kirinki in space

phm/rgcu sideblog (maybe other things later as well)

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Fic: Just Like They Do on the Silver Screens

Colt Seavers isn't really fond of Tom Ryder, the up-and-coming actor he recently started working with. He's arrogant, has terrible work ethic and even makes sleazy remarks about him and his twin. But still. He never meant to kill the man!

Coltland twins + Driver, with Tom and Jody.

Premise: Colt accidentally kills Tom.

Gen, hints towards various ships. Background Jody/Colt.

Dark comedy, 4k

[goldenndew]

Art prompt! For the fall guy, jody and colt

They do the "hit each other's head with prop glass bottle" thing like in the movie

Except jody accidentally hits colt in the head with a real glass bottle

Jody: omg are you okay?!

Colt (bleeding profusely) : 👍

Later he’ll say he deserved it and Jody will tell him to shut up.

[seren-dipitous-art]

…okay so what if the problem with the taomeba never happened on the way back home. What if the radiation never got onto the Blip-A. What if Rocky ended up back on Erid, and Grace made it back to Earth. What if they missed each other desperately forever.

What if Grace made a lopsided crochet Rocky and cuddled it every night.

What if Rocky couldn’t stop making xenonite puppets of his alien friend.

What if I made myself cry, what about that? Huh? What then?

[lotldraws]

it's usually closer, on your chest

[puppyrex8]

Summarized most of the different Rocky fanart styles

He varies intensely but he’s still the same ol Eridian!!

(8/9 of me posting most of my PHM art at once)

[goodieprocter]

This one goes out to my cat (and also @justcakethanks of course)

[kirinki-alt01]

Fic: That’s the Way the Cookie Falls Apart Into Pieces

K receives help from an unlikely person. A really unlikely person.

Post canon, immediately after the last scene.

Crossover with - wait for it - the Ryan Gosling SNL sketch 'Doctor'.

(I also took into account this version of the sketch.)

Crack taken very seriously.

1.5k.

[kirinki-alt01]

Fic: Island Chains

Driver thinks he missed his one chance at true happiness. Then he meets Ryland Grace. (With special appearance by Courtland Gentry as Grace's brother.)

Might as well promo my fic here...

drivinglessons with coltland gentry (but only court on screen), 4k

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Imo Ryland Grace's character arc in the book and the movie are very different.

I’ve thought about this for a long time & read other people’s analysis, because I was intrigued by how different it felt despite the large beats of the story being the same, down to the ending.

Imo it boils down to

- book: cowardly -> brave/heroic

- movie: alone -> connected

Book Grace’s character arc is fairly straightforward imo. He goes from someone who was too cowardly to sacrifice himself for the good of the many, to a person who can.

(I was actually impressed by the scene where he says he’d be needed more on earth as a teacher, bc it was so obviously wrong that the fact he was making such a weak excuse genuinely felt cowardly to me. Like imo yeah it’s understandable not to want to sacrifice yourself but that particular excuse felt cowardly.)

When he thinks about how Rocky and Blip A will be stuck in space, unable to reach Erid, he’s emotionally worried over Rocky, but rationally he also thinks (to quote) ‘And more important, Rocky’s people die. Billions of them.' So imo emotionally he’s doing it to save his friend but rationally he’s doing it to save the planet.

This is further supported by the end of the book where (unlike the movie) he finds out that Earth is saved. Book Grace says (to quote) 'Rocky…that news about Sol…it…it makes my whole life have meaning. You know?' That was his biggest concern - whether Earth is saved.

So he goes from coward -> brave/heroic (able to sacrifice himself for / devoted to the good of the many)

Movie Grace’s arc was a bit harder to pin down for me. But I think he goes from someone who is unable to sacrifice himself for the good of the many, to someone who finds out that nevertheless, he is able to do it for the sake of one person.

The emphasis is not on coward -> brave : the movie notably doesn’t dwell on Grace’s self criticism over his decision aside from an ambiguous passing line. Instead the emphasis is (to quote) ‘You just need to find someone to be brave for’. Who he presumably didn’t have before, but now does.

So the emphasis is on connection.

At the end of the movie, (although this also happens in the book, the focus of the scene is different imo) the big thing Rocky tells him is that he can go home now. To which Grace asks if he can think about it. In the book he lists practical concerns, but in the movie he doesn’t. The implication in the movie version imo is that bc he’s now found a meaningful connection with another person, he’s not as desperate to go home.

So he goes from alone -> connected (able to sacrifice himself because now he has someone to sacrifice himself for)

[kirinki-alt01]

Made a sideblog so I'm reblogging my own post from main