I can and I will

21 || she/her || ✞

[katrandomwrites]

Grace finds a phone tucked in a random maintenance hatch a couple years into the Erid trip and starts laughing so hard he's crying because the pictures and videos folder is full of Vat shenanigans.

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Shapiro drowning in Dubois’ EVA suit. Dubois with Shapiro's suit taped to him and her helmet balanced on top of his head

Grace looking at the camera confused while the core time circle around him like the one girl surrounded by five guys meme

Stratt reclined on a couch looking demure with a coffee mug and using Grace's legs as a lap board for her tablet. Grace is dead asleep, obviously snoring with his mouth wide open and covered in reports. His glasses are on Stratt's head.

Carl walking by the camera with Grace thrown over his shoulder. Grace is visibly pleased and yapping.

Illyukhina walking by the camera with Grace thrown over her shoulder. Grace looks vaguely ill.

Yao passionately doing karaoke with each of the core staff members.

Lamai asleep on a prototype coma bed.

Steve Hatch maternity shoot with the Beatles.

Grace and Dimtri using a centrifuge to make butter.

Grace and Dimitri getting yelled at by Lokken for using a centrifuge to make butter.

Dubois carrying Grace and Shapiro under each arm to the cafeteria. They all are talking like this is a normal occurrence.

Yao hanging upside down from a simulator that glitched with a straight face while Illyukhina is crying laughing on the floor below him.

Compilation video of the world's greatest minds dropping tools, tripping, and running into the glass walls.

Videos of the astronauts defeatedly drifting away from the mock ship in the buoyancy tank after losing their grip. The others are dramatically reaching out for them.

Redell teaching the Russians about New Zealand bombing dives in the training pools.

Shapiro, in formal wear, standing next to a slideshow titled “How I Cloned and Replaced the World Leaders”

Dubois - “My Alien Seduction Tactics"

Grace - “Middle Schooler vs Scientist”

Dimitri - “Using the Incorrect Equipment for Correct Results"

Hatch - “Yoko Ono: First Contact?”

Lamai - “How Not to Use a Coma Robot”

Lokken - “Grace is an Idiot”

Leclerc - “The Ice Age and You”

Stratt - “Things I DO NOT Have Time For”

Carl - “Securing a Home Depot for Idiots”

Yao - “Worst Times to Make a Joke”

Illyukhina - "Benefits of Vodka in Space”

Reddell - “What I Did in 1989”

Illyukhina passed out on top of Dmitri (also passed out) surrounded by a minefield of bottles none of which are for alcohol.

Leclerc looking upset and holding a penguin plushy.

Horrible mishmash of memes from all over the world plus some homemade memes of various quality.

[arthdoesart]

my preciouss

[raceyoutomars]

one of the many things that get me about the scene where grace is held down and drugged is the face that Stratt makes after she says ‘yeah, he’s running’.

she kind of looks down and nods to herself, like yeah, he’s running. Of course he’s running.

She knows him too well to have believed fully that he wouldn’t run, but some selfish part of her still hoped that he would go willingly. That he wouldn’t make this harder. That she wouldn’t need to have his blood on her hands.

But that part of her died screaming along with the part of Grace that still believed she would save him. Fate made a fool of them both.

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Okay but imagine being the team of Eridian scientists tasked with keeping Erid's Only Human alive for as long as possible while the whole planet's environment is literally trying to kill him. And then Rocky shows up and is like:

“Grace says he would like half of dome to be water.”

“Oh, is necessary for humans to have large amounts of water question?”

Small Eridian equivalent of a sigh. “No. Not needed for life. In fact Grace will die if he falls in water and does not get out.”

“Tell him we give him water in containers that won't kill him. Lots lots lots of water on Erid for Grace to drink.”

“No. Grace say he want water on ground. Also want it with excess sodium chloride compound so it will be unhealthy for drink.”

“WHY QUESTION???”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

To celebrate Erid getting their sun back on track, Grace asks for some alcohol. There's a small amount left from the Hail Mary and Rocky offers to take it to the science Eridians to see if they can synthesise more.

“Grace want this liquid for celebration.”

“Of course.” They scan it. “You have wrong liquid. This contain compounds which are poisonous for humans.”

“Yes yes yes. Grace say humans like feeling of being slightly poisoned.”

“WHY QUESTION?????”

[cheeseanonioncrisps]

Grace is like one of those extremely finicky tropical fish who instantly die if not kept in extremely specific conditions.

Only here the fish can talk and keeps asking you to make it vodka.

[rathayibacter]

you spill dr pepper on the concrete and a single perfect rose pushes up out of a crack

[uhh-kt]

Project Hail Mary moodboards part: 1, 2, 3 (Vatlings Edition)

Lokken

Dimitri Komorov

Lamai

Francois Leclerc

Robert Redell

Steve Hatch

[uhh-kt]

Project Hail Mary moodboards part: 1, 2 (Flight Crew Editon), 3

Yáo Li-Jie

Olesya Ilyukhina

Martin DuBois

Annie Shapiro

[uhh-kt]

Project Hail Mary moodboards part: 1, 2, 3

Eva Stratt

Ryland Grace

Carl

[mcchickentendies]

Out of context screenshots of my post-canon Eva-centric fic while im stuck on writing the next part (vatling edition)

You can't convince me that she did not form any real connections on the vat, Eva humanity's-greatest-lover-girl Stratt formed real and genuine bonds with her crew!!!

[mcchickentendies]

I didn't mean to bother you // You don't bother me

(friends? - aubory bugg)

We can meet again somewhere, somewhere far away from here

(the bells - jane kristiansen)

Three days huh? // So what are you going to do for the next twenty years?

(...what are we - lizzy mcalpine)

This may seem like me betraying you, but it is actually me believing in you

(birdsong - kina grannis)

At least I never have to hear you say I told you so, even though you were right

(over the ocean call (andrew)- lizzy mcalpine // we go way back - noah kahan)

[galacticsabc]

Mom said it's my turn to make a shitty Eridian OC.

Can you imagine Grace landing on Erid, starving and malnourished, only to see this guy?

[adsurgitvagus]

Dawg look at my fucking eridians we're failing Mr. Grace's class

Shitty eridians ensemble: Blair and Skittle (@treesaplingtwig), Elvis (@lewadny), Coffy Table (@vampirejuno), Dent (@idiotjae), Tire (@kaiiaii), Hardtack (@pineappical) + bonus round of HUH and Big Steppa

[thatmothra]

“Do you remember telling me you’d found the sweetest thing of all?

You said one day of this was worth dying for.

So be thankful you knew him at all.

But it’s no more.”

- See the Sun by Dido

[mcchickentendies]

Vatlings p3 (flight crew edition):

- pranks are common on board the ship, and though Eva is rarely targeted (for the fear she strikes in everyone's hearts) that does not stop the walking mischief that is Olesya Ilyukhina

- specifically, she once convinced Grace to distract her for a while but did not tell him what for

- that night when she washed her hair, she walked out the shower a pale dusty pink in lieu of her strawberry blonde

- the first person to see her that morning was, of course, Grace, who could do nothing but stammer at the new look

- however, what Grace did not know was that Ilyukhina also managed to sneak dye in his own conditioner, only she squeezed more of the pigment in his bottle, and for nearly two weeks longer than Stratt sported a brighter rose pink

- (she was much more poker faced than him, and Grace didn't realize his hair was any different until Yáo approached asking about the new look)

- they waited months after the dye faded to get her back; after a particularly long pr tour around Russia, Ilyukhina returned on the ship jetlagged and promptly passed out in the break room, giving Grace and the rest of the flight crew (who Eva paid off to do her dirty work) enough time to bleach and dye the ends a much darker shade of pink (jokes on them, Ilyukhina is never opposed to a free dye job and she proudly sported it around)

- at one point, Ilyukhina made a joke about getting matching tattoos, but the idea never faded, and each meeting she ends up bringing up the topic

- Grace was initially opposed (he may be fine with vaccines or drawing blood, but the thought of a bunch of tiny needles injecting ink in his skin freaked him), while Stratt just shook her head

- Yáo was shockingly not opposed, who actually had a few of his own (and was forced to give a tour of them), Shapiro always wanted to get a tattoo, and if she was on board, then so was DuBois

- of course, Ilyukhina pulled the dying woman card, cmon she deserved to get her make a wish dream come true, and after a while the pair acceded

- they agree on a spiral sun design, and Eva suggested getting it on their wrists (so every time she makes a decision, she'd remember what they're all fighting for)

- they get it done together after a UNGA meeting, of which Ilyukhina vlogged the whole time, and posted an image of their wrists in a circle

- the image goes viral and is part of the reason Grace's students find out he's officially part of the task force

- ROSCOSMOS is forced to remove their unofficial rule barring tattoos after that post

- despite the official Hail Mary logo, the sun ends up becoming a major symbol for the Petrova Task Force

- adding onto my sea legs hc, once when Grace was unable to attend a pr event for the flight crew, Eva had to lean on Annie and Olesya for support, and a photo was taken of both astronauts holding onto either of the woman's hands as she walked down a flight of stairs in heels

- which also went viral; while people joke about Ryland being Eva's lapdog, Annie and Olesya are joked as being her sunlit knights in spacesuits

- Olesya learnt of party buses from Martin and Annie, and gained a new goal of forcing the crew to do drunk karaoke on a speeding (within limits) bus

- Eva, after weeks of requests, finally relents only because her birthday was coming up

- she of course was dragged along with the rest of the crew, but did not participate in the singing

- despite the naysayers, Yáo can be a good singer when he's not three drinks in and is singing in Mandarin, Olesya takes advantage of that fact and busts out perfect Mandarin in her duet with Yáo

- they do a poor rendition of Happy Birthday in Russian (Stratt does join for this alone, her accent far better than the rest, but she blends her voice to avoid being heard, despite that Olesya heard her and if she weren't so tipsy would've filmed it)

[mcchickentendies]

Eva Stratt being a history major means so much to me as someone in the same field because of course she makes tough decisions of course she can nuke Antarctica and pave the Sahara because she understands humanity so deeply she knows how quickly and easily we turn to violence and greed in the wake of disasters, how governments exist not to serve but to hoard and inflate their own pockets, but despite our flaws she also understands the love and compassion and kindness and care and devotion inherent in all of humanity so she makes the tough decisions that no one else is brave enough to make

To know the past is to see the future and to live today with that knowledge is what fuels her to prevent those cycles from repeating even at the cost of her own humanity

[the-tardis-is-blue]

there must be some crazy weird and interesting linguistic phenomena happening on stratt's vat. group of almost entirely academics and soldiers from all around the world with very little in-person outside contact unless you're a pilot or basically just stratt and grace? stuck on a boat for FIVE YEARS? somebody who understands languages more than i do please get on this

[evastrattmyangel]

oh the studies that could be done!! riveting stuff!

[riverssongs13-deactivated202606]

as someone who spent years in a university where people really do be speaking different languages (apart from the English instructions/classes), there comes a point where even when presented with a garbled sentence mixed with four different languages, as long as you understand the basic intent of the conversation, it will make sense in your brain without the explicit need for translation

i reckon there'd be a few terms that will be adapted universally, Astrophage for one (its the coined term, and it'd be a bit difficult to provide transliteration in other languages), spin drive (this will be said with a vague Russian accent by anyone, regardless of nationality), Hail Mary (because... well it's name of the project, innit).. among other things

given that Stratt's Vat is essentially a small town of scientist and other officers, a form of communication particular to the Vat will be developed (not enough uniqueness or variation to classify it as a language, but definitely a way of speaking). a kind of "shorthand" rules that you'd apply to your own language

not entirely unlike the way tumblr users have a tumblr "accent", something that can be recognised outside of this hellsite. we don't have rigid "rules" that we follow to the letter once we become users of this site, but eventually we adapt this way of speaking.

tl;dr everyone will have a Stratt Vat accent even after the project is done

[greykolla-art]

I just suddenly remembered this song by The Antlers, connected it with THEM, and I’ve been on the verge of tears since.❤️‍🩹