#book!grace

[a-real-hum4n]

shout out to book!grace, who blasted himself with 29 atmospheres worth of 210c (410f) degrees hot straight ammonia, in the hopes that rocky would survive. who carried rockys whole 168kg (370lbg) down ladders in a make-shift carrier. who turned around for rocky, fully expecting to die of starvation. sigh. who was just a little bit more of a bitch than movie!grace (whats that one quote where hes like "if i had a nickel for every parent i wanted to slap during my career, id have enough to fill a sock and hit them with that instead"). who was purposefully given memory loss, so he wouldnt sabotage the mission (something he threatned many times). who wasnt "friendless", like he was depicted in the movie. i miss you so bad. you were everything.

[unauthorisedeva]

SaturnIsAtItAgain

@saturn-is-sick i love u

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[neiljostensracooninstinct]

I don't know if this has already been discussed but the speed with which (Book!)Grace understood Rocky is incredible!

For Grace to learn and understand Eridian so quickly, he HAS to have absolute pitch.

Because yes, a trained ear can differentiate chords, progressions, octaves and so on, but Grace NEVER mentioned having a music background: he always talkes about the notes from a very scientific point of view.

Of course the situation needed Grace to learn quickly to save the planet, so it was kind of urgent. And yes, at first he had his program thingy telling him which notes Rocky made, but no way he learned to recognise them so quickly without an absolute pitch.

[flamestormed]

the Big Worrying Problem with having no bandwidth to read the phm book as yet is accidentally writing grace OOC which i get so darn embarrassed about. case in point, i did not expect weir to explicitly state that dr. ryland grace (who screams fluff! and domesticity! and meagre teaching salary!) hates cooking so much so that he'll eat out every morning in S.F.,

and confidently wrote that he genuinely enjoyed cooking back on earth. like an idiot.

GAWD do i hate the feeling of writing characters OOC and i hope i don't get some Big Scare later that'd affect key conversations/actions in the storyline of my fic lol.

(i'm also embarrassed that i've yet to read the book but i'm running on so little sleep and this → ← close to getting two coffees at once like our dear eva stratt that i still haven't given my copy a read yet.)

but anyways, i fix:

*from chapter 4 of if you never eat, you'll never grow! ⟡ AO3 | MASTERLIST ⟡

[theguywholikedmusicals42]

@a-side-of-fordthur

Well FIRST off this bit from the chapter i just started

There's THIS,

And then there's THIS,

In addition to the whole Emperor Comatose AND great philosopher Pendulus

They're VERY each other coded. Just imagine:

The Hail Mary picks up a strange signal as it passes by an unassuming planet. Some kind of request? Grace accepts it because he's curious and it's not like this would've happened before. Moments later, a disheveled looking British man wearing an old bathrobe coated in dried mud.

[intrusodamente]

I have an proposition, instead of book!grace and movie!grace, let's call them paper_Grace and oLED_Grace

I paused my amphibia fanfic to make this drawing so you better give me some hearts >:[

[theguywholikedmusicals42]

So I've been reading Project Hail Mary. And like. What's the overlap between people who've read Project Hail Mary and people who've read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy? Because I feel like Arthur Dent x Book!Grace is being seriously slept on.

That being said, if you're reading this and you've read the aforementioned books, PLEASE God DM me so I can pitch my crazy crossover ship to you