in the meantime, there is cake. @mekrowave - Tumblr Blog

hello friends & strangers!

welcome to my fandom/personal blog. here you will find reblogging of art, writing, and commentary on my favourite things, and every once in a while i'll make something of my own as well.

you can call me traffic, any pronouns will do. this blog is run by a system, but for privacy reasons we won't be going into that beyond to say that different parts might occasionally sign off.

i am an adult, and while i will not reblog or post anything outright explicit there will occasionally be more mature content on this blog.

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we follow from s*****a which is our "main" but effectively just a reblog dump.

#new intro post #clamchowder #lobsterbisque

yasutou

AHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHH AHHHHHHHHH

#tspud #YEESS

thirsty-and-distant

Eva Stratt who is the most powerful woman in the world and has a powerpoint ready the second she needs to explain project hail mary. and the title page is "what is project hail mary". exactly like you would do for a classroom presentation. no one is doing it like her

and Ryland Grace. a middle school teacher. is taking notes like this is a classroom.

#project hail mary

blobbei-art

[ You are on a path in the woods... ]

Here's the Long Quiet! I'd like to imagine the voices as speech bubbles rather than people.

I'm sure it'd include a lot of visual gags where they do interact with each other/the world around them though.

#OH THE SPEECH BUBBLES IDEA IS SO CUTE #slay the princess

lagomorph

theyre zombies you know……….

Bucket destroyer

to me, the cruelest thing that eva stratt does is not the kidnappig itself. it's that she tells grace that he does not even have a dog. dr ryland grace, a man who dedicated his life to the greater good, first to science and then to teaching, does indeed not have a dog. and because of this, he has to spend his last precious moments on his home planet with the full knowledge that while he might be smart enough to save the world, he is not loved enough by anyone on it to be worth saving

#project hail mary

bulkhummus

i love that we get rocky’s POV in the movie and i specifically love when he looks at grace any time grace is speaking

eridians emit sound from 5 different sets of vocal chords. not only is information 6x more condensed because of the layering of different tones and chords, it is spread out and dispersed and I think that makes total sense for a species that relies on sound to get an accurate representation of form. aside from the amazing puppeteering in the movie, the way rocky glides his arms and claws through the air as he intones different words and names literally act as a amplifier or transducer for certain sounds - so language becomes an experience of literally moving the dense air around oneself. the movements they make are intentional, which is so diametrically opposite to the movements humans make, sometimes without even thinking. all their movements serve purpose.

back to rocky POV - when grace speaks the sound of his voice acoustically reverberating through his chest and out of his mouth causes a ripple around his face which blurs the shape rocky is able to see based off of his 'echolocation'.

it'd be like when the sun is in your eyes for humans

rocky has become accustomed to it and has seen grace work quietly enough to have memorized the shape and plains of his face even when it disappears so his voice can take its place

and I keep thinking about eridians being puzzled about how formless grace seems to be, of how thin and simplistic his actual speaking voice is in comparison to what eridians can do with their vocal chords and its so omnidirectional that its blinding and all of the extra motion he makes when he talks and exists does not support his sounds in the way any of them are accustomed to - and thats outside all of the other ways human form is constantly changing and making noise (bending, stretching, weight gain or loss, breathing, squishy, vulnerable etc.)

so naturally, im thinking of names being treated as stories in eridian language, and the more you experience and accomplish, the more highly revered, cared for, loved, the longer the name

an evocation of their namesake, grace, the formless, savior of stars

#project hail mary

astrugglingacademic

The thing that hurts me the most in the book is that Ryland was kept conscious for MULTIPLE DAYS in a jail cell leading up to the launch but they still didn't pack him anything personal. Stratt could've called someone and had them pack a bag in an hour. They could've ferried him back to the states secretly to pack his own bag while under surveillance. But no, they kept him awake and aware that they were sentencing him to death and didn't even let him have any of his personal belongings.

#project hail mary