you are a rock. coincidentally youre also a hunk

[kilovanity]

Rocky clothing request!

[a-real-hum4n]

shout out to book!grace, who blasted himself with 29 atmospheres worth of 210c (410f) degrees hot straight ammonia, in the hopes that rocky would survive. who carried rockys whole 168kg (370lbg) down ladders in a make-shift carrier. who turned around for rocky, fully expecting to die of starvation. sigh. who was just a little bit more of a bitch than movie!grace (whats that one quote where hes like "if i had a nickel for every parent i wanted to slap during my career, id have enough to fill a sock and hit them with that instead"). who was purposefully given memory loss, so he wouldnt sabotage the mission (something he threatned many times). who wasnt "friendless", like he was depicted in the movie. i miss you so bad. you were everything.

[druid-for-hire]

His raincoat was never packed, because obviously he wouldn't need it in space—I wonder sometimes if Stratt held onto it for any amount of time.

Something something getting someone out of their shell & shucking clams?

[verlierer-is-lost]

Sometimes it’s like Ryland Grace can feel the sunlight again…

[almondcroissantsandink]

Gifts for the Savior of Erid! (one of them, at least. Rocky got a lot of new jewelry, too) <3

[annabelle--cane]

I imagine rocky puts grace's amnesia problems down as a "probably normal for humans, they forget stuff all the time" thing for a while and it doesn't set in until maybe a year into the erid trip that, no, losing straight up All of your memories for several months is just about as concerning and unusual for a human as it would be for an eridian. and his immediate reaction is twofold: 1. "you. you were that brain-unhealthy for the entire time we were working together and you just. barely ever mentioned it? Why. Question." 2. [sudden recollection of every time he got short of temper and said something bitchy like "lazy human not know how own ship function" or "how grace forget location of basic controls question"] [curls up on the floor in embarrassment] "should have said something so I not spend two months making fun of brain injuryyy"

[shhawwww]

Captain Grace is here to report from the Hail Mary

I like this scene so much

[omilette1402]

grace on erid he's so dear to me

[slif-art]

Pebbles pebbles pebbles pebbles pebbles

[bribinart]

oops narrative parallels

[lifes-pinata]

One of the compelling things about Project Hail Mary is that you can't fix it.

"What if Stratt didn't force Grace to go?" Then the Earth dies.

"What if Yao and Ilyukhina had survived?" Then they all would have died in space, not enough food to get to Earth or Erid

If the Taomoeba hadn't escaped then Grace would have never seen his best friend again. Returning to a world he loves but no longer recognizes.

If the stars weren't dying then Grace never would have met his best friend at all. Living content but alone.

Project Hail Mary is a hopeful story. It is a story of friendship and what it means to be brave. It's a story about saving the world.

But you can't remove the tragedy of the story without making it unrecognizable. It's written into the bones.

[adigitalsky]

just watched phm at the theater for a 2nd time and am reading the book. I feel super normal about grace. do you think rocky knows his best friend’s name essentially means mercy, kindness, and to give second chances

[edgebug]

ryland grace is aroace on earth because he's never been attracted to a human. then he ends up discovering that he's actually very demiaroace when he starts feeling strange things about a rock alien and is like Oh my Effing Heck people weren't kidding. they weren't doing a bit. this attraction stuff really does make you feel fully insane in the entire brain. what the hey. what the gosh darn hey

[ratbreadd]

lyrics from venus - sleeping at last :)

version with just adrian!

[kaiiaii-yapz]

Thinking of Grace and Rocky getting so bored on the way to Erid and also them just being so sad they they can’t speak each others language, no matter how much they understand it’s just not physically possible. But maybe just maybe there’s some word in their respective languages that they can sort of say (not very well) but enough that someone would understand it. And they spend days going through everything thats sort of similar to the vocal range of the other.

POV Adrian when they finally get Erid. Your mate is back with this freaky alien that speaks in such a condensed range of tones and you understand nothing it says but it seems happy to be here and happy to meet you. And then in the middle of a ramble of incompressible sounds it says, in the strangest accent, “thermometer” and then goes back to utter nonsense.

[crafteeauthor]

Imagine Eva Stratt years after sending her favorite guy to boss around to space. Getting the logs and recordings and finding out that her guy made first contact with sapient alien life and it IMMEDIATELY started bossing him around too. Like what if you surrendered your dog and it got adopted by an alien instantly. Happened to my girl Eva Stratt

[mykimouser]

oh it's you, it's going to be you

a very happy birthday present to the loml @goodlucktai!