Grace Rocky Save Stars

🎶 "Good. Proud. I am scary space monster. You are leaky space blob." 🎶

[lutheban]

Eridians dont know about time relativity and people are NOT talking about it enough imagine sending a person on a dangerous mission like 70 years ago and when they finally come back and they look like they only aged 10 of those years and tell you "oh yeah time just works different there" when you have no concept of that that is INSANE rocky explaining radiation to eridian scientists (already insane concept) and going "oh yeah btw time works differently in space" "what" "time works differently in space. what we thought would be a 16 years trip was only a 4 year trip for me, the solarians call it something like time-depending-of-position-in-space, is pretty trippy" "....WHAT"

[hiero-green]

MY ROCKY IS FINISHED !!! (MOSTLY)

("mostly" is because I have to pick up some pleather for his arm band tomorrow because I threw out the piece I had, ugh)

I am SO HAPPY WITH HIM !!! he is almost entirely handsewn -- the upper parts of his arms were mostly machine sewn because they were simpler in terms of pattern pieces to align -- and I made up the pattern pieces pretty much entirely as I went, aside from his carapace which I figured out ahead of time. He weighs over 1.5kg !! 50g in every leg and then 1.25kg in his carapace.

I love him so so dearly he's so good for a cuddle. I'm thinking about making a little sling/baby carrier type thing for him in case I throw together a closet Grace cosplay for DCC in July... Maybe.

Anyway. Go my Rocky

(clip concept stolen from @/aroace-ryland-grace lol)

[bluemuffin-draws]

Based off this post by @7-inches-of-satanic-panic

[emziess]

Grace + Skittles Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[scrambledeggwithsauce]

[PHM comic] Dr Captain Ryland Grace’s Fuzzy Memories…

finally figured out how to upload more than 10 pictures on here ! hope it's not too wonky...

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

when I find myself in times of trouble

rocky the eridian comes to me

speaking words of wisdom:

"Grumpy. Angry. Stupid. How long since last sleep, question?"

[almondcroissantsandink]

something SO self indulgent solely for the fact that James Ortiz is eligible for a Best Supporting Actor Academy Award for his performance in PHM. Practical effects in movies are so so important to me, and I was SHOCKED to find out Rocky was a puppet and not completely CGI. Idk it just makes me so excited and happy when movies utilize puppetry and prosthetics and real, intricate sets and wire work and take the time to let artists create things by hand because that heart really comes across in the film. I really hope he gets it because that would be absolutely insane.

[bellabolgerart]

“I’ll believe in anything, you’ll believe in anything”

[bluheaven-art]

All of the Grace sketches I have done so far

[bluheaven-art]

New sketch

[90108s]

everything changed

[IMAGE 1 ID: Page 1 of a 4-page Project Hail Mary comic. The entire comic features lyrics from the song “I Won’t Quit on You” by Hayley Williams. This page has 3 panels. Panel 1 shows Grace in his red EVA suit, floating in space. There’s a safety tether attached to him. Panel 2 shows Grace with his face in his hands, after he finds out that he’s being sent into space. Panel 3 is a view of the beach on Erid. The lyrics “lonely astronaut / it’s gonna cost / but you just can’t beat that view” are scattered all over the page. The page is mostly grayscale except for the bright red of Grace’s suit. The safety tether from Panel 1 extends into a long red thread that goes down to the bottom of the page, connecting to Page 2. END ID]

[IMAGE 2 ID: Page 2 of the comic. It has 3 panels. Panel 1 is Grace before he wakes up from his coma, the zipper of his bodysuit partially open to show half his face. Panel 2 is Grace’s hand on the ship’s window, showing outer space. Panel 3 is Rocky’s claws holding onto the small xenonite Grace figure. The lyrics are “wasted like a god / power off / wake up somewhere new / now I’m an alien to you.” The page is mostly grayscale except for the bright red of Grace’s overall in Panel 2. The red thread from Page 1 continues in this page, and connects to Page 3. END ID]

[IMAGE 3 ID: Page 3 of the comic. It has 3 panels. Panel 1 shows the Hail Mary in Adrian’s atmosphere. Panel 2 is Grace’s face smashed against the screen on the control panel, bleeding from the impact. Panel 3 is Rocky emitting black smoke, from when he’s trying to save Grace. The black smoke goes beyond the panel, giving a suffocating feeling. The lyrics are “come hell or heaven / angels or devils / I won’t move.” The page is mostly grayscale except for the bright red of Grace’s blood and suit in Panel 2, and the red background of Panel 3. The red thread from Page 2 continues in this page and loops twice, and connects to Page 4. END ID]

[IMAGE 4 ID: Page 4 of the comic, which has only one panel. It shows Grace and Rocky after the Adrian mission. Rocky is back in his xenonite ball, with Grace smiling at him. Their hands/claws meet where they’re pressed against the xenonite ball. The lyrics are “and I don’t care what happens after / I won’t quit on you.” The red thread from Page 3 continues in this page and wraps around the panel, and ends at a red star at the bottom. The page is grayscale except for the thread. END ID]

[pris-cas]

Lessson #12 Bless you!

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[hieronymusbotched]

I drew a Carl… the guyyyy he’s so funniii :)))

[incaseyouart]

this study got out of hand haha, but it's a perfect shot for the text from the book (opening of chapter 24) - what a brutal passage :(

<ref once again from the amazing admins behind the PHM twitter account>

[shrugsinchinese]

Rocky was in space for 50 years of course the recuperation period is long and hard

[sharkfiinn]

have you read @bring-in-the-bees 's prism fanfic yet

[squid-king]

The thing about Project Hail Mary that I think has made it linger, at the very least, in my consciousness, is that while it has a happy ending, it's fundamentally a tragedy

Grace ends up in a place he likes at the end of the story, he's happy, he's safe, he loves the people around him, and it's an obviously better ending than he initially expected to get when he woke up on the Hail Mary, but that doesn't erase everything he lost

It doesn't change that he had a life stolen from him, that he was, in a very real way, murdered when Stratt put him on the Hail Mary

I cannot remember who said it, but they were on the money when they said Ryland died on earth and Grace was born on the Hail Mary

And there's something about a well written tragedy that just holds me captive in a way very few things can