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30/♌/She|Her/Currently in her Project Hail Mary era™

[luna-azzurra]

They taught us in physics that an object in motion stays in motion unless something acts on it and i didn't care at the time but as a writer i think about this constantly. your character cannot just stop. something has to stop them. something external, something internal, something that costs them. a person doesn't change direction for no reason. a story doesn't either. newton was writing craft advice and nobody told him.

[keydekyie]

"It would have been easier if you'd just said yes."

original

[pusheen]

[konoko]

[narwhalsarefalling]

my Project Hail Mary theory is that the Barbie Movie was just the weird hallucination that Ryland Grace had while he was in that 4 year coma

[partywithponies]

Strange racists and homophobes on the internet seem to have access to an alternate way cooler version of TV than me. "every white character on TV is in an interracial relationship" "every show has a gay couple in it" "main characters keep having to secretly be bisexual and nonbinary" "every show has gratuitous full frontal nudity" like damn promise?? What channel???

[depsidase]

[isuggestlandback]

You know how right wing media runs off of BIG SCARY EMOTIONS instead of fact?

Left wingers do this too. Except instead of "THEY'RE EATING THE CATS AND DOGS" it looks like:

"No one else will ever accept you."

"You're too oppressed to be understood by anyone but us."

or

"Anyone outside our group is dangerous."

Check in with yourself about how online communities make you feel.

Do they make you feel hopeful, or hopeless? Connected, or isolated? Accepted, or tolerated?

Do they encourage you to think for yourself, and use critical thought? Or do they ask you to accept without thinking and toe the line? Is there open communication, or are differing opinions bullied into silence?

Beware of anyone who tries to isolate you.

Beware of anyone who tells you no one else will ever love you like they will, that no one else will ever accept you.

Beware of anyone that tells you life is nothing but pain, or that there is no hope.

Hopeless, lonely people are easily controlled.

I know things are scary right now. I'm scared too.

Look out for people who WANT you scared.

Try to find spaces that make you feel like change is possible. Look for people who make you feel empowered to do something!

Look for the helpers.

[saltwater-goldfishy]

ok I know everyone’s considered Ryland grace wearing an “I put the ace in space” t shirt but. have we considered the infinitely funnier option of putting this shirt on eva stratt

[lameborghini-deactivated2013061]

this is a formal apology to everyone that has ever tried to text me

[alastair-1205]

Thinking about "You're have no immediate family. You dont even have a dog." And like duh thats devestating, but theres also the fact that the people telling him this are people hes been working with for 4 years at this point. Theres this quiet implication thats not just "you have no family no pets and no partners therefore you have no one to leave behind" its also "we, your coworkers who you might have called friends and who have been at your side while we all save the world for close to half a decade, are not close enough to you to even be mentioned in Stratts little speech. We will not stop this, we wont even protest or apologize. You have no friends at you side in your final moments." And i think thats even more heartbreaking honestly.

[dyke-parade]

one thing i love about the project hail mary book specifically is how grace's internal narration is constantly talking about how fucking great rocky is. grace literally never shuts up about it. he's obsessed with his buddy. he is 100% certain rocky's the greatest thing since sliced bread. frankly he'd probably say sliced bread has nothing on rocky.

"rocky's a genius" "rocky can build anything" "he's the best engineer on both of our planets" "eridians are all smart but i'm pretty sure he's extra smart even for his species" "he's so modest even though he's so capable" "he picks up ideas so quickly" "he'd never give up" i'm misquoting but just off the top of my head these are ALL examples of grace's endless well of admiration for rocky. grace basically just spends the whole novel making heart-eyes for his rock-spider alien soulmate best friend

[halfseaweed]

'wait for me' is grace his journey to rocky without him knowing

'wait for me (reprise)' is grace knowingly making his way back to rocky instead of going back to earth

[starspaceace]

i like to imagine the eridians having similar conversations that we're having about their alien

[uss-emberprise]

[rovermcfly]

rocky's crew dying from radiation exposure, something humans go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of and grace's crew dying in their "sleep" with nobody watching, something eridians go to great lengths to prevent and are very scared of. cool book that is easy to read through your tears.

[assiraphales]

rocky always yells “enrichment for grace! enrichment for grace!” when he has a new invention to make the humans time more interesting on erid. grace, while appreciative, replies ‘I know I’m in a zoo enclosure but could we maybe not call it that? I feel like a bear getting thrown a pumpkin covered in peanut butter.’ rocky simply gives him a thumb, not wanting to explain that a significant amount of the population sees grace as the celebrity savior scientist who rocky keeps as a controversially young trophy wife and publicly lavishes in gifts