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Minor thought bubble of interaction I might fic abt later

Rocky discovering the human propensity for licking things vs. The very clear memory he has of a discussion about human symbiotic bacterial flora colony + Grace sticking a papercut finger in his mouth =

"Why, take out of mouth immediately, human mouth cesspool , disgust disgust disgust"

Idk the concept of the discussion abt humans purposefully and accidentally cultivating bacterial cultures (inside and out!) is so delightfully horrifying from Rocky's perspective to me. Skin so cold and wet things live there. Human mouth perfec tly shaped to keep bacteria baby, no problems ever in gut perfectly cool and sof perfect place for bacterua nest.

(Oh my stars, the human concept of measuring things biteforce+infectious capabilities on purpose has to be an absolute horror genre for Eridians. Komodo dragon horror audio drama when?)

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Thinking about Fem Starstruck and. To me it is so much funnier if Tom (and by extension Colt) have like. A 7 step curl care routine

But Grace reaps all the benefits of curls that thrive under neglect. So yeah she keeps getting asked how she gets immaculate curls and just

Grace: Uhhhhh<-hasn't brushed or washed her hair in 3 days. Always has it up in a bun or ponytail. Uses 2$ shampoo+barely remembers conditioner exists

Grace: Genetics

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Thought about it for 2 more seconds and realized that butch lesbian ya know. Canon Colt w her typical haircut that wears a wig for shoots feels much more in character

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Thinking about Fem Starstruck and. To me it is so much funnier if Tom (and by extension Colt) have like. A 7 step curl care routine

But Grace reaps all the benefits of curls that thrive under neglect. So yeah she keeps getting asked how she gets immaculate curls and just

Grace: Uhhhhh<-hasn't brushed or washed her hair in 3 days. Always has it up in a bun or ponytail. Uses 2$ shampoo+barely remembers conditioner exists

Grace: Genetics

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I need to learn how to edit and pull from the pile of ideas that live in my head

Visions of PHM scenes keep playing in my head to the tune of Ave Mary A by P!nk

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Hi has the Coltland twins corner of the fandom heard the song Expert by McCall Chapin?

Because if not you should give it a listen :)))

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Also if anyone wants a fun optional vibes for immediately post-The Conference Incident Ryland Grace can I suggest the opening lyrics to Legally Blond (song from the musical but not the opening of the musical)

Lyrics in question under RM

Take back the books and pack up the clothes Clear out the room and drop off the key Leave with what's left of my dignity Get in the car and just go Chalk it all up to experience They said I'd fail but I disagreed Who could say then where my path would lead Well now I know Back to the sun Back to the shore Back to what I was before Back where I'm known Back in my own very small pond

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I understand why so many BloodyMary crossovers have it set in the time when Grace & co know Earth has returned to full lumosity.

What if it wasn't? There's a 10-15 year window of uncertainty between Grace+Rocky making it back to Erid and Knowing

What if they end up with this battered survivor with a tale of dead stars and the last of humanity scraping by on stations

Maybe the beetles never made it back, maybe the feeding system failed and the Taumeba starved on the trek to earth, maybe the decline calculations were wrong and Humanity had to evacuate the planet before it was too late

Maybe their last little Hail Mary, the project Grace was sacrificed for against his will

Failed.

(A reminder that Grace has a vicious temper and an addition to his Crash Out Counter. I want to Crack this man's psyche like a glow stick and watch the chemical reaction)

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It's fun watching the fandom-in-law situation bloom via common crossovers and then getting hit with

"I need to watch this and then I need to write a fic with an undercurrent thesis that says way too much abt my specific mental history. Shit."

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It's is very fun that the movie implies that Grace has plants/seeds on Hail Mary which.

I keep thinking about pollinators and wondering which Eridian gets really into bees and butterflies and figuring out little model fliers to do their job so Grace can stop having to hand pollinate. Finding out which materials for the wings shine iridescent.

To be loved to the point of invention.

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Songs to Have Big Feelings About Project Hail Mary to

Stay I Pray You-Anastasia Musical, what an absolute gut punch

The Moon Will Sing-The Crane Wives

Save Me -Noah Kahan

Plastic Jesus-Haunted Like Human

Have Faith, Horatio by Chase Petra (big Stratt vibes)

(+for any associated Goose Verse Sibling Aus

Everything Changes In Time-Madds Buckley)

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admittedly very fond of the PHM MLP aus because yes Friendship IS Magic tyvm (esp @jayvidaem holy mackrel is the cutie mark design amaze amaze amaze)

Especially the "Blank Flank Grace until mission"+"Becomes Alicorn bc he helped save 2 entire worlds ur honor"

it's been haunting me bc I love the idea of him being an Alicorn of Courage or Curiosity bc he's so scared. all the time. But there's too many things to know to not go forward. And I keep thinking about his wing feathers being something unmistakably Eridian, gently singing crystal, like what's on their celebration clothes.

For every step to sing with joy and relief following in his wake.

(also imagining him just bobbing around in his little enclosure's water feature paddling with broad wings that /should/ work fine even in Erid's gravity but no thank u he will not be finding out no sir)

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Sometimes it's fun staring down the barrel of a character about to make a rather understandable choice that is going to have Catastrophic Consequences. Like stop repeating the line that prompts them to make this choice. Stop it. Take your foreshadowing and shove it in the gutter.

Anyway I'm going to bed. Make bad choices tomorrow.

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I understand why any fic I've seen this far where Grace (and any accompanying besties) going back to earth skip over or ignore one eensy teensy little detail however I think there's underutilized potenial

There's no possible way Ryland Grace returns to Earth without the mother of all quarantine protocols happening. Like from either direction 1) We have in text evidence that some microbial organisms can wiggle through Xenonite (hi yes taumeba???) 2) who know what he could have picked up from Rocky/Erid/Adrian, 3) it's been minimum 2 whole decades since he's been on earth? Shots updates yesterday pls. (I just know this man used to stay up to date on his flu shots, public schools are a cesspool)

2 main branches for this thought experiment

Option A)The funny light hearted haha where there's a rotating door for the visitor/observation room and the windows are wallpapered with get well soon cards and people are constantly trying to slip him to goodies and snacks and there's happy tears all around.

Option B) Where Grace is no longer light years away from someone who can give him a flesh and blood hug without physical and psychological damage. There's a human person on the other side of that glass. And He's. Not. Allowed.

(I think it'd be fascinating to try and write the ensuing breakdown because there's gotta be a limit. What's the final straw. How far does it have to go before he cracks down the center? And maybe he wouldn't even be in contact-limited as it may have been-with Rocky either. Because :) Xenonite :) is :) Permeable :). So he's not allowed off the ship bc what if something happens to him bc of Earth Germs??? No no, not safe. Now Allowed.

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Has anyone who's been having fun with the "What if other characters Ryan Gosling has played are Ryland's twin/brother?" AUs found the song Everything Changes in Time by Madds Buckley? By any chance?

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[Flat on the floor, teary]: anyway I've had Kingston Pike by Haunted Like Human and Project Hail Mary on the brain for the last 5 hours and I genuinely think it's going to haunt me

When the Fates slip with their scissors, making liars out of the stars

Yeah, she'll trade you for the sky

When you turn to her on instinct but she's just out of your reach

And maybe all the promises I ever made, Were nothing more than building up a gilded cage

Admittedly their Plastic Jesus is also gutting me by millimeters

So if you’re gonna pray for me, you better pray for my forgiveness, For your work in this ugly business,

And if you’re gonna kiss me, Judas, I don’t wanna hear your reasons

You got your 30 silver pieces, go find forgiveness you can buy (but it's the Taumeba samples)

Just you and me and plastic Jesus and the sacrificial lamb

And when the bridges started burning, you didn’t give a second glance

I guess your flimsy plastic Jesus never really stood a chance (this but the PJ is the gd. The Earth Hacky sack. )

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I'm going to have to actually dig into and watch SW: Rebels bc I've been lured in with Sabine who sounds like exactly my kind of favorite character and Whatever Is Going On With Kallus And Garazeb

But I refuse to believe no one has looked at "apparently what happens when you cross a human and a Twilek is a human-passing kid with the other halfs coloration" and "Alexsandr Kallus No Background Info Found" and gone "Hey you know what could be fascinating!"

If I ever did end up writing in the future it would be my bread and butter, a 5+1 of "Not Quite Perfectly Standard Human Traits+Oooooooh That's Why"

Skin sensitivity

Cartilage clownery aka "I am not to be used as an example for Baseline Human Flexibility"

no longer covering up his spots which sit right on the edge between normal human freckles/maybe Twilek markings

"Hey why do you know Ryl???"

+idk if I would want the reveal to be Hera being homesick and him making a Distinctly Ryl Dish "Thanks it was my grandmother's recipe" or running into a Twilek Aunt/Cousin and just. "No not as a bit, literally biologically related."

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I'm torn between grateful and despairing that Star Wars edit makers haven't discovered the band Haunted Like Human bc oh boy is that an untapped wealth of gutting opportunities.

Putting in readmore bc I get wordyyyyy

I keep having visions of Family Name with Boba but also the chance to Parallel Leia and Bail to the tune of "Now you're swinging in fights that your father has lost"

You could play Cassandra perfectly straight with the clones and the chip wind up ("You accepted as gift what was always a trap") OR. Palpatine centric framing the lyrics as the lies he was pouring into Anakin's ear ("Oh Cassandra, Cassandra it’s just you and me, With the burden of knowing what would come to be"). A lot of that particular song's lyrics would frame nicely with the horrors of the rising empire.

On that note oh dear hells is Growing Pains a rise of the Empire MOOD ("Call up a war just to declare yourself the hero"!!!)

Euridice is so heavily a rose tinted view of Anakin and Padme but ooooooo is it tasty and painful. ("Taken long before your time, the serpent stopped your heart and mine")

Plasic Jesus-Divine figure ordained to be destroyed, babyyyy the amount of the Slaughter of the Jedi thoughts I have to this song is insane. (All of the lyrics, the entire song, I'm so serious but the opener verse and chorus kill me dead)

High Wire with either Senator Rebels, Padme,v or the Council Jedi? But also some Satine Vibes

Bargain With the Moon has devastating levels of Obitine energy I'm so serious. It's not a ship I'm especially fond of but oh my stars. (I wish I had more than passing familiarity with Rebels, maybe Kanan and Hera? Tragic and temporary?)

I keep having gutting Ahsoka feelings to Kingston Pike ("How do you learn the art of letting go? When we spent days dreaming of futures , That I’ll never get to know")

And September. oh boy September.