Autism Powers

Yes I am autistic. I'm also just stupid, don't blame the autism blame me.

[makrustic]

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[halloweenreaper]

I firmly believe Rocky would have a conniption seeing the SM-13 even before it was initially sent down. Just from an engineering standpoint. Like, "What do you mean you have to weld and unwell every time?! Make a hatch! Put a door on it! You added a window, surly you can figure out how to add a door!" Or, "You made a research vessel (which is technically what the ship is) with no way to grab anything??? Even Rocky’s ship has a grab arm and that was just for convenience!" "Look at this thing! Does it look like a battering ram to you?! Are you trying to wreck it on purpose?!" "Sure, lets leave all the wiring and important piping uncovered so it can be easily hit and damaged. Great idea."

Look me in the eye and tell me Rocky, a world class genius engineer, wouldn't see the SM-13 and think it was an abominable piece of garbage.

[masao-micchi]

side effect of watching james cameron’s avatar and sharing one very smart brain cell.

no touching happened that day bahaHAHA

My other PHM art here

[insaneandlovingit]

You would not believe your ass

If ten million largemouth bass.

[problemnyatic]

desired you while the women flee

[paper--machete]

it bothers me that you often don't really hear about people having a "favorite album" the way they might have a favorite movie or favorite video game

[paper--machete]

fuck it. reblog this and tell me in the tags what your favorite album is

[penumbraphantasm]

okay

[fafameow]

the strange greeting is really adorable so i tried to recreate it in pixels

[edmundspace]

Little chocolat

[kit-katct]

I made a stupid thing, please enjoy.

[sketchupnfries]

Since Rocky and Grace have access to a ton of video games on the Hail Mary, I figured eventually they'd play Just Dance during their trip to Erid

[formerlyluckymanticore]

Reblog if you will never. Ever. Use AI in your writing.

[kaijufluffs]

She's being so big and brave.

[trickstertime]

I'm re-listening to Project Hail Mary, and I cannot get that tumblr post out of my head where its talking about the whole thing from Rocky's point of view. You know the one, it's like 'you go into space with your most advanced tech, spend 50 years alone, and then one day a dog in a trashcan shows up. It can't do 2+2 but it knows how the universe started'

Like, this mindset makes everything that happens in the story absolutely hilarious, in particular the whole first interactions bit.

From Rocky's point of view he sent a simple model of the local star systems to indicate where he was from hoping these new creatures would indicate where they were from. He put it in a protective cylinder and sent it over to the ship. Something enormous climbs out of a hole in the side of their ship... Wait, did one of the creature go OUTSIDE its ship in a a god damn plastic bag just to catch it??? I better aim it at where it came out of so it doesn't do that again. Then when the cylinder gets back, the creatures have indicated where they're from by attaching a lollypop stick with chewinggum to the model... which has mostly fallen off in the heat. Also they put distilled fire in the cylinder???

The creature then climbs outside its ship, again, chiseles a lump off its ship with a hammer and throws it at you so it can send you a sample so you can join to it and... its made of thin sheets of soft lead???

Then on finally talking to this large creature you realise it's incredibly delicate like a jellyfish, so god damn stupid, has essentially no memory, and cant do basic maths. And you're supposed to be saving your entire civilisation with this squishy idiot. But then a while later it turns around and explains relativistic time dilation and background radiation like its something you should have figured out already.

Ive heard multiple people describing Rocky seeing Grace like the equivalent of a dog, but he's really more like a three and a half year old blind jellyfish. Its living in a frozen semi-vacuum of highly explosive gas, can't remember anything, needs to nap constantly or it becomes noticeably more stupid, and it's here to save the world.

Its just such a delightful addition to hold in the back of your mind when reading the book.

[dramaticvictorianfemme]

no, you don’t understand. I am obsessed with these.

[ozempicofficial]

[theofficialvincenzo]

I cannot express enough just how badly I want some kind of epilogue to PHM where the Humans and Eridians are fully in contact with one another: sharing their cultures, teaching each other their sciences, travelling to each others systems for diplomatic & research purposes as well as offering each other whatever help they can while their populations regrow.

I wanna see the unbridled joy on the faces of human schoolchildren who get to meet the first Eridians who come to visit Earth. I wanna see the Eridian ambassadors insisting to the humans that they get a chance to meet their schoolchildren, because they themselves were schoolchildren when a human teacher came to their planet and inspired them to become astronauts.

I wanna see humans getting permission to set up a small embassy somewhere in the Eridani System, possibly even giving a very elderly Grace a chance to see humans again. I wanna see how surprised the humans are that he doesnt want to come home to Earth, but also see them quickly realize just how amazing it is to live, study and teach on an alien world.

I wanna see Humans & Eridians joining forces and creating a massive space program with the goal of inoculating every star in the Milky Way that has been infected with the astrophage. I want to hear them say "the fact that there are three Systems with life this close to each other implies that the whole Galaxy is likely teeming with life- probably even whole civilizations. And none of them deserve to go through what we went through. Screw any ideas about a 'prime directive.' We CAN help, and we WILL help. Lets spend the next 1000 generations saving the galaxy, together."

I wanna see more of this world, generations after these two planets were saved by a pair of alien scientists who became best friends, and who each risked everything to make absolutely certain that the other's world was just as safe as their own. I wanna see these two great peoples coming out of this horrible generational trauma, coming together to celebrate the life that they all get to live with their newly-found cosmic neighbors.

This world makes me feel so hopeful and excited to see what these people can do with each other aaaaa

[eisenkrahe]

[flipocrite]

not she berry or he berry but no berry

and that is berry good

[d3mqn]

[thememedaddy]