startingatmidnight

28 | she/her writing, whether you want me to or not

[scarabeegrandma]

so there's this fic by @startingatmidnight...

[startingatmidnight]

me rn but /positive and /notinvasionofthebodysnatchers

[startingatmidnight]

ryan gosling visibly chewing gum in a number of phm scenes where he's almost certainly not supposed to have gum is my favourite thing to try and catch

[startingatmidnight]

at some point i'll rewatch and note the other more notable and inappropriate-for-the-scene moments but this one's been giffed a bunch so here, example. ryan gosling stop chewing gum for five seconds challenge (impossible)

[startingatmidnight]

hey, are we maybe chewing gum at the never seeing your friend again party.

hey. hey. are we chewing gum at a funeral?

[startingatmidnight]

⚠️🫵gum🫵⚠️

[karrakazz]

everyone is meeting me in the grotto

[karrakazz]

[bewbin]

EVERYOBODY GET DOWN HES TAKING A CREATIVE LIBERTY

[strangestcase]

one thing you gotta appreciate in Carpenter’s The Thing is that it is also a horror from the POV of the monster. At the end of the day it’s a movie about a bunch of assholes isolated in the middle of nowhere doing what they can to survive, and by “doing what they can” I mean freaking out and screaming and throwing up. this also includes the Thing.

[strangestcase]

Everybody in the Thing, including the Thing: FUCK!!!!! THESE GUYS ARE GONNA KILL ME!!!!!!! FUUUUUCK!!!!!!

[strangestcase]

i am not the type to go uwuwuwu the monster was good it was just misunderstood . much less in this case in which the Thing is 1) terribly desperate 2) an alien with very little regard for human life and 3) a cheeky little shit. but I don’t exaggerate when I say the Thing is even more scared than the base guys. like they have flamethrowers.

[asidewalksymphony]

I'm back doing what I love, which is making fanfic covers. All Project Hail Mary this time!

Credits under the cut!

The Wire Mother by nopaintjustpain

The Astrobiology Immersion Program by startingatmidnight

better than your best by goldmonger

pilot study (knowledge gaps) by deervsheadlights

Open Your Eyes by brokenpitchpipe

Come Apart without Daylight by brokenpitchpipe

Some of these are NSFW, please pay attention to tags!

[startingatmidnight]

hoooooly shit this rocks. every fic on this list is incredible, v fun to be included in their ranks!

(and it took me a second but the ship's travelling through waves huh!! sick sick sick sick)

[theblip-a]

In the beginning, Adrian was drawn a foot taller than rocky. Then two, then four, then several meters taller. The last drawn Adrian was 10 meters. In four days, we could be seeing a giant Adrian every eight hours, until they are coming every four minutes. We should witness a 50 meter Adrian within seven days.

[sandersstudies]

Name as many Shakespeare plays as you can. Feel free to write them down and check your answers but not to cheat. How many can you name?

0

1

2-3

4-5

6-7

8-9

10-14

15-19

20-24

25-29

30-35

36+ (“all of them” depending on who you ask)

Remaining time: 3 days 11 hours

Tell me in the comments: are you from a country that speaks predominantly English? Was any Shakespeare required in your education?

[scienceviewscreen]

Project Hail Mary // Incorrect quotes 3/?

Bonus:

[electricalsun]

[hailed-marys]

[agentrouka-blog]

I love Carl's introduction. It's such a great establishing moment.

Ryland Grace has made it all the way to his bike with Eva Stratt at his heels, so her trusted security team has correctly assessed it's time to move in the cars, and Carl is approaching off-screen.

Grace comes out of the little "I don't know why that makes me such a nut!" rant, and there Carl is, stepping up into frame exactly next to Stratt. Tall, broad, unimpressed, unmistakably a force to be reckoned with, unmistakably a trusted professional.

But also a nameless goon at this point. An extension of the threat Stratt seems to represent to Grace. A depersonalized tool.

Grace clocks the cars, his presence, the unfolding situation, instantly and incredulously. And he does something clever, something he always does, which is to call attention to the absurdity of the unspoken threat by trying to force the situation into a normal mold.

"I'm sorry, I didn't catch your name."

Turning Eva's nameless goon into a person with agency. Trying to force a relationship that hinders coercion.

Ideally, this would force them all to acknowledge how abnormal they are acting and retreat a little to keep up the appearance of normality. Or admit to what they are doing by refusing. Either way, the ball shifts out of Ryland's court into theirs.

Neither happens, though.

Carl sees exactly what he's trying to do with that and interrupts him mid-question. "Carl." And then keeps staring at him the same way as before. One word, and we already know so much about him.

He is not a nameless goon. He is an individual named Carl.

And he fully supports what is happening there. Because nothing is normal and it's stupid to pretend that what is happening isn't happening.

So yes, while he bonds with Grace over silliness and is the astrophage-coparent and instigator of Carl's Hypothesis... he is also entirely introduced to us as the man who will wish Grace the best of success on the mission while he's being sedated on the ground. Because Carl has a personal opinion about what is at stake.

"Sun's really dying, isn't it?"

"Yeah."

[startingatmidnight]

ryan gosling visibly chewing gum in a number of phm scenes where he's almost certainly not supposed to have gum is my favourite thing to try and catch

[startingatmidnight]

at some point i'll rewatch and note the other more notable and inappropriate-for-the-scene moments but this one's been giffed a bunch so here, example. ryan gosling stop chewing gum for five seconds challenge (impossible)

[startingatmidnight]

hey, are we maybe chewing gum at the never seeing your friend again party.

hey. hey. are we chewing gum at a funeral?

[startingatmidnight]

ryan gosling visibly chewing gum in a number of phm scenes where he's almost certainly not supposed to have gum is my favourite thing to try and catch

[startingatmidnight]

at some point i'll rewatch and note the other more notable and inappropriate-for-the-scene moments but this one's been giffed a bunch so here, example. ryan gosling stop chewing gum for five seconds challenge (impossible)

[startingatmidnight]

ryan gosling visibly chewing gum in a number of phm scenes where he's almost certainly not supposed to have gum is my favourite thing to try and catch

[eameschairs]

behold....this week's design project! with the blessing of the author @startingatmidnight, i typeset their fantastic fic "the astrobiology immersion program" into a book! this project was so much fun to work on and i'm SO excited to see how they turn out in print! will post pics when we receive them :)

[startingatmidnight]

kicks in the closest wall to you, the reader

look at this, holy shit.

it's important to mention some cool stuff going on in these spreads (tho they can correct me if it's since been changed): they had to manually recreate all the unicode symbols i saw fit in my infinite wisdom to throw into the chapters using adobe illustrator. a great example of how sometimes the creative choices you make idly in a collaborative project can become a bottleneck down the line for someone else.

this is such a clean, kickass design piece and i'm extremely flattered that my words are inside of it. cannot wait to hold it in my hands and consume it for power

[cuunos]

*takes a bite of my cigarette*...... heh. the character...... *walks into a small puddle but it swallows me up like the ocean* *i am found dead years later in maine*

[feldfrog]

Aliens bodies are probably different as hell. Or similar