Poki Poki Literature Club

When I'm not doing endless cat zoomies over random obsessions, I will on occasion draw stuff or write fanfics which you can find on A03. (25) • (aro/ace) • (she/they) • australian

[tuherrus]

you don't even have a dog

[pigeon-princess]

An ode to Occtis 🫀💀

[ashrayus]

never immune to found family :’)

[asunnydisposish]

Is it Thursday yet? (It is!) 💖

I love the new campaign so much… obsessed with these little guys. Who’s your favorite??

I’ll have this as a print at ECCC this weekend!

[ravennowithtea]

goodest bois adventuring duo 💕

[pigeon-princess]

Azune Nayar🛡️🧡I would trust him with my entire life.

[mirarasol]

Thank you for the journey. ✨🚀 A piece celebrating my current obsession with Project Hail Mary. If you haven't watch this please give it a try!! ^^

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[jmfenner91]

I'm SO excited to finally share these pieces I created for D&D's Ravenloft: The Horrors Within.

This project was such a huge honor to work on. I remember as a kid looking through the players manuals & doing little studies of the artwork in there, so this feels a bit full-circle. You can get a peek at higher-res versions of them on my insta!

[bluemuffin-draws]

When an evil witch turns your bestfriend into a fox

[pokimoko]

Foximile - A Project Hail Mary Fic by Pokimoko

Summary: A boy by the name of Ryland Grace dies in a forest alone and unnoticed, save for a fox that stumbles across his body. A fox that wants nothing more than to escape its own life, even if takes becoming human to do so.

A boy by the name of Ryland Grace walks out of the forest, alive and well and all too happy to forget.

Tags: Animal Transformation, Foxes, Changelings, Magical Realism, Self-Esteem Issues, Self-Worth Issues, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Childhood Memories, Young Ryland Grace, Pre-Canon, Repressed Memories, Ryland Grace Needs a Hug, POV Ryland Grace, Ryland Grace is a Leaky Space Blob, Angst with a Happy Ending, Angst and Feels, Loss of Identity, Identity Issues, Imposter Syndrome except you're actually an imposter, Dr (cap)Grace Encounters a Secondhand Insecurity, Ryland Grace is Dead. Long Live Ryland Grace

Word Count: 16K (1/1)

Relationships: Ryland Grace & Rocky, Ryland Grace & Ryland Grace's Mother

Characters: Ryland Grace, Rocky (Project Hail Mary), Ryland Grace's Mother

Read the fic here! 🦊

[voidsetup1]

and out of the darkness - you you you you you

[offixmax]

THE VIEW BETWEEN VILLAGES || RYLAND GRACE || PHM I am not scared of death, I've got dreams again

[saewokhrisz]

senki se menekül

[sadbugbois]

teamwork makes the dream work

[guardianspirits13]

aro(sp)ace

[thefriendlypigeon]

❤️💙💛GRACEFUL💛💙❤️

⭐[my social media links]

[dragoneyemysteries]

Grace being aroace, and Project Hail Mary's focus on platonic relationships, is so important to me, for so many reasons.

It's like. Project Hail Mary is a big, popular movie. It has fucking Ryan Gosling in it. And there's not a hint of a romance plotline anywhere! It's all entirely focused on platonic relationships. The friendship between Grace and Rocky is the focus of the movie, and it's so important to the story. They both found someone to be brave for, someone they were willing to die for. Without their friendship and collaboration, neither of them would have been able to save their home planets. Their bond is so close and special and above all their best friends, and it's beautiful.

There's also Grace's relationship with Stratt. Stratt is the main female supporting character. In any other story -- any other story -- I can almost guarantee she would've been the love interest. But she isn't and it's fucking wonderful. Just. Just think about it for a moment. Project Hail Mary is this big blockbuster movie -- and it looked at Eva Stratt and said, we're not going to make her the love interest, because she wasn't in the book and she doesn't need to be. Their dynamic is just as fucked up and wonderful and traumatic when they're friends. That's such an amazing thing to see in such a mainstream movie.

And, of course, it means so much to me that Grace is aroace and that the film (and the book) continuously point this out. He leaves the party when he sees people getting together. He's only had one girlfriend. Half the time he's wearing the colors of the aroace flag. (In the book, he's incredibly confused when people think he and Stratt are sleeping together).

Stratt uses his lack of romantic relationships as a justification for sending him to die, which is heartbreaking, and it felt so real. Because society is constantly telling aroace people that we're worth less because we won't date or get married or have sex, because we don't fit into societal norms. What Stratt said to Grace -- that's something the world is constantly telling us.

And then the movie flips that on its head. It says that it doesn't matter that Grace never had any of that, because he loved living and he loved his students and he was so full of love for everything around him. And he met his best friend in space and their friendship was what made them able to save their homes and each other.

It's just. In a world where there's hardly any aroace representation, having this much of it means so much to me.