The Magician

🌱Any pronouns (agender) 🌼aro/ace My dude i have collected all the a’s i don’t know what to do with them help they don’t fit in my house anymore i’ve had to rent out a storage facility specifically for my a’s they’re like glitter i will never get rid of them

[randomdarija]

Navigating on my page

I use #tipkam for my original posts, of which there are few, and every time i add something to a reblog.

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#⚜️ is for non-fandom stuff that i dont know what to tag with

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#Poll-> an actuall poll

#Polls-> post talking about polls

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Major fandoms i reblog, in order of frequency (updated as needed):

Project hail mary + some bloodymary

Drarry

Spirk

Batman / Superman

Good Omens

Junoverse from The Penumbra Podcast

Loki (tv series)

Frequent tags in, well, tags

[teaboot]

I live in the northwest coast of Canada so we walk everywhere and do stuff outside in the rain and swim in whatever lakes and rivers we find so imagine my smug sense of Canadian superiority when I met a USAmerican Midwesterner who was horrified at the very thought

And then I went to the USAmerican Midwest

And I understood

[teaboot]

What I mean to say is that it's very easy to delude yourself into believing you are more in tune with your environment when your environment is not actively hostile to your existence in every conceivable way

[teaboot]

BC, Canada:

Rains frequently, but the worst is like standing under a bathroom shower. Genuinely inhospitable rainstorms are uncommon.

Along the coast, it's pretty easy in most areas to walk to at least one store, or else there's usually a bus or shuttle available. There are sidewalks and bike lanes everywhere.

It's a temperate boreal rainforest, so while there are many freshwater lakes and rivers, they're usually pretty cold. The biggest danger is typically getting caught in a strong current, and the most dangerous animals in swimming distance are on land.

Earthquakes happen almost every day, but the vast majority go unnoticed. Buildings are designed to withstand bigger seismic activity, so unless it's a 5 or higher it just kind of feels like having low blood sugar for a second. There are no tornados

Rural Illinois, USA:

One minute it's sunny, then ten minutes later that distant smudge on the horizon has swallowed the entire sky in black clouds and the water is coming down like waterfall and you literally CANNOT SEE. Then there's a crash like cymbals and you need to get indoors because the thunder and lightening are on TOP of you

No sidewalks until you are in the smack dab center of town, which is a three hour walk or twenty minute drive from wherever you are.

There aren't many natural bodies of water other than small ponds and creeks, and because the environment is so much warmer, those are filled with snapping turtles that can grow bigger than a nine year old child and water snakes that are incredibly venomous. These are paired with leeches and mosquitos for that sweet umami flavor.

Sometimes Jupiter, Lord of the Heavens decides to jam his finger into the side of your house just to fuck with your whole shit and throws your truck a thousand yards into the nearest church

[rustymetallilacs]

The Markiplier character x Ryan gosling character extended universe is so funny because the goslings are apparently all related but the markipliers are not. So Ryland and his two brothers all date guys who look exactly the same and it’s fully just a weird coincidence.

[cloudabserk]

love that rocky calls grace baby

[irate-iguana]

Project Hail Mary Tumblr Dashboard Simulator

🪩 astrofaggot69

hail mary launch today how are we feeling gang?

#i’m gonna miss ilyukina what an icon #enjoy your heroin girl thanks for all the unhinged interviews 🫡 #so sad to hear about dubois and shapiro

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🩻 foucaussy Follow

Okay so I did some research into the new science specialist (Ryland Grace) and he wrote the most insane dissertation possibly ever???

🩻 foucaussy

Some of my favourite parts:

#HELP #ryland grace #project hail mary #space

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🎹 jazz-onthemoon Follow

hey remember when they tried to sue eva stratt for breaking every single copyright law and she walked out mid-trial? i’m obsessed with her

🌆 matrixhamlet Follow

OP is obsessed with a dictator who destroyed the ecology of Northern Africa by hiring a murderer to pave the Sahara desert and who literally blew up Antarctica btw

🎹 jazz-onthemoon

god forbid women do anything

🌇 matrixhamlet

STOP calling Stratt a girlboss. People will excuse anything she does under the guise of “feminism” while completely ignoring that she’s a white German woman causing extensive ecological damage that will disproportionately affect people of color. Fuck you and fuck Eva Stratt I hope she goes to prison for life after all this

📜 girl-pentheus Follow

While stratt’s definitely caused environmental damage, both projects you mentioned were in earth’s best interest: the paving of the sahara was to get enough astrophage for the mission that’s literally our last hope for survival (and the countries get to keep the infrastructure afterwards), and antactica was to minimize climate cooling. There’s a lot to question ethically but it’s not as straightforward as you’re making it sound. And yeah this will most heavily impact third world countries but the astrophage crisis was going to do that already??? I just don’t think you can blame the racist structures of the global economy on one woman and frankly people’s tendency to pin everything on her is a bit misogynistic.

Also she’s dutch, not german.

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have we considered that all of the above can be true? stratt is first and foremost privileged as a white woman, but also falls into the “glass cliff” phenomenon — put in a temporary position of

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#reblogging this in honour of stratt’s immunity ending #god the notes are a nightmare lol #politics

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🌁 six-seven-of-nine

launch liveblog everybody strap in

🌁 six-seven-of-nine

wait where’s dubois why isnt he with the others

🌁 six-seven-of-nine

THEYRE SENDING MY SIXTH GRADE SCIENCE TEACHER TO SPACE?!?!?!?!?!

#lowkey doxxing myself with this but WHAT #i didnt even know he had a doctorate #i remember seeing his name in articles and thinking it looked familiar but i didnt clock it until they showed his photo just now #edit: he was a great science teacher for all the people asking

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Okay updated version for the new crew

FMK: project Hail Mary astronaut edition

Fuck yao marry ilyukhina kill grace

Fuck yao marry grace kill ilyukhina

Fuck ilyukhina marry yao kill grace

Fuck ilyukhina marry grace kill yao

Fuck grace marry yao kill ilyukhina

Fuck grace marry ilyukhina kill yao

Bald

Remaining time: 21 hours 58 minutes

And don’t come after me with the “oh this is so disrespectful to their sacrifice” bs again, you know ilyukhina would have loved it

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[yesterdayiwrote]

The irony of this new breed of self-righteous AI hunters on AO3 is that they're all just copy and pasting peoples fics into AI detectors, which are all operated by AI and therefore THEY are feeding people's work into the algorithm without their consent and in some cases no doubt circumventing the locks people put on to avoid getting scraped...

Don't copy and paste anyone's AO3 work into third party websites, you're not the good guys in this situation?

[mama-qwerty]

Not to mention, there's no such thing as an ai detector.

Writers "sound like ai" because ai was trained on the writing of actual living people!

Real writers use em dashes.

Real writers write long paragraphs.

Real writers play with words and sometimes use phrases that are well known or to compare one thing to another.

Real writers use all these things, have used them for decades--centuries, even!--before ai was programmed.

These ai bots were trained on writing readily found online--fanfiction, marketing, and any other work the ai programmers managed to shove into the data processors.

AI WAS TRAINED ON OUR WRITING TO BEGIN WITH

Stop accusing people of using ai based on these 'detectors' that don't work, and just make you look like an asshole for feeding someone's writing into the machine in an attempt for a gotcha moment.

Knock off the witch hunts. Odds are you're accusing an actual writer of something incredibly hurtful and disgusting, and may completely destroy their will to write because of it.

It's hard enough to be a creative person in the fandoms these days, don't make it harder by going all rabid guard dog on what you think is ai. Because you're very likely wrong.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Sometimes I think about the fact that Rocky was out there alone for 46 years and then Grace shows up and just… fuckin solves the problem that's been plaguing two entire species in, what? A matter of weeks??

And like yeah, obviously there's more to it than that. They're a team, a Grace alone would have probably died trying to get the samples from Adrian. Or, tbh, might have never got out of his original Mental Breakdown phase and just gone fully crazy.

But from Rocky's perspective, this has to feel insane. Like we talk a lot about Grace feeling inferior to Rocky, but there's no way that Rocky wouldn't have a similar (or worse) complex about Grace.

And this isn't getting into the fact that (from Rocky's perspective) the moment he leaves Grace, everything goes to hell again. Goes to hell again because, as he later finds out, Grace bred the taumoeba in xenonite breeder tanks that Rocky designed.

Do we think he wondered, on the way back to Erid, whether things would have been fixed 46 years ago if it had been one of the Blip-A scientists who survived, and he'd just succumbed to the radiation?

Do we think Grace had to reassure him, over and over, that it was if anything Grace's fault for not foreseeing that the taumoeba would adapt to the xenonite, and that there was no way that Rocky could have designed the tanks better?

Do we think he felt like an imposter when they got back to Erid and were both hailed as saviours, because it was Grace who had done the science, Grace who had made the sacrifices, while all Rocky did was wait for him to get there?

[manyblinkinglights]

#that is like loadbearing book rocky characterization. he doesn't wonder. he KNOWS anyone else from the crew surviving would've been better#he says so outright. the moment grace's life is in peril he essentially kills himself to give him the barest chance at survival#he's wished he could do it for his crew since the first of erid's best dropped dead without a cause#guy who doesn't want to die but wishes he was dead in someone else's place

[meatballlady]

I think it's very very important to point out (for the humans reading this - Rocky is absolutely fucked up about the whole debacle lol) that Rocky spent those 46 years taking precise measurements on the whole Tau Ceti system, which no one would have access to without being there. Those measurements were instrumental in both getting *to and from* Adrian and getting everything done at Adrian so quickly. Rocky had everything perfectly set up for a rescue crew, he just didn't expect the rescue to come from Sol.

[foralittlewile]

Something else I see people keep forgetting: between humans and Eridians, we are the astronauts. And we are good at it.

Eridians' perception of the world relies on something that is completely absent in space — sound. They haven't been looking at the stars their entire existence the way we have. Their concept of aliens might only be as old as their discovery of astrophage. They made a bad ship, because it was their first one ever! Rocky himself says they rushed it, and that multiple (vital) things broke. Their mission was just as much of a Hail Mary pass as ours was — they had no idea what they were doing, if they could even travel in space safely. And, as it turns out, they couldn't.

Humans are the ones who have been doing it over multiple lifetimes. Mary is state of the art. We've been space farers longer than most humans have been alive. We can actually see through space. We are more likely to survive exposure to the void. We can encase our lighter, more flexible, more mobile bodies in a material that lets us walk outside of our ship, and, to a degree, we can get our bearings out there in a way Eridians just can't.

Eridians are not looking at Mary and thinking she's a bad ship. They are not thinking humans have no idea what we're doing. They are looking at this species that can walk in the stars, have been perfecting machines to take us to them for decades, have been dreaming about them and mapping them and naming them for millennia, and used all of that to save them, and thinking, wow.

[valleyshrike]

^prev tags

YEAH!

[foralittlewile]

Tbh, I think everyone getting very attached to Tall Adrian™️ kinda makes them miss the potential of the canon reality that Eridians average at 50cm tall.

Grace is living on a planet of toddler sized rocks with twice his strength. If at ANY point he forgets to look where he’s going he is Going Trip Over An Ambassador. Unstoppable force vs. immovable object except Grace is very much stoppable.

Eridians either get used to talking to his shins, craning on their tippy toes to get a good look at his face, or begin forcing him to sit criss-cross applesauce for literally any important meeting. Picture him joining the Erid equivalent of a UN press conference and having to curl up his awkward water body and hug his knees for the whole thing.

He can conceivably be picked up by an alien the size of a hard helmet against his will. He’s surrounded by space roombas with perfect memories and attention spans shorter than his San Francisco classroom who can’t believe he’s incapable of solving complex math in three seconds. He has step stools around his house for them to climb so he can feel like he’s “looking them in the eye” even though Eridians think that’s stupid since they lack both eyes and directional perception.

His students are probably all palm sized. Once he starts teaching he’s fighting cuteness aggression all day every day. They could all break his fingers with hands the size of a button. That knowledge does not stop his cuteness aggression. THIS IS GRACE’S REALITY.

[foralittlewile]

Rocky spends the last few weeks traveling to Erid hyping up his MASSIVE rock spouse, Adrian is the TALLEST Eridian currently living, YES Rocky is smug about it, and Grace is starting to sweat. What if Adrian can't fit on the ship? What if Grace doesn't get to actually befriend Rocky's spouse until he's actively dying? That would suck. He's kinda freaking out about it.

They dock at the space elevator. The lights from the Hail Mary illuminate the waiting party. A teal carapace rises high and above the rest of the crowd, getting closer, closer, cl-

And then Grace is right next to Adrian. Who comes SOLIDLY up to his thighs.

Oh.

“No no, don’t get me wrong Rocky, Adrian is CLEARLY Eridian LeBron James. I’m just saying that felt like a lot of unnecessary build up.”

“Adrian correct impressive size, not ungainly squishy skyscraper. Like some aliens Rocky could mention.”

[randomdarija]

Foralittlewile’s tags

[nika-is-doing-things]

It's a third, worse thing

[rylandgracie]

i love posts that are about carl and stratt’s all encompassing grief for grace and the post ends with meanwhile grace in erid:

[chernozemm]

Love the soft, curious moments of them sharing about their own cultures, biology, etc. I do think Rocky would have a field day when Grace explains skin as a very sensitive and permeable organ with lots of stuff packed tight on the surface. Since goosebumps are very tactile, I thought Rocky would enjoy hearing those.

Also, bonus.

Because it is endlessly entertaining to me to consider how deep in the trenches Rocky is.

[dioic1]

Hello Starstruck nation 🌟

[cactusspatz]

Tom Ryder movies: an incomplete list

I just want to take a moment to appreciate whoever in The Fall Guy's set design team came up with all these movie posters...and also to zoom in and drag out as much detail as I can for fanfic reasons!

In rough order of relevance:

Annihilation of Valor: we see Jody filming Colt's mud puddle stunt for this movie, which appears to be set during the Vietnam War. I'm guessing this is the shoot where Colt meets Jody as a camera operator. He's a champion piner, so they maybe could have worked on another movie previously, but Alma calls them a "short but legendary torrid love affair", so I'm guessing this film was their first. If so, I'd also place the flashback with them kissing and goofing around on the prop truck tailgate after they wrapped on this one, given they're pretty cavalier about smashing the breakaway bottles.

Silence Day: my best bet for the movie where Colt breaks his back. The poster looks like a futuristic astronaut, and Colt is wearing a NASA "Time Travel Division" jumpsuit costume during the stunt. (I already love whoever wrote that script!) Not sure if the placement of the poster at Colt's back here was ironic or accidental...

Bad Cop Good Dog: starring everyone's favorite good boy Jean-Claude! Clearly a cop film, probably an action-comedy, this film came out at some point in the period seven years prior to canon because Colt says he worked with Jean-Claude on it [he'd been Ryder's stunt double for 6 years as of the Silence Day accident, plus 18 months in recovery before Metalstorm]. I'd bet on the more recent side, since Colt is surprised to see Jean-Claude with Alma, and Jean-Claude still remembers him.

More listed below, this got long!

Action Pact 1: I love the pun, I am baffled by the '1' - did it ever have a sequel??? The tagline is also baffling: Does_It_Get_Worse_Than ___? Not many clues outside of that: generic action hero stance with white tank-black pants combo using a Glock 17 (which appears in the apartment fight as the gun full of blanks). Maybe the main character has amnesia?

The Puncher 2: the '2' isn't visible in Gail's trailer, but it's on the placard next to the boxing gloves in Tom's apartment.

The equipment looks like leather, very old-fashioned, so probably a period piece.

The Road to Pain: seen in Ryder's apartment. Obviously a western. The (rubber) tomahawk that Dan dibs and the hat are props from this movie, since you can see the same hat in the poster. Something about this makes it feel like it's an older movie of Ryder's? Different visual + character style, Ryder's billed large at the top but below 'Paul Sullivan' at the bottom, different production company (Gail's is [something] Alpino Studios on her trailer). Could be from before Colt's time doubling for him.

Blood & Guts: the internet tells me '4 Queens' is a Las Vegas casino that opened in the '60s. Between that and the title and the 'vs' visible on the left marquee, I'd bet on another boxing movie, set in Vegas, and therefore probably involving the mob given Hollywood cliches.

Failed Case: another generic action hero pose against an explosion in the background. His costar is billed as 'Emma Lawrence', which is probably a Jennifer Lawrence nod.

Hot Earth: it looks like Ryder is standing in front of a waterfall of lava, which is technically hot earth! I wish I knew more, it sounds terrible.

Ice Warrior: sadly this is the most we can see of this poster, so I have no idea what it might be about.

untitled katana movie: maybe starts with a D or R? I could see Ronin as a title, if they don't mind being total ripoffs (clearly they don't). The katana is visible in Ryder's prop collection, and might be the sword that Iggy attacks Colt with, but it's hard to tell. She could have just brought her own!

So the final list of known titles is:

Annihilation of Valor Silence Day Bad Cop Good Dog Action Pact 1 Failed Case Hot Earth The Puncher 2 Blood & Guts Ice Warrior The Road to Pain

Thanks for reading! I had fun even if no one else did, hah.

[cactusspatz]

Finally got a chance to watch the extended cut, and I spotted three more! (Apologies for the truly terrible quality, but it's on DVD so I had to take a picture of my TV screen with my phone. I know, I know, don't look at me like that.)

Broken Bone - giving Prohibition-era gangster vibes between the hat and the Tommy gun.

Dumb Deal - love the terrible pun on 'done deal'. No idea why there's a car, a US flag, and a guy with a sword involved. I have so many questions.

Stormchaser - dramatic stormcloud, or maybe a wave? I'm imagining like, an angsty dramatic version of Twister.

Also in the extended cut, Gail says she has done 14-15 movies with Colt over about a decade (Colt's response: "You do less time for murder." lol). That fits with Colt saying he's know Gail for 15 years, but also that's a LOT of films over that period of time! Busy boy!

[nimadelolll]

parasocial final boss

[nimadelolll]

a head in the sand

click for full res

there’s a shadow from the sun on the highest star on his back and in the darkness there’s light/scar tissue from tau ceti (the other stars)

do with that information what you will

[yexerrr]

rumors and confessions