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When You Look at Dr. Grace
(part 1) part 2/2
field trip cancelled
Based off hit tumblr post:
Catastrophize Benedictine
they killed him for this
things in fic I'm used to people kind of faking their way through writing about:
the city of los angeles
the city of new york
sex
how drinking alcohol works
how getting high works
how a child of any age speaks
how nuclear physics work
how [my job] works
how debilitating being shot in the shoulder is
how hypothermia works
things I have never before seen someone fake their way through writing about, until today:
what french toast is
read through the notes on this one trust me
Here's some of the notes, starting with the things multiple people brought up:
SHRIMP COCKTAIL:
banahbanah: #flashback to that one fic where Peter Parker frets about drinking shrimp cocktail because of the alcohol
generaldeliciousness: adding: what a prawn/shrimp cocktail is
#why is your character turning it down because they're under 21 #do you think prawn cocktail is a cocktail #this lives in my brain rent-free constantly #the rest of the fic was so normal #and good enough that i'll still re-read it #but bro
And then many, MANY, people wondering if this was actually authour mistake, since Peter really would do this!
POMEGRANATES:
zhajhassa: #haha where's that post that was like someone describing someone eating a pomegranate but they ate it like an apple
thornhands: #once someone wrote persephone biting into a whole Pomegranate #had to stop and stare at a wall for a minute
sungsingsanguine: I once saw someone very confidently write about a character eating slices of pomegranate.
FRUIT TREES:
zagreuses-toast: #given a very endearing glimpse into a writers blindspots by seeing them describe someone sitting under a ''pineapple tree''
salatrash: I remember something about picking watermelons... OF A FUCKING TREE
baander: #cranberry trees
DOUGH/BATTER:
maycelium: #I'm a chef so I'm really used to people not accurately describing how to cook food #But I was surprisingly flabbergasted when someone was writing making a cake and was kneading it. Which uh #Not necessary for cake. It was interesting for sure but just bizarre
livebloggingmydescentintomadness: #the one that drove me nuts was when a character set aside a batch of PASTA DOUGH 'to rise' #pasta doesn't have yeast!! #it does need to REST but it will never RISE #you do not want an airy crumb on your noodles
lovesodeepandwideandwell: #THE ONE WHERE THEY MADE COOKIES BY LADLING BATTER INTO A TRAY
Some other topics:
@softboydepot I need to make sure you see this. XD
guess what building I’m back in again.
I’m not going to tag any of the original PHM posts I’ve seen across various platforms with this take bc (1) they seem to be mainly informed by a movie-only perspective, and (2) I don’t respect Andy Weir enough as an author to insist that reading his work is vital to understanding this story. But I’ve seen various posts going around to the effect that “Ryland Grace loved his life and loved Earth so much, and this is why being forced onto the mission was such a Great Tragedy (TM)” when that’s…not really???? True???? At ALL??? Of Ryland Grace????
The ENTIRE POINT of Grace’s arc is that he is a Coward, with a capital C. He is a coward not only in his refusal of the Hail Mary mission, but in the way he lives his life before the Petrova Line was ever discovered. Grace has no close friends or coworkers, no pets or hobbies, no partners (short or long term), no family that we know of. His two main drives in life are (1) being a Cool Teacher to his students, and (2) nursing a grudge over getting kicked out of academia for proposing wild theories about life forms not based on water. As Stratt ACCURATELY points out, both of these things have large self-serving components. Grace genuinely loves his students and is good at teaching, but it’s at least partially because his classroom allows him to demand respect and attention without returning emotional vulnerability in the same way a peer relationship would. His academic theories were also largely motivated by a desire to be The Specialest Boy - and while Grace DOES prove himself very smart and capable, his pet theory wasn’t supported by his work with astrophage. Grace doesn’t jump at the chance to work with Stratt when she first approaches him, and he isn’t out there Living LIfe to the Fullest every day. He ADMITS to himself and to Stratt that he IS a coward, both for the way he’s lived up to PHM and for refusing to go on the mission when the timeline made it clear that there wasn’t enough time to bring another candidate up to speed and have the same odds of success. He straight up tells Stratt that he’ll sabotage Project Hail Mary if she tries to force him, DESPITE HIM KNOWING that Earth is headed for a literal apocalyptic Ice Age, and that everyone on the planet - including his beloved students!- has a pretty good chance of DYING if the mission doesn’t succeed! Stratt has to give him a coma cocktail that induces mild amnesia, and bet on him being at least good Enough (TM) not to kill the whole planet because he hated her for doing this to him.
(Also no hate for Eva Stratt, I love her and I will SUPPORT THIS WOMAN’S WRONGS until my dying day, she committed so many crimes and I cheered the whole way)
Despite Ryan Gosling’s very pretty Sad Boi eyes and sweaters, Ryland Grace is NOT a manic pixie dream scientist in love with Earth and its life and cultures. He just ISN’T. And if he WERE, then. Well. He certainly didn’t love Earth enough to fully embrace it while he was here, OR to volunteer to save it when he had the chance. This IS one of those situations where the distinction between “I love life” and “I don’t want to die” is a meaningful one. Does this make Grace a Cancelled Villain of All Time? No - it makes him a coward, but that doesn’t mean he inherently deserved to die. Does it ethically or morally justify forcing him onto a suicide mission while he fought and pleaded not to go? No! It makes Grace ORDINARY. Just some average fucking guy, not evil but not valiant, either. It’s like trying to claim Laika was the top search and rescue dog in the city when she got put into the pod. You don’t NEED to give Ryland Grace all these Tender Tragic Qualities of “loving Earth/Life” to have empathy for this poor dude who got launched into space.
In fact, Grace’s arc DEPENDS on him STARTING from that place of “I don’t really have a reason to be here” to “I have EVERY reason to turn my back on survival and do this act!” Grace wakes up on the Hail Mary, and has no context for why he’s on the ship but assumes that he was a Heroic Volunteer, like Yao and Ilyukhina. He sees their personal effects and Reasons Why They Volunteered, and keeps searching for his own Reason Why until he remembers that he didn’t HAVE a “reason why.” He was never a heroic volunteer. He comes to terms with the fact that he’s going to die, and IS. IN FACT. AS STRATT PREDICTED. A GOOD ENOUGH man to want to save the earth anyway rather than die alone without even trying to figure out the Petrova Problem out of spite. And he can do some pretty neat science along the way, which has always been one of his life motivations! At least he can do that before he dies, in the absence of anything else!
But the thing that Grace ACTUALLY loves enough to die for is ROCKY. The one in a million friend! Who saved his life and opened up his entire view of the universe! Grace’s core trait was NEVER “loving the Earth,” or “loving life.” The WHOLE FUCKING EARTH wasn’t enough to get Grace willingly onboard the Hail Mary! What made him turn the ship around was his GOTDAM SINGING ROCK FRIEND. The whole point is the change! Humanity’s capacity for massive apathetic cowardice and also astonishing bravery and hopefulness in connection. Andy Weir has his head in his ass about politics in his work, but you see?!?! You see, right!?!?!?!
And hey. If you really want protagonists who loved the Earth and life? Yao. Ilyukhina. Dubois. The original crew of Project Hail Mary. THEY loved the Earth. THEIR sacrifice was tragic in the specific narrow way that the “Grace loved life” posts want Grace’s to be. Dubois, who started a relationship with Annie even though he knew one or both of them was sure to die because why waste any time? Why not enjoy what they had in this moment? Ilyukhina, who had the absolute darkest sense of humor and packed a giant bag of vodka, who asked to go out via the most pleasurable cocktail of drugs imaginable bc why not enjoy herself after living such a straight edged life? Yao, who volunteered to go last after both Dubois and Ilyukhina were gone, just so he could make sure they didn’t suffer, who carried a picture of his family and never lost courage. THEY were the ones full of love for Earth and life, while the whole point of Grace is that he never really was, and he found it in space when he’d already left Earth behind.
FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.
what was yesterday, cat?
I’m not missing it this year.
Leonard Snart (Captain Cold) chronology
Flash Vol. 2 #182 (March 2002): "Absolute Zero" [Flashback - childhood and young adulthood]
Showcase #8/2 (May-June 1957): "The Coldest Man on Earth" [Flashback – he inadvertently builds a cold gun]
Showcase #8/2 (May-June 1957): "The Coldest Man on Earth"
Flash Vol. 1 #114 (August 1960): "The Big Freeze"
Justice League of America Vol. 1 #5 (June-July 1961): "When Gravity Went Wild"
Flash Vol. 1 #129 (June 1962): "Double Danger on Earth"
Flash Vol. 1 #134 (February 1963): "The Man Who Mastered Absolute Zero"
Flash Vol. 1 #140 (November 1963): "The Heat Is On--For Captain Cold"
Flash Vol. 1 #150 (February 1965): "Captain Cold's Polar Perils"
Flash Vol. 1 #155 (September 1965): "The Gauntlet of Super-Villains"
Justice League of America Vol. 1 #40 (November 1965): "Indestructible Creatures of Nightmare Island"
Legends of the DC Universe #15 (April 1999): "Dark Matters"
Legends of the DC Universe #16 (May 1999): "Dark Matters Part Two"
Legends of the DC Universe #17 (June 1999): "Dark Matters Part Three"
Flash Vol. 1 #166/2 (December 1966): "Tempting Target for the Temperature Twins"
Flash Vol. 1 #174 (November 1967): "Stupendous Triumph of the Six Super-Villains"
Secret Origins Vol. 2 Annual #2 (1988): "Mystery of the Human Thunderbolt Part 2"
Flash Vol. 2 #190 (November 2002): "Rat Race" [Flashback - Hartley attempting to open up to the Rogues]
Flash Vol. 1 #193 (December 1969): "Captain Cold Blows His Cool"
Flash Vol. 2 #218 (March 2005): "Rogue Profile: Heat Wave" [Flashback - Len and Mick squabble while the Rogues socialize]
Flash Vol. 1 #226 (March-April 1974): "The Hot-Cold War In Central City"
Justice League of America Vol. 1 #129 (April 1976): "The Earth Dies Screaming"
Flash Vol. 1 #242 (June 1976): "The Charge of the Electric Gang"
Flash Vol. 1 #243 (August 1976): "If I Can't Rob Central City, Nobody Can"
Flash Vol. 1 #244 (September 1976): "The Last Day of June Is the Last Day of Central City"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #1 (May-June 1976): "Attend Or Die"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #2 (July-August 1976): "No Man Shall I Call Master!"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #3 (September-October 1976): "War for Earthdeath"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #4 (November-December 1976): "When Thieves Fall Out"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #5 (January-February 1977): "Endgame"
Justice League of America Vol. 1 #139/2 (February 1977): "The Ice Age Cometh"
Secret Society of Super-Villains #6 (March-April 1977): [No Title]
Flash Vol. 1 #250 (June 1977): "One Freeze-Dried Flash--Coming Right Up"
Flash Vol. 1 #251 (July 1977): "Vengeance on Ice"
Flash Vol. 2 #182 (March 2002): "Absolute Zero" [Flashback - Lisa speaks with him after becoming the Golden Glider]
Flash Vol. 1 #254 (October 1977): "To Believe or Not to Believe"
Flash Vol. 1 #256 (December 1977): "Prisoner of the Past"
Justice League of America Vol. 1 #155 (June 1978): "Under the Moons of Earth"
Flash Vol. 1 #297 (May 1981): "Captain Cold's Cold, Cold Flame"
Flash Vol. 2 #215 (December 2004): "The Secret of Barry Allen Part 2" [Flashback - Roscoe brainwashed by Zatanna and brainwashes the Rogues]
Flash Vol. 1 #314 (October 1982): "Look Upon the Eradicator"
Flash & Green Lantern: The Brave and the Bold #4 (January 2000): "How Many Times Can a Man Turn His Head?"
Flash Vol. 1 #325 (September 1983): "Dead Reckoning"
Flash Vol. 1 #338 (October 1984): "The Revenge of the Rogues"
Flash Vol. 1 #339 (November 1984): "Warday!"
Flash Vol. 1 #340 (December 1984): "Reach Out and Waste Someone!"
Flash Vol. 1 #341 (January 1985): "Trial and Tribulation"
Flash Vol. 1 #342 (February 1985): "Smash-Up"
Flash Vol. 1 #347 (July 1985): "Back from the Dead"
Flash Vol. 1 #348 (August 1985): "The Final Verdict" [behind the scenes - there's a news report that he's missing]
Flash Vol. 1 #349 (September 1985): "And the Truth Shall Set Him Free"
Flash Vol. 1 #350 (October 1985): "Flash Flees"
Lisa: did dad drop you on the head when we were kids?
Len: bold of you to assume i was held
Life is beach
a gaggle of goslings because my brain refuses to believe these are all played by the same guy
this will be a real postcard soon... stay tuned
snart siblings week: day 6: protectiveness | the flash | 1x16: rogue time → “let him go, Snart.” “I’ll think about it.”
Rocky was STRESSED when they practiced Grace’s piloting