A Bitch In A Snakes Body

Just me, my completely fucked sense of humor, my pile of fandoms and once in a blue moon a rational thought <3 Also cute animal stuff | Current main brainrot: Batfam 🦇

[ladylokilaufeyson5]

“this ship isn’t canon” to YOU. I, however, am delusional

[macaron0verlord]

Gon fishin'

I've read so many [found the sub on a random planet] and I raise you [fished Simon up from wormhole] Another super rough render (i would almost call this a painted sketch ngl)

[is-that-sand-in-my-waffles]

there is a bronze statue of ryland grace outside of grover cleveland middle school. the knuckles on his hands are shiny and worn because it has become tradition for students to give him a fist bump on the way in to school.

[snoopyoftheday]

snoopy of the day

[mockiatoh]

Everyone say Shabbat Shalom Snoopy

[luunarmoonar]

PHM if it were good

[shrugsinchinese]

Spite, the great motivator

[an-ruraiocht]

[rockrockgrace]

Adrian meets Grace!

[one-billion-marbles]

rocky on the trip back to erid: *in his xenonite ball* "when my crew all died of radiation poisoning you were just being born isnt that weird"

grace, touch starved and drunk off the last of Ilyukhina's vodka: "can yuo burn me again"

[suspiciouspurplelemon]

i love the PHM fandom because there is no shipping war at ALL that I have seen. we all agree that everything is canon because it's all so good

grace is aroace

grace is eva stratt's idiot boytoy

grace is eva stratt's idiot boytoy (QPR)

grace is gay for markiplier

grace is gay for carl

grace is gay for rocky

grace is in a qpr with rocky

grace is in a qpr with rocky and adrian

grace is gay for rocky, adrian AND simon

grace is gay for rocky's voice actor

[lifes-pinata]

One of the compelling things about Project Hail Mary is that you can't fix it.

"What if Stratt didn't force Grace to go?" Then the Earth dies.

"What if Yao and Ilyukhina had survived?" Then they all would have died in space, not enough food to get to Earth or Erid

If the Taomoeba hadn't escaped then Grace would have never seen his best friend again. Returning to a world he loves but no longer recognizes.

If the stars weren't dying then Grace never would have met his best friend at all. Living content but alone.

Project Hail Mary is a hopeful story. It is a story of friendship and what it means to be brave. It's a story about saving the world.

But you can't remove the tragedy of the story without making it unrecognizable. It's written into the bones.

[westanovencleaner]

the whole "ao3 and tumblr are our parents" thing is especially great considering the "you've already left kudos here." we are the petulant children who want more than one cookie and ao3 is saying no.

[puppetmaster55]

suddenly thinking about the courtroom scene, of Stratt being accused of pirating literally everything, and Grace later having everything in the various computers aboard his ship that he gave a copy to Rocky without issue, and the beetles having such a massive memory capacity and...

Stratt was a historian. She wasn't just pirating for the sake of entertainment for the astronauts, she was doing a full historical backup of the planet. Who knows how much knowledge and communications ability, how much art and culture and history, how much niche knowledge of how to make specific pieces of modern technology or modern medicines, was lost as the wars for resources isolated everyone, as the death tolls led to the deaths of specialized trade workers and scientists, as the power grids failing across the planet (or cut off, potentially) led to all the cloud servers going dark. Stratt was facing methods of combating extinction and she did her best to ensure that if/when the Hail Mary worked, it would send back not just the hope of the future in the solution to the astrophage, but the restoration of history and culture and knowledge.

Just.... she pirated everything, and put it all on the Hail Mary.

[llamasocks-lou]

Twice, Ryland Grace is faced with the same pivotal decision: to save himself, or to save an entire planet.

The first time:

He is surrounded by white (bravery) and is wearing yellow (cowardice)

The world is telling him to be brave, but he can’t, not yet, because he is a coward.

He has lost his identity and autonomy

The decision is already made (he must die)

He is all alone (he doesn’t have the bravery gene)

The second time:

He is surrounded by yellow (cowardice) and is wearing white (bravery)

He is in the middle of his namesake: a field of rye. The field is the yellow of cowardice; that is who he was, but he can’t be that, not anymore, because he is brave.

You know who you are. You’ll do great.

The decision is already made (Rocky must live)

Rocky’s ball is beside him (he has found someone to be brave for)

[cat-dot-exe]

Rocky fix all miscommunication. All hail Rocky.

[briarlovesclara]

yes yes stratt is very scary and whatnot but i feel like we are overlooking how intimiadting grace made her too (largely in the book). because you expect the leader of the petrova task force to be cold and ruthless and scary, but then her... assistant? second officer? her guy walks in with her and he's very sweet, personable, and incredibly smart. and there's so much dissonance because you're talking with stratt about the biggest ethical decision of your lifetime and he's, like, annotating papers for her in the background. or you accuse her of being cold and calculated and this ray of sunshine just matter-of-factly goes "yep! she'll do whatever it takes!". and at the end of your meeting, probably the worst day of your life, the dictator of the world who has just calmly convinced you to do some atrocity or another stands up, gestures to him, and they casually walk out together chattering about something else like they've already forgotten you're there. that's so terrifying

[mozart-the-meerkitten]

Okay so I rewatched the Project Hail Mary clip where Grace first encounters the Blip A and I had an extremely funny realization.

When Rocky tosses the zenonite container with his message inside and Grace doesn't get it and it just bounces off the hull the speed at which Rocky gets the second container ready (it's literally seconds) and sends it flying over makes me think that no, he didn't think Grace was stupid for not catching the first container, and instead implies the much funnier idea that Rocky had at least two, probably three, canisters with tiny star-system maps inside them locked and ready to go because he had no idea what kind of alien race he was about to encounter either and he realized he might have to try sending the message more than once.

Like, the enthusiasm this little guy has at finally meeting another person after 46 years and his hopefulness that Grace will be friendly is unmatched, he was probably multitasking making the star-maps while chasing the Hail Mary around going "why alien spaceship not hold still question? Rocky want to make friends!".