Take Me Or Leave Me

| Midnight | Queer | @midnighteve - Insta | Current interest: The X-Files/SVU “Do you think that’s coincidence? That’s you- that’s who you are!”

[mooingwithmidnight]

Childhood <3

[katestewartt]

“I’m out of patience and the world is out of time.”

[halethleia]

hey so fun fact!!! the directors said that stratt left these as a gift for grace

the medallion is also confirmed to be st christopher: the patron saint of travelers. it’s a symbol of good luck, guidance and protection on a journey

so you know. i’m really normal and fine about this

[mercifulmother]

– Animorphs: The Reunion, K.A. Applegate

[birdbyrne]

i love that Stratt canonically orders people to clap for Grace when he does something good. and it happens multiple times

[thirsty-and-distant]

Stratt doing the eridian goodbye after listening to Grace's last message... because she never got to say goodbye until now... don't talk to me

[tactiletelekonesis]

one thing i love about the phm fandom is the sheer amount of people who love stratt. like so many other fandoms would overlook her or hate her or reduce her into an evil caricature because shes a woman in a powerful position who did something bad to the white boy protagonist but the phm fandom ADORES her. and theyre right. eva stratt the character ever

[katestewartt]

SAY IT LOUDER

[ryland-graceless]

[drizzly-bear]

even more phm + textposts with stratt (and grace)

[ravioliet]

stupid doodle i made based on this post. guy who doesn’t know hes tied to the tracks and his best friend the trolley operator

[ceruleana]

eva stratt makes me so fucking unwell because. imagine months of making hard call after hard call because you gotta, because someone's gotta, and this time it has to be you. and she keeps strong despite it, she keeps going. then the fucking pit in her stomach she must have felt, when she realized that Grace was her only option left. the horror of that realization. having to steel herself for the task. only to have him beg and plead and cry. her friend. how did she not throw up. how did she manage it. eva stratt the woman ever, how many people out there would have the sheer force of will, to be able to pull the trigger on their friend to save all humanity. and she didn't even know if it would work. she didn't know. for years. she didn't know if murdering her friend was worth the gamble. she just had to believe in him. fucking hell.

[grouphug33]

Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.

He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.

She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.

And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.

It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.

But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.

He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.

Eva and Grace, the platonic male/female friendship of all time.

[milieumarch]

When she's watching the video Grace sent back to Earth, Stratt starts to wobble her head before Rocky says "no no no no no", implying that it's not the first time she watched the video. if you even care

[iforgothepasswordtomyoldaccount]

I’m actually about to become violent with the way people talk about stratt like it’s so clear to me that if her actions were done by a male character people wouldn’t have blinked twice. Like yes she makes some objectively horrifying choices because SHE HAS TO!!!! someone had to make the hard decisions needed to keep humanity alive while they waited on a long shot, someone had to wreck the earth so they have time to save it, without her the Hail Mary would have barely mattered since there wouldn’t have been anyone left to save!!!!!!!

and don’t even get me started on people saying they like movie stratt better since they “softened” her. WHY DO YOU NEED A WOMAN TO BE SOFT IN ORDER TO ACCEPT HER AS A GOOD CHARACTER TODD????????? WHY DO YOU NEED HER TO SELF-FLAGELLATE IN ORDER TO BELIEVE SHES WELL WRITTEN?????? IS IT THE MISOGYNY CAUSE IT SURE SEEMS LIKE THE MISOGYNY TO ME!!!!

[rosettyller]

Project Hail Mary (2026)

[certifiedlurker]

Here's the thing though. I really thought that Eva Stratt would get so popular that I will be annoyed with a huge part of the fandom for sidetracking the protagonists of the story. Because Eva Stratt seemed hand crafted to blow up massively as per tumblr fan culture. Because how many side characters do you know who became the talking point of a series just because they fit the mould of being this non-nonsense/tough character who is very sparing with their smiles? Add to the fact that the character is religious... Fandoms love, LOVE this trope because there's so much to explore with either #religious guilt or fearing hellfire or even confronting God to demand answers. And this is a woman who shot her very ambiguous platonic situationship guy- "the only friend" guy, the "right hand man" guy to space without his consent. Ryland Grace saying this is betrayal/murder and Eva being religious, like that's just so latchable! When there is a character in a fandom who supposedly has done "bad" things, and it becomes a point of contention, and the character falls squarely into a morally grey area because of that, it becomes a huge fucking hit! Like forget about moral greyness...people were losing their head over Remmick from Sinners!! That's the racist slaver white vampire! There was also whole era where Kylo Ren (and Armitage Hux ) reigned supreme to the point that even those who had no knowledge of star wars, learnt through osmosis. "The things I do for love" Jaime Lannister, remember him? The frontman from squid game, and his betrayal of player 456- this sent fandom into a frenzy! And here is Eva Stratt who is none of that but is kind of like a true moral grey- because she is stuck between a rock and a hard place, with oh! the burden of expectation placed squarely upon her shoulders and where failure is just not an option...like I thought we loved these kind of characters to the point of irritation. Add to that, she is pretty and white, with a blank slate for her past. I am sorry to say but tumblr fandoms are so inherently white, that a blank slate which can be projected onto becomes insanely popular, no matter who the protagonist is, and what kind of story is being told. Like Eva Stratt is hand crafted to have become the annoying tumblr meow meow- we have monikers like "Earth's whipping boy" and "scapegoat" that drives people up the wall and yet she is not one. And I am here sitting and thinking, and i go, oh I see how it is...There are more speculations about who is going to hate her ( sometimes the entire eridian species and sometimes every single one of her colleagues). There is more talk about how she should not be woobified, than the woobification. Talk about being the whipping boy lol. Anyway all this to say, I am about to become Eva Stratt's no 1 woobifier 👍🏽💅🏽 ✌🏽