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huanggugugu

(not an actual tutorial but) this is how I draw rocky (based on book description)

racistspiderman

More women

sevey6

Thank god they decided to make more

somesaypoetry

Wow

Dolly Parton has really been hard at work

cumbacon

But In doing so…she created her biggest enemy…Jolene

ichikun

aknowwhatyouare

When he found out about what happened to Grace, Rocky was reasonably horrified and livid. On their way to Erid, Grace hears the most beautiful tune he cannot seem to understand. It doesn’t sound Eridian, it just sounds like regular music. He sees Rocky on his laptop messing with Garage Band. Grace asks what’s up, very amused. Rocky tells him,

Rocky made Stratt diss track.

sufferingink

eridians make a new probe like the Beatles and its the second time ever humans have made contact with intelligent alien lifeforms and the only thing on it is a diss track for a woman thats probably long dead

aknowwhatyouare

Rocky the Rockstar’s first single, Stratt You’re Dead (remastered) and he’s right.

aknowwhatyouare

Lyrics:

Eva Stratt, I wouldn’t let her touch the thermostat

She’s way too cold and I don’t care if she’s old

You don’t just stab people in the back and put them in a sack

Hope your life is hell, your house ablaze, I’ll be over here saying Amaze! Amaze! Amaze!

Eva Stratt— you’re so good with history you better write it down, I’m your number one enemy

He might’ve forgotten, but I’ll remember forever that your heart is rotten

You better look behind, run don’t jog, and by the way you don’t even have a dog

You’re to blame for Grace displacement, sleep with one eye open cause I’ll be watching you, statement

Stay the fuck away from Grace or I’ll fucking send you to space

If he makes a single frown, I will hunt you down

He already fucking told you he’s not an astronaut, for that I’ll meet you at a Denny’s parking lot

[redacted for legal reasons]

sharkfiinn

prism is a little overwhelmed

suspiciouspurplelemon

my first and probably only PHM fanart

teaboot

Can I be honest with yall I don't want to hear SHIT against cishets at pride this year

teaboot

"But it's not FOR them!!!" The biggest military power in the world belongs to a christofascist nation overseen by a felon found guilty of 34 federal crimes and has greenlit a gestapo with more direct funding than the entire military of Canada for the purpose of ethnic cleansing. Let Hetero Jessica throw some biodegradable glitter at a municipal parade

sleepdeprivedcinnamonbun

Can we hc that Stratt set up a kahoot quiz for the phm crew about the mission specifics and stuff at least once (and Grace either suggested it or completely demolished the others)

astriiformes

Incredibly charming to think about the translation assumptions around profanity being made by Dr. Ryland "what the fudging fudger" Grace and Rocky "everyone agrees he is swearing up a storm" the Eridian. What a beautiful duo to make first contact.

astriiformes

I know the choice to change Stratt from Dutch to German in the film was largely a result of casting Sandra Hüller (who was perfect in the role, so like, I get it) but honestly the more I roll it around in my head the more the politics of it compel me.

Thinking about Stratt--who has such a unique blend of optimism and cynicism, willing to place Earth's hopes in an interstellar mission but approaching making it happen in such a ruthlessly pragmatic way--growing up as a kid in East Germany and living through die Wende and the collapse of the Eastern Bloc is just really politically fascinating. Partly because Stratt herself is so politically fascinating, but there's also something else there, something that speaks to growing up watching protests and upheaval on one side of the Iron Curtain, only to end up working for the extremely international European Space Agency as an adult (and then transition into leading the even more international Petrova Taskforce). In that context, movie!Stratt has seen both human conflict and human cooperation in spades, and I could see it hugely informing her perspective on the Hail Mary mission.

In any case. I'm still chewing on the implications of all this, but like I said, it does really compel me.

punkitt-is-here

quirky fourth wall breaking character but theyre just fucking. wrong about the medium theyre in. they keep making references to cinematic techniques and directorial styles and the other fourth wall breaking character is like "dumbass we're in a fucking comic book" and they are in a video game.

totally-cis-offical

Well currently they’re in a tumblr post but I see your point

moon-of-curses

we're actually in a youtube video if this turns out to be funny enough

elinex

i changed my mind about my adrian design actually i think they should be like one of those glass frogs so grace gets to experience what every eridian does whenever he’s around

goldenroseeon

Thoughts About Eridian Language and How Human Concepts Fit

(Or, just me rambling about how human words would probably work in the Eridian language as a tone-deaf person who knows close to nothing about music)

So! Eridians don't have a lot of words for some things since they don't know the concepts of it, like radiation and relativity. That's a given for most languages, not having words that are in others.

Still, with the influx of new words coming in from Grace, how would they express these concepts?

Now, there's always the option of layering different words relating to the meaning of the word overtop each other, for example, "relativity" layering "time", "speed", "space", things like that into a little melody.

However! I think it would be more fun if they just straight up used the words instead of trying to translate them. Loan words!!

Now, Eridian voice boxes are a lot more complex than human voice boxes, so the words will sound different. Also, the fact, that they don't exactly have consonants and instead only speak in tones, but the thing about loan words is that they often have sounds that aren't native to the language adopting them.

I think that human loan words will often sound "simpler" than native Eridian words, seeing as they will only be one note for each syllable (and the fact that they have distinct syllables rather than the Eridian's smooth, legato notes!)

Granted, a lot of the words will be in the D2-C#5 range (perhaps? I don't know Gosling's speaking range but this is considered his singing range, and I think they're similar, so I'll just use this range for now) as they are mainly hearing it from Grace.

So, for a word like "relativity", the notes would likely start low ("re"), then jump high ("la", as it is a stressed syllable and pitch tends to move with stress), higher still ("ti", as "i" is a higher sound in general), then slightly lower ("vi", not stressed, so lower), then lower still ("ty").

The simpler tones also separate native Eridian words and human words, which I appreciate a lot.

Transcribing human speech, it's fun!

Of course, there's always the idea of using MIDI sounds (or, that illusion that makes it sound like pianos are speaking), but, I don't know, I find the use of simpler notes and transcribed speech fun.

ecobanshee

A fun complex to give Grace would be the realization that Rocky grew so attached to him not because of any inherent qualities he had (aside from being able to help with the astrophage issue) but because he spent five decades in self-imposed, terrifying solitary confinement and just latched onto the first thing that talked and was kind to him.