LoonyLudy

I post art under My Art Mostly reblogging/posting Project Hail Mary, Stellar Firma, Drawfee, Discworld, Infinity Train, and X-Men If you’re here for only one specific thing I’m sorry because I do just draw whatever my fickle heart desires

[loony-ludy]

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I also write sometimes on AO3

[galacticsabc]

Here's some unserious comics and hastily drawn doodles

[mteverestaaaaahh]

if the airlock (or just any of this) looks inaccurate, excuse me, I’m an idiot

warning: blood, and Grace frying the ever-loving heck out of his arm

[astrotheyge]

I'm obsessed with this little moment where Stratt is like reaching out to say Hi to Grace but instead of patting his shoulder or something she pats his tiny little chair. and filmed from behind a barrier

[ceruleana]

Eva Stratt's pov of phm is kinda insane really. Because it's basically being told, hey humanity WILL go extinct soon. but we've decided that if one person makes it through all the levels of the Torment Nexus our chances of survival might increase. they might also not. Anyway. We think you're the best person to do this. Your reward is that everyone will hate you forever.

And you're like well. I'd rather trust myself to the fate of the world than anyone else. And I'd rather not let anyone else suffer the Torment Nexus just because of my own feelings. That seems kinda selfish. Alright sure.

So you enter the Torment Nexus. Each level has you pressing buttons like, [abduct innocent scientists to your vat: chances of humanity's survival increases by 0.005%] [everyone disliked that] [congrats! your moral goodness has decreased!].

The later levels get even worse. [blow up Antarctica: chances of humanity's survival increases by, ummm who knows ????] [total humans negatively affected: ????] [congrats! you're an ecoterrorist!].

Then you reach the final level. It reads: [through this door you'll break the news to your friend that he needs to die.] And you're like, wait he has to die??? I have to tell him?? But that's incredibly fucked up. After I went through the Torment Nexus as well. But it's the last level. So oh well. I can do this I suppose. Rather me than anyone else.

You enter the level and you friend is standing next to a cliff. You go over to him and say, hey this really fucking sucks but I've just learnt you need to jump off the cliff. Then we might be able to save humanity for real though. Maybe billions of people can survive if this works.

Then he turns to you and is like, are you fucking insane? And starts sprinting away from the cliff. Suddenly you have a gun in your hand. You're like, no wait. I don't want to do this. For real? I gotta shoot him for real? [Chances of survival if he lives: 0%. Chances of survival if he dies: maybe NOT 0%......????]. You pull the trigger. [congrats! you're a murderer!]

[dinomoder]

This is the best ad for Project Hail Mary I have ever seen. Like if I was on the fence about watching or reading it, this would convince me to do so.

[loony-ludy]

I’ve seen some other people post their tomodachi life Davids and here is my contribution

[loony-ludy]

It’s so hilarious to me reading fics where Grace talks to other Eridians and uses gender neutral terms for every single one of them EXCEPT for Rocky

He learned that Eridians have no gender but it was too late for Rocky he already got hit with the boy beam

All Eridians are agender except for Rocky who is AMAFC (assigned male at first contact)

[loony-ludy]

I started thinking about this a lot harder actually

I imagine at first gendered pronouns meant literally nothing to Rocky. Like if you met an alien and they were like “there are two types of people, type A and B, and I’m type B and so are you” that would be about as meaningless as Grace telling Rocky he can see that he’s brown with some teal spots

But as time goes on and Rocky consumes more human media, reads more on his laptop, just generally talks to Grace, etc, he gets a better idea of how human sex/gender works and starts to understand the stereotypes associated with the gender that Grace has arbitrarily assigned to him

I think that’s the point where he would start having an opinion. Before that he would’ve just gone “oh well, human culture thing. Anyway.”

Maybe then he talks to Grace about it and tries different pronouns. But at that point they’ve been friends for quite a long time, and Rocky is very used to the way Grace refers to him and isn’t a big fan of change, so I think he would go “nvm this feels weird let’s switch it back.” Maybe partially because, again, he likes being the only one Grace assigned a gender to LOL

[loony-ludy]

It’s so hilarious to me reading fics where Grace talks to other Eridians and uses gender neutral terms for every single one of them EXCEPT for Rocky

He learned that Eridians have no gender but it was too late for Rocky he already got hit with the boy beam

All Eridians are agender except for Rocky who is AMAFC (assigned male at first contact)

[loony-ludy]

Don’t worry, it’s not an insult! Calling someone “the shit” is actually a common earth compliment!

Template by @justcakethanks whose comics have been making me lose it for the last several days

[everysongineverykey]

i cannot believe cecil gershwin palmer has the ability to make music play very loudly wherever and whenever he wants by introducing "the weather". like it isn't just during the radio breaks he does it irl to distract a mob in a later episode. this is infinitely funny to me if only because it's one of the most random and completely useless superpowers a man can have in a town full of angels, talking river rocks and other weird and powerful magic. maureen gets the ability to switch between dimensions and he gets to be a human radio

[samis-side-of-the-story]

That one time Steve Carlsberg offhandedly mentioned how annoying it was to talk to Cecil because everytime he didn't want to listen to you he would just start talking about the weather and then you had to shout over music comming from nowhere.

[brothermouse-skeleton]

Rocky: we built our spaceship by unifying every mind on the planet to create a super hive mind, pooling out collective knowledge and problem solving skills to come up with a plan.

Grace: we gave the scariest woman I've ever met two coffees every morning, an unlimited budget, and enough legal immunity to cuss out any world leaders she wanted to and boy did she want to.

[kit-screams-into-the-void]

statement statement

some extras i cut out from the comic + silly unrelated doodle based on what my friend said when i was drawing this comic on call:

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Your partner came back from the dead after being missing for decades. Every one of their friends who they went with ended up dying a horrible death.

Now, somehow, their entire mental health is based on the continued life and happiness of this fairground goldfish that they picked up.

Neither of you know the first thing about how to care for even a healthy fish. This fish has been poorly cared for, has multiple diseases and the person who handed it over explicitly didn't expect it to live nearly as long as it already has.

You're frantically googling how to set up a fish tank, where to buy fish food, can you even take a fish to the vet? Your partner wants you to know that they're happy they made it home and survived their horrific ordeal, but also that if anything happens to the fish then they're going to kill everyone on this planet and then themself.

You're honestly wondering if you're even helping the fish, or just prolonging its suffering, but your partner will only accept medical help for their many injuries or engage in basic self-care once they're confident that the fish is being looked after.

So you get a tank. You set up a filter and all that stuff. You learn way more than you ever wanted to know about water temperature and ph and nitrate levels. The fish is safe. You start to develop some affection for the little guy. Your partner begins to recover. The fish begins to recover.

Which is when you learn that in its 'healthy' state, the fish regularly refuses to sleep when tired, keeps begging for food that is obviously unhealthy for it (and struggling to eat the food that you do provide because “it tastes gross”), and continually tries to persuade your partner to take it out of its nice safe tank so it can go explore the wonderful world of Outside, where the slightest mishap will kill it instantly.

Your name is Adrian, and you kind of wants to strangle this fucking fish, statement.

[cowardgrace]

stratt holding everyone at a distance so she can retain authority, so she can focus on her job, so she can pay the price of saving humanity. grace holding everyone at a distance so he doesn't have to risk anything, so he doesn't become important, so he can dodge the shrapnel when things blow up. stratt fucked up, connected with the guy she has to strap to a rocket. grace fucked up, trusted the one person who can force him to reach his potential.

[voiddragoncat]

In Project Hail Mary (the book) there’s a bit where Stratt is being sued for pirating literally everything ever

And I’ve seen lots of posts about how she pulls out the “I can do what I want” paper, but I wanted to highlight some other things about the scene that I found absolutely hilarious:

She’s actively working on something else on her tablet as the trial is beginning.

She doesn’t have a lawyer or anything. It’s just her alone at the defense table

She immediately and continuously requests to end the trial so she can leave (and interrupts both the Plaintiff and the Judge to do so)

After being denied a few times, she just gets up and leaves anyway. When they try to stop her she’s just like “I literally have the entire US army under my command, you have no way to make me stay here.”

Grace isn’t even IN this scene. Every other “past” scene so far has been Grace remembering something from his own life, but I think they threw this one in as a Just For Stratt Special™️

[moonlit-dreamers]

i honestly do dislike the whole "rocky is graces dog" and "grace is rockys dog" bc it dismisses the fact that theyre equals and one is not above the other but ☝️ i do still think they have moments where their brains associate them with some other creature-like behavior thats cute to them and they tease each other with it. rocky the brilliant engineer sits like a cat and grace the intelligent scientist sounds like a pebble when whistling. do you understand