someone has to save our skins

vicky / 30s / demi-bi / brit

[ceruleana]

project hail mary is a touching and poignant film that leaves you asking questions about humanity like, "wow what if all mainstream media was genuinely good" and "what if book adaptions actually gave a shit about the book in question" and "what if studios hired actors that could actually act, and then let them get a lil wacky with it"

[astriiformes]

#Don’t forget ‘what if puppetry was treated as a serious artform’ (via @specialagentartemis)

[lovesicklobotomy]

[metal-autistic-coven]

Happy pride month to him

[drizzly-bear]

even more phm + textposts with stratt (and grace)

[nexeliam]

Sacrifice for human kind

[sexchangedotcom]

ancient roman women whose husband keeps looking at the neighbour's boy quintus and he never looks at her that way and she can't even chainsmoke in the kitchen because they don't have marlboro blues in ancient times. and she can't even go to the club because they haven't discovered drum and bass music yet. her friend clodia's having visions of a woman named doechii but neither of them knows what that means

[iguessyouregonnamissthepantyraid]

project hail mary said "we would be ecstatic to find out that there's other intelligent life out there, so why wouldn't they be just as happy to find out about us?" and then proceeded to write an entire thesis on how the inherent nature of sentient beings is to forge friendships, to not be alone, to protect each other at all costs. i'm inconsolable

[hydr0phius]

Stratt's "actually, it isn't," in response to being asked by Grace if it's hard asking people to die for their planet, followed with "please, don't make this harder," as she's trying to send him on the Hail Mary has in fact continued the trend of shooting me 47 times in the chest with each time I watch PHM (3 times so far).

[notkatniss]

Got a “you look so good for turning 30!!!” From a gaggle of 25 year olds and I’m like should I kill myself in front of you

[dreamingdruka]

the way that stratt was mourning grace the day she met him because she knew it couldnt last because she was going to be the scapegoat everyone wanted after the mission anyway. she treated her time with him as strictly temporary. and then she went ahead and made that fact realer than ever. that look she has, in the meeting room, when grace says 'no' for the first time when asked to go? she knew what she would have to do next, right there. she realised her time with him was even more temporary than she imagined. she was already mourning him.

[dreamingdruka]

via @the-tardis-is-blue

just know that i fucking love you

[leiaorganix]

am i crazy or would never be like you by flume hit as a strattland edit song

[leiaorganix]

Following this up to say that she hates me by puddle of mudd would hit also

[teashadephoenix]

i dont think im ever gonna get over the scene where rocky finds out grace isnt going home.

the little foot stomps when he says question, which is something he does every time but are infused with actual frustration while he interrogates grace

the sulky way he says no again and again when grace tries to get him to give him a thumbs up

the way grace's voice breaks when we says "we got stars to save."

"need word. to risk self to save other." / "dumb." and then writes brave with this sort of painful pride because he doesnt know yet

the way grace steps away to have a moment to himself

rocky doing the math on his claws. "i can give. i go home six years slower."

the resolve in rocky's voice when he says he couldnt fix his crew but he can fix this, and grace go home

the way grace's breath hitches when he breaks down

"okay."

"i thought you made peace, question?" / "i didnt mean any of that. that's just something you say."

ending with the hug which is plain adorable.

like fuck me it is so perfect. front to back perfect. the performances are so good. like i have a lot of favorite scenes in this movie but it is up there.

[queer-benoit-blanc]

All I could think while rewatching the first lab scene

[moss-indie]

[Project Hail Mary spoilers]

Eva Stratt who insisted on being the first to be tested for the comatose gene

Eva Stratt who made sure the ship computer knew the crew's exact coffee orders, even Grace, down to the most precise measurements

Eva Stratt who illegally acquired thousands of video games for the hail mary crew, despite the fact they'd be in a coma for the majority of the trip

Eva Stratt who sent a school teacher into space because she knew he was a fundamentally good man

Eva Stratt who would betray the closest thing she had to a friend because she knew there was no other choice

Eva Stratt who would do anything to save the Earth, no matter the cost

Eva Stratt who desperately wished she could be the one to make the sacrifice instead

Eva Stratt who couldn't, no matter how much she wanted to

Eva Stratt who studied history, and had seen the way the world would become

Eva Stratt who was terrified by it

Eva Stratt who knew she would would go without credit

Eva Stratt who knew no statues would be built of her

Eva Stratt who knew she would never be a hero

Eva Stratt who did it all anyway

Eva Stratt who had to

[spyfalls]

this man saved the world btw

[grouphug33]

Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.

He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.

She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.

And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.

It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.

But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.

He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.

Eva and Grace, the platonic male/female friendship of all time.

[your-own-scifi-nerd]

Don’t talk to me I’m thinking about the way that Sandra Hüller managed to show how Eva Stratt was begging Grace not to make her force him. Every-time I see the look in her eyes she is screaming and crying and sobbing in her mind please don’t make me force you please let us part on good terms please

[halethleia]

one of the funniest and saddest parts of project hail mary is that stratt absolutely did kidnap a guy to send off to die in space without hesitation but also made sure to pack all his funky t-shirts and favorite sweater and his crochet earth ball and his favorite coffee settings so!