Jollin

I post and reblog random stuff that I like from multiple fandoms (like the gremlin i am ^⁠_⁠^) she/her Anti-AI and proud

[futureevilscientist]

How to recover fic deleted from AO3 that’s NOT on the Wayback machine

Sharing this because I just found out about this and it blew my mind.

The short version of it is: The Wayback Machine is not the only backup/archive of AO3 content out there. It’s just the most user-friendly and immediately browsable.

THIS database on Archive.org contains most AO3 fics as text files, including plenty that are not Waybacked: https://archive.org/details/AO3_final_location

What you’ll need: A browser for .sqlite3 files such as DB Browser for SQLite, an archive manager (e.g. WinRar or 7zip), good internet download speeds, and potentially a LOT of free GBs in storage space.

Not needed but heavily recommended: A download manager such as HTTP Downloader (so you don’t lose the entire download the second your internet stutters).

1. Click here to get to the archive’s files. It’s going to look something like this:

ao3_current.sqlite3 and ao3_old_files.sqlite3 are metadata files. The .zip files contain fic, most of them in simple .txt format. The metadata files tell you which fic is in which zip.

The “current” metadata file is recent backups. The “old” metadata file seems to be fics archived until 2020ish.

2. First, download either ao3_current.sqlite3 or ao3_old_files.sqlite3. Now launch DB Browser for SQlite, then File > Open Database Read-Only > open the sqlite3 file. Now click on the Browse Data tab.

3. It’s going to look like this.

4. The “Filter in any column” field can be used for keyword searches in, well, any column of this table. Be warned, it takes a while to update, give it time, it’s indexing.

5. Here I searched for all fic which gets a hit for the “Avengers” keyword (usually fandom). You can also search for a specific title, author, description, etc.

Let’s try to locate the first fic on the list. Click on the field on the left - row 1, column 1.

On the right you’ll see the full content of that cell. The most important thing here is the start - ao3_01. This means that the fic is located in ao3_old_files_part01.zip.

6. Download ao3_old_files_part01.zip and open it with your archive manager. It’s 5.5 GB. This will take some time.

7. There are multiple ways to find the fic within the zip file. Probably the easiest way is to use your archive manager’s search/find function to locate the fic by keyword - author is a good bet here, or title if it’s unique enough - and extract that. This way you don’t have to extract the entire archive. Be sure to add a wildcard operator (*) on either side of the keyword.

8. Extract the file and you’re done. Note: It will probably be in .txt format, and might be in one giant block of text. Just select-all and paste it to a proper word processor to restore the paragraph formatting.

+ I suppose if you’ve got like a free TB of space you could just skip the metadata step and download all the zip files and unzip them and use a command line search tool for keywords, too. This will work with keywords like title, author and fandom that are part of the file title. The metadata file just contains additional info, like character fields, description, etc.

This isn’t a perfect remedy, there are still fics that got deleted before they could get archived here. But it seems more complete than the stuff on the Wayback Machine on average.

[futureevilscientist]

Important addendum: There’s another way of accessing the .zip files.

You don’t actually have to download the zip files. You can also click on View Contents on the Downloads folder.

It will show you the contents of the zip file in your browser. Like this.

Open one of the files. The URL for the first one on the list here is

https://ia902207.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/11/items/AO3_final_location/ao3_old_files_part01.zip&file=ao3_01%2F%27Allo%20%27Allo_%20-%20Mickleditch%20-%20Lady%20in%20Waiting.txt

Everything after file= is the fic’s unique file path. Remember the file path for a fic we looked up earlier by checking the metadata file? Replace everything in the URL after file= with the path you got from the cell in Step 5 and hit enter. It will now take you to the file of the fic you were looking for.

Happy fic-hunting!

[porcupine-girl]

@destielficarchive relevant to your interests, and @wangxianficfinder I know you’ve had some asks about finding deleted fics recently.

[wangxianficfinder]

Thanks for letting us know! I’ll add a link to the pinned post ^^

- Mod C

[annebaneriddle]

If I told you I understood any of this, I would be lying. Can anyone please explain to me as if you’re explaining to a 5yo?

[annebaneriddle]

Hold up, I think I got this.

[annebaneriddle]

People agreed that I should do that post, so here is your anti-Tony library:

- Tony hurting Sam for no reason.

- Tony hurting Sam for no reason part 2.

- A list of bad things Tony has already done.

- Tony was deffending the Accords. Now, this is what the Accords were about.

- Tony wasn't just trying to kill Bucky, he also didn't care if Steve died in the process.

- Tony didn't really care about his team mates

- Tonys motivations to want the accords (from his own mouth)

- Tony's rant in Endgame was peak bullshit

- Tony's rant in Endgame was peak bullshit part 2

- Tony isn't and will never be a good father figure to Peter

- Tony loves to use other people's trauma as a joke

- Tony loves to use other people's trauma as a joke part 2

- Tony loves to use other people's trauma as a joke part 3

- Tony loves to use other people's trauma as a joke part 4

- Tony was the one to start the airport fighr and his team had 0 comunication

- Tony called a child "pussy"

- Tony didn't offer a compromise in CW as some people think

- If Tony and Steve were in a relationship, it would be abusive with Tony as the abuser

[never-trust-a-stark]

anti-tony/pro team cap fic recs!

i got fed up with all the tony-pampering in fics, so i tried to find some good anti-tony ones! i mentioned this list here, btw. 

note #1: check the anti tony stark, Not Tony Stark Friendly, Not Team Iron Man Friendly and Civil War Team Captain America tags on ao3. 

note #2: the first three tags above cannot be filtered; you can use ctrl+f to search for specific characters/tags there. the team cap tag has some tony stans in it tagging out of either spite or really rigid tagging protocol (i mean, team cap is technically in the fic, right?), so proceed with caution. (also i literally forgot the phrase “proceed with caution” writing this. i was sitting at the computer like a fool for so long,,)

note #3: if there’s an “&” between two names, it means they’re two different fics. the “//” in summaries means they’re summaries of separate fics.

now, on with the list! feel free to rb/reply with your own suggestions. enjoy!

Keep reading

[davvekat]

Can someone send me or comment some anti irondad fanfics maybe? One thing I’m interested in is peter like post endgame being sad over Tony’s death but also realizing he was shitty and just him realizing Tony’s shitty in general 🤷

[nobodyfamousposts]

Hey, if you know anything about Marvel, can you tell me about Civil War? Despite never having seen the movie, I wanna do a fix it of it, but the only clue I've got is that the Avengers were behaving like five year olds.

I can try, but if you're wanting to go for a Team Iron Man take on this, I will be of no help to you since from my take, Tony was the primary cause of problems as well as the biggest obstacle to any sort of reconciliation in the movie and franchise as a whole.

Basically, the Avengers as a group are held directly responsible for Tony's choice to mess with a powerful artifact he knew nothing about and LIED to Thor about his true intention in "studying it" for, and ended up creating a murderbot without telling anyone because he knew they would tell him not to. In response to the murderbot destroying a country, the UN decides to ratify the "Sokovia Accords", which on paper will create a committee in charge of the Avengers to decide where and when they can be deployed to deal with problems (or rather what they DECIDE are problems). And that may very well be true (not that we ever actually see that part in action), but it ALSO means that any superpowered individuals can be detained with no legal rights or representation and be placed in an underwater prison that may include solitary confinement, torture, and shock collars. The Avengers are surprised by the reveal of the Accords and are given three days to either sign the paperwork saying they'll go along with them or retire, which is confusing given that this had to have been in process for a good while and they should have been made aware of it more than three days before it'd become an actual law.

After his murderbot proceeded to do what most logical murderbots would and try to wipe out humanity, Tony takes no personal accountability for the harm he caused or the country destroyed until a single American mother confronts him over the death of her son who was a student studying in said country at the time the murderbot destroyed it, and he feels bad because she actually blames him for it. So after making a big deal about this ONE American life amidst all the thousands of non-Americans whom he damn well knew had to have died during that mess and which he was shown doing jack all to assist in the aftermath of, Tony suddenly decides that the Avengers as a whole need to be kept in check and pushes the others to sign away their rights. This is, of course, ignoring that up to that point Tony himself hadn't actually been doing any work with the other Avengers and that he's only technically superpowered when he wears an easily removable suit so by all counts the Accords wouldn't apply to him if he didn't want them to. Which kind of comes off as hypocritical since he wants everyone else to sign when no one else in the Avengers really has that ability.

Tony's stance might be considered understandable if his claims about changing the Accords after the fact weren't complete lies.

Steve Rogers: I'm not saying it's impossible. But there would have to be safeguards. 

Tony Stark: Sure! Once we put out the PR - they're documents. They can be amended. I file a motion, have you and Wanda reinstated...

THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS!!! And per the director commentary, Tony damn well KNEW that when he said it, he just wanted to make Steve sign.

It kind of boils down to Tony wanting to use this whole mess as a way to get one over on his dad's old friend he thinks his dad preferred to him. This is evidenced by his petty barbs at Steve and his "I win" comment when trying to make Steve sign.

Given the events of Captain America Civil war and the reveal about Hydra, Steve has reservations about relying on such a committee to direct when they can or can't help people. Plus at this time, in addition to dealing with the upcoming Accords, he is also dealing with personal issues such as the recent death of his past love interest he left behind when he got frozen trying to save the world and his missing formerly brainwashed best friend. Said best friend is conveniently framed for a terrorist attack at this exact same time and soldiers are sent to kill him. Said terrorist attack also seriously pisses off Black Panther because the explosion kills his father, and he starts trying to hunt Bucky down to get revenge because he (like everyone else) is led to believe Bucky's responsible for it. Steve interferes to save Bucky's life and gets arrested for it. Steve eventually discovers that there is a conspiracy that appears to be centered on locating six super soldiers who could cause massive harm to the world. So he forms a team to try to stop this mastermind from releasing them, and all of his team are informed of the situation and agree to come help willingly.

This team includes Scarlet Witch, whom Tony tries to keep locked up in his vacation home due to people being scared of her due to her powers and especially after she failed to contain a suicide bomber that resulted in the destruction of a building. He has Vision, the guy she's in love with, guard her to keep her from leaving the compound. Tony also doesn't seem to see her as a person and sees nothing wrong with keeping her locked up as in his own words: "There's worse ways to protect people. She's not a US Citizen and they don't grant visas to Weapons of Mass Destruction."

Tony, on the other hand, forms his own team to stop Team Cap that includes Black Widow, Black Panther, Vision, War Machine, and Spiderman. The last of whom is still a minor by this point that Tony chose to BLACKMAIL into helping him to fight Captain America and whom he doesn't tell ANYTHING about what's going on or why they need to go to an airport in Germany without his Aunt's knowledge or permission when the kid may not even have a passport.

Airport battle happens because Tony shows up to stop Steve and his team from getting a plane to go to the base where the super soldiers are being kept in stasis. Steve tries to tell Tony what's been going on and about the super soldiers and threat to the world, but Tony refuses to listen, doesn't let any of his team hear what Steve has to say so they can make their own decision on the matter, and starts a fight.

The fight results in Steve and Bucky getting away, War Machine getting shot down by friendly fire and becoming paralyzed, Tony shooing Falcon at close range just because he got mad that Falcon NOT letting himself be shot down resulted in War Machine being injured, Black Widow ditching Team Iron Man for Team Cap, and the rest of Team Cap being imprisoned in the aforementioned underwater prison with torture, shock collars, and no legal representation or rights.

Tony finally decides to actually look into the whole conspiracy angle and realizes that "yep, there is a conspiracy here and Cap was right and we probably didn't need to have that fight....whoops". He goes to visit his former teammates in the underwater prison in order to get info on where Steve went. The fact that he acknowledges that Cap was onto something doesn't stop him from needlessly and cruelly betraying Clint's secret by revealing his hidden family to Ross (aka, a major antagonist of the Hulk) out of sheer pettiness or ignoring the state Wanda is in, but that part tends to be glossed over by most Team Iron Man fans and the MCU in general so we'll move on.

He convinces Sam to tell him where Steve is so he can help, and then he leaves the rest of the group to rot in the underwater prison with no further consideration or concern for their well being. He then uses his own tech to fly to another country he has no authority to be in and did not inform any of his supervising committee people about his intention to travel to despite having signed the Sokovia Accords himself by this point, essentially breaking the very thing he had made such a big deal this whole time over that he insisted everyone else needed to sign and follow, which is of course never addressed in the MCU or by Team Iron Man fans.

Steve and Bucky make it to the secret base where the super soldiers are kept in stasis. Tony soon joins them, not realizing that Black Panther followed him. They arrive at the secret base and discover the super soldiers are already dead and the mastermind behind this horribly convoluted conspiracy just wanted to destroy the Avengers as revenge for them not saving his family from dying during the Sokovia attack. So despite how impossible this entire setup is, he manages to successfully break up the band by showing a clip that reveals Bucky (while under brainwashing) was sent by Hydra to kill Tony's dad (and maybe mom, since the video doesn't actually show him killing her but she is still dead).

This sets Tony into a rage for a crime that he knows Bucky was forced to commit against his will (and that Tony himself probably should have known about sooner had he paid any attention to the Hydra info dump from back during the Captain America Winter Soldier movie). He blames Steve for knowing about it (even though reasonably Steve only knew Hydra was involved in the death and not that Bucky personally was the one made to pull the trigger, and director's commentary revealed that Steve blocked it from himself so he was in no position to tell Tony anyway). Tony refuses to be talked down and tries to brutally murder Bucky for a crime that happened decades ago while Bucky tries to get away from him rather than fight back. He shoots Bucky in the back when Bucky tries to run away and blows off Bucky's prosthetic arm. Steve steps in to stop Tony from committing murder, and because he refuses to calm down or simply stop trying to murder them, Bucky and Steve team up to try to forcibly depower Iron Man to make him stop trying to commit murder. They do not try to kill him. Just depower. Compare that with Tony shooting laser blasts at them that can sheer a metal arm off.

Eventually Bucky goes down and Tony still refuses to stop, so since Steve can't get him to stop any other way, he attacks Iron Man's power source directly with his shield only until the suit can no longer continue the fight. Then he goes to help Bucky.

Tony throws out some childish comment about the shield and how his dad (whom he has shown nothing but distaste for this entire time) made it and how Cap doesn't deserve it, so Steve drops the shield and leaves with his friend.

Black Panther captures the mastermind responsible for the terrorist attack and his dad's death, and returns to his home country with Bucky to help him fix the remaining effects of the brainwashing he was still under. Which shows a distinct difference in revenge vs justice since he at least doesn't just try to murder in a rage without listening.

And despite everything that happened, Tony's refusal to listen, and Tony's attempted murder, Steve still manages to be the bigger person and sends Tony an apology letter and a cellphone that Tony can use to call him if he ever needs help (which Tony never uses even a year later when the universe is at stake because he's still butthurt that nobody liked his murderbot idea). Then Steve, unlike Tony, actually decides to help his teammates by breaking everyone out of the underwater prison.

Ultimately, this leaves Tony as the only remaining Avenger since War Machine is still injured, Black Widow ditched him for Team Cap in CW, Black Panther also appears to be helping out with Team Cap by the end of CW, Vision ditches him to be with Wanda by the time Infinity War starts, Tony sends Spiderman back home and pretty much ghosts him afterwards while still never telling him what the airport fight was actually about or anything about the Sokovia Accords (which by all counts, Spiderman should also have been forced to sign as well), Hawkeye and Ant Man retire, and the rest of Team Cap is still Team Cap.

And Tony learns absolutely nothing as not only does he refuse to call Captain America for help despite Bruce and Dr. Strange warning him to (which could have prevented everything that went wrong in Infinity War), when he does finally see Steve and Team Cap again, all he does is whine about them not going along with his murderbot plan that already went astronomically wrong the last time around and caused the entire mess with the Sokovia Accords in the first place.

Half of the Civil War movie could have been prevented had Steve been able to talk to the rest of Team Iron Man and gotten the chance to tell people BESIDES TONY about the super soldiers. They may have needed to bring him in and in Black Panther's case, want to kill Bucky, but they were all at least sensible enough that if they knew about the conspiracy and the potential threat of six super soldiers being let loose on the world, they would agree to put the issues aside for the moment and deal with the threat first. THEN after dealing with the threat and the conspiracy, they could just arrest Steve and Bucky again and I doubt either of them would fight them on it. Neither of them were resisting arrest, after all, they were only resisting a murder and that's an entirely different thing.

So yeah, that's Civil War. And if you want to do a fix-it, having them talk things out at the airport instead of fighting because Tony refuses to listen would probably be the place to start.

[waywardsou2]

I need more people to recognise it, I've never really been able to articulate why Peter's presence was so wrong and this has done it for me.

He was cannonically 15 at the time of this

He'd never even had a proper suit until that moment

He had never left the country

He was coerced to go behind his Aunts back into a dangerous place because his idol asked him to

He was fighting and hurting people he also idolized but also wasn't told what they had done

He had literally fallen prey to whatever Tony had told him about Steve

He got injured, Tony could not guarantee his safety, and Peter was so young he could hardly guarantee his own safety

I don't like Tony for a lot of other reasons and I can start the list from this movie alone but I really need people to recognise what the fuck he did

He's sitll getting people hurt, because of something he wants

He literally has only child syndrome on a super scale.

Steve didn't do what he wanted, so he brought other people who were either neutral, complicated or unsure into his group to basically force Steve to do what he wanted.

It's like if a child wants to play with block, but some of his friends don't want to play with the blocks with him so he hits them because they won't do what he wants

Tony only helped himself, he only did what he did out of guilt because he kept making the wrong choices and he decided that everyone had to be accountable for something that his hands made

[swan-of-sunrise]

[r4esvn]

so we have simon x ryland. beautiful, spectacular, amazing… but how do we feel about john wick x courtland? genwick?? idk we’ll work on the ship name

you could say i’m… crackshipmaxxing

[emptyingthespiral]

coltlandgentry brother bullshit

uhh obligatory minor spoiler warning for

Starting this off… the names is funny courtland and ryland both have ‘land’ in it and court and colt are similar.., they’re brother your honor

court is the oldest (by 3-5 years), while colt and ryland are twins (whose older, up to you)

their father. Highest grade dick. One of the most bastardized bastards to ever fucking exist on the plain of earth

(According to the movie) court was 15 when he shot his father, and 8 years later (when he was 23) he got recruited into the sierra program

think it would be funny if court was slighter smaller than colt and ryland (bc in the book he is 5’11” while gosling is 6’)

(This is if the brothers ever united…) courtland has grown detached from his name that he can forget to respond to it when the twins use it, he’s not used to being addressed like that, its always been just a number

Court witnessed a lot of things (ryland graduating college, colts stunt works and even watching movies he stunted for, etc etc) from afar bc he was afraid of them being used as leverage

after Ryland got fired, Colt was right there to support him, lots of movie marathons and myb ice cream as well

Colt has prescriptions contacts instead of glasses, he says he doesnt wanna look nerdy

colt name is colton 🤷

Ryland found out abt Colt’s accident while he was teaching in class, Court found out while he was out of the country on a job

Colt also has chronic pain from the accident

Ryland annoyed (cared for) colt and checked in on him a lot, took at least 3 month off to help him and was couch surfing (which means he was doing sub plans for 3 weeks)

Colt, fucking hated that, he hated the vulnerability and he hated feeling like a burden and taking his brother away from his (shit) paying job

Ryland throws most of his money into his classroom, his students

If colt visits ryland, they always stop at the diner that ryland is a regular at

all of them, chronic coffee drinkers, Ryland is sweet asf, Colt does black (when its brewed, he drinks, heat be damned), Court just drinks whatever’s available, sweet, black, doesnt matter

Ryland at least knows Latin, Colt knows French and probably spanish… Court probably lost count of the languages he knows, picked up a lot working

they are all on the spectrum, one way or another (fucking courland ‘im talked out, lets go gentry’ gentry and those mf with their thumbs up)

colt would prob be bi or smth, aroace ryland (tried at least one relationship) and court forgot that those were a thing (as stated, he got incarcerated when he was 15)… so probably aroace as well

This is all i got for now… :)))))

lemme know if i should post doodles of these fuckos

[glowbeam]

"simon would definitely beat grace in a fight no question" is taken for granted in a lot of fics and i don't want it to be!!! yes whatever simon is physically bigger and more superficially muscular, but grace is

taller, higher center of gravity

also pretty fucking muscular (no it was not just the ship, NMES devices MAINTAIN muscle they don't build it)

prone to explosive anger

fucking scrappy, doesn't fight fair (the chase scene)

FAST (how fucking far he got in the chase scene. which makes sense because he does cardio literally every day)

not to mention if you believe in coltlandgentry propaganda do you seriously think court wouldn't make damn sure his baby brothers could protect themselves. do you think colt wouldn't teach his notoriously clumsy twin how to take the least amount of damage from a fall or a hit.

like... let him get the upper hand. let him win, even. typical fanfic scene with simon attacking grace when he first wakes up on the ship, but grace locks in and triggers muscle memory he maybe didn't even know he had, gets simon pinned or in some kind of secure hold. "ohhh-kay. hey there. sorry, that's my bad for startling you. my name's grace..."

[bwabbitv3s]

Grace was also a school teacher in the US. He likely had active shooter training. I 100% believe he knows how to tackle and pin an attacker.

[glowbeam]

"simon would definitely beat grace in a fight no question" is taken for granted in a lot of fics and i don't want it to be!!! yes whatever simon is physically bigger and more superficially muscular, but grace is

taller, higher center of gravity

also pretty fucking muscular (no it was not just the ship, NMES devices MAINTAIN muscle they don't build it)

prone to explosive anger

fucking scrappy, doesn't fight fair (the chase scene)

FAST (how fucking far he got in the chase scene. which makes sense because he does cardio literally every day)

not to mention if you believe in coltlandgentry propaganda do you seriously think court wouldn't make damn sure his baby brothers could protect themselves. do you think colt wouldn't teach his notoriously clumsy twin how to take the least amount of damage from a fall or a hit.

like... let him get the upper hand. let him win, even. typical fanfic scene with simon attacking grace when he first wakes up on the ship, but grace locks in and triggers muscle memory he maybe didn't even know he had, gets simon pinned or in some kind of secure hold. "ohhh-kay. hey there. sorry, that's my bad for startling you. my name's grace..."

[bitchboythepyro]

Grace was worried about the stranger. Finding anyone just drifting through space was bad enough, but finding them drifting through space in a shoddily welded, blood soaked submarine with one of their arms detached from their body and hanging from a pipe inside? Yeah, 'bad' was an understatement.

Even just thinking about the amount of blood inside the sub made Grace feel like vomiting. ... Again.

Grace didn't even know how this man was even alive. All he knew is that he wanted the man to stay that way.

He loved Rocky, really, he did. But the chance to have another human to talk to? That was just something he couldn't risk losing.

He approached the bed where the man was laying with various machines hooked up to him.

"You can't just show up at the doorstep of my ship and then die." He murmured, a soft smile on his lips. "That would just be mean."

He reached out to tuck a strand of dark hair behind the man's ear, when suddenly a hand was wrapped around his wrist in a crushing grip.

He jolted in shock and looked down.

The man was awake.

"Uh... H-hey there," Grace said nervously. "Glad to see you're-"

He didn't get to finish his sentence as the man let out an angry yell before launching himself up and off the bed, tackling Grace to the floor.

He wrapped his right, and only, hand around Grace's neck and used it to hold himself up while his lower body pressed itself between his legs, with Grace's calves hooked over his thighs.

"I WON'T GO BACK!" The man screamed, voice raw and gravelly. "I WON'T LET YOU SEND ME BACK DOWN THERE!"

Grace felt his lungs constrict from the sudden lack of air.

This situation felt familiar. Not the dangerous "I'm going to choke to death" part, but the position of their bodies.

He'd been in this position before, but not here. Not on the Hail Mary. No, it had been back on Earth, with someone he trusted and loved very dearly, and who cared about him just as much.

"Come on, Ryland, just like we practiced. First, the cross grip-"

Grace brought his right arm up and grabbed the strangers forearm.

"...step two, lean across the neck-"

He brought his left hand up and over the man's arm, gripping his left shoulder tightly.

"...you know what to do next right?"

Grace did.

He planted his left foot on the man's hip, pivoted his body to the right, and swung his right leg up and across the man's shoulder blades before swinging his left leg up and over the stranger's head, locking his ankles together.

He slid his left hand down from the man's shoulder until he was gripping his forearm with both hands. Then, with a strangled grunt, he used his legs and hips to throw the stranger off of him and onto the ground, trapping his head under the back of his knee and locking the man's only arm between his legs.

With both of his hands gripping the stranger's wrist, and the position he had his arm in in between his legs, Grace could easily snap the man's elbow with a sharp lift of his hips.

Wait. How did he know that?

"You did good, Ryland."

"Thanks, Court. Although, I doubt I'm gonna get strangled at a middle school of all places."

"It's better to know how to do it and never use it, then not know when you need to use it. 'Sides, what kind of big brother would I be if I didn't teach you how to protect yourself?"

"Well, between you teaching me how to throw off an attacker, and Colt teaching me how to fall from tall heights without breaking any bones, I'd say I'm gonna be pretty indestructible."

"Someone has to look out for you, cause it sure isn't going to be yourself."

"Hey!"

Oh, God. Grace had brothers. He remembered now. An older one named Court, and a twin named Colt. How could he have forgotten about them?

The stranger let out a feral growl and it snapped Grace back to the present. He pulled down on the man's arm, pulling it farther back than it was ever supposed to bend. The man made no sound of pain, but he did stop moving.

"Listen, I don't want to hurt you, but I am prepared to defend myself." Grace said, voice serious. "Now, we can either talk this out like adults, or I can make it so both arms are out of commission."

The man was silent for a few seconds. Then:

"Get. Off. Me."

Grace pulled down on his arm a bit more. The man didn't wince, but he did stiffen.

"Promise that you won't attack me again."

He could practically see the man bristle at his words.

"...Fine."

Slowly, Grace released his hold on the man's arm, and he immediately twisted himself out of Grace's leg-lock and scrambled backward, spine hitting the wall with a painful-sounding thud.

"I'm not going back." The man growled, head tilted down as he glared up at Grace through his messy black hair. "You can't make me!"

"I'm not going to make you do anything." Grace said, standing up and brushing himself off dramatically. "But I am going to ask that you please get back on the bed so I can treat the wound you gave yourself when your IV got ripped out. I'd really prefer it if you didn't bleed out on the floor."

The man looked down to see that his arm was, in fact, bleeding profusely from where the IV used to be inserted.

He looked back up to continue glaring at Grace.

"What the fuck do you care if I bleed out?" He growled.

"I didn't pull you out of a submarine filled to the brim with blood just to watch you die from losing your own!" Grace snapped. "Now, would you please get back on the bed?"

"If this is some kind of fucking trick to get me back in that goddamn sub-"

Grace physically recoiled. "WHAT?! What are you-?! Why on God's green Earth would I ever put you back in that?!"

The man flinched at Grace's outburst.

"I don't know! To get more samples?! More pictures of that- that thing!?"

"What 'thing'?!"

The man stared at him in confusion. Then his confusion gradually shifted to one of understanding.

"You're not with the COI." It's not a question.

"Should I be?!" Grace shrieks.

The stranger stared at him in silence, as if weighing the pros and cons of the answer to that question.

Then, he slowly stood up and shuffled over to the bed, sitting down on the edge.

Grace stared in stunned silence, which the man quickly lost his patience for.

"You said you were gonna fix this shit, so do it." He growled, waving his right arm in demonstration.

"Right, yes, sorry!" Grace sputtered, rushing to his side and beginning to wrap his arm with bandages provided by Armando.

"My name is Dr. Ryland Grace, by the way." He said, not looking up from the stranger's arm. "But everyone just calls me Grace."

The man grunted.

"What's your name?"

"You talk too much."

Grace laughed nervously. "I get that a lot."

The two fell into an awkward silence.

Once he finished wrapping the man's arm, Grace re-inserted the IV and stepped back, giving the man some space.

The two stared at each other.

Grace tapped his fingers together nervously.

"Well-"

"You fight good."

"Huh?"

The man looked away, shoulders tense. "I said you fight good. Not many people can beat me in a fight."

It took Grace a few seconds to process the compliment, but when he did, he smiled nervously. "Uh, thanks. I think. You know, to be honest, I didn't even know I was capable of that. But then I remembered how my older brother used to make me spar with him and oh mY GOD I HAVE BROTHERS."

In all the commotion he had completely forgotten (again) about the fact that he had two brothers. God, this amnesia thing sucked.

"Holy moly, I have brothers!" He whispered, fingers beginning to pull at his short blond hair nervously. "Gosh, I hope they weren't too upset that I didn't say goodbye. Well, not like I really had a choice..."

"What are you mumbling about?" The one-armed man asked, his voice filled with caution.

"Nothing. Sorry, just- Just realizing some things about myself is all. Like the fact that apparently I have two brothers."

"You forgot your own brothers?" The man asked, judgement in his tone.

"It's a long story." Grace said with a wave of his hand. "I'll tell you later. Right now, you should try and get some sleep. When you wake up again I'll get you something to eat. In the meantime-"

He opened a panel on the wall and pulled out a bag of water.

"-you can drink this if you're thirsty. Which I imagine you probably are given how long you were asleep."

He held it out to the man who looked between him and the bag like he wasn't sure what to do.

Grace shook the bag a bit, indicating for him to take it.

When the man realized it was for him, he snatched it from Grace's hand in the blink of an eye and clutched it to his chest.

Grace blinked in surprise. Okay. Not the reaction he was expecting, but that was fine.

"If you finish it and want some more, just ask Armando and he'll get you some." Grace said. "Try to get some sleep."

And then he turned and began walking towards the door. Just as he reached it, he heard the man on the bed speak.

"Simon."

"Huh?" The blond asked, dumbfounded, as he turned to face the one-armed man.

"My name. It's Simon."

Grace stared for a few seconds before smiling gently.

"It's nice to meet you, Simon. Get some rest. We'll talk more later."

Then he opened the door.

And found Rocky on the other side.

"New human awake now, question?"

"WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT?!"

I used this moment in this self-defense video as a reference when I was writing Grace fighting back.

[glowbeam]

"simon would definitely beat grace in a fight no question" is taken for granted in a lot of fics and i don't want it to be!!! yes whatever simon is physically bigger and more superficially muscular, but grace is

taller, higher center of gravity

also pretty fucking muscular (no it was not just the ship, NMES devices MAINTAIN muscle they don't build it)

prone to explosive anger

fucking scrappy, doesn't fight fair (the chase scene)

FAST (how fucking far he got in the chase scene. which makes sense because he does cardio literally every day)

not to mention if you believe in coltlandgentry propaganda do you seriously think court wouldn't make damn sure his baby brothers could protect themselves. do you think colt wouldn't teach his notoriously clumsy twin how to take the least amount of damage from a fall or a hit.

like... let him get the upper hand. let him win, even. typical fanfic scene with simon attacking grace when he first wakes up on the ship, but grace locks in and triggers muscle memory he maybe didn't even know he had, gets simon pinned or in some kind of secure hold. "ohhh-kay. hey there. sorry, that's my bad for startling you. my name's grace..."

[chylerart]

POV: Colt has to take Ryland's Highschool graduation photo because Ryland is sick on the day

I love these brothers they r gonna be the death of me

inspiration from this meme i found on google :3

[rajamitsu]

While I did read the book first, I did see posters and teaser images before doing so, so I did mostly see Movie!Grace while reading. I avoided trailers, tho, so my mental image of Rocky was very different. …so, yeah. 😅

Anyway, IYKYK. One of the things from the book I missed in the movie, but get why it was left out.

[type-blaze0]

Hi i'm going to overthink this

So we are persistence hunters that mainly had to defend against ambush hunters in a very same-y environment. We thrive on being able to choose one target and continuously drain its stanima until it doesn't pose a threat. We can pick out a snake in the grass because we need to know where the snakes are to not get attacked by one. We needed pattern recognition to navigate

Eridiens? They probably recognize each other based on pitch. They are confirmed to have not great spatial memory. Instead of eridians needing to be able to tell the difference between friend and foe, this pray versus that prey, where is that enemy in the terrain, this tree is different from this tree... evolution solved thair individual identity problem by giving each one a pitch that they could use for a combination of identifying individuals and resonating in a thrum

Humans do not have a natural resonant pitch, what we sound like ambiently changes based on our surroundings.

Humans probably all look very similar to an eridian, our soft squishy skin that gives as most of our defining traits, probably doesn't show up very well on passive sonar. Hair would actively muffle, and defining careistics for us, such as eye color, hairstyles, and dress sense would be practically invisible to them.

This gives us a problem to solve that is probably going to be very funny with the solutions

Possibility one: they tell us apart by our teeth.

This doesn't work well, as for some reason, humans tend to want their teeth to look a specific way. Why teeth? Most unique bones. Our femurs don't look very different from one another, but i'm pretty sure you'll never find somebody with the exact angle of keith that you have.

Possibly 2: when interacting with humans, in order to be able to tell us apart, eradians have to scream at us to see details they couldn't normally.

Possibility three: the eridens make gifts for humans on meeting them for the first time, beyond the pleasant trees, this is also basically an ID card So they can tell who you are, based on the frequency of whatever jewelry you've been given.

As for bloody mary, this is never a problem for any eridien, because simon has neither glasses or one of his arms. He also has plenty of bones that he shouldn't.

This does also give us the hilarious possibility that an iradian meets a third human, And it is confused why they have the same number of bones as grace. Don't you need those to tell each other apart? What do you mean You can't see them?

[sillylittlestoryteller]

i love this fandom

Eva Stratt said: you are so lonely that no one will miss you

and we all collectively said BET

Gaggle of Goslings extended family

Bloody space boyfriend from a different movie

Earth boyfriend/husband based on the actor behind the bloody space movie

secretly dating half of the Petrova Taskforce

Friend/colleague of the other Andy Weir stranded astronaut book

Any other pop culture scientist as a potential college fling (i see you Tony Stark/Grace shippers, and i applaud your creativity)

[galacticsabc]

Here's some unserious comics and hastily drawn doodles

[sticksandstans]

things that absolutely murder me about the project hail mary (book) ending

the chapter title is notated in eridian numbers

grace fully thinks in eridian numbers now actually

IT'S BEEN 16 YEARS. HE'S 53.

he eats his own cloned muscle tissue and calls it a meburger. hannibal lecter who. (i'm gonna be honest my dad told me this one as we walked out of the theater and i fully thought he was lying)

cane user grace. he means everything to me

he's fully fluent in eridian so rocky speaks to him completely fluidly. and also swears.

after SIXTEEN YEARS eridian scientists discover that sol has returned to full luminosity

grace doesn't know what wars have happened and how many died but he DOES know that humanity truly saved themselves. with his help

[melonsharks]

agoraphobia /ăg″ər-ə-fō′bē-ə, ə-gôr″ə-/

The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.

[uninterestedemby]

AGH MY BABY IM CRINE