TO BEE OR NOT TO BEE

Eria aka Emrys aka Em aka Bee. My pronouns are whatever you want them to be. Writer, artist, full-time overthinker. 24. UTC+2. Feel free to talk to me in German and English. My current hyperfixation is Project Hail Mary.

[nachtwaechterin]

About Me

Updated on Monday 08th December 2025, 09:35 UTC

Names: Eria, Emrys, Bee, Em

Pronouns: whatever you want them to be honestly

Age: 23

Current hyperfixiations: Hermitcraft, Doomed yaoi smp Vampires SMP

What else is there to know about me?

I write and do art. I’m also a huge language and science nerd and I might or might not continue working on an original work. I don’t know yet. I will possibly post in English and German. Posts in a different language than English will be tagged accordingly.

Following the Map That Leads to You (I Am Who I'm Meant to Be) [VSMP, for when Ao3 is down]

[graceshailmary]

Ugh the scene where Grace tests the theory on the taomeoba to see if it’ll kill the astrophage and it works but instead of celebrating, he starts crying and is visibly distressed gets me every single time.

Like that’s such a loaded way to feel bcus yes he was able to figure out how to kill the astrophage, yes he was in fact the man for the job, yes they were right to send him.

But!! It’s that, mixed with the fact that the guy who even helped him get to this step is still unconcious or dead for all he knows!! And he has no way of knowing how to get this to the other planet it needs to go to if its the latter!!

Ryan Gosling, the actor that you are!!!

[hailed-marys]

I still think it’s so hilarious that dr Ryland “it’s a small to medium whoop” Grace got sheepish when people were impressed at the astrophage propulsion demonstration. It’s not even that he’s nonchalant he just genuinely thinks that people won’t be impressed with his work. Self doubt so strong that he downplays melting a metric ton of metal in 5 seconds for fun

[teaboot]

I think that if you had enough daughters AND played your cards right you could spring Mambo Number Five out at the EXACT right gathering and shatter your entire family's trust forever

[teaboot]

The secret is to name them out of order with the lyrics so by the time anyone catches on it's too late

[teaboot]

For me personally the ideal gathering would be my funeral

[teaboot]

A little bit for Monica, she's my wife

A little bit for Erica, for her strife

My books all go to Rita, cause she reads

My greenhouse goes to Tina, she plants trees

The furniture is Sandra's, on my lawn

Jewelry for Mary, she can pawn

Ashes go to Jessica, that's my plan

A little bit of me inside a can (ah!)

[jessaerys]

hate when im reading and theres a word i dont know so i search it in the dictionary and its like: beuperer. noun. a person who beupers. i'll fucking kill you

[holy-leapin-splits-batman]

[tacticaltaxonomist]

This is such a fantastic example what anticipation, overshooting, and settling actually *does* in animation, especially when you're new to learning it, be that 2d or 3d.

[lemonadehiccupss]

I hc all the batkids as poc and Bruce has his Rich White Privilege ™️. The kids are trying to get Bruce to actually communicate and not use grunts/one word sentences, so they’re brainstorming ideas and Cass whips out-

Cass: Can I drive the Batmobile

Bruce: No

Cass: Why cause I’m Asian??

Bruce, shocked: Because you don’t have a license

The rest of the batkids find it absolutely fucking hysterical that Cass of all people would say that, and it turns into a gag.

Damian: Father, can we get another cat

Bruce: No

Damian: You’re only saying that because I’m Arabian right?

Bruce: Because we have way too many animals

-and-

Dick: Bruce can we get fruity pebbles

Bruce: No

Dick: It’s because I’m Romani isn’t it?

Bruce: Because they’re unhealthy

And everyone is having a great time fucking with Bruce, AND he’s using words so it’s a win-win for them. But then it takes a turn, and Duke starts by playing extra dirty.

Duke: Bruce can I go to a friend’s house tonight?

Bruce: No, you have school tomorrow

Duke: Is it… because I’m not adopted? I’m just a foster and you don’t care about me??

Bruce, sweating: uhh… well no, I love you just as much as everyone else, you can… go to your friend’s house…

The kids EXPLODE, this is even funnier than Cass’s idea AND Bruce actually gave in?? They start using it to the EXTREME.

Steph: Bruce can I use your credit card to buy glitter

Bruce: No, not if the glitter is for bombs

Steph: It’s because I’m a girl huh. Can’t measure up to your boy Robins?

Bruce: *silently hands over his card*

-and-

Jason: Bruce I’m taking down this drug ring

Bruce: No, it’s too dangerous

Jason: Why, because I died? You don’t trust me anymore? I swear it wasn’t my fault…

Bruce: No no- I’m sorry, please just take backup

-and-

Tim: I need to finish this case

Bruce: No, Tim, you haven’t slept in 40 hours, please stop

Tim: Is it because you didn’t pick me? Because I’m the only kid you didn’t have a say adopting? You never really wanted me anyway…

Bruce: Tim, of course I wanted you, just finish up soon, okay?

Bruce gives in the first couple times with each kid, but after a while it turns into-

Bruce: Damian, you have to eat something other than frozen french fries and boxed noodles

Damian: Why do you hate me? Is it because I used to kill people and I’m irredeemable??

Bruce, completely fucking tired: no, it’s because I don’t want you to die of malnutrition

Now, they only use that trick when they really want something, but they got what they wanted, which was for Bruce to speak actual English and not caveman sentences.

[karatekamania]

the nsfw ban on Tumblr is temporarily lifted every time you scroll your for you tab at work

[delicateboyz]

[vintricles]

free my girl she did all that and that’s what makes her such a compellingly complex character. that’s her essence

[kerink]

i can't stop thinking about this part from the eridian lore bible

the biodome team watching grace get up in the middle of the night and easily navigate his hut without turning any lights on:

[malachitefields]

actually here are some additions to the project hail mary movie that were not in the book that i very much enjoyed:

graces earth amigurumi/stress ball, good luck quilt, and fox cardigan which is a slightly altered version of an actual vintage mary maxim knitting pattern! it gives grace this very strong visual tie to humanity by having him seen in/with items that are so distinctly human created, even in space or on erid. it also serves as a nice little love letter to fibre crafts at the same time to see them kept and treasured to the end of the film

rockys little finger knitting instruments for his xenonite! in the book they are just two liquids that get mixed together (part a and part b) but this little knitting-esque contraption is such a nice detail to add, and it ties in with graces handcrafted items as a similarity across the species that is recognisable, kind of like mirrors of each other!

i love a fox motif i love a fox motif i love a fox motif

the first meeting on ship where this room full of people are staring at grace and the hangar doors are open behind them, it gives this really eerie feeling of being stared at which is made worse by grace standing in front of the projector screen. i dont think the doors are open in the book.

grace opening the crew members belongings and Seeing them as people through the photos before sending them out to space. in the book he doesnt open them until later and there arent many details about what is in the photos so it feels more emotional when he sends them out (and he sends them out together and not one then the other!)

carl. he adds a lot to the earth sequences (especially a lot of fun!), and the “you know who you are” is just. yeah. hes a small introduction when a lot of characters from the book are lost in the movie, but hes impactful and i love him.

james ortiz kind of in general. im glad they went with puppetry as much as they could because it looks beautiful and i love puppetry. i know they chose to go with having rocky have a tts kind of setup to avoid having subtitles throughout most of the movie, but james adds a lot vocally to the character! kind of boggles my mind that he was doing like 45 min long improvs SO in character WHILST puppeteering when he wasnt even meant to be the voice of rocky and was just line reading for ryan. im glad they didnt have someone else do the voice acting. of course also his appearance as the news anchor at the very beginning and the tts option they go with being called “James” are also super nice

grace and rocky and the shared pain of picking a tts voice that works also MERYL STREEP

the costuming storytelling. obviously it wasnt really in the book because its much more of a visual medium but the colder and colder clothes progressively on earth, stratt closed off in her turtleneck and grace in the squeaky yellow raincoat thats so jarring when she tells him shes putting him in the hail mary against his will, the stupid science shirts, and the fibre arts pieces all add so much.

the inclusion of the projector/led screens and the beach motif

the video logs! its a good way to tackle graces internal monologue (kind of like how carl is in the early earth days), but it gives grace a feeling of being able to say goodbye to earth above being able to send the taumoeba. i wish in the book that grace had told earth that he was choosing to turn back and save rocky/erid even though he would starve shortly after, as it would have asserted to earth that he wasnt a coward

speaking of, the removal of the coward talk that both stratt and grace do when grace doesnt want to go. book stratt doesnt actually believe that grace is truly a coward otherwise she wouldnt have sent him. she knows that when he wakes up and doesnt know who he is, he will still be grace and he will do everything that is needed to help. the film was probably going to lose the nuance of this bit where they had to compress everything so im glad they removed it. i like the addition of grace running and being tackled instead

kind of along the same line, rocky not having shame about eating in front of grace!

entirely for visual purposes, having grace be able to see the petrova line whilst hes in it because its beautiful and i love beautiful shots in movies okay

also the big window on the hail mary. solves like two chapters worth of grace working out hes in space by dropping random objects and looks cool whilst doing it

armando. dont know why we needed an additional robot on board but i cant imagine not having him now.

grace putting up tethers so he can get around more easily in 0g, and taking them down and attaching them all together to get to rockys ship to rescue him after he turns around. the tethers are put up early and make him feel like hes way out of his depth because hes not trained enough in 0g. he takes them down because hes now comfortable in 0g (and in a way “at peace” with space and not being able to go back to earth/return to normal) and uses them to effectively seal his fate of dying on erid after saving rocky. i didnt necessarily see the need to add the tethers when i first saw them at the beginning of the film but the shots of all of them in the airlock joined together to make the line long enough was such a good shot and i like the metaphor of not holding onto what comforts him (the tethers being up in the hail mary, his life on earth teaching middle school) to chose something for himself (and others!!) even though he will die (him deciding to turn back to save rocky and erid, him NOT being able to decide to go on the hail mary to save earth). objectively this was probably also just to explain why grace had so many tethers but. it works.

[bulkhummus]

Would love to see your take on Eridian formal wear / party outfit for Grace if you feel like drawing that!!

grace is living out his alien planet fantasies the weird alien outfits included

[irlpim]

[plaguedocboi]

I remember when I was younger, anytime I watched a movie where the characters have to kill a scary monster/alien, I always thought the act of killing it was intended to be part of the horror. Like there’s this amazing creature that we’ve never seen before, and maybe under different circumstances we could’ve coexisted with it, but it’s trying to attack you and you have to defend yourself, but by destroying it you also destroy the ability to ever understand it and that’s sad and is supposed to make you feel conflicted.

It was not until well into my adulthood that I realized most people do not have complicated feelings about movies where people have to kill a scary alien monster, nor is that necessarily meant to be part of the narrative (unless it very obviously is). They just want the scary thing to die because it’s scary. I don’t have a real conclusion to this I just started thinking about it for some reason.

[puzzled-on-main]

am i allowed to say kill all trillionaires or is that too specific of a threat

[kvothes]

a good thread