Our Saving Grace

ryland grace from project hail mary. as inspired by the movie and the book. written by gilly.

[solwilling]

independent ryland grace from "project hail mary" / based on a mix of the book and the movie

rules. bio.

personals will be blocked.

[solwilling]

Im a lil sick and sitting up sucks rn so im just gonna chill and play sky until i feel better 🥹

[duketod]

[solwilling]

"ryan was insistent that he wanted to be a regular person and react like a regular person would in these scenarios"

Ticks off regular guy reacting to difficult challenges like a regular person from my list of things i like in a muse

[meanbuddhist]

what they don’t tell you is that it lives inside you until you let it out

[nikoriis]

they're brainstorming

[raviolireptile]

He’s literally only 70 years old. That’s nothing!

Stills below the cut lol

[solwilling]

>Coming across intimate bloodymary that handles simon discussing his own past.

> It's interrupted by/ends in romantic gestures

[galacticsabc]

Here's some unserious comics and hastily drawn doodles

[hisdutyofcare]

The Little Prince Sentence Starters

" All grown ups were children first, but few of them remember it. "

" Draw me a sheep. "

"It's sad to forget a friend. Not everyone has a friend. "

" I must have grown old. "

" I really like sunsets. Let's go look at one now. "

" You know when you're feeling sad, sunsets are wonderful. "

" It's so mysterious, the land of tears."

" But I was too young to know how to love her. "

I've been silly. I ask for your forgiveness, try to be happy.

" You made up your mind to leave, now go. "

"It is much harder to judge yourself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself, it's because you are truly a wise man "

" Acknowledge that I am the handsomest, the best dressed, the richest and the most intelligent man in the planet. "

" Do you really admire me a great deal? "

" Those golden things that sometimes make lazy people daydream."

" You're lovely but you're empty. One couldn't die for you."

" Anything essential is invisible to the eyes. "

" You become responsible forever for what you've tamed. "

" People have stars, but they aren't the same. For travelers, stars are guides. For other people, they're nothing but tiny lights "

" And when you're consoled (everyone eventually is consoled) you'll be glad you've known me. "

" You'll have stars that can laugh! "

" You'll have stars like nobody else. "

[solwilling]

wait damn i only have the soma ones 😭 i know a good one to rb if i can find it

[solwilling]

gotta go to bed but everyone go into my memes tag and send in sentence starters

[savestcrs]

@solwilling || cont.

Needless to say, Rocky’s going to be particularly thrilled when he learns the sentiment of someone losing their head if it wasn’t attached is a common Earth expression . . . considering he’s thinking it right about now. Letting out a louder click, he manages to detect the cut on Grace’s finger, and Rocky leans in as close as he can get to that xenonite barrier between them. The harsher way one of his feet taps beneath him is a pretty universal display of frustration.

“Need to be more careful! Open wound bad bad bad. You disinfect, question?” He assumes that’s what the original wipe may have been for, but considering his friend’s propensity for missing important steps, Rocky has to make sure. Even if Grace presumably should know more about what his body can or can’t handle—what he needs to do to address injuries—than Rocky would.

He’s lost a little bit of faith. —especially now that Rocky’s had to force him to sleep on many occasions.

But, as soon as Grace covers the originally open injury, Rocky’s focus shifts. “Something break, question?” He lifts his carapace some, leans side to side as if to get a better look at the surrounding lab. “No important, or you make bigger fuss.” And just to be extra sure, he squares Grace with a final, “Correct, question?”

[solwilling]

It's an odd sensation feeling Rocky's voice rattle through me, tingling against the fresh wound as he searched for it. Technically it wasn't a new feeling; we've all felt a good bass beat alongside our heart, but it was strange to know it came directly from another living creature.

This must've been how those whale divers back on Earth felt. Crazy to think about when these sound waves came from something much smaller than a whale.

“ Yeah, yeah, I got it— I know how to deal with a simple cut, ” I reply defensively. You mess your health up a few times and an alien has deemed you careless for life. Typical.

“ No important, ” I nod, pointing to small box containing the shards. “ It was probably from one of the shattered tubes. The lab was totally trashed after our trip to Adrian. You'd think between zero g and the airlock being opened multiple times, all those itty bitty, teeny tiny shards wouldn't be a problem at this point, but... here we are. ”

Hopefully that'd be the last of it however, I was still finding Skittles in the cockpit.

[ironwilling]

'  you  need  any  help  with  that?  '  god  no,  simon  doesn't  think  his  ego  would  ever  recover  if  another  grown  man  fed  him.  besides,  the  hardest  part  is  just  the  cup  sliding  slightly  ---  the  surface  of  the  table  smooth  and  without  any  traction  for  the  underside  of  the  ceramic  cup  (they're  all  new,  simon  is  pretty  sure.  never  having  been  salvaged  or  originally  something  else.  it  boggles  the  mind.)  ...  so:  simon  shakes  his  head  'no'  when  the  offer  is  extended,  then  promptly  keeps  his  gaze  down  and  focused  on  the  cup.  maybe  if  he  can't  see  grace  then  it'll  feel  less  awkward.

such  an  attempt  is  thwarted  though,  when  the  other  human  shifts  question  to  the  lack  of  an  arm.  '  it  looked  pretty  gnarly  when  we  got  you  to  the  NannyBot  '

"  ...  yeah  "  simon  still  struggles  to  verbalize  the  chain  of  events  that  had  happened:  having  achieved  no  better  clarity  than  what  his  mind  comprehended  the  week  prior.  it  was  done  so  quick,  left  only  with  the  flashes  of  memory  that  was  bone  rotting  like  soaked  wood  &  breaking  apart  at  the  very  marrow  as  he  pulled and pulled and  pulled  until -

suddenly,  the  ramen  isn't  as  appetizing  anymore.  but simon  knows  better  than  to  waste  food,  so  he  just  keeps  twisting  the  noodles  around  the  fork  until  half  of  the  cup's  worth  was  balled  up  and  practically  forces  himself  to  swallow  in  one  go.  done.  "  i  don't  know  how  long  it  was  before  uh,  the  SM-13  was  in  space  and  not  in  the  blood  ocean.  but  it  happened  pretty  much  right  before  that.  "

dry rot,  or  perhaps  the  human  version  of  it.  his  mind  best  supplies  as  a  comparison  ...  though  maybe  it  wasn't  the  best,  he  wasn't  really  a  science  guy  ---  radiated  blood  and  alien  bullshit  made  his  skull  ache  just  as  much  as  the  damaged  nerves  in  his  nub.  "  so yeah,  it's  still  new  to  me.  "

[solwilling]

I don't know what I was thinking with that offer. Of course he wasn't going to accept help. It was a struggle to get him to accept any aid when he first arrived in a frenzied state. We weren't exactly buddy-buddy after a few "bonding" sessions that comprised of existing in each other's space.

Admittedly, I was the one encroaching on that space, but it was hard to fault me. People didn't exactly make a habit of breaking the laws of time and space - despite what movies might make people think.

Following my series of careless blunders yet another falls into place. Right when the poor man was eating. I can't tell if I was more impressed by my insensitivity or the fact he could even finish pot of ramen. I could say for a fact there would've been noodles, and more, all over the floor had it been me.

“ Right uh, well... I'm glad it's healed up without any trouble! Armando did a pretty good clean up job. ”

Perhaps an apology was due for my initial clumsy delivery however, it'd probably be a lot worse to linger too much of the subject... buuuuut he hadn't said much about what happened to him in the first place. Keeping secrets from a stranger wasn't unjustified, but with the way his medical charts looked after Armando had a proper analysis of him, it felt like a miracle he was even alive.

What if not knowing could be detrimental to my own health! We prepared for radiation in space, less so radiation from some guy.

I lean against the wall of the room. folding my arms over as I look away from Simon. “ I never caught what happened to you before we found you. ”

[solwilling]

I dont buy prints bc theyre not rly my thing unless i go to a con but 🥺 this was such a good piece

[habken]

break time

[solwilling]

Always pondering an au where nothing went wrong w the xenonite breeder tanks so rocky can go home safe just to explore how grace would feel if he went back to earth

Hes left a part of himself in another solar system, getting all the attention in the world and the chance to cuss out stratt in anguish and anger would not make everything right again.