I'm at SPYxFamily ch 85 and I drew this because I'm growing old waiting for a Twilight vs Thorn Princess set up. It will happen one day, right? :(
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Part 2 of my Twilight vs Thorn Princess fancomic! :)
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Part 3 WIP is available on Patreon right now if anyone is interested in reading ahead of release or supporting me making more comics :)
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It took like 10 hours a page and about 230 hours total to make 23 pages x_x but here's Part 3 of my Twilight vs Thorn Princess fancomic! Hope you enjoy reading it đ
Also Part 4 WIP is available on Patreon right now if anyone is interested in reading ahead of release or supporting comic production! (/â§âœâŠ)/
For anyone interested, the full comic (76 pages) is available to patrons for download. Obviously it's free to read on my socials but any support would be greatly appreciated as it'll help me make more comics yay! âš Also this entire thing took me more than 750 hours to make đ
One of the things that they didn't get into in the movie Project Hail Mary but was so emotionally poignant for me in the book is that it really was a last and only hope, and they partially destroyed Earth just to send the spaceship off.
The breeding of the astrophage to make fuel for the spaceship took so much energy that Eva Stratt paved over half of the Sahara desert, causing the weather to change in Africa and Europe. She blew up Antarctica to speed up global warming so they wouldn't die of cold before the probes could return. Stratt is playing supervillain with the Earth in the hopes that at least half of humanity would survive. After sending the three astronauts to certain death, her job is to keep humanity together for long enough to save the sun.
I think it adds a lot to her decision to send Grace away. Yes, it was cruel, but she knows what is coming for her and perhaps many of the people on the Hail Mary project. She is going to hold Earth and humanity together for decades, as people blame her for destruction and as nations in all likelihood go to war over scarce resources. Then, even if they succeed, she will probably be vilified or even executed for what she did.
Stratt is standing in the wreckage of Earth, knowing she'll live and die in infamy. She sent Grace off knowing that if he succeeded, he'd be remembered forever as a hero. She tore the Earth apart so he could save it.
grace was just another choice she had to make. it wasnt difficult for all the reasons that it was. i think a large part of her character that the movie forgot (aside from her ruthlessness). was the aspect of no time for diplomacy. she was placed in charge because of her ability to get things done. everything is a chain reaction. the human race did not have time to deliberate. the book made a point of mentioning to time to peer review any reasearch being done and people just enmass publishing their findings. the explosion of the center due to the astrophage felt particuarly poignant to me. because it really soldified the mass human panic of operating without any safety channels. there is a reason we delibrate and we ponder and argue and have precautions in place. and to me it just really signals this sense of urgency that there is no time for caution in the mad scramble to save humanity. she paved the desert and blew up the artic shelf without knowing if it was going to work it was all predicated on theory. so when a choice comes along that really is a no brainer. eva is going to take it. and it just so happened that that choice was sending grace. it was the cleanest and clearest decision she had to make throughout the whole project really. she knew he was too stubborn to stay down - too smart to not be a part of this - that he was a good man. (which is not the same as saying as what shes doing isnt unforgivable or horrible). she knows shes âgoing to hell that hell is coming to usâ and those are really the same thing in a way. so it was a really easy simple choice to her. none of it is ever done maliciously. she did horrible horrible things but she knows. she KNOWS she is doing horrible things. but the motivator for it is that if somebody doesnt. push them along them life as they know it will cease to exist. she has no time for guilt or pity or upset. no time for deliberation. stop your crying its a sign of the times (via @bulkhummus)
okay so, guy at work, who i find out afterwards is famous at this place for being a sex pest, comes up and starts with what i also learn is his favorite opener to conversations where heâs going to be a sex pest, namely: âDo you know where the term âblow jobâ comes from?â
and here he made his first fatal error. his moment of hubristic sex pesting. because of course i know where the term blow job comes from, i love learning about sex and the history of sexual terms! i know so much about oral sex that i could write a book on it!
his second error: approaching a little autistic freak with what he intended to be an uncomfortable sex question that would make me feel weird and gross. Friends, Romans, Countrymen, I Have Never Misjudged A Manâs Intentions So Incredibly In My Life. because i did not realize he was trying to harass me. because i love talking about sex facts, albeit not usually at work. unless. someone prompts me. my coworkers are the kind of people who are generally online enough to know terms, but not exactly what they mean, and they realized they could ask me a while back and get good answers without the resulting awkwardness because i do not experience shame. i am primed to answer questions like the one he has proposed.
So I Answered It.
and well, really, what happened is that I began answering it, then realized the answer required a bit more context. I mean, you canât just say âoh, well, the term first appears in writing in the 1940sâ without first explaining that âblowâ by itself already had sexual connotations for centuries, and then, really, are we talking about the origin of the term or the origin of the act. and well we have a ton of literature and art depicting fellatio throughout human history, did you know a lot of it was men performing it on other men? oh, that reminds me, there are a multitude of latin words for oral sex performed on penises, and hold on let me quote you the entirety of catullus 16 from memory and explain itâs fascinating insights into the roman world of homosexuality-
i do not know how to turn any of this ^ off, by the way. iâm sure some people out there have a switch that disables their infodumping mid-speech. i do not. and i also didnât realize he wasnât looking for a real answer until my other coworker explained so hours later. he could not excuse himself from the conversation he started, and i made a conservative man at least 30 years older than me to listen to my catullus recitation. i will sodomize and facefuck you, indeed.
anyway, i think i got a bad grade in being sexually harassed. my pro tip is maybe donât start with what a very autistic individual will misconstrue as you earnestly asking them to explain sex to you. the special interest shield will cause splashback damage.
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