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A little bit of everything. Mostly things I like

[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?

[somepomegranatetea]

she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.

[alexxuun]

If it’s any consolation, you’ll be hailed as a hero.

Stratt kept her promises about the statues :)

[copper-leaf]

Highlights from the Project Hail Mary director's commentary:

*SPOILERS!!!*

Grace waking up from the coma was the first shot they filmed for the movie! They wanted Ryan to feel eased into the character, and what better way to do that than have him play a character who can't remember who he is?

The little "GOOD LUCK!" note in sharpie that's written on Grace's sleeping bag was canonically written by the other astronauts on the I.S.S. before the Hail Mary crew got put into the ship. In real life, Phil and Chris wrote one word each. They said it was like "a blessing on the movie."

Ryan's most nerve-wracking day on set was when he had to shoot with the classroom full of children. Most of the kids were made up of the children of the film's crew members.

The scene where Grace looks through Yao and Ilukhina's photos is footage of him looking at and reacting to actual pictures of the actors with their loved ones.

When Grace calls Stratt to tell her that he and Carl figured out how to breed astrophage, Ryan is genuinely calling Sandra on her day off set, and her audio is her genuine reaction to the unexpected line: "Carl and I made a baby!"

"We like showcasing Ryland Grace's social anxiety while having a lot of people staring at him. LOL!"

Their intention for the space funeral scene was to have Grace convey that he was trying to ease his own sadness by making the dead people with him feel better about being dead :(

The markings on Rocky's body convey his mission patch, his rank in the crew, his wedding band, and his family crest.

Grace and Stratt's conversation on the boat is Grace asking her if they're allowed to be close friends, and the response from Stratt is no, they can't. This gets driven home in the karaoke scene. She understands the value of connection, a part of her wants it, but "Her love for people has to be suspended for her to do her job."

Rocky has different forward-facing faces for different thought processes! They named his "satellite dish" face, his "scrunched up thinking face", and his "monobrow face".

Direct quote: "I love how on the spectrum Rocky is." ROCKY AUTISTIC CODED CONFIRMED!

After Rocky recovers from his injuries: "As Rocky returns to the movie, the lights turn on. The warmth returns. It's like the day breaking."

Confirmed that when Grace and Rocky reunite, Rocky says to Grace, "You came back for me, question?"

They throw this out there for two seconds and do NOT expand on it, but according to Andy Weir, Stratt is imprisoned for life but somehow ESCAPES???

The Eridians built Grace an artificial tree in his enclosure because Rocky knew he liked trees

There's so much more they shared about film processes and the people who were behind making certain effects possible. I highly recommend checking out the commentary if you're able!

[moss-indie]

[Project Hail Mary spoilers]

Eva Stratt who insisted on being the first to be tested for the comatose gene

Eva Stratt who made sure the ship computer knew the crew's exact coffee orders, even Grace, down to the most precise measurements

Eva Stratt who illegally acquired thousands of video games for the hail mary crew, despite the fact they'd be in a coma for the majority of the trip

Eva Stratt who sent a school teacher into space because she knew he was a fundamentally good man

Eva Stratt who would betray the closest thing she had to a friend because she knew there was no other choice

Eva Stratt who would do anything to save the Earth, no matter the cost

Eva Stratt who desperately wished she could be the one to make the sacrifice instead

Eva Stratt who couldn't, no matter how much she wanted to

Eva Stratt who studied history, and had seen the way the world would become

Eva Stratt who was terrified by it

Eva Stratt who knew she would would go without credit

Eva Stratt who knew no statues would be built of her

Eva Stratt who knew she would never be a hero

Eva Stratt who did it all anyway

Eva Stratt who had to

[autisticlittleguy]

Apparently Eva Stratt at the end of the movie on the ship had a prison tattoo on her neck that meant something along the lines of "life without parole." So, parallel to Grace and Rocky's adventure, there was a whole subplot where Eva Stratt

- Was eventually trialed by governments of the world as a scapegoat and sent to prison

- She somehow BROKE out of said prison and currently commandeers a rogue paramilitary faction of Project Hail Mary loyalists who believe in her over world governments, who presumably are still hunting her down

- She currently is on the run and staying mobile on an ice breaker ship like some kind of james bond villain base (but you know, good) while STILL working on project hail mary the whole time

- Her rogue loyalist faction controlled enough resources they could go to space and collect the beetles Grace had sent. Alternatively, it was the world government that collected the beetles, and Stratt had a whole ass heist movie to steal them, which is why she had the little xenonite figure at the end of the movie. Either ways she was running circles around them.

Absolutely insane. Never piss off a history major

[alienatedartt]

atlas

[penandinkprincess]

Pen. Mx andinkprincess. Anaphylaxis! at the Team Hangout is taking root in my brain and I think I want to try to write it out properly. As the provider of the sandbox and the little buckets and spades, may I humbly ask your blessing to inflict this upon both myself and the rest of the playground?

YES 100000000%

[penandinkprincess]

I love your shallergies posting 🫶

https://www.tumblr.com/penandinkprincess/820177284936990720/during-covid-i-one-time-woke-up-with-stres

Following on from this ask, I like to imagine a feedback loop situation where the more Ilya is determined to pin down the mystery allergen, the more stressed Shane gets, and the more stressed he is then the worst the hives are, until him and Ilya are both at a fever pitch where Ilya is tearing his hair out trying to work out What He’s Doing Wrong. He’s calling manufacturers about recent formula changes to his cleaning products, he’s ringing restaurants accusing them of inaccurate allergen listings on their take out menus, he’s googling if someone can spontaneously develop a new allergy (they can, and now Ilya has a New Fear). All while constantly relaying all this research to Shane in the hopes of getting his opinions - maybe even looping in Yuna so they can maximise their joint slay to get to the bottom of what this new trigger is. Meanwhile Shane is increasingly tying himself up in knots watching how worried his beautiful boyfriend is about him, and the stress of stressing him out makes the hives worse, not to mention the stress of Lying To Him About Why until eventually his back is like one big mega hive where all the smaller clusters have joined and Ilya is so concerned he’s now threatening to stop touching him all together ‘because what if you are allergic to me, moy lyubimyy, it always gets worse after we spend time together’ and the idea of never getting touched by Ilya again triggers a five alarm meltdown where finally everything is out in the open and Shane admits how bad things are.

(This is sapphyshipseverything btw, I’m anon bc it’s a side blog)

GOD ilya being SUCH a good boyfriend AT THE WORST FUCKING TIME TO DO THAT FOR WHAT SHANE IS TRYING TO DO.

shane who has also been keeping it from his parents who hears that ilya asked yuna if maybe something like this happened when shane was a kid and shane is just Why The Fuck Would You Do That Oh My God because now he's got ilya AND his parents worried.

AND THAT'S WHAT HE WANTED TO AVOID FROM THE FUCKING START.

GOD shane trying to pull a "maybe i should just go home and-" but ilya is just no??? shane what if it gets worse?? that's not safe?? malysh you should stay here to be safe???

and shane is just This Is My Actual Fucking Nightmare Scenario Jesus Christ.

also extremely hard to keep not telling the truth when ilya is being so gentle and concerned and sweet and shane is trying really hard to Keep His Shit On Lock, AND THAT'S GETTING REAL FUCKING HARD.

[penandinkprincess]

corn snakes can live 15-25 years in captivity if they're well cared for, and now im thinking about ilya meeting spaghetti the snake. quick search says 2hr car travel is doable for a snake so I could see shane taking it with him to the cottage and this is where ilya first meets spaghetti in my mind. crucially shane never really told ilya about spaghetti so he finds out after they fuck. (bonus points if ilya finds the frozen rodents before he sees spaghetti. "hollander what the fuck do you have frozen mice for?????")

the idea of shane having a separate small fridge in the garage where he keeps frozen mice for spaghetti, but this means when ilya asks about it in passing while shane is looking for water shoes, he's distracted and just goes, "oh, drinks and spaghetti" and ilya just ??? you have?? freezer just for pasta????? actually no this sounds like a Rule you would make yeah sure why not.

but on day three they're napping on the deck, ilya wakes first, decides to get something to eat, and remembers there is A Spaghetti Freezer, and opens it to find??? fucking frozen mice?? oh my god he is out in the wild with a canadian serial killer????

[penandinkprincess]

significantly, ilya is on the yuna end of the spectrum when it comes to spaghetti. he'll tough it out because he doesn't want to look like a chicken and also it's clear that shane really loves this snake (for WHAT reason, hollander. is a snake.), but he and spaghetti live in a system of mutual avoidance. ilya doesn't go in spaghetti's room. spaghetti doesn't roam from shane's person when he's out. under such conditions is peace achieved.

[junkdrawertales]

If Spaghetti ever touched Ilya he would immediately become ilya's one-sided best friend because Ilya has soft, warm skin that Spaghetti would LOVE to sit on. Shane takes him out to clean his massive 120-gallon bioactive enclosure and add in some more springtail isopods (they help break down leaf litter. ilya thinks they're creepy orange nightmare sprinkles) so he says "babe would you please please please hold Spaghetti? It's only for a couple minutes while I wipe down the glass." Ilya can't deny him anything, so he musters up his courage and holds out his hands.

Spaghetti is all curled up and a little stressed out, since Shane so rudely removed him from his favorite piece of bark. But hey, this is nice and warm, and oooh, wow, that's a cave! Spaghetti likes caves.

In less than three seconds Spaghetti has slithered inside Ilya's sleeve. He is standing very still. There is a snake slowly wriggling over his armpit and he is not going to scream because he is So Incredibly Manly. The snake has flickered its tongue over Ilya's chest. He can feel its tiny snake nose poking around his nipple. If this snake bites his nipple he will make Shane sleep on the couch.

The snake climbs up to Ilya's neck and settles in a squiggly-shape on his shoulder, with its head peeking out of his collar. Shane turns around to put the disinfectant bottle away and pauses.

"Awww!" he coos. "You look so cozy!"

"Yes, he is very cozy." Ilya says. His voice is a little high-pitched. "Maybe he should go back now. We interrupted his nap."

"Oh, it's fine for him to be out a little longer," Shane says. "You're warm, he likes you."

"Well, it was rude to disturb him. Probably we should let him rest." Ilya says, trying to dislodge the invader from his shirt. Fucker. It's a good shirt and now he's stretching it out trying to evict a reptile. The things he does for love.

Shane takes pity on him and scoops Spaghetti out of Ilya's collar, then drapes him over a plant and shuts the enclosure door.

"You were very brave, babe." he tells Ilya, and kisses his cheek.

"I was not scared. I am very strong, very cool hockey player. It takes more than a little animal to scare me." Ilya lies.

"Sure, babe."

[penandinkprincess]

the idea of this corn snake chilling in the equivalent of a snake mansion is KILLING ME. there are children with less space and enrichment than spaghetti.

also shane at 18 was still making an impression on his team in montreal and knew by then that "hey, i have a snake" gets side eyes he doesn't necessarily want, so only hayden knows about spaghetti on the montreal team, but after he's on the ottawa team, spaghetti comes up because ilya needs someone to understand his pain, and it becomes a superstition that if spaghetti eats his mouse no problem, then they have good luck for the next 10-14 days until he eats again. shane literally get @'d if the team knows it's Spaghetti Feeding Day and he doesn't report in of his own accord.

ilya HATES this superstition. it's not enough that the snake lives in the same house as him where he lays his sweet head each night. now spaghetti is even in the groupchat. he gets ASKED about SPAGHETTI THE SNAKE at his JOB!!!! he has SUFFERED!! more than JESUS!!!

meanwhile yuna is happy to have her son back in the same city as her but also experiencing all of the stages of grief that she may be asked to look in on this snake when shane and ilya are traveling. she has had YEARS of getting to forget about spaghetti. and now. he returns. spaghetti is her personal ouroboros. she can never escape. spaghetti is eternal.

[penandinkprincess]

reblogging with my own tags because i'm actually so emotional about the idea of shane like. not expecting ilya to interact with or even like spaghetti. shane knows people don't like snakes. (even his mom put on a good show, but he knows she does NOT fuck with spaghetti as a concept and was happy when he moved out along with shane to montreal). spaghetti gets introduced to ilya at the cottage, but like. the snake has his own room for a reason. a lot of people don't like snakes, and shane has also had the reptile owner experience of people even wanting his pet to be dead or talking about how they would kill him. so shane doesn't talk a lot about spaghetti, and he KNOWS ilya does not like his snake. and that's okay. ilya is willing to be in the same house as spaghetti and not say anything bad about him, and that's good enough.

and i am SO in my feelings imagining ilya getting to shane's house earlier than him one day during the season when they're still long distance and shane finding him in spaghetti's room talking to him. and ilya is clearly a little unnerved by this snake but is just, "if you could do less with the tongue, i think would be better for me, if you can manage this. *pause* see, no, it feels like you just did EXTRA tongue thing just because i asked you not to." and shane is??? hello??? what are you doing???

and ilya is a little flustered getting caught talking to spaghetti but also says he was trying to get used to spaghetti because he knows shane likes carrying him around but doesn't when ilya is over, and ilya doesn't want him to not get to carry his pet around if he wants to just because of him.

shane who is so used to taking pro-active measures to not have to talk about his pet because of people's reactions who now has a person trying to work through their own reaction so they can be chill about his pet. <3

[penandinkprincess]

@merliren

tears in my eyes laughing at the idea of yuna drinking her wine and thinking, "oh you poor fool," because she senses a kindred "does NOT fuck with snakes" spirit, but that's something shane gets to handle on his own.

(and because bringing up spaghetti might mean having to interact with spaghetti at some point, and she has DONE HER TIME.)

[penandinkprincess]

JUST A BABY TALKING TO A BABY

[edwardelricsleg]

I just came back from watching the drama and the racial aspects of the movie is very interesting where Rachel was exaggerating Mike’s worst thing when it seemed like his ex was purposefully antagonising the dog and he just had a flight or fight response as well as her reaction to Emma’s worst thing while downplaying both hers and Charlie’s worst thing when they both did active harm

[definitely-not-a-parasite]

The disabled kid Rachel locked in a cupboard in the woods is definitely dead right?

[symphoniccowboy]

i keep seeing ppl talking abt the end of the drama & my two cents is that throughout the entire movie charlie is continually seeking external validation for his reaction to the worst thing emma ever did; i think in his heart of hearts he really truly loves her & has already accepted her past (see him walking around the city with his arm around a teenage emma), but he worries that his impulse to accept her reflects poorly on his own moral character given the reactions of the people around him to her secret. that’s why i think the diner scene is so lovely!! charlie spends quite a lot of effort trying to justify why emma did what she did to his friends & his coworker (he lies & says she witnessed the death of her friend, & tries to frame her teenage thought processes through a very theoretical, psychoanalytic lens in order to make sense of them), but it isn't until he royally fucks up at the wedding in front of all of their friends & family that he is finally able to understand how powerful & beautiful emma's commitment to offering both herself & others a fresh start is. he comes to understand love & acceptance & forgiveness in a much deeper way because of her, regardless of whether or not they end up making the relationship work moving forward & i think thats AWESOME !!!

[psychopomp-namine]

// the drama spoilers

also I like the idea that charlie (who habitually makes stuff up just to get social validation) didn't actually do the "worst thing" he mentioned in that dinner with emma, rachel, and mike. like, he made up a fake story because he didn't have a worst moment yet, especially one that would match up to how "worse" everyone else's secrets were. I think that was an important factor to charlie. he could've brought the same thing up to misha when misha asked him the same question. what is charlie's worst moment? he doesn't know!

because his worst moment is what happens in the movie. and it's set up to contrast everyone else's. whose worst moment deserves all the moralizing — the one that was told secondhand, the one that happened in the past, the one that was theoretical/almost-but-not real, or the one that everyone witnesses in person and can't be edited into a neat storyline to save someone's reputation? who deserves a second chance?

notably, everyone else's worst moments are in the past and they've already been in their second chances and have moved past them (until emma's was brought up again). so charlie's worst moment was putting the question in practice.

people will say emma didn't need to do what she did in the ending, but she wouldn't be emma if she didn't.

and also, I've been thinking like. given what we know of charlie's personality (cares about public perception, kind of a people pleaser, etc), the [redacted] story is looking more and more unbelievable to me. you kinda need to have a spine to do that, and charlie's a spineless coward (and also like. he is 10+ years older than emma. just timeline-wise, he would not have been able to do what he said he did lol. the tech wasn't there when he was 14)

it even works with the misha scene because he's looking for someone to say he's not crazy for loving emma. but nobody gives him that validation. so he spirals and decides, okay, maybe if I do something terrible, emma and I can be terrible together... (except what ends up happening is that he doesn't even get to do this deliberately because he just does it out of sheer pathetic loserness <- said with affection. he's really bad with navigating social situations when he overthinks everyone else's opinions and perception of him)

[fastlikealambo]

“They should have called the police!”

“Race doesn’t play a factor in this movie at all.”

“Emma should be in jail.”

“You’re infantilizing Emma and oversimplifying what she did because you like Zendaya!”

Shut up.

Shut the fuck up.

had this character been played by florence pugh the first thing out of people’s mouths would be that she was a hurt misunderstood girl and the edits to what was I made for would be rolling in

[itsfortheplants]

And another thing. Charlie’s ass has been in this country long enough to know how sensationalized guns are.

Hello?? That photo portfolio of half-naked baddies with assault rifles? Someone basically dropped off the gunfucker edition of an American apparel catalog with his mail and he treated it like an anthrax letter. Really? None of those photos clarified anything for you? Some art hoe you must be.

Brother, mark yourself #opentowork on LinkedIn, head outside, and touch grass. You’re lucky Emma doesn’t call you a baby back bitch every waking second of the day.

[theautisticjedi]

I know people have already talked about this film a lot but something so interesting in The Drama is what everyone's 'worst thing' is.

Mike used his girlfriend as a human shield against a wild dog on her birthday. That's pretty crazy and mean, but in terms of awfulness it's probably the least bad in the group

Rachel locked a mentally disabled kid in a closet for 12+ hours and didn't tell anyone. That's insane. She says at first she doesn't know what happened to him, but then says they found him and he was okay. I honestly think she might be lying and have no idea what happened to him. Maybe she's not, but even if he was found alive, he would be traumatized for life (or years at least). And she laughs about it. Yes, she's drunk, but she clearly doesn't think what she did was very wrong. When Charlie brings it up again and mentions the kid being mentally disabled, Rachel denies telling him this. Because that makes her look worse.

Charlie was 14 and cyberbullied a kid so hard he had to move. Or maybe he moved for unrelated reasons. Regardless, his is barely talked about. We don't know if this kid wronged him, or if this kid was just some random target. Everyone moves on rather quickly and we never come back to this.

Emma's thing would be the worst, shooting up a school, if she actually went through with it. But she didn't. Which yes, it's still very very bad that she planned it and nearly went through with it, but no one ended up getting hurt besides Emma (who became deaf in one ear.) She ended up throwing out the gun and becoming an activist. She tried to make amends when she didn't have to.

Emma lists one of her reasons was because she was bullied at school, which Charlie dismisses, but he himself was a bully. It made me think, would young Charlie have bullied her? Or Rachel? She's seen as being rude to Emma before the event happens, laughing at her for being 30 and experiencing butterflies for the first time. Not to mention the wedding speech which made me want to throw my drink at the screen in rage.