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Ryland Grace who has a swear jar in his classroom, and every time a kid swears, they have to put their name in and when he asks a question and no one raises their hand to answer, he'll draw a name from the jar. It's really discouraged his kids from swearing.

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A bunch of little Eridian Grace using @/localcalico's adorable design of him.

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rocky learn about human tattoos on portable earth thinking machine

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The future looks bright.

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In his own ship, mind you.

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I saw some tiktoks saying that Stratt was way more cruel to Grace in the book. And honestly?

No...?

The nature of their relationship is different, certainly. I want to say "more complex" but I'm not sure that's the right word for it.

You really get the sense that, despite it all she has a quiet respect for Grace (that in retrospect is so loud).

I keep going back to that scene were she calls him over to an empty conference room it's just Grace, Stratt and a bottle of gin. She goes over her worries, choosing between sending the astronauts awake and risking them killing eachother or the whole coma gene mess.

Why is she confiding in Grace of all people? Why is Grace the only person she allows to see her this vulnerable? She explicitly says this is her hardest decision yet.

And when Grace counters; "It's a good thing you already made up your mind, then." Stratt seems genuinely surprised (as much one is able to surprise Stratt anyway) but not displeased, he supports her decision and saw right through her. I wonder if he slowly became her moral-compass.

I could go on and on about all the little details. Her picking up on the first ring when he calls. "There's more to him than that." She affirms when people are apprihensive about letting a middle-school science teacher lead the research.

Obviously this is Grace's book, his POV. But I want so so so badly to crawl into Stratt's brain to see this world how she sees it. To understand all of her choices, the hardest ones, even the ones I don't agree with. Being in the dark about her pisses me off, I don't want to know more so I can decide whether or not she is a good person. I need to know more because she is so fascinating to me.