the horror persists, but so do i

how lucky we are to be part of this stupid miracle old url spifalling

[yellow-cat]

suchhh a relief to spend time with other insane people. yes we are fucked in the head. we are both going to make it. i love you

[fairytailfanatic]

The key difference between Ryland Grace in the book vs the movie is that book Grace goes back to being a biologist and movie Grace remains a teacher.

Book Grace immediately readapts to working in a highly scientific field with other highly specialized people. He drops most of his teacherly quirks and accepts his role as a biologist. (He does teach at the end of the book, but it's more so him becoming a teacher again.)

Movie Grace never accepts that role as a full fledged biologist. At his core he is still a school teacher. Even Rocky addresses him as such. He interacts with Rocky in a much more teacherly way (albeit a very chill teacher) and his role as a teacher always feels much more natural to him.

Book Grace was more biologist than teacher, Movie Grace was more teacher than biologist

[stardoves]

siblings

[anjio00]

Derlord lock tf in PLS 🙏 😭

[important-cat-pics]

[hayleywilliamsfan84]

i keep laughing at the way that eridian culture in the movie and eridian culture in the book are not contradictory at all, if you accept that movie rocky is just a total FREAK

grace: boy i sure can't wait to meet other eridians haha! rocky, putting on a shirt for the first time in four years: rocky has something to tell grace but does grace promise not to be mad, question?

[hydrangea-pop]

I can't leave this in the tags lmaooo

[tboypart-deactivated20221222]

look at this

[lycanthology]

wish ppl understood the power nowadays in not giving something attention. things today are so focused on attention and reaction and #memes that the best way to shut literally anything down is simply not give it exactly what it wants. like you arent going to own that bigot on twitter youre going to boost their original message whether thats your intent or not and you arent just playing with ai for shits and giggles you are giving it free learning and data. just stop engaging with things that dont deserve it

[wasyago]

annoying roommate

[aurelia-which-means-sunrise]

[ID/ Illustration of Grace and Rocky from Project Hail Mary. Grace is sitting on Rocky's ball, Rocky has two arms up like a boxer. /End ID]

[wasyago]

thank you so much for writing an ID! hope you don't mind that i added it to the original post

[justgivemeabookplease]

Shrek 2, while a cinematic masterpiece, is also an interesting look at queerness and comp het.

Fiona is married so it's time to reunite with her parents. But instead of marrying a prince, she's married to an ogre. Not just that, but she's also an ogre. (Yes everyone knew she would sometimes be an ogre but that was when she was a child, she didn't know she would be an ogre for the rest of her life, and besides once she met the right prince she would stop being an ogre. She was supposed to stop being an ogre.)

But okay they're both ogres. We can still ask about when they'll have children because even if they're ogres they can still have kids, right? That's what married princes and princesses do so naturally that's what everyone does. Even if ogres might not be great parents (I've heard that ogres eat their young, is that something you people do?) it's still something that should be discussed.

And okay you can stay in Fiona's childhood bedroom filled with all the reminders that hey, everyone thought she was just a princess and princesses marry princes. Her toys left out from the last time she played with them. The prince slays the ogre. The princess offers a token of gratitude for slaying the ogre. Fiona wrote Mrs. Fiona Charming a million times in her diary because what else was she supposed to grow up to be?

And Harold you have to fix this, your country can't be ruled by ogres. You were unfit to rule when you were a frog but I changed you, I made you better, I made you a prince. You know how this works. Think of your daughter's safety.

Shrek goes to the Fairy Godmother and oh honey, ogres don't live happily ever after. It's just not done. It hasn't happened in all of fairy tale history. You have to change the both of you to be happy. You have to present as a prince and a princess. It will be better. You'll fit in better that way. You'll be accepted that way.

[fitzchivalry]

[alastair-1205]

Thinking about "You're have no immediate family. You dont even have a dog." And like duh thats devestating, but theres also the fact that the people telling him this are people hes been working with for 4 years at this point. Theres this quiet implication thats not just "you have no family no pets and no partners therefore you have no one to leave behind" its also "we, your coworkers who you might have called friends and who have been at your side while we all save the world for close to half a decade, are not close enough to you to even be mentioned in Stratts little speech. We will not stop this, we wont even protest or apologize. You have no friends at you side in your final moments." And i think thats even more heartbreaking honestly.

[stalgivc]

a kid’s perspective of the world

[dreaminterlude]

we’re never making it out of the labyrinth

[aroace-ryland-grace]

"It’s a fitting last moment in their friendship. They just want to be close." - Phil Lord, director's commentary

[glazsirok]

hell yeah.

the source image is below

[zestoflemon]

honk shoo

[rylandgraces]

ryland grace running around in his bright yellow little raincoat while the original crew of the hail mary are walking around in their yellow jumpsuits..........grace was always part of the crew just one they saved for a rainy day...