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I write fic. Current fandoms: Natsume’s Book of Friends, MXTX

[johnssoap]

<brave>

[fishmirrors]

"This might seem like me betraying you, but this is actually me believing in you."

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[detectiveduckie]

"But now its only me"

"Only Us."

Soooooo I've finally gotten to watch Project Hail Mary.

It was great. 100% want to watch it again.

It was a cinematic masterpiece. Stunning visuals. Beautiful scenes. Besutiful chracaters. Beautiful story.

I need to read the book so bad but i am a poor reader.

I dont actually draw fanart for stuff very often. even stuff i absolutly adore and will watch, read, or play a million times over. So how i drew this, I dont even know. I was mid uploading my science homework (that im a little behind in) in the early evening. Next minuete its nearly 11pm and i'm knee deep in a nearly completed drawing (which i havent managed to draw anything other then wips and sketches for the last couple weeks) and now theres this. And the only connecting memory i have in between those two moments was " I hope my friend (whos very into PHM and been waiting for me to watch it) likes this. I should ask them their fav qoute" and suddenly that was my motovation to finish it but i dont think it started out that way but i also have no fathomable idea where i even got the drawing idea from cause my pinterest fyp has been filled with ducklings and nothing else the past few days so. Yeah.

Also that quilt sucks (in a good way) omyword, i didnt even commit to doing it properly and had to scour a bit to find a hood enough refference which you cant ecen see well in the end drawing lol.

I blacked out and locked in in the wrong way, bruuuuh i was supposed to get weeks uni work done.

[yuukels]

[hachinana87]

Box in a box

[duketod]

[sunderwight]

I do think it would be kind of funny if Eridian media, like Earth media, sort of tends to go through phases. Like you know how sometimes 100% evil vampires are all the rage, and then sometimes they're sympathetic tortured antiheroes, and sometimes it's all vampire romances, and etc?

So like, with the stars dying, I'm thinking Eridian media might have gone on a whole "aliens are bad bad bad out there killing stars and wanting to eat Erid" and etc trend for their sci-fi. Long ballads about what are essentially evil Eridians with the equivalent of prosthetics doing terrible things to the galaxy and brave heroes like Rocky going off to stop them. Because y'know that's probably how you'd conceptualize a huge scary conflict like total cosmic annihilation in a way that makes it seem beatable: designate a bad guy you can just defeat in order to stop it.

But then Grace and Rocky get to Erid and that trend gets immediately flipped. Turns out that there were kind of bad aliens, the astrophage and all, but that's more like a natural disaster, and hero Rocky has returned with the weirdest, nicest alien ever. Erid media suddenly rockets back to a prior era of optimistic sci-fi previously considered intolerably twee and cringe after the solar disaster kicked off, where the aliens are always nice nice nice, incredibly weird and sometimes goofy as fuck but friendly and not the bad guys.

Of course you never get full consensus on these things, so there are also creative Eridians who are like. But what if evil humans question? Evil humans posing as saviors infiltrate Erid and replace Eridians with pods that hatch into creepy non-Erid rock monsters question? Evil human comes to Erid under guise of niceness and KILLS Eridians question???

Which is broadly considered like. Holy shit dude stop being gauche the nice alien saved the planet stop fucking writing stories where his skeleton cracks open like a nest of evil eggs and turns into a bunch of monsters! Rude, statement! Aliens very nice statement!

And like at first all the Eridian scientists are very sure to keep this sort of stuff away from Grace, they don't want to insult him or imply that he's being slandered in their media or anything. And again overall the popular trend turns a lot more to aliens-as-friendly, especially if they're expressly humans, and the sci-fi writers of Erid are having a total BLAST speculating about Earth and writing stories about it and etc, Grace seems to very much enjoy answering questions for the ones who want to keep things accurate and chuckling and enthusing over the creativity of the ones who don't. He's like, oh yeah they are definitely also doing this back on Earth, don't worry.

Researchers laughing and nervously just being like, yes of course, this is the full extent of it, not to worry! Normal thing which humans are also doing!

Until one day Rocky just brings Grace a recording of a full-blown Eridian horror sci-fi where Grace HIMSELF is EXPLICITLY a horrible monster that goes on a killing spree and tries to destroy Erid.

The other researchers are losing their shit. RoCKY?!?! WHY QUESTION??? Oh fuck Grace is going to be so upset! He's such a sensitive soul he doesn't even like it when one of his students gets distressed!

Anyway Grace thinks it's hilarious and Rocky gets to be smug about it for months.

[raviolireptile]

Biology lesson

(Oh weirdly close and intimate scientific curiosity, you have my whole heart)

[tuherrus]

only us.

[shmooseee]

MORE CARL MORE CARL NOWWWW

[cloudabserk]

comforting head bonk to make up for my feeble human lifespan

[banchie]

i've been phasing the phrase 'google it' out of my vocabulary and going back to 'look it up'. fuck you youve lost your generic trademark privileges

[stargirl-and-potts]

One of the things that fascinates me (breaks my heart) in the “Rocky fix” scene: Grace looks heavier and heavier as Rocky won’t accept his death, refuses to be comforted or calm. He stammers. His voice roughens with emotion. It’s like Rocky’s horror and grief brings his back up to the surface. And he spent so long shoving it down, down, down so he could work—telling himself it was necessary, he chose this, he doesn’t get to resent or regret it. But Rocky won’t give him even a tiny thumbs up. And it gets to Grace. Grace hangs his head, braces himself on his knees, struggles to answer Rocky. He can’t even say the word “brave” out loud, he’s so overwhelmed. He turns and walks away to hide his face.

And then — the unbelievable offer of a reprieve. Release. Relief. His slumped shoulders straighten with an indrawn breath before he turns, and we see his face. He lets Rocky see everything, and doesn’t wipe the tears away. And that’s the part that really gets me—he doesn’t look overjoyed at first. He’s trembling. He’s profoundly relieved but he also looks almost devastated. I wonder if those were the final moments of truly feeling the grief of what had been asked of him. He could feel it, now that there was an end to it, a way out. It wasn’t too enormous anymore.

It’s only when he finally finds words to ask for a hug that lightness begins to come in, and resting against Rocky, he finally smiles.

[qwanderer]

I get why Ryland Grace doing nothing productive, getting bored and almost dying of scurvy on the way to Erid is a popular trope but yall.

The man is a trained, distinguished molecular biologist with access to a state of the art biochemistry lab and the entirety of human knowledge.

It's hard for me to imagine a years long trip where he doesn’t make at least some attempt to synthesize his own nutrients.

Whether by engineering different strains of taumoeba and other Adriatic life, engineering himself and/or his own microbes or other handy Terran samples, or pure synthetic chemistry - personally, I tend to envision a combination thereof.

I can totally imagine Grace making a clumsy attempt, failing, and mopily becoming resigned to the malnutrition, but is Rocky really going to let him just mope for the rest of the trip? No! He has to try again!

I just think like, yeah, sure, even an alien planet is going to give you some advantages in terms of sourcing raw materials and building new equipment, but why wait to start on the whole process when you already have the guy involved who's most familiar with Terran biochemistry who's a trained molecular biologist and you have all of this knowledge and equipment and so much raw material in the form of taumoeba and probably a decent range of reagents in the lab? Not to mention whatever medical substances the medbot has on hand and (in the movie) the contents of the autohydroponic garden.

Anyway I just think this is a very underutilized concept in fic.

[feiridian]

adrian is a saint

[allons-y-to221b]

i'm not seeing enough appreciation for the absolute master class that is the moment grace chooses to removes his helmet for the first time in the xenonite tunnel.

he's terrified, yet his instinct to trust is stronger than his instinct to survive. he's afraid, and he knows he could possibly suffocate to death in that moment, but something in that early meeting calls him on a deeper level to connect with rocky. to trust him with his literal life.

as grace contemplates removing the helmet, the camera cuts back to rocky - who intentionally leans forwardly slowly and clicking cautiously, anxious to see if this kind human is going to trust him the way he does.

cut back to grace and he removes the helmet on blind faith. he exhales overwhelming sighs of relief; the music swells and resolves; rocky chirps and jumps for joy; grace softly smiles, and so does damn near anyone in the audience. the moment is potent and raw. it assures the characters and the audience alike: you can count on me. you are not alone. we can figure this out if we stay curious about each other.

the scene then ends on a wide shot of their two ships bound together, spinning in synchronized centrifugal gravity, over beautiful resolving chords of melody and harmony. it shows us a powerful visual of the birth of their unbreakable physical and emotional bond. dependability and loyalty is built and earned, but these two could actually trust each other with their lives from the very start.

their fates are now literally entwined. 

[normal-creature]

Here's a compilation of Grace fawning over Rocky in the book (might've missed some)

From that, they concluded that I must be able to see the Petrova line. They're smart. [pg.148] They connected my airlock to theirs, with a wall in the middle. Clever. [pg.166] "I like you, Rocky! You're a genius!" And he is! [pg.183] Brilliant. Simply brilliant. [pg.186] I bet Rocky's the captain! He puts himself at risk by talking to the scary alien. Everyone else stays back on the ship. That's what Captain Kirk would do. [pg.195] I've never seen him be wrong on arithmetic. [pg.211] Wow, he's quick. [pg.254] The closer we get, the more I respect Rocky's astronomy skills. [pg.278] "You're an amazing engineer." [pg.287] Rocky - ever the talented engineer [pg.309] He really is a genius. I wonder if all Eridians are like that, or if he's special. [pg.310] "Smart," I say. [pg.348] Rocky seems to be able to do pretty much anything. Either he's gifted, or all Eridians are like that. Either way, I'm incredibly lucky. [pg.365] the world's best engineer [pg.377] I don't doubt him for a second. The guy knows engineering. [pg.388] Rocky delivered on the testing apparatus as promised. As always, everything worked flawlessly. [pg.388] At this point I trust Rocky to do any engineering task. Heck, if he wanted to do open-heart surgery on me, I'd probably let him. [pg.410] Rocky's ad-hoc fuel bays are perfect, of course. [pg.419] "you're my best friend." [pg.425] I wish Rocky were here. [pg.438] I always wish Rocky were here. [pg.438] Rocky tends to find elegant solutions to complex problems. [pg.444] He's one of the most talented engineers on his entire planet! [pg.445] All of the hard stuff is already done, thanks to Rocky. [pg.451] There's nothing Rocky can't fix. [pg.454] Rocky could probably whip something up if he were here. [pg.457] I wish Rocky were here to help me save Rocky. [pg.457] "I have full faith in your abilities." [pg.488]

good grief GET A GRIIIIPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!