Raven (she/her) (aroace) Writer, Christian, Bilingual, Nerd
I have way too many fandoms. Current Obsession: Project Hail Mary (mainly book but also movie)
AO3: RavenLilyRose
After they get ahold of the Astrophage the science team is struggling. Stratt is at her wits end when she gets a wierd message in her -personal- email.
The message is rambling and informal but the line "Maybe the Petrova Line is like how birds migrate to breeding grounds???" makes Stratt show the message to the team lead who goes through the full range of emotions twice before running back to the lab.
A massive breakthrough happens two days later. Stratt sends Carl to hunt down their mystery messenger immediately and he brings back a scruffy blond kid with glasses too big for his face. (I can't decide if he's 12 or 14)
This is Carl's child now. He watched Ryland inhale 5 McDonalds cheese burgers before passing out in the back of the big scary security SUV. He is endeared.
Ryland was in a shitty group home so he just gets adopted by the entire aircraft carrier. Team mascot, second in command. He's weirdly good at wrangling scientists and engineers. He has a habit of writing his weird ideas on sticky notes and giving them to people, 9 out of 10 times it leads to a breakthrough.
No idea how/if he gets on the ship but Rocky would be horrified.
#Dimitri is haggling with Carl for partial custody#he doesn't get it but ryland likes to hang woth him anyway#Ryland learns all the curse words but never uses them#Everyone starts calling him Dr. Grace much to the confusion of visitors#“Sure let me check with Dr. Grace”#A tween in a sweatshirt 3 sizes too big gives a thumbs up from the couch#“He said ok”
Short list this time since I also wrote a little discovery fic for the phone.
You guys have my full permission to use anything in these posts for writing or drawing. Just tag me so I can yell about it, please!
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Grace is bored. Bored, bored, bored. Capital B, bored.
Rocky, his partner in crime and entertainment is currently 2 hours deep into his 6 hour nap leaving Grace on his own in these enrichment deprived times. He's currently laying starfished on the floor of the dormitory running through every project they've come up with to fill time and get ready for arriving to Erid but none of them are sparking joy at the moment.
Grace groans, rolling onto his stomach and thumping his head on the floor hard enough for Armando to chirp in concern.
“It's fine, I'm fine, everything is fine,” he mumbles into the floor, “Not going crazy or nothin'.”
Armando chirps in a decidedly disbelieving way but returns to standby anyway.
Another minute passes before Grace fails his legs in frustration like a toddler and introduces his toes to the wall -hard-. He yelps, pulling his leg up to grab his toes so he can continue rolling around the floor like an idiot.
“Oh, sugar honey iced tea, that was a bad idea. Mother fluffer.”
He almost doesn't hear the panel he kicked fall to the floor..
“Oh good, now I'm breaking the ship,” he wheezes, “Sorry, Mary.”
“Apology accepted, Dr. Grace.”
He drags himself over to pop the panel back into place when he notices a device crammed between the wire bundles. Carefully, in case it's actually a part of the system, he works it out from the space and finds himself holding a smart phone with OLESYA written in silver sharpie on the back.
Heck yeah, contraband.
He sends a quick thank you to his crewmate before scrambling to the junk drawer for a suitable charging cable. Gosh he hopes this thing has games on it. Not that the laptops don't, but playing Candy Crush on anything but a phone feels like sacrilege. Knowing Olesya this thing probably has half the app store installed with all the ads removed.
He crows in delight when he finds the right charging cord and nearly vibrates while the thing charges to 10% before he can't handle it any longer and powers it on. In true Olesya fashion, the power up screen has been modded to say “Go Fuck Yourself :)” in Russian before bringing up the lock screen which is the Hail Mary patch edited so the ship is a vibrator. Grace has to hold back tears because it's so her that it hurts. Luckily, she didn't set a password so a quick swipe opens the device.
Yao, Olesya, and Dubois stand proudly behind a mess of apps littering the home screen. Grace can almost feel his attention span shorten as he scrolls through his new entertainment options before opening the settings to check the storage limits and cackling at the absurd amount of space she'd managed to stuff into this off brand monstrosity.
The gallery storage managed to catch his attention as he closed settings. It was taking up nearly a quarter of the storage space and he needed to know what the heck Olesya was hoarding in there, hopefully it wasn't just porn.
It was not.
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When Rocky finally woke up it was to Grace holding a small rectangular device and making horrific choking sounds. His glasses were pushed up into his hair and his face soaked in tears.
“Grace?”
His thumb swiped across the surface of the rectangle and he let out another awful squealing sound.
“Grace?!”
Grace raised his hand in a “hang on” position before setting the rectangle down and launching into a coughing fit.
Ah, wait, Grace is laughing. Rocky vented a sigh and resettled into a “loaf” to wait for Grace to “get his shit together”. It took about five rounds of calming down and then immediately starting to giggle again before Grace was finally able to at least communicate that Rocky needed his light reader before falling into yet another giggle fit.
“Guh! OK,” Grace managed to croak out. He'd crawl over to rest his back against the xenonite tunnel so Rocky could get a good shot at the screen of the rectangle.
“I found this in the wall about four hours ago-”
“What is?”
“Uh, cellphone. I think I kinda explained it a while ago? The whole Apple vs Android rant?”
Rocky nodded, “Consumer loyalty.”
“Right, this one is specially built by Olesya but the system is based on Android. Overall this is what most cell phones look like, at least when I was on Earth.”
“What use, question? No reach Earth for call.”
“No but this is a smart phone, it's not actually intelligent but it's basically an even more portable laptop. Not as much storage and not great for typing but it condenses several other objects we used to carry around like cameras, notebooks, and even our wallets into one small device.”
Rocky gave an impressed whistle, “So what on cellphone make Grace laugh, question? Thought you got stupider while Rocky sleep and forgot how to breathe.”
Grace stuck his tongue out at him before turning the device on and tapping at the screen, “I found some old pictures and videos from the Project. I think half the storage on this thing is dedicated to the crap we did on Stratt's Vat, she even downloaded a copy of the internal ‘Vatchat’ app.”
Rocky hummed like he knew what Grace was saying.
“Here, let me show you.”
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Carl taking a break on the couch, he's holding a thick novel and wearing itty bitty reading glasses. Grace is being pinned behind Carl to the back of the couch, it looks like he passed out mid-struggle.
Grace, Ilyukhina, and a couple lab techs trying to teach Armando to dance.
Dr. Lamia giving Grace, Ilyukhina, and a couple lab techs a stern lecture for trying to teach Armando to dance.
Compilation of scientists standing up and stretching accompanied by horrific joint cracking.
A sign detailing the newly instated mandatory stretch routine and chiropractor/physio appointments. A note threatening mandatory exercise is scribbled in the bottom corner.
An incident report about citric acid poisoning.
A notes list of all the incredibly out of date sayings that Grace picked up from the older teachers and the old VHS tapes he played for his elementary work-study classes. (Sometimes the American lab techs would go check the calendar date when he said something particularly bad and then yell "It's not 1997, I checked!”.)
A video series styled and edited like the Bill Nye series but it's Grace explaining astrophage and the Hail Mary Project in a kid friendly way. (These were released to the public.)
Grace finds a phone tucked in a random maintenance hatch a couple years into the Erid trip and starts laughing so hard he's crying because the pictures and videos folder is full of Vat shenanigans.
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Shapiro drowning in Dubois’ EVA suit. Dubois with Shapiro's suit taped to him and her helmet balanced on top of his head
Grace looking at the camera confused while the core time circle around him like the one girl surrounded by five guys meme
Stratt reclined on a couch looking demure with a coffee mug and using Grace's legs as a lap board for her tablet. Grace is dead asleep, obviously snoring with his mouth wide open and covered in reports. His glasses are on Stratt's head.
Carl walking by the camera with Grace thrown over his shoulder. Grace is visibly pleased and yapping.
Illyukhina walking by the camera with Grace thrown over her shoulder. Grace looks vaguely ill.
Yao passionately doing karaoke with each of the core staff members.
Lamai asleep on a prototype coma bed.
Steve Hatch maternity shoot with the Beatles.
Grace and Dimtri using a centrifuge to make butter.
Grace and Dimitri getting yelled at by Lokken for using a centrifuge to make butter.
Dubois carrying Grace and Shapiro under each arm to the cafeteria. They all are talking like this is a normal occurrence.
Yao hanging upside down from a simulator that glitched with a straight face while Illyukhina is crying laughing on the floor below him.
Compilation video of the world's greatest minds dropping tools, tripping, and running into the glass walls.
Videos of the astronauts defeatedly drifting away from the mock ship in the buoyancy tank after losing their grip. The others are dramatically reaching out for them.
Redell teaching the Russians about New Zealand bombing dives in the training pools.
Shapiro, in formal wear, standing next to a slideshow titled “How I Cloned and Replaced the World Leaders”
Dubois - “My Alien Seduction Tactics"
Grace - “Middle Schooler vs Scientist”
Dimitri - “Using the Incorrect Equipment for Correct Results"
Hatch - “Yoko Ono: First Contact?”
Lamai - “How Not to Use a Coma Robot”
Lokken - “Grace is an Idiot”
Leclerc - “The Ice Age and You”
Stratt - “Things I DO NOT Have Time For”
Carl - “Securing a Home Depot for Idiots”
Yao - “Worst Times to Make a Joke”
Illyukhina - "Benefits of Vodka in Space”
Reddell - “What I Did in 1989”
Illyukhina passed out on top of Dmitri (also passed out) surrounded by a minefield of bottles none of which are for alcohol.
Leclerc looking upset and holding a penguin plushy.
Horrible mishmash of memes from all over the world plus some homemade memes of various quality.
A shakey video taken around the edge of a doorway of Dimitri belting some Russian opera while running a late night test ‘alone’ in the lab.
Yao kicking ass at the mahjong table.
Bill Nye watch parties. Everybody looks like zombies except Grace who looks like he just shotgunned a Redbull. Hearing scientists in the labs chant Bill, Bill, Bill under their breath is not unusual.
A notes app document full of the most popular multilingual vocal stims going around.
Carl pulling a blanket over Stratt and Grace after they fell asleep against each other on a plane.
The core team half asleep after a late check in meeting with The Governments™ Stratt has her head on the table, Grace tries to eat a donut but misses his mouth, Lokken and Lamai are looking into their coffee mugs like they hold all the answers, Dimitri is fully asleep and snoring, Redell is not far behind, Hatch is petting his Beatle prototype like a cat. Even Carl looks like he's asleep standing up.
Rave night with homemade glowsticks.
Stratt and Grace sitting on swings after a meeting in Switzerland edited to look like an album cover.
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Glad you guys are enjoying this as much as I am because I have more in my google doc.
Thinking about one of Grace’s academic rivals on Stratt’s Vat getting ahold of the amnesia drug and trying to remove him from the picture by taking his memories. Unfortunately for them it backfires because
A) ppl freak out about an attack on their lead scientist and the project’s second in command, including a full search for the culprit
B) Grace comes at his research with no memories and therefor a fresh perspective and immediately starts making new discoveries
Plus the angst of Grace having to get his memories back, a full scale search for the saboteurs and outrage over an attack on the project and more. Stratt is not amused.
'rocky learns to swear in english' is great and all but have we considered the equally hilarious alternative: rocky makes grace a little harmonica so he can use tone indicators in eridian, does not realize how terrible of a mistake this is until it's too late. grace catches onto tone indicators FAST and he is DEVASTATING with their application. grace does not use eridian swears but rocky gets to hear "are we choosing kind words" and "I'm not mad I'm just disappointed" in eridian roughly thirty times per day
The parking attendant paused by the double-length bay. Intended for mobile homes and cars with trailers, it was currently occupied by a sleeping dragon.
No parts of it extended beyond the lines, and the paper ticket was clearly displayed, impaled on a horn.
jean anouilh, antigone | the chronicles of narnia : the lion, the witch and the wardrobe (2005) | the reynolds pamphlet, hamilton | phoebe bridgers, would you rather | the chronicles of narnia : the voyage of the dawn trader (2010) | unknown | franz xaver von pausinger, deer, hind und calf | narnia : the lion, the witch and the wardrobe, script (2005) | whitetail deer doe and fawn, photography | the chronicles of narnia : prince caspian (1951) | the chronicles of narnia : behind the scenes (2005) | the chronicles of narnia : the horse and his boy (1954) | the chronicles of narnia : prince caspian (2008) | natalie diaz, when my brother was an aztec | unknown | blue ridge mountains, fleet foxes | unknown photography | icarus, the crane wives | john steinbeck, east of eden (1952) | the chronicles of narnia : behind the scenes (2008) | rupi kaur, quote | sophocles, elektra
I really want to talk about the fascinating commentary on the triangle of relationships (Bruce and Dick, Dick and Tim, and Bruce and Tim) that are on display in Gotham Knights #26 specifically but the broader arc also I imagine but right now my most coherent thought is AHHHH
can you imagine tim waking up one day to twenty scouts hanging out in his room waiting for him. they're all super bored out of their minds playing classic Bored (tm) games like throwing a ball against a wall. watching tim wake up is their way of showing their love <3 (also they need tim to tell them how to fix their third car this week)(it's tuesday).
bart is not aware this is what they're all doing. he told them to figure out how to fix the car tho (it's lindas) and that's what they're doing.
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