Pastel Catholicism

My name is Cherry. I'm 20 and Catholic. I like green tea and the colour pink.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

I see your “Rocky swears like a sailor but only in pitches humans can’t hear/refuses to teach Grace what those words mean” and raise you “Rocky swears like a sailor and now has to explain to Grace that ‘bad bad bad’ isn’t actually a sequence you play on your Eridian speech piano in polite company.”

Grace is both horrified and amused to realise that a more accurate translation for what Rocky’s been saying is “shit shit shit”.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Eridian government representative: Greetings Rocky, Saviour of Erid, and Grace, Saviour from Beyond the Stars. We are pleased to welcome you home.

Grace, haltingly on the keyboard Rocky built for him: Wassup bitches. Fucking jazzed to—

Rocky: GRACE STOP TALKING NOW NOW NOW I EXPLAIN LATER

[kabber]

something i really liked about project hail mary is that Rocky and Grace are both equally out of their depth and about as competent as the other. theyre both the smart one. theyre both total dumbasses. neither knows whats going on. they both think the other is an idiot baby. they both admire the other's intelligence so much.

[autisticlittleguy]

"Grace Ryland is Rocky's dog" is such a funny fucking dynamic when you think about it

Eridians are further behind than humans technologically right? They dont have computers, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. In fact, Eridians probably dont even know about the Big Bang because their atmosphere would filter out most of the cosmic microwave background radiation we use to detect it. On a human timeline, theyre anywhere between like early-mid 20th century. Rocky's basically a cosmonaut.

So the human civilization is pretty advanced from Rocky's perspective. Rationally he understands this. On a conceptual level he knows this to be true.

But at the same time... imagine youre one of the first ever cosmonauts to make it into space. Then you meet a 10 year old alien dog who cant do 2+2 without pulling out its calculator. It forgets everything constantly and has to keep notes everywhere, like it basically lives in Memento (2000). Also if it doesnt nap constantly it gets even stupider. And you somehow has to reconcile this with the fact that this dog has a better understanding of physics than your entire civilization does. Like the dog knows how the universe started.

[autisticlittleguy]

This isnt better from Grace's perspective btw. Eridians never developed computers, so all their ship systems are steered using basically the manual labor of 24 Eridians. Also theres no radiation shielding on their ship. Actually im pretty sure half the reason why Rocky is always busy fixing shit is because the radiation keeps frying all the onboard electronics, so hes always building and fixing and replacing components

Like imagine being a modern day sailor navigating the Pacific with GPS and strong hulls to protect against the raging ocean. And from portside you see like an honest to god viking ship. Except its made of some high tech carbon fiber material. But like, its still very definitely a viking ship. You can clearly see there's 24 oars along the hull where sailors are supposed to use to manually row their ship. Also the ship is leaking and theres like one little dude on board whos skittering around patching the holes constantly. Also this little dude is blind and doesnt know about water. Thats how insane Eridians look being an interstellar species without computers or radiation shielding.

Both of them thinks the other one is the completely ridiculous and absurd one and theyre both totally amazed at how far the other has come in spite of it

[strawberrypegasus]

I’ve seen some discussion of the Christian symbolism of Grace’s name, but I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about the Christian symbolism of Rocky’s name.

In the Christian tradition, “Peter” was not St. Peter’s original name. Jesus gave him that name to symbolize the role he was meant to play in the Church. It means “rock.” If you wanted to translate the original Greek name into English, “Rocky” would capture it pretty well.

Imagine you’re alone in space for decades desperately trying to find a way to save your planet, then an alien shows up, calls you by the name that God gave to His best friend in his culture’s most prominent religion, and proceeds to save both your species.

In conclusion, Ryland Grace is not beating the Space Jesus allegations.

[strawberrypegasus]

Ryland Gracecore

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[somepomegranatetea]

she's platonic about it but in my opinion, stratt 100% treats grace as her dead wife. she keeps a tacky fox trinket in her coat pocket. there's a framed photo of him in her study . he's grinning goofily in it (bc he's a dork). new guy like: is that her husband? / no, dumbass, it's dr. ryland grace, 1/3 of the hail mary mission. / oh, fuck. were they... ? / yeah, it's unclear. black-and-white montages of grace messing around in high-level meetings play every time stratt contemplates committing more environmental crimes. she looks up at the night sky and vaguely wonders if he's enjoying his space ramen. that's her dead wife. she killed him.

[urfavsherlockholmeskinnie]

Jax: So my therapist was talking to me and she said that I really just need to break down my walls and let people in.

Jax: So I’ve decided to break the fourth wall.

Jax: *looks at camera* Hi there. I use humor as a coping mechanism.

[strawberrypegasus]

I wonder if Caine has ever tried reusing the designs of abstracted players for NPCs? I can't see it happening in the show itself, but "You miss you dead friends? Here, I made copies of them for you :)" seems like exactly the kind of cruelly innocent logic he would come up with

[justaninternetgal]

[midnightcrisisstuff]

actually no, we're not "dating". we're bound together for infinity. like the stars. so, fuck you, actually.

[chase-solidago]

i hate that concerns about urban gardening/foraging safety is often met with "What are you, a cop?" scorn. I believe it's a suspicion of anything that hinders the punk/anti-system urgency to jump in immediately and do whatever feels right.

Safety, ethics, and sustainability are all a part of urban gardening and foraging. I'm sorry that means you need to do homework before you can do anything, I know that sounds lame. But life is complicated.

I know anti-intellectualism is viewed as activist these days, but like, surely you don't want to literally eat lead, right?

[chase-solidago]

Let’s check in and see how those rascally solarpunk kids are doing, surely they’ve learned by now that…..

Daily reminder: Leafy greens like kales uptake all those delicious heavy metals in urban soils like lead and cadmium.

Don’t eat sidewalk-crack kale.

Here's some cool references from the EPA on safe urban gardening:

REUSING POTENTIALLY CONTAMINATED LANDSCAPES: Growing Gardens in Urban Soils

Steps to Creating a Community Garden or Expand Urban Agriculture at a Brownfields Site

[zackstriker]

dnp should win an award for most emotionally complex podcast announcement ever

[silk-fleur]

October Mood: dusty pink velvet, cozy sweaters, ballerina buns, Carmilla by Le Fanu, rose tea, satin pajamas, vintage horror movies, dark rose lips, reading during rainy evenings, messy curls.

[strawberrypegasus]

Why am I getting recommended plural posts all of a sudden

[patron-saint-of-lesbeans]

“The flesh is the enemy and only leads to sin” wrong. The body is good and made for good; corruption from sin does not supersede the intended good nature of the body.

Your emotions after 9 PM, however -

[momosweetpeach]

Hotdog Shenanigans

[ID: a comic of Sans and Papyrus from Undertale. Sans appears with a red nose, and Papyrus accusatorily asks: "Sans, why are you wearing that?"

Sans: "wearing what?"

Papyrus: "That red nose!"

Sans, pointing at his face: "oh this? it's not a nose."

He pinches it, creating a honk, and starts pulling it out of his nose cavity, with a slide whistle effect. Revealing its full length, he holds it up and explains: "its a hotdog."

Papyrus is speechless, with a shocked and horrified expression. End ID.]

[funtergeist]

congrats on the divorce