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Mayasaura (mī'ə-sôr'ə)- A duck-billed lesbian of the late Cretaceous Period of North America. (she/her, well over the age of 21) formerly buddhistmamaduck

[just-another-cat-blog]

pride month!!!

[lemonsharks]

Is that a miette?

[jeanjauthor]

Pride for you!  Pride for a thousand years!!

[lost-and-cursed]

you COME OUT to miette? you come out to her as queer? oh! oh! pride for mother! pride for mother for One Thousand Years!!!!

[kwaiflower]

[atomikats]

my personal take on the matter

[dailynarnia]

is jake gyllenhaal gay??

why would you ask us, a narnia blog, this

[helloitsbees]

happy pride month to this post specifically

[thefakerachelray]

Any sci-fi media: the spaceship is a character

Me: OMG THE SPACESHIP IS A CHARACTER

[mayasaura]

Stratt is so much meaner in the book, when she tells Grace he's going on the mission, and I love it. It's so effective. Because Stratt isn't mean. Not to anyone else. She's brusque and ruthless, but she often chooses to be kind, when she can afford to be. She's not cruel.

Except in this one scene. She tears Grace apart, she lies to him to make it hurt more, because she's furious with him. Because he's disappointed her so profoundly. Because he couldn't do the right thing, and now she has to tear her heart out of her chest to do it for him. If he had only been brave enough to do the right thing, she could have said goodbye. Her last memory of her best friend could have been of somber solidarity, of pride in their shared purpose. But no. And now she has to live with the memory of him begging her for his life instead. She has to remember telling him no.

[evilphrog]

YES EXACTLY THIS THANK YOU

[mayasaura]

Stratt is so much meaner in the book, when she tells Grace he's going on the mission, and I love it. It's so effective. Because Stratt isn't mean. Not to anyone else. She's brusque and ruthless, but she often chooses to be kind, when she can afford to be. She's not cruel.

Except in this one scene. She tears Grace apart, she lies to him to make it hurt more, because she's furious with him. Because he's disappointed her so profoundly. Because he couldn't do the right thing, and now she has to tear her heart out of her chest to do it for him. If he had only been brave enough to do the right thing, she could have said goodbye. Her last memory of her best friend could have been of somber solidarity, of pride in their shared purpose. But no. And now she has to live with the memory of him begging her for his life instead. She has to remember telling him no.

[justshipsandstuff]

I want to give them all a hug. I need this movie injected into my blood

[oriixxc]

[importantpics]

[capitalismsbiggesthater]

Gideon and Harrow at Canaan House

[amberjacket]

This book is a Baroque painting

[psumnt-studentcouncil]

my giiirrlll my giiirlll I love herrr 🥺🥺🥺

Some Iris (Iris..es?) and a doodle of a scene from Rapport

PNGs after the cut if anyone wants them!

[mayasaura]

Ace Grace real in the book too, btw. In case anyone doubted. Local scientist Shocked and Appalled when his colleagues assume he's sleeping with the woman he has been constant companion to for several years.

[mayasaura]

Honestly tho I think the Stratt situation is the least compelling of the evidence availbale to us, considering she's his boss who may or may not have definitely had him kidnapped.

In the book there's also Doctor Lokken, who is much too professional to be in an enemies-to-lovers workplace rivalry love triangle, but that said... She would definitely have tried to shoot her shot if there hadn't been so many rumors about Stratt and Grace. Fairly sure it's a good thing she didn't. The attraction is so painfully one-sided. Grace has no fucking idea, he's just happy their professional relationship is working out after a bad start.

The clicher for me tho is Annie. Grace has this huge fanboy nerd crush on Annie Shapiro, one of the crew candidates. Like, almost faints when he realises it's the Doctor Shapiro, and is so offended she's Stratt's second choice instead of her first. This is relevent because the Doctor Shapiro is an attractive woman around Grace's age, and he shows no sign of noticing. Nada, zip. She and the other science candidate openly discuss their (very active) sex life in front of him, and he reacts like they've disclosed an embarrassing medical condition.

[mayasaura]

Honorable mention for my boy Rocky, too, in that while technically Eridians do reproduce sexually, as in through the combination of gametes, they don't have to interact in the process. Sometimes, when two Eridians love each other very much, they will both lay an egg together in the same spot. Then the two eggs fuse together into one big egg, and that's how baby Eridians are made!

Nothing to do with Grace personally, but absolutely contributes to the overall vibe imo

[mayasaura]

Ace Grace real in the book too, btw. In case anyone doubted. Local scientist Shocked and Appalled when his colleagues assume he's sleeping with the woman he has been constant companion to for several years.

[mayasaura]

Honestly tho I think the Stratt situation is the least compelling of the evidence availbale to us, considering she's his boss who may or may not have definitely had him kidnapped.

In the book there's also Doctor Lokken, who is much too professional to be in an enemies-to-lovers workplace rivalry love triangle, but that said... She would definitely have tried to shoot her shot if there hadn't been so many rumors about Stratt and Grace. Fairly sure it's a good thing she didn't. The attraction is so painfully one-sided. Grace has no fucking idea, he's just happy their professional relationship is working out after a bad start.

The clicher for me tho is Annie. Grace has this huge fanboy nerd crush on Annie Shapiro, one of the crew candidates. Like, almost faints when he realises it's the Doctor Shapiro, and is so offended she's Stratt's second choice instead of her first. This is relevent because the Doctor Shapiro is an attractive woman around Grace's age, and he shows no sign of noticing. Nada, zip. She and the other science candidate openly discuss their (very active) sex life in front of him, and he reacts like they've disclosed an embarrassing medical condition.

[mayasaura]

Ace Grace real in the book too, btw. In case anyone doubted. Local scientist Shocked and Appalled when his colleagues assume he's sleeping with the woman he has been constant companion to for several years.

[deervsheadlights]

just a regular workplace relationship

[rockabillywife]

Fingering the plot hole

[mayasaura]

I'm wondering what would have happened to Grace if Dubois and Shapiro hadn't died. Like yeah, sure, food chain collapse and ecological devastation and mass starvation and so on, but I'm wondering more immediately. Everyone but Grace knew Grace was Stratt's right hand arm man. Second in command of Project Hail Mary.

Maybe Stratt had some backup scheme to get him out of it, like a plea deal if he testified against her, or something. But it seems more likely he'd have been strung up beside her when the pitchforks came out. He just never really thought about it.

[arrows-for-pens]

tags from op passed peer review:

#ryland grace king of strategically Not Thinking About It #this isn't to say I think Stratt did him a favor launching him into space #she did what she had to because it was by far the best option for mission success #but I think that might have been on her mind when she said 'if it's any consolation you'll die a hero' #if he had stayed on Earth he would have been.... not that #and I don't think he ever really thought that part through

[mayasaura]

Wait hold on tho, maybe I'm also not thinking it all the way through.

Because Grace isn't just Stratt's henchman. He's also the sole primary expert in the world's new miracle superfuel. He's in as good a position to be offered a golden parachute as anyone ever has been. And he'd take it. Of course he'd take it. He'd watch Stratt on the stand calmly accepting life imprisonment and tell himself she knew what she was getting into. That he's not at fault for her crimes just because he was standing next to her for most of them. He never suggested they pave the Sahara, he never pulled the trigger on Antarctica.

He doesn't share responsibility, thank you, and the sinking heavy feeling in his chest is anger over the raw deal Stratt was handed. It's not guilt.

When Stratt makes eye contact with him during the sentencing, and the corner of her mouth twists in that way it always does when something happens exactly the way she'd told him it would—a second cousin to a shared joke—it's not guilt that makes him stand up and leave the room. It's something else.