Busy As A Bee On A Sugar Rush

Bridget is my name, art and writing is my game. Sometimes I go by Bee. (she/they)

[thebrigeedadraws]

Day 19: Betrayal

"oh mark, you'll love it here! i promise! here, for your friends. a gift. to convince them my giant friends want to meet them too. they'll love it too! please come back real soon.

please come back soon.

please...please come back..."

the marna whelan that mark once knew is so far gone he can't see her anymore. is there hope she'll return to her senses? he doesn't know. and unfortunately, he can't stay to find out. not when she doesn't understand what's happened to her. doesn't want to remember. doesn't want to leave the "safety" of her "home". he can't make that choice for her, and he can't afford to get trapped waiting for her to figure it out

i have no intentions of making marna a part of the spindrift crew (and not just because that'd make 3 characters whose names start with "mar" in one group) but her presence would linger, especially if/when the crew meets other stranded humans and have to warn them about her. just in case her giant handlers try to lure in more people to marna's home/garden. which is another factor into her "uselessness" when other humans cotton on to what's happening the second she mentions her name (if they weren't already suspicious of a beautiful woman in a jar in the middle of the forest under a lantern ala s1 ep 12 "the golden cage")

that said she will probably end up with a character design sheet, if only to see the differences between "golden cage" marna and "exodus" marna and "post series movie" marna

(yes there is hope for marna, of course there is, it just takes a lot to get there)

((yes of fucking course i have a post series movie in mind for all this, i told you i have a We Got Cancelled/Series Finale episode in the fucking can already just in case, why wouldn't i want to do a One Year Or Maybe Years Later movie as well?))

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for those unaware, i am Full On Some Land of the Giants Bullshit and this year's Gt July theme will be related to the LotG Series Bible project i have been picking away at for a proposed remake/reboot of the show

[thebrigeedadraws]

Day 19: Betrayal

"oh mark, you'll love it here! i promise! here, for your friends. a gift. to convince them my giant friends want to meet them too. they'll love it too! please come back real soon.

please come back soon.

please...please come back..."

the marna whelan that mark once knew is so far gone he can't see her anymore. is there hope she'll return to her senses? he doesn't know. and unfortunately, he can't stay to find out. not when she doesn't understand what's happened to her. doesn't want to remember. doesn't want to leave the "safety" of her "home". he can't make that choice for her, and he can't afford to get trapped waiting for her to figure it out

i have no intentions of making marna a part of the spindrift crew (and not just because that'd make 3 characters whose names start with "mar" in one group) but her presence would linger, especially if/when the crew meets other stranded humans and have to warn them about her. just in case her giant handlers try to lure in more people to marna's home/garden. which is another factor into her "uselessness" when other humans cotton on to what's happening the second she mentions her name (if they weren't already suspicious of a beautiful woman in a jar in the middle of the forest under a lantern ala s1 ep 12 "the golden cage")

that said she will probably end up with a character design sheet, if only to see the differences between "golden cage" marna and "exodus" marna and "post series movie" marna

(yes there is hope for marna, of course there is, it just takes a lot to get there)

((yes of fucking course i have a post series movie in mind for all this, i told you i have a We Got Cancelled/Series Finale episode in the fucking can already just in case, why wouldn't i want to do a One Year Or Maybe Years Later movie as well?))

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for those unaware, i am Full On Some Land of the Giants Bullshit and this year's Gt July theme will be related to the LotG Series Bible project i have been picking away at for a proposed remake/reboot of the show

[moonlightingcurse]

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PROJECT HAIL MARY | TAROT CARDS

[coelasquid]

The actors playing Majima and Saejima in the stage play posted a photo of themselves at the gym and I couldn’t help myself

[hollowedskin]

I got a 4 min long video of Kimchi dreaming today, so here's a clip

You get the whole walk cycle and the little sprint at the end.

Sometimes her sprints last for like 4 or 5 seconds and she can shoot herself off the couch or into a wall if she gets a grip with her back claws. If she does it next to a wall, her head smacking into it sounds like someone is trying to break into the house. She doesn't wake up.

Later in the dream she injured her paw and was limping, and earlier she caught something and ate it.

[hollowedskin]

[digitalmyyth]

everyone needs their own pet scientist

[snoobinn]

boy so smug he don’t know we sending him to tau ceti

[strawberriesandstarsart]

Dead Wife Club

[werepires]

What if the stars were dimming and we were both too tired and touch starved to care about boundaries ahaha just kidding unless

[briarlovesclara]

yes yes stratt is very scary and whatnot but i feel like we are overlooking how intimiadting grace made her too (largely in the book). because you expect the leader of the petrova task force to be cold and ruthless and scary, but then her... assistant? second officer? her guy walks in with her and he's very sweet, personable, and incredibly smart. and there's so much dissonance because you're talking with stratt about the biggest ethical decision of your lifetime and he's, like, annotating papers for her in the background. or you accuse her of being cold and calculated and this ray of sunshine just matter-of-factly goes "yep! she'll do whatever it takes!". and at the end of your meeting, probably the worst day of your life, the dictator of the world who has just calmly convinced you to do some atrocity or another stands up, gestures to him, and they casually walk out together chattering about something else like they've already forgotten you're there. that's so terrifying

[dilftwink]

thinking abt grace becoming fluent in eridian. thinking about eridian as an information-dense and layered language. thinking about the ability to create new words out of layered sounds and the way you can quickly describe a complicated relationship in eridian. grace practicing on his organ for speaking eridian, sounding out the tones for boss/leader and friend/companion and murderer until they blend into a single word.

and that’s how eva stratt gets her eridian name, which she will never know.

[jennicatzies]

You will be remembered as a hero

[cowardsexual]

(clearly insane) the thing about strattland in the book is that two things about book!grace are simultaneously true 1) stratt genuinely likes the guy and 2) he fundamentally doesn't see her as a person. he's goofy and clever and sassy and ridiculous and blunt in the way where she clearly enjoys his company, but he is also incurious about her interiority to the point of dehumanisation (comes with the avoidant tendencies).

"but biscia, isn't a man not treating a woman like a person a particularly loaded dynamic in terms of sexism, wouldn't this normally throw you off" you might say, and you'd be right. except the woman in question is eva stratt and eva stratt is fucking insane and has decided to sublimate her own humanity to turn her existence into the single-minded purpose of saving her species. so she keeps ryland grace around, because someone she cares about who also doesn't see her as a person makes for an excellent tool to consistently sandpaper off the edges of her own humanity. AND he acts as her personal science lapdog. it's genius. very efficient system. but watch out.

[bitty-bean]

The softest girl you’ve ever seen

[versaphile]

I can’t find the post but someone mentioned it and now:

The video diaries aren’t just Grace talking to Earth. They’re Grace talking to Stratt. Doing what he always did for her, explaining the science, breaking it down. It’s not clear how much of the rest of his life he remembers over the course of the movie (and beyond) but he absolutely remembers her, she is what he has left of Earth to hold on to up there.

It’s undeniable that she’s the one he’s addressing in the final entry, when he says goodbye. But I didn’t realize it was all of them. She is the “Grace friend” Rocky asks about. It puts her there on the ship with him, as long as he can communicate to her they’re still connected, he still has a sense of her presence with him. And how much more of a gut punch that makes his memory of the sedation, as he grew to trust her all over again through his flashbacks, as he felt closer and closer to someone who was light-years away. Only to remember that she betrayed him, that he failed her, that the friendship he was still relying on as he pieced himself back together was already gone, and even if he went back it could never be the same.

Insert the gifs here of Grace passing Rocky’s xenonite figurine of himself to Stratt, and the beanbag Earth to Rocky (which Stratt gave him as she told him to get to work), as his goodbyes to each of them, he’s so surrounded by them and passed between them and a conduit for them. I need to watch the movie again.

[its-timego]

I feel like in the movie so much of Grace and Stratt's strange relationship is a snowball effect of Grace's initial complete obliviousness to who/how powerful she actually is. She doesn't say "I'm the Director of the Petrova Task Force" when she comes to his school, she just says "I'm with the Petrova Task Force." And so at first she's just This Weird Lady Who Kidnapped Me, and then she kidnaps him again onto the boat and suddenly he's getting shoved in front of a room full of scientists and told to explain the astrophage breeding and oh no oh no now there's EXPECTATIONS, so she stops being This Weird Lady Who Kidnapped Me and is This Weird Lady Who Kidnapped Me And Much More Importantly Is The Only Familiar Presence In An Extremely Scary Situation. (Enter instinctively grabbing her hand when she comes to tell him to sit down and also whispering the Venus thing into her ear instead of talking into the microphone.)

Then however much later, oh she's dictator of the world you say? Whoopsies, too bad, I've already, to her perplexity, emotionally imprinted on the dictator of the world, I guess.

[filmopen]

not lovers not enemies but a secret third thing (she picked him because she knows he's brave even though he thinks he's a coward. it's her job is to be right about everything. the crew thinks they're sleeping together. he calls himself "her personal science lap dog". she's sending him on a one way trip to save the earth because she believes in him. it's her job to be right about everything. he tells her she's murdering him. she’s trying to stop herself from crying. she programs the ship to know how he likes his coffee. he's her best friend. she's his. she sedates him and sends him to his death. he can't forgive her but he understands. in the end she was right about everything)