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I am aromantic/asexual please do not come into my DM's with the intent of a relationship thx <3 Hi! I am a hermit who has far far too many fandoms and interests to possibly have a healthy state of mind! Yay! I am now making it the endless voids problem :3

[throesofthorns]

from now on i'll title all my own personal long posts about random non fandom related stuff with Holy Yap and #holy yapmaxxing so y'all can block it/skim past it if u want!

[its-timego]

Imagine the surreal insanity of being Irina Petrova and just hanging out having a hobby that you're very intense about and then you notice something weird and then all at once your name is one of the most uttered in history, by total accident. In the movie universe they describe her as a "radio telescope enthusiast" she does not even do this professionally. And suddenly everything is Petrova line, Petrova frequency, Petrova wavelength, Petrovascope, Petrova Task Force, Petrova problem. And you're like man. I have a day job.

[queenbruv]

one thing from project hail mary the book that i really wish theyd made clear in the movie is that when grace makes the decision to save rocky instead of go back to earth, he is prepared to die. like i understand why the movie had to cut a lot from the book for pacing and it wasnt exactly necessary to include the whole sub-subplot where rocky and grace figure out that there is nothing on erid that is safe for humans to consume, but it would have been worth a passing mention at some point, because grace goes back for rocky knowing that even if rocky takes him to erid, he will still die there, because there is nothing he can eat. the only reason he survives is by eating taumoeba, which is a solution rocky comes up with only after grace saves him and admits to him that he came to his rescue fully prepared to die.

the movie really breezes past rocky's rescue and the time skip, and it never explains why choosing to save rocky is so monumental in the first place: it answers the central question grace is grappling with for the whole movie. "who would i die for?" he doesn't just go back for rocky because it's the right thing to do. he sacrifices himself to save rocky. he is ready to die if it means rocky will live.

[noxneedstherapy]

i don’t think a lot of people understand how important it is to me that Ryland Grace, the main character from a popular book and movie, being commonly headcanoned as aroace with little to no romance involved. his relation to rocky as a companion and best friend is the relationship that people talk about the most. the power of friendship saved the day with no unnecessary b-plot romance. local man loved humanity and his alien best friend so much he saved both of their galaxies and planets. that’s so awesome, sometimes i’d never thought i’d see something like this

[grouphug33]

Eva and Grace’s dynamic is so important to me. They’re in love platonically. Like, that’s not a common dynamic. She put the way he likes his coffee into the ship’s computer. He follows her around like a puppy. In the book, she cracks jokes with him and him only. She cares about his opinion. He was the only one she asked about the coma gene, wondering if it was worth it.

He’s her best friend, and she doesn’t even know it. They’re so close, that in the book, people think they’re sleeping together, and poor Grace is so confused because he thought that was his platonic work wife, wdym people think we’re sleeping together, that’s my person that I crack jokes with and then she glares at me because they’re not funny.

She’s softer with him than anybody else and is only ever vulnerable around him. We see in the movie, he’s the only one who ever gets her to smile, and sometimes even laugh, and then she serenades all of them, but mainly him, and he stares at her with those big, shiny eyes so lovingly, and she points at him when she sings, “everything’s gonna be alright”, and then she gives him those eyes, so loving.

And then she’s trying to stop herself from crying when she’s sending him away because, against her will, he’s become her person, and somewhere along the way, she’s become his, and they will have forever ended this relationship on bad terms, and nothing can fix that.

It’s a platonic tragedy. It’s a platonic love story. This is something we don’t get often, or, like, ever, and it’s deep and it’s tragic and it’s sad.

But even after, Eva’s still taking care of him. Packing clothes she knew would bring him comfort. Programming the ship to know how he likes his coffee. And Grace is still watching out for her, speaking to her directly in his video logs, with that same lopsided smile he used to throw her way.

He uses Rocky’s sign for goodbye, and she uses it back, and how did this book and movie give us such a deep platonic friendship because, guys, this NEVER HAPPENS.

Eva and Grace, the platonic male/female friendship of all time.

[emptyingthespiral]

friendly reminder

grace is the same man who wrote a paper and called a section ‘why the Goldilocks zone is for idiots’ (AND HE WAS FUCKING RIGHT) and called someone, a very high remarked scholar in the science field, a ‘staggering waste of carbon’… and also wanted to give stratt a piece of his mind for shipping him off to space

plus he literally threw shit during the astrophage experiments and when he found out abt the taumoeba leak

also more for book people, Dr. Lokken, their first interaction… was just them bitching abt possible evolution or astrophage and whether or not its possible that it could be connect to earth. :)))

anyways. Yes, grace can be a sopping wet cat. But he was also in academia which means you gotta stand by what you believe is right. And then he got shunned from it and became a school teacher who dealt with rowdy kids, kids who start fucking puberty (that shit is scary and an emotional ride), and then he was the second in command of the petrova task force.

also, book banter between stratt and grace is fun

[cussundria-nerd-kneal]

Yeah Grace isn't a doormat nor is he really a pushover. The man - while having a long fuse - has a temper on him. He's a coward, yes, but he's also a stubborn little shit and mouthy on top of it. He'll do whatever it is you ask, but he's GOING to give you a piece of his mind while doing the Thing. (And boy, can it be scathing)

And, most importantly, he's extremely smart, resiliant, and ingenius with how resourceful he is.

People see he has a few weak moments and just water him down to silly, shaking wet cat of a man that can't do anything without Rocky. When no... no that man could talk circles around you and would probably outright insult your incompetency to your face. Grace likes kids, but he doesn't really like adults. He's an introvert but he will bite your head off if provoked. Grace only really gets cowed because Stratt literally had every major political leader in the world collectively sign off that SHE gets to call the shots for Everything now. She was the most powerful person in the room at all times. What she said goes, and Grace had to dance to her tune or get manhandled into doing what she wanted anyway by literal military officers.

And even then... Grace still bullied his way onto the team.

Let that sink in. Grace, squared up to the most powerful person in the world and demanded she put hin back on the team instead of be a disposable guinea pig. She tried to dismiss him and he said no. AND SHE RELENTED AND LET HIM STAY.

Grace is and has never been useless without Rocky, and nor is he a hapless wet cat of a man. He's a quirky good natured human. Him and Rocky mutually covered the other's weakness, and are a solid team because of it. Neither of them would have succeeded without the other-- that's why Rocky was out in space for as long as he was! And then Grace shows up and BAM- suddenly Rocky is going home in like, a few month's timeframe!

Like, its fun to joke he trips over himself because fandom fun, but even then, Grace isn't all that clumsy. When he gets too excited, he gets ahead of himself, or if he goes too long without sleep, his coordination deteriates. Like a normal person. Ryland Grace is just a normal fucking guy.

Can we PLEASE stop infatalizing him.

[pineappical]

some thoughts and ideas on mobility aids (and stuff) for grace :-)

[throesofthorns]

I crave more book canon ryland fanmedia with his burnt up arm 😔 give that man his book canon cane and arthritis and burnt up arms and maybe even a bit of vision degredation due to the ammonia to his eyes and long lasting side effects from the scurvy and berberi and extremely long term space exposure and!!! Make this man disabled come on people come on!!! How often do we get canonically disabled from the events of the story characters??? Make use of it for hecks sake.

[goffelmeansspork]

something i think isn't explored enough in the hail mary fandom is that while yes, humans are biologically a weird mess consisting of good enoughts that's just not efficient at all, the reason we're like is because of mutations that all happened because of a bunch of random environmental factors and our biology trying really hard to keep us alive in those situations.

and since that's kinda the natural way for biological things to form it wouldn't be weird if eridians also evolved like that. which means they're most likely also weirdly inefficient in a lot of things.

so i imagine after getting to erid, after hearing about how "stupid leaky space blobs badly designed" grace finds out eridians are in fact also, stupid pointy badly designed space rocks.

[mylo-space]

my friend and i were talking yesterday about how funny it is that the Iron Lung/BloodyMary fandoms make Simon some kind of eldritch eel creature, like, i fear y'all lost the plot of the movie a little bit. don't get me wrong, Eel Simon looks badass or whatever, but Simon resisted becoming part of the Eel so wholly that he became a tree and everyone still said, "yeah but what if the eel became part of him anyway make him a scary feesh". y'all that man is a Plant. the Plant Simon Truthers corner of the fandom canNOT be so small as just my friend and i, where are all my homies who love Plant Simon and his green eye and his arm made of vines. all my homies love Plant Simon who lays in the sun and drinks plenty of water and grows little flowers in his hand.

[tlirsgender]

As I am "severely the target audience for project hail mary" I have to point out. The thing about Grace's theories the scientific community hated so so so much re: life not necessarily having to be water/carbon based............ In Real Life Astrobiology this has already been pretty extensively discussed and largely discounted. So. Watching the scene where he's talking about like "the only original idea I ever had" I was kinda chewing on my lips like oooooh it's worse actually LMAO

Like. I need you all to understand. He's not getting laughed out of the room because it's this outlandish new idea, it's that in the theoretical biochemistry world this is *already outdated* and he's just like "NO LISTEN IT COULD STILL HAPPEN" & the scientific community is like can you shut the fuck up

[tlirsgender]

To be fair I would like to stress that it's *largely* discounted not Entirely 100% ruled out. There are some ongoing arguments about this afaik. But it really adds something to my enjoyment of this movie like oh buddy. It's so much worse than it sounds. Fully not a new idea he's pulling kind of a "here's how bernie can still win"

[tlirsgender]

Can somebody draw Grace kind of frantically pointing at a board that says "here's how silicon based life can still exist" please. For me

[justcakethanks]

I love this because it adds to his character.

It's Weir going "what's something embarassing he could be obsessed by" and also he spends the rest of the book introducing Grace to aliens who don't SEEM to have water but turns out they do. Just straight up torturing his creations lol.

[moomin-energy]

most unrealistic part of PHM is that there is no way that dr. ryland grace, PhD, would not have a flock of suitors following him everywhere he goes. that man is like catnip for academic shut-ins, alien enthusiasts, odd women, and gay people everywhere, as this site has clearly demonstrated

now I’m NOT saying he should have had a partner on earth or whatever because I do think it’s awesome that he’s (implicitly at least) aro/ace/both, but it would have been a great aside to see the cloud of yearning that follows him everywhere which he either has to deal with or has decided to be permanently ignorant of. like the comedy potential of objectively the most fuckable man any of these strange science geeks have ever met being like oh um :) thanks for the coffee and the flowers and stuff and you guys are all so nice to me it’s great to work with you all :)

the devastation he would leave in his wake. like some sort of benevolent aroace whale floating serenely through an ocean of allo heartbreak. feigning ignorance because can you guys lock in we have alien microbes to study

[child-of-ineffable-divorce]

I think the Book of Job minisode is everything that Good Omens should be.

- Religious satire/commentary (the absurdity regarding the bet with Job, the archangels being generally clueless, the deconstruction of how to-the-letter you need to be with following the laws of religion)

- Genuinely funny (Ty Tennant having like 3 minutes of screen time and out-fruiting his dad, Jemima and her pot and wanting to be turned into a salamander, Bildad the Shuhite and all that that entails)

- an emotional, character-driven core (Aziraphale learning the limits of his own morality, the discussion of the role good and evil play in events and how each is perceived when done by different parties, learning just how similar Aziraphale and Crowley are as it pertains to personal desires (which we as the viewer know, but chronologically it’s one of the first times they connect like they do)

And of course

- the undertones (Crowley tempting Aziraphale into eating which, with the way Aziraphale devours that meat, has zero chance of not being a metaphor for some kind of physical relationship; the nature of being just a little bit different than your peers, and how that affects your views of yourself; and the purely humanistic, just-this-once-everybody-lives kind of narrative that emphasizes the importance and power of familial and interpersonal relationships)

[c4ndyc41n]

thinking about a previously foul-mouthed grace having to completely overwrite his vocab once he started teaching

[hummingbirdsalt]

Ok so at some point on Erid, Grace expresses interest in learning about their fauna, or if they have anything like pets. Rocky describes several, and eventually agrees to arrange an interaction with one type commonly kept as a pet. Grace doesn't want to observe from afar, and requests some kind of xenonite ball/suit situation. Rocky insists on supervising closely, not wanting his fragile alien friend to have his shit wrecked by an overexcited creature.

Things end up going smoothly, and the animal is pretty cute! It looks like nothing Grace has ever seen before, and he's well aware it could obliterate his bones if it suddenly charged at him. But it's quite small, and it makes adorable noises.

All this is my excuse for Rocky to have his first experience hearing the absurd baby talk so many of us do with animals lol.

Grace's voice pitches up and down wildly, cooing and spouting incoherent words. He strokes the barrier between him and the creature, petting it as best he can, and for whatever reason, finds it necessary to say, "Who's a good little domesticated animal?? Yeeesss, it's you!"

When he finally says something to Rocky in his normal voice, all Rocky can say is, "What the fuck was that, question??"

[hiveswap]

Maybe im not a very romantic person but i never liked stories where people uproot their entire lives for love. What happens if you break up. Youre gonna break up eventually whats gonna happen then

[star-h0pper]

it's really really funny to me that eva stratt's list of crimes canonically includes piracy. do movie only fans know they tried to take her to court for pirating everything ever published and she ron swanson'd her way out of it. i need you all to know this.