My Brain Refuses to Rot

[riverashes]

I discovered that my desk is pretty close to being a chalkboard. May I present my own low res chalky Rocky (drawn from memory) for the council.

[aroace-ryland-grace]

Hi guys! I thought I should just share my whole mini little library of Project Hail Mary-related things so they're all in one place:

It includes:

A digital copy of the movie (with English soft subtitles)

My transcript of the movie (more on that here)

Audio recordings of the movie

A PDF of the book

An EPUB of the book (for e-readers)

The full audiobook

A copy of Andy Weir's doc on Eridians

A copy of Andy Weir's spreadsheet on Astrophage physics (among many other things!)

A draft of the screenplay for the film from 2022

An audio recording of the director's commentary

My transcript of the director's commentary

The subtitle SRT file

The audiobook, audio recordings, and commentary all have their properties programmed so they (should) work just like songs with a track number, album cover, artist, and so on if you download them.

There are two audios of the movie, one is the entire film untouched and one is that same audio cut up and broken down into separate scenes for convenience.

Additionally, there are two versions of the movie transcript, one with time stamps that match the audio recording and one without. The time stamps (+ their titles from the audio) are outlined in that version, so if you double-click on that tab or click "show outline," they'll all show up and you can pick a specific scene.

Similiarly, there are two different versions of the director's commentary transcript. The first is made to listen along to the commentary, while the second is more intended to be read on its own. The first is a direct transcription of everything that's said (an attempt, at least), while the second is slightly cleaned up for easier reading, meaning things like jumbled sentences and stuttering were removed or reorganised, but nothing has been actually paraphrased. Both are broken down into different scenes based on how their conversation goes, and the listening version includes timestamps. 

The first few seconds of the commentary are missing unfortunately as my US friend who was kind enough to record it for me had some technical difficulties at the start, but the she paraphrased the part that was missed. The commentary starts at that first red shot of Ryland Grace's face in the coma suit 32 seconds into the digital copy.

There's also a google doc with some instructions to follow if any of the files aren't working, which usually happens when too many people try to access or download something at the same time.

As always, if anything's not working right or you notice any mistakes in anything, please let me know and I'll fix it as soon as I can!

[riverashes]

It's an interesting experience reading Gideon to my roommate out loud. I can't stop when I realize I've hit a nasty bit of foreshadowing, I can't cry when I hit a direct nod to the end. I have to just sit there and do the voices and give the proper tones and just... KNOW.

[love-is-a-revenant]

'Time's up,' [Palamedes] said. 'Give this to Cam for me, will you?' [...] [And when Nona] lifted up Camilla's hand to press her mouth to it, all Camilla said was, 'Thanks.' And she almost didn't flinch. — NONA THE NINTH // Ch 5

so if you don't know, there's different counting methods and the duodecimal finger counting has a base of 12 and allows you to count to 144 with your two hands.

your thumb is the pointer to count the bones in your fingers (i.e. 3 bones in 4 fingers, a total of 12) and you keep track of each full set with your other hand in the same way.

the way i remembered it as starting with the top digit of your index finger and go down and then across to the next finger — but when i did some quick research, i also saw starting from the top of the pinkie going down and across, and others starting from the index and going across the top digits,,,,,, soo. idk i suppose it depends on the orientation of your primary written language i.e. you read left to right so you count left to right and whatnot.

ANYWAY!!! the way i remembered it means that the base of the second finger is number six babyy thank you for coming to my ted talk this book didn't make me insane

🧍‍♂️ 🔴

also what if when palamedes was tied to his hand bones, camilla brought them out when she was alone, a lonely cavalier with the remnants of her necromancer, and maybe one time she holds the bones like he's there and has his hand out and she kisses the second knuckle

and then when he transfers to camilla's body and he kisses nona's second knuckle to pass on as a message, camilla bluescreens because he truly was there in the bones truly aware truly remembers,, what then??

[riverashes]

GOD I LOVE THEM IM INCONSOLABLEEE

[drawerbread]

devotion's casualty

[estrellasuerte]

an update on my living situation as detailed in these posts [1] [2] [3]

my employer died last night on december 27th and i received my 30 day eviction warning from my employer's wife.

the death of my employer also comes on the heels of having my "safe" place of residence exposed (via doordash) to my batterer whose domestic violence i had run from.

i have a home waiting for me in another state but i need help getting there. and i am in the process of packing. purchasing my ticket is the next and final step

if you cannot donate reblogs are a tremendous help...!!!!!!

my cashapp is spoiledmilkandhoney and my paypal email is aureliaofthevalley (@) gmail (.) com and my paypal dot me is amuletodenazar

thank you i love you so much. every kind word shared with me has kept my heart from being swallowed by grief and terror

[estrellasuerte]

Donations have stopped and I still need $300 to cover the pet fee for my cats at baggage claim

[vermivox]

“your friend is dead, and their corpse is inhabited by something only you can see for what it truly is" is already good horror. but "you begin to love the thing that wears their face"? the blasphemy of it. terror turning into desire. grief turning into longing. being enticed by what should repel you. it twists the knife deeper, because the horror is not based on deception anymore. the fear comes from recognizing the monster in its raw form and finding beauty there. you're not clinging to scraps of your friend, you're surrendering to something other, something wrong, and loving it. you're not holding onto a ghost of the past, it’s the monster itself that you choose

[riverashes]

Insane things happening in my relationship rn

[riverashes]

Gideon said Harrow never managed to get the corpses of her parents to speak, which is why she leads the prayers. That means she TRIED. Enough to know she couldn't do it. And knowing Harrowhark "I'll bleed myself to death trying" Nonagesimus, that number of attempts was not insignificant.

Obviously she would have made them pray, but I think she would have tried to make them say something just for her. Maybe she wanted to hear them say they loved her? Maybe she wanted to hear that she was worthy of a generational genocide? Maybe she wanted reassurance that her living beyond them was not a disgrace to her line?

Maybe that's why she couldn't make them talk at all, come to think of it. She couldn't ever comprehend them saying those types of things, and thus could not comprehend them saying anything else in death that they hadn't said a hundred times in life.

[riverashes]

"God I'm so sorry I opened the Tomb to the one thing that can kill you"

"lol nuh uh I'm too cool for you to have done that"

(The Tomb is in fact open and the Body has pledged herself to his pseudo adopted daughter/competently incompetent coworker)

(Surprised Pikachu meme)

[riverashes]

I wonder if Jod ever gets a song stuck in his head from like... 2009 or some shit. And he can never listen to it again so he sits there and seethes that he can't remember anything past one specific line.

[scurviesdisneyblog]

Visual development for Treasure Planet (2002) by Michael Spooner

[riverashes]

Ok Jod you can stop piloting the US government now this is getting out of hand and terrifying

[theunknownpoetssociety]

Aphrodite who cries for the people who hurt themselves because self love is love too

Artemis who doesn’t hunt animals anymore (humans do it enough) She now walks in clubs looking to hunt the real animal

Athena who donates hundreds of books to local libraries and schools

Apollo who watches all street musicians hoping their talents can get them a little money (He gives more than a little)

Dionysus who watches over everyone’s drinks at the bar making sure they stay safe

Zeus who makes it rain for the couples that just want to frolic and dance and kiss in the rain

Hera who donates to woman’s and SA survivors shelters

Ares who is at the forefront of every protest because those are battles too

Hestia who holds and keeps thousands of secrets so the ones who whispered them into flame don’t have to

Hades who let’s families get one last goodbye to a loved one before they die

Persephone who personally makes sure that the ones taken too early feel safe and secure in the Underworld

Demeter who gives Her best crops to food banks and homeless shelters

Hecate who is a street magician and does actual magical for the kids

Poseidon who finds the best seashells and leaves them on the beach for someone to find and treasure

the Gods aren’t gone they ARE the little things in life

[snaillifena-shiko-deactivated20]

this is so beautiful 💞

[riverashes]

Y'ever just... Read something... SO dogshit. So godawful. That you just kind of sit there and rage at it and finish it just to say fuck this?

Yeah.

[riverashes]

It will never not fuck me up that the most genuine and impactful thing I have ever read was a FFXV fanfic with Ignis and Ravus as the pairing, called "let me fill these hollow skies", and it got deleted. I read it so many times and left so many comments. It got deleted and I feel like a chunk of my soul is missing. Please come back...

[riverashes]

Maybe I just forgot what this website is like but I don't think it's morally right in about 28749 different ways for Tumblr to give me an ad for an AI app that is providing sexual content for a cartoon child. Like that is disgusting??? Why would you put that on my screen at all, let alone make it so I can't keep scrolling without closing and resetting the app???