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so i finally decided to sit and look at the phm draft script and this interaction has me YELLINGGGGGGG its canon in my heart and in my fic now and no one can stop me

followed by "what do you think we're trying to save here, exactly?" which. OUGHHHH YEAH. but also immediately after some more discussion:

(yes so get to fucking work) PLEASE LMFAOOOOO

i get why a lot of the dialogue in the script was changed bc its honestly kinda stiff and a bit much sometimes but this scene is just. its literally them and its taking me OUTTTTT

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jasethegooberton

bloodymary art dump but its mostly Simon

edit: forgot to add closeups OOPS

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jullssaa

Just a little fanart, because I think like most people I'm currently fixated on Project Hail Mary.

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em-not-bruce

When Grace is on Rocky’s ship, we see Rocky showing Grace designs on the ship wall, which I think are insignias that represent the original crew of 23 Eridians.

He’s telling Grace about his crew members.

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annabelle--cane

I think the core difference between the book and movie versions of ryland grace is that, while both are desperately afraid of taking action, book!grace's fear stems from the fact that he doesn't want to be hurt, whereas as for movie!grace it's that he genuinely thinks he's incapable of doing anything meaningful.

compare how they react to remembering they were forced onto the ship:

in the book, he stands around in numb ashamed shock at his cowardice for a minute before deciding, against rocky's better judgement, that they should voluntarily subject the hail mary to a six g force again to get the lab equipment up and running instead of just waiting eleven days to get back to the blip-A, and it hurts him a lot and he ends up passing out from it. he locates the problem in his memory as being that he was too caught up in concern for his own wellbeing, so he tries to counterbalance it by opting to do something bizarrely personally risky so they can get back to work more quickly. his refrain in his memories is "I don't want to die."

in the film, he remembers it all and then he's back to his old self when saying his farewells to rocky. his emotional vulnerability is gone, his walls are back up, he tries to leave without saying a real goodbye before rocky continues the conversation, and he rejects being called "brave." all his weeks of learning to do the scary thing so he can care for someone and be cared about are just gone. he locates the problem in his memory as being that he as a person is simply not brave; he lacks the gene for it and isn't capable of real accomplishment; he'd thought he could grow and change and he was wrong. his refrain in his memories is "I can't do it."

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chesterart

When you accidentally become too important at work 😂😂😂✌️

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chesterart

Antartica nuking scene

I really like leclerc actually. A climatologist whos lifes mission comes crumbling down with nothing but the sound of distant thunder... 🤕

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andthepeople

the main reason grace and rocky are sooooooooooo everything to me and to each other is because like, are they soulmates? yes. are they best friends? of course. are they doing nerd telepathy? absolutely. BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE!!! imagine for a moment that you could never again consult a human being on anything, ever. anything that happens to you medically mentally emotionally etc you have to figure out for yourself. you have textbooks and resources you can consult but if you're delirious with pain or fever or panic you cannot reach out to anyone who knows what it is like to be a human who can help you. no one can ever tell you yes i have experienced that too. the closest thing grace has to another human being is his rock spider best friend, and he taught rocky everything he knows about being human. how terrifying must that be!! how exhausting and isolating!! and how utterly moved and relieved and floored must grace be each and every time rocky observes something about the human animal that grace didn't teach him, or deliberately learns something from mary, or picks up some mannerism unconsciously despite grace not intending to pass it along. like, i am the only human on this whole planet, there is no one here with whom i have shared bodily or emotional experience, but that's okay because you loved me enough that you became half-human too. so i wouldn't be alone. so i would have help. rocky is all of earth for grace and he became that willingly and he doesn't regret it for a second. that's a level of devotion and care and codependency you just don't see every day

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violet-prism-creatively

I tried my hand at one of those two-column (contrapuntal) poems! I have a new level of respect for anyone who writes these lol

You can also read it on ao3 where I learned how to code an HTML table for this.

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valtsv

rocky phm makes me unwell to even think about because what do you Mean he haunted that ship like a ghost clinging to its unfinished purpose for decades until another lonely ghost found him by following a trail of death spanning time and space and they loved each other back to life

valtsv

like i get the appeal of the angst of being like "ohhh rocky is going to be the eridian equivalent of someone who 'came back wrong' with all the human mannerisms and cultural knowledge he's adopted from and learned to accomodate for grace" but it literally doesn't matter because he came back. and grace is the only one who could have brought him back at all. if you even care.

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gruvu

Rocky you can't just say that. I've been saving this Tiger Tiger reference in my pocket for awhile. And I missed my chance with warframe. So bloodmary you got cursed with it. Do actually read Tiger Tiger tho.

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