rocky wants you to close the door

Haz · I make stuff (sometimes)

[callalillee]

[seerya]

Grace assembling that 10km long ass chain: Huh, these newer links feel different. Rocky, are you sure this is still the correct material?

Rocky: You don't trust Rocky? I made these from fine quality Xenonite ingots!

Grace: Okay, if you say so.

A very beat-up looking Grace recording his video log and scribbling furiously on his tablet*: So, the chain broke. Just you wait, Rocky! Because you despised me, I shall inflict grief on you!

[rosettyller]

Behind the scenes of PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026)

[purplegutz4]

Had this in my head for a while

[songofanemoia]

you know, if grace were to return back to earth, eva would get none of the credit for everything she poured her blood sweat and tears into. grace would be the hero, and yes it would be deserved considering all he's been through, but i guarantee you eva would not be appreciated as she should be. SHE is the only reason earth still lives, without HER grace wouldn't have gone. without her none of everything that happened would have happened. and i think people would forget all the anguishing and deciding over science and mechanics and the weight of it all she did to be able to send that crew up, especially grace.

[the-real-ryland-grace]

Just like how Grace tells Rocky he kinda looks like a spider, I wonder if there’s an organism on Erid that disturbingly looks humanoid. I saw a fanart somewhere of Rocky seeing spiders as uncanny valley, so Grace definitely feels the same when he sees a humanoid creature on Erid.

A lot of the organisms on Erid reside in the atmosphere, so just imagine Grace and Rocky are sitting on the beach one day and there’s a loud thunk on the biodime. Grace looks up and does the iconic high pitched gosling scream. It sort of resembles a human, but its limbs are all weird, its flesh is hard, and there are SO many things wrong about it. But it’s humanoid enough to give him nightmares for days.

“Rocky….what the FUDGE is THAT?!”

“Oh, is Erid flying organism! Name is ♫ ♪ ♫. Sort of looks like Grace, question?”

“Rock, I never want to see one of those again.”

“Oh. Understand.”

[sioltach]

Person in the grocery store had amazon rainforest sounds blasting on their phone as they shopped and I think that's a beautiful use of free will

[sioltach]

"people who don't wear headphones in public are a nuisance" except this one. I respect their indomitable human spirit

[cabinette]

Grace finds increasingly odd ways to cope with loneliness

Bonus vvvv

[starrose17]

Twins? Where did that idea ever come from?

Bonus, each acting like the other, smart vs brave:

[orbiten]

So, it's time to go fishing. We're going to make a 10-kilometer-long chain, put a sampling device of some kind on the end (Rocky will make that), and drag it through the atmosphere. Easy enough, right? PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) directed by Phil Lord & Christopher Miller, adapted from the novel 'Project Hail Mary' by Andy Weir

[wholesome-supervillain]

y'all know the sort of fart sound rocky made when grace asked what rocky's name for him was?

eridians basically have super-sonar, right. rocky can hear grace easily from across the ship and can "see" through walls. that's why grace look disgust when eat; rocky can hear his squishy human organs working and probably making all manner of wet squelching sounds that humans don't even notice.

just like grace saw a weird alien and called it "rocky" because it looked like a rock, ♫♩♪♫ saw a weird alien and called it "phbbt" because it looked like gross wet squelching noises.

[geeky-and-proud]

i just think there would be a real debate on earth when the Beetles arrive of how much of the footage should be made public - like, it's a globally funded project that contains the answers to humanity and the entire earth's survival, ofc we should let everyone see it all.

but then Stratt is watching it back and there's just a solid three days of Grace scream singing Take Me Home Country Roads interspersed with crying. and she decides that maybe not everyone needs to see that.

[leakyspacebl0b]

[Stratt's voice] What?!

[purplepenguintime]

the petrova task force runs out of money and Stratt has to sell Grace to one direction

[kafkaesquegf]

they should invent a high ponytail that doesn’t give me a headache and they should invent a low ponytail that doesn’t make me look like a miller’s apprentice going off to enlist in the continental army

[catharticscream]

Remember in 2010 when Taio Cruz said "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes"? I appreciated his restraint. You can't just throw your hands up in the air whenever. There's a time and a place, and that time was 2010, and the place was the club.

[hauntedhowlett]

so eva stratt really looked grace dead in the eye and sang, “welcome to the final show / hope you’re wearing your best clothes” before proceeding to pack up his silly science pun shirts and his favorite sweater for a suicide mission he didn’t want to go on, huh?