Scribblers Burrow

Cis Female, 27, Pretty much a whatever I feel like blog.

[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.

[hailed-marys]

on the beach, in every life.

[mewy101]

I could never find the right way to tell you, have you noticed I've been gone?

[lintubintu]

@pigeonneaux

[emziess]

Presenting the Astronauts of the Hail Mary; Earth's Saviours: Commander Yáo Li-Jie Engineer Olesya Ilyukhina Science Officer Dr. Martin DuBois Dr. Ryland Grace

Project Hail Mary (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

[dr-cassie-mckay]

@pscentral​ event 49: literature ↳ Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir – Okay, if I'm going to die, it's going to have meaning.

[catastrophicbleus]

can anyone who's read Project Hail Mary tell me if the fact that Rocky is almost definitely not a water-based from a water-based biosphere is every brought up in the book?

[uptoshenanigans]

Erid actually does have water, and Eridians get water from their food. Their ocean's being a boiling temperature is actually how they were able to breed astrophage so quickly and why Rocky had so much to spare. (The 6 years slower thing wasn't in the book)

So, as far as Erid goes, Grace was wrong about the water, but right about the planet not needing to be in the Goldilocks zone. I think it really works with the his story arc that he needs to stop running away from things when he's wrong. He ran away from his whole career because people made fun of him for it, but just because he was wrong doesn't mean he didn't have anything valuable to contribute.

[rosedavid]

PROJECT HAIL MARY by Andy Weir

@pscentral​ event 49: literature

[rtfics]

Actors are just big kids.

Sound on.

I love what actors will do to get the best performances from each other.

[edgebug]

so grace is probably alarming to most eridians at first because he's a lanky wet alien with too few limbs, yes--but what if he ends up being terrifying in a sort of divine way instead of a repulsive one?

like. a creature that perceives the intangible? a creature that walks with thin permeable membranes bared to the air, whose blood contains elixir that can destroy pathogens without heat? a creature that is impossibly fragile yet resilient? a creature that breathes potently flammable gas to survive? a creature that is loud all over and speaks in a strange and frightening monotone, who thought it would die for you? who gave up its home in the heavens for you without meeting you first, whose first words to your people were probably something along the lines of We saved your star. It's gonna be okay. Don't be afraid.

[puncertainty]

oh worm?

[galaxia-art]

pov: grace tries to explore outside the biodome, only to find himself in a first person horror game in a foggy pitch dark hellscape with many alien rock spiders, scuttling in and out of the darkness. at least they're all friendly!

[autisticlittleguy]

"Grace Ryland is Rocky's dog" is such a funny fucking dynamic when you think about it

Eridians are further behind than humans technologically right? They dont have computers, relativity, quantum mechanics, etc. In fact, Eridians probably dont even know about the Big Bang because their atmosphere would filter out most of the cosmic microwave background radiation we use to detect it. On a human timeline, theyre anywhere between like early-mid 20th century. Rocky's basically a cosmonaut.

So the human civilization is pretty advanced from Rocky's perspective. Rationally he understands this. On a conceptual level he knows this to be true.

But at the same time... imagine youre one of the first ever cosmonauts to make it into space. Then you meet a 10 year old alien dog who cant do 2+2 without pulling out its calculator. It forgets everything constantly and has to keep notes everywhere, like it basically lives in Memento (2000). Also if it doesnt nap constantly it gets even stupider. And you somehow has to reconcile this with the fact that this dog has a better understanding of physics than your entire civilization does. Like the dog knows how the universe started.

[wine-dark-sky]

I was so scared they were heading for a romance subplot but congrats to Project Hail Mary for going for the far funnier option of 'Trolley Operator' and 'Guy She Is Actively Tying To The Tracks'. What a dynamic. Movie of the year.

[hollenix]

for the good of all mankind

[alexxuun]

Fist my bump!

Wait until you hear about fist me…

[mewy101]

I could never find the right way to tell you, have you noticed I've been gone?

[sandersstudies]

I am not kidding when I say if you’re under 21, keep returning to and trying foods you dislike on your own terms.

My palate changed so much during my teen years that I can name a dozen foods that were disgusting when I was a freshman and I eat regularly now.

Don’t get me wrong, I still dislike some foods, and nobody should pressure you to try things you don’t like, but trying different preparations of foods as you get older may surprise you. A child’s palate is radically different from an adults’, even if you are sensitive to textures and tastes.

[gwydionmisha]

It’s a good idea to try things every five or so years as an adult as well, because trust me somethings will shift a lot over time.  Fifty one is a lot different then 21.  The changes aren’t as fast, but they happen.