#merc.txt

[eats-all-your-shoes]

ryland grace: un-suiciding a suicide mission

mark watney: suiciding a non-suicide mission

[windingkind]

maybe your life is falling apart but mine is heading exactly where it’s meant to go and society is catching up

[holographiccatpun]

i’m just sayin how many tuxedo kittens do you think get named edwin post show

like just. ik the king wouldn’t have that kind of power over his subjects, i don’t think he names them all,, but someone asks for royal input and he offers edwin kinda offhandedly in the mix and before he knows it there’s more tux edwins in townsend than oreos.

[lityersesly]

lester/apollo owns my entire heart and soul that is all

[mercenaryscum]

what lil shit got the couch meme circulating again

[eats-all-your-shoes]

thinking about graces memory loss.. do you think he ever remembered something that he did and just went like “i would not do that. why did i say that. that’s not me.” because i think losing ALL of your memory of your life and then having to rebuild it from scratch would change you as a person and he is absolutely not the same person as he was before

like in ch 24 when he remembers how he got there and he’s like “oh. i’m a coward. i wasn’t scared for earth, i was scared for myself. i’m a coward.” does he view old him as a different person. does he hate how he used to be.

and maybe there’s things he will never remember. does he know that his moms voice? can he remember all his students names? what his address was? did he read the wikipedia page on own life and actually learn something? are there are things that are permanently blurry and vague and unknown? is there a show that he used to love and now it irritates him to think about?

ryland died the moment he was drugged and grace was born on the hail mary. can anyone hear me

[eats-all-your-shoes]

adrian being so gender ambiguous and not having a fandom consensus leads to situations where i’m having a conversation and using she/her and the other person is using he/him and i barely notice. and i love it. adrian you trans icon

[eats-all-your-shoes]

in universe after mark gets home he obviously does interviews about being on mars, and like, this logs are public domain by this point, but unlike us it isn’t Nicely Formatted Book With Breaks For NASA POV it’s Long Ass Science Document With a Lot of Useless Rambling

and like yeah theres a LOT of youtubers and documentaries and he’ll even movies about it, but that takes TIME! so for a while your average guy doesn’t really know what mark was doing on mars apart from what NASA was saying for i’m imagining a lot of interviews going like this:

Mark: I mean i made 600L of water so that was one thing i didn’t have to worry about too badly

Interviewer: wow that’s incredible- what do you mean by “make water”? how did you do that?

Mark: oh NASA hated this one: i burned hydrazine in the Hab and mixed it with oxygen!

Interviewer: … i’m sorry? How did you not blow yourself up??

Mark: easy, i did blow myself up.