction I get with twitter is redirect links to art and comics and screenshots people post and share on other sites. Interacting with fandoms mostly through ao3 and Tumblr has been fantastic for my mental health, consider it if instagram/twitter/tiktok is making you depressed/anxious/furious.

And if you still find people who piss you off. Block them. As long as you sow the seeds yourself, anywhere can be a paradise.

[chongoblog]

*gathers all of the people in the world who write the number 7 with a little dash in the center of it so I can study them like little critters and find out what makes them do that*

[audpaints]

There’s actually a lot of history regarding the development writing systems and why there are different visual representations of numerals, but the short answer is: it’s regional, and you probably picked up how to make your numbers look based on your parents or your primary school teachers

[ruusverd]

I do it out of spite because in grade school a kids detective story identified the culprit by saying NO American wrote their sevens with a line and I thought that was super flimsy evidence and it made me so mad I started putting a line through my sevens so the fictional detective would be wrong and then kept doing it for several decades since.

[mikkeneko]

I do feel one can’t underestimate the “elementary school child taught themselves how to do this Out Of Spite” crowd

[justakidicarus]

I put a line through my sevens cause my handwriting sucks and I thought doing so would help distinguish the numbers and letters so I could read my notes easier.