#it's realistic

[rayrayhaywire]

Okay I'm convinced. Project Hail Mary is a goated movie

[thefriendoforatioisdead]

The loyal pin just revealed to me a dynamic I love and want to see more : sassy lesbian has beef with a man who doesn't even know she exists

[bklynmusicnerd]

AI sabotaging the outcomes of people of color already? Yeah that sounds about right

[vryfmi]

every single l&co character is basically a different taste of "sole survivor" trope

Lucy is the most obvious and most "by the book" example of said trope. it was sheer luck that saved her, and now she's not only heavily traumatised by witnessing death of all her childhood friends in that mill but also suffered from townsfolk's judgemental looks at her. "did she chicken out and left others to die?", "if she helped, would have others make it to the morning?" that's the hardest part in being the last survivor - others will judge you for the fact that you are alive. no wonder Lucy had left her hometown.

Lockwood is... well... how do i put well an orphan. but he's also the last survivor of his parents' idea. yes, he didn't know it till the very end, but he's been unconsciously following and improving upon it. if Celia and Donald were killed because of their discovery, and Jessica died due to her inexperience with ghosts, Lockwood had overcome all of it. he completed his parents' work and neutralized many sources to save even more people.

George, on the other hand, isn't that much of a survivor in the literal sense, unless you look at it from very specific angle. George was eager for knowledge, he was asking questions, was trying to get to bottom of the problem ever since he worked for Fittes. but times and times again he was punished, restrained. where others had given up in their researches, embraced propaganda, George stayed true to himself. yes, he was fired in order to cut him off the access to said knowledge, but he never gave up. also worthy of note: he was the only one who survived looking into bone mirror.

out of team of four Holly was the sole survival. that traumatic experience made her leave agent path but stay in the agency, now working in office of Rotwell. Holly has great fear of poltergeists, and that fear isn't gone, on contrary, after events in aickmere's store, it might have gotten worse. she probably blames herself in both cases, too.

Kipps is a miraculous survival of Fittes regime. not only did he work so close to them, but constantly was going against inner agency's plans. yet somehow Kipps wasn't all that affected. he quit and wasn't chased after or anything. maybe Fittes dismissed him as a threat and just didn't want to waste any resources on him. another point to make is that Kipps lived to his twenties. not many children in that universe make it that far.

Flo however is at most interesting example, because her trauma had broken her. no fantastic overcoming the harshness, no trying to make things work. just compare her livelihood to others: she developed severe claustrophobia (where she barely can stay in-doors and have a roof over her head) after what she went through—death of her colleagues and nightmare of protecting herself with improvised weapon till morning. Flo left her agent career for good and cut ties with everything from her life prior the event. she works alone and far from people, barely resembling a person herself. it's tragic really

even skull! last of Bickerstaff's followers who couldn't pass on after what they've discovered during theirs's life time. all of them were obsessed with death, yet, scared of it immensely. mirror had turned those people into restless souls not ready to leave living plane, but only skull, last remaining witness of device's creation, came in terms with death and moved on by himself, without his source being destroyed or thrown into fire oh wait a second

[lesbibaku]

Queer friends to lovers is actually a superior trope. When they know eachother the best it's like they're communicating telepatically, when they have many inside jokes that only they can understand. The slowest slow burn, the angst and the jealousy. Even better when they don't understand why they're getting jealous at first and are still in denial about it.

The "what if it's just platonic and I'm making up stuff?". YEARNING AND LONGING. Dreaming about one another, or looking at eachothers' lips, or just starting at one another while trying to pretend that they're not hopelessly in love with them. The PINING. The " what if they're straight?".

Friends to lovers is just superior especially when it's queer.

[malsopportoicriticidarte]

Exams are weird because it feels like they represent an ultimate goal, but they never actually do. When you study for an exam and you go crazy because you couldn’t (or just straight up didn’t, often for not-so-valid reasons) organize your time better, all you think about is that you have to pass that test. When you finally do it, you feel absolutley ecstatic for some blissful moments, and that’s it. I mean, of course it’s a great satisfaction, but it’s done in such a small amount of time, while you studied and stressed over it for so long... it’s weird. Now you just have to go on with your life, and probably prepare another exam. And that’s why, when you are studying like crazy for something and you suddently want to go for a walk or to drink something with a friend, you should. You life shouldn’t be just a continuous loop of studying and doing exams, try to take your time and enjoy the moments in between.

[asks-and-memes]

My dad thinks that the plot would be better and simpler if there was no Annleigh, Clark, or Reese. Thoughts?